Preserve your capacity for joy in these perilous times. youtu.be/oHs98TEYecM?...

The elephant in the middle of the room is that MAGA is an anti-education movement. Muscular, belligerent mediocrity is the MAGA brand. Tell Vivek the call is coming from inside the house. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Guinea worm used to afflict 3.5 million people each year. This year, thanks in part to Jimmy Carter, there have been 7 cases. He negotiated the longest humanitarian cease-fire in history to distribute water filters & larvicides www.scientificamerican.com/article/jimm... via @tanyalewis.bsky.social

Dear Jimmy Carter.... Rest in Peace.....

When people say 'run government like a business,' they mean cut services, raise prices, and pay the CEO 400 times more than the workers.

Elon is such a Boer.

Maybe it’s time to talk about white-on-white crime, the white community’s violent culture and why Caucasian America is ALWAY in its angry era thegrio.com/2024/12/16/w...

I'm confused: are we supposed to feel for C-Suite execs afraid to return to their offices?

We're investigating health insurance denials. If you want to share your insights, here's how:

Ok .. this made me LOL ...

It's strange encountering British folks who feel a great deal of moral superiority for England having outlawed slavery. The government compensated slave holders for their lost human capital using revenue generated from narco-trafficking. Hmmm.

seeing the wealth class be like “what if we just stole everyone’s money?” while at the same time seeing everyone else be like “maybe murdering ceos is good?” is certainly an interesting intersection at this point in history

NEW: Jim Jordan and Jim Comer's "star witness" Alexander Smirnov has pled GUILTY to lying to the FBI about a Joe Biden "bribery" scheme with Burisma. www.cbsnews.com/news/alexand...

I had the great good fortune to workshop poetry with her many years ago. A generous expansive heart and mind. Rest well. Thank you for sharing your gifts. #blacksky

Imagine if law enforcement spent that much in resources for missing/trafficked indigenous women

Truth.

Maybe if elite white males become targets of violent crime we'll get gun reform?

This report showed up here earlier in the day and I know some folks here were curious if it would hit any of the bigger media sites and how it would be presented. Here's one (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/w...

The ice raids on the immigrants in illinois took place between 3 am and 5 am. They put them in 18 wheel trucks and on pullman metra trains painted white;with the doors locked from the outside to texas. Hutu prison in texas. Nobody believed me in 2007 when i told them. www.ice.gov/news/release...

I warned that the GOP would cover up the negative impacts of their policies. www.rawstory.com/abortion-ban...

This is what health insurers want to do to you.

The far right is trying to socially re-engineer the 1890s. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Heads-up, folks. H5N1 makes COVID look like the sniffles.

This is getting overlooked, but the whole premise of Trump's threat of tariffs is based on a lie. He's claiming Mexico must be bullied into stopping migrants. But Mexico is *already* doing this. That's a big reason crossings have dropped. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1888...

China disturbed by BlueSky boom? Haha!

Hmmm. I wondered if this would happen.

<Shudder> peeked into Xitter to catch up with a few folks I follow who aren't here. Got called an ape, a coon, and asked if I got my PhD from the back of a milk carton <Shudder shudder shudder>

Ewww. Follows from porn-bots. I left Xitter hoping to side-step that crap. What's the cure?!

Originally, Fluoride in the water was blamed on Jews trying to sterilize white Christian Americans. Anti-Semitic trope.

This organization has been one of my mainstays since early days in the first Trump Admin. Highly recommend @protectdemocracy.org as a follow!

This is a great, straightforward article that defines the problem and the work we must do (starting now). Well worth the read. Drop some of your fave quotes in the comments. Let’s discuss… www.politico.com/news/magazin...

1st H1N1 case in the US. Let's see what Kennedy and Oz are going to do about a disease this contagious and this virulent.

now that’s a front page

Billionaires determine that Americans require austerity. The nerve of those sociopaths.

Look who's here!

My friend Morgan has put a lot of love and labor into building this list of inclusive books for kiddos. Go check it out. 😁

Hey friends! #Addtoblacksky

Is anybody else working hard to "enjoy" what "normalcy" and peace feel like before the upcoming inauguration?

Local immigrant support organizations.

Precisely.

Please don't add lakotaman into your Indigenous / Native starter packs. Thank you.

*looks directly at camera*

If you see a definition of fascism that does not include ethno-nationalism, appeals to racial or ethnic purity, and ethnic/racial/religious demonization, the definition is incomplete.

I'm not sure why today's wannabe dictators don't remember images of Saddam Hussein being dragged out of a hole in the ground and Colonel Khaddafi being beaten to death. I'm not threatening anybody, it's just that our historical memories are quite poor.

@masonmennenga.bsky.social Hah! Found you!

Things are going to get Dickensian in the US. This is not hyperbole.