Reposted by BastlynnT. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 3hThe Trump DOJ destroying the presumption of regularity will be Trump's only accomplishment 523841
Reposted by BastlynnMolly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 3hThe questions today go to "whether or not I've been lied to. Whether I've been lied to in the declarations about the plan, whether I've been lied to about the timing of things, whether I've been lied to about what kind of notice the court was going to receive." 428650
Reposted by BastlynnEddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 4hI love that Terry Pratchett wrote a book that was simultaneously about challenging gender identity in society, the complexities of police unions and internal corruption, and a shaggy dog story about werewolves hating baths. “The Fifth Elephant” was great to revisit. 0121
Reposted by BastlynnTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 6hInterviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? Academic: the Recession Interviewer: and this one? Academic: COVID Interviewer: and this one? Academic: mass state funding cuts Interviewer: and this one? Academic: admin trying to replace my field with chatbots Interviewer: and this one? 7457119
Reposted by BastlynnCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 6hLook, people keep saying shit like this, and I do not know how to explain to people that "I want the Democrats to hold the GOP accountable for their crimes" is not a statement that the GOP has no agency. It is saying they have agency, they are choosing to do evil, and you have to stand up to them. 334172
Reposted by BastlynnHearthFox ΘΔ @hearthfox.bsky.social · 7hToday is indigenous peoples day. It is crucial to remember and talk about how there is still an active genocide against the tribal nations that were here for eons before this country colonized their land. Broken treaties and needless cruelty STILL HAPPEN. Sacred sites are under attack right now. 31224726
Reposted by BastlynnJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 6hSometimes you need to give people who've done something fucking idiotic an excuse to change their mind. ESPECIALLY if you warned them it was fucking idiotic. And if it was an emotive choice. you have to decide whether you value them walking it back over catharsis. Applies in work, love or Brexit. 525747
Reposted by BastlynnMolly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 7hplaintiffs, per the motion for a TRO, will argue that NPS is engaging in National Environmment Policy Act "segmentation": "undertaking elements of a larger project piecemeal and insisting that they are independent and therefore need not be evaluated in a single NEPA review" 363152
Reposted by BastlynnMolly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 7hplaintiffs assert that NPS removed 529 trees on Saturday, including healthy, mature maples and oaks. the government was supposed to refrain from doing anything irreversible without providing enough notice for the court to act, but Judge Reyes hadn't entered a formal order until this morning 3766129
Reposted by BastlynnMolly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 7hgm! at 10 I'll be live-tweeting the emergency TRO hearing in Judge Reyes's "courtroom" (this is on Zoom) in D.C. Preservation League v. Department of Interior, otherwise known as the golf course case 271530375
Reposted by BastlynnMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6hperhaps this is a lesson that judges need to stop taking the government at its word!!!! 452377301
Reposted by BastlynnSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 7hJust thinking about this as the state harasses Ilhan Omar over 40 year old paperwork.washingtonpost.comElon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegallyInvestors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa. 8851941804
Reposted by BastlynnAntlers Teeth Claws @gravewriter71.bsky.social · 6hHappy go into your calendars and delete the name of the genocidal asshole who sucked so bad even Spain was appalled, and add Indigenous Peoples' Day on instead. Checked the forecast today & was disgusted that even NOAA has reverted to calling it by the colonizer dipshit's name. 041
Reposted by BastlynnBolts @boltsmag.org · 6hA new California law requires local agencies to publicly share audio recordings of 911 calls from immigration detention centers, CalMatters reports:calmatters.orgData from 911 calls at ICE detention centers must be disclosed under new California lawGov. Newsom signed a law compelling disclosure of emergency calls from ICE detention centers. It followed CalMatters' reporting about alleged rapes at one site. 15924
Reposted by BastlynnShane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 6hIn a democracy, government is the use of force to enact the public will. In a tyranny, government is the use of force to thwart the public will. 0153
Reposted by BastlynnLittle Free Library @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social · 7hToday is Indigenous People's Day! We're proud of our Indigenous Library Program, which grants no-cost Little Free Library book-sharing boxes full of books to Indigenous communities with limited book access. lflib.org/inlp 1226
Reposted by BastlynnJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 7hAbout fifteen years ago I made the joke that everyone had to decide which tech corporation would own their data: Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, or Google. Now I know I was wrong, they all trade that data like Magic the Gathering cards 2378289
Reposted by BastlynnDan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 10h‘I want to do everything I can to head off dementia’: why demand for the shingles vaccine is soaring. Could a drug intended to prevent painful rashes also protect our brains as we get older? The signs are promising – but not conclusive. 🧪💉🧠 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...theguardian.com‘I want to do everything I can to head off dementia’: why demand for the shingles vaccine is soaringCould a drug intended to prevent painful rashes also protect our brains as we get older? The signs are promising – but not conclusive. Yet that’s enough to be driving a boom in shingles jabs 42010
Reposted by BastlynnShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 9hpersonally also think they should do this with the white house and the ballroom and the president should just have to rent an apartment in DC but I don't think we're ready for this conversation yet 82769
Reposted by BastlynnGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 9hThere’s a reason that campaign finance reform was one of the first reforms after Watergate. 12744223
Reposted by BastlynnSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 7hExotic spices were thought to have “special properties” back then. Columbus didn’t risk falling off the edge of the world over bland food. Many new spices were thought to have aphrodisiac effects. Columbus was trafficking Viagra. Half the world was colonized because European men couldn’t get it up!🍆 1333
