Hey furloughed fed friends, Stop feeling GUILTY. It’s not your fault the work isn’t getting done. You didn’t ask to be at home or warming an office chair. This colossal waste is not your fault. Don’t feel bad for someone else’s mistakes. Unplug if you can. Rest. Take care of yourselves 💚🫂

Hey, UU friends especially, leave this in your church!

OK nerds, I have a challenge for you. @tangledwilderness.bsky.social has just published my Letter to the Trans Teens Thinking About Giving Up as a zine. I want to see how many copies of it we can get into the hands of the people who need to read it, and I need YOUR help.

This is especially a problem for places like Wyoming with vast amounts of land served by small rural hospitals.

ICE No! Water Yes! Bring a water bottle with a squirt top in case you need to rinse out your eyes or someone else’s when tear gas or pepper spray have been deployed. Bring more water for drinking and sharing with those around you! Water is life. ICE is injustice. Abolish ICE. Share water. 💦

Remember, protests can involve lots of singing and shouting. Carry plenty of water, and maybe a few cough drops or hard candies. 🍬 Make friends in the streets by sharing!

Are you carrying water? One to drink, one for eye washes, one to give away? Be a friend to your fellow protestors. Take water! 💦 Love to all!

Hey! It’s protest time! Don’t forget to drink water, bring water, share water in the streets. The cops and the military might knock us down, but dehydration never should! 💦

Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”

This passage from @benjamincarterhett.bsky.social's book on Hitler's rise to power has long haunted me for the way it describes how so many ordinary Germans had their minds & souls gradually rewired by the changing political climate of the 1930s. Watching something similar happen here is terrifying.

Have you done something to stop fascism today? If not, here’s one of the literally thousands of options you have to build a better world once more. “You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.” Let’s make this world better together.

Go to this thread. Email these folks to let them know how you feel about their work separating children from their families, arresting babies, deporting green card holders with no criminal history, etc. Let them know this isn’t even remotely acceptable, that they can and should refuse their orders.

A coalition of Jewish groups warns that the Trump administration stripping international students of visas under the guise of fighting antisemitism actually makes Jews less safe and undermines the rule of law.

This right here. Spreading "perfect victim" or "innocence" narratives is dangerous and cedes ground on the fact that *all* people deserve dignity, humane treatment, and access to due process. Feeding into perfect victim or innocence narratives isn't just irresponsible messaging, it is copaganda.

"More than a constitutional crisis, this is a fundamentally tyrannical assertion of illegitimate power. To remand any American to a distant prison beyond the reach of any legal remedy is to reduce the citizens of a republic to subjects of a king." @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/o...

PCBF is joining comrades across the country in raising money to #freeblackmamas this spring. We are bailing out Black mamas and caregivers held pretrial on high bails. Help us match the $75,000 granted to us by @nationalbailout.bsky.social by donating at phillybailout.org/donate until Mother's Day!

This week on Live Like the World is Dying, Miriam talks with Andy from Chosen Family Law Center about legal stuff including executive orders, gender markers, how studying law is terrifying but despite the terror, practicing law is all about providing information and care @andyeyeballs.bsky.social

As it should be. We are better as a people when we protect and uplift diversity and make sure all people have fundamental rights to be secure in their country as citizens. We need not think, speak, act, or look alike to have precious gifts to share.

If you haven’t been vaccinated, were vaccinated more than 10 years ago, or have had a health condition that took down your immune system since getting vaccinated, get a titer level or just get a booster on your MMR. Your life is precious, and so are those around you. Protect your community!

Writing an op-ed is not illegal activity. They are revoking visas for thought crimes and for constitutionally protected expression.

We do not have a free country in this moment. When they can nab someone off the street because they don't like what they say, they can nab anyone.

No. The contempt they have for disabled children is born of a wider disgust of and hate for disability more broadly. For literal decades, they have made it clear that they believe disabled people should be out of sight out of mind. Look at their whining about ASL interpreters, attacks on the ADA.

Something I haven't seen covered extensively with regards to the Department of Education is the fact that the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA) funds early intervention services, along with Medicaid. EI is usually free, or very low cost for families.

