ALJ Dredd-Pizzaballa
@unionsaltbae.bsky.social
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For those who haven't followed me on the Bad Place, I'm a bi/queer disabled cis woman who is an attorney for people with disabilities. I have previously worked as a union side lawyer and voting rights attorney, too.
For those who haven't followed me on the Bad Place, I'm a bi/queer disabled cis woman who is an attorney for people with disabilities. I have previously worked as a union side lawyer and voting rights attorney, too.
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The escape vehicle had a giant “S” on each door, the hood, and the trunk. It fled the scene with overwhelming haste. Eye witnesses said of the scene “wow, look at that S car go”
November 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The escape vehicle had a giant “S” on each door, the hood, and the trunk. It fled the scene with overwhelming haste. Eye witnesses said of the scene “wow, look at that S car go”
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SNAIL HEIST
Thieves have stolen €90,000 worth of fine French snails destined for some of the country’s most prestigious restaurants
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
www.thetimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
SNAIL HEIST
There is so much joy in loving objectively bad things and knowing that they're shitty while you love them fiercely. Do not deprive yourself of this joy
begging people to learn to separate “i like it” with “it’s good.”
i like some things that are objectively crap. you can admit that you do too. it’s fine
i like some things that are objectively crap. you can admit that you do too. it’s fine
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
There is so much joy in loving objectively bad things and knowing that they're shitty while you love them fiercely. Do not deprive yourself of this joy
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Anyway, there are legitimately people who think this type of rhetoric is more acceptable than advocating for student loan forgiveness, or immunocompromised people wearing masks during a pandemic.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Anyway, there are legitimately people who think this type of rhetoric is more acceptable than advocating for student loan forgiveness, or immunocompromised people wearing masks during a pandemic.
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generative chatbots are a waste of human time and resources cause, unlike a furry artist, it will never be capable of conclude that if a kangaroo wore a bra the bra would go inside the pouch
they are removing a big australian beach christmas artwork from redfern station (a huge train station) because it's ai garbage. kangaroos have koala heads and some animals have missing limbs and one of them is WEARING A BRA
November 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
generative chatbots are a waste of human time and resources cause, unlike a furry artist, it will never be capable of conclude that if a kangaroo wore a bra the bra would go inside the pouch
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild
- white tailed deer (literally fucking everywhere in NJ)
- Black Bear (parents house, NC)
- Great Blue Heron (NJ )
- Road runner (NM)
- the worlds fattest squirrel (jumping out of a trash can after I threw something away, RI)
- white tailed deer (literally fucking everywhere in NJ)
- Black Bear (parents house, NC)
- Great Blue Heron (NJ )
- Road runner (NM)
- the worlds fattest squirrel (jumping out of a trash can after I threw something away, RI)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild
Black bear - Virginia
Red fox - Virginia
Raccoon - in a knothole, riverside park, manhattan
Turkey vulture - my dad’s house in PA
A jolly fat red squirrel who took cookie crumbs from my fingers with his wee lil hands - LA
Black bear - Virginia
Red fox - Virginia
Raccoon - in a knothole, riverside park, manhattan
Turkey vulture - my dad’s house in PA
A jolly fat red squirrel who took cookie crumbs from my fingers with his wee lil hands - LA
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild
1) White tailed deer (our backyard)
2) Turkey (our backyard)
3) Groundhog (our backyard)
4) Gray Squirrel (our backyard)
5) Red Bat (our backyard)
The most exotic things I've seen in our yard are a Luna Moth and a Black Widow Spider.
1) White tailed deer (our backyard)
2) Turkey (our backyard)
3) Groundhog (our backyard)
4) Gray Squirrel (our backyard)
5) Red Bat (our backyard)
The most exotic things I've seen in our yard are a Luna Moth and a Black Widow Spider.
