#disability #Access And big ups to all my wheelie mates.

good advice whether about life and politics or about Tottenham Hotspur

Something you notice in the winter is that cyclists and pedestrians have to justify maintenance of their infrastructure in a way that drivers never do

It’s extremely cathartic to yell at people but catharsis is just for you, it doesn’t do anything for anyone else

i think it's also not a coincidence that this is the type of "activism" that asks the least of people - it's an immediate discharge of emotion with no building, no patience, no cooperation - just a straight line from feeling the desire to act to discharging yr emotions on someone

Some of us can't afford to give people who blatantly & clearly demonstrate that they're white supremacists the benefit of the doubt to move on to what's important. What's important is their immediate threat to our lives. So get that through your privileged brains cosplaying working class struggle.

ICE is still here in MN, and our neighbors are still in hiding. Rent is due TODAY, and I’m scrambling to raise funds to keep immigrant families in need out of eviction court. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Please share and give if you can! Thank you! 🌷

For folks with limited space, focusing on having at least 1 bloomer at a time is great. Get somebody going in early spring, early summer, mid summer, late summer, & fall. Strategize so insects are never twiddling their thumbs waiting for lunch.

The staggering of bloom time is super important! Yes. By increasing the number of species in your yard, you're supporting insects broadly, including butterflies and flies and moths in addition to bees. Greater diversity of native species is always a win. (1/2)

Yah they’re very likely to spread diseases if you don’t completely clear out last years stuff and sanitize it. Also if it’s the wrong material, it can cook the bees!

It's always a good time to talk about bees. I will spread the word.

Yes you're absolutely doing more good by planting native plants than adding honeybees. 100%!

I'm not even trying to instruct anyone on how to NAVIGATE that minefield, really. I just want folks to see that it exists, who constructed it, and what their intention is.

I'd be more inclined to believe that Graham Platner is merely a dumbass if he was making different kinds of "mistakes" instead of one very specific type of "mistake" over and over

March is Women’s History Month 💪 Here’s to setting the standard, raising the bar, and continuing to make history.

We have to address both. Using one horror to elevate another bigotry is one way we get the next horror

It’s absurd to me that we’ve cut off foreign aid to other countries because “they need to help themselves and be self sufficient- we have to take care of our own and can’t spare a dime,” yet at the same time, let’s bomb away and cause chaos to “free and liberate you.”

‎Maersk: Suspension of voyages through the Suez Canal and Bab el-Mandeb Strait

We can and should be critical of the regime in Iran. We should also: A) Remember the US interference that ultimately led to that regime. B) Reject yet other bullshit US war. C) Uphold international law and condemn illegal aggression. D) Be very concerned for the civilians in harms way.

🧵 of anti-imperialist art I'm finding particularly meaningful today. This one is by @ollycostello.bsky.social: ollycostelloshop.com/products/ult...

Here is a drawing I did some years ago. I might as well share it here now. Anything you can do to undermine the US war machine is justified and morally right. pen and ink on paper.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Amazing how little girls are always targets for the GOP — to molest, to rape, to kill. You targeted a girl’s school. Little girls are not a military target except to monsters like you and your friends.

It’s worth emphasizing that the Supreme Court has propped up this presidential lawlessness. When Congress enacted limits on presidential power in 1973, it included an enforcement provision. If the president said there’s an “emergency from attack” and Congress disagreed, it could order troops home.

As Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran this morning, Iranians received mysterious push notifications saying that “help is on the way,” promising amnesty if they surrender.

"If War Were Meant to Bring Freedom, the Middle East Would Be the Freest Place in the World."

Jesus Christ they're running the war from Mar-a-Lago www.reuters.com/world/us/top...

Come on in, neighbor. We're happy you're here. 📚✨

A protected bike lane on 30th Street in San Diego increased cycling to more than 130,000 trips per year within four years. After construction, usage rose by 120% in the first year and continued to grow. Read the full story by Momentum Magazine: buff.ly/JufGsFr

It is true that "prediction markets could give them the answers they needed in ways TV news and 𝕏 could not" if their questions included, "Can you freaks be any more ghoulish and greedy than you already are?"

There was a loud chorus arguing that focusing on Epstein was a distraction from affordability issues, now this is a distraction from Epstein, what if it’s just horrible people doing terrible things and we should try to stop all of it?

it’s all part of the same web of oligarch impunity and considering certain people disposable in the end

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

What "it's a distraction" people fundamentally need to understand about fascism is that fascism's entire mode of operation is diverting popular anger/anxiety/despair into channels of violence against the Other (both internal and external). It's not flailing, it's the whole strategy.

War, huh, What is it good for? A FIFA Peace Prize

Other figures say 40. Posting for clarity but whether it’s 85, 40, literally any number big or small, a dead child is a dead child. They didn’t do anything. We are not the good guys here. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Read it again. We killed 85 schoolgirls this morning.

85 girls who would’ve had their own lives and futures. 85 girls who had dreams of their own. 85 families who will never see their daughters alive again.

This piece has now been updated with with QAnon figure Juan O. Savin's alleged involvement with the proposed Trump executive order. It has also been updated with multiple more election deniers calling for Trump to declare a "national emergency" in order to control elections.

Back in 2023, for the 20th anniversary of the war in Iraq, I did a "where are they now?" article about the pundits who cheered on the U.S. invasion www.readtpa.com/p/where-are-...

You're probably going to see a bunch of arguments from people that are near-identical to the takes of 2003. And maybe even by the same people! Just know that they were wrong then, they'll be wrong now.

It’s absolutely BONKERS. @deanwb.bsky.social

when I found out that people in blue states don't check their registration weekly in the months leading up to an election, just to see if they had been purged, I was honestly kind of annoyed. like, folks are really out here just assuming they'll stay registered???????

Once again, in actual democracies, people do not need to engage in permanent litigation & political mobilization to retain the basic right to vote, because none of the major political parties make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform. We also don't have to live like this.

Lots of people making fun of this, but as someone who showers a disabled person, this is a goddamn dream.

Happy Friday, everyone! What a way to end the week. We added a few donations that rolled in after the buzzer and the updated total we got from the folks at the Marsha P. Johnson Fund, which officially brings us over $25,000 raised. We're in awe of you all. BLUESKY STILL HAS THE JUICE

There’s a Latin phrase I would like people to learn, it’s “cui bono” It translates to “who profits?” It is a useful question to ask about many things, such as when billionaires try telling you socialism is bad Are they saying it because it’s true? Or are they saying it to stay rich? Hmm

When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.

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