Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

PRAY FOR DOLLY PARTON ❤️‍🩹 Freida Parton, sister of Dolly Parton, asks for prayers for Dolly’s health. She says with prayers she know Dolly is going to be just fine. We all love you, Dolly! Praying 💛 people.com/dolly-parton-sister-was-up-all-night-praying-for-singer-amid-health-struggles-11826073

Link & I were mutuals. While he’s gone, I encourage you to support some of his causes: 1) Use alt text on all images to support disability justice. Adjust your bsky settings: settings > accessibility > require alt text. 2) Reply here with mutual aid requests. Donate if you can, boost if you can’t.

Pritzker needs to take some sort of demonstrative action against this. But nothing he does will stop this. Still, liberal voters and elected leaders are confronted by the fact that the police are not democratically accountable. They have no interest in protecting you or your rights from the feds.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

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It’s weird to have the reaction “thank god it’s (just) MPD” but thus is the strange world we live in.

At long last, we have created the shadows from Plato's classic allegory of The Cave

That’s not good

Someone please pay me to come take amazing photos of the most Portland thing to ever Portland

MN vital records has instructed me to contact state reps. This shouldn’t be that hard. Non binary is an option on drivers licenses but at end of life, the opportunity to die genuine to oneself will not exist for death certificates. Here starts a silly process of gently hooting & hollering at reps..

There were many protests I covered from 2020 to 2022 or so that ended with the group of demonstrators reciting Assata Shakur before dispersing: It is our duty to fight for freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love and care for one another. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

rip assata they never got her 🖤

may I suggest suing a landlord?

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

A student from my old school is missing. Please do what you can to spread the word and help find Ana.

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

The children are deeply disappointed that Brenda is not a more viable candidate. To them she’s seriously in the running! They read about her! She makes sense! She chewed the mayor’s face off during a debate!

It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

We’re learning about detecting bias + the various bias levels in local news sources and a kid just dropped a new conspiracy theory

DO NOT participate in #blueskyblackout2025 I'm nsfw artist and other nsfw artists are asking you to SHOUT! Bsky wants to censor us so the worst thing we can do is censor ourselves! Publicly shame them, use the feedback button, and post about it using the tag #bskycensorship Silence is compliance!

I told the Reverend he made me proud to be a Christian.

Spending thousands of dollars to close down a public right of way that was recently built for millions, and improved access between a major bike route and a transit hub. What a failure.

Permanent fencing is a giant admission of failure, being all out of ideas, and not caring about the impact on mobility.

Governors should be mobilizing their national guards to help these lawmakers ENFORCE THE LAW ALLOWING UNANNOUNCED OVERSIGHT OF ICE FACILITIES AT ANY TIME

Hey, want to see what Jimmy Kimmel actually said?

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

I keep telling folks that Indiana is what people think Georgia is w/r/t racism. It's like the Twilight Zone.

(raises hand) I defend against my imagination by writing stories where the worst happens to people? *whistles*

Useful in these trying times

This is huge!!!!

Btwn the salt trucks and another unsourced video I just saw purporting to be from Chicago today with a reply saying it was from two months ago figured we could all use a reminder

How to talk to babies.

Chicago 🧵Dearest Mabel, I write this in a hurried minute crouched behind a salt truck, looking for crimes. So far, I was stained by an ice-cream cone carried by a small child when her parent’s dog slipped his leash & knocked us both askew

💊 Metformin may help reduce the risk of Long COVID 💉 A Phase 2 clinical trial is studying the drug vidofludimus calcium (IMU-838) for Long COVID. 🧑‍🔬 The NIH’s second RECOVER-Treating Long COVID workshop is happening Sept. 9–10 #LongCOVID research updates: bit.ly/46p1AUv

Today’s teaching wins: was that one of our new students and I had a long conversation about his thoughts on storytelling and I got to praise his persuasive writing.

Set the children on reading different candidate interviews from the Sahan Journal today sahanjournal.com/democracy-po...

It's like if someone threw a party and didn't invite you and then, when you don't show up, everyone accuses you of not being a team player. Why didn't you break into the kitchen and start doing everyone's dishes? Aren't you a team player? Why do you hate us, you dumb fucking socialist?

Zulu Bohemian Rhapsody

holy shit I knew about the very strange cleared weekend schedule, JD Vance making allusions, the kidney failure bruises etc etc.... but he hasn't been seen IRL in 3 days??? I missed that?? oh buddy.

The children asked what communism was today, and I came up with “like a group project but for life.”

And speaking of art: Squirrel with a Pearl Earring. (I don’t know the name of the artist but a friend shared this one on her Instagram)

Is any person (or organization) downloading or transferring the amazing teaching materials from the Smithsonian before they are altered/disappear? (Feel free to boost/send around - I really want to know… our students start next week & I’m fully underwater, so hoping someone somewhere is on it?!)

Handing people wallets full of potato chips at events

in 2022, Keith Ellison won the MN Attorney General race by under 21,000 votes. thank a trans person for saving you from Jim Schultz today 🥰

I filled this out. It’s important we express ourselves while the decision is being made.

Why does Gavin Newsom look like a completely different person every time I see an image of him?

Ok let me flip scripts Kick push, then I kick flip Puedo patinar wearing lipstick I got on a sick fit solo un mas accessory Let me pick the helmet that will tie it all together please Listen now: youtu.be/8ZfOfAld5Yc?...