“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Saw that Mike Johnson said the House is not going to be in session for another damn week. Posting this again to remind folks none of this normal.

Sometimes you luck up on a story and you realize you're with that writer for LIFE. No matter what they put out, you're there. @kellyrobson.com did that for me with Waters of Versailles. First came out in 2015. 10 years later I still think about it. I analyze how she constructed that brilliant thing.

@grahamformaine.bsky.social Dude, bow out. You will nazi a single vote from the left.

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today's reading quiz for Orwell's "Notes on Nationalism": read French's op-ed, write a well-organized, lucid paragraph about whether he affirms, challenges, rejects Orwell's "Notes" Happy Friday! www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/o...

Now I'm just a simple country lawyer but I don't think Nazis should be in the news this often

People used to get mad at me when I was younger because I’d fight every person that used racist slurs. I was “causing drama.” Y’all, this is what happens when you don’t “cause drama” and call people out on their racism.

The New Evangelicals Podcast - The Separation of Church and Hate: www.thenewevangelicals.com/tne-media/ep... #NowPlaying Tim interviews John Fugelsang, author of the above title. Taking the #Bible and #Jesus back from #RightWing Bible abusers. #Trump pushes fake #Christianity. #WhiteEvangelicals

Now they wear black outfits & black masks & ride in unmarked vehicles. KKK wore this outfit because they were local citizens who were on the law enforcement staff, store owners who sold us things in their stores, schoolteachers, and landowners where some Blacks farmed their crops. 🤬 RESIST AMERICA!

Every dollar for Trump’s ego is a dollar stolen from working families. #TrumpHatesOurHealthCare

A little reflection on history, morality, money, and protest by me. I'm not Heather Cox Richardson, but you still might find it interesting. @hcrichardson.bsky.social jeffsjottings.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/m...

My feelings, exactly.

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024. Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay. The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year. Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M See the problem?

Trump and I agree wholeheartedly. He is happily shitting on America.

Trump hates America.

As The Boss says, "Down the shore, everything's alright..." Atlantic City, NJ gathering.

It’s going to take ages to pay all these people

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Sana and I were subjected to some really awful stuff online in the early days of Ms Marvel and as a result I have neverrrrrrr posted a single photo of either of my kids on social media, even in friends-only contexts. I don't even use their real names. And I never will.

I was at my old high school today, for the first time in over twenty years, to talk to the teachers about how their curriculum can better support students. AI came up, and so many teachers were saying "Well it's a tool, they have to know how to use it, it's the future so we have to accept it!"

Angelo Elia, a congressional staffer for Rep Dave Taylor (R-OH), appeared on Zoom with an swastika American flag behind him—just a day after thousands of antisemitic & racist GOP staffer texts surfaced. Republicans have a Nazi problem & they don’t care. Tip of the iceberg.

@booker.senate.gov Clean yourself up. Just fight fascism. Stop the grift. Imagine the poorest of us in NJ listening to your rationalizing the selling of our entire lives. Think about it. Then fight or leave.

Given the DHS talk of "remigration" and private chats revealing the overtly Nazi stances of the NY Young Republicans, it would be really good for those opposed to show up October 18 then continue to collaborate in their communities, because all this will get worse and worse until we act to stop it.

Support literacy--and books!

This is what the GOP is creating/ encouraging. Don't let them tell you otherwise.

ACTUALLY, I have a theory that most books enter a cultural "uncanny valley" 20-25 years after release, where the culture has shifted just enough they're not contemporary anymore, so new readers can't directly relate, and they stay in the valley for about 50 years until they're clearly historical

Pretty sure during the May 14 2025 meeting with MBS, Trump was handed incriminating photos of his tiny peepee in the face of a young lady.

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

All right. This is an opportunity. Prior #NoKings protests were huge but did not get the media coverage they deserved. Now R’s are anticipating NoKings will hurt them. So they are proactively lying in the media about 10/18. We shd use this: D leaders should be in the media talking about #NoKings.

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Genuine question: for those enthusiastically pushing AI tools into every part of our education system—what checks/guardrails are there around algorithmic biases like this?

@amyklobuchar.com Pro censorship. You've flipped. You are pro fascist and in bed with Trump now. No hiding.

Sorry, but when you get a fresh hot bagels straight from the oven, this is acceptable behavior. Ten minutes out, fine, you need something else. Hot and fresh, it stands up on its own.

Scared to say it because I don't want people thinking it. But. Wondering how many people in NJ will vote for Shitarelli so that Trump just leaves NJ alone.

Full talk here from David Graeber: youtu.be/9f9H1dm5qMQ

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

The key paragraph from @naomiaklein.bsky.social & @astra.bsky.social's powerful piece describing the urgency of our present moment. They are right, and we better move quickly.

YOU CAN EXTEND YOUR SUPPORT FOR WINDOWS 10 BUT YOU HAVE TO DO IT BEFORE OCT. 14! Yes it's only for one year, yes you should consider Linux, but if you just don't want to deal with this shit NOW, here's a comfy raincheck. It says "$30" but I just did for free: windowsforum.com/threads/how-...

Seriously? I was today years old before I figured out that Schrödinger's Cat only lived two doors down from the Tolkiens in Oxford. What the freckity frack?! 😅 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northmo...

Less EdTech. More audiovisual media that weaves haunting music, personal videos, nature photography, art, internet anthropology, and allusions to the Buddha into a beautiful closing reading of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. #literacies www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AYBWxM/

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

Congress has not voted since September 19th, and Speaker Johnson cancelled votes AGAIN. And let me tell you why. He doesn’t want to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva — because she would be the final vote needed on the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.