“Show us your warrant!” “Ma’am, you’ve been watching too many movies. We’ll show you the warrant after we’re done.” 🤔 *busts in the door with babies crying*

What a beautiful, heartbreaking life poem

Full blown autocracy.

3/4 of Straw Mat Writers 💕

If you voted for him, you've done this.

lulz

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

My husband just processed a bunch of tomatoes on Sunday, so this poem was good timing... and so delicious: open.substack.com/pub/swwimmia...

Hoping not to get raptured tomorrow. I missed work last week because of a trip and then an illness. So I really need to get caught up. Fortunately, anyone who’s seen a reel of my 20s and 30s will know that there’s a very low chance that God wants to snatch THIS body up to heaven

There are 340 MILLION OF US. Don’t you dare get despondent. STAND UP. And go GET YOUR COUNTRY BACK. Please. Let us not cower. This is all absolutely ridiculous. Come on now.

[Huey Long voice]

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Please watch and share! You never know when the right person will see an adoptable pet that they just have to adopt! #dogs #adoptdontshop

The WGA’s statement on ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

The response to Kirk’s death has neatly folded into the broader fascist purge of journalist, educators and artists.

WHAT THE HELL

this poem by @theferocity.bsky.social is 🔥 www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...

My husband and I both just saw a bright white light fall straight down from the sky on the horizon as we are driving home on I-90 toward Rochester. Anyone know what that might have been??

Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

Why didn’t anyone immediately follow up with “what’s the population of the United States?”

If You're Wondering What Charlie Kirk Believed In, Here Are 14 Real Quotes In light of his death, Charlie Kirk's legacy is being remembered through these viral quotes. www.huffpost.com/entry/charli...

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

Facts are facts: Right-wing extremists account for the overwhelming majority of extremist-linked deaths in America.

What I want to describe, what I want to remember, is how we crawled toward each other … —Jessy Randall

I wish there was some way to explain to my ball- loving dog, how slobbery and utterly gross her ball is. I’m sure if she understood, she wouldn’t be guilting me into throwing the saliva-soaked thing for her. Right?

Men who joke and banter with pedophiles about sex trafficking shouldn’t be trusted, let alone be president.

WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK

Go Bills!!

BREAKING: In Chicago, Illinois—U.S. citizens protesting ICE were dragged into vans by masked federal agents with no badges and no warrants. People screamed: “Who are you? Where are you taking them?” This is authoritarian control in real time.

I adore Kelly and I love her poems. Oh, to write like this! www.onlypoems.net/poets/kelly-...

Who else gets to go wine tasting w their aunt and uncle? So lucky 💕

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

Demolished!

A woman married a skull. He had a beautiful singing voice but had never cleaned a toilet in his life. —Nick Lantz

Damn, I love this poem. open.substack.com/pub/swwimmia...

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

Hope you love the new episode! 💜

We can't even play basketball 🏀 🤬

Here he goes.

This is truly one of the best illustrations of what is happening in America.

I love satire. It's hard to do well, but this one is *chef's kiss*