67 Senators could remove RFK Jr. today but there aren’t 67 Senators who care about Americans’ lives, health, or wellbeing. Babies will die. Our leaders hate us.

“Pregnant women with life-threatening anemia were so desperate for calories that they ate mud.” Marco Rubio, Elon Musk, Russell Vaught, and Donald Trump did this with glee.

Call your senators and make it very clear they need to stand up for trans people

Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.

#OnThisDay in 1775, Jane Austen was born! Most Ardently by @thegabecole.bsky.social is a Pride & Prejudice remix following a trans boy yearning for the freedom to live openly, centering queerness in a well-known story of subverting society’s patriarchal expectations. bit.ly/48CE99a #janeausten

My most fundamental belief is that we do not have to live like this.

Today is ALSO the day I learned that there's been escalating antisemitic violence across Australia. Mass shootings are SO rare there and I hope thorough investigation into this also sparks closer examination of how this came to happen in this context.

I don’t want to vote for a Democrat who promises to get Trump’s voters to vote for them. I want a Democrat who wants to put Trump in prison

THIS. Frustration tolerance is the key to getting good at anything at all, not just art. Socials media makes it so easy to compare yourself to others, but you just have to ignore that and have fun with your little drawings. Do it enough and you'll eventually get better through trial and error.

I'm just going to start calling them pro-disease at this point.

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

Big business opportunity just kinda hanging out and waiting for anybody willing to make "Etsy, but no AI allowed."

Shopping small is meaningful!

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization

This is genuinely massive, like earth-shakingly big in terms of pushing back the anti-trans exclusion drive. The anti-trans movement have lost a case they didn't expect to lose and really couldn't afford to. I can't imagine them not appealing (near infinite money) but now the precedent exists.

The Salvation Army is anti LGBTQ and particularly anti Trans.

joy is watching the snow fall as I knit with my baby napping on me 💙

every once in a while I think about how I turned in my book literally the week before my baby unexpectedly arrived 3 weeks early and how intensely grateful I am to have finished on time but also how close to disaster I was 😅

There is talk going around that DHS is now arresting people who fly *domestically* if they have final orders of removal. Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.

If you are an adult under 45 in the US who never received the vaccine, you are also eligible for it. (You can also get it if you’re older, but insurance might not cover it). HPV is a very common infection, but it’s not inevitable. Let’s wipe it out!

This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news: They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.

Incredible to see our Dem leaders pass a resolution condemning socialism while our greatest socialist mayor hasn't even been sworn in and has already gotten the president to admit to being a fascist

ICE was always bad and should never have existed!

My friend Hani was killed in Gaza for the crime of trying to feed his family — and meanwhile, his family is still hungry and cold, in a tent that doesn’t keep out the rain. If you have any money to spare, it’s desperately needed. chuffed.org/project/help...

In a world where cruelty is standardized by a third of the country, please step up for retail workers and food service folks. If you aren't comfortable saying HEY THAT'S NOT COOL to someone who's rude, you can talk to that worker's boss to tell them how great the worker did in the face of rudeness.

oh no I’ve discovered doing squats while holding my baby to my chest makes them grin. I’m afraid my legs are about to be in amazing shape.

It's not amnesia. It's reality avoidance and, in many cases, willful ignorance

Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent. Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado. One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

This vote has not happened yet. Call your Senators, especially your Democratic Senators, and tell them that a deal without protection NOW for health insurance tax credits is unacceptable.

Whatever happens after this, y’all, we must all agree to do whatever non-felony things we can to make Schumer miserable until he resigns.

“I think it’s a terrible mistake,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren says of the deal. “People want us to stand and fight for health care, and that's what I believe.” (via Igor Bobic, HuffPo) x.com/igorbobic/st...

I told my Senators that the message Senate Dems are sending is that if we vote for Democrats resoundingly in an election, they’ll promptly fold. Is this what they want us to take from this?

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen. Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.

sorry i mean

hi friends! @jodimeadows.bsky.social, @bethrevis.bsky.social, and I started a fiber artist author discord! If you are an author/writer (publication status doesn’t matter!) and a fiber artist (all fiber arts welcome!) and you’d like to join, let me know and I’ll DM you an invite!

I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.

From North Carolina to Mississippi, Black-owned farms are filling the gaps left by SNAP funding delays

Cambridge/Somerville/Boston folks 👇

ICE has been seizing people in Allston. Boston area folks, spread the word about the LUCE hotline to report ICE sightings. And here's stickers you can print and put up anywhere:

Trump would rather let 42 million Americans go hungry than admit he broke the law.

hi friends! @jodimeadows.bsky.social, @bethrevis.bsky.social, and I started a fiber artist author discord! If you are an author/writer (publication status doesn’t matter!) and a fiber artist (all fiber arts welcome!) and you’d like to join, let me know and I’ll DM you an invite!

If we go on strike, our union of 12,000 workers are calling on customers to NOT BUY STARBUCKS. Sign our pledge to not cross a picket line and we'll send you local calls to action - nocontractnocoffee.org

The same guy who "doesn’t want to hear about affordability" posted about his new marble bathroom 7 times last week.

THEYRE CLOSING THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN THIS SYSTEM TO BAN BOOKS BECAUSE THE SECRETARY OF STATE TOLD THEM TO. This is a big fucking story. They won't be the only ones.