One of mine went through a phase where when he decided he wanted to snuggle in the middle of the night he would try to stick his paw IN MY MOUTH to get my attention

Even as someone who studies historical fascism, I never realized how normalized everything gets so quickly. Like I’m still going to work and doing my job, when people are being kidnapped and the loyalty oaths are starting to be required. Let’s see if I have a job my the end of this academic year.

This is Chicago, armed fascist thugs pointing guns at unarmed US citizens.

Photo by Anthony Vazquez at the Chicago Sun-Times.

sorry i was late to work; my cat’s head needed smooches

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

These are up all over my city tonight <3

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Greta was stripped and had soldiers film themselves with her while Israel's far-right minister Ben-Gvir screamed at her. Absolutely degrading sexual abuse and the Swedish foreign minister's reaction is essentially "she asked for it".

Probably maybe yeah, but prions actually scare me so much I try to forget they're a thing

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

Thanks to @andycraig.bsky.social for prompting this exercise.

there’s exactly one person whose behavior you can control during a protest and that’s you baby

SWOP had its bank accounts closed by Chase — sound familiar? — and now the people who do the work can’t be paid.

We can’t get their bank account back, but we can get Phoenix, who spends so much of their life organizing mutual aid for others, able to meet bills this month.

$phoenixcalida

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

You're telling me one episode is about someone complicit in a concentration camp attempting to make and example of himself to try and redeem the soul of his people and the very next episode is about religious fundamentalist terrorism???

this is what speculative fiction can DO

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

This is a sidebar but this is a form of manufactured consent of a more broader variety.

What is happening here is that elites enjoy finding everyday actions of the peons (you and me) that we insist a right to enjoy and, instead of taking a serious account of fault, find basis to ridicule.

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward.

"We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

Luigi

Realizing this in real time nearly broke me. Understand it now and avoid at least a year of expensive PTSD therapy.

I’m 30 or 40 years old and all I want is to get paid enough money to want to be alive so I can help other people want to be alive