Essay: "Building an infrastructure of joy is another form of that resistance — not a substitute for action, but a sustainer of it."

Smiling because lawn tickets for DMB at Saratoga were just secured for both nights and now everything feels right with the world.

A Simple Prayer for MAGA's Gospel Grifters, Holy Hypocrites and Blaspheming Bubbas johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/a-simple-p...

A good read. Cancer research is taking a hit. The number of grants w/ word “woman” declined last year. Cancer Moonshot” is now considered “controversial”. Fruit flavored nicotine vapes were just approved by the Trump’s FDA. MAHA is useless. 🧪 therevolvingdoorproject.org/the-pro-canc...

Librarians literally saved my life

#newenglandwoodlands after the rain 💚

And also this. 🎧

Outlander has entered the chat.

Tonight at 10 PM ET on SiriusXM Progress Ch. 127, @simonmoyasmith.bsky.social & I are back with @johnfugelsang.bsky.social for We’re Still Here. ICE vs. Tribal IDs, voter suppression, Indigenous foodways. And yes, Dr. Harrison Ford has entered the chat. Call in! Would love to hear from you!

I mean, Snow Outside and Broken Things with 🎻 Jake Simpson, in one show. My heart’s happy. Thank you to Andy Mendoza for sharing. youtu.be/hWDMpaHyJqk

The Apprentice: Sweaty Nepo Baby Edition open.substack.com/pub/johnfuge... The parasitic class strikes again. Can we get a pest control specialist on this?

One of my pet peeves is hearing someone say something like "God protected me" after a disaster. Such statements made while others died implies selective divine favoritism. Survival is probability and chance exposure. Nobody is chosen. You are not special.

Tennessee you’re up. Get the vote out, please

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

In another act of malice, disgraceful fraudulent traitor John Fetterman also helped fascist republicans today by joining them in blocking a resolution that would reign in the orange felon’s unconstitutional destructive war in Iran. Can’t wait to see Pennsylvania fire his ass.

“Sometimes it feels like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I’ll fall five feet, four inches forward in the fight for freedom.” ~Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964. Image: Hamer at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Bettmann/Getty Images.

Empathy + Action = A Better World

Good morning ☕️

May 12, 2026

I guess Bluesky is the non-evil Twitter but what is the non-evil Facebook. I just want to see my friends posting one-panel newspaper cartoons and then reply “oh my goodness!”

People are preoccupied with how Trump raises gas prices, but they ignore how he rapes kids.

Sky-ing. Skying? Shouldn’t there be a verb for obsessive gazing at the changing sky?

Obscene. www.huffpost.com/entry/jeff-l...

Incredible crimson aurora - filmed on a frozen lake near Fairbanks, Alaska

May 11, 2026

Several Doubts

Slightly increase a band Duran Duran Duran

They could not be clearer. Their goal is the restoration of white supremacy and the disenfranchisement of voters of color, a return to the days before the VRA and the entrenchment of permanent Republican dominance.

Under-babied? These sick white supremacists.

Still waiting and hoping but I fucking hate cancer. Fucking hate it. The unfairness of it, the utter inevitability of it. The fucking cruelty of it all. Odds are…. Chances are… It’s senseless. Heartless. Doesn’t care. One goal only. Multiply. Too angry to cry right now. Not exactly.

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

I truly believe that the baby steps add up mentally for us as individuals too. I honestly cannot believe how much I have cancelled in the last five years just from doing a bit at a time and aligning other life changes toward it

I've started seeing and/or hearing ravens around Cambridge in the past few weeks. Never seen or heard one around here in the 20+ years I've been here. Attach what symbolism to this you will. (I love corvids and am excited by this.)

Wildlife belongs to all of us. It’s held in the public trust. These are your lands, and the animals on them are a shared inheritance, not targets to be quietly poisoned while the administration hopes no one notices.

Bears vs. Trail cameras

Clear night, bit chilly. 🎧

The SiriusXM DMB Radio Friday Night Series is back TONIGHT, May 8th airing live from The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in the Woodlands, TX starting at 8:30 PM ET. Tune in to DMB Radio, Sirius channel 30: siriusxm.us/DMBRadioSXM

Only MAGA allowed

Before there were man camps & jurisdictional loopholes putting Native women at risk, colonialism had already spent decades dismantling women’s power. Many of our Nations were matriarchal before colonization. I wrote about how it connects directly to MMIWG2S today. open.substack.com/pub/juliefra...

Drop the paywall on news! It's a huge problem people can read Fox News and Newsmax for free but to get the stories produced by journalists, they have to beg for a gift link or check out if someone saved it on the Internet Archive.

Jesus. Did that sergeant at arms walk there directly from the Pettus Bridge? The hair, the whole look, everything. Make the photo B&W, and you wouldn't know if it was 2026 or 1965. And the reasons are the same. And the fight's the same. Confederacy and Jim Crow lost before. They'll lose again.

Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...

Contractions with 3 words: -she'd've -wouldn't've Contractions with more than 3 words: -y'all'll've -they'dn't've

She has spent decades helping others struggling to make ends meet. Now the rising cost of gas and groceries has left Dalene Basden feeling the strain herself. n.pr/42TULro