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There’s a fuckton of people at the No Kings rally in Mesa. This intersection has been repeatedly targeted by ICE these last weeks, this corner has a lot of Hispanic-owned businesses and supermarkets. Lots of honking, lots of noise.

FWIW, I think the NO KINGS marches are a great idea and if I didn't have to go to a wedding today, I'd have been at one. Bet you didn't see *that* coming.

Months a sibilant #slash severing our good deeds and better angels. We bleed. We struggle. We gather. We stand. Above, they choose: A bandage, a saw, a bullet, a prayer. #vss365

Today’s the day fam. Here’s a few tips for a successful outing! 1. If you’re in the DMV area, don’t be. Head out to the Baltimore scene instead. Don’t be anywhere near the spectacle happing in DC today.

The same political operatives who organized the “election integrity” rally that preceded Jan. 6 are also behind today's wildly expensive military parade. And for Trumpworld, which sees many lucrative job and contract opportunities, it's just the beginning.

Gov. Tim Walz: "Minnesota Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were shot and killed early this morning in what appears to be a politically motivated assassination. Our state lost a great leader and I lost the dearest of friends...We must all stand against political violence."

MINNESOTA: “Shelter in place order in a 3 mile radius… white male, black body armor…” The 2 Democratic lawmakers’ spouses were also shot.

PSA: If you’re protesting today, turn the biometrics on your phone OFF. No facial recognition, no fingerprint, PASSCODE ACCESS ONLY. Law enforcement can make you unlock your phone with those, but they can’t make you use your passcode. That gives you a case in court should they go that route anyway.

It is #Caturday, and Our Lady of Perpetual Mischief reminds us that in America, we suffer #NoKings. Be seen, be safe, friends.

If you’re undocumented, don’t march tomorrow. Stay home. Let the rest of us get this one. Solidarity ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼

An advance look at “On Parade,” David Plunkert’s cover for next week's issue. #NewYorkerCovers

The last 4 days of nyt, ft, wsj above the folds Going to save. It’s incredible to see how they describe things differently Also the ft is just good

Oh, to #shed: Not like a cat staining fabric with its fur; Nor like a tree, which is merely naked in winter; Nor a snake, escaping one skin for the same; But like a harbor waking from fog, or the mourner lifting her veil. No transformation or renewal, this, but revelation. #vss365

Disappointed to see Tucson Weekly distribute propaganda from Pima County Republicans discouraging people from peacefully protesting this weekend. This is what happens when your local alt-weekly winds up in the hands of a foreign firm. Support your alts! #NoKings www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/nati...

We both see them: Three beacons blazed empyrean rising in the east. I see sailors; no, a belt, you say. No arguing with your sky sharded eighty-fold, but perhaps you traced each #shape— gods, heroes, monsters, laboratory equipment— so high not to honor them but to put them out of reach? #vss365

Watch the first teaser for 'Spaceballs 2' Mel Brooks, Bill Pullman, and Rick Moranis are set to reprise their respective roles as Lone Starr, Dark Helmet, and Yogurt. Keke Palmer joins the cast as well. The Schwartz Awakens in 2027. #Spaceballs #Spaceballs2

In April, President Trump and Salvadoran President Bukele shook hands in the Oval Office to celebrate a deal to ship gang members to the notorious CECOT prison. But a new ProPublica investigation found there’s more to the story. 🧵👇

Pope Leo’s first US episcopal appointment, San Diego’s Bishop-designate Pham, a Vietnamese refugee, invites priests and faith leaders to “stand in solidarity”with migrants at courthouse on June 20, as they make court appearances.

We #scrape the history off our secondhands to marvel at the new things the true things underneath. But the dust and the shavings coil and eddy at our ankles, mistakes disavowed made invisible by their smallness. Now, together, we sand, polish, preserve. Later, alone, we must scrub. #vss365

When they think no one is looking. *Cops damaging their own cars?

Beneath your fur's a soul, o mouse Beneath my #skin is mine. Phylogeny declares us kin (in geologic time). But though this hole is now your house, it's bored into my hut. To you I gift this baited snare And dread to hear it shut. #vss365

NEW: A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected US travelers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). www.wired.com/story/airlin...

A much-needed (for me, anyway) levity break. If you're in our great city of LA at the end of the month, see me and this mad, 80's vampire flick at the mighty @vidiots.bsky.social 👇

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

"We don't think he killed anyone. But we can convict him if we pick the right jury."

Only the weight of millennia could press the dinosaur into such a #small body. I tell it that I sympathize. It hisses back the rage of generations of theropods usurped. It is the Age of Men, true. And this Man wisely avoids the Goose. #vss365

Can a producer for @lauracoates.com @cnn.com @cnn-news.bsky.social get in touch with me ASAP? Your guests are factually wrong on the law in California and this is dangerous. Press exempt from arrest per CA Penal Code 409.7. I negotiated language of the law. You need to correct this ASAP.

It is genuinely impressively to be so disliked that 35,000 bar members bother to vote in a bar election, which ranks somewhere below dentist visit in list of fun stuff to do.

I see a spark upon the edge of sunset and the twilight wedge That bears the wishes that we make: the first star in the sky. Though #single in the firmament, her burden's hardly evident. For sisters to her cause shall wake and, twinkling, they will rise. #vss365

ATTN: If you’re a member of the National Guard or you work for ICE and you’re asked to violate the law or your oath, contact Whistleblower Aid to safely, securely, and legally blow the whistle. You can support Whistleblower Aid HERE: whistlebloweraid.org/beans

Overreach by ICE risks impeding the legitimate functions of our government--including actual law enforcement. Unintentional? Perhaps, but likely not an unwelcome side effect for the regime. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Trump is counting on cowardly law firms that surrendered to him to provide pro bono representation of crooked cops. Justice, Republican style.

I have said this before, but I need to repeat it. My father led a riot squad of Highway Patrolmen at Kent State. They were all trained in crowd control and while the riot continued, the crowd was contained, dispersed then would regroup, but no one was injured for 24 hours.

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Good 🧵 here, watching what's going on in California. "Flooding the zone" works when it is cheap. Make every indignity cost them a little something, and that adds up! Not saying shitposting will save democracy, but…

If you survive, put some music on. Let the ghosts rattle the #speaker while the bones below groan our history and the mountains murmur in their sleep. #vss365

Better safe than sorry… 🚨Heavy ICE Presence Expected in Los Angeles on Sunday. A bilingual warning is being shared with the community — including areas to avoid. Stay alert. Protect each other. Know your rights.

*looks at feed* *grumbles* *looks up whether violations of the Posse Comitatus Act are pardonable by the President*

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

WSJ reports on decades-long Pentagon disinformation campaign to propagate UFO myths "based on interviews with two dozen current and former U.S. officials, scientists and military contractors involved in the inquiry, as well as thousands of pages of documents, recordings, emails and text messages."

This #Caturday, it is so hot that the Local Void is melting…

The hard little eyes of the machines were somethings were cold and unthinking and did not see me even as they bulged like mushrooms after rain in windows and doors and bulletproofed breasts. Today a familiar prickle kisses my neck. Through the lenses— all the lenses— #someone gazes back. #vss365

ABC reports Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being returned to the United States abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...

Twitter: this is how men with huge balls fight. This is what masculinity looks like Bluesky: this is the first messy breakup of pride month

Did they hear it in Taos the approaching hum of a modern world? Strangers to silence, if by chance the mindless drum was to #stop Would we fear it, as promised, the pulsing thrum of a human heart? #vss365