Democratic members of Congress held a field hearing in West Palm Beach, Florida, where survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein urged lawmakers to continue investigating individuals connected to Epstein’s abuse network.

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

Project 2025 aims to drastically weaken labor power: banning or limiting unions, requiring secret ballot votes even when employers acknowledge majority support, allowing employers to drop unions mid-contract, & rolling back overtime & wage protection.

Oh look a youth pastor in the wild

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Never heard this before, but that's all I have to say. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

What’s wild about the first Terminator movie is that John Connor groomed Kyle Reese to fall in love with his mother bc she basically asked him to

#vss365 #dove #poetry #blueskypoet I think I got most of the way there. A few lines need polish or pacing, but for today that is all I have in the tank. Here is a #poem...

Three years ago On this very day Of May 6th, These moonbeams Came in at 3:26 AM, And I was awake for it. This, this might, This waking in the dark Despite all that falls, This looking at the world, At the light it offers us, Might just save us all. #vss365 #moonbeams

April by Mary Oliver

Maybe he actually wants a giant ball pit and got confused

The gutting of public health, healthcare and social supports is a genocide of the poor, marginalized and disabled They don’t want us to survive They only want those who can be “productive” in end stage capitalism That’s why masking is an act of resistance Protecting your health IS fighting back

Rest in Power to Laura Sennett, a longtime photojournalist and antiracist activist with @onepeoplesproject.bsky.social who spend decades documenting, tracking, and countering the racist far-right. Knowing her was a blessing, and her memory will carry on with all of those she spent her life helping.

*punctuated by banging a fist on the desk* If! You! Can't! Make! Your! Own! Chemicals! Storebought is fine!

This is such incredible bullshit. I am alive, thriving, and writing books on health policy/politics thanks to antidepressants. Antidepressants aren't for everyone, but they can be literal lifesavers. Attacking their prescribing & use is stigmatizing and dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

Three surprising benefits of HPV vaccines we didn’t anticipate when they were approved: 1. They protect against FIVE types of cancer 2. They are creating herd immunity 3. They last a long time. “We have people who are 20, 30, 40 years old who are seeing protection from the HPV vaccine.”

So you are telling me there is a chance?

I take the antidepressant Lexapro, the antipsychotic Latuda, & the benzo Clonezepam daily for my bipolar. If I did not take them, I would wither into a mess who could not be functional in society & would need to be institutionalized. They keep me alive. RFK is a vile eugenicist.

“The Last Voting Rights Act: Last week’s Supreme Court decision didn’t just undermine the Voting Rights Act. It foreclosed the possibility of any new Voting Rights Act in the future, too.” electionlawblog.org?p=155916

Sad thing is, I expect most Americans to not know about this.

"The surge left a mark that enforcement statistics can't capture, including a hollowed-out local economy..." ICE terrorized this community, and the trauma doesn't just fade as they withdraw. Immigrants doubting their future here wasn't an accidental byproduct of the terror campaign. #Pinks

“Children as young as four years old are being forced to repeatedly appear in court and provide updates on the status of their case, at times without legal help, within a matter of weeks.” www.cnn.com/2026/04/28/p...

I was in Syracuse with Senator Rachel May, Assemblymember Emérita Torres, unions, and community leaders to rally for the One Fair Price Package. This legislation would ban surveillance pricing that uses people's personal data to raise prices online and in stores. We need one fair price for all.

Family goes to court to sign self deportation papers—ICE oppose it and detain both parents instead. Mother and father now locked up miles away in different detention centers—separated from all 3 of their children. Parents are scheduled to be deported—status of their kids is unclear.

The man who overmedicates with steroids and cocaine would like you to know that your anti-depressants and other necessary prescriptions are in his cross-hairs.

Cuteness timeline cleanse.💜💙💚

Americans are taught Kent State was a brutal aberration- scared untrained guardsmen who went too far and were checked by public outrage. But Kent State was one of many massacres of antiwar student protestors in May 1970 - UNM, Jackson State, the (non-military) Hard Hat Riot - all met with impunity.

Elon Musk was paid $158 billion by Tesla last year. That is double the entire budget of the U.S. Department of Education.

This should be interesting. Also interesting how judges no longer trust DOJ.

Luke’s character arc in the sequels made complete sense to me Like, The Last Jedi is still one of my favorite movies. They just shouldn’t have brought Abrams back for the last movie. If Gerwig does a good job with Narnia, I’d be interested to see her take on a Star Wars movie, specifically

Gonna keep repeating this. Trump fundamentally doesn't believe in mutually beneficial transactions. This is the root of his entire psychology. It's a con artist mentality. Immigration. Free trade. International alliances. Someone must be getting ripped off.

IN THE USA THIS CAN ONLY END IN SLAVERY. THE RACISM IS STILL BAKED INTO THE CRUST

Kinda burying the lead here, NPR

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The Sweeties. 😊 #Caturday

Update: the second triptan knocked it out and I got three hours of sleep before I had to get up for work! Also, cats are the best

Apparently I need supervision at all times when I have a migraine. I took a shower but Cocoa still opened the door and babysat me the whole time (Old pic for reference, it was a candlelight shower)

I do know it’s silly to some people but I do believe in Joy as an act of resistance for the currently & historically marginalized & oppressed. It’s not the only thing of course. But it’s one important component. I don’t believe my ancestors, my direct ancestors were bled dry for me to mope around.

War profiteering.

So we have a better idea of when Trump thought America was great…Jim Crow. #RadioFreeAmerica www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...

I started this thread yesterday on Coretta Scott King for her 99th birthday. Every day I'll continue it. “Not enough attention has been focused on the roles that women have played in the struggle." she told a reporter in 1966, "Women have been the backbone of the whole civil rights movement.”

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Today would be Coretta Scott King’s 99th birthday. CSK was a lifelong freedom fighter & more of an activist than MLK when they met. As a student she’d supported the Progressive Party’s 3rd party challenge for president opposing US militarism, racism & economic inequality. We need to know her.

Your very painful daily reminder: ILLEGITIMATE. All six of them. 🤬🤬 #Pinks #ProudBlue I’m gonna say this once: don’t @ me trying to over- explain how “it’s not that bad”, or split hairs over language, or blah blah blah. It IS that bad. Ain’t no other way to cut it apple.news/AD7Cu_GkbTgy...

In our leadership training at work, they are emphasizing to us that we need to praise all wins and good sales/service practice. 1) this feels amazing, why is no one else doing this and 2) I have a migraine and my boss told me “I know you aren’t feeling your best but you’re killing it” so I’m in

Jesus.

If imprisoning every person in the Epstein files will "cause a global collapse," then, fuck it, let's just start over.

Open-mindedness was the strongest predictor of *rejecting* conspiracy theories in a sample of 46,745 participants in 68 nations In particular, participants who were threatened by people who disagree with them were the most likely to believe conspiracy theories. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...