M. A. Gaylor
@mamagaylor.bsky.social
Reality ex-pat Pretty things https://southsidebluesjewelry.square.site
"Perhaps no journalist has endured such a sustained sequence of violence, prosecution, and imprisonment at the hands of the U.S. government." Read more from FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social about the alarming abuse endured by Carlitos Ricardo Parias.
ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He’s Approaching 300 Days Behind Bars With a Festering Wound.
With the case of Carlitos Ricardo Parias, the U.S. has broken its own record for holding a journalist in custody.
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If someone near you is secretly recording with glasses, yell “META stop recording!” It works even if you’re not the owner. (This is more effective than the Disney trick, since there are AI tools to remove background music.)
Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 4d agoWhat’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?
More like “Hey white boys, be sure to hurry up and enlist for the chance to climb the ranks and kick the shit out of minority troops forced into the military through lack of other opportunities.” JFC.
Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 11mo agoHey white boys be sure to hurry up and enlist to get the shit kicked out of you by your drill sergeants like in that cool movie about how fun basic training and war are, Full Metal Jacket
Neat thread!
The Bee Guy@thebeeguy.bsky.social · last wk.Mornin’ folks. Notice #bumblebees asleep on #flowers recently? Want to know what’s going on with them? Well here’s a quick (long)🙄 thread explaining the bumblebee flower-sleeping phenomenon. Please #repost / #share so more people are more informed. Thank you. #bees #nature #education 1/16
As am I, Senator Warner, as am I. Oh, wait …
Senator Mark Warner@markwarner.bsky.social · last wk.I am extremely dismayed that we are 18 months removed from the Flight 5342 tragedy and once again we have a military aircraft - one carrying the president no less - narrowly missing a commercial aircraft near DCA.
Is Trump telling us that he’s outsourcing US ballistic missile production to a foreign country? Does Lockheed Martin know?
Plastic Jesus 📷🧑🎨🇬🇧🇺🇸@plasticjesusart.bsky.social · 2w agoObviously the ‘munitions’ Trump is referring to are the one they are firing every day at protestors in the streets.
Yes, truly a key ideological proxy war in the Michigan Democratic Senate primaries between Nikki Haley and a brown man I can’t identify but who clearly isn’t Dr. Abdul El-Sayed. Too close to call!
Good list of things to consider, adding to our ongoing debate about court reform. I'd go for most of them. I'm most skeptical on supermajority to strike down federal statutes. I'm not sure that would work as intended. (NB this is suggesting ideas other than expansion, not necessarily rejecting it.)
Ben Raderstorf@raders.bsky.social · 2w ago*Beyond expansion & term limits. Really persuasive piece by @protectdemocracy.org's Justin Florence & Erica Newland, originally published in @theunpopulist.net www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-two-br...
finally, the Democratic party has a plan.
Two words: burner phone techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/u...
US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch
A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constit...
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And for those without a Joan of their own, I will happily provide that service free of charge!
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 3mo agoWrite the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan
Agenda topics: - Emergency collaboration - How to deal with a pesky spine - Prioritizing constituencies to throw under the bus - Opposition schmopposition
Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 3w ago#ELB: “Schumer convenes Democrats to prepare for election doomsday scenarios” https://electionlawblog.org/?p=157573
Time once more for my cat as Peter Navarro, a photo essay in X parts Part 1
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoPeter Navarro claims that Canadian officials are "some of the most dishonest people I've ever met. They stab you in the back ... they're screwing us"
This bill sitting in the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on 4/30/26 strips fed retirement pay for sex crime convictions. It applies only to convictions after its passage, giving these guys and those convicted in the interim a pass. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
🏴S T R E P S I R R H I N I🏴@strepsirrhini.bsky.social · 4w agoThis should get boosted to the sky. Tax dollars pay these people, give them a retirement, and this is how they conduct themselves. Even if it was once a few bad apples, they spoiled the barrel long ago.
The Dems’ tent is big enough to let in George Conway, but not big enough for politicians who criticize trans phobes. Vote blue, no matter who they throw under the bus …
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 4w ago1. In major news, the Ohio Dem Party has banned the Progressive Caucus from criticizing candidate for Gov. Amy Acton's transphobia. It has now applied more pressure to quiet criticism of anti-trans politics than it has on its own nominee to stop embracing them. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Don’t look away. It hasn’t been a question of “it can’t happen here” since his reelection. It is happening here. The only question is who will stop it and how? We need to take a collective look in our mirrors and ask that question, now, daily, multiple times a day. No one is coming to save us.
🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · last mo.A practical look at the lies we should expect from Trump’s big lie speech Thursday from @electproject.bsky.social Find out what Trump can do before the midterms (decertifying Dominion voting machines in 11 states looks likely).
Rights are reserved for the people. But people also have a power. United, that power can be unstoppable. The response to the regime’s abuse of power isn’t “They can’t/don’t have the right to do that!” The response is “Who will stop them? And how?”
Silverman on Security@silvermansecurity.bsky.social · last mo.I want to make a quick, but important point that goes to the 🧵 I did last night & a quote post reply this morning. States, as in the US or it's constituent states or those states municipalities DO NOT have rights. They have power/powers. Rights are reserved for the people. 1/
Mitch McConnell has been missing because the ritual to keep him alive takes longer and longer each time he starts to decompose. This time, he had to sacrifice Lindsey Graham. Next time, the elders say it will take two senators to fulfill the cosmic pact. After that, it will devour the moon
Interesting in light of this article. marypatcampbell.substack.com/p/2025-updat...
2025 Update on Senate Demographics
The older-than-Boomers thin out
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Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · last mo.The thing about being ruled by a gerontocracy is that cohort mortality is a probability density, meaning all these fuckers start dying around the same time -- in clusters. The same Weibull Distribution "bathtub curve" explains why batches of light bulbs and hard drives all die in the same month.
I prefer to think of him going in a shrivel and a slither. Like the legs of the Wicked Witch of the East. Let the joyous news be spread …
Wizard of Oz: Wicked Witch's Ruby Slippers
Alt: Scene from the Wizard of Oz when the Ruby Slippers disappeared from the feet of the Wicked Witch of the East and her legs shriveled up and slithered out of sight after she died when Dorothy’s house fell on her
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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️@pamacious.bsky.social · last mo.Leningrad Lindsey is no more: he passed away last night.
I think the reaction to today’s news is my favorite Graham moment. To be topped only when we learn what Trump said to him that day on the golf course.
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · last mo.I think one of my "favorite" Lindsey Graham moments was how he said in 2016 (see video) and 2018 that if there was a SCOTUS vacancy during the final year of Trump's term that the next president should pick the replacement. (Then in 2020, ignored himself and voted to rush Barrett onto the court)
I long for the day when we all accept the idea that devil doesn't need advocates.
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · last mo.Dana Bash: What would you have wanted Israel to do when a bunch of civilians -- these were peacenicks -- were murdered brutally on October 7? Lander: I wouldn't have killed 5000 Palestinians under the age of 5. Bash: Israel says they tried hard to avoid this -- I'm just playing devil's advocate.
