Apropos of nothing, we still have a few of these @joseolivarez.bsky.social broadsides available.

Trumpism is bad, he doesn’t want to end foreign wars and he’s not gonna make things cheaper. Democrats, this is your moment to narrate what’s happening.

And legacy media.

I sincerely pray that the weight of your mediocrity and cowardice weighs on your ballsack every night heavier than lead.

They're firing black people from the federal government. That's it. There's no nuance to this. It's just racism straight up.

The Klan and ICE agents both wear masks. And they do so for the same reason.

fun fact three fighter jets is roughly equivalent to the NEA’s 2024 budget

That’s terror you’re feeling.

Fucking evil.

I’m over half a century old. I can guarantee that being “inconvenienced by strangers”(aka dominated by said stranger) has never once been okay. Please trust your gut on my “don’t-talk-to-me expression.”

This alarm has been ringing in my chest since the Jan 6 coup attempt. Capitalism kills.

to all of the Democratic senators who voted yes, on Bondi, how are you sleeping at night knowing that our government is kidnapping, torturing, and imprisoning innocent people?

We elected a man everyone who matters in this country knew was an idiot. The bulk of them refused to say so openly and directly — either because they thought he could do something for them or because there are political and journalistic norms against speaking that way.

In under 80 days.

The clearest interpretation yet of this nonsense windbagging.

Let's get loud 🐺 #ScienceMatters #HandsOff

To the Common. #Boston #HandsOff

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.

Sen. @corybooker has committed to filibustering the business of the Senate to bring attention to the lawlessness of the Trump Administration until he can no longer stand or speak. The least we can do is keep him company for awhile. Watching www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

America: Where folks with power do nothing to bridle him because they’re *afraid of being yelled at* …while folks with zero power are afraid of not surviving.

Attacking knowledge, information, learning, science, libraries, schools: to keep people clueless and compliant. Fight back: read, speak out, communicate, learn, and share with others.

In this interview Schumer is so delulu and out of touch and wrong. I vote in CA but if you’re a NY voter, I hope you alll can find someone to primary him. He is unfit for the moment as are many of his colleagues.

Buy and love this book as much as I do. ✨

Trump: "We brought back free speech in America. Free speech." This is a flagrant lie. Today he told universities they would be punished if they allowed protests of or criticisms of Israel, a clear violation of the First Amendment.

38,000 workers didn’t die building the Panama Canal, and the 5,000 who did die were almost all Afro-Caribbean workers who toiled in segregated conditions under white American supervisors.

Who is he? A real one. www.wbaltv.com/article/who-...

NYC knows that we do not need another harassing egomaniac bully in office. We know he stands up only for himself and not us, not women and not the elders who he left to die while grandstanding. #hellNoCuomo

And if everyone is wondering why this morning I woke up and started skeeting about taxes, and information, and democracy, this is why. Once again, DOGE is trying to share information from the IRS to other agencies. This is illegal and unlawful.

as much as anything, yesterday was a perfect example of how the modern conservative conception of toughness is completely at odds with actual toughness

SAME. 🧵

I owe the television part of my career to @joyannreid.bsky.social, as do so many other Black voices y'all never would have heard of if not for her. And *that's* why she's gone. They can treat black folks as interchangeable, but everybody Black knows that Joy was indispensable.

So tax boycott, right? Muskie’s got it covered. Right? For, ya know, generations.

Too few of us understand how government operations works because for too long it has been explained to us in insider baseball terms layered with partisan political speak and contempt. I learned a lot about how these systems work when I worked in local government and this is Darkness at Noon bad.

Remember when we said Trump is going to do project 2025 and everyone said “no, he’s not.” Turns out …

Black History is American History.

I’m shocked by how many people believe fascism is temporary. Alarming numbers of Americans genuinely believe we’ll still have a democracy in which to vote again. Octavia Butler tried to warn us.

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

“she is thunderbolt” #notatypo 🩵 from my first book, Racing Hummingbirds

This country wants poor people to die. They want them to suffer from treatable conditions. They are gleeful about it. And that’s why no one cares about an insurance CEO. This is their bed and they get to lie on it.

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“Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rules can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.” - Ai Weiwei

This is one of a small selection of new creative nonfiction that I find particularly unnerving to publish. For anyone trapped in the jaws of this cycle, I see you. I honor your resilience. My gratitude to the kind folks at XRAY for giving this micro memoir a home. 👀 xraylitmag.com/on-the-nosta...

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like.