yiiiikes

I knew a Holocaust survivor who talked about the importance of notetaking under authoritarianism, to track what normal was and how it shifted. Here's that 🧵 with respect to disability, itself a canary in the fascist coal mine: www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/02/09/w...

I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks Like a Witch Hunt. MAGA has wanted to take down the SPLC for years. Now it has the DOJ to try.

MAGA has fantasized about criminalizing the SPLC for a decade—regardless of the org’s many flaws, the MAGA DOJ is corrupt and weaponized.

Me:

open.substack.com/pub/michaele...

Armed 'No Kings' counter-protester in Tenn. faces new charges, including child porn A Murfreesboro man arrested last year after an armed confrontation with protesters at a Nashville "No Kings" rally faces new federal charges, including two counts of possessing child pornography.

Armed 'No Kings' counter-protester in Tenn. faces new charges, including child porn www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

the extremists the govt alleges have been paid snitches for the SPLC for years are not named in the indictment but there is enough info to identify them if you have some knowledge of the organizations involved... a couple of racists are about to get a lot of angry phone calls from their friends

Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

⚡️ New from @DropSiteNews : Rare Survivors of Pacific Boat Strikes Allege U.S. Forces Kidnapped and Tortured Them As airstrikes and reports of torture under Ecuador’s U.S.-backed military regime continue to mount, fishermen tell Drop Site News they were blindfolded and held hostage for eight days. By @sovietwithsazon

⚡️New from @dropsitenews.com: Rare Survivors of Pacific Boat Strikes Allege US Forces Kidnapped & Tortured Them

As airstrikes & reports of torture under Ecuador’s US-backed military regime continue to mount, fishermen tell Drop Site...

By Camila Lourdes Galarza

www.dropsitenews.com/p/rare-survi...

I thought the same! Maybe they were and this is just public disclosure 😬

BREAKING: 86% of all people support the release of the Epstein files, per WaPo poll.

that's fuckin creepy

La Nakba du Liban-Sud

Lebanese francophone outlet L’Orient Le-Jour: the Nakba of South Lebanon.

We Lebanese are calling it for what it is: a continuation of the 1948 Nakba.

The photo shows a Lebanese village with an Israeli flag on it, planted by the genocidal army.

Palantir Goes Mask-Off For Fascism. It Won’t End Well.

Earlier this month, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that "Palantir Technologies (PLTR) has proven to have great war fighting capabilities and equipment. Just ask our enemies!!!" — notably including the stock ticker, because why not just…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is preparing banks to collect citizenship data Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump administration expects banks to comply in collecting citizenship information from customers.

Major alarm bells over this. Bessent wants US banks to require customers send in copies of their passports etc. to prove citizenship, which would be far beyond the know-your-customer checks that they're required to do already. Implies this could result in closing bank accounts over non-compliance.

Anti-Islam influencer Valentina Gomez blocked from entering UK for far-right rally Exclusive: Home secretary understood to have withdrawn authorisation for speaker at Unite the Kingdom rally in May A US-based anti-Islam influencer who had been authorised to attend a far-right rally in London has been blocked from entering the UK by the home secretary. Valentina Gomez, a self-styled Maga influencer, was given permission last week to enter via a UK electronic travel authorisation (ETA). Continue reading...

Anti-Islam influencer Valentina Gomez blocked from entering UK for far-right rally

mastodon.social - Status mastodon.social Status

Mastodon.social is being DDoS right now. That's bad. It was bad when Bluesky was DDoSed. It's bad when open social platforms are attacked.

status.mastodon.social

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

These firefighters do not exist In which a network of fake Facebook accounts uses scare stories to promote dubious websites that sell carbon monoxide detectors

Fake firefighters and fake home inspectors are using Facebook ads to spread stories about carbon monoxide in order to sell carbon monoxide detectors from obviously sketchy websites: www.conspirator0.com/p/these-fire... by @conspirator0.bsky.social

He’s taking a liquid antibiotic 2x daily which requires a kitty burrito. For the first few days, Benny would see I laid out the burrito (a towel) and he’d try to run away. Now he just loafs and prepares to be wrapped 🥺 he’s such a good boy.

My little orange cat Benny sitting on a tan storage box in front of my white bedspread.

He’s got another ~10 days of antibiotics 2x daily (plus probiotics b/c he’s taking so many antibiotics) but Benny is now eating and breathing normally and he’s no longer super congested and sneezing 24/7.

I swear this little orange man is lucky he’s extremely cute! 🫩

All federal wind power R&D at the Department of Energy is $0.137 billion. So the government is paying 7x the amount it spends on all wind power R&D just for a fee to kill one wind project. Seems bad.

There's a lot of Apple Pie & Freedom Fries marketing slash nation-branding BS that generations of US citizens have believed is true about our country and the world.

e.g. "The Long Peace"

Josh Rogin: “Somebody shorted the oil market today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement—

If you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that's happened at least three times, if not more, since the war began — that's a pattern”

Republican SCOTUSes pickled their brains on rightwing media slop too.

My 2 orange cats sitting together, both looking out the window this morning.

My 2 orange cats 3 seconds later throwing paws this morning.

It’s almost impossible to get a nice photo of them together

it really is remarkable *how mild* the op-ed that she wrote was. It really shouldn’t matter what she said, but I think they chose to make an example of her precisely *because* she didn’t do anything remotely wrong. They wanted to show they could do this to anyone.

How is a “beagle breeding and research facility” still a thing and why are cops defending it (rhetorical)

It's hard to articulate the level of anger & rage I have about watching this happen. I first saw weev doxx people I love *TWENTY* years ago. I spoke to founders of multiple social networks about the risk of these people over 15 years ago. I wrote about it all a dozen+ years ago. They let it happen.

Meanwhile in Trumpland… bsky.app/profile/rshe...

Facebook post on timeline of The Scranton Times-Tribune Text: Letter: The Pope has ‘Trump Derangement Syndyrome’ Date: April 16, 2026 URL: https://www.facebook.com/thetimestribune/posts/pfbid02sFaznu5UmjNCixGsYG4LCR6YzpyD7PGhHjfqqSNJGXNvjzTeM2buSRaQSNBsNU6ml

The Scranton Times-Tribune published a letter to the editor: The Pope has ‘Trump Derangement Syndyrome’ [sic] that accuses the Pope of "virtue-signaling to Trump"

It's behind a paywall but here's an archive to read for free: archive.is/WDs3f

A federal judge in Illinois today ruled that the Trump administration improperly coerced Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking apps in violation of the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...