Script if you need it: I’m calling to tell Representative ____ to oppose H.R. 7661. This bill would pressure schools to remove titles that discuss lived experiences that some politicians find controversial. I don’t think trans people are controversial. (contin)

We have officially passed 500 indie bookstores registered for this year's #BookstoreRomanceDay! (For context, last year there were about 600 & we still have five months to go.) Still looking for stores from Rhode Island, Alaska, and North & South Dakota. bookstoreromanceday.org/participatin...

Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy. We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

Called again and got through to humans in Schumer's and Gillibrand's office right now. Call your senators, friends. Do it today.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Urgent mutual aid ask from a friend: Eviction notices go out March 5, and right now we have approximately 40 families that are at risk. We need to raise $50K in 48 hours to help keep people housed. If you can, please donate right now to the Gethsemane Community Care Fund:

My Aunt Rosalie lived a big life for 94 years. Gymnast, artist, dog lover, library worker, voracious reader, poker player extraordinaire, always up for a party. Raise a glass in Rosalie's honor. ❤️

This is what everyone should be worrying about. Not Trump canceling elections, but Republicans taking the trips they've been playing on everyone else and doing them to white voter precincts. This thread is a painfully perfect description of how it will go down.

Hey, Chicago, does anyone know of any mutual aid groups doing work in Back of the Yards or nearby areas? Trying to find help for a Venezuelan mom and her two girls and our regular orgs are swamped.

Who’s ready for…. THE OFMD FANDOM CRAFT MARKET? Running March 5 through March 21, we’ll be raising money for the amazing @immcouncil.org!

if anyone has friends with huge followings who might be willing to flog this one, that would be amazing. it's going to take a lot to keep these kids in their homes.

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

Another thing people might do, is donate to the Queer Liberation Library. That way, young people without access to queer books in schools will still have access to a wide and flourishing digital library, so long as they have some unmonitored internet access of course.

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. How it works: www.404media.co/this-app-war...

Need to catch your breath? Here’s a peaceful two minute nature break with birds, crabs and the sound of ocean waves #birds #invertebrates 🌿 🦀 🦑

I have a Downy AND a Red-bellied Woodpecker outside my bedroom window. 😍 What the heck, birds? This is not the woods! Birds are officially on the move. Hello, spring migration! 😊

Per NYT: "The Department of Defense is calling these strikes 'Operation Epic Fury.'" 😐 Please call your reps. And then scream into a pillow over the fact we have man children creating geopolitical chaos in the Middle East.

SO CLOSE to being a great shot. 😂 #birds

Some days I think, "I can't possibly take another interesting photo of a Red-breasted Merganser. I've already got all the ones I need." AND THEN... #birds

Check out this super cool @theyoungcenter.bsky.social fundraiser! 😍👇

these are cool and the young center is so vital!

District Court Judges are now having to see the sausage of mass deportation being made in ways they haven't been able to since 1996 when Congress stripped them of their ability to hear most immigration habeas cases, and they are *apalled.*

There is a real argument that the Trump administration's ICE excesses are radicalizing judges of all political stripes against him and his admin. Decisions made by ICE (and the agency's general shrug at court orders) have dramatically brought down DOJ's reputation along with it.

Minnesota needs help. ICE is still making it unsafe for many people to leave their homes. Hundreds of families need help making rent. Visit www.standwithminnesota.com/keepmnhoused to adopt a rent or donate. 🪶Artists, join the call for art to raise awareness!🪶 Share with #keepMNhoused

An extremely cool piece! 👇

CHRIST this was a bitch to alt text (my phone camera is allergic to this font) but it was worth it so we could enjoy this scorching hot Catholic tea together they just flat out said the SCOTUS Catholics are going to hell. which we knew, but maybe they’ll hear it from the bishops!

On 3/7 @standupforscience.bsky.social is hosting our National Day of Action to Save Science, Protect Health, and Defend Democracy which means there's going to be a lot of...shit. Yeah. Last year, we spent over $15k on portapotties. THIS YEAR, YOU CAN SPONSOR ONE AND WE WILL PUT YOUR NAME ON IT!

the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.

Judge Quraishi says that if ICE keeps arresting people and detaining them without bond under the legal theory that has been rejected by hundreds of judges, and any of those cases come across his bench, he'll immediately order DHS and DOJ personnel hauled into court to explain themselves.

Don't be fooled by this bill's name-- this is a book banning bill that will exclude LGBTQ books from all public schools NATIONWIDE. Call your congresspeople and tell them to VOTE NO on this nakedly bigoted book banning bullshit. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

“If you want to make it home alive, you need to stop sending stuff to that fucking judge, or you’re not going to make it.” Death threats made by prison guards seem like a big deal.

We. Should. Not. Jail. Children. Period.

This is obscene.

"Constructed in a record two months after a $1.2 billion contract was granted to a Virginia-based company w/no listed related experience, it is viewed as a model for more than two dozen ICE facilities the gov’t plans to convert into detention centers across the country, including several in Texas."

Police created the chaos, then copy-pasted charges in arrest reports with zero detail, despite video evidence to the contrary. Shame on Cook County State's Attorney Eileen Burke for creating a punitively slow court proves for peaceful protestors. Vindictive cruelty here.

In the short term, people who live in communities where these warehouses are going up should kick up as much of a fuss as possible and document what’s going on. In the long term, focus on Congress. This system WILL be too expensive to operate once the $45 billion runs out or is clawed back.

To summarize the point that I make often, mass detention is a primary means by which mass deportation can be achieved. People in detention: - Are far from lawyers, families, and resources, and so are disadvantaged in removal proceedings - Are much more likely to simply give up and accept removal.

NEW from me for @immcouncil.org’s blog: ICE is buying up warehouses around the country. I summarize ICE’s “Detention Reengineering Initiative,” laying out what we know about the Trump admin’s main plan to use the $45 billion they have for detention. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-buy...

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

For millions of people, “standing up for Americans” looks like ICE-watchers in Minnesota defending their neighbors and communities, not like brutalizing immigrants and anyone ICE says looks/sounds like an immigrant. Media assuming most people share the bigoted Trump/MAGA conception of it is absurd.

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Every single paragraph is more awful than the last. Tasered and beaten by the local police, weapons charges for having a curtain rod he used as a walking stick, spending a year in jail to avoid ICE detention, and *then* the Border Patrol abuse.

Come here from Young Center staff on the frontlines! 👇

Abolish ICE. Defund it completely. Claw back the $75 billion allotted to it and give it to social programs. Give every immigrant attacked/imprisoned by ICE immediate US citizenship, if they want it.

I just learned that Juana wanted to meet with me last week when I inspected Dilley, but ICE hid all the pregnant women from me. Over the weekend, ICE deported her 36 weeks into her pregnancy.

HOLY COW The Humble Bundle has been extended for another week because they were so pleased with our success so far. Please tell your friends. There's one more chance to help this essential organization. <3 (don't forget to select "adjust donation")

This weekend, don't forget to check out a rare 6-planet alignment shortly after sunset on Saturday, February 28. Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus will be visible from our vantage point here on Earth - although you will likely need a telescope for Uranus and Neptune. 🔭🌏 (1/2)

#BirdOfTheDay theme is borb! SO MANY CHOICES. Let's start with this walking basketball with the dinosaur feet. #birds