Kim Wallmark

It’s a decision to spend fewer dollars on SNAP while funding random elective wars and ICE and ads for Trump

conservatives in washington state want freedom and small government in the form of state-mandated genital exams for high school students: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I am amused that "is 4 a problem for you?" is meaningful communication right now. On the one hand, I knew exactly what the asker meant and we had a productive conversation. On the other hand, it's a number most people learn as small children. It's like having a problem with "the cow says moo".

One thing I've learned from a depressing number of experiences with creeps in professional spaces: we'd be better off if we all accepted that we are, by and large, terrible judges of character

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The reason the anti-abortion conservatives needed (and I mean NEEDED) to get rid of the "risk to life and health" exception to anti-abortion laws was that EVERY PREGNANCY risks life and health. Every. One.

eternal scream of RAAAAGE those kids should not have to do this any more than the people waiting in line for 12 hours in Georgia should have to do that.

I have called my representatives and demanded that they stand up for Ilhan Omar. It's not just the proximity to an election. If Trump is able to weaponize DHS/DOJ to take out sitting members of Congress without backlash, that's it, that's the whole game.

Seems bad that the security services are being used to persecute opposition leaders

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

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This isn’t a “controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr,” this is “playing with the lives of vulnerable infants in a developing nation, which is being pushed by malicious grifters who couldn’t care less about the innocent lives they hurt.”

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

It's alarming how much this and family annihilation explain the GOP. They're both manifestations of the belief that some people are other people's possessions and can be broken or "fixed" if they're not "working" (obeying without independent volition).

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) ⬇️

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USA voters, it may be wise to check your voter registration status, just in case. vote.gov has links for all the states and territories. They also have links if you need to change your voting address or register to vote.

Innocent or not, it is still slavery in my mind. We have prisoners doing horribly dangerous work, like fighting wildfires, for almost no pay. Minimum/fair wages should apply to prison.