People use food stamps to pay their grocery bill and use their money to pay their energy bill. Without food stamps, more people will have to choose. Heat or eat this month?

i am so excited for this book to be out! @pacedubs.bsky.social, @riverneedham.bsky.social, many others and I contributed to this. it is well worth a read for preachers, no preachers, queer, and cishet all to explore.

Which film should @pacedubs.bsky.social and I watch for our shark season extra episode of @hnacpod.bsky.social?

In advance of what will likely be a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in the U.S. v. Skrmetti case, the Trans Journalists Association offers the following guidance to reporters, newsrooms, and others responding to the ruling. www.transjournalists.org/2025-skrmett...

I’m calling on Secretary Kennedy to resign. We are sick of it. He must go!

christian nationalism has nothing to do with embodying christian values and everything to do with enacting white supremacy, where christianity is a marker of who with white skin counts as truly white

This morning's partial solar eclipse over Oxfordshire. Time-lapse, 1 frame every 30 seconds.

Local Indivisible member was abducted by ICE in Washington. If you're in the state, please elevate this thread to your electeds and ask for their help in getting his release.

I made this for a friend's birthday a few months ago. Then I made another one recently which I will be raffling to raise money for someone. I'll post the raffle form on Friday. A $15 donation means you are eligible to win.

Gift article bsky.app/profile/atru...

Immigrant women say they were held "like animals" in ICE detention, subjected to conditions so extreme they feared for their lives. Told by guards to urinate on the floor. Held "like sardines in a jar," as many as 27 women in a small holding cell. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Israel resumed its relentless bombing of Gaza overnight on Tuesday, killing more than 400 Palestinians and sowing terror. Here's what we know about why Israel broke the ceasefire in the enclave ⤵️

I love my library (and the chance to use @libbyapp.bsky.social through both it and the @queerliblib.bsky.social

I do as well

BREAKING:The United States is launching a fresh wave of attacks against Yemen’s Houthis. The Yemeni health ministry reported on Sunday that at least 53 people were killed in the weekend attacks, marking the largest U.S. military operation in the Middle East since Donald Trump took office in January.

What’s frightening most to me, is how people are falling in line. This isn’t happening in the vacuum. The White House can’t just make a proclamation and POOF people are being deported. No. There are Americans who are waking up every single day and choosing to carry out these orders.

In a new executive order, Trump has targeted the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, and archives program grant recipients. www.everylibrary.org/statementiml...

"I don’t want to share her with the world, I don’t want to have to prove that she deserves justice.” Tomorrow marks the fifth anniversary of Breonna Taylor's death. @errinhaines.bsky.social talks to her mother 19thnews.org/2025/03/breo...

This is a very intense time for me and my family. In addition to your prayers and intentions, you can support me financially/via food in the following ways:

@riverneedham.bsky.social's PhD exams are starting and we are excited to support her, but also could use some help making sure she gets all the brain and body fuel needed for the coming exams! Please help us take care of her food needs for exam days!!

This week, I'll begin a month of comprehensive exams and an oral colloquy for my PhD. This is the final step before I get started on my research and dissertation writing.

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"

CN: transphobic legislation

1. President Trump has signed an executive order making employees at organizations that support transgender youth care and DEI ineligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness. This could impact thousands of schools, hospitals, and nonprofits. Subscribe to support my journalism.

This is really exciting!

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Good news for once 🥳

I signed the strike card. Most of the time I just feel stuck, but strikes work and 3.5% is both a lot and not very much. Join me in a general strike!

Todays hero

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

Rest in Peace to Sam Nordquist 🏳️‍⚧️ Sam was a trans man whose life was tragically cut short due to severe violence. His story is not an isolated one—violence against transgender people, especially Black and Brown trans individuals, remains a crisis.

Imagine claiming you have the right to destroy other people's property while they're in your care

The Washpost, which is bleeding millions of dollars and shrinking its staff, accepted -- and then rejected -- a $115,000 ad that criticized Elon Musk. Anyway, here's the ad that the Post's business side didn't want its readers to see ⤵️ thehill.com/media/514849...

Trump: I think my disabled relative 'should just go die' T: I want to shut down Dept of Ed, which guarantees rights to disabled students T: Disabled FAA employees may have caused this plane crash GOP: We're suing to dismantle Section 504 The Left: I wonder how the right feels about disabled ppl🤷🏻🤷🏻

#ArtBeyondCapitalism is the doodles, words, and colors scribbled and splashed in the margins of notebooks, painted on furniture, walls, cardboard, and wood. Whatever you can get your hands on. It is the creativity that cannot be contained.

People need to understand how bad this is.

Pay attention:

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. When interacting with ICE, you have rights guaranteed by the Constitution, no matter your immigration status. ⬇️

WAY surpasses Watergate. It’s the most serious constitutional crisis since 1861.