Amanda Charbonneau

Dear world: when you read today about Trump firing all the probationary feds, I need you to understand that the federal government has its own vocabulary. Probationary DOES NOT MEAN BAD. Trump is relying on you to assume you understand words and not go find out things.

Vibe coding is just computer homeopathy.

Hey all! I know the world crazy right now and everyone is trying to help people who need it, but this fundraiser is for a kid I know. Gavin is a 19-year-old who has had a crazy bad year and is now living in a church parking lot. Any donation or share would be an amazing help. gofund.me/3bbf11ff

Hey all! I know the world crazy right now and everyone is trying to help people who need it, but this fundraiser is for a kid I know. Gavin is a 19-year-old who has had a crazy bad year and is now living in a church parking lot. Any donation or share would be an amazing help. gofund.me/3bbf11ff

Hey all! I know the world crazy right now and everyone is trying to help people who need it, but this fundraiser is for a kid I know. Gavin is a 19-year-old who has had a crazy bad year and is now living in a church parking lot. Any donation or share would be an amazing help.

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

Be like The Verge.

if you elect me president i promise everyone involved in this administration will be ripped from their families by plainclothes thugs and then shipped to abu dhabi where they will sit and wait as their cases work their way through the courts

Once again, I’m begging the media not to headline what Trump says he will do as if speaking the magic words dissolves reality

What percent approve of arresting state-court judges for asking ICE for warrants?

I just think if these AI tools were any good the apps I use every day wouldn't practically trick me into using them

What do you even DO with sentences like this. What do you even do.

and to be honest I found various acts of conformity to be both startlingly foreign and impressively intimidating. A guy setting a trash can on fire is one guy feeling feisty. but a thousand strangers sitting down in neat rows apropos of nothing is a veiled threat.

An attention-grabbing thing R1 presidents could do is to announce that should NIH (etc) cuts happen, they will reappropriate all athletics allocations into research to protect the core of their academic enterprise. If presidents had the chutzpah, this could stop the administration in its tracks.

Hey @ethanris.bsky.social thanks (really!) for turning this idea into a good read! slate.com/life/2025/04...

This is what happens when you ask me to indulge your false equivalencies about the Trump tariffs.

It’s an important ruling, but nobody want anything. We can celebrate Weyne: 1. this man is returned to US soil 2. the illegal deportations stop

Today’s White House tariff announcement schedule includes the time (8pm) when “global markets” will respond to “America’s renewed strength”. 🇺🇸

Target foot traffic falls for the eighth consecutive week after the retailer ended its DEI programs. Meanwhile at Costco, which kept its DEI programs, foot traffic has been up for 13th straight weeks.

Two comments on the Luigi Mangione news. First, it's absurd DOJ is prosecuting this crime at all. New York could successfully prosecute it. But, New York doesn't have the death penalty, and DOJ loves few things more than bringing a capital case in a state without the death penalty.

Whew. Over 11,000 lines of new code? How'd that happen!? #rustrustrust Anyway, not much to see here. Just ~20x-60x speedup now available in core #sourmash.

ICYMI: Trump broke a promise to fund school improvements AFTER districts signed contracts for the work. Now schools across Michigan will be millions in the hole and forced to make choices that harm our kids' education.

Hearing from all corners of HHS this morning about a total bloodletting — firings of scientists, analysts and many more as delayed RIFs take effect. Many folks didn’t see early AM email and showed up, only to be turned away when badges didn’t work. Was sent this photo of long lines at one HHS site.

"Turned away when badges didn't work." Just gratuitous cruelty to committed civil servants who've already taken so much abuse. The costs of these reckless cuts to all of our health will be vast. But the inhumane treatment of hard-working employees is itself a moral stain.

Soros is apparently the largest private employer in America but no one has ever posted a picture of a check from him. Amazing

For the love of God, Wisconsin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiOE...

So do the entrenched liberals see the reason everyone wanted to abolish ICE now or do they think ICE is still good but it needs to be reformed

First they came for undocumented people, and no one spoke up Then they came for people on tourist visas and student visas Then they came for legal permanent residents Now they are detaining U.S. citizens with no warrants and no due process Who will speak up now?

tom cotton is what happens when a homunculus gets a chance to be a real boy

I started a new quilt. It will probably be big. I’ll stop when I’m all out of them, I guess.

They made Quebec support the idea of Canada u guys fucked up so bad

we really need to stop saying “arrested” by ICE. the word you’re looking for is “kidnapped”.

I showed my wife, a historian, the Kristi Noem video. She said “holy shit!” It’s a lot. A brief thread on bodies. It begins in the alt text below… 1/

@kzooindivisible.bsky.social are you participating in Michigan United’s Capitol Day? It id a chance to talk dorectly woth lawmakers miunitedaction.org

Every member of Congress over the age of 60 should pick a young legislator or candidate to mentor and support with the expectation that the mentor leaves office within 5 to 10 years. Stop hoarding power.

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

Anti “DEI”=racism

There is a LOT of reporting on IMLS right now, but it's being done by people who know what it is. The DOE being dismantled is overshadowing this and that's being done INTENTIONALLY. But anyway, DOGE is in the IMLS offices right now destroying it. Say goodbye to interlibrary loans + more.