BakeSail
@bake-sail.bsky.social
Left of left, building something better.
Hopepunk, hapless punster, hopeless romantic. Rust belt raised, mind yr pierogies.
Gen X, childfree cat lady, approach at your own risk.
📍New England
✈️⛵️🚲 everywhere else
Hopepunk, hapless punster, hopeless romantic. Rust belt raised, mind yr pierogies.
Gen X, childfree cat lady, approach at your own risk.
📍New England
✈️⛵️🚲 everywhere else
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Please read. Thoughts:
(1) some of this precedes Trump and is bigger than Trump.A story about how we allowed our rights to be eroded post 9/11
(2)Trump takes that pre-existing condition and pours gasoline on it
(3) a gov’t that treats its own citizens as the enemy is not fit to govern in a democracy
(1) some of this precedes Trump and is bigger than Trump.A story about how we allowed our rights to be eroded post 9/11
(2)Trump takes that pre-existing condition and pours gasoline on it
(3) a gov’t that treats its own citizens as the enemy is not fit to govern in a democracy
DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action. www.wired.com/story/dhs-te...
Skateboards and Livestreams: DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’
DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action.
www.wired.com
July 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Please read. Thoughts:
(1) some of this precedes Trump and is bigger than Trump.A story about how we allowed our rights to be eroded post 9/11
(2)Trump takes that pre-existing condition and pours gasoline on it
(3) a gov’t that treats its own citizens as the enemy is not fit to govern in a democracy
(1) some of this precedes Trump and is bigger than Trump.A story about how we allowed our rights to be eroded post 9/11
(2)Trump takes that pre-existing condition and pours gasoline on it
(3) a gov’t that treats its own citizens as the enemy is not fit to govern in a democracy
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New euphemism for authoritarian lawlessness just dropped
June 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
New euphemism for authoritarian lawlessness just dropped
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#OtD 20 May 1936 the first issue of Mujeres Libres (Free Women) was published, a Spanish anarchist feminist magazine aimed at ending the "triple enslavement of women to ignorance, to capital and to men" shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
May 20, 2025 at 7:40 AM
#OtD 20 May 1936 the first issue of Mujeres Libres (Free Women) was published, a Spanish anarchist feminist magazine aimed at ending the "triple enslavement of women to ignorance, to capital and to men" shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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Of all the awful stuff in this reprehensible bill, the fact that your children stop being considered dependents at SEVEN may be the most horrifying detail.
The Ag Committee's part of the Reconciliation Bill raises the SNAP work requirement age for able-bodied adults without dependents from 54 to 64. It also changes the definition of "dependent child" from under 18 years to under 7 years old to determine "Able-bodied adult without dependents."
May 13, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Of all the awful stuff in this reprehensible bill, the fact that your children stop being considered dependents at SEVEN may be the most horrifying detail.
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#OtD 26 Apr 1937 the ancient Basque city of Guernica was bombed and largely obliterated by the German and Italian air forces at the behest of the Spanish nationalists during the civil war. The event was famously depicted by Picasso. More in this podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e...
April 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
#OtD 26 Apr 1937 the ancient Basque city of Guernica was bombed and largely obliterated by the German and Italian air forces at the behest of the Spanish nationalists during the civil war. The event was famously depicted by Picasso. More in this podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e...
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NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present.
“This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."
“This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."
Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth (Gift Article)
Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present.
“This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."
“This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."
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“We never talked about men or clothes. It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution — real girls’ talk.”
Nina Simone died on this day in 2003.
A celebrated musician, prominent civil rights activist, and radical, Simone brought revolutionary praxis to her music.
Nina Simone died on this day in 2003.
A celebrated musician, prominent civil rights activist, and radical, Simone brought revolutionary praxis to her music.
April 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
“We never talked about men or clothes. It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution — real girls’ talk.”
Nina Simone died on this day in 2003.
A celebrated musician, prominent civil rights activist, and radical, Simone brought revolutionary praxis to her music.
Nina Simone died on this day in 2003.
A celebrated musician, prominent civil rights activist, and radical, Simone brought revolutionary praxis to her music.
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This feels like bounty hunting.
“Deputies are stopping Hispanic drivers for minor, unprovable traffic violations like veering left of center, then handing them over to Border Patrol agents who are sometimes already at the scene.”
www.syracuse.com/news/2025/04...
www.syracuse.com/news/2025/04...
