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

We are going to Win

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

But a politician who is just a normal person who gives a shit and has a spine and is willing to say "gestapo bad" in public is basically an endangered animal in this country

It's hard to articulate how profoundly depressing it is to be like, genuinely emotionally moved by a politician saying "gestapo bad" bc that should be a baseline normal, common sense position. It should be *so* normal it doesn't even require saying!

I'm ngl, I'm lowkey obsessed with this former lobsterman who just has an actual spine and morals and decided to run for senator

Thank god the rainy season in Portland is upon us. Should really help put out all the mythical fires from the mythical riots that are definitely taking place.

But yeah, the losing a whole train car of people is the big thing that sticks out to me as like... not being fully reckoned with

I think (but don't know for sure, it's just what I've heard) that the movie was originally longer and they went deeper into a lot of stuff, but a lot of stuff got cut to make it shorter bc no one actually thought it was going to do well 😭

We should create corners of the social net that aggressively bully people for that classic online bad faith anti-nuance behavior. Like trolls and tenderqueers stumble in and get thrashed and just block everyone and never come back. Talk shit one street over but we're functionally isolated.

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...