Torties Rule
@tortiesrule.bsky.social
SF Giants, Niners, and Kings. LGBTQIA+. Cannabis lover. Independent. Deconstructed Minister. Animal lover. Day job is Trade Compliance and Supply Chain. (She/Her)
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Imagine being so unaccomplished that you have to force people to put your name on buildings and holidays and parks. MLK didn't name a single building after himself because he didn't need to. Trump's name will be removed so fast, you'll need slo-mo footage to see it.
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Imagine being so unaccomplished that you have to force people to put your name on buildings and holidays and parks. MLK didn't name a single building after himself because he didn't need to. Trump's name will be removed so fast, you'll need slo-mo footage to see it.
This would be a great gift for the people in your life or a great gift to yourself to as many as you can afford
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My guide:
My guide:
Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
This would be a great gift for the people in your life or a great gift to yourself to as many as you can afford
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Petty, hateful bullshit is the only thing these people know how to do.
They did this during the government shutdown...as people were going without pay and couldn't buy groceries.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
They did this during the government shutdown...as people were going without pay and couldn't buy groceries.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
www.npr.org
December 6, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Petty, hateful bullshit is the only thing these people know how to do.
They did this during the government shutdown...as people were going without pay and couldn't buy groceries.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
They did this during the government shutdown...as people were going without pay and couldn't buy groceries.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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ICE is... going after people on the legal path to citizenship.
Now? ICE IS GOING AFTER BLACK AMERICANS.
...We knew this was coming, when that whoever said that Black Americans were "involuntarily immigrated."
And now we must step the fuck up and protect our brethren.
Now? ICE IS GOING AFTER BLACK AMERICANS.
...We knew this was coming, when that whoever said that Black Americans were "involuntarily immigrated."
And now we must step the fuck up and protect our brethren.
December 6, 2025 at 1:58 AM
ICE is... going after people on the legal path to citizenship.
Now? ICE IS GOING AFTER BLACK AMERICANS.
...We knew this was coming, when that whoever said that Black Americans were "involuntarily immigrated."
And now we must step the fuck up and protect our brethren.
Now? ICE IS GOING AFTER BLACK AMERICANS.
...We knew this was coming, when that whoever said that Black Americans were "involuntarily immigrated."
And now we must step the fuck up and protect our brethren.
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16 white men and 2 white women grinning while the president makes horrifically racist remarks about American citizens and disparages the US Constitution.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
16 white men and 2 white women grinning while the president makes horrifically racist remarks about American citizens and disparages the US Constitution.
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In a blatant attempt to curry favor with the white supremacists in the White House, Pantone has chosen its 2025 color of the year. Aptly, it's the shade created by having no color whatsoever.
December 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
In a blatant attempt to curry favor with the white supremacists in the White House, Pantone has chosen its 2025 color of the year. Aptly, it's the shade created by having no color whatsoever.
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I made state honor band and I’m just gonna apologize for ever even picking up a clarinet. Goddamn.
December 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I made state honor band and I’m just gonna apologize for ever even picking up a clarinet. Goddamn.
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Damn. It can’t be laid out any clearer than this.
This is the crux of the bargain white ppl made voting for trump & the gop. "Rid us of brown ppl & make white ppl the majority again & we will sacrifice our jobs, savings, homes, and even children." They 💯 factored in those losses & decided it was worth it. That's why nothing else he does matters
December 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Damn. It can’t be laid out any clearer than this.
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This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
Toolkit: how we dealt with Border Patrol
In November 2025, Border Patrol announced it would be coming to Charlotte, North Carolina. We only had a few days’ notice. Just like in Chicago and Los Angeles, they weren’t coming to “keep the peace....
docs.google.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).
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"The collapse of a superpower into a regime of bullies and mean girls and comic-book guys explains much about why American democracy is on the ropes, reeling from the attacks of people who in a better time would never have been allowed near the government of the United States."
“Trump has attracted acolytes by being the patron saint of the third string.” -Tom Nichols
Recommend reading this article.
Recommend reading this article.
December 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"The collapse of a superpower into a regime of bullies and mean girls and comic-book guys explains much about why American democracy is on the ropes, reeling from the attacks of people who in a better time would never have been allowed near the government of the United States."
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"DEI initiatives, many decades in the making, lay in rubble because of the weak, submissive white people, who either never believed in what they were doing, or worse, are too cowardly to stand up for what is most certainly good … and right … and FAIR."
📌On this date in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
Parks and Black voters in America have consistently been our bravest and truest patriots.
White voters? Not-so-much.
Black voters are our North Star … and deserve our respect.
Parks and Black voters in America have consistently been our bravest and truest patriots.
White voters? Not-so-much.
Black voters are our North Star … and deserve our respect.
WHITE COWER
Like it or not, Donald Trump's vulgar presidency is very much a black-and-white issue ...
dearlstephens.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"DEI initiatives, many decades in the making, lay in rubble because of the weak, submissive white people, who either never believed in what they were doing, or worse, are too cowardly to stand up for what is most certainly good … and right … and FAIR."
Learned something new today and now will use
I didn't know the word "kakistocracy" before today, but will now use it liberally. Because it fits.
