It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.

It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop

We need to stop talking identity politics though

In case it's not clear, there is sooooo much organizing happening right now against this regime. It's really amazing.

billboard seen in London.

garfield was right about mondays .

i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate

MeToo did not go far enough. People were saying "MeToo has gone too far" when it had barely just picked up momentum. It was an attempt at reckoning with how institutionally misogynistic and sexually exploitative most institutions are and what women are constantly put through. So it was crushed.

Yes. This is why I left my dream job at an elite academic institution. Its culture was rotten to the core with horrible men in leadership.

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

These guys just showed up in my neighborhood! ☺️

Club-mosses are so cool. Descendants of the most ancient vascular plants, these tiny forest dwellers are the legacy of giant plants of the Devonian period. They reproduce through spores. I think these two are Prickly Tree Clubmoss and Interrupted Clubmoss 🌿

Birds + sunset = magic (Black Skimmers) #birds 🌿 #silhouettes

My wokest opinion is that every community deserves an extremely well-funded library that’s open to everyone and that librarians and teachers should make like ten times what they make now.

an incredible thing just happened to me: my vet has added an indoor-outdoor pigeon to its family, his name is papi chulo and when I was taking pictures of him outside … he perched on my head. I have never been so delighted in all my life!!!

I’ve now aged out of this but navigating the pestering attention of older men in my field—which varied from manipulative flattery when they were trying to sleep with you to contemptuous retaliation when they realized they couldn’t—was an exhausting and demoralizing tax of my early professional life.

I really think that a zine vending machine is great and would mean that I don't need to figure out how to set up a zine newsstand which would be much more expensive and labor intensive.

Good morning from the fox who wasn’t afraid.

Yes to this! There’s a myth that sometimes geniuses need to be ass holes to be geniuses. James Watson. Steve Jobs. Sherlock Holmes. Etc. But no! Being an ass makes you *worse* at your job. Being a kind human actually makes one a much *better* genius.

A trip to the beach! 😎 (in November, at 54 degrees north latitude on the edge of the Boreal forest) 🌿

I know you think this comparison is going to be far, but it's farther than you think...

It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑 Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for. We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.

More of this!!

We’re not doing “disability accommodations are unnecessary and unfair actually” discourse less than 24 hours after Alice Wong has passed. Absolutely the fuck not, even if it is a perfect example of the kind of shit disabled people have to deal with and why Alice’s activism was and is so necessary.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!! The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!! www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...

I do sometimes feel resentment at the fact that so many of us have been beating the drum about US policing and fascism for decades to no avail.

This is why I loved residency education in Emergency Medicine - the obvious goal was to teach material & measure learning. No more weed-out courses or competition to be the best. They already made it past med school. We all wanted all the Emergency doctors to be the best doctors they could be!

Buttigieg polled an impressive 0% with Black voters. Zero. Percent. Do you know how kind and friendly Black voters are? Everyone gets like 3%, just for showing up! You have to work to go down from there! It's 2025, And I still run into people that don't know why Black voters don't like Buttigieg.

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

This is me at 15. I’m a child. I’m a CHILD.

Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness. I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.

“Gen Z has the lowest racial resentment of any generation ever studied.” Important work from @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social that offers a clear explanation of why there is an intense push to change school curricula to make them more white supremacist newrepublic.com/article/2030...

Hey Megyn Kelly, 14-year-old Eloise would like a word: “If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good… because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.” Sound up! 🔥🔊 1/2

Want to honor Alice Wong and her work? Wear a damn mask!

Get white men to understand they have an identity and have done nothing but talk to us about their identities and how to politically and culturally accommodate their identities for all of history challenge: impossible

Remember: "Don't let the bastards grind you down!"

🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1

From a statement from faith leaders at Broadview this morning: "God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."

Mass trauma + mass repression of trauma seems like it might have cognitively & psychically negative effects.

I got a COVID booster because I continue to see “healthy” people lose their health to COVID and don’t want to risk it happening to me

I have just discovered the America’s Test Kitchen channel. I am obsessed. It is so…organized. These people know what they are talking about, and will give you very clear, paced, complete explanation of whatever they are telling you. Chill competence is so hot right now.

"Our actions are working, and they are not enough. Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters. We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously. Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul. This is how change happens." Dan Berger

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

That we’d be *safer* if there were no borders, no police, no prisons, and we built institutions instead centered on repair.

Sixty-five years ago today, four first-graders desegregated New Orleans's public schools: Ruby Bridges at William Frantz Elementary School, and Leona Tate, Tessie Provost, and Gail Etienne at McDonogh 19 Elementary School. They faced violent mobs and threats to their lives. They were 6 years old. 🗃

Daytime moon through nearly bare branches.

Yes. We are wired to listen to our bodies, to listen to the signals we get from the natural world around us, to communicate, to care, to cooperate. Centuries of power-over hierarchies meant for extraction & abuse have distanced us from our roots. We can destroy them & start anew.

My most woke opinion is that this thread is correct.