November 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild
- white tailed deer (literally fucking everywhere in NJ)
- Black Bear (parents house, NC)
- Great Blue Heron (NJ )
- Road runner (NM)
- the worlds fattest squirrel (jumping out of a trash can after I threw something away, RI)
- white tailed deer (literally fucking everywhere in NJ)
- Black Bear (parents house, NC)
- Great Blue Heron (NJ )
- Road runner (NM)
- the worlds fattest squirrel (jumping out of a trash can after I threw something away, RI)
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Massachusett (Wôpanâak) Word of the Day:
mauem∞onk /mawimwãk/ “mourning”
< extension of Proto-Algonquian *mawiwa “ to weep” and the nominalizing suffix -onk /-ãk/
Despite at attempt to ban it, you can watch the 2025 National Day of Mourning at Plymouth Rock here:
www.youtube.com/live/6u-jF6p...
mauem∞onk /mawimwãk/ “mourning”
< extension of Proto-Algonquian *mawiwa “ to weep” and the nominalizing suffix -onk /-ãk/
Despite at attempt to ban it, you can watch the 2025 National Day of Mourning at Plymouth Rock here:
www.youtube.com/live/6u-jF6p...
[LIVE] National Day of Mourning 2025
YouTube video by hate5six
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Massachusett (Wôpanâak) Word of the Day:
mauem∞onk /mawimwãk/ “mourning”
< extension of Proto-Algonquian *mawiwa “ to weep” and the nominalizing suffix -onk /-ãk/
Despite at attempt to ban it, you can watch the 2025 National Day of Mourning at Plymouth Rock here:
www.youtube.com/live/6u-jF6p...
mauem∞onk /mawimwãk/ “mourning”
< extension of Proto-Algonquian *mawiwa “ to weep” and the nominalizing suffix -onk /-ãk/
Despite at attempt to ban it, you can watch the 2025 National Day of Mourning at Plymouth Rock here:
www.youtube.com/live/6u-jF6p...
Okay I watched the finale and I take it back. debora cahn you can do whatever you want forever
DIPLOMAT S3 SPOILERS IF U CARE
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I'm pissed that the showrunners spent 2 seasons and change building up the sexual tension between Kate and Dennison and then dumped it like a hot potato after one aborted smoochfest. It's like they decided it was too hard to make them have a relationship
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I'm pissed that the showrunners spent 2 seasons and change building up the sexual tension between Kate and Dennison and then dumped it like a hot potato after one aborted smoochfest. It's like they decided it was too hard to make them have a relationship
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Okay I watched the finale and I take it back. debora cahn you can do whatever you want forever
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me: they could never make me hate you, the personal essay as a form
the personal essay as a form at this moment in history: bet
the personal essay as a form at this moment in history: bet
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
me: they could never make me hate you, the personal essay as a form
the personal essay as a form at this moment in history: bet
the personal essay as a form at this moment in history: bet
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NEW: 80 ice cream workers across 8 locations of Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream in Columbus, Ohio are unionizing with UFCW.
November 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
NEW: 80 ice cream workers across 8 locations of Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream in Columbus, Ohio are unionizing with UFCW.
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People are struggling. I want us to think about how we're going to help each other hang in there this winter. How are you going to support your friends, co-strugglers, and community as they push through this moment? How can you help people muddle through, materially and/or emotionally?
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
People are struggling. I want us to think about how we're going to help each other hang in there this winter. How are you going to support your friends, co-strugglers, and community as they push through this moment? How can you help people muddle through, materially and/or emotionally?
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I strenuously object to the implicit assertion that people don't want to hear about other people's holidays. I do! In Iran they have an outdoor picnic day (Sizdah Bedar). In Japan there's a bean-throwing day (Setsubun). There's a whole world of fascinating rituals and traditions.
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I strenuously object to the implicit assertion that people don't want to hear about other people's holidays. I do! In Iran they have an outdoor picnic day (Sizdah Bedar). In Japan there's a bean-throwing day (Setsubun). There's a whole world of fascinating rituals and traditions.
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if anyone hears of any World AIDS Day gatherings happening to honor everyone we've lost and to protest Trump's decision not to observe it, please let me know
fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
November 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
if anyone hears of any World AIDS Day gatherings happening to honor everyone we've lost and to protest Trump's decision not to observe it, please let me know
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Thankful this week for those many queer people who came before me, people whose voices — quiet, loud, loving, angry — have taught me so much about how to live my values in this era.
November 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Thankful this week for those many queer people who came before me, people whose voices — quiet, loud, loving, angry — have taught me so much about how to live my values in this era.
