Just watched this. Librarians are my heros.

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

How much human suffering and death, while rich people get richer, will it take for people to rise up? Guess we're not there yet. #rage

What the actual f*#k????

If any incumbent candidate is brave enough to knock your door; in addition to telling them what your community needs, go ahead and ask how much you are paying them, and how many days they are actually spending doing that work.

What a real president looks like.

Just came from opening night of A Love Letter. Amazing!! #supportlocaltheater

Just voted in the WI Spring Primary election, by early voting in person at city hall. Figured I should do it while I still can. #vote

"But really, it’s all about trying to make sure fewer people vote. Under former (R) WI Gov. Scott Walker, WI passed a strict voter ID law, which one former staffer testified made R legislators “giddy” as they discussed how it would make it more difficult for students and people of color to vote."

The GOP blames women for undermining them on issues like abortion & ICE & thus hopes to pass the “SAVE Act,” which will make it harder for married women who changed their last names to vote. But they want you to think it’s about “election integrity”. 1/31/26 #HandmaidsTale 1/

Think they are watching/tracking YOU? Think again.

No. Northern WI. Just no. And oh by the way, this kid has already raked in $2 million in donations.

No women of color appointed to federal judgeships in Trump’s first year back.

The majority of white women consistently vote against securing pathways to citizenship for immigrants, even as their own path to full citizenship was granted to reinforce and multiply white control of the country in the face of Black civil rights progress and early 20th-century immigrant influxes.

Both terrifying and hopeful. Read every word.

Alarmed yet?

For my friend. Marianne.

From today's word of the day email: A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. -Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (30 Jan 1882-1945)

Madison's ICE out protest. 0 degrees with -16 windchill and people still turned out. #abolishice

Anyone else having issues connecting?

House Republicans vote to lift 20-year ban on mining near pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area. No. Just no.

"Maybe there’s a broader goal, too: to build distrust, and, ultimately, to reshape all Americans’ perceptions of reality." Maybe? No. Definitely.

After an ICE agent killed Renee Nicole Good, JD Vance quickly said agents have "absolute immunity." Now, he's trying to convince us he never said that. Subscribe to zeteo.com for more coverage

It just got harder for LGBTQ+ people to address harassment at work. The EEOC voted Thursday to delete a 200-page doc on workplace harassment matters amid a push to prioritize cases brought by White men The EEOC also skipped the traditional 30-day notice-and-comment period for the public to weigh in.

"We are now facing an urgent choice as to whether we submit to the entrenched hatred and abuse of women as a technological and cultural norm, or whether we fight for an alternative way forward." This. Among so many other things.

I'm not ignoring all the other horrible news, but let's face it. This is one more way China will own clean energy, and MAGA will get their wish for having the only jobs available, putting together widgets. That is, if AI doesn't do that too.

One measure showed that overall cuts in humanitarian aid would mean that 2025 was the first year in decades where the death rate of children under five years old would rise globally. “The world’s richest man has been involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children.” Evil assholes.

I guess I'm not going to be getting some work done. #caturday

“The Trump administration is confirming what we’ve always known: its promise to leave abortion to the states was a lie. No one is safe from their anti-abortion crusade, not even our nation’s veterans."

Last repackaging shift at the food pantry tonight, two more days of work next week, and then I am done for 2025.

“You’re looking at a population smaller than New York. You’re looking at a universal health care system where everyone has access to care... We have more people, more diversity. We do not have universal health care. We do not have the same level of access.” Riskier, and bad.

"At a time when there is such incredible inequality of wealth and opportunity,” he adds, “what the data tells us is that Knowles-Nelson has been a really good democratizer of investments in conservation and recreation.” This should be a no-brainer, but WI legislature...

What it really means to keep Christ in Christmas.

Hegseth posted *Today, we hunted and we killed our enemies. Lots of them. And we will continue.”

Nobody wants this. Yet here we are.

Hey, mom! Maybe turn the heat up, would ya? #caturday

I mean, who doesn't want a vacation? Little curious about this statement, though...*They were fed and watered by crew members using “expert guidelines”. Um. Their usual diet is small reptiles, birds, and rodents.

Hamilton spins in his grave. I loathe Roberts with every fiber of my being.

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity. Read that sentence again.

Damn it. Damn it. Damn it.

Glass houses and all that...

My bird feeder on Thanksgiving. My bird feeder today. Sigh. It's going to be a long winter.

Thanksgiving-Cyber Monday, my wallet's ignoring Target, Home Depot, & Amazon. [*True for me since last Nov.*] I'm tired of corporations enabling this administration ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities, & chase tax breaks. Join me! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫 app.sosha.ai/s/dZvDb7yZ

Greeeaaat. Romaine lettuce, broccoli and potatoes are just the beginning. They are called forever chemicals FOR A REASON!

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

JFC

The fact that many men believe they no longer even have to pretend to respect women in order to participate in public life makes it unlikely that anything will change anytime soon. The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office.

Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated. Instagram’s former head of safety testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”

OK, Madison. I'm combining #caturday and #booksky, but I demand that all of these gargoyles be reinstalled.📚