I much prefer being around people who try to improve things, even if they ultimately aren't successful, rather than folks who assume nothing will ever change.

YEE-HAW! It's time for a rootin' tootin' POSTER DEBUT! Salt Lake City's GRID ZINE FEST is in two months! Are you ready to saddle up? 2026 poster art by Felix Phoenix, www.instagram.com/thingfromthe...

I live and die by the mantra DONT POST but I just want to shout out @devintoshea.bsky.social on the new QAA podcast episode talking about Pynchon and making my day a whole lot brighter despite all the *waves hand around*.

Islamophobia and loving billionaires is a bipartisan agenda in this country

Not the most important thing here, but a more common term for someone coming to the United States with nothing and becoming a millionaire with an influential job is "The American Dream."

Trump pulled the US out of the World Health Organisation yesterday. In response California has become the first state to join the WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network. If this is the start of a pattern Americans will only be safe in Blue states.

to despair and embrace cynicism was to hand powerful weapons to the enemy

Be angry. Be grief-sick. But live the fuck out of your life too.

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

We made a resource zine on Friends of the Library groups over at @librariesftp.bsky.social: www.librariesforthepeople.org/resources#fo...

Talked about "Creepy Ephemera: American Christmas" by @donnaramone.bsky.social over at the I Love Zines YouTube channel with Missy and Billy! youtu.be/gO2kw9b2hVo

First-ever US airstrikes in Nigeria put the second Trump admin’s 2025 combat actions at: —Nigeria—tonight’s strikes —Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr) —Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid —Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids —Caribbean—11 strikes —Eastern Pacific—20 strikes —Iran—3 strikes —Iraq—1 strike

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

Uhhh, folks? This is real bad. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

NEW: Student journalists at the University of Texas Dallas tell us the story of how they formed their own newspaper after being dismissed from their school's paper for their coverage of the 2023 pro-Palestine protests on campus. unicornriot.ninja/2025/rip-mer...

My pal @donnaramone.bsky.social

Text I sent to family; November 6, 2024

Just over four months of Trump. America in upheaval. The global economy overturned. The Middle East burning down.

A civil rights movement is when you're very civil and so then they let you have rights.

Ask me about anti-doxxing and anti-harassment protocols

one of the reasons to ban airbnb rather than try to regulate it is that they respond with millions of dollars of campaign spending against anyone who proposes regulating them.

Worth noting that this is also what the UK government review found, it just ignored all the evidence in its conclusions.

"Scientific insiders." You mean...scientists? The people who do science and understand it? I'm not saying they're beyond suspicion, but when I look at the US over the past 20 years, I do not have the impression that our major problem is that _scientists_ have too much power.

JUST IN: Judge Friedrich (a Trump appointee) has blocked the Trump administration's effort to pull funds from schools over DEI programming, saying the requirements are unconstitutionally vague. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

White House releases new photos of suspected MS-13 members with tattoos on their hands:

Several nights of higher migration are queuing up, starting tonight. Tell friends, family, coworkers, etc about this amazing phenomenon and how they can help these birds with a simple flip of a switch! www.audubon.org/news/bird-sa... #LightsOutForBirds #birds #spring #migration

i do not think the mainstream press is equipped or capable of covering ideological white nationalists and eugenicists as such, or even capable of noting that this is what they are. it is related to the wide belief that racism is simply a matter of manners.

For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce" www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...

This is one of the closest Nazi parallels the Trump White House has yet announced. I know because I actually saw a recreation of the original 1937 Nazi “Entartete Kunst” (Degenerate Art) exhibit at the Smithsonian in 1991. They assembled 200 of the original 650 works. It was a sight to behold.

once again: you’re bound to find wild (and untrue) things if you analyze data that you do not understand

give a damn about someone.

The U.S. just exploded an entire apartment building in Yemen in an attempt to kill one guy. It was in the news and everything. At least 58 people died.

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

The Sopranos is probably the Rosetta Stone of modern American reaction: it consists of people who bemoan the loss of an imagined past they mainly got from movies, claim victimization based on identity but hate when others do it, and view the people who build the society they prey on as suckers.

love this. Georgetown Law students keeping receipts. Tracking big law firms re whether they cave or stand strong for DEI. for those keeping score. red is bad. green is good. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Webcomic #671 by Donna Ramone This year's RZC April Fools joke book cover is now lazily being co-opted as a webcomic! You folks knew that was a joke, right? The Razorcake inbox was flooded with questions about pre-orders. @donnaramone.bsky.social

The idea that race is a social & historical construct has a long history. It was a central plank of the post WWII US consensus for obvious reasons given what pseudo-scientific racism had wrought. One of the central planks of the US right in the post WWII era was that race is a biologically reality.

Oh my god. They’re literally trying to give Mark Carney the Chris Rufo treatment, a tried-and-true model for bringing down academics.

One of those days when it feels insane to just go about business as usual. Waiting to hear if my spouse and several friends still have jobs. Colleagues and students are literally being snatched off the street. Livelihoods and careers disappearing in an instant.

The brain drain has begun. Send us all your smarty pants. www.torontotoday.ca/local/educat...

we just lost all 7 of our Network of National Library of Medicine, Region 5 (NNLM) library workers. the grant that covered their salaries was terminated. this is heartbreaking and demoralizing.

The introductory classes that all Utah college students must take will get a major rewrite — starting with Utah State — to focus on Western civilization, under a bill Gov. Spencer Cox signed into law.

““We need to stand up, all of us,” said Thaddeus, a..professor at Columbia & VP of the campus chapter of the American Association of University Professors…”We need to organize, from the grass roots to the national level. If we lead, our leaders will follow.”” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...

I teamed up w/ ALA for their upcoming “Right To Read Day” on April 7th— here’s an illustration I contributed for their “Drawn To Freedom” campaign! Libraries are fundamental to a free society— learn more about fighting fascism by standing up for them here: uniteagainstbookbans.org/right-to-rea...

Which reminds me: We’re trying to do something different in our election cycle, from our values to our posts to how we spend money. We’re also not taking a cent of corporate cash. Please contribute if you can -- we love small dollar donors! secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-b...