@drawthetardis.bsky.social
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The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.
Citing a nonexistent crime crisis, Trump plans to take over the Washington DC police and put troops in the streets of the nation's capital. Contrary to his claims, violent crime in DC is at a 30-year low. @katierogersnyt.bsky.social Campbell Robertson Chris Cameron www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Here’s the latest.
www.nytimes.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.
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🧵NOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone “why do you think that’s so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?”
This was their response:
This was their response:
April 20, 2025 at 7:54 AM
🧵NOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone “why do you think that’s so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?”
This was their response:
This was their response:
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We just got word that we'll be doing a march, so it's official, march down state street after if you want!! 🎉✨
April 17, 2025 at 4:40 AM
We just got word that we'll be doing a march, so it's official, march down state street after if you want!! 🎉✨
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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
April 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
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This is so fucked up. ICE agents in Massachusetts smashed the window of a car to grab a Guatemalan guy who was with his wife. They were waiting for their lawyer to arrive because he has a pending asylum case.
Story via @wcvb5.bsky.social: www.wcvb.com/article/ice-...
Story via @wcvb5.bsky.social: www.wcvb.com/article/ice-...
April 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This is so fucked up. ICE agents in Massachusetts smashed the window of a car to grab a Guatemalan guy who was with his wife. They were waiting for their lawyer to arrive because he has a pending asylum case.
Story via @wcvb5.bsky.social: www.wcvb.com/article/ice-...
Story via @wcvb5.bsky.social: www.wcvb.com/article/ice-...
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This is where your Harry Potter money goes
jk rowling funded a case going before the supreme court that argues it should be legal to discriminate against and persecute trans ppl.
yet still we have to listen to ‘centrists’ claiming she isn’t bigoted she just has ‘a difference of opinion’.
no trans ppl have a voice in these proceedings.
yet still we have to listen to ‘centrists’ claiming she isn’t bigoted she just has ‘a difference of opinion’.
no trans ppl have a voice in these proceedings.
April 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
This is where your Harry Potter money goes
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I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
There are great conferences and science in the US, but with the way things are right now, it’s too risky to attend.
Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained
‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
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one of the worst things about this government is that it is made up of a variety of people with their own personal terrible obsessions and none of them want to (or can, in this case) stop the others
Trump: tariffs
Musk: DOGE
RFK: vaccines
everyone brings something unique and shitty to the table
Trump: tariffs
Musk: DOGE
RFK: vaccines
everyone brings something unique and shitty to the table
April 8, 2025 at 12:31 AM
one of the worst things about this government is that it is made up of a variety of people with their own personal terrible obsessions and none of them want to (or can, in this case) stop the others
Trump: tariffs
Musk: DOGE
RFK: vaccines
everyone brings something unique and shitty to the table
Trump: tariffs
Musk: DOGE
RFK: vaccines
everyone brings something unique and shitty to the table
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Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
April 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
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spotted in the toronto star
April 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
spotted in the toronto star
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We've blown right past "Show me your papers or be arrested" and straight to "We're going to forcefully detain you and rough you up before we even ask for your papers."
And given the racial profiling inherent in this practice, these people are basically just acting like the 1880s Klan.
And given the racial profiling inherent in this practice, these people are basically just acting like the 1880s Klan.
“He told agents they had the wrong guy, but they aggressively ordered him to get on the ground. They didn’t allow him to show ID to prove he’s a citizen and instead they grabbed him, put him face down on the pavement, handcuffed him and took out his wallet.”
www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...
www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...
U.S. citizen mistakenly detained by ICE outside Michigan courthouse speaks out
Immigrant rights advocates are concerned what happened outside a Michigan courthouse may be part of a larger problem.
www.mlive.com
April 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
We've blown right past "Show me your papers or be arrested" and straight to "We're going to forcefully detain you and rough you up before we even ask for your papers."
And given the racial profiling inherent in this practice, these people are basically just acting like the 1880s Klan.
And given the racial profiling inherent in this practice, these people are basically just acting like the 1880s Klan.
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The money is going to what now
April 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The money is going to what now
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“A top Goldman Sachs executive summed up the frustration with Mr. Trump succinctly: Someone has to stop him.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/b...
