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.

Happy Indigenous People's Day, y'all. LAND BACK.

This woman is the future of the party if they have the guts to defend her at all costs right now. If they don’t, the party has none.

Ilhan Omar@ilhanmn.bsky.social · 3d ago

Trump’s obsession with demonizing the Somali community is dangerous and reprehensible. Hate to break it to him: Somali Minnesotans are resilient. We will not let Trump intimidate us. Our neighbors have our back.

Trump’s obsession with demonizing the Somali community is dangerous and reprehensible. Hate to break it to him: Somali Minnesotans are resilient. We will not let Trump intimidate us. Our neighbors have our back.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"

This is quite literally what happened to one of my grandparents in 1933. You know, in case we still have folks in the “it’s not fascism if it doesn’t meet these very specific, arbitrary characteristics based on my own refusal to accept responsibility to oppose it” crowd.

Billie Jean Sweeney@billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 5h ago

You can’t get more Gestapo than this…. “a criminal probe into her immigration paperwork, which her late father filled out after the family emigrated to the U.S. from Somalia when she was a child”

This is unconscionable. Outright fascism, complete with the explicit language of ethnic cleansing as a justification from the president.

Jameel Jaffer@jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 5h ago

What was once a gradual slide into autocracy has become something like free-fall. We should all be in the streets. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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.

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i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

I’ve been low-key walking around with a pit of smoldering ash in my chest all day where my last shred of hope for midterms used to be.

emily blight 🐦‍⬛@threnody.northsky.social · 4d ago

imagine being a professional politician so bad at politics that in the current climate you had to say, “my ideas and my inherent charm aren’t working against the people who made gas $8 a gallon & are kidnapping the ice cream men. i should release an ad about which humans i think are less human.”

And, possibly, your Paramount+ one, if you haven’t already.

Jesspooka Kant 🎃@jessdkant.bsky.social · 5d ago

Reminder that now is a fabulous time to cancel your HBO subscription.

just had one of the most unhinged conversations i’ve had in a while with someone & basically i just try to be kind. i feel like a lot of folks absolutely lost the plot of incarnation & basically i am making my way through my irl existence by defaulting to “kind” when something else isn’t called for?

Reminder that now is a fabulous time to cancel your HBO subscription.

Scholastic sent me a whole box of paperback copies of Sorcerer’s Stone that I sure didn't order. When I asked why, my rep told me they're sending complimentary giveaway copies to random schools that do Book Fair.

Scholastic exists to sideload mediocre YA fiction into schools en masse and make it look organic. That’s how we got HP the first time, no matter how much people want to believe it was just whimsy and mass appeal.

Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGhoul@marzgurl.com · 5d ago

People don't believe me, but I'm TELLING you, there MUST be an active campaign strategy happening in media published by WB or other parts of JK's team trying to force HP awkwardly and unnaturally into public consciousness. Certainly from the WB side, I've seen multiple properties doing it already.

The things that happen today have been happening for centuries and I will not stop screaming about it until everyone admits it.

Years ago I was preparing an epistemology of gender in psychiatry lecture and included a "third gender" table I've since deleted. An ex lent me a very popular book on the anthropology of gender to prep, and I made it 5 pages in before realizing the author was using "trans women" to refer to men.

Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢@taliabhatt.itch.io · 5d ago

The thing that frustrates me most about this "third gender" stuff is that it's living proof of how transmisogyny is deeply baked into patriarchal cultures, and how the societal refusal to recognize trans womanhood is millennia old, but it's been turned into Noble Gender Savage fanfic by dipshits.

“Man firing live torpedo at constitution unclear why everyone is being so negative”

“The bartender came out from behind the bar to tape up a handwritten sign right in front of me that said, ‘Ladies Only,’” Marina Hanley, the lead singer of Rougaroux, said in a video. “…‘We’re very strict about this. This isn’t an all-gender situation. This washroom is for ladies only.’”

Bartender blocks trans woman from using restroom to tape up "Ladies Only" sign - LGBTQ Nation

“I don't ever want to feel this shame that I have felt about who I am and about the journey that I have been on.”

lgbtqnation.com

All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist

"Medicaid work requirements" are above water with the American electorate (net +18). Calling the same policy "Medicaid eligibility cuts" meaningfully decreases support (net -11). I do not understand the insistence on adopting the framing of those trying to destroy Medicaid

I love living in a country where a politician can sign a law banning the health care I need to live and be greeted as a hero of comity and good sense

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 2w ago

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has emerged as a prominent voice calling on Americans to step back from the political hostility gripping the country. The Republican governor is expanding on that message in a new book. https://to.pbs.org/3VmTJnx

NEW / HUGE: Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama sued nearly three dozen abortion pill providers + a pharmacy and The states asked the Supreme Court to be able to sue New York, Massachusetts, and California to challenge their telehealth shield laws @autonomynews.co storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Nothing more depressing than finding out there are still people at this point in a state of emergency so desperate for clout and subscriptions they'd peddle click-fodder to the very people who have made a whole career out of hating us.

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️@mady.cat · 2w ago

if your articles are being shared positively by Jesse Singal, you're probably not actually doing the work in support of trans people as much as you think you are! (this is about the new The Needle hit piece about Erin Reed)

If we’re all going to have to make choices like this eventually, and we all will, each of us should hope to one day find out we have this kind of moral clarity.

Olivia Messer@oliviamesser.bsky.social · 2w ago

This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

For those following the Bates case in Oregon, she has agreed to a settlement opening up the process for her to be an adoptive parent despite stating that she would not affirm an LGBTQ+ child. This ADF quote says a lot about the aim of the larger project. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/09/god-...

Every day is a good day to delete Facebook and Instagram. Close your accounts. Stop giving these sociopaths your data.

Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished

Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished

In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.

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Oh you think marinating yourself in beef tallow and loading up on so much hgh you turn into a human teapot is enough to make america healthy again? Have you even considered the benefits of this all natural plant that’s never hurt anyone?

Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2w ago

Rolling back tobacco safety regulations lol this administration is so unserious

Cis folks read Jess's full thread before commenting some nonsense