If we play our cards right, soon we’ll be able to send handguns through the postal service but not birth control or ballots

cool new issue of Cutleaf, guest edited by @kimmagowan.bsky.social and Michelle Ross. The stories were collaboratively written by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social and @dawnsteffler.bsky.social, Amanda Ellard and Madison Porter, and @dianelp.bsky.social and Ania Payne. Check it out here: cutleafjournal.com

Mother daughter story posted today for those who have endured remodeling jobs:

The Dept of Defense is lowering standards for everyone except the highly qualified, motivated people who belong to minority groups the White House despises. Based on his new recruitment policies, Hegseth cares more about winning culture wars than the real war he just helped start. trib.al/f2gGETs

I wish more people were as (ideally considerably more) concerned about all the innocent people being murdered by the regimes of Trump and Netanyahu as they are about the price of gas. What about the price of those losing their lives over a senseless war?

Israel’s bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure will have major long-term environmental repercussions, experts have warned, as monitors admitted they were struggling to keep track of the environmental disasters arising from the widening war.

Thank you @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social. We need to do everything we can to help getting detained immigrants released.

Please take a minute to sign this petition.

Please sign the petition to show mercy to Sonny Burton.

Here's a short diversion from the world's chaos: www.feelsblindliterary.com/payne13

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Turn Up the Heat: Melt The Companies That Profit From ICE and DHS. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/turn...

"But it’s Mr. Trump who has remade the United States in the image of the Latin America...: a place where masked men routinely leap out of unmarked vans to snatch citizens, where people are disappeared and human rights activists publicly killed..."

Better than bringing your immunocompromised friends soup is getting vaccinated for the flu and covid.

Catherine Rampell: America is so safe now that immigration enforcement agents with no badges can enter your home while contractors are doing work, manhandle them, detain them, and leave your house a bloody mess.

It is driving me crazy that I’m not seeing widespread coverage of these statements by the President. This is a big deal! If a news organization isn’t putting this in front of their readers/viewers, they are failing at their job to inform the public.

Mr. Trump said that “many friends” had asked him to pardon Mr. Hernández: “They gave him 45 years because he was the President of the Country — you could do this to any President.” The Trump regime is a violent disgrace, an embarrassment for our country.

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In Stratlight Mag today: straylightmag.com/fiction-nine...

"Poor people can be self-determined. They prove it every day, mostly by surviving while being poor in a country that is mean and nasty and hostile to them." Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Maria Corina Machado is the opposite of Trump. Happy she won the Nobel Peace Prize. Needed some good news.

Younger veteran: "How old are you, man?" Older veteran: “87.” Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.” Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.” 🦅 🦅 🦅 #ResistanceUnited 🔥 🔥 🔥

Thought I gift linked to it. Here you go. READ it. Your welcome. GIFT. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

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Revisit our stunning September CNF!! Micros by Tiff M.Z. Lee @tiffmzlee.bsky.social: www.claudineliterary.net/tiffmzlee Diane Payne @dianelp.bsky.social: www.claudineliterary.net/dianepayne 💚🐈‍⬛💚

Maybe the people who baselessly blamed transgender people for Kirk's murder and spread disinformation and hate should apologize. Folks like Nancy Mace, Don Trump Jr and WSJ

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/o...

My God. Chills.

I concur. RKF Jr. fights like hell for quackery. Democrats need to fight like hell for science, health, and rationality.

thank you @claudineliterary.bsky.social for including me in your first issue! www.claudineliterary.net/dianepayne

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The biggest US copper wire manufacturers are still raising their prices even after most copper imports received tariff exemptions.  More evidence that powerful corporations may be using the uncertainty and chaos of tariffs as cover to pad their pockets.

Screw Trumps tariffs. Feed the Gazans. Stop funding Israel's war against Gaza.

Sickens me knowing how many people are starving in Gaza.

Trump is selling a pardon to a child sex trafficker by getting her to promise in advance she’ll exculpate him for the things I’m about to reveal that he did—and it may be the sickest thing a president has ever done. Will media cover it that way? Stay tuned. Not holding my breath.

Enjoying this cooler weather while we patiently wait and hope for rain. #SaugatuckDunes

"I ain't dead yet, mfer..." —Richard Pryor (and America, apparently)

According to a new report, defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon have raked in over HALF of Pentagon spending since 2020. Trump's new $1 trillion annual DoD budget will pad their pockets even further as he cuts the social safety net. War is a racket.

If we aren't going to abolish ICE, why not have them round up all the lawless Americans shooting fireworks illegally?

Where is the business community?? In addition to the obvious humanitarian consequences here, this would mean something like a quarter of a million people who currently have legal permits to work would be forced out of their jobs. That is something employers will notice www.cnn.com/2025/06/25/p...

Tell Your Senators: No War With Iran act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...

Good grief. Any bets how this will unfold?

ICE agents detain people coming out from hearings at immigration court who have upcoming scheduled hearings. ICE agents unilaterally grabs them and drags them away. When people abiding by the law get arrested, and the government openly defies the law, it’s fascism.

It's not even 11am, and the day is getting bleaker all the time.