Time to get up and go create shade for the garden, so it doesn’t die in this crazy heat.

Lotta fun items up for auction or available as “buy it now” from @romancingthevote.com now through 7/5, including my own $5 ebook 6-pack and a zoom chat w me, but this remains my very favorite.

WE DID IT! We've raised $100,000 for voting rights, and it hasn't even been a full day. Thank you all so much--now let's see what we can do over the next four days!

Hegseth proudly announced that the flu vaccine would no longer be required for people serving in the military. A flu outbreak is now happening at Lackland Air Force Base, and flu vaccinations are again required. The AF has now been forced to admit that a 25-year-old recruit has died of influenza.

One of the most famous survivors of Japanese American internment camps is beloved actor George Takei. "I will never be able to forget that moment,” he said about watching his weeping mom being ordered out of their house by US soldiers. "It is burned into my memory.” www.aclu.org/news/immigra...

OMG, I love @courtneymilan.com so freaking much right now! I just bought a seat at this amazing presentation (and you should too!) #RomancingTheVote www.32auctions.com/organization...

Hello everyone! On the day before the auction, we're going to talk about WHY we do this, something that has particular salience on the day that final SCOTUS opinions are released and we once again have to try to remove the knives from our backs.

Mt Olive makes great pickles that are labeled gluten free. I love them even more now.

I love this so much. Years ago we lived in a more urban part of Boston’s Metrowest & we didn’t know there was a safe house for (shamefully) discarded LGBTQ kids nearby until a few kids rang our doorbell to tell us how much our Pride flag meant to them. (Pride is still every month at our house.)

Harrison Ford is an award-winning actor whose iconic career spans more than six decades. Ford looks back at the Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal program that put thousands of unemployed men to work improving America’s parks and natural lands. #WeAreAmerica250

Appreciate the reminder

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

Today is International Asteroid Day! ☄️ Why does the UN recognise this day on June 30? Anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska Event: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungusk... Russia is no stranger to airburst events - in 2013, there was also the well-documented Chelyabinsk event en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyab...

My recent feature on Xocova for @thesicktimes.org has been republished in POZ. Reminder for editors that we are open source and all of our original articles are available to be republished at no cost. Thanks for republishing, @pozmagazine.bsky.social 🙏 www.poz.com/article/fda-...

You couldn't make Blazing Saddles today. It's already 4PM and you haven't even started.

if a person is sentenced to 100 years in prison for being anti fascist in america then america is a fascist country

Some Sunday Black Boy Joy

Seems the real problem centrist democrats are facing right now is the people are being very clear that they want leaders who will solve their biggest problems, and centrist democrats really don't want to solve their biggest problems and hate the people for wanting that. It's a real pickle for them.

That he can get this much done in 6 months It’s almost as if … wanting to get stuff done … gets stuff done

GREAT SCOOP from @michaelscherer.bsky.social: National Park Service projects are now being defunded to cover President Trump’s Washington renovation spree. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

We answer your questions about Trump’s threats to sabotage the midterms and what we can do to stop the regime. @leahgreenberg.bsky.social, @ezralevin.bsky.social, and @coreydukes.bsky.social provide a deep dive on how we get into election protection formation.

Just a heads up that the Supreme Court may rule on Trump's effort to overthrow birthright citizenship as early as June 29. Be prepared to join with the groups that will stand up against this hateful, racist endeavor and protect the vulnerable and the constitutional rights of all of us.

This is actually good to read because the woman in this article was smart. She made sure she was in public, she recorded the altercation, she “invited” the ICE agents to a polling place where they legally could not go and they went in anyway! (Brilliant!!) Read and pass this info on!! 👇🏼

I am starting Indivisible training to gain the tools needed to defend my community against ICE surges and the threat of local detention camps. Support your neighbors and stay prepared. share.indvs.org/s/kfPOw2tG

Julie Gonzales’ opponent has voted to confirm more of Trump’s nominees than almost any other Democrat. We need a real Democratic fighter like Julie in the Senate: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Same, Rhys. So very much the same. Can anyone else relate? Triple Play steps up to the plate in 19 days! Have you pre-ordered your copy yet? books2read.com/tripleplay #booksky #comingsoon #baseballromance #queersportsromance #relatable

Ronald Reagan said Medicare was socialism more than 60 years ago

As someone who grew up in a pretty rural-suburban town with no gay culture or Pride celebrations I'm really glad there are virtual events like this one, TONIGHT

I feel this with every cell in my body.

This is actually good to read because the woman in this article was smart. She made sure she was in public, she recorded the altercation, she “invited” the ICE agents to a polling place where they legally could not go and they went in anyway! (Brilliant!!) Read and pass this info on!! 👇🏼

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

I’ll be there (zoom-there)!

Please speak up. Record your objection. This is crucially important.

The postal workers union also has a form that makes it easy. You do need to write your own comments in your own words to be effective.

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

when AI companies go bankrupt

Baby, if you are standing equal distance from a progressive and a fascist, you are not a centrist. You are a conservative. And that's fine. But the Democratic Party is not for you.

I don’t know man, who is “the Democratic Party” if it’s not the voters?Democratic voters choose candidates, not party leaders. And party leaders need to listen to what voters are telling us - and right now they are demanding our party be bolder.

Donald Trump campaigned on affordability. He campaigned on housing. Now, he’s trying to kill the most important housing bill in 30 years—so he can pass the SAVE Their Asses Act. This administration does not care about you.

State House Bill H.2554 would strengthen MA school vaccine requirements to increase our herd immunity levels and protect immunocompromised kids and school employees. The legislative session ends on 7/31. Click the link to take action NOW! www.mafamiliesforvaccines.org/actioncenter

The Democratic platform is pro civil rights. A Democrat willing to abandon that the minute a pundit starts whining will abandon the American people as soon as the check clears.

We are traumatizing an entire generation & too many people are silent about it. Too many people are not taking this threat seriously enough. There should be millions surrounding these detention centers & millions showing up at congressional offices saying no more #ICELawlessness!

Nah. Instead we’ll use your resources wrest the party out of your useless centrist milquetoast cowardly corrupt self-serving establishment hands and remake it into a party that we can be proud of filled with people who will actually fight for us. You’re scared and we’re gonna win. Sucks to suck.

“While I would love to help INSERT PEOPLE DESPERATELY IN NEED OF HELP we simply don’t have the resources and it isn’t electorally popular.” No. You just don’t want to do it and would rather enable and partner with fascists. It’s okay. You can be you. And we can run you from the political square.

I’ve not made many donations to political candidates this year, but I’ve contributed to those like Brad who local Indivisible groups (and national Indivisible) support, and all have won their primaries. Join @indivisible.org to support and find candidates who are willing to fight for our democracy!

Both these headlines are from Texas this month. Texas sentenced anti-ICE protestors to 100 years in prison, but a serial pedophile to only 30 days. This is MAGA exemplified.

You want to talk about mediocrity and cowardice? It's a bunch of centrist Democrats representing deep-blue districts filled with voters who are demanding they fight, but they just sit on their hands and expect to be re-elected.

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Good morning to everyone who helped us elect real Democratic fighters in New York! One primary at a time, we are building a better Democratic Party that will fight fascism with the courage and urgency this moment demands.