If Senators can now sue the DOJ for investigating their Jan 6 phone records can we FOIA that information? After all we are going to pay for it, lets see it.

Support workers. Support unions. Don’t go to Starbucks during the strike!

I am shooting my shot. I love writing op-eds. @teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you. Signed, A Black woman who writes for the public

Lots of people are sharing my video from FRIDAY about the Senate deal of that day, thinking it's about the SUNDAY deal. It is not. They are two entirely different kettles of fish. A great reminder always to check dates, although I've now hidden it so it should stop circulating.

Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

Call. Your. House. Reps. @davids.house.gov do not let this through without making a scene! You are our only federal fighting rep and Kansasans will not forget your courage, or your silence.

Surprise! Because the shit sandwich wasn’t shitty enough, they also snuck a federal ban on hemp products into the funding bill. Not only are we not legalizing weed, we’re going back on progress made for safe cannabis consumption.

I took a photo yesterday as the sun was setting and I thought it would be fun to shoot it again while it was snowing.

My local rural school district is set to lose over $700,000 a year under the new school funding formula, while the Governor is funding private religious schools with taxpayer vouchers. What a scam…

Ok, here is why this Alt is pissed off. They got a promise, pinky swear, from the GOP (known liars) on a vote 40 days from now on the subsidies. After the subsidies have expired, after the rates are locked. 40 day from now, meaning there isn't going to be any ACA help for 2026.

Tuesday’s elections were NOT about the Democratic Party. They were about candidates focusing on the wants and needs of their constituents; about new leaders prepared to fight; about representation in every sense of the word. Party leaders haven’t absorbed this yet.

A rural Democrat would never… We need some folks made of tougher stuff in DC.

You ever drunk dial your senator?

Pay attention to what Democratic candidates are saying right now. Find and support the fighters. Having a spine must be a litmus test issue in 2026 and beyond.

This has not gotten much attention, but it should. Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE. Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.

Let me tell you about my life.

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

Dick Cheney dies, Zohran Mamdani wins, a beaver moon shines in the sky… I just know the Etsy witches have been busy.

A major breach of Kansas City, Kansas, Police reveals a list of alleged misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force and false arrest. Read the full investigation by @kcur.org and @wired.com:

Breaking: The Darkness Returns

If the game hits 2am Eastern the score is reset to an hour before and everyone has to repeat exactly what they did to preserve the space time continuum, thems the rules

If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)

We are all connected and dependent on people we don’t know.

Calling all animation fans! Our friends at @sbwuca are wanting to spread the word about their upcoming practice picket THIS Saturday, Nov 1st, outside Disney Land at the corner of Harbor Blvd and Disney Way.Come down in costume and help the hard working Bucks Baristas fight against corporate greed!

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.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

We previewed this new work from Robert Anderson during his solo Block House Gallery show "Resource + Result" this spring, and now the completed piece is on public display for the first time! With a fully formed title and theme now - "The Moral Arc"

this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...

A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt via Smithsonian Magazine

This is a beautiful new locker room at St Pius in Kansas City. They are a private religious school that accepts taxpayer vouchers for partial tuition. Anyway, the kids at the public school down the road from me learn to run track when they go to track meets — they don’t have a track of their own.

If you’re looking for a lil thing to do, check your email for Equifax I finally claimed my Equifax settlement and it was $7something. They give it to you on a prepaid card. The only thing I could think to do in order to use it all was give it to charity. I chose the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.

"There's usually a lot of national attention towards centers on the coasts … but it's also so needed here in the Midwest where we're under political attack, where we don't have as many resources to do, like, big things." (@kbianews.bsky.social)

Elizabeth Blackwell (1707-1758), Scottish botanical illustrator known for the book "A Curious Herbal" 1737. Blackwell published her hand drawn, engraved and coloured work in order to raise funds to free her husband from debtors prison. #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Per @chicagotribune.com, the pajama-pants-guy is a former county prosecutor. And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...

Most ppl know that Chicago (home of modern urban segregation) is a very segregated place but I don't think most outside Chicago (+many Chicagoans!) understand how the *distances* involved and *depth* of segregation mean most white ppl have ZERO visibility into many Black and Latine neighborhoods +

Rachel Hayes, contemporary artist who creates #textile based largescale outdoor, site specific installations #WomensArt

Unsolicited writing advice: no. 8075: There is no such thing as serious writing. There are only writers who take their work seriously, and those who don’t. Tragedy is no more “serious” than comedy. Children’s writing is no less “serious” than writing for adults. Good writing is wherever you find it.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Harriet Powers (1839 -1910), African-American former enslaved woman, folk artist, quilt maker from Georgia who used traditional appliqué techniques to record local legends, Bible stories, and astronomical events on her quilts #WomensArt #BlackHistoryMonth

Y’all I’m 20 minutes in and cannot look away. PBS is not going to go quietly into the dark. I wish I had been on set producing this. I wish I had pre-produced this, or post produced it. 🍿👩‍🏫😯 youtu.be/04s2jZazpb8?...

Sen. Merkley 🔔 holding the floor right now. So far there’s been history lessons and levelheaded argument for democracy. God speed

Tomorrow there will be more of us.

Trees likely destroyed for Trump’s Palace of Grifting: 1. S. Magnolia - Roosevelt (1942) 2. S. Magnolia - Harding (1922) 5. White Pine - Gerald Ford (1977) 6. Eastern Redbud - Bush (1990) 7. N. Red Oak - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1959)

I’m listening to whatever music I want and letting my kids learn bad words bc nothing is sacred. ✌🏻

Kansans, call your STATE reps and tell them to reject changing our maps mid-decade. (Contact info below) Rep. @davids.house.gov - thank you

This right here is the seed that grows into a tree that breaks the sidewalk, a stream that swells into a raging river.

Small No Kings event puts love ahead of politics in rural Kansas town where immigrants are detained | #ksleg via @journalist-sherman.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2025/10/18/s...