Inside Trump’s Upstate NY migrant hunt: Border Patrol’s meaner tactics snare workers and families
“It’s scary,” said a woman whose relatives have disappeared. “You can be followed just for being Hispanic.”
www.syracuse.com
April 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This feels like bounty hunting.
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#OtD 20 Apr 1914 US troops opened fire with machine guns and set fire to tents in a camp of striking miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado. They burned two women, 11 children and shot 13 others. None were prosecuted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9243...
April 20, 2025 at 4:55 AM
#OtD 20 Apr 1914 US troops opened fire with machine guns and set fire to tents in a camp of striking miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado. They burned two women, 11 children and shot 13 others. None were prosecuted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9243...
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25 years ago today, on April 16, 2000, tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington, DC to oppose the meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.
This marked a high point in the worldwide fight against neoliberal capitalism that remains instructive to this day.
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This marked a high point in the worldwide fight against neoliberal capitalism that remains instructive to this day.
🧵⬇️
More World, Less Bank
On April 16, 2000, tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington, DC to mobilize against the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. This was one of a series o...
crimethinc.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:13 AM
25 years ago today, on April 16, 2000, tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington, DC to oppose the meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.
This marked a high point in the worldwide fight against neoliberal capitalism that remains instructive to this day.
🧵⬇️
This marked a high point in the worldwide fight against neoliberal capitalism that remains instructive to this day.
🧵⬇️
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This picture may haunt me to the end of my days.
It is an ICE agent taking an axe to the car window of an immigrant in New Bedford, MA. Not far from where I sit now. An immigrant with no criminal record was abducted by this smiling man.
An axe taken to a car window and to our democracy. 1/
#MomSky
It is an ICE agent taking an axe to the car window of an immigrant in New Bedford, MA. Not far from where I sit now. An immigrant with no criminal record was abducted by this smiling man.
An axe taken to a car window and to our democracy. 1/
#MomSky
April 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This picture may haunt me to the end of my days.
It is an ICE agent taking an axe to the car window of an immigrant in New Bedford, MA. Not far from where I sit now. An immigrant with no criminal record was abducted by this smiling man.
An axe taken to a car window and to our democracy. 1/
#MomSky
It is an ICE agent taking an axe to the car window of an immigrant in New Bedford, MA. Not far from where I sit now. An immigrant with no criminal record was abducted by this smiling man.
An axe taken to a car window and to our democracy. 1/
#MomSky
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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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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, author of The Gulag Archipelago, has something to say to us today:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: what would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive..."
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: what would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive..."
April 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, author of The Gulag Archipelago, has something to say to us today:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: what would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive..."
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: what would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive..."
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NEW: For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir reps, along with dozens of IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API” that would potentially allow intentionally siloed IRS data to be viewed in one place.
@makenakelly.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/palant...
@makenakelly.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/palant...
Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project
For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API,” WIRED has learned.
www.wired.com
April 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
NEW: For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir reps, along with dozens of IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API” that would potentially allow intentionally siloed IRS data to be viewed in one place.
@makenakelly.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/palant...
@makenakelly.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/palant...
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This is important. Just about everyone has committed crimes. The difference between a felony record and no record is almost always luck, money, family connections, race, and/or a whole lot of other things not within anyone's control.
Having a criminal record does not make you a bad person. Having a felony conviction does not make you a bad person. Some of the best people I've ever known have felony convictions on their records, and some of the worst people I've ever met moralized endlessly about crime.
April 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This is important. Just about everyone has committed crimes. The difference between a felony record and no record is almost always luck, money, family connections, race, and/or a whole lot of other things not within anyone's control.
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Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
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You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.
“Mommy, no. Mommy.”
Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window
Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.
Found this absolute darling of a young cat scrounging for food at a remote location in a sleet storm about a week ago. It took us a while to gain his confidence and scoop him up, and then a spin through our local Humane Society for neutering, shots, and to check for a microchip or an owner. 1/
April 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Found this absolute darling of a young cat scrounging for food at a remote location in a sleet storm about a week ago. It took us a while to gain his confidence and scoop him up, and then a spin through our local Humane Society for neutering, shots, and to check for a microchip or an owner. 1/
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the jamelle bouie secret to presciently anticipating the behavior of the president is to just ask myself what a dumbass bully would do
Opinion | Trump’s Lust for Power Cannot Be Satiated (Gift Article)
The tariff saga is just the latest example of the president’s urge to dominate.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
the jamelle bouie secret to presciently anticipating the behavior of the president is to just ask myself what a dumbass bully would do
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