One morning Toad sat in bed. “I have many things to do,” he said. “I will write them all down on a list so that I can remember them.”

Thinking about how to live smaller, incl media consumption. In celebration of free speech, I got a subscription to Omaha artist who swims in history, culture, & creation. I want a world that looks more like hands on & personal connection, less corporate & glossy perfection. www.caitlincass.com

I'm old enough to remember watching "The Man Show" hosted by Jimmy Kimmel which ended every episode with women bouncing on trampolines. I didn't expect he'd be what scares the men in charge. What a time to be alive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MDH...

The bill to redistrict and help Republicans win an additional seat in the U.S. House in next year's election could be passed by the Missouri Legislature Friday. via @stlpublicradio.bsky.social

"The FBI doesn't have the shooter in custody because they are too busy helping ICE arrest everyone found speaking Spanish near a Home Depot" is just literally and straightforwardly true.

As I sit here and process that video, news is breaking of another school shooting in Denver. What, the fuck, are we doing? Truly—what the hell are we doing as a nation that accepts both political violence and daily school shootings as “normal”? And these are the shootings the news covers....

Like I was saying just yesterday..... #guncontrolnow #melteverygun

Every so often, I see people on the left pick up a thread about how critical it is for an oppressed group to be armed. The reality is that guns do not equal safety. They do not stop oppression. They do not save lives. Guns kill and are rooted in an identity of god/guns/antiabortion politics. 🧵

A lawyer for several workers detained at a Hyundai factory in Georgia says many of the South Koreans rounded up in the immigration raid are engineers and equipment installers brought in for the highly specialized work of getting an electric battery plant online. https://to.pbs.org/4m0dVTD

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

ok everybody get ready 30tgrs.ffm.to/armiesofthel...

Just got saved from a bat in the house by @ericaspen.bsky.social . Total hero #swoon

looking for something fun to listen to? This was super interesting. pca.st/vhh29fo1

It's hard to keep track of what's been going on since Jan 20th, and I'd recommend you listen. I don't know the answers to his questions, but what I did do in respose was become a monthly donor to @lancasterdemsne.bsky.social & @nebraskadems.bsky.social pocketcasts.com/podcast/the-...

Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"

Just another back to school moment autumn in America. My son had a shooter drill at his school today and college students have a real shooter.

“There is a baby in the car,” Khanbabazadeh said. “Is it hard to wait for three minutes?”

A common misconception, is that just because a woman is brilliant, terrifying, funny, verbally acute and and knows all about poisons and fires the history of death, and can take care of herself, generally, is that you don’t have to worry about hurting her feelings.

Celebrating the freedom to live without healthcare while going to work everyday for poverty wages! #butheremails #anyonebutHER

Flight of the Conchords are so good www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cGo...

Please believe me when I tell you: Double the fuck down on your spiritual practice now. You are going to need it. And no, that doesn't have to be a prayer-god thing. The thing that sustains and nourishes you. That makes you more alive to yourself, the world, others. More present. More:

Republican Congressman Van Orden. You need to understand these people know exactly how badly they are hurting people and they love it. It’s sick.

I’m sorry but I just….

Okay. Once again we're doing this the harder way. The work remains the same. Hold onto each other, get people food and medicine and shelter and safety. Tell the truth. Break the locks. The labor of hope.

Calling local government offices and reminded how delightful varied and municipalities are. And as a general rule, they are all answering the phone and trying to help.

The constant dred of living in a distopia and now marching towards a possible nuclear war is wearing on me. My path to peace continues to be serving on a board for a local school, building out the teen program at my @uua.org church, and most recently, getting a puppy.

A friend is looking at divorce and I sent her everything by @lyz.bsky.social , said that's what we're all reading to untangle the myths we've been told and believed about ourselves, family, and marriage.

4 new words added to the script. I want my lawyer. Every day is shut the fuck up Friday

CHONKY BEE FREN 🐝

TIL that the first director of AIS was none other than Abraham Flexner, architect of modern medical education. www.ias.edu/ideas/ias-fo...

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

We need to understand this as a victory against trans hate and discrimination — it’s what otherwise moderate Mayor Jean Stothert made the entire end of her campaign about. Regular Americans don’t react to or receive the call to trans panic. Enough. We are speaking to the future.

Well done Omaha. Well done. You broke the R hold on your city and your ad game was the best it's ever been.

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

This is kind of remarkable. Gov. Pillen holds a townhall in the deep red Panhandle, brings up his effort to make Nebraska a winner-take-all state, and gets roundly jeered by the crowd: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWb1...

It's Bandcamp Friday! Today we are raising funds for the @southernequality.bsky.social's Trans Youth Emergency Fund. We have a very special, limited edition shirt that will ONLY be available today: bikinikill.bandcamp.com

I have been thinking about the loss of pets and discussing with a friend about getting a new pet. She said that she was still distraugh over a dog that died, but the love was worth it. Love is worth the risk and reality of the grief.

Redstate friends, if your outrage today is at the democrats and not our own elected officials, that's not going to fix the problem. Bluestate friends, carry on.

In case you need a laugh (spoiler alert: you do) go.bsky.app/Rb1L6QZ

I don’t actually mind if I’m not in your comedian starter pack but if one of you pricks shares a hot mothers of Bluesky starter pack and I’m not in it, I swear to god I’ll go back to X.

country went to hell when auto shops put these in in place of a glass carafe that had been on the burner continuously since the Truman administration

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

Love to see it and loved his museum in Akron!

This isn’t governance, it’s the theater of maintaining the illusion that democracy is functioning when everyone in the room knows it isn’t. There’s this idea that simply being present is resistance. But what is the point of being in a space that absorbs and neutralizes dissent?

You can choose to watch tonight if you want, but please believe you don't have to. I'm a whole public policy professor who will just read the news tomorrow.

You know, Oscar got his start at the Unitarian Church of Lincoln. We're pretty great a hiring ministers worth listening to 🕯️

🎤 :tap tap: @nebdems.bsky.social & @janekleeb.bsky.social Time to remind Congressman Bacon that he's from a Biden/Harris district.