Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Really difficult to overstate the fury one should feel that the GOP and institutions like the New York Times went all in on transphobia as some mortal threat to women and girls while covering up something like this.

When I was 12 & walking to my violin lesson, a man in his 20s pulled his car over to ask what was in the case. I looked at him & said "A gun" but inside I was preparing to run 1/2 a block as fast as I could to the nearest house whose owners I knew. I have now spent 3/4 of my life thinking like this.

William Golding from his 1962 essay “Fables” on the intended meaning of his “Lord Of The Flies”.

Can personally attest that this is true.

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

During the Civil War, more than 20% of Union soldiers were also foreign-born, mostly from Germany and Ireland. During World War I, approximately half a million immigrants were serving in the US military. “Foreigners have continued to serve in significant numbers since World War II.” #VeteransDay

Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care? What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.

Find your senators at reps.fyi or call 202-224-3121

Call your Dem senators, folks. We can't assume they'll do the right thing and stay strong against the GOP. Giving in at this point for nothing but a promise would be an act of utter foolishness and we need to do everything we can to keep that from happening.

Do someone in your life a favor and introduce them to this truth today.

This camp I used to go to made Lady Di sandwiches - chicken breast and tomatoes and some other good stuff on homemade focaccia. A real Proustian memory for me, those sandwiches.

It was a rejection of the entire administration and Dems should see this as a signal to become an actual opposition party. On everything. You don't stop the shutdown. You don't approve another appointee. You do nothing at all. The voters saved you, not the other way around. LEARN TO LEAD.

so I just don’t have the stomach to cast a vote for someone who is still living in 1990 and thinks gentlemanly bipartisanship is what we all want from our Democrats, or who are beholden to the same class of billionaires Trump is but are just corrupt in a slightly different flavor

It feels a bit weird to post right now in light of what has happened to @teenvogue.com and so much of the incredible team there. What sources shared here is important, & I’m grateful I got to work on this. I reported on how young people are being impacted by delays to SNAP: “It’s about survival.”

Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.

Full disclosure: I didn't watch the video because I can't stand to listen to that man but I trust the menswear guy and he's 100% about unions. Don't let the bosses fool you - they have only their own best interests in mind. Always.

If you plan to help out the hungry, do so without a camera.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

This! I am a history teacher and it is so frustrating and frightening the way that too many people do not understand how brutally difficult life used to be* in this country & how brutally difficult it will be again if we do not fight back. *not saying it isn’t difficult now but it’s not like it was

Even if SNAP wasn't about to shut down, this statistic deserves to be known nationwide. And I'm sure it's not just Missouri. Shameful.

Quote with a pic of you where you feel really happy and your vibe is on display (if you feel like it) In my classroom

I wish they said explicitly that there's $5 billion in emergency reserves they're refusing to use instead they're happy to let people - mostly children, the disabled, and elderly, starve.

I know many have been saying similar, but I am so heartened by the bountiful examples of everyday people doing what they can, where they can to ameliorate the terror & violence. I feel accountable to & appreciative of their example. This is how we learn to fight.

from "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy" by Ray D. Madoff

POV: The new singer of the Reading Rainbow theme song and the new host of Reading Rainbow meet for the first time in Canada 🥹📚🌈 Video Description: Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨ youtube.com/@kidzuko?feature=shared

What’s it like inside your head?

Regarding the question “Well, what can I do?“ Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, “Go into something that already exists, and do that work towards the end of helping to tip it away from reinforcing the system towards weakening the system. That’s infiltrating. Or innovate. If something doesn't exist, make it."

This is an opportunity to think more expansively and creatively about the institutions that you already regularly interact with. How can you leverage your connections to support others?

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends. #NoKings #Manhattan

During Thanksgiving and holidays, people want to do food drives where they collect canned goods etc... and I really would love to offer that food banks need MONEY so if you can collect and donate MONEY please do that. They can then use those funds to purchase what's needed AT DISCOUNTS.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

If you were out in the streets today, thanks. If you left feeling inspired, please seek out local ways that you can keep organizing with others.

Annie Pearl Avery, a long time civil rights activist, with her head in her hand after speaking at a “No Kings” protest at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on Oct. 18, 2025. Avery told the small crowd that people have the power. (Anna Barrett/Alabama Reflector)

Hey @reed.senate.gov and @whitehouse.senate.gov and @magaziner.house.gov - hundreds of us are out in Westerly and we want an end to the current regime!

I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings. These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate. Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.

Name a Film that Changed Your Life

There are 10 to choose from in Rhode Island alone! It’s time to put on comfortable shoes and some brightly colored clothing (especially if you’re doing a sidewalk protest) and get out there. No pressure but the future of democracy depends on it!

To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life. YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.

do you guys ever think about how in a better world José Andres could just like. have some restaurants. and instead he’s consistently doing the work we’re supposed to have governments for

If you live in Everett, Mass. and have any information about the 13-year-old boy abducted by ICE, please message me on Signal at marisakabas.04

Reminder from your resident high school lubrarian: if you plan to do a Banned Books Week display and programming, prioritize living marginalized authors. Use this time to help those who need it the most.

This week at an event for THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT, a reader asked in a gracious and cheeky way what I would hope white readers in particular would get out of the book. Or more directly, what I would TELL white readers. And this was basically my answer: African-Americans are experts on America.

HOT TO GO! (The "it hurts my feelings" section would be especially effective.)

“Twenty dollars! But I wanted peanuts…” The whole thing.

As the OP explains later in the thread, the Republicans are dad and the Democrats are mom. The problem we currently face is that even if mom 100% wanted to throw dad out of the house, she can't do it by herself. She needs help from dad's friends. And here we are.

We need to shut down the whole calendar until we can get this figured out.