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Hunkered down in Vermont (US). Woods walker. Gardener. Birder. Masked. Covid cautious. Free Palestine. she/her
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So what's the deal here, lawyers? This constitutional or not? Because if it's not, then elected leaders need to begin giving residents sharper guidance and wider latitude in how they respond and protect their lives and property amid such terror attacks by masked bandits.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
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December 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
So what's the deal here, lawyers? This constitutional or not? Because if it's not, then elected leaders need to begin giving residents sharper guidance and wider latitude in how they respond and protect their lives and property amid such terror attacks by masked bandits.
Wrapping presents while watching Mayor of Kingstown. I contain multitudes.
December 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Wrapping presents while watching Mayor of Kingstown. I contain multitudes.
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Is “opaquer” - as in more opaque - a word or did my automatic AI grammar checker make it up?
Is “opaquer” - as in more opaque - a word or did my automatic AI grammar checker make it up?
December 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
@merriam-webster.com
Is “opaquer” - as in more opaque - a word or did my automatic AI grammar checker make it up?
Is “opaquer” - as in more opaque - a word or did my automatic AI grammar checker make it up?
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I’m not a psychologist or a sociologist so all this is amateur but I’m still amazed at the lack of pride these people have. It’s been about ten years of watching people first indulge, then debase, then dedicate themselves to a clown. It still blows my mind.
December 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I’m not a psychologist or a sociologist so all this is amateur but I’m still amazed at the lack of pride these people have. It’s been about ten years of watching people first indulge, then debase, then dedicate themselves to a clown. It still blows my mind.
115 Democrats - the majority of House Democrats - voting for lethality, the warrior ethos, and ending wokeism.
December 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
115 Democrats - the majority of House Democrats - voting for lethality, the warrior ethos, and ending wokeism.
Cooper’s hawk (i think) hunting at the bird feeders. What a stunning bird.
December 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Cooper’s hawk (i think) hunting at the bird feeders. What a stunning bird.
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It did and it is. Including but certainly not limited to the sky high dictator caricature levels of corruption. Trump and his gang have made the Marcos family look small time in a very short period of time. You can claim American exceptionalism exists. Emphasis on claim
I think one of the biggest reasons it’s happening here is that many people still believe it can’t happen here.
One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
December 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
It did and it is. Including but certainly not limited to the sky high dictator caricature levels of corruption. Trump and his gang have made the Marcos family look small time in a very short period of time. You can claim American exceptionalism exists. Emphasis on claim
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I think one of the biggest reasons it’s happening here is that many people still believe it can’t happen here.
One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
December 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I think one of the biggest reasons it’s happening here is that many people still believe it can’t happen here.
Just officially disenrolled in our health plan for 2026 to prevent the $1902 January premium being auto-paid out of our checking account. Fucking brutal. #ACA
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December 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Just officially disenrolled in our health plan for 2026 to prevent the $1902 January premium being auto-paid out of our checking account. Fucking brutal. #ACA
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The presidency as we know it should be burned to the ground, and salt the earth. Congress needs a pretty big overhaul, including on the electoral system. But the Court mostly just needs justices who aren't deranged hacks avowedly hostile to fundamental principles of the republic.
December 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The presidency as we know it should be burned to the ground, and salt the earth. Congress needs a pretty big overhaul, including on the electoral system. But the Court mostly just needs justices who aren't deranged hacks avowedly hostile to fundamental principles of the republic.
I really miss my old twitter experience. I’ve lost track of dozens of people I had genuine connections and ongoing conversations with. For a few years there, during trump1, early covid years, and obviously pre-fuckface, it was such a lifesaver for me.
December 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I really miss my old twitter experience. I’ve lost track of dozens of people I had genuine connections and ongoing conversations with. For a few years there, during trump1, early covid years, and obviously pre-fuckface, it was such a lifesaver for me.
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I've been thinking a lot about this: It's not a war crime, in that WE ARE NOT AT WAR.
It's something even worse than a war crime, I think, with the understanding that war crimes are plenty bad. What's the legal framing of "the President made the decision to start murdering randos on the high seas"?
It's something even worse than a war crime, I think, with the understanding that war crimes are plenty bad. What's the legal framing of "the President made the decision to start murdering randos on the high seas"?
Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."
December 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I've been thinking a lot about this: It's not a war crime, in that WE ARE NOT AT WAR.
It's something even worse than a war crime, I think, with the understanding that war crimes are plenty bad. What's the legal framing of "the President made the decision to start murdering randos on the high seas"?
It's something even worse than a war crime, I think, with the understanding that war crimes are plenty bad. What's the legal framing of "the President made the decision to start murdering randos on the high seas"?