This is beyond disgustin and horrifying
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This is beyond disgustin and horrifying
Me after two drinks at a party after half a semester of Contracts
It is flatly insane that the American economy rests upon the shared delusion that people are reading and agreeing to obvious contracts of adhesion!!!!
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Me after two drinks at a party after half a semester of Contracts
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The first legislators arrested for inspecting these spaces were Black legislators from New Jersey
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The first legislators arrested for inspecting these spaces were Black legislators from New Jersey
DIPLOMAT S3 SPOILERS IF U CARE
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I'm pissed that the showrunners spent 2 seasons and change building up the sexual tension between Kate and Dennison and then dumped it like a hot potato after one aborted smoochfest. It's like they decided it was too hard to make them have a relationship
.
.
.
.
.
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I'm pissed that the showrunners spent 2 seasons and change building up the sexual tension between Kate and Dennison and then dumped it like a hot potato after one aborted smoochfest. It's like they decided it was too hard to make them have a relationship
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
DIPLOMAT S3 SPOILERS IF U CARE
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.
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I'm pissed that the showrunners spent 2 seasons and change building up the sexual tension between Kate and Dennison and then dumped it like a hot potato after one aborted smoochfest. It's like they decided it was too hard to make them have a relationship
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.
.
.
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I'm pissed that the showrunners spent 2 seasons and change building up the sexual tension between Kate and Dennison and then dumped it like a hot potato after one aborted smoochfest. It's like they decided it was too hard to make them have a relationship
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i would say that twitter is eating barro’s brain but he’s always been like this
November 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
i would say that twitter is eating barro’s brain but he’s always been like this
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ouroborbus
In Oslo, four articulated buses trapped themselves in a roundabout yesterday.
"I don't know what I'm most impressed with: That they managed to get into the situation, or that they got out of it."
"I don't know what I'm most impressed with: That they managed to get into the situation, or that they got out of it."
– Vet ikke hva jeg er mest imponert over: At de klarte å komme seg inn i situasjonen, eller at de kom seg ut av den
Mandag kveld bød på komiske scener fra Alexander Kiellands plass.
www.ao.no
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
ouroborbus
Thanksgiving PSA bc some of yall stress me out: Do NOT defrost a turkey at room temperature or in a sink! You need 24 hours per 5lbs in the fridge! If it's too late splurge on a fresh turkey or get some ham! Do not try to cheat the Salmonella Demons!
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Thanksgiving PSA bc some of yall stress me out: Do NOT defrost a turkey at room temperature or in a sink! You need 24 hours per 5lbs in the fridge! If it's too late splurge on a fresh turkey or get some ham! Do not try to cheat the Salmonella Demons!
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When the prison guards went on strike, many inmates said they were doing so to preserve their ability to do things like this.
A @nytimes.com investigation has found that state prison guards have been credibly accused of engaging in such behavior — putting inmates in restraints and then assaulting them — far more often than was previously known.
Restrained, Beaten, Asphyxiated: New York Prison Guards’ Brutality Grows
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
When the prison guards went on strike, many inmates said they were doing so to preserve their ability to do things like this.
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answer is great but also it's telling that the guy who's been saying this since day 1 has to answer about whether he's an antisemite for 5 min every interview while the same people grin vacantly at the jewish space lasers lady and call her a brave warrior
WELKER: What is your message to Jewish New Yorkers who feel you won't be tough enough in your response to antisemitism?
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
answer is great but also it's telling that the guy who's been saying this since day 1 has to answer about whether he's an antisemite for 5 min every interview while the same people grin vacantly at the jewish space lasers lady and call her a brave warrior
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ICE activity has increased in Sunset Park, Bushwick, and Corona (non-exhaustive list) and it seems to be because people aren’t attending their court dates — either due to not receiving notice or intentionally skipping because they know people are getting disappeared at 26 Federal Plaza.
November 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
ICE activity has increased in Sunset Park, Bushwick, and Corona (non-exhaustive list) and it seems to be because people aren’t attending their court dates — either due to not receiving notice or intentionally skipping because they know people are getting disappeared at 26 Federal Plaza.
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workers should democratically control the means of production and the halls of political power
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
workers should democratically control the means of production and the halls of political power