greenlynx
@lynxspider.bsky.social
Cat lover, amateur photographer and naturalist, avid gardener, occasional crafter. She/her, cis/het, ally to all who could use one. Userpic is my photo of a green lynx spider mother-to-be in my yard.
No ham sandwich for you.
It's very unusual to fail to secure an indictment from a federal grand jury.
There's even a famous saying about how easy it is to convince a grand jury to return a true bill.
But sources tell me Trump's DOJ secured zero / nada / not one (1) single vote in quest to indict Dems over a social video:
There's even a famous saying about how easy it is to convince a grand jury to return a true bill.
But sources tell me Trump's DOJ secured zero / nada / not one (1) single vote in quest to indict Dems over a social video:
Trump administration fails to indict Democrats involved in 'illegal orders' video
President Donald Trump had accused six Democratic lawmakers of "seditious behavior" after they urged members of the military and intelligence communities to refuse unlawful orders.
www.nbcnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:17 AM
No ham sandwich for you.
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One of the tiny silver linings of the absolute implosion of the DOJ is that, with very few exceptions, the lawyers left in the most corrupt offices (like DC) are absolutely the worst litigators of the bunch and the new blood is super green. It's like litigating on Easy Mode after years of Nightmare.
February 11, 2026 at 5:40 AM
One of the tiny silver linings of the absolute implosion of the DOJ is that, with very few exceptions, the lawyers left in the most corrupt offices (like DC) are absolutely the worst litigators of the bunch and the new blood is super green. It's like litigating on Easy Mode after years of Nightmare.
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Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
February 10, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
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1) Abolish ICE & DHS. Prosecute. Shift immigration enforcement to pre-2003 arrangements.
2) Amnesty for all undocumented immigrants in the country for more than 3 months.
3) Decriminalize unauthorized border crossings and visa overstays. That means administrative rather than criminal penalties.
2) Amnesty for all undocumented immigrants in the country for more than 3 months.
3) Decriminalize unauthorized border crossings and visa overstays. That means administrative rather than criminal penalties.
“Abolish ICE” needs to be rhetorically linked to an actual policy program of the sort folks On Here have proposed: return to essentially the 2001 status quo ex ante, shift immigration judges to article iii status, transfer criminal alien removal to grown-up law enforcement, etc.
February 10, 2026 at 6:29 PM
1) Abolish ICE & DHS. Prosecute. Shift immigration enforcement to pre-2003 arrangements.
2) Amnesty for all undocumented immigrants in the country for more than 3 months.
3) Decriminalize unauthorized border crossings and visa overstays. That means administrative rather than criminal penalties.
2) Amnesty for all undocumented immigrants in the country for more than 3 months.
3) Decriminalize unauthorized border crossings and visa overstays. That means administrative rather than criminal penalties.
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Alt text for people with visual impairments and make it multilingual for New Yorkers who are more fluent in languages that aren't English.
February 10, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Alt text for people with visual impairments and make it multilingual for New Yorkers who are more fluent in languages that aren't English.
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Also, citing my sources
www.health.state.ny.us/statistics/p...
www.health.state.ny.us/statistics/p...
www.health.state.ny.us
February 10, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Also, citing my sources
www.health.state.ny.us/statistics/p...
www.health.state.ny.us/statistics/p...
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Anyway,Alt text:
Red, black, and cream graphic poster with a bold, vintage protest aesthetic. Large central text reads “NEW YORKERS vs BAD LANDLORDS.” “Mayor Mamdani & The Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants present,” An arrow points to an RSVP box with the website “rentalripoff.nyc.gov.”
Red, black, and cream graphic poster with a bold, vintage protest aesthetic. Large central text reads “NEW YORKERS vs BAD LANDLORDS.” “Mayor Mamdani & The Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants present,” An arrow points to an RSVP box with the website “rentalripoff.nyc.gov.”
