Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

My state has had a legislative GOP supermajority for 22 years. Missouri is ranked: 50th in classroom funding 49th in starting teacher pay 7th highest in gun deaths 6th highest in maternal mortality Republicans can’t govern and you can look at every red state to come to that conclusion.

Yeah, Democracy was rough. Not having neighbors rounded up & sent to concentration camps, not wasting $200 mn on a futile bombing raid, not forcing the military to put on a parade for his birthday, not kicking millions off healthcare so oligarchs could pay less tax, not killing cancer research ..

Our military deserves better than this empty charade. Yikes. The tank squeaking over silence is incredible.

LAPD when they think no one’s looking

If you don’t know what Palantir is, or the people behind it, investigate. Or listen to @hcrichardson.bsky.social Heather Cox Richardson’s interview with Gil Duran on her YT channel. He goes through everything and connects the dots really well.

This exchange is so very telling. Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this: "I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"

I am so glad my mom gave me a Code-Talker GI Joe for Christmas back in 1999. Preserve history!

On boycotts and the hard work of your choices making a difference. whatever.scalzi.com/2025/03/12/t...

From Rebecca Solnit's substack: www.meditationsinanemergency.com/if-we-must-b...

Economic Blackout 24 hours on Friday Feb 28th. If you must make a purchase, buy local and use cash. We can do this for 24 hours!

Go to 50501 #NotMyPresident protests in every state capitol & city hall in America on Monday, February 17, 2025 at noon your time.

43% of social welfare recipients are White. 11 of the top 12 most dependent states are red states. Alaska is the most dependent on federal aid while California (49) and New Jersey (50) are least dependent, contributing far more than they receive. #RedStateMoochers

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

I know harping on language choices isn't that useful but I just find it weird to stick to precedent in unprecedented situations

Arrest Musk. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...

Arrest Musk.

CALL your Senators Monday - tell them Elon Musk MUST be removed from ALL access to Federal documents and systems. This includes YOUR social security info, tax records etc. What he has done at the state department is blatantly illegal. The Senate MUST remove him immediately. A coup is in process.

The Logic of Destruction open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

If Republican representatives believe my state should only receive disaster aid based on "getting into line" with Republican idiocies, is there any reason I should send the federal government my tax support? Let the Red states support themselves without California's help.

If you have some nickels to spare for a kitten.

It’s all just a little bit of history repeating.

True Distinguished/True Baby mash-up.

On fetching cats, by @katherinejwu.com with expert input by @mikeldelgado.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

"Sometimes I wonder whether my interrupter saw my suffering rise from my body like steam. But even if the interruption was a coincidence, she saved me that night and gave me a tool that continues to save me to this day," Billy Lezra writes.

I'd be so grateful if you'd take 7 minutes to watch (and maybe share) my video protesting industrial octopus farming. Today is the day! Global protest against Nueva Pescanova's horrid plans in Spain. #BanOctopusFarming #octopus #animalrights #SavetheOctopusesFest www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/n5zdz...

Just an introductory post so I'm not completely a blank account.