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If you're in California btw blame Newsom for the issues you're about to have with any form of state government. He vetoed a unanimously passed bill to help his state workers and has triggered the first statewide labor strike in literal decades. So get ready for important shit like the DMV to close

Hey @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov Fuck you

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

i love the odyssey discourse. i haven’t read the poem or seen the movie. i saw minions 3 in imax twice. im free ❤️

Not all heroes wear capes. Some meant to but wind up in gorilla masks instead. Thank you to Joyce Kozloff and all the other Guerrilla Girls, whether or not you ever come forward. What you did was so, so important.

@scripthive.bsky.social I am not sure went wrong or what I should do differently. Please advise. Tyvm

[knock knock] Hello I'm with the Democratic Party. Just wanted to mark you down on whether or not you love the West and cops and rich people? Oh and Israel too.

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Michigan Governor caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, discussing citizen opposition to AI data centers, bragging how she ignores their concerns: “We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' & doing it anyway.”🇺🇸

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

I really appreciate the unicode consortium’s addition of the orca emoji (finally 🫍), but they need to add an angry puking one asap

144 House Democrats joined 203 Republicans to vote for this bill which gives DHS and ICE new powers to collect personal information of both migrants and American citizens

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

I'm someone who was there at the midnight releases of the Harry Potter books and movies. Watching this show puts money in the pockets of J.K. Rowling. And if you do that, you're helping fund a deadly worldwide campaign of hate against trans people. Consult your conscience.

thus proving whales are among the most intelligent creatures on earth

Monday, March 30th marks the FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of the Board of Supervisor’s approving the Men’s Central Jail (MCJ) Closure Report, and the 16th angelversary of John Horton the 3rd who was murdered inside MCJ by Deputy gangs.

Thanks to YOU, the Board of Supervisors passed two critical motions towards closing Men’s Central Jail and ending in-custody deaths! ✊🏽🎉 read more at tinyurl.com/march3motions THE FIGHT IS NOT OVER 📣📣 visit the link in our bio to sign-up for our weekly text message updates!

MAJOR: Twin Cities Tenants joins five labor unions, together repping 25,900 members, to launch a rent strike drive, vowing to withhold rent March 1 if @governorwalz.mn.gov fails to deliver an eviction moratorium and rent relief. If launched, this would be the largest US rent strike in 100+ years.

Please check on the trans people in your life today. The anti trans rhetoric is everywhere. Those on the right are purposefully stoking fear and division in an attempt to destroy an entire marginalized group. We can’t let them get away with it. Trans rights are human rights.

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

The vibe me and my crew bring to the function

This is exactly Democratic party failure in a nutshell. In an environment of complete Executive decree as law in practice (no matter how unconstitutional) the Dem Mayor can't even sack up enough to order city police to stand down. Pathetic

If you want to know what people mean when they say Democrats are "controlled opposition," rather than whipping votes against ICE funding, Hakeem Jeffries struck a deal with Republicans to allow Democrats to feign outrage at ICE while still funding the spending package.

There is going to come a time in your life when you are chatting with a guy, at a barbecue or something, a new coworker maybe, a dad at school drop off, and he tells you he used to be in ICE. You’re going to need to spit on that guy

"Liam’s teacher, Ella Sullivan, teared up when thinking about Liam. 'He’s a bright young student,' she said, 'and he’s so kind and loving. His classmates miss him.'" www.startribune.com/preschooler-...

the reaction to the death of Scott Adams should contrast particularly with the (eventual) death of Bill Watterson, who will be mourned in the style of the ancient Pharaohs, with all of Ohio entombed alive along with him

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

Call your reps. Let them know that if they vote for ICE funding, you will not vote for them ever again. Representatives need to feel the heat. NO on ICE funding. No excuses.

Video of federal agents getting run out of Lyn Lake this afternoon. Agents drop a gas can at the end and someone kicks it back at them.

Comic-con deciding to allow GenAi imagery in the art show —giving valuable space to GenAi users to show slop right NEXT to actual artists who worked their asses off to be there— is a disgrace! A tone deaf decision that rewards and normalizes exploitative GenAi against artists in their own spaces!

Wow — New YouGov / Economist poll: 46% support abolishing ICE 43% oppose abolishing ICE This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

meanwhile the U.S would never wrongfully detain or, say, shoot, random people of Venezuelan origin

BONUS THREAD: 🧵 It's really important to talk about how 3 small shifts in our culture could make us ALL a lot safer: A. Teaching boys the skill of emotional regulation B. Ditching these false concepts of masculinity C. Tying your self-esteem to something other than "being tougher than women" 👇🏼

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Grinding yourself into a shell of your former self to prove a point to Twitter isn’t praxis

I would never accuse the Iraqi Army of being well trained or using a lot of restraint. And yet in Mosul I came to expect more discretion from the average Iraqi soldier than U.S. cops who have never taken incoming fire.

the sooner they all realize this the better.

PBS News notes this Sunday will be “PBS News Weekend’s” last due to federal budget cuts

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

there is no positive route forward for the United States without mass arrests and trials for DHS employees