Happy Earth Day to all who celebrate and vote Blue.

For fuck's sake, sign up for The Onion, and get a free limited edition IW tote. A share of merch sales will go to the Sandy Hook families, which will be the first time they get any money since they filed this lawsuit eight years ago. Legal fees have been insane. Please sign up and help us out!

I really needed this win. Thank goodness. So happy.

What's going on in U.S. Concentration Camps is worse than anything we think we know. "Legal" rape and torture beyond our imagination is occurring now. Republicans Christians can NEVER claim moral superiority on anything ever again, but it feels like we are all complicit, somehow. It's awful.

Same. Chicago Pope all the way!

i'm going to be beating my "get off substack" drum again. because seriously: get off substack. stop helping literal sex traffickers make money.

WHY ARE YOU STILL ON SUBSTACK. if you're a big creator particularly, you will legit make more money on beehiv. and you won't be asking your readers to pay revenue to a site that promotes literal sex traffickers and pushes Nazi content to your goddamn phone. i'm gonna lose my mind

don't make me tap the motherfucking sign

@johnfugelsang.bsky.social, who wrote a book on Christian hypocrisy, is proud to post on Substack with racists, rapists, & human traffickers. So does @hcrichardson.bsky.social, and so many more. For fucks sake, we can do so much better.

I am proud to say that Democracy Docket does not publish on Substack. www.democracydocket.com

To be fair this is a photograph of my actual doctor.

So once again a man started a wildly successful harassment campaign against a female celebrity who didn’t actually do anything and the internet swallowed it full throated, and the whole thing is revealed to be concocted horseshit he can’t muster anything more than “sorry that happened I guess”

I hate hating someone this much. For fuck’s sakes. I’m tired of my life revolving around how much of this guy I can avoid in a day. It’s honestly why I’m not on social media much these days. I just fucking hate him.

For the record, I was a Swalwell supporter and had planned on voting for him in the primary. Me believing the women was not political. It's based on the corroboration of evidence confirmed by multiple news outlets, and the Manhattan DA finding enough evidence exists to open a criminal probe.

Right! We are better than them and we NEED to be better than them. Swalwell needs to resign. NO excuses!

Virginia farmers “don’t deserve“ getting EXACTLY WHAT THEY VOTED FOR???!!!! Right, miss me with that fucking bullshit.

Today’s Wordle answer is bullshit and I don’t recognize it as a real word.

"Why doesnt the US pull a South Korea?" "Because the much higher saturation of military hardware would make it way more of a massacre" "Oh, that makes sense- wait... so does that mean gun control... made rising against a tyrannical government EASIER?" ... "...Ok look, in this ONE SPECIFIC case-"

Every day feels like a horror movie with a false ending. It’s like “oh that murderer is cooked now” and within minutes the villain is back wreaking havoc again.

Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.

Somehow most of us survived the day & I’m tentatively grateful. But sleep tonight is too much to ask. Not happening.

I have 3 REPUBLICAN MOCs and I still called. Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for and all that.

Donald Trump is unfit to serve as the leader of the free world. That's why I have cosponsored H. Res. 939 Articles of Impeachment to remove him from office.

Jesus, same.

i don't know what the hell to do. Everything i could do seems entirely pointless now. How can I write, read, promote my shit, right now? I wish I could do more. I wish I could do anything.

listen, I am trying to be reasonable here, but if you are an In The Know Political Person and you publish a memoir with damning information that you kept secret in order to get a big book advance, you should be skinned alive over several weeks

The longer Trump is in office the worse our odds of surviving as a *species*

A staffer actually answered the call for my rep, Anna Paulina Luna. I asked that she begin impeachment proceedings. ( She won’t) I asked the staffer if they were getting a lot of calls & he replied, “Yes, ma’am.” Let’s melt their fucking phones!

I called both my Senators, Rick Scott & Ashley Moody, asking them to stop the child rapist from vaporizing a country. They will do nothing, becoming complicit in war crimes and genocide, among other crimes. Believe it or not, this is the first time I have cursed on a call to my MOCs.

I can't imagine being one of the people who didn't vote for Kamala Harris today. To know that I am responsible for all this? To know that I did this to the world? I wish they would have cared about something bigger than themselves.

25th amendment time. Calling my senator and representative today to ask to impeach and remove him.

Call the Congressional Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and demand his removal

I don't actually care if your decision not to vote for Kamala Harris would have changed the outcome of the election. I care that you were too much of a preening purist to care about putting the world through what it is going through today.

I read The Lathe of Heaven for the first time, a couple of weeks ago. My favorite line was something like, "What's the purpose of a universe?" It was hard for me to remember what had changed when, but I'm glad I made the effort. Loved it.

(every day I continue to be sad that people I love and whose writing and work I love are still using substack)

Pam Bondi's official portrait in a DOJ trash bin. Heh.

trans day of visibility with my fuckin sword look at my sword

There's a #HeatedRivalry shout out near the end of this episode. I feel seen.

I volunteered to feed homeless U.S. veterans for 6 hours yesterday in St. Petersburg, so I couldn't do No Kings. I'll go next time!

A drunk former fox news host refused to promote two Black and two female officers because a convicted felon and 5x draft dodger does not want to stand next to a Black woman at military events. Think about that for a second.

I’m missing tomorrow’s No Kings because I’ll be volunteering to feed homeless veterans. I’ll be at the next one!

The Trump regime lifted sanctions on Iran and Russia, gifting $billions to two countries that are currently killing American soldiers. Thanks Trump voters! Enjoy your $5 a gallon gas while you continue to protect child rapists. www.ms.now/news/u-s-war...

There wasn’t a single Democratic elected official who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death. Not one. Donald Trump is openly celebrating Robert Mueller’s death and no Republicans are condemning him. Both sides are not the same.

ICE is raping and impregnating the little girls they kidnapped and are keeping in their concentration camps.

This weather is so awesome! Love it. Woo hoo! (Bummer that it's the last for a while.)

"Andrea Pedro-Francisco was supposed to have surgery more than a month ago. A cyst on her ovary has swelled to nearly the size of a tennis ball and is now at risk of rupturing or cutting off blood supply."

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

@sandracooper.bsky.social The discussion surrounding the name “Operation Epic Fury” reminds me of your comment 25 years ago that Operation Enduring Freedom was unfortunate because freedom is not something one must endure. No one in this regime thought through any part of this mess.

I mean, it's not actually a surprise that they think this; it's been pretty obvious for a while. It is a surprise that they're stupid enough to say it out loud.