Sandra T

People used to run away and join the circus, but now, thanks to modern advancements, the circus is all around us all the damn time

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

It's all fun and games until a cop handles a Tylenol gelcap with no gloves and within seconds their socks are bothering them.

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Causing a Führer

Every once in a while I come across a new to me band whose music scratches my brain. @gentryblue.bsky.social, prog/art rock band with a female lead out of Nashville, are one of them. Go check them out and see them live if they’re in your area. Good stuff!! ❤️

I mean, Charlie Kirk was certainly a choice to kick of your new podcast but now Steve Bannon? What consultant told him this was a good idea?

Mahmoud Khalil showcases an ugly thing about America: freedom of speech (and religion) poll very well in the abstract but if you probe with specific examples of things people don’t like the support falls through the floor. The default is “freedom for things I agree with, for the rest, the lash.”

@cait.bsky.social’s Adonis on this app and Garbanzo’s story on TT are single pawedly carrying the internet right now.

Have a TH without them, but put up a cardboard cutout of them on the stage Invite the local media. Have video posted online covering it Have a Democratic candidate identified for their seat, and have them speak, and recruit supporters and volunteers Start a campaign against the Republican

Got a GOP Rep who refuses to hold town halls? Do it without them. ⏬⏬⏬

I keep seeing this. Guys, their literal job is to figure out what to do. They are not helpless even if they are not the majority. I really hope we can stop treating some of the most powerful people in the world as helpless and without sentience.

I will never not be irrationally annoyed by folks calling their kids with a lemonade stand “little entrepreneurs”.

“For too long, our authoritarianism has been “creeping.” Our oligarchy: “quasi.” Our Nazis: “neo.” But now, Americans will get what they want: a stripped-down, streamlined speed run of 1920s Germany meets Ex Machina.” *chef’s kiss*

In related news, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will determine for himself whether what he is doing is sexual assault.

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I'm sorry I was so weird the other night that's how I am every night

umami: mushrooms udaddi: older guy w disposable income uchild: things are gonna get easier

A USAID HR director sent out this email today to staff letting them know he was placed on administrative leave. “Today, representatives of the Agency's front office and DOGE instructed me to violate the due process of our employees by issuing immediate termination notices to a group of employees.”

No no, he has to check off 100 boxes to for us to consider him a Nazi and he's only checked off 88.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Great summary of the shit show

Alt-text: A football stadium crowd holds up an image of a fist breaking a swastika, along with letters reading "kein vergeben, kein vergessen" (no forgiveness, no forgetting)

If it walks like a duck etc etc…

Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

CAPTCHA: are you a human ME: yes CAPTCHA: oh i am so sorry

Apropos of nothing… youtube.com/watch?v=zvgZ...

The thought that the guy who tweeted just a month ago that “only the AfD can save Germany” was capable of doing the Nazi salute at a grand public event seems to be a stretch for some people. An arm’s stretch one could say.

Monday morning mood

All my issues waiting for me to start remembering things when I wake up in the morning

Our lizard habitat boasts over 75 chameleons! But you can only see Rick, who is stuck on mauve.

Babe, what's wrong? You've hardly touched your Wu-Tang Flan.

So here's what's cool about my job: Yesterday morning I said, "We really ought to have TWIN PEAKS available." So then a bunch of people scrambled, worked really hard, and now you can watch every episode of David Lynch & Mark Frost's original series for free on Pluto TV: pluto.tv/us/on-demand...

Mood, 2 weeks into 2025

“Close to rapid unscheduled disassembly” is the new “barely holding it together”

Whoa. Is this the best we can hope for?

It’s the ultimate betrayal

i DO NOT want to be IN A SOCIETY i want to be a SWAMP WITCH

That’s all the “cheese bought for Christmas” eaten again. Will have to buy some more cheese for Christmas now. And then I’ll eat that too, and be required to go out to buy some more cheese for Christmas. Stuck in a Christmas cheese loop.

love to step(?) wrong and suddenly get a shooting pain in my back aging is great, no notes

The first and most important step when using an oven is to preheat all the pans you store in there to 425.

scully: it doesn’t make any sense mulder, out of nowhere he started showing empathy and a base level curiosity about the life experience of others mulder [tossing a manila folder on the desk]: ever hear of the woke mind virus?

Beef jerky Beef just having bad day Beef sorry for taking it out on you

Felt a bit nostalgic when I found a misplaced (read, piled other stuff on top and forgot) box of pandemic supplies. Must have been possessed by the spirit of Samwise Gamgee when I bought all this instant mash. “It’s PO-TA-TOES. The gaffer’s delight and rare good ballast for an empty belly.” 🥔🥔

5 reasons why The Shining is a Christmas movie 1. Snow 2. Red rum 3. Hyperactive kids 4. Big snuggly jumpers 5. Huge family row ending with someone putting an axe through the door.