#OnThisDay countdown! on April 13, 2027, my #historicalfiction novel WILTON HOUSE hits bookshelves! Join me for a year of #historical tidbits from #Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Early Modern #England. 💙📚

Anyone who’s like, “well, the timing here is suspect,” maybe just sit the fuck down. Please understand that for many survivors of abuse and misconduct, their preferred timing would be absolutely fucking NEVER. To read their altruism as opportunism is just so utterly gross (and inevitably wrong)

Happy Confederate Surrender Day from Minnesota where we still have your goddamn flag and we’re not giving it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Vi...

Like vitamins, calling my senators was pointless but it did make me feel slightly better so whatever

Donald Trump is unfit to serve as the leader of the free world. That's why I have cosponsored H. Res. 939 Articles of Impeachment to remove him from office.

If I were ever on the far side of the moon and out of radio contact with the earth I would just stay there

For the people who missed it

there's also something so weird about this idea that what appeals to, say, someone in Baltimore won't appeal to say, someone in Detroit. like, every state has a few major cities, and those cities have more in common *with each other* than they do with their neighboring rural areas

There is so much value in getting together with a couple of thousand of your neighbors and being like "just checking in, but we all still hate these motherfuckers, right?" and getting a resounding yes.

This is the kind of shitty messaging that drives me absolutely insane. It's not since "before this unnecessary war began". It's since this president took office! This government-- all three branches-- broke everything! Say it with your chest!

Old toilet seat's soft close feature gave up the ghost. Replacement toilet seat broke within six hours. Replacement for the replacement was broken in the box. I shit you not.

Chicago: She barely won her seat last time. Let's make sure she doesn't again. I have no patience for politicians who aren't willing to do everything they can to protect us from ICE.

Sitting around waiting to see if the machine upon which your entire business hinges will crash is just soul-crushing

please help our poor headless cat

I hate my generation so much

Heads' up, Chicago

Here’s the free pattern if anyone wants to make one drive.google.com/file/d/11w5k...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Did Pitbull just call me TiVo?!???!!!!!

Chicagoans: still have your Vote By Mail ballot? You have until 7:00pm on Election Day (March 17) to return it to ANY of 52 Secure Drop Boxes across the city! To find the most convenient location for you, go to: chicagoelections.gov/voting/drop-... 🗳

Ugh. Owner of The Cabin threatened a Latina patron with ICE. www.instagram.com/p/DVwBEq_ESDx/

Please take a minute to review and sign this petition - this will show your support for the creation of a working group to explore how to implement a proactive rental inspection program citywide. Stay tuned, too, for info on how to participate in important public input opportunities!

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

Sunny Naqvi, a U.S. citizen born in Evanston, was detained by Border Patrol at O'Hare for nearly 30 hours with no cause, later being transferred to an ICE facility in Wisconsin. Her family is now sharing her story. Read more: https://tinyurl.com/mvy6er5n 

First slushy drink of 2026

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Illinoisans, if you've got a vote by mail ballot, you should fill it out this weekend and mail it. Otherwise early voting sites have a drop box. If you're early voting do it this weekend! Next weekend is where you'll see the longest lines.

I guess I just feel pretty strongly that the lives of people who live in other countries are also very important

I just can't choose to be worse

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things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

It's now become very clear that our neighbors across the street are keeping their life-size light-up Santa in their window because our fully-lit Christmas tree is still in our window, and that @kaydaly.bsky.social is keeping our tree up because their Santa is up. This brings me great joy

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

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Border Patrol released Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56 yo man, nearly blind with serious medical conditions, at "an old address & his family had since moved" in Buffalo, NY in the winter. "His family was not initially notified." He was found dead. @news4buffalo.bsky.social www.wivb.com/news/local-n...

What's on tap today? I'm off to Chicago Shakespeare Theater to give the Scholar PreAmble for the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of "Hamnet." Wish me luck! I'll have a second run at my PreAmble on 3/1. Hope you Chicagoans and burb folk can come on out! www.chicagoshakes.com/productions/...

”This is a world of compensations; and he who would *be* no slave, must consent to *have* no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”

Ughhhhhhhh failed to convert my Lyft driver to the revolution

Get on my level I'm on the

Code for the bathroom at the Belmont & Clark Target is 7000

Uncap the House. Implement the Wyoming rule. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming...

this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me

I want to leave you with this, from @mostlybree.kitrocha.com:

Poor Val

FYI, Kristi Noem’s full initials are K.L.A.N.

@20x2chi.bsky.social. Just so good.

Chuck Schumer just announced demands on DHS to avoid shutdown: 1. End roving patrols, tighten rules on warrants 2. Enforce accountability & unified code of conduct for agents 3. No more masks & require bodycams There are *already* standards on much of this. The issue is DHS isn't following them!

Literally just said to myself this morning that I can't believe I hadn't eaten shit on the ice once this winter and lo and behold not only did I just eat shit, I ate shit under Michigan Avenue in the semi-frozen seepage of a dumpster mixed with road slush

This is unconscionable. Evil. But it happened in May 2023, when Biden was president. So no, we don’t “reform immigration detention,” we destroy ICE, CBP, and DHS. We can’t reform this soul sickness.