Script from Jess Craven (Chop Wood, Carry Water) for calling congress. https://bsky.app/profile/jesscraven101.bsky.social "I'm extremely upset that the Trump administration invaded Venezuela without Congressional approval. It's dangerous and illegal. Congress […] [Original post on social.coop]

Good morning dystopia, how are you today? Are you going to cause another disaster, or will you go away? It is war or famine, drought or flood or fire What kind of terrible things in the future do you desire? Should I be wearing body armor or a helmet on my walk? Or is today just another day for […]

RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/115838152493331887 I don't even know how I'd start recommending friends use the fediverse if it weren't for fedi tips. Thank you!

“Where in the world did I get the idea that you have to either accept yourself or change? There are worlds beyond those two possibilities, & between them my skin speaks for itself.” - Abby Vines-Lopez https://www.muthamagazine.com/2025/12/body-stories/

RE: https://sciences.social/@alfiekohn/115769969693704878 "Nasty tweets were a harbinger of incipient totalitarianism, but now the Trump administration is trying to imprison and deport people for pro-Palestinian advocacy, and it’s fine. ... Protests on college campuses were a national crisis […]

[Fascism, ICE, Mention of Death] ABC Chicago: Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/115764690790440096 "“If the standard for airing a story becomes ‘the government must agree to be interviewed,’ then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast,” Alfonsi noted. “We go from an investigative powerhouse to a […]

[implications of suicide] On Trans "Bravery" Back in early transition, I'd occasionally be told by cis "allies" "you're so brave and strong to be your true self". Or even worse "I could never do that". Trans people ARE brave, but not under the usual definition - charging enemy lines or […]

"And if we so happen to triumph against evil, it is against all odds, at our own peril and on our own dime." https://mailchi.mp/chaninicholas/a-letter-from-chani-december-2025 #astrology

As a bunch of anti-trans bills come up in Congress, maybe Dems can remember that HARMING OTHER PEOPLE'S HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS IS NEVER EVER A GOOD LOOK and history knows how you're gonna look so just be right the first time around?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/115730335174683083 "I am in awe of her, and her children, who have spent months living through terror: doing math homework. Bringing cupcakes for a class party. Holding their breath each time a car turns down the street."

[Climate Crisis, War, Gaza] From Drop Site News, the climate crisis colliding with war.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@jezebel/latest-lje9kl1iz/-/a-_LeT-HTpSJuKmKjV2-pBAg%3Aa%3A1938864371-%2F0 "It creates potential scenarios of chaos, in which some kind of lifesaving procedure is immediately needed, but a patient is simultaneously panicked about the need to remove their monitoring […]

Yay! Some teenagers and their family out on a walk today, they ran with delight to my free book box on the curb and took home books! #goodthings

"The IDF claimed it identified the eight- and 11-year-old boys and “eliminated the suspects in order to remove the threat.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/ceasefire-gaza-now

From approximately 130 daily newborns in Gaza, one in five is born prematurely or with low birth weight, according to the UN. “There are combined causes for prematurity, low weight and congenital deformities,” said Dr. Hazem Muqat, the head of the neonatal unit, on 30 September. “But the most […]

"It’s like entering a current more than choosing a career." Robina Khalid on midwifery https://smallthingsgrowing.substack.com/p/i-was-interviewed-by-a-student-midwife

ICE snatching people on Thanksgiving here in our town, if you're wondering how things are going. https://mastodon.social/@davidnewman/115628490849979342 #fascism #ice

Terroristic troop commander Bovino lies and lies and lies. His credibility in front of any tribunal should be nil. https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/11/28/border-patrol-gregory-bovino-cole-sheridan-broadview-ice

The Intercept: The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment. "...Daniel “Des” Sanchez is accused of transporting a box that contained “Antifa materials” […]

“anger is the purest form of care; the internal living flame of anger always illuminates what we belong to, what we wish to protect and what we are willing to hazard ourselves for. “What we usually call anger is only what is left of its essence when we are overwhelmed by its accompanying […]

"I did it... because I wanted to believe it was possible.... because ultimately, I wanted to believe we could build a better world, full stop. I wanted to believe...our strengths would carry us through, that if we had the time to lean into them, we would better be capable of imagining a better […]

WCNC: 'Heavy-handed': Border Patrol arrests 2 US citizens in Charlotte for allegedly warning others of operation Two women are accused of honking their horn to alert others that Border Patrol troops were in the area. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Video shows Border Patrol agents arresting two U.S […]

Very good column from Will Bunch on the Senate Dems decision to appease Trump and the contrast with ordinary Americans who are actually fighting Republican Fascism […]

The Roberts Court could have lifted the administrative stay and taken a week or longer to do (a) and/or (b). In the meantime, people would have been getting their full SNAP benefits for November. Instead, the Roberts Court prefers that people suffer hunger while the Court goes about its business. 3/

