What if taxing the rich works?

They are coming for us! The hateful and dangerous H.R 2616 "Don't Say Trans" bill passed in the House. Now what? How do WE stop this cruel and evil piece of legislation? Please read and perhaps share this piece by @heykellyjensen.bsky.social bookriot.com/hr-2616-dont... They are coming for us!

This dreadful book banning bill, H.R. 7661, has made it out of committee and into the House. It's time to call your reps.

Among a series of horrific revelations about Chavez, this one perhaps makes me most furious. UFW leaders knew. Men and movement leaders, do better. I beg of you. Shatter those pedestals, listen to women and do the damn work.

The César Chavez news is a gut-punch. But for those of us who have spent a lot of time around leftist men … not a surprise. And it’s a good reminder of why the Combahee River Collective said so firmly “we reject pedestals”. Solidarity with Dolores Huerta and the other women/girls he abused 💔

There are just no words. More power to her. May she find peace as she continues to do her amazing work.

The disappearance of Larry Summers from public life cannot happen fast enough.

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

This.

This is why "Let's give in on some of the trans stuff because it'd be a popular compromise and you have to meet people where they are" is not only immoral but politically stupid. Republicans were never going to stop there. They stop when you stop them. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

Here's the new Lancet paper on international deaths from aid cuts. This includes aid cuts from other donors - not just the USA. Range is 9.4 million deaths to 22.6 million deaths by 2030, depending on depth of cuts. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

In a time of book bannings, AI, and decreased library funding, the best thing you can do to support books is be very, very loud about them. @mollytempleton.com on how we can help the authors we love:

Re. the “gangs of wine moms” discourse… I volunteer with my local mutual aid society and the volunteers are always (almost exclusively) women. So fun that men 1) don’t step up to do this work and 2) find a way to denigrate and mock it!

@thrasherxy.bsky.social on Renee Good, ICE, Zohran Mamdani, and the politics of domination vs. vulnerability.

There are many many good people out there. Be clear-eyed about what is happening, but don't let the cruelty and cynicism overwhelm you.

For my @xtramagazine.com column this month, I wrote about the simultaneous mainstream media erasure of Renee Good's queerness and the right wing amplification of it as a post hoc justification for her murder. xtramagazine.com/power/activi...

This beautiful collection offered me much-needed solace and fuel to keep fighting today. Thank you @theferocity.bsky.social @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

The Ezra Klein / Ta-Nehisi Coates standoff can be boiled down to one fundamental disagreement: whether it's ever OK to throw marginalized people/groups under the bus for (potential, unproven) strategic political gains. This clash is playing out all over the non-profit sector too. I'm tired.

It is unconscionable and immoral for the world to allow this horror to take place.  2.2 million people are trapped with no food, water, aid, medicine, and baby formula.  This genocide must end and we must stop being complicit in the mass slaughter of babies and civilians.

Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs are a wrecking ball harming working class families in the US and worldwide. @oxfamamerica.bsky.social's @abbymaxman.bsky.social condemns the stoking of a devastating trade war that will turbocharge inequality: www.oxfamamerica.org/press/presid...

New polling by @oxfamgb.bsky.social reveals that the UK public wants the rich to pay MORE in tax: 💰 77% would rather tax the rich than cut public spending 💰 78% support a 2% wealth tax on assets worth £10mn+ 💰 67% think the UK’s very richest should pay more tax www.oxfam.org.uk/media/press-...

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

IMLS gave out $266.7 million in grants last year. They help support myriad library services, particularly in rural and underprivileged libraries (like HBCUs). It is the largest federal funding source for museums and libraries in the US. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

My fave book genres: 5. Local man has never felt a feeling 4. Motherhood is fucked up yo 3. Marriage/monogamy/heterosexuality is fucked up yo 2. People keep underestimating this bitch 1. You thought this book was about ppl kissing / solving crime…jk it’s actually about fascism!

My fave genres are: 5. Oh no! Something is broken in space! 4. motherhood is fucked up yo 3. books about writers, books, and publishing 2. oh no! you opened the magical thing! now what? 1. It's the first half of the 20C and these plucky women are going to do EXACTLY what you said they should not!

My kids have rediscovered Encanto and I now burst into tears more reliably during Isabela’s song (What Else Can I Do) rather than Luisa’s song (Surface Pressure). Is this progress?!?

the more democrats concede to the republican war on trans people, the more that signals to the public that trans people are a problem and should be stigmatized.

New rule, for every post tut-tutting the left on here you have to spend one (1) hour reading the youtube comments on a Joe Rogan episode

The Republican budget plan: -Cut SNAP by $230 billion -Cut Medicaid by $880 billion -Give $1.1 trillion to the top 1%

“You’re terminated because…?” Fired federal employees are telling their stories—no deep state, just career public servants tossed aside. DOGE’s mass firings aren’t about efficiency—they’re gutting expertise, wrecking lives, and calling it “reform.”

Maybe corny but it was helpful for me to hear Henry Rollins saying "this is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"

Billionaires like Musk have a clear reason to undermine the #IRS: they know that investing in tax authorities means the very richest would finally be forced to pay their fair share. This is a perverse display of #billionaire self-dealing at the expense of ordinary people.

Don't bust into people's mentions to say that something potentially good doesn't matter. Don't bust into people's spaces to discourage them from fighting however they can. Why is this hard for some of y'all?

House Republicans want to take away food and health care to give tax cuts to the rich

Now may also be a good time to remind you Donald Trump is going to have 3 million queers from around the world on his front lawn this June whether he likes it or not worldpridedc.org

Trump’s executive orders are not law. This doctor knows it. Many hospital systems know it. Those that comply with something not passed by congress and with power not constitutionally granted to the president are cowardly.

Taylor Swift’s “I cry a lot but I am so productive” lyric really hitting differently right now

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

i really hope democrats are listening to @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-win...

Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.

If you took everyone saved by USAid's immunization work and put them in the Superdome, it would be full. And require 37 more Superdomes. Each year. A look at what's at risk when Musk and Trump blindly rip through the government for applause. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Now they are talking about and complaining about USAID and its spending. "We're in the process of shutting down USAID," said Elon Musk. Fact break: USAID isn't close to one of the biggest spenders of the federal budget. via USA Spending www.usaspending.gov/explorer/age...

New — USAID staff received an email just a few minutes ago letting them know HQ would be closed to all personnel Monday. It’s likely some employees will miss the overnight email, show up and be turned away. It was sent by Gavin Kliger, one of the young guys at DOGE doing Musk’s bidding.