February 10, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Anyway,Alt text:
Red, black, and cream graphic poster with a bold, vintage protest aesthetic. Large central text reads “NEW YORKERS vs BAD LANDLORDS.” “Mayor Mamdani & The Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants present,” An arrow points to an RSVP box with the website “rentalripoff.nyc.gov.”
Red, black, and cream graphic poster with a bold, vintage protest aesthetic. Large central text reads “NEW YORKERS vs BAD LANDLORDS.” “Mayor Mamdani & The Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants present,” An arrow points to an RSVP box with the website “rentalripoff.nyc.gov.”
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I know some of you are going to come for me for this, but according to the NYT department of health, about 4.9% of people living in NYC have a visual impairment. I really wish Mamdani's team would use alt text. I'm team Mamdani, but disabled folks should not have to fight this hard for inclusion.
New York City: The time has arrived. Finally, a chance to tell the city EXACTLY what your landlord’s been getting away with. NYC’s first Rental Ripoff Hearings are happening in all five boroughs, and we want to hear from you. Real New Yorkers. Real stories. Real policy changes.
February 10, 2026 at 2:44 PM
I know some of you are going to come for me for this, but according to the NYT department of health, about 4.9% of people living in NYC have a visual impairment. I really wish Mamdani's team would use alt text. I'm team Mamdani, but disabled folks should not have to fight this hard for inclusion.
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Happy 13th anniversary to this pair of matching news headlines.
February 10, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Happy 13th anniversary to this pair of matching news headlines.
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Wear a mask! Ideally a well fitted respirator like an N95.
Covid is not over. The government pushed a “back to normal” agenda for the economy, not because it was safe.
They told us “only the vulnerable” needed to worry, but covid is a multi system vascular virus that is dangerous to everyone.
Covid is not over. The government pushed a “back to normal” agenda for the economy, not because it was safe.
They told us “only the vulnerable” needed to worry, but covid is a multi system vascular virus that is dangerous to everyone.
February 2026 - the BMJ publishes a piece called "Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one”
Some of us have been screaming this for years
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
Some of us have been screaming this for years
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one”
Covid-19 is not just a respiratory infection. Cardiovascular symptoms are seen in both acute and long covid. Katharine Lang reports on what we’ve learnt since the onset of the pandemic
Cardiovascular...
www.bmj.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Wear a mask! Ideally a well fitted respirator like an N95.
Covid is not over. The government pushed a “back to normal” agenda for the economy, not because it was safe.
They told us “only the vulnerable” needed to worry, but covid is a multi system vascular virus that is dangerous to everyone.
Covid is not over. The government pushed a “back to normal” agenda for the economy, not because it was safe.
They told us “only the vulnerable” needed to worry, but covid is a multi system vascular virus that is dangerous to everyone.
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Baffled by transphobes insisting that the name on your birth certificate is Your True Name Forever when it was common in my grandparents' generation to just...pick a name you like and use that, nbd. I literally found out both of my grandma's birth certificate first names FROM THEIR OBITUARIES.
February 9, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Baffled by transphobes insisting that the name on your birth certificate is Your True Name Forever when it was common in my grandparents' generation to just...pick a name you like and use that, nbd. I literally found out both of my grandma's birth certificate first names FROM THEIR OBITUARIES.
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Age verification? One of the current events we discussed in class at high school was how a corrupt US President was forced to resign.
February 10, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Age verification? One of the current events we discussed in class at high school was how a corrupt US President was forced to resign.
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Such a weird story. The "extreme" measures include masking and not staying in the Olympic village so as to avoid exposure in crowded cafeterias and common spaces. Seems like reasonable precautions for people who don't want to risk ruining the biggest athletic event of their lives!
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy. n.pr/4akK70l
Olympic Covid restrictions are gone, but some athletes still self-quarantining
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy.
n.pr
February 10, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Such a weird story. The "extreme" measures include masking and not staying in the Olympic village so as to avoid exposure in crowded cafeterias and common spaces. Seems like reasonable precautions for people who don't want to risk ruining the biggest athletic event of their lives!
