I watched that new movie Animals on Netflix. You can skip it.
I slapped SCOTUS and Ouiser Boudreaux🥄😷
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Democracy. Reproductive Freedom. Bostonian in the Berkshires. Theatergoer.🎭Stoner. Love my trans family & friends, dogs, music, books, movies, tv, travel, art, meditation, swearing. 〽️Wolverine, PTSD, ADHD, BRCA1, atheist Jew, BLM, ally🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦.🐩 👰♀️🥄 Bsky 10/23
Edward Gibbon, the 18th century historian who attributed Rome's fall to the 'triumph of barbarism and religion', might have felt a pang of recognition.
Gov. Healey announces major step toward permanent Berkshire Flyer service, expanded passenger rail in western Massachusetts
Gov. Healey announces major step toward permanent Berkshire Flyer service, expanded passenger rail in western Massachusetts - The Berkshire Edge
An agreement with CSX will fund Pittsfield track work to support seasonal Berkshire Flyer service, and new federal money will pay for modern trains on Compass Rail lines.
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ICE put violent, mentally unstable men on the street without training or vetting them, and now they're afraid of incurring even more liability and bad press. www.rawstory.com/ice-employees/
ICE bleeding staff at record rate as firings and resignations soar: report
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is losing employees faster than at any point in its history, with thousands of recent hires quitting or getting fired shortly after joining, according to federal wo...
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BREAKING: MS NOW confirms. The Trump Justice Department is seeking a federal criminal indictment of ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on charges of lying to Congress about Trump's actions on Jan. 6.
Conservative activists are chipping away at the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell because Alito told them exactly how to do it.
Sam Alito Wants You to Forget How the Conservative Legal Movement Always Works
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It...
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I don't think we'll ever be done with the "I fucking told you so's." The Food Research & Action Center reported that these changes would weaken safety nets and worsen food insecurity for low-income families: frac.org/blog/project...
The very best kind of hostess gift. Highly recommend. In this case, I’m the fortunate recipient.
The Trump Civil Rights Division exists mostly to encourage racial discrimination rather than prevent it bsky.app/profile/carl...
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d agoHUD sent $WFC a letter "saying it would examine whether the bank violated fair lending laws by favoring Black or other minority homeowners, according to a copy viewed by The Wall Street Journal. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/bank...
Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying
So annoyed. Forgot I was fasting for a blood test and drank juice. #NEISvoid
SCOOP: Nearly $9 million in federal family planning funds will go to organizations with anti-abortion ties. One org, which received almost $4.3 million, has never taken in more than $50k in a single year. Read more @autonomynews.co:
Nearly $9 Million in HHS Grants Go to Groups With Anti-Abortion Ties
Millions in family planning funds are earmarked to create training centers, including one dedicated to infertility. The recipients have links to crisis pregnancy centers, the Heritage Foundation, and ...
autonomynews.co
as longtime readers know i am a longtime hegseth hater, but i think bouie is right here to note that hegseth's remark that "trannies" are out of the military is, by itself, an impeachable offense obviously much else besides, but i want to dwell on this
Pete Hegseth: Bully, Bigot and the Biggest Loser Imaginable
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Showered, washed *and* dried my hair, will need approximately 3 days to recover. #NEISvoid
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
This is an important statement people, and especially elected Dems need to really understand. The current Republican project is one of destruction, by design. Yes, they have other goals, in RFK’s case he’s objectively pro-disease, but their primary metric of success is breaking government.
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 6d ago“Even if I got hit by a truck tonight. HHS will never go back to what it was before.”
Good morning. I see he’s still alive, dammit.
📌At his unhinged rally in Nebraska tonight Trump said he was fine with Iran taking out San Diego and Los Angeles. It’s staggering and indefensible that ANYONE can support this grotesque, anti-American, blood-thirsty asshole much less an entire political party.
Pippa poodle is curled up on my bed snoring so loudly I bet you can hear her.🐩
Susan Collins's antisemitism did not get enough attention. "I don't think it's a coincidence that ProPublica has as some of its funders George Soros, Donald Sussman, and other [pause] left-wing billionaires."
danny@dabbs346.bsky.social · 2w agoYIKES. On the Leonard Leo-funded Maine Wire (kudos to them for asking about this actually), Susan Collins again lies and says again that she’s “offended” at the ProPublica piece exposing her corruption and… blames George Soros. #mesen #mepolitics
The Bari Weiss-ification of CBS News continues. Dennis Hastert was convicted of the sexual abuse of high school students under his supervision as a high school wrestling coach. Banking rules violations were his transfers of hush money payments which he misdescribed and which allowed
Pete Hegseth’s claim that military service members are superior to American civilians “is not only unwarranted, but actively dangerous,” Eliot A. Cohen argues:
Hegseth’s One Percent
A cult of military superiority over civilians is not only unwarranted, but actively dangerous.
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Your First Amendment rights under the Tech Surveillance State.
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a database run on Palantir software, newly unsealed court filings say.
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