Reposted by BastlynnSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 7hFor Indigenous Peoples Day, here’s a talk I gave explaining how Columbus was basically the original trans-Atlantic drug trafficker. You will be never think about the colonization of this hemisphere in the same way again. The “drug” economy powered hemispheric growth (and enslavement) for centuries:c-span.org 29240
Reposted by BastlynnHillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 8hChristian fanaticism has been at the core of so much unfathomable evil, so pardon me if my well-read ass is watching the rise in white ChristoFascism taking over the country knowing full well how this plays out EVERY time. 114012
Reposted by BastlynnHillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 8hThe Puritans "left England for religious freedom." Bullshit. They were an extremist Christian sect everyone hated so much they'd been ostracized from society so the choice was to come over here... and promptly lay waste. 1219939
Reposted by BastlynnHillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 8hWe seem to be moving towards REVISIONIST HISTORY OF GENOCIDE IS BAD, ACTUALLY today and I need Americans to carry that energy into next month when you face the truth that the Pilgrims were the WORST FUCKING PEOPLE EVER. 528252
Reposted by BastlynnMeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 8hYet another example of Donald Trump’s aggressive policies of fait accompli, his version of better to say sorry afterward than ask permission beforehand. Not that he has ever said sorry about anything. bsky.app/profile/chri... 1134
Reposted by Bastlynnescapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Honest to god a DCCC text saying "[Name], we are going to crush these motherfuckers in November. I know we've been sometimes desperate sounding in these texts before but right now I'm telling you if everyone kicks in $30 we can rip their still-beating heart out before their eyes" would work on me rn 045058
Reposted by BastlynnBrad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.gadgetreview.comVirginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their HomesVirginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits. 12528371396
Reposted by BastlynnFrog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 7hFrog came into the house. “Toad,” said Frog, “your pants and jacket are lying on the floor.” “Tomorrow,” said Toad from under the covers. “Your kitchen sink is filled with dirty dishes,” said Frog. “Tomorrow,” said Toad. 022851
Reposted by BastlynnNice Footpaws @ionotter.bsky.social · 8hThe overthrew their French enslavers, and the rest of the world threatened to exterminate them if they didn't pay reparations to France. Which they finally paid off in 1947. They're the only nation to successfully overthrow their enslavers, and they've been forced to pay for it ever since.news.un.orgHow Haiti paid for its freedom – twice overTwo centuries to the day after France imposed a crippling debt on Haiti in exchange for its independence, a UN forum has heard calls for the restitution of what has long been described as a “ransom” e... 1204
Reposted by BastlynnAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 8hIt feels like this whole midterm elections cycle is a game of Mad Libs. What do you mean Florida Republicans allegedly stole millions of health insurance money from poor children to bankroll a campaign that blocked a marijuana legalization referendum www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...cbsnews.comGrand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope FloridaA Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes. 420858
Reposted by BastlynnSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 20hUnsurprisingly, four days later, mathematicians have weighed in. And the results are equivocally valuable at best. More importantly the dump has flooded the zone with shit, which is precisely in line with this industry’s weaponized agnotology. Now actual scholars have to waste their time on this. 6469114
Reposted by BastlynnDiscontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 08/05/2025This commercial for French's Mustard from 1987 is equal parts charming and also kinda unsettling, but what strikes me is the work that went into the absolutely delightful puppetry and practical effects for a *mustard commercial*!! Imagine that today?? 702713558
Reposted by BastlynnAlex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 8h Burnham, unlike Starmer, gets that if you have political capital, use it; and that if something is wrong, don’t let it fester, hoping problem will go away, but tackle it. His statements are at last lifting the miasma of lies, deceit and disingenuity around Brexit and opening space for proper debate 916446
Reposted by BastlynnEd BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 9hAnnual reminder that there was a single, brief burst in which a bunch of things named after Columbus were named after Columbus and it was the result of a political project to create a founding hero who wasn’t linked to Britain. 325180
Reposted by BastlynnJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9hI think Ds have largely avoided big discussions of Musk because the other messages they're concentrating on our landing so well and you can only concentrate on a few things. But it's worth saying clearly that the GOP is the tool of maintaining Musk's power over American society. 551197354
Reposted by BastlynnRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Years ago I wrote this essay, and the clamor for compromise and one-sided pandering marches on, and of course David Brooks is a standard-bearer in the parade. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what if they are Nazis?lithub.comRebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis HalfwayWhen Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them … 512205528
Reposted by BastlynnNatty🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🏐🏈🐕🐴📎 @grillnatty.bsky.social · 23hThis is from Danny Trejo’s daughter. I couldn’t figure out how he got involved with it. Looks like Shapiro duped Trejo, which isn’t surprising. I won’t watch the movie 281043547
Reposted by BastlynnChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18hBREAKING: Trump administration cut down more than 500 trees on Saturday at the East Potomac Golf Course after giving less than a full-day notice, with more tree-cutting planned, so plaintiffs challenging the effort went to court seeking a TRO tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 10129031071
Bastlynn @bastlynn.bsky.social · 21hFiguring out the music playlist for a new exercise routine and I've decided I'm just gonna make 10 minute routines to 10 minute songs. So Kashmir and Sinnerman are obviously on the list. Locomotive Breath means I have to find specific versions... but so far so good. 020
Bastlynn @bastlynn.bsky.social · 22hSo the next movie is just straight up gonna need to be a romcom adaption of Bear? 390
Reposted by BastlynnTyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 11/10/2026people keep making movies where the premise is "it's kind of like a man but it looks like a monstrous freak but it's nice and sexy and doesn't abuse the woman so it's basically the most romantic thing ever" and men keep not getting it. 432791680
