The hand-wringers: "Oh, what CAN we do? What CAN we do?" Heather Cox Richardson: There are 52,000 candidates on various local ballots. PAY ATTENTION: Who is fighting for democracy? REGISTER, help those candidates in their campaigns, and most of all, VOTE!!

She should try the local animal shelter next time.

Parents at the Des Moines RG just got a notice that DMPS's superintendent, Dr Ian Roberts was detained by ICE. #raygun #ICE News: www.weareiowa.com/article/news...

4PM Today (Friday, Sept 26): Protest at the Neil Smith Federal Building in downtown Des Moines in support of Dr Ian Roberts. Dr Roberts was detained by ICE in Des Moines and, apparently, driven to an ICE facility in Council Bluffs.

Great news, Georgia! My office is hosting a one-day-only event to help you get your passport. Registration for this event is now open. Visit warnock.senate.gov/contact/passports to sign up.

The David Bowie of birds ❤️

I have a serious need to lightly slap a seal’s belly. I love them 🥹

THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

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Baby snappers 🥹💙

Tech companies have snatched millions of YouTube videos to train their AI models. Search The Atlantic’s new AI Watchdog tool to see if yours have been used:

“…the oligarch pigs who want to fire us?” 🔥

🧵CHICAGO The operation is "expected to last ~45 days" (!!) & forces to be "fully assembled" on Friday; "the Broadview immigration facility will be the 'primary processing location'." Broadview Processing Center 1930 Beach St. Broadview It's just off the 290, take the exit to S 25th [Exit 18A].

🍂 Fall is for reflection, faith & community. Make sure your #AZ07 ballot is part of it: 🗳️ Request your ballot by Sept 12 → iwillvote.com 📬 Return by Sept 16 Vote early so your voice is heard & you don’t miss life’s important moments. #VoteEarlyAZ @azindivisible.bsky.social @azsecretary.bsky.social

Love when people advocate for annual vet exams! Especially for the “exotic” pets like reptiles, rodents, and our fin or feathered friends!

Calling all California nature lovers: Can YOU find the most biodiversity? 🦌🌵🦆🐞🐛🐟🌲🍁🦎

LOVE this! Fun account to follow for all the wildlife 🐻

Ok, timeline cleanse. Please post a photo from your summer that confers peace #MoringInMontereyBay

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. 📚

People love it

Something positive to be happy about 🐑

People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.

Sage advice

Young Frankenstein. Period.

Rep Tom Cole, Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, has the power to stop funding cuts to public education and ensure students in OK have access to the resources they need. August recess is an opportunity to call on him to take action to protect Oklahomans.

The fact that he doesn’t even question this 🥰 He truly gets me 🩷

Read my latest piece. TRUMP ATTACKING D.C. IS NOT A DISTRACTION - Especially if you live in D.C. or any of the other cities he is targeting

Love it! 🙂

Curious if anyone has turned their Little Free Library into a Little Free Banned Books Library…

What gif pops up when you type your name. This makes me incredibly happy 😁

Yesterday I discovered that ChatGPT's PhD-level expertise didn't extend to bird anatomy. This morning I thought, perhaps I was being too hard on the half-trillion-dollar company. Birds are a little weird, anatomically speaking. Let's try something more familiar. A mammal. Behold.

Here’s the thing. Virtually everyone with a “history of mental health issues” goes through life without hurting others. The man that terrorized my home is white, with socials full of hateful maga rhetoric. He murdered a Latino man, and an Asian man shopping with his little granddaughter.

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

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Ouch 😬😂

Local reporting uncovered Amazon was behind the water-guzzling data center slated for the desert. Residents fought against the data center. Today, the city council unanimously voted against Project Blue. If you care about local journalism that drives impact, consider donating to @azluminaria.org!

Aww this is so great! Loved Sesame Street as a kid and would love to move there as an adult 💚

Nearly every Fri before Shabbat, I tweet: May we rage when we must and rest when we can. May we build the peace we so desperately need. May we turn our hands, in all things, to the justice that peace requires. The only liberation is a shared liberation. May we have courage sufficient to build it.

We should have a larger convo about how companies like American Eagle use beautiful people to add glamor to unglamorous products. In 2023, a young Bangladeshi woman committed suicide at a factory that made American Eagle clothes bc of abuse. This is the cost of cheap, trendy clothes.

Apparently, inflation is bad, but we must impose tariffs to raise the cost of cheap imports so people buy expensive American goods. We can re-shore manufacturing, but to be cost competitive, we have to fully automate factories, replacing American workers with robots.

There were already reasons to suspect pesticides for the death of hundreds of monarchs at an overwintering site in 2024, but our new research provides clear evidence of what happened. Each monarch had, on average, 7 different pesticides, many at lethal doses. ➡️ xerces.org/press/study-...

Climate change crafting night is tonight! They’re defunding everything good, from the gov’t agencies doing good work to the journalists reporting on it. So what do we do? We do the comms ourself. We make art while hanging out with each other & eating pretzels. Come. Bring friends. lu.ma/edq742p1

The White House’s discretionary budget includes a 93% cut to the Appalachian Regional Commission. This will be devastating to a region that is already falling behind the rest of the country.

As a constituent, why @ericswalwell.bsky.social ?

The top tip here — and this goes for a whole host of invasive pests — is: “do not move firewood.” 🪵 If you’re going camping, get firewood near the campground. Don’t bring firewood back with you when you go home. **Do Not Move Firewood** 🌎 🪳 🪲 edmontonjournal.com/news/edmonto...

There are ravens and pelicans. 🐦‍⬛So I feel this sign is specifically for me.

I need videos of the towing for my evening entertainment please Not to diminish the seriousness of what is happening