Nobody tells you that the Venn diagram of kakistocracy, plutocracy, and oligarchy is just a perfect circle labeled “Trump administration.”
December 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Learned something new today and now will use
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I prosecuted international drug traffickers for DOJ.
It takes years of round-the-clock work to put together a case like the successful prosecution of the former president of Honduras.
If I were the prosecutor on that case, I'd be screaming bloody murder to every news outlet. Every damn one.
It takes years of round-the-clock work to put together a case like the successful prosecution of the former president of Honduras.
If I were the prosecutor on that case, I'd be screaming bloody murder to every news outlet. Every damn one.
Trump is killing low level suspected drug traffickers who are not in the U.S. and he's letting a drug cartel mastermind who was convicted by DOJ, and is serving 45 years in the U.S., out of prison.
Money and power have a grip on America's corrupt president.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
Money and power have a grip on America's corrupt president.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I prosecuted international drug traffickers for DOJ.
It takes years of round-the-clock work to put together a case like the successful prosecution of the former president of Honduras.
If I were the prosecutor on that case, I'd be screaming bloody murder to every news outlet. Every damn one.
It takes years of round-the-clock work to put together a case like the successful prosecution of the former president of Honduras.
If I were the prosecutor on that case, I'd be screaming bloody murder to every news outlet. Every damn one.
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Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Everyone should read this terrifying thread about Hegseth’s published views wrt war crimes. It’s pretty fucking radical …. We needed to hear about this in his confirmation hearing.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
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Setting this to the tune of "Feliz Navidad" is the cherry on top of this deliciously petty sundae.
November 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Setting this to the tune of "Feliz Navidad" is the cherry on top of this deliciously petty sundae.
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Meet Judge Alex Kim, who is still on the bench in Texas, despite driving a surge in youth incarcerations of mostly Black kids, illegally requesting to move children to an adult prison, & telling a mother her son was troubled because he listened to rap.
www.texastribune.org/2022/09/21/t...
www.texastribune.org/2022/09/21/t...
Tarrant sends more kids to prison than any other Texas county
Critics say state District Judge Alex Kim is sending too many children to the state’s failing youth prison system. The longtime GOP politician points to a rise in teen gang violence.
www.texastribune.org
November 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Meet Judge Alex Kim, who is still on the bench in Texas, despite driving a surge in youth incarcerations of mostly Black kids, illegally requesting to move children to an adult prison, & telling a mother her son was troubled because he listened to rap.
www.texastribune.org/2022/09/21/t...
www.texastribune.org/2022/09/21/t...
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And please don't "console" them by saying, "I'm sure you'll work it out."
Just a quiet, sad little PSA.
If someone is estranged from their parents, please please don’t give them the ‘but they’re your mum/ dad’
They were their mum / dad when they did the worst imaginable things to their own kids.
It’s not up to the children to make it ok. It’s up to them to live well.
If someone is estranged from their parents, please please don’t give them the ‘but they’re your mum/ dad’
They were their mum / dad when they did the worst imaginable things to their own kids.
It’s not up to the children to make it ok. It’s up to them to live well.
December 1, 2025 at 2:24 AM
And please don't "console" them by saying, "I'm sure you'll work it out."
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don't miss Lauren's big story from right before Thanksgiving:
After Biden commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row last year, the Trump administration is retaliating by sending them to the supermax. Prisoners are locked in cells smaller than a parking space 22-24 hours a day.
One prisoner told me he fears he won't make it out alive.
My latest:
One prisoner told me he fears he won't make it out alive.
My latest:
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for "Living Hell" Under Trump - Bolts
Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system, including near total isolation.
boltsmag.org
November 30, 2025 at 3:23 AM
don't miss Lauren's big story from right before Thanksgiving:
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I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
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Because there is no legitimate war between the two sides, killing any of the men in the boats “amounts to murder,” said Todd Huntley, a former military lawyer who advised Special Operations forces for seven years at the height of the U.S. counterterrorism campaign. strike/
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Because there is no legitimate war between the two sides, killing any of the men in the boats “amounts to murder,” said Todd Huntley, a former military lawyer who advised Special Operations forces for seven years at the height of the U.S. counterterrorism campaign. strike/
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Way to lean into the true Thanksgiving tradition, ICE.
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Way to lean into the true Thanksgiving tradition, ICE.
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Oh hey, Jamaica is now competitive in bobsleigh, and won gold at the North American Cup
Jamaica achieves first-ever international bobsleigh triumph with four-man gold in Whistler
Canadians notch gold and silver in two-woman event, silver and bronze in four-man
www.piquenewsmagazine.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Oh hey, Jamaica is now competitive in bobsleigh, and won gold at the North American Cup
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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Don't click or repost the link. Please don't financially reward @theatlantic.com for platforming a man whose devastation of the US scientific/medical community will have "dangerous repercussions", acc to experts, & will kill people.
November 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Don't click or repost the link. Please don't financially reward @theatlantic.com for platforming a man whose devastation of the US scientific/medical community will have "dangerous repercussions", acc to experts, & will kill people.
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Libraries win! A judge in Rhode Island issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Here's the decision: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Here's the decision: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Libraries win! A judge in Rhode Island issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Here's the decision: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Here's the decision: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...