The lack of congressional authorization for murdering people is the original sin?
They live in a bubble of their own importance - they have completely lost the plot.
They live in a bubble of their own importance - they have completely lost the plot.
Himes on the difference between Trump's boat strikes and Obama's drone strikes: "The most important distinction is that Congress authorized the war on terror ... the original sin of this whole thing is that there is no congressional authorization."
December 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The lack of congressional authorization for murdering people is the original sin?
They live in a bubble of their own importance - they have completely lost the plot.
They live in a bubble of their own importance - they have completely lost the plot.
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The thing I haven't seen anyone highlight in retweets of this amazing piece is instagram's specific role over the last ~decade , as a leading contributor to the "reality literacy" disease we now all recognize , of which boredom/fomo/consumer jealousy are leading symptoms
June 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The thing I haven't seen anyone highlight in retweets of this amazing piece is instagram's specific role over the last ~decade , as a leading contributor to the "reality literacy" disease we now all recognize , of which boredom/fomo/consumer jealousy are leading symptoms
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The racist court is saying if you consider race to ensure Black people have fair representation that is illegal. If you consider Black people to purposefully disenfranchise and take away power from Black and Brown communities that is legal.
This is a Jim Crow neo-Dred Scott court; say that clearly
This is a Jim Crow neo-Dred Scott court; say that clearly
A conclusion the Supreme Court majority could reach only by outright lying about the factual record established by the trial court.
BREAKING: Supreme Court sides with Texas Republicans in fight over congressional map. The new gerrymandered map will be used in the 2026 midterms. The vote is 6–3, with the Republican appointees siding with Texas.
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
The racist court is saying if you consider race to ensure Black people have fair representation that is illegal. If you consider Black people to purposefully disenfranchise and take away power from Black and Brown communities that is legal.
This is a Jim Crow neo-Dred Scott court; say that clearly
This is a Jim Crow neo-Dred Scott court; say that clearly
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
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The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
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can’t wait for my phone in a couple of months to create one of those photo slideshows no one asks for featuring “Fall in Chicago 2025” and it’s just a series of masked goons and constitutional violations.
November 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
can’t wait for my phone in a couple of months to create one of those photo slideshows no one asks for featuring “Fall in Chicago 2025” and it’s just a series of masked goons and constitutional violations.
I was lucky to have a piece of one of those 10% non-meh apple pies yesterday. Delightful 🍏🍎🍏
November 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I was lucky to have a piece of one of those 10% non-meh apple pies yesterday. Delightful 🍏🍎🍏
A loving tribute to Chris Whitley. One of the greatest. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Column | 20 years after Chris Whitley died, I can’t shake his earthy, gutting songs
After a brief flirtation with the mainstream, Houston’s Chris Whitley carved one of rock’s more fascinating paths. It’s time to rediscover him.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
A loving tribute to Chris Whitley. One of the greatest. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
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Trump has murdered at least 83 people with extrajudicial military strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats.
He needs to face consequences for this.
His secretary of DHHS, RFK Jr., will kill several orders of magnitude more with this disinformation.
He needs to face consequences for this.
His secretary of DHHS, RFK Jr., will kill several orders of magnitude more with this disinformation.
This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
November 20, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Trump has murdered at least 83 people with extrajudicial military strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats.
He needs to face consequences for this.
His secretary of DHHS, RFK Jr., will kill several orders of magnitude more with this disinformation.
He needs to face consequences for this.
His secretary of DHHS, RFK Jr., will kill several orders of magnitude more with this disinformation.
Earning $7.25 an hour while billionaires exist?
Problematic wage gap
Problematic wage gap
Been angry so long you can't remember why anymore?
Problematic rage gap.
Problematic rage gap.
Your thanksgiving stuffing doesn’t taste right?
Problematic sage gap.
Problematic sage gap.
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Earning $7.25 an hour while billionaires exist?
Problematic wage gap
Problematic wage gap
Welch the enabler. Again.
He sucks and i hope someone is yelling at him during the virtual town hall tonight.
He sucks and i hope someone is yelling at him during the virtual town hall tonight.
This is Coons' 20th yea vote for a Trump nominee, Duckworth's 7th, Fetterman's 41st, Gallego's 26th, Heinrich's 17th, Kelly's 30th, King's 37th, Klobuchar's 27th, Ossoff's 8th, Padilla's 5th, Reed's 20th, Warner's 31st, Warnock's 20th, Welch's 14th, and Whitehouse's 12th.
November 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Welch the enabler. Again.
He sucks and i hope someone is yelling at him during the virtual town hall tonight.
He sucks and i hope someone is yelling at him during the virtual town hall tonight.
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An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today:
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
November 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today:
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...