she’s got a point

The GOP's education agenda is a Trojan horse for ideological indoctrination. They're using schools as a battleground to shape young minds and suppress critical thinking. #DontDefundPublicSchools

To all those who said boycotting Target was a waste of time. It wasn't. Keep it up, y'all!

GOOD TROUBLE SUCCESS! On today's podcast, we asked you to flood the [email protected] mailbox. I've just learned they received over 54,000 reports which had to be manually reviewed and ZERO were real. WELL DONE! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The Art of the Deal

Registries for pregnant women and children with autism, but no registry for guns?

This feels… like they’re missing the mark…

Every state needs to do this ASAP

How do we parent young adults when we can’t promise everything will be okay? We become hope doulas. In this essay, I reflect on parenting in the face of an uncertain future. On Being a Hope Doula open.substack.com/pub/lynnwerr... #hopedoula #youngadults #motherhood #crisis

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I’ve long struggled with dinner time, and regular motivation tips are no match for my executive dysfunction. I’ve stopped trying to strong arm dinner time motivation and started summoning whimsy instead. Read about it in today's substack. open.substack.com/pub/lynnwerr...

Ironically, I spent about ten minutes trying to come up with the perfect title for my essay on overcoming perfection open.substack.com/pub/lynnwerr... #recoveringperfectionist #perfectionism #BloodofFlowers

my offer to america: we bring woke back

Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top. #HandsOff2025

How do you cope when your life is falling apart and gratitude journaling doesn't work? Today I write about the power and evidence behind the Fuck This List. open.substack.com/pub/lynnwerr...

Cory Booker

As someone who has written a little about performance and legislative politics, I am begging people to stop using "performative" pejoratively. Politics *is* performance. All human interaction is performance.

There are 45 D senators---could we please have one of these every week? A girl can dream

We’re going to annex Canada and invade Greenland but we can’t request return of an innocent man from El Salvador.

Kill a white millionaire, get the death penalty. Kill two black protesters, get invited to CPAC to be celebrated.

DOGE claims to have found billions of dollars in fraud yet not one criminal charge has been filed against anyone, just mass firings of federal employees. Which means they’ve been wasting millions of dollars finding absolutely nothing on purpose. The fraud is DOGE.

Give me it. ❤️

Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery

I've lived on two continents, and in many different states but never felt fully at home in any of them. Today's essay is a reflection about not-quite-belonging. I hope you'll give it a read. open.substack.com/pub/lynnwerr...

Headline: Vance argues in Greenland that its people would be safer under U.S. leadership Would that be because the only threat to Greenland and its people is the US?

The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations https://twp.ai/1VcntO

Fixed

I’ve gotta stop saying that! 😳

Dear Democratic Members of Congress, Stop telling me about what he's doing. We can all see it. Start telling me about what you're doing to stop it! Signed, Americans

I wish I lived in a caring, thoughtful country where politics wasn't about winning an election next year, but helping our citizens this year.

Marco Rubio just made the argument, bold faced, not a mistake an intentional statement, that at any time the US can revoke your visa and then you are instantly here illegally and they can arrest you, deport you, torture you, all without any due process. That means the United States is simply unsafe

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

Everyone keeps saying "what can we do" and a big shout out to the team of Some More News who just released a massive collection of things from how to organize tenant unions to destroy Tesla from the inside. If you need a pick me up in a dark time this is fantastic www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed-r...

Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now Thanks for your service to our country

Sen. Tammy Duckworth calls on Pete Hegseth to resign: "Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could've gotten our pilots killed. He needs to resign in disgrace immediately."

Undocumented workers are bad, so let’s have teenagers replace them working overnight so they can fall asleep in school, because who needs education when they can work for sweatshop wages?

I didn't think it would get worse...

I learned a lot writing this post. Check it out if you're curious about mutual aid and how it supports community building. #community #mutualaidprimer #mutualaid open.substack.com/pub/lynnwerr...

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.