You could do a rewrite of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” out of the six months alone.

Why is it I have to search for news about Sudan? It never seems to be top of page or breaking news.

I wish someone would drop a nuke on United Healthcare. Their cruelty is truly boundless, and they continue to use delay, deny, defend to cause their customers to suffer. Imagine having years of back pain caused by several factors. Imagine jumping through hoop after hoop for care. /1

They should never have put a brain worm in charge of HHS.

It’s a real shame the Dems aren’t this party 😭

Oh look GiveSendGo is bragging about how they have Luigi’s fundraiser, but are weirdly quiet about how they’ve also got that racist woman’s fundraiser.

Hearing RFK Jr.’s ignorant take on autism, I am reminded of the remains of an early hominid child found in Spain. The child lived 500 thousand years ago and was born with a congenital cranial deformity that would have made some aspects of life more difficult. /1

This is the Republican way, after all. I saw it constantly when protestors came in for abortions, getting the very same service they wanted to outlaw.

My mother was an abusive narcissist. She was also really good at solving problems she created.

One more way in which the US is now diminished: “In the race to save lives after the Myanmar quake, US rescuers are notable by their absence”

We spend so much more on corporate welfare than on the welfare we spend on human beings. Like, stratospherically more. If you want to root out "waste, fraud and abuse", start there.

Crypto is virtual Beanie Babies that you don't even have to have sewn together in China.

I’m up early (for me) at the dentist office and I’ve just heard a country song that I swear had the chorus, “Heeeeeey, Hammurabi.” Is that a thing?

Action Alert from the American Library Association to protect libraries against attacks by the Trump administration: practical stuff everyone can do (reposted to correct link) www.ala.org/faq-executiv...

Sincerely I appreciate that there’s a Netflix category called Casual Viewing. Thanks for understanding that the current level of chaos and horror mean that I can’t really focus on anything.

Get ready to lose a shit-ton of library services.

This is why I have zero interest in or patience with generative AI. If you tell me you used AI to write your book, I know that your book was made possible through the theft of MY WORK. 3 of my novels are on this list.

Department of Government Efficiency Department at work. An actual government auditor says, ‘DOGE’s intentions may not be geared toward “efficiency” at all. “It’s a con,” they allege.’

Post-Selma op-eds: Carville: "Bonehead bridge stunt alienates working class whites" Durbin: "Protesters lack decorum!" Fetterman: Why I'm co-sponsoring Josh Hawley's 'Free the Bridges' act, allowing motorists to run over protesters Jeffries: "God still on the throne" www.npr.org/2025/03/09/n...

Texas on the cutting edge, testing the waters for making it illegal to BE trans. But sure us coming down hard on Gavin Newsom is a purity test.

People want to compare our situation to 1939 Germany, bc it lets us think, We won! We beat the bad guys! This more accurate comparison is terrifying to us, bc 25 years later, Russia is still in the thrall of Putin.

Relevant to a lot of what’s happening right now.

This remake of Red Dawn is very different.

Well this is right on the nose.

That’s how you know the asteroid is a Democrat. So disappointing.

I find that I still can’t get over this. Imagine going on television to clarify that absolutely no country should ever enter a nuclear disarmament deal with the US, because afterwards we will not protect you. Instead we’ll try to shake you down for natural resources & hand you over to an aggressor.

I predicted a second Trump term could destroy the Democratic party. I guess I didn't fully understand how eager the Dems were for that destruction.

As I was reading this, I kept thinking about two things: 1. How many people detained in this situation don’t have the privileges a German tourist does & how bad are things for them? 2. How much profit is in one person’s one month detention for CoreCivic?

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

This country got rich off the labor of people we stole from Africa, and now we are controlled by people so greedy that they're perfectly happy to stand by while African children starve. We have enough to feed so many, but there's no profit in it so we don't?

Now, like any time, is a good time to mention that if you want to read about Ukrainian literature in English, @chytomo.bsky.social is now on Bluesky!!

To all the white women who voted for Trump: since you don’t seem to care about trans people, wait til you find out they can also declare that cis women are no longer fit to serve, either.

The Hungarian govt keeps reiterating that they will ban Pride. The EU is doing exactly nothing as far as I can see. Shared European values!

If you haven’t canceled your Post subscription, today is a good day to do it.

📚 🌟 Threading my 2024 poems here 🌟 📚 There's a bunch of them, I'm back to writing poems after a break in 2023. Repost if you liked them, or just tell a friend, this is the best way of getting the word out about poetry.

Someone told me that Hakeem Jeffries is on a book tour! Folks, if that’s true, this man is trying to do his job part time & long distance in the middle of a coup! JFC, when I was on book tour, I almost botched the payroll for a department of 200+ people. Isn’t our country slightly more important?

If you are advocating eugenics, however "jokingly" or "this will wake people up," you should not be following me. This is a disability justice account. Unfollow me. I will not entertain eugenicist and ableist ideas, I will not "give grace" to eugenicist ideas, I will not debate you.

I just hope everyone who reported the error to Google also called their elected representatives to complain about the important stuff.

But wait til those midterms, right? 🫤

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

I'm writing (yay me!) and I have just discovered that mascaraed is really a word. Before this manuscript, I've never had a need for that descriptor, but there it is. Sometimes, English can still surprise me.

Sadly, the Dems won't create a shadow government because most of them answer to the very same billionaires and corporations that the Republicans do. I doubt their top donors want them running a shadow government. A third party could possibly become a serious contender, if they created one.

Reminder: the only ideology of this administration is graft and greed.

I don’t even know how to be properly outraged over the president is talking about removing Palestinians from Gaza and turning it into a US-owned resort. That’s what the US does. We murder people and steal their land. But like JFC it is 2025! Have we learned NOTHING?!

The ugly truth about Guantanamo. “Even if the current administration claims Guantánamo will only be used for adults, or only for people with a criminal record, history shows that this is unlikely to restrain them for long.” Dems need to remember that some of its horrors came under Clinton.

I swear I just saw someone complaining that the half time show had “no Caucasians.” Oh nooooo the people of the Caucuses were left out of the Super Bowl? 🙄