My boy John Adams' wisdom in my bio.

#MLK #NoJusticeNoPeace

amazing they added notifications for certain profiles. now I can keep up with my IRL people on here 😁

anti-fascist reading list. comment with your additions! 📚💙 #summerreading

🧵 In my humble opinion, we are trying to tackle Medicaid/Medicare spending in the US from the wrong direction. #Medicaid #medicare #HR1 #OneBigBeautifulBill #Federalbudget #USgovernment

If our elected officials could spend less time needing to educate their colleagues on how to not be a piece of shit human being so they can all do their jobs and actually debate issues that would be swell.

There's always a tweet. Sometimes 2 or 3!

Well some details have certainly been clarified about the situation. But this is still horrible and inhumane on multiple counts. #Georgia #abortion #heartbeatbill

Idk why when someone commits a horrible crime they speak about it as if the person was always bad and always had something wrong with them, when often that is not the case. People can and do change over time.

Disney, Universal sue image creator Midjourney for copyright infringement ground.news/article/disn...

In other news I ate some loaded fries from a barbeque place which were SO GOOD but man are my intestines paying for it rn

And I forgot that I wanted to use this space as a place to think out loud with the hopes it's more productive than trying to start conversations with people I know IRL on Facebook because I don't know how to beat the algorithm. But it's basically yelling into the void on here

So many things I want to say to people and so many ideas I want to convey via writing but I just don't have the headspace, tome, or energy to do so. Ugh

Fellow lawyer friend of mine who does Immigration in #LosAngeles sent this. #ICE is denying people legal counsel; tear-gassing the lawyers they do allow; tear-gassing small kids. This is only the beginning; having basically memorized Project 2025, I can assure you, things only get worse. from here.

100% meeee 💙📚

Working as a medical receptionist has reminded me how annoying it is that people feel the need to make offhand and sometimes snide remarks about other people's appearances. So cringe.

All reading counts. 📚💙

When you know someone who is still friends with you on Facebook but has blocked you from seeing their posts 🫢 almost like they know what they're sharing is wrong and fucked up and can't stand to be called out for it.

My goals as an educator <3 #education #inclusion

the urge to share this every time I see it is *strong* 💙📚

no i dont think removing donald trump from office is going to do a *tremendous* amount of good, but it will be significantly less embarrassing

#OtD 17 May 1949 Italian brick factory worker and former Resistance member Maria Margotti was killed by police. She was protesting against police violence against women on a picket line the previous day when she was machine-gunned stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8915...

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

The #LibraryOfCongress director was fired for "putting inappropriate books for children" in the library. The only thing I'm wondering is if this really is ignorance or part of plan.

Hot take I agree with. In all my years of teaching (since 2020) at the university level, freshman and sophomore students *obsess* over getting the right answer, and will do what it takes to get there. Very few actually focus on understanding & knowing underlying principles of physics. #USeducation

100% agree we should be able to write off #studentloans as a business expense. #highered #university

"It's interesting to hear how we're too strong for sports but too weak for military."

Imagine a system where we could successfully figure out how to do taxes effectively just from having a good quality high school education? Because that should be a thing.

📚💙 #booksky I know it says to "bring back" but I definitely bought my daughter a few newer novels that have maps. I would love a list of pronunciations!

Love it. Thanks for sharing!

TBR #bannedbooks 📚💙

🧵on white male mediocrity: I admit the first time that I learned about white privilege (as a white woman) my initial reaction was the same as most others I guess...

I’ve found that being a part of an active Facebook group reaches more people, and the issues with this are that the members are already going to be interested in what a fellow member has to say, and this essentially has the capacity to be a giant echo chamber...

"[James] Madison, as one of the founding fathers of the United States of America, believed that attempting harmony by removing differences and personal liberties and forsaking due process is a violation of the rights of those who are innocent of crimes against their neighbors." Read more:

"A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life." Carl Sagan ; Cosmos ❤️☮️🌏 #humanity

I'm struggling to stay involved on bluesky. Probably for the same reasons I never got on twitter. I feel like I'm shouting into the void, except the void is a lot bigger here than FB. Any tips? Anyone got favorite hashtags to follow to have discussions with people occasionally?

This, but also, recognizing how difficult that is for folks who don't have healthy relationships with their parents. I'm sure the quote is not necessarily about emotional/psychological shortcomings (it's been a minute since I read SoFA).

🧵 #uspolitics In the digital age, social media platforms and partisan news outlets exacerbate this trend, fostering echo chambers where misinformation and inflammatory language reinforce existing biases.

🧵The two-party system we have is akin to the dynamics in a family with a narcissistic parent who pits their children against one another to further their own interests. In American politics, the true influencer appears to be the ultra-wealthy (the narcissist). open.substack.com/pub/marietho...

OH SAY NO MORE, A Wolf Steps in Blood by Tamara Jerée

For #independentbookstoreday I want to shout out #shelfindulgence in Tacoma, WA! They have a #startup on #indiegogo to open up a #bookstore 📚📖 storefront. www.indiegogo.com/projects/tac...

today in the fascism miamemphis.org sent an urgent call letting us know the defense money for children un removal hearings that was ordered reinstated has not been. They face a $1mil budget shortfall this year that threatens their ability to represent 337 children. Please, please boost or donate.

I have some catching up to do on here, but here is a piece on #twopartypolitics in the #US and how that has really degraded how we tackle problems and talk about #policies with each other. This is beyond #democrats vs. #republicans. substack.com/@mariethorst...