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Jen Wang

@jenwang.com

SoCal. Composer, ED of People Inside Electronics, choral singer, amateur viola da gamba & banjo player, mapo tofu enthusiast. No TERFs. She/her.

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God@thegodshow.com · 2w ago

Thou shalt not blame Canada for wildfires caused by climate change you’ve spent your whole life denying and intensifying through your own greed and stupidity.

Jen Wang@jenwang.com · 2w ago

Every time I look at a list like this it’s striking how cheaply a member of Congress can be bought. Though tbf it doesn’t include superPAC $.

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · 2w ago

I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg@theradr.bsky.social · 3w ago

This, 10000%. This statistic (TW: SA) is so important to keep in mind. And to remember that whoever's pushing forgiveness, assuming it's not coming organically from the harmed party, almost always wants to maintain the status quo / existing power structure. By definition.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3w ago

Thanks! Amen! And that there is a certain kind of person who is incessantly judged worthy of forgiveness, pardon, slack cut, etc. and Platner is the perfect specimen of same. Or even whom we are told we must forgive or not hold responsible for his (yeah, usually HIS) actions in the first place.

PTSD – post-traumatic stress disorder – has been cited, including by Platner, as a justification for his post-military conduct. On the one hand, while it may explain it, it doesn't justify that behavior in a candidate for senate. On the other, another Marine who served in Iraq, David J. Morris, who wrote a powerful book, The Evil Hours, about PTSD, wrote me some years ago, “The science on the subject is prettyclear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat. Think about that for a ­ moment— being raped is four times more psychologically disturbing than going off to a war and being shot at and blown up. And because there are currently no enduring cultural narratives that allow women to look upon their survival as somehow heroic or honorable, the potential for enduring damage is even greater.” A significant percentage of American women are survivors of male violence, including intimate partner violence and rape, yet I rarely hear PTSD invoked to justify or excuse their – our – behavior, and I've never heard it invoked to justify violence by women. https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/pod-save-patriarchy-or-whatever-that-sorry-platner-spectacle-was/
Rob Sheridan@rob-sheridan.com · 3w ago

One of the reasons I wanted to move back up to the PNW is bc of how brown & smoke-ridden LA was getting each year. Then it came for the PNW, too. Growing up in Seattle, we only had a handful of 80+ days in the summer, and NEVER smoke weather. Now heatwaves and air quality alerts are a June-Oct norm.

Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 3w ago

37-year-old lifelong New Yorker here. You know, growing up, I don’t remember being trapped inside by toxic wildfire smoke. Certainly not with this regularity. I have a toddler. I am beyond outraged over the state of the planet he will inherit—a crisis fueled by greedy businessmen and their allies

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

WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship. She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.

Ashley Brouillette told the Portland Press Herald in a phone interview Thursday afternoon that her ex-husband called admitting to the shooting and defending his actions. The Press Herald reviewed a screenshot of incoming calls Ashley Brouillette received from her ex-husband’s current wife’s Facebook account on Wednesday. “He was asking me to lie for him and to cover for his character,” Ashley Brouillette said. “I told him that I was not going to lie for him. And then he tried to say that it was a justified shooting because the guy tried to hit him with his car.” She said she has seen videos of Brouillette on the scene of the shooting and confirmed that was him on scene, telling him: “nowhere in there does it show that this man charged at you with a car.” “In his head it’s justified. He’s unusually calm about it,” she said.Ashley Brouillette told a reporter that she wanted to speak publicly because she had previously reported concerns to his superiors in the military about his mental health. She said he was abusive in their relationship. She said that she’s been inundated with calls, since reports of Brouillette’s involvement began circulating online, threatening her and her family.
Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 3w ago

The federal immigration agent who shot and killed a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford has been identified as David Michael Brouillette. Brouillette, who is 37 and lives in Manchester, was identified by an ex-wife as the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.

United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · 3w ago

Many areas including NY, WI and MI have extremely poor air quality due to wildfire smoke. While public health agencies advise people to stay indoors and avoid strenuous activity, farm workers are out working in these conditions. 1/

watch duty screenshot showing terrible air quality from the canadian border across much of the northeast and midwest
CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️@cnlester.bsky.social · 3w ago

A lovely story I ought to share more often: best wedding I've ever done the music for was a renewal of vows for a couple who'd been together 50+ years, and one partner had just transitioned, so they wanted to update everything and have another celebration as two wives. Grandkids did the readings...

CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️@cnlester.bsky.social · 3w ago

This has been an enormous change in my lifetime, and something I'm holding onto for hope. All of my parents family friends - a lot of them fairly 'old-fashioned' people - now have stories of 'well, {x}'s husband, who's now her wife, well, they're both so much happier now...' and it matters.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 3w ago

We found that thousands of parents have been separated from U.S. citizen children and at least 79 kids were doused with chemical agents. 🗓️ On July 21, join us for a virtual discussion on how children have been caught in Trump's immigration crackdown: https://propub.li/4fiHDSF

Text: How Children Have Been Caught in Trump's Immigration Crackdown: Join us for a discussion about how families and children are being affected in new ways by President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign. Tuesday, July 21. 4 p.m. EST. Register at propublica.org/events. Events supported by the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation. Image: A woman walks a young boy down a dimly lit hallway with blue walls.
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · last mo.

JUST IN: A federal judge in California has issued a nationwide block on ICE's policy of conducting arrests at immigration courthouses. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Order on Motion for Partial Summary Judgment AND Order on Motion for Partial Summary Judgment AND Order on Motion to Certify Class – #205 in Pablo Sequen v. Albarran (N.D. Cal., 5:25-cv-06487) – Court...

ORDER RE: 172 MOTIONS FOR CLASS CERTIFICATION AND 175 176 SUMMARY JUDGMENT. Signed by Judge P. Casey Pitts on 6/23/2026. (crr, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 6/23/2026) (Entered: 06/23/2026)

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Immigrant Defenders Law Center@immdef.bsky.social · last mo.

An attorney was punished for giving water to a client who went 30 hours without it at Adelanto ICE. Instead of fixing the issue, they banned her from face‑to‑face visits. GEO Group gets $142M a year to run this place. This is why we fight in L.T. v. ICE.

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the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2mo ago

this is a catastrophe and he will do harm, and only harm, to those living with disabilities

Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In bad news, with disability education oversight being moved to the Department of Health and Human Services from the Department of Education, that means Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will have power over disability policy positions. New from me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...