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tenders.bsky.social
Plants, critters, the scruffy landscapes of the Northern California coast, my dog, healthy food. Semi-retired from too long as a business guy. Home is near Half Moon Bay. Born in DC back when it wasn’t rich.
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I really needed to run a diagnostic but there was no time.

Governmental agencies adopting the aesthetic of fascist paramilitary groups and organizations sure has been fast.

And why was Baraka there in the first place? Turns out the private prison facility is violating the law, but also unwilling to be served with legal process apple.news/AV9JgWB8fQq6...

At this point "Abolish ICE" isn't enough. "Prosecute ICE" is the *bare minimum* of what should be done to these ghouls

I signed up for Facebook 15 years ago and over the years they’ve automatically forced instagram, threads, and now this thing

Only question is why people haven't been saying this for months. If Congress appropriates money, the executive branch can't just decide to not spend it. Was true for the "perfect phone call" money for Ukraine. Is true today for many programs the executive branch is illegal shutting down today.

NEW: The music distribution platform SoundCloud updated its terms of service to allow it to use artists' uploaded music to train AI. The change quietly went into effect last year. It looks like a lot of SoundCloud users were caught off guard. futurism.com/soundcloud-a...

This is terror.

From Jeffrey Toobin's 2008 book THE NINE, this remains the greatest Justice Souter anecdote I can possibly share. RIP.

🚨 Disturbing footage shows the brutal arrest of a terrified 16-year-old girl—sobbing, screaming as “ICE agents” abducted her mom without a warrant or ID. At least 4 grown men slammed her face into the pavement. This is child abuse. This is state terror. Worcester police are complicit.

“The controversial 1,000-bed facility is owned by the private prison company GEO Group, which entered into a 15-year, $1 billion contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in February.” $1 BILLION dollars lining the pockets of a private prison company. www.insidernj.com/baraka-arres...

Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library. Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams. Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

The last 24 hours are remarkable. The world waited then celebrated a man putting on a dress, changing his name and pronouns. #pope

do you understand how fucking racist you have to be for Piers Morgan to call you a racist lmfao

I cannot stress this enough, don’t fuck with librarians

Sephiroth is our next Surgeon General. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it. www.wwltv.com/article/news...

Cathy Moore, presenting her bill to roll back local ethics law to allow people with direct financial conflicts of interest, describes her legislation (which would merely require disclosure) is "a more broad disclosure model."

If you read the testimonies of the people starving to death in Gaza you'll realise that they had normal lives and jobs two years ago. They worked in IT, they were chefs or nurses, they had small businesses, they underwent IVF, they cooked big family meals. They are no different to you or me.

It’s 1588 and you’re going to invade England but you have to bring your own lunch 🥪

Sperm, sperm’s the play! This at least is duty; duty and profit hand in hand.

You made a mistake, Murderbot, a really bad mistake. How the hell was I supposed to know there were transports sentient enough to be mean?

Her court watch stuff has been so legit! She’s volunteer sat in on like thousands of hours of court online

Gregory Hruska shared this photo of Lauren Bacall, President Bill Clinton, Mary Tyler Moore and Billy Graham.

For every doll you deny me I will push another jet off an aircraft carrier

An anti-government militia group is making threats against weather equipment that it says is a “weather weapon” controlled by the military, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned employees.

Stealing unawares upon the whale in the fancied security of the middle of solitary seas, you find him unbent from the vast corpulence of his dignity, and kitten-like, he plays on the ocean as if it were a hearth.

Look I never knew any kids who had 30 dolls and 500 pencils. It's one thing to tighten our belts for a war effort we all feel committed to, or to endure a severe depression we couldn't have foreseen. But to fund massive tax cuts so his buddies can buy more yachts? Hell no.

R's: We're going to cut Medicaid D's: People will lose their health insurance. R's: Liars! CBO: Actually, yeah, people will. A lot of people, in fact. Millions.

Kleptocracy

Turkey rejects fascism

A U.S. soldier inspects thousands of gold wedding bands taken from Jews by the Germans and stashed in the Heilbronn Salt Mines, on May 3, 1945 in Germany.

🚨 SCOOP: DOGE just cut millions in Labor Department grants to support getting women into manufacturing & construction jobs & tackling gender-based violence & harassment at work. It may be illegal since some grants were mandated by law. New @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Powerful

Meta, Facebook's parent company, has banned India's largest Muslim news source at the request of the Indian government, @taylorlorenz.bsky.social writes in her latest newsletter: www.usermag.co/p/meta-bans-...

More Perfect Union put up 300 billboards across the country highlighting the cuts to funding and services at our nation’s national parks.

Meta is blocking the largest Muslim news site in India at the request of the government, despite it not having posted anything anti-Hindu. H/t @taylorlorenz.bsky.social

DOGE guy at the CFPB owned verboten stocks. He was explicitly warned by ethics lawyers that he wasn’t permitted to take any action that could benefit those companies — and him. He then helped fire workers anyway. Including the ethics lawyers who warned him. www.propublica.org/article/cfpb...

The sea demands jets. We must feed it.

This is just to say I have lost The F/A-18 Super Hornet That was on the USS Harry S. Truman And which You were probably saving For bombing Forgive me It was the second one So sweet And so expensive

…y'all need to rehire all those DEI's because it seems like they were the ones who understood how aircraft carrier tie-downs work