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TJ Sabula, the @uaw.org worker who called Trump a “pedophile protector,”has kept his job and has no disciplinary record for speaking truth to power.
The working class can beat the billionaires. I’m proud of my union for having TJ’s back.
The working class can beat the billionaires. I’m proud of my union for having TJ’s back.
February 9, 2026 at 3:39 PM
TJ Sabula, the @uaw.org worker who called Trump a “pedophile protector,”has kept his job and has no disciplinary record for speaking truth to power.
The working class can beat the billionaires. I’m proud of my union for having TJ’s back.
The working class can beat the billionaires. I’m proud of my union for having TJ’s back.
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Former ICE Facility Worker 'saw people laying in feces' at Baltimore Detention Center
Whistleblower provides internal documents alleging severe overcrowding, mistreatment months before viral video sparked national outrage
www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Whistleblower provides internal documents alleging severe overcrowding, mistreatment months before viral video sparked national outrage
www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Former ICE Facility Worker 'saw people laying in feces' at Baltimore Detention Center
Whistleblower provides internal documents alleging severe overcrowding, mistreatment months before viral video sparked national outrage
www.wusa9.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Former ICE Facility Worker 'saw people laying in feces' at Baltimore Detention Center
Whistleblower provides internal documents alleging severe overcrowding, mistreatment months before viral video sparked national outrage
www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Whistleblower provides internal documents alleging severe overcrowding, mistreatment months before viral video sparked national outrage
www.wusa9.com/article/news...
My thoughts exactly.
I really can’t watch any of these ice flip videos without thinking about how a white man is being rewarded for accomplishing what a Black woman was punished for doing 30 years ago
Surya Bonaly was an incredible athlete and she was treated like shit for it
Surya Bonaly was an incredible athlete and she was treated like shit for it
February 9, 2026 at 3:55 AM
My thoughts exactly.
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I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
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“Measles at Disneyland” is simultaneously a news story, a metaphor for current events, and a good idea for an 80s Orange County hardcore band.
February 2, 2026 at 8:25 PM
“Measles at Disneyland” is simultaneously a news story, a metaphor for current events, and a good idea for an 80s Orange County hardcore band.
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One of the things I love most about the Winter Olympics is that we just cannot win the most medals there. It is good for us to not win all the medals sometimes. There are so many good places that are not us.
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
One of the things I love most about the Winter Olympics is that we just cannot win the most medals there. It is good for us to not win all the medals sometimes. There are so many good places that are not us.
"I really wish that people treated their insecurities like I treat ice cream. Pretend you don't have any while people are around and then indulge by yourself in the kitchen when the kids have gone to bed." --Reddit comment
February 7, 2026 at 7:27 AM
"I really wish that people treated their insecurities like I treat ice cream. Pretend you don't have any while people are around and then indulge by yourself in the kitchen when the kids have gone to bed." --Reddit comment
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That’s a really personal question, bedsheet.
February 6, 2026 at 3:27 AM
That’s a really personal question, bedsheet.
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Little is known about about the elusive Canadian Arctic Whippet. Where do they get their sporty coats? Who is the best girl?
February 4, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Little is known about about the elusive Canadian Arctic Whippet. Where do they get their sporty coats? Who is the best girl?
Darcy says that she’s the best girl. And the daintiest.
February 6, 2026 at 4:08 AM
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Globe and Mail cartoon
February 2, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Globe and Mail cartoon
*not doing (she corrected it)
Bill Clinton testified under oath about Monica Lewinsky. He will now testify under oath about Epstein. There is no excuse for Donald Trump doing that too. Either you want to learn the truth about Epstein’s crimes & who else was involved or you don’t.
February 4, 2026 at 7:52 PM
*not doing (she corrected it)