Signing off, indefinitely. As Chris Geidner says, take care of yourselves, and each other.
Andy Genz
@ajgenz.bsky.social
Dad, immigrant rights advocate, lawyer, DC resident, jogger
Stop calling this a DC makeover. This is an illegal desecration of our capital and a huge waste of American families’ money. DC is sacred ground, and we shouldn’t minimize the real damage being done.
Tyler Owens with all time teach tape for Special Teams players at every level of football.
W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds
A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.
nbcnews.com
On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, DHS posted a contract notice most people will never see. ERO ONE would give ICE the military intelligence apparatus that ran the war on terror, aimed at people in the U.S. I did this job for 20 years. Here's why it could be the next chapter of the deportation engine.
OP-ED: The $100 Million Hole in ICE's Deportation Machine
A procurement notice describes the one capability ICE doesn't have yet: a standing near-real-time intelligence enterprise to turn its surveillance into target lists.
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Um. It was just months ago the DOJ claimed "become ungovernable" was an antifa slogan worthy of conspiracy charges. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Fifteen people charged over alleged interference in Minnesota immigration crackdown
Prosecutors claim defendants were part of Minneapolis-based ‘antifa’ groups that ‘violently oppose’ law enforcement
theguardian.com
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.LMAO this guy is being featured at Trumpapalooza because Trump pardoned him
The easiest way to explain the future of US governance for your lifetime and mine is that Trump has taken us from “easy” to “difficult” permanently
“The Miami Herald will no longer have a Miami beat” is the state of local journalism in a nutshell. Really, really bad.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · last mo.Good lord www.poynter.org/business-wor...
The United States: where giving a frail voter waiting in the Georgia sun a glass of water is punishable by a year in prison, but the president can offer everyone $5k to vote for his party.
I don’t know why I found this so funny, but I needed the laugh
dan mentos@danmentos.com · last mo.REACHER: I need help with my iPhone SUPPORT: regular iPhone or duo? REACHER: how can I tell SUPPORT: if it folds it’s the duo *extremely loud crunching noise* REACHER: it’s the duo
REACHER: I need help with my iPhone SUPPORT: regular iPhone or duo? REACHER: how can I tell SUPPORT: if it folds it’s the duo *extremely loud crunching noise* REACHER: it’s the duo
We need at some point to talk about American Evangelicalism as a heretical movement. We should not indulge the delusion of a bunch or nuts who cherry-pick the Bible to rationalize otherwise indefensible 21st century bigotries that they are representatives of a global faith.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Texas Lt Gov Dan Patrick claims Talarico "pretends" to be a pastor
The thing with sports gambling is that seeing something on the lines once in awhile was fun it was like “oh here’s what Vegas thinks” but as soon as it became 51% of the fucking thing it ruined the entire enterprise
On Germany: something I can’t stand is the idea that the Left and the Green parties haven’t offed arguments about the cost of living. They have! It’s just that they haven’t offered *hate*. The AfD have offered hate, that is their most passionate offering, that is primarily why they are thriving.
One way to see how awful slavery was is to recall that life in the early 1800s was grim and yet even then slavery was uniquely & unspeakably abhorrent. It was shorthand for the worst possible treatment imaginable *by enslavers themselves*, even as they justified/defended the Peculiar institution.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · last mo.However bad you think slavery was, it was worse It was way worse than whatever you’ve imagined
the way this article gives no details about the abducted driver or their condition or wherabouts feels deeply, casually cruel
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · last mo.A viral baker thought her missing cinnamon rolls were stolen. Turns out, they went missing during an immigration bust.
Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · last mo.Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves
Many of you have been asking what you can do to fight the Trump Administration’s depraved war on immigrant kids — like the ones separated from their families and held in federal detention that I’ve been highlighting in my recent videos from 201 Varick Street.
Revealed: attorneys rally to free children held in US immigration custody
Trump administration has indefinitely stranded hundreds of kids and lawyers from over 50 organizations are fighting for their release
theguardian.com
they don’t even try to hide the fact that this is not about women’s sports this is about crushing anyone who doesn’t conform to their particular view of gender and what they actually want is to never see the wnba or its fandom ever again
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Riley Gaines: "I went to the WNBA game in Minneapolis. It was a bunch of, like, disgruntled lesbians."
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Fun/interesting thread on two things that I knew little about
Goodnews@goodnews.computer · last mo.Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
When I worked in a closed restaurant kitchen, our boss explicitly said that the less the customers saw of us the better. He wasn’t wrong.
molly conger@socialistdogmom.bsky.social · last mo.an open restaurant kitchen is a symptom of the surveillance state. let those boys cook in peace. what happens back there is between them & god.
Important to note that "consensual, mutually beneficial exchange" is basically "having an economy".
Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW@johnbrownstan.bsky.social · last mo.It's been pointed out that Trump fundamentally does not believe in consensual, mutually beneficial exchange. He just believes in power and domination. In his mind all mutually beneficial exchanges involve someone being cheated. (This is core fascist stuff.)
Wait, the official US White House website is featuring an arcade style game in which a cartoon white man in a suit chases cartoon black and brown people, eats/destroys them, and changes them into orange-clad inmates!?!
So … a few years ago, the architect of the Capitol built a few plastic ramps at the reflecting pool so ducks could get out. Some Republicans objected to the “use of taxpayer dollars” (which was maybe $20). www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/u...
Duck Ramps Appear at U.S. Capitol, but Not Everyone Is Pleased (Published 2017)
nytimes.com
Devon Heinen@devonheinen.bsky.social · last mo.NEW via @washingtonpost.com: "Trump officials say work will start on triumphal #arch within two weeks The planned 250-foot-tall structure near Arlington National Cemetery is one of the president’s top construction priorities." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Convincing young people that America is poor & no one can afford anything & everyone is living paycheck to paycheck & their economic future is doomed ... IS NOT GOING TO LEAD TO MORE PROGRESSIVE POLICY. People who feel anxious & under threat do not respond with openness & generosity! Look it up!
Write it on the blackboard a thousand times: they will have to demolish the ballroom, the arch and so forth. They will have to make a show of it. You will get the usual sons of bitches saying we don’t do that in this country. We do now. That is not emotion, it’s politics. To do less is dereliction.
The most essential virtue of democracy is that it provides a way to remove people from power that doesn't require killing them first. The latter mechanism ensures rule by the most violent: a gangster state. Given the choice of being ruled by idiots or gangsters, give me the idiots every time.