A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.

DEBORAH YOU ARE LITERALLY A PROTESTANT

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

41 years ago today, Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr's father, Malcolm Kerr, was assassinated. Steve has become a vocal advocate in the gun violence prevention space. We are incredibly grateful for his leadership and support. Today we are thinking of Steve and his family. 🧡

Which one of you demons started the whole ‘post 2016 pix from your camera roll’ thing?

35 million Americans live in poverty, and yet, this is what our president is focused on.

I say this about ski helmets and one day I hope to say it about gun violence.

As you age, a day comes when the ancestors start to whisper from deep inside your bones: someone needs to put a hat on that baby.

Thursday 12/18 at 7pm Eastern: my annual A Christmas Carol Live Read returns! Join me while you make cookies or sourdough or lick late envelopes or whatever. Donation link to St. John Center in the description.

We are failing our kids

Look after each other.

As we approach the 13th anniversary of the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, I ask that together, we remember, reflect and honor those we lost, and hold the Newtown Sandy Hook community up in prayer.

Well done, Connecticut! giffords.org/lawcenter/re...

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

Moms Demand Action is marking a historic win tonight as Virginia Moms Demand Action volunteer @abigailspanberger.com has been elected Governor of Virginia! 🧵

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know.

🎧 Told my Sandy Hook School story - during and after the 2012 shooting - to Sarah Lerner of @teachersunify.bsky.social Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

🚨 With less than three weeks until Election Day, we need all hands on deck to get out the vote for Gun Sense Candidates who are committed to ending gun violence in our communities. Simply text ELECT to 644-33 to sign up for a Weekend of Action event near you. LET’S GO! 👟

Melissa Kane of Connecticut Against Gun Violence is correct: inaction comes at a cost we can no longer afford. Gun violence has in fact been treated as optional by too many of our leaders.

It really does not get more explicit than Trump telling top active-duty military generals that they will need to participate in occupations of large cities run by his political opponents as part of his "war from within"

sometimes i listen to this to hype myself up even though im not welsh, dont play football, and wales lost very badly. it was just a very good speech youtu.be/1fpV0OFC0vc?...

"The Mount Washington Range, from Mount Kearsarge". William Trost Richards. 1872. Image: Metmuseum

Something happened today that captured the exquisitely painful irony of this post-Charlie Kirk moment in the United States. It’s about guns. A short 🧵

Every darn word of this by @kamalaharris.com. Every darn word. And please share it.👇

Great! Where are the consequences, the debt to society, the punishment, the restitution?

Let’s talk about Healthy Resistance. I spend a good amount of my time talking people down. So here’s my recommendation for staying sane. (1/5) You’re familiar with macronutrients? Great. Use this as a rough model:

"Why should I care about U.S. Space Command being transferred to Alabama? I hate the military-industrial complex. We spend too much money on defense. Why does it matter which rich people get richer off it?" There are a number of reasons you should care, but you really only need one. (thread)

Finding myself in the center of this Venn diagram 🔗 Packers + Gun Violence Prevention

Homeschooling won’t spare you. Kids are 20x more likely to die by suicide with a gun they found at home than to die in a school shooting.

This isn’t bad luck or coincidence or predestination. This is our choice. To live in a nation where our leaders teach hate, and military style guns are everywhere.

Ed Ruscha, Norms on Fire, 1964

BREAKING: Police are responding to reports of an active shooter on campus at Villanova University during new student orientation. We don’t have to live like this. Our kids deserve to go to college without the fear of being shot.

"There are now 64 cities that had higher rates of violent crime in 2024 than did D.C. in states whose governors are sending the National Guard to Washington to 'combat crime.'”

It’s just like his approach to COVID — the problem is never that people are suffering, the problem is that the government is bothering to keep track of how many people are suffering.

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations" cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.

The blue dot of Louisville Kentucky

Why is your feed orange today? It’s National Gun Violence Awareness Day, when scores of people take to social media to honor victims and survivors of gun violence, and to call attention to this preventable epidemic. Show your support by wearing orange and sharing your message online! #WearOrange

The thing to know about this Trump-Musk fight is that this tax bill would make silencers more accessible to mass shooters and knock 16 million people including gun violence victims off of their healthcare.

i'm starting to see some scoldy posts pointing out that we are laughing about a fire on the deck of our sinking ship and i have to be honest once the ship started sinking i decided i would take the laughs where i found them

MERZ: Tomorrow is the D Day anniversary, when the Americans ended a war in Europe TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship

🚨 ACTION ALERT: There is less than one month left of the session, and Rhode Island lawmakers have yet to move a bill that would ban deadly assault weapons. Join our volunteers in turning up the heat! If you live in Rhode Island, text RI to 644-33 to send your lawmakers a message! #RIPolitics

The pope is a fellow Villanova Wildcat who once retweeted my senator’s gun violence prevention post 🤯

They don’t need to have 250 guns. They can have 5. Maybe you have 2 guns instead of 30.

I see the face of a Sandy Hook School student among these photos. Go ahead, take them down and make us even more fired up, ready to go.

In a single email, the Trump admin cut millions of dollars from on-the-ground orgs that stop conflicts from turning fatal. They claimed they’re shifting their priorities to “protect American children.” But this will increase gun violence—the number one killer of kids and teens.

Be SMART volunteers work tirelessly to spread the word about the importance of secure storage—they are truly saving lives one conversation at a time. Thank you for all that you do! #VolunteerAppreciationWeek

The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis. The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall. 1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.