At tara, in this fateful hour

The ICE agents aren’t insurrectionists, extremist militiamen or criminals, they’re the police. This is what the police look like, this is how the police operate.

We need to see this every time one of these idiots tries to spew their bullshit. Shut them down EVERY TIME

@joycecaroloates.bsky.social

At Tara, in this fateful hour,
I place all Heaven with its power

Ashitaka is an Oath of Vengeance paladin

Patton Oswalt would absolutely kill as Sgt Schultz.

Everyone was warned about this, and it’s happening just as we feared.

love a PDF metadata scoop

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

Photo of text from a newspaper article that says “Kennedy advances the lies that vaccines cause autism, increase cancer risk, and result in higher death rates. None of this is true, but Kennedy, a science denialist, will never accept the real scientific evidence showing the safety of vaccines. His goal is to cause fear over vaccines and public health ini-tiatives, which he does for profit Kennedy will promote decreased vaccine uptake, as he did when he influenced government officials in Samoa to stop measles vaccinations; in the resulting measles epidemic, 83 people died from measles, mostly chil-dren. The same will happen here.”

Everything that we warned the American public about regarding RFK Jr. is already happening.

An excerpt from an OpEd that @jimalwine.bsky.social and I published. We wrote about about what happened in Samoa with the measles outbreak there and said, simply:

“The same will happen here”.

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PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana.

For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5.

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11-year-old took her own life over deportation threats, family says ‘I waited a whole week for a miracle that my daughter would be well, but unfortunately, nothing could be done,’ despaired her mother

Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, just 11 years old, “took her own life in Texas after she was tormented by classmates who threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said.”

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

“At least Russia has elections”

Russia frequently jails and kills any opposition to Putin, who has been in power since 1999.

If you like dictatorships, that’s fine. Just admit that. Don’t insult anyone’s intelligence—including your own—by claiming Russia has real elections.

Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.

Ukraine didn’t start anything. If you think it did , you’re an idiot of epic proportions. I always wondered how the Germans bought Hitlers bullshit. Now I see, you red hat wearing sheep, with no critical thinking or a shred of intelligence. That’s how. Throughout history YOU fuck up evolution.

Can I get some International good news? Tell me some good things that are happening outside the US.

Leonard Nimoy would have played a *killer* Dr. Strange.

Cheers to the tin man!

You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer?

She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.

You do get that this is a Hitler quote, right?
You do get that this is a madman, right?
You do get that this won’t stand, right?
You do get that no one is coming to save us, right?

Canada’s new Rural Community Immigration Pilot offers permanent residence to skilled workers who want to work and settle in rural and more remote communities.

14 pilot communities will approve certain employers to hire for jobs that they can’t fill with local workers.

More info here:

Port: It's not just about kids, and it's not just libraries Legislation under consideration in Bismarck wouldn't just restrict access to books in schools and libraries. The language of the bill also applies to private book stores.

A new North Dakota bill would require stores to pull any book with any "material harmful to minors" from the shelves.

For those in the cheap seats, that effectively means ANY mention of sex, sexuality or gender.

A bookseller could be arrested for displaying 1984.

www.inforum.com/opinion/colu...

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

Thou shalt not kill' also means 'thou shalt not let profit margins decide who lives and who dies.'

Do people know what we actually do in “DEI”? Our team looks at hiring processes, eg, to make sure they are as free of bias as possible. We teach people how to be better upstanders, and we raise awareness of issues related to discrimination and harassment. Anyone threatened by this is a bad actor.

Word of the day….