this picture was taken about 300 feet from the 'welcome to Charlottesville' sign at the city limits just off the highway, while parked illegally. he's so scared to actually come to Charlottesville lol

oh great now the chatbots are making spam calls? I just got my first one.

"And when they died there they didn’t just die for me, but they died for you because your freedom is shackled in chains to mine. And until I am free, you are not free either." Fannie Lou Hamer, 1971

Ilhan Omar@ilhanmn.bsky.social · 6h ago

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

The microblog format has robbed many of us of the "not commenting on that" instinct. We gotta relearn

lmao oh wow I just remembered that pt 2 of this pair of episodes is the one that includes audio I tracked down of a guy calling into g gordon liddy's radio show mid-crime. that was so hard to find. my show was brand new and I had no idea what I was doing, I was so thrilled when I dug that up.

molly conger@socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 4h ago

the birther shit got so incredibly out of hand, but we've really memory holed it. I did a pair of episodes a while back on the time a group of oathkeepers tried to take a court clerk hostage to get an arrest warrant for Barack Obama.

I think a lot of people have forgotten that Donald Trump entered the political conversation as a big voice in the Obama birther conspiracy

is this some kind of AI-driven content block? this article about the ongoing legal fallout of multiple allegations of sexual abuse of children in the local county schools has a random embedded video about celebs who used to be teachers. what is lin manuel miranda doing here.

Small island kingdom's state-owned propaganda arm censors woman's pro civil rights message

Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@mxmike.co.uk · 2d ago

Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly

logging on

i can’t believe this picture is a decade old because that means this puppy is a decade old

This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d ago

The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.

someone stole my squash. who steals a squash.

on the brighter side, the breakfast tostadas at monarcas are incredible. perfect in every way. and they’ve installed a chest freezer full of popsicles from la flor michoacana.

In her statement on the ICE shooting in New York, AOC specifically calls out Target. The congresswoman demands that the mega-corporation stop allowing ICE to stage paramilitary raids from its parking lots. migrantinsider.com/p/aoc-to-tar...

AOC to Target: Stop Lending Your Bronx Parking Lots to ICE

After federal agents fired into a car with a 5-year-old in the back seat, Ocasio-Cortez names the retailer that lawmakers say gave ICE a place to wait.

migrantinsider.com

the public execution is going to be a lot like the president’s birthday parade, i think.

molly conger@socialistdogmom.bsky.social · last yr.

my soul left my body watching the fox news feed glitching out as the tanks roll past the president’s observation stand and the announcer’s voice echoes across the mostly empty streets, “special thanks to our sponsor, palantir”

this execution by firing squad is brought to you by crypto dot com

NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.

ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests

Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.

wired.com

sitting on the downtown mall, having coffee with my in-laws. a car crossed the mall on 2nd st. my father in law shouted & pointed, extremely alarmed about the obvious emergency of a car driving onto the pedestrian mall & he’s right! it’s insane! we’re just used to it being allowed. it shouldn’t be!

it’s whatever they’re mad about. always has been. it doesn’t mean anything to them, it’s just a place to store bad feelings.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports

i found two pairs of scissors while i was cleaning up today but it’s too late, i already bought a three pack of scissors last week out of frustration. the cycle begins again. there are scissors everywhere. there will be no scissors when i try to wrap christmas presents in december.

the big rock someone tossed through my car window a few weeks ago is exactly heavy enough to prop open the front door while i bring in groceries so i guess you could say it was all worth it

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · 6d ago

I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.

get along little doggie? no, get 2.

i don’t know if this one gives out trophies but i’m not afraid to admit i would love a second podcasting trophy so i can put up a trophy shelf

Cool Zone Media@coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 2w ago

Behind the Bastards, It Could Happen Here, and Weird Little Guys are nominated for Signal Awards 🏆🏆🏆 Submit your votes by October 15th at the links below 🗳️ vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting... vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting... vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...

exhausted angel on my shoulder: you have all the research you need, just write frantic, wild-eyed devil jumping up & down on my other shoulder, pulling my hair & poking me with a tiny pitchfork: look, a 200 page transcript that probably has some bizarre tidbit for a barely relevant tangent!!!!

my recent miniseries on the connections between the american far right & the apartheid regime started back in february - the first episode opens with a series of rallies in american cities organized by a white south african woman who moved to the US and joined the aryan nations

Cool Zone Media@coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 2y ago

New episode of Weird Little Guys: The White House Weighs in on White Genocide @socialistdogmom.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

some credit is due here to my husband: the final episode of the series was finished just days before our wedding, which means I did absolutely none of the wedding planning. just yesterday I overheard him telling someone this was my best work & he didn't even mention how I made him suffer for it!

molly conger@socialistdogmom.bsky.social · last wk.

this is the best, weirdest, most fascinating story I've ever written. I spent months on it last year & still think about it often. the international connections between far right terrorists were startling! I am really excited to see someone in South Africa try to track that woman down for comment.

I'm on the edge of my seat over here. a journalist in South Africa is digging into the subject of my absolute favorite series of episodes of weird little guys -- the South African pro-apartheid terrorist who married an American klansman.

The pipeline between US white supremacists and the SA right

Decades before Ernst Roets lobbied the US, a little-known Kempton Park woman linked the AWB to global neo-Nazis – a story that sheds light on international support for the farm murder cause.…

dailymaverick.co.za

this is concerning enough that I'm going to ask about this or similar policies/practices before agreeing to speak to ANY journalist on or off the record. if you can't promise me in writing that this isn't happening, that's the end of the conversation.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · last wk.

I emailed top USA Today editors on Friday, in the hopes that there was some misunderstanding. No response. Unilaterally feeding entire interviews into an AI slop machine is not OK. It has to stop.