How to squish metaphors together until they make the point you've been trying to make your whole life. open.substack.com/pub/nikwalk/...
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Nicole Walker
@nikwalk.bsky.social
Two books forthcoming from Bloomsbury: Writing the Hard Stuff and How Plant a Billion Trees. Writer of 8 (weird) books.Trying to withstand the onslaught of fascism by building community. Prof, Nonfiction Editor at DIAGRAM and UGA Press's Crux Series.
Nobody in the U.S. Senate is more responsible for the overturning of Roe v. Wade than Susan Collins. In November, we will defeat her.
“Don’t worry, Pete. That little speech I read was just for the voters back home. I have to put on these little shows to convince them I’m independent. You will get the $1.5 trillion for your wars even though I just gave ICE unlimited funding to run wild. We’ll just borrow more.”
You might get sick of hearing this but if he keeps doing it I'm gonna keep saying it: this is an unconstitutional impoundment, violating both Congress' Article I spending authority and the 1974 Impoundment Control act, and immediately impeachable.
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump administration pauses $1 bln in Medicaid payments to California, Minnesota www.reuters.com/world/us-hea...
This is key. Especially here in Flagstaff (although, to be fair, make it fair everywhere).
D. Earl Stephens@dearlstephens.bsky.social · 2w ago📌The NYT Editorial Board is actually out with something I agree with today, and EVERY Democrat should be banging this drum, EVERYWHERE. After 50 years of absurd tax breaks and skyrocketing incomes, it is time the rich starting paying their fair share. PERIOD.
www.cnn.com/2026/07/20/p... If you're like me you're not only crying but literally sick TRUMP IS TO BLAME SO YOUNG TO DIE 1st.Lt Tyler James Freehan 25 years old !! He is from Hawaii 🙏😥🕊 Pvt. Isabella Gonzales ONLY 19 YEARS OLD ! A TEENAGER ! She is from Carrollton TX 🕊🙏😥🙏 MY HEART BREAKS
US military identifies 2 soldiers killed during Iranian strikes in Jordan | CNN Politics
The Department of Defense on Monday identified two US soldiers who were killed in Iranian strikes in Jordan.
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A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.
The good thing is not a single word of this makes sense to me.
Marlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦@marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump is once again confirming his staggering stupidity and ignorance.
🧊✈️ SEATTLE ⛓️😲 👉 Young men & boys in shackles are herded by hired thugs from a chartered Eastern 737 to a waiting bus, to be transported to GEO Group's Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington 👀
JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 2w ago🧊✈️ SEATTLE ⛓️😲 ⚠️ GEO Group thugs prepare to load three busloads of chained humans from the Northwest Detention Center on to a plane bound for ICE's notorious East Montana Concentration Camp near El Paso, Texas 👀
A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
There's one man who tried to commit election fraud in the State of Georgia in that 2020 election, and it was Donald Trump.
So says Mr. Normal.
PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w agoMiller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli
Whether it's Donald Trump giving $5 million to a woman he raped or Joe Biden giving a $10 to a cashier for a pint of Jeni's, both candidates have had some unusual expenditures.
KING: Is there a problem w/ voter fraud? CLAYTON: I don't think we can say K: We've had hundreds of analyses C: I would love for Americans to have incredible confidence in the integrity of our elections K: I would too & I'd appreciate it if this admin would cease undermining that confidence
AOC on Susan Collins touting the money she got for body cameras and ICE training in the DHS bill. “Senator Collins wrote the blank check to allow these officers to conduct themselves in the way that they have in Maine in the first place, and she's the one who's poured resources into it.”
Schiff: The judge, in that decision on Monday, referred Blanche, basically, to the New York Bar Association because of his conduct. How is it possible that after being referred to the bar association for potential discipline on Monday, we’re contemplating this guy for attorney general on Wednesday?
Susan Collins could have insisted on guardrails or measures to rein in abuses. She didn’t and now her state is being terrorized by ICE.
Thank you @pingree.house.gov for sharing details about the senseless ICE killing in Maine this morning.
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree@pingree.house.gov · 3w agoICE shot and killed Joan Sebasatian Guerrero at 7:15 AM. His three-year-old daughter will never see her dad again. It took DHS 12 HOURS to release a statement. They claim the officer shot Joan out of fear for "public safety"—NOT his own life. Everything about ICE’s conduct is unconscionable.
