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If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

I love how people can breezily be like “so much that divides people” like it’s a brunch menu when the division is over whether people should be dead or not

The America 250 stuff feels very pizza party after layoffs coded.

Sneak peek of 5 lap/baby quilts (35-38" square) I'm about to upload to the donor form for the @romancingthevote.com auction (first week of July—mark your calendar now, because you won't want to miss it)! Please keep in mind my photography skills are nowhere as good as my quilting ones. #QuiltSky

Confirming with my own eyes and pics what several fellow Washingtonians have said about this post with hundreds of shares and earnest comments: straight up misinformation

reminder that "invasion" rhetoric re immigration is textbook genocidal language and appears verbatim in mass shooter manifestos before trump nobody talked like this except the most hardcore, race war obsessed neonazis its lurid siege fantasy that builds a permission structure for exterminationism

Flannery O'Connor/Coen Brothers

Remembering when a coworker and I used to collect real names that sounded like they were made up by a bad novelist.

hey Chicago in case you haven't heard ICE is all over the place today, be on the lookout

ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.

As ICE ramps up their bullshit for the summer, a reminder that me and a whole bunch of other folks will get whistles out to you, for free, in quantities of 100 to thousands, to distribute in your communities. Just send a request here linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

Big* if true. * 12 ft, evidently

i know there are 30942843 worthy causes out there, but please consider buying some items for the wildlife center where i volunteer:

Once in a while Chicago reminds you that, damn, it really is the most segregated city in America. Like we're really talking about sealing off a long stretch of lakefront on one of our precious few summer weekends because... too many young POC might go to the beach?

The owls are not what they seem.

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

This is a cat checkpoint. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone.

Delaney Hall hunger strikers and their families are still asking for help with everything from legal bills to groceries. Verified fundraisers in the thread

It's mangonada weather.

Rent is due tomorrow and I'm still about $500 short of my goal!

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

I have wonky technical questions about electronic case filing in U.S. district courts — not for a story, just out of sheer curiosity. Any former court clerks, paralegals, etc. want to chat *off the record*? (These are all benign “why does it work like that” questions, nothing untoward!)

Raising rent relief funds for a South Minneapolis family in need. Total need is $1200. Every bit helps! V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater We keep us safe and housed 💛 Please share and help if you can! Thank you!

Interested in getting an electric vehicle? @350chicago.bsky.social has a free webinar coming up on June 8!

Cameron Park Zoo in Waco TX has a new black-footed cat kitten (Felis nigripes). It's exploring grass for the 1st time here. This species is the smallest wild cat in Africa, but with the highest hunting success (~60%). They eat 1/6th their body weight in rodents & birds every night.

Yesterday federal immigration agents were spotted in a yard in Joliet, IL. Rapid responders reported one person detained. One agent briefly raised what appears to be a handgun toward a person filming them from inside a home. Per video posted to social media, a child was present inside at the time.

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Starting my long weekend. Gott sei dank.

Another day of scattered ICE sightings in Chicagoland as feds continue surveilling neighborhoods + courthouses. The day started with an early morning detention in Carol Stream. This afternoon, video from Waukegan of agents surrounding a lone child in a car is circulating (guardian presumed taken).

Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

If a Democrat wins the next election, we will still be in the fight of our lives. We do not pack up and say "ah, well, we fixed it, cool."

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

As I’ve been knocking doors across the 45th Ward, residents have noted that Gardiner has been even more “absent” than usual. Now we know why: he’s been focused on getting a payout on his way out the door. Follow our campaign for real representation, and find ways to help, at bit.ly/sgdnewsletter

The coffee I bought for $9 last year is now $12. Same brand, same container size, same store.

A reminder that you can purchase my handspun, small-batch-dyed yarn online: journeyman-fiber-arts.myshopify.com

Slightly increase a band: The Sex Rifles

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

Once again, Emma Goldman was right, but for the wrong reasons. "If voting could change anything, they'd make it illegal." They are trying to make voting illegal. They are starting with my brown and black neighbors, but they will surely come for me.

It occurred to me today that my novel is kind of like Brideshead Revisited with Lutherans, and I'm still processing this.

Look, the Republican Party is pushing white supremacist policies to destroy our ability to change the system through democratic electoral politics. So it's time to stop giving their billionaire benefactors our money. Cancel ONE THING from a billionaire today. You can do it! #CancelParty

“We’re going to flood the zone. You’re going to see more ICE agents [than] you ever seen before.” The time to get whistles into the hands of your community is right now. We will send you whistles, for free, in quantities of 100-thousands. We do it every day. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

The Trump Administration has been using law enforcement to target elected leaders, particularly Black elected leaders, since they singled out Ras Baraka and LaMonica McIver when they tried to inspect a detention center.

One of the most obvious ways to see that our media environment is failing us in the US is that our violent crime rate has plummeted since 1993, but year after year an increasing % of Americans think the violent crime rate is higher than it used to be. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

You can't even do Star Wars anagrams these days because of ewok.

Slightly diminish a book: Where Angels Would Prefer Not to Tread

The tomatoes are thriving.

Die of dysentery in a daub-and-wattle hut, probably.