"Understand what it is to be Chicago. To carry a whistle and have the ICIRR hotline in your phone. To wake up from nightmares of shouting militiamen and guns in your face. To rehearse every day how to calmly refuse entry, how to identify a judicial warrant, how to film and narrate an assault. To […]

We lawyers and legal scholars have an overriding ethical obligation to document the Trump regime’s constant use of bad faith legal moves and its bad faith legal arguments. One major feature of U.S. constitutional democracy is that it is supposed to instantiate a government FOR the people, that […]

Bottom line: I’m following all the developments in the SNAP benefits litigation because millions of people need the benefits to stave off hunger, and what each legal maneuver from the Trump regime demonstrates is that the people who staff it, from Trump to Rollins to lower level USDA appointees […]

The regime will try to manufacture cover for the Roberts Court. Their letter already starts the process, by referencing a development in the states’ suit over SNAP benefit funding, a development that has nothing to do with McConnell’s original TRO nor his enforcement order. This previews how the […]

Deeply disappointed in Democrsts today. During every government shutdown, I've thought of the Judgement of Solomon story. Republicans are will rip the baby in half, starve millions of people, let people die while they enrich the rich. I used to think Democrats would always cave because they […]

@alfiekohn (Alt Text 1) Joyce Carol Oates posted: “So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates - scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads) […]

Much has been said about Musk's appalling social media posts. Joyce Carol Oates takes a moment to notice what he *doesn't* post.

"Cuevas tried to facilitate safe exits when the time came and, for days after, everything played over in his mind: the sight of the SUVs, the workers running, the agents giving chase. “I’m still in shock,” he said. A week later, the new windows and the equipment to install them were still […]

Tough to read but important reporting on the everyday, bureaucratic Trump deportation machine. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/11/mass-deportation-immigration/684871/?gift=UDCAY75CzHyGUPSsXwkpWv6mvMeoNr8aKfvBdHgGgpE

All we can do more generally is to keep fighting Republican Fascism every day that we possibly can. Support groups fighting to for free and fair elections in 2026 and 2028. Help whoever you can to stay out of ICE-CBP clutches. Use your civil rights to assemble and to protest. Get involved at the […]

“Most of trump’s deportation campaign is inaccessible because after arrests are made, it is moving quickly, far from public view. And because it is targeting people who have spent an average of 16 years in the United States, trying, in many cases, to avoid public attention, rather than court it […]

"Take a long time. Take a year. Take a year or two before you have to reengage in the reality war...Before you have to go back into being gaslit again, and crazy made again, you deserve a period of time where you just get to have the feelings about what happened...You need to have things in […]

The Mothers of Penguins (Matki pingwinów) on Netflix is so good. If you like shows where the story is mainly people dealing with their emotional baggage (which i do). In this case the baggage is ableism, so it's definitely with a trigger warning. But the ableism is front and center and yes it's […]

1. On Tuesday Night, Democrats won elections nationwide in a stunning rebuke of anti-transgender politics. From Virginia to New Jersey to New York and beyond, anti-trans candidates fell left and right after spending tons of time and money campaigning on hate. Subscribe to support our journalism.

More good news from Virginia’s elections: with a Democrat replacing a Republican as state attorney general, there will be another state participating in the blue state coalition that sues the Trump regime on the regular.

Mamdani's speech is a goddamn barnburner. Holy shit this is a good speech. #nypol #nypolitics #election #elections #mamdani #zohranmamdani

Again - and again and again - this could be avoided simply by the Trump regime releasing funds it has the lawful right to release. But because of its tremendous concern for feeding children, says the regime, it cannot feed children. 11/

Aside from the palpably ridiculous rationale the Trump regime gives for refusing to tap the Child Nutrition Funds, the regime’s logic faces another problem that its own lackey identifies in his declaration to the court. Going back to his claim that it is hard and complicated to administer a half […]

Hence, in choosing to underfund November food benefits by half, the Trump regime had to give some sort of justification. Hence the one Patrick Penn put his name to. Now, while I think it is clearly in bad faith - bc Trump cares not a whit about the Child Nutrition programs - and unsound - bc it […]

This incredible and palpably ridiculous explanation for making millions of children and their parents try to subsist in Nov on half their benefits was offered because the law requires that if the government refuses to fully pay benefits it is legally obligated to it cannot do so on “arbitrary […]

The Trump regime had tried to argue against its obligation to release any money on the grounds of the administrative difficulty and inconvenience of only partially funding benefits. Nevertheless it has chosen this course because - wait for it - it is too concerned that if it moves money from […]

Meeting that deadline, USDA Deputy Undersecretary Patrick Penn explained the 50% funding choice. I note his name because it should go down, with many other lackeys of the Trump regime, in the annals of shame […]