Wall Street’s Decision Makers Brace for More Chaos After Markets Plunge
The financial titans who backed Trump are now dealing with the fallout from his tariffs. They spent the weekend surveying the damage of last week’s major sell-off.
www.nytimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“A top Goldman Sachs executive summed up the frustration with Mr. Trump succinctly: Someone has to stop him.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/b...
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The people grabbing the stove with both hands and putting their faces on it are not going to stop no matter how bad the pain gets because they simply refuse to believe that grabbing the stove is bad. And even if they did accept it for a moment, they’d never accept the consequences of being wrong.
White supremacy is so wild because people deep in it really believe that bad things don’t happen to them, like they’re main characters in the story of the world. They can’t accept that they can make bad decisions or even be wrong, because they’re inherently “right” people. Bonkers shit.
April 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The people grabbing the stove with both hands and putting their faces on it are not going to stop no matter how bad the pain gets because they simply refuse to believe that grabbing the stove is bad. And even if they did accept it for a moment, they’d never accept the consequences of being wrong.
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So now JKR is attacking ace people? Seriously?
She is the worst. Needless to say: Your gender and sexuality are valid, and they are YOUR business. And she and her TERF army can go f**k themselves. (See, I told you that I've been swearing a lot more this year.)
She is the worst. Needless to say: Your gender and sexuality are valid, and they are YOUR business. And she and her TERF army can go f**k themselves. (See, I told you that I've been swearing a lot more this year.)
April 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
So now JKR is attacking ace people? Seriously?
She is the worst. Needless to say: Your gender and sexuality are valid, and they are YOUR business. And she and her TERF army can go f**k themselves. (See, I told you that I've been swearing a lot more this year.)
She is the worst. Needless to say: Your gender and sexuality are valid, and they are YOUR business. And she and her TERF army can go f**k themselves. (See, I told you that I've been swearing a lot more this year.)
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🗓️ Calendar check:
April 19 ✊🏽✅🪧
💚💙 Amazing work yesterday folks!!! 💙💚
#Protest
#StayEngaged
#SavingDemocracy
April 19 ✊🏽✅🪧
💚💙 Amazing work yesterday folks!!! 💙💚
#Protest
#StayEngaged
#SavingDemocracy
April 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🗓️ Calendar check:
April 19 ✊🏽✅🪧
💚💙 Amazing work yesterday folks!!! 💙💚
#Protest
#StayEngaged
#SavingDemocracy
April 19 ✊🏽✅🪧
💚💙 Amazing work yesterday folks!!! 💙💚
#Protest
#StayEngaged
#SavingDemocracy
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Now THAT’S some #GoodTrouble. #HandsOff
April 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Now THAT’S some #GoodTrouble. #HandsOff
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Sorry, Herr Plugs. Caring about your feelings is the fundamental weakness of Western civilization
April 6, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Sorry, Herr Plugs. Caring about your feelings is the fundamental weakness of Western civilization
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Kyiv residents try to protect themselves from Russian attacks in subway stations.
April 6, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Kyiv residents try to protect themselves from Russian attacks in subway stations.
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Retweeting this 1000x.
The message is: crowd large.
Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift.
Events like this puncture that delusion.
Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift.
Events like this puncture that delusion.
You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.
People poured out to protest not only what Trump has done—and what they fear he will do next.
www.motherjones.com
April 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Retweeting this 1000x.
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White House new media guy:
“We need our version of the Peoples History of the West. Where the truth is told about slavery”
“We need our version of the Peoples History of the West. Where the truth is told about slavery”
April 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
White House new media guy:
“We need our version of the Peoples History of the West. Where the truth is told about slavery”
“We need our version of the Peoples History of the West. Where the truth is told about slavery”
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A while back I mentioned I helped to build a government AI tool. DOGE "deleted" (fired) my whole org (@alt18f.bsky.social) and took the tool to become their "AI-first strategy."
But what is the strategy? What are they actually planning to do?
I’m trying to piece it together. Here’s what I think 🧵
But what is the strategy? What are they actually planning to do?
I’m trying to piece it together. Here’s what I think 🧵
April 4, 2025 at 2:13 AM
A while back I mentioned I helped to build a government AI tool. DOGE "deleted" (fired) my whole org (@alt18f.bsky.social) and took the tool to become their "AI-first strategy."
But what is the strategy? What are they actually planning to do?
I’m trying to piece it together. Here’s what I think 🧵
But what is the strategy? What are they actually planning to do?
I’m trying to piece it together. Here’s what I think 🧵