If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)? Hoover FDR Truman Eisenhower JFK LBJ Ford Carter And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

This is amazing: @ladwp.com, the Los Angeles utility, has launched a program that will install solar+battery systems on qualifying low-to-moderate-income households, *for free*. Yes: free. If you know someone eligible, tell them to apply!

Timeline cleanser 🐈

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

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This is the way.

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country. I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody. 42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

Reminder: THE INTERNET IS A PALANTIR. DO NOT BE DENETHOR.

People in or near New Jersey: look at this amazing opportunity!

A billion dollars in the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work with the same intensity and ruthlessness to prevent the former as we do the latter.

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

The only way these fascist chucklefucks make this work is by succeeding in manufacturing the *appearance* of inevitability, because they *do not* have the force or skill to win a straight fight. In short, the only weapon that can deliver them victory is you: the fool doomer whose nihilism is poison

It's a basic point, but one that needs to be repeated: If right-wingers and their views were popular, they would not be so desperate to control mass media & social media nor to use government power to silence everyone else, and they wouldn't need oligarchs pumping billions into amplifying them.

Again, you can’t understand American politics without discussing abuse culture.

Popular posts get about six Likes to every Retweet, meaning that when a post has 420 Likes it very likely might have 69 retweets. This is as beautiful to me as the Fibonacci Sequence or the Golden Mean. God's invisible hand is always at work in this world.

GWAR for the win, fuck yeah!

Those without honor are almost always hypocrites, but do not think that exposing their hypocrisy will thwart them. Double standards are their weapons, wielded gleefully against those who attempt to maintain honor and fair play. Do not abandon your own principles, but know when your enemy has none.

I'm driving from Lethbridge to Calgary to catch my flight home today, but I've made a special detour to stop in Vulcan Alberta, the Star Trek capital of Canada 🖖❤️

No one should get violent threats. But if you’re gonna change your vote because of it, you should resign. I’Ve been getting violent threats all week and not only do I have no intention of shutting up, I think it’s evidence that we need to say it louder

It would be great if we remember who was right about everything, all the time, and listen to them moving forwards.

And it turns out the killer app. in human civilization is, "what if we murdered fewer people? Or even - now hold on to your hats for this one - what if we murdered no people?"

"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line

Happy Tenth Pigiversary. 'David Cameron had sex with a pig.' 'That seems plausible. I assume it was a dead pig?' 'Correct.' <- literally every British person, ten years ago this very day.

Fans of _Criminal_ should check this out.

A set of 29 stone tools, including blades and points for hunting, butchering and cutting wood, were found neatly arranged as if carried in a leather pouch that decayed

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

as I wrote literally yesterday, gamergate never ended. It took over the country. www.moryan.com/on-the-firin... Congrats I guess to pepe the frog for his forthcoming talk show

My 2028 primary vote is for sale. The highest bidder is the Democrat who can convince me they aren't just going to return to normalcy but are going to actually going to hold these people accountable.

generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)

Massachusetts folks: Regular reminder to please call LUCE at 617-370-5023 if you suspect ICE is in your area. Even if you see someone get snatched, call and report vehicle details and plate numbers. Cataloging vehicles used by ICE can make future verification and warning easier.

Incredible things are happening in the NYC covid-safe community

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

THERE IS NO 'ORIGINAL' VERSION OF A MYTH. Let's take a look at this vase by the Douris painter - yes, the one from my tour show! - up close... 🎤 See the tour show: nataliehaynes.com/tour/ 📗 Read No Friend to This House: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/nata... youtu.be/bRgyKwB0Jp0?...

"I don't care that he's dead." "He's not a hero." "He's a scumbag." "He shouldn't be celebrated." No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd. Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.

Explicit support for transgender youth from government officials in Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, Maryland, Delaware, California, Oregon, Minnesota, and Michigan!

Here are four ways anyone can support and help their local library: • Get a library card ⭐️ • Use your library card 🌟 •Visit the library 💫 •Tell everyone to get a library card and support their local library ✨

So far, 2025 has felt like living inside a Hieronymus Bosch painting

1. Trump threatened every hospital that provides gender affirming care to transgender youth. Many complied and shut down their programs. Boston Children's Hospital didn't. They fought back and kept providing care. And now, they just beat Trump in court. Subscribe to support our journalism.

“Right to work” laws are a total scam. They silence American workers and keep them underpaid. The Nationwide Right to Unionize Act would solve this problem, and @repbradsherman.bsky.social and I want to get it done.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

A reminder that one of my favorite ways to frame the economy for most people is that they are *never* three good months away from being rich, but *always* three bad months from being homeless.

Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements." Really meant, "For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

Many of us have been warning for years that drivers vs. everyone was the frontier of the culture war, and here we are. Republicans are now canceling pedestrian and bike safety grants.

Medea! Later to show up in The Matter of France.

This Mattie Lubchansky comic seems topical again.

FWIW i’ve switched to @bookshop.org for ebooks and Libro for audio books and with very few exceptions had the exact same experience as Amazon without the greasy aftertaste. Highly recommended.

if you have a billion dollars you should be legally designated a dragon and any human can adventure against you

I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.