Protect librarians, libraries, and books. Anything you cannot put a name to is something you cannot think about, cannot name and understand… a world with less literature is one with less empathy, care, joy, and understanding in it. And that is a real loss for all.

That’s my folks! Glad Wyoming is waking up to the damage being done to our own interests. 💖💕💖 Keep it up!

This week, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I talk about what our book Let This Radicalize You brings to the current moment. We also discuss the fight for reproductive justice, working across difference, and the need to build collective courage.

Good news still exists and is worth sharing. Look at what can be done when people work together and decide that caring about the world is worth doing!

Yes, the five gates of necessary speech: is it true? Is it kind? Does it need to be said? Does it need to be said by me? and most importantly, will it earn me a visit from the Secret Service?

"Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Society are partnering to offer interest-free loans of up to $10,000 for individuals and families to support relocation costs to another state because of anti-LGBTQ+ laws, policies, and climate in their current state of residence."

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

Protecting your privacy doesn't have to be scary. Check out our Surveillance Self-Defense guides for step-by-step tutorials for keeping your data and devices secure.

If you’ve boycotted Tesla and Amazon, or been to a protest, or gone to an organizing meeting or a training, or made dinner for someone who was on an organizing call, or made Know Your Rights cards for community members… or anything else that’s a real response to fascism in the past week. Thank you.

Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.

Harriet Tubman had a gun She shot slavers one by one She freed folk in durance vile and walked the railroad for a while. She and John Brown planned a raid Never did her passion fade She used a gun and her brain to cause Southern rebels pain! Happy Harriet Tubman Day! #WWHTD

Reposting this from insta bc I need you all to appreciate this very good doggo spotted at the local intl womens day rally yesterday 🏳️‍🌈 🐕

No matter your green card status DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR FOR ICE. Do not answer their questions. This is about control, about creating a segregated America where every person of color is docile and silent. No one is safe.

You know where you can go and not worry about breaking the economic blackout today? Your local library! All those books and you won’t spend a penny!

Write this info down and keep it with you. Because “Just following orders” will never cut it as a defense for harm. Make sure your judgement is sharp, your compassion is ready, and you’ve practiced refusal. It will be hard and it will be necessary.

Listen. People absolutely will protest ineffectively, inefficiently, and in ways you don’t like. Unless you fundamentally disagree with their basic values… let them. Don’t talk shit, move aside when you cannot actively support a tactic, but NEVER give them up to authorities or media.

(1/4) Recent layoffs of federal workers has a disproportionate impact on Native Americans, but is receiving almost no media attention. In Indian Health Services, which provides healthcare to 2.8 mil NAs, 2,200 people were laid off, including 1,400 who provide direct patient care.

People who do not have your best interest at heart have spent over 40 years trying to teach you to be suspicious of your fellow humans, to assume ill intent, to be “independent” and “critical thinkers” at the expense of community care. Get critical about why that might benefit capitalism, not you.

I hope people who are able are making the choice to protest. I hope folks who cannot are making the choice to support in the ways they can. I hope everyone will choose to offer one another hope, support, and grace in abundance. Show love for each other. We’re humans trying our best.

Firing federal workers does not curb waste. It IS a waste. Those now out-of-work people are Americans. Americans who chose to do a job—often at lower pay—because they understood their country chose them to do something so important, We the People passed a law to get it done. People are not waste.

If you're not in a community, join one. Be with people in real life. Do a hobby together. Build connections with people who aren't just the same. And then, when they are lost, be there to point them in the right direction.

The @uua.org has joined @reformjudaism.bsky.social and others to file suit against the current U.S. Administration. #UnitarianUniversalism #ReformJudaism #Immigration #ImmigrantRights #Sanctuary #ReligiousFreedom #1A

The UUA proudly joins a multifaith coalition & the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy & Protection in opposition to the federal government's rescission of ICE’s sensitive locations policy, which violates the 1st Amendment & the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. More at bit.ly/uuworld-immi... #UU

People keep looking for perfect leaders. Historical and present leaders shouldn’t be idolized or seen as infallible. They’re catalysts for YOUR work/action. Ask yourself what part of their words/work/actions help move you in the right direction towards justice/collective liberation and embrace that.

This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.