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@unfamiliararts.bsky.social when is your next release of dog sculptures? Thank you!

Summer

Two pilots dead at LaGuardia. A lone controller managing two simultaneous emergencies. The FAA is 3,000 controllers short. We will blame the human. We should fix the system. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

Wow, lots of American flags and peace . Sure doesn’t seem like people who hate America you absolute embarrassment Speaker Johnson

This here’s a man of the people.

🚨 ICE disappeared a woman on Wednesday night. She was grabbed by men in plainclothes and taken to an unidentified location. ICE is refusing to say where she is being held. It’s 72 hours later and not even a dedicated team of lawyers can find her. This is WRONG. We can’t let this be the new norm.

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander: "I don't think the line for the [Democratic] party right now is between progressives and moderates; I think it's between fighters and folders."

Protests have sprung up in response to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's Venice wedding, including a variety of life-size mannequins placed throughout the city. The satirical project is protesting the billionaire's wedding as a symbol of unchecked wealth inequality. wapo.st/3I1z8hU

Update — The Senate parliamentarian has BLOCKED the public lands sell-off as outside the scope of reconciliation. While the fight isn’t over, we’ll keep using every tool to protect our public lands!

Indeed it should — but don’t hold your breath. Most of our newspapers are feckless, intimidated and cowardly!

I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope. She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive. But the FDA recently denied its approval. Now, her health hangs in the balance. Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵

NEW: Pope Leo’s newly appointed Bishop, Michael Pham, outside the court in San Diego: “We need to speak up for the voiceless in our society - and we will.” The video then shows masked ICE agents leaving without snatching anyone today. More of this resistance nationwide! 👏 (🎥 PSL San Diego)

The Senate GOP budget bill would impose a sweeping nationwide abortion ban by blocking Affordable Care Act insurers from covering abortion care in all 50 states. This extreme measure would override state protections & strip millions of women of their right to comprehensive reproductive health care.

Oof I didn’t even think of this.

Thou shalt remember that President Trump hired a “big time drug addict” to destroy the government and was fine with that. Thou shalt also remember that Elon Musk funded and worked for a man he knew to be a pedophile and was fine with that.

It was never about the grapes…

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

This is who we sent. Never committed a crime. A soccer team logo and a single picture of the rock and roll horns sent him to be tortured in El Salvador.

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY* (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

these people are literally trying to destroy america’s future

🚨BIG NEWS🚨 United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain will be joining our emergency organizing call TOMORROW NIGHT to discuss how federal workers are going to get organized and fight back against DOGE. You don't want to miss this. RSVP w/ the link in our bio, and spread the word.

✈️ Trump is risking American public’s safety by canceling 47,000 TSA workers’ contract. This ILLEGAL action puts all of our jobs and contracts with our employers on the line.

BERNIE SANDERS: Elon Musk's plan to cut the Social Security Administration's staff by 50% would cause 37,000 more Americans to die each year waiting to receive their disability benefits while the average wait time to collect these benefits would jump to 412 days. That is beyond unacceptable.

“Speak up, speak out, get in the way. Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.” – John Lewis

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Worth a listen to what Al Green says after he was removed from the chamber.

I can’t stop watching Vermont welcoming JD Vance to the state. Thank you, Resistance

Maine, the way life should be.

Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander, NH Senators Shaheen and Hassan -are you there with Congressman Raskin?

Every union should be echoing this statement.

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

I got death threats for writing about heavy metal bands that happened to have women in them. These wealthy politicians need to grow up

This is hilarious. I especially like the annexation of Green Bay and the mystery Mississippi River announcement.

Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The US National Parks are so popular, some are requiring people schedule their visit to try and accommodate everyone. We'd like to suggest a different solution. Expand the parks. Most of USNPS holdings are adjacent public land. So why not.