Mr Beet gave our parrot a tiny maraca and she is losing her birdie mind, she's having so much fun

Be on the lookout for my Kofi shop updates. I'll be doing a giant Farm Shop update with jam packs and crafts PLUS Started making book boxes from damaged tomes the library has in our trash piles

Once again, FIFA is corrupt, the USA should not be hosting this, I hate the corporate side and the political side of the World Cup. But you can't commodify joy and community. And that part, the human side, is fucking beautiful.

"You go eat a pinecone" 😆 🤣 😂

Do they know who the enemies are

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

“Well, we’re all workers…These aren’t just things happening on TV. They’re happening at SEA-TAC, at our work. It’s our home, man, and we can do something about it. We have to do something about it.” “If we’re not taking care of our neighbors, then who is going to take care of us?”

KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.

"Political leaders in Texas have intentionally ignored this reality for decades, said Soward, who spent 35 years in state government. Acknowledging the risks of climate change would disrupt their economic agenda, Soward said, and interfere with the growth of business and industry."

this is fantastic ( h/t @birb.mom )

Oh good, the top lookup on Miriam Webster dot com right now is kakistocracy

Not to be a downer but the best indicator of lifespan is your parent's date of death and I want It to Happen as much as the next fried American but Don Sr lived into his 90's

The story of the Prairieland 9* is a blatant miscarriage of justice and one of the most important stories to be paying attention to right now for anyone concerned with the carceral powers of American fascism *eight were sentenced this week, with a ninth to be sentenced July 1

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Another banger, Sarah "I am only the slob sister who spills chocolate on fake money and writes sad but true jeremiads as our bizarre childhood vision of capitalism is realized."

The Monterey Bay Aquarium PROUDly presents “Otter This World,” written and performed by Monét X Change with special guest Trinity the Tuck.

"Coyote, @coyotemedia.org, a new media collective in the Bay Area, is irreverent, human, and unabashedly political." “We are very open about what we care about, not only in this region, but in the world. And I think people find that refreshing.” www.cjr.org/analysis/the...

A new documentary, narrated by Oscar-nominated actor Elliot Page, explores a growing body of scientific research documenting the wide range of gender and sexual diversity found in the animal kingdom.

I binged Widow's Bay last weekend & I'm of two minds about it. Overall I liked that the horror was good and the comedy was good, and yet it didn't reek of horror-comedy. The writing was hilarious ("he got bitten by an animal and then became that animal" 🤣) 1/

Tribal Nations have long warned that the proposed Line 5 tunnel project threatens the waters, fisheries, and natural resources that sustain Tribal cultures, lifeways, and treaty-protected rights throughout the Great Lakes. Public comments are open through June 30: buff.ly/NtjGsbF

if you want to support the defendants, please donate to their fundraisers https://bsky.app/profile/dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social/post/3moz66j6y2kwa check out these video breakdowns of the footage shown at trial https://prairielanddefendants.com/what-really-happened-at-prairieland/

It's #buyastrangerabook day! @lancslass.bsky.social is offering to buy someone the book of their choice up to £20. Having just come back from a school re-union, Helen suggests maybe a teacher or a pupil might like it? But it's up for grabs, so if there's a book you'd like, get in touch. UK only

Indigenous cultural practices are a climate solution, report finds

you’re okay, it’s okay to be scared, truly! we live in terrifying times! but it’s not over yet and nothing is certain for any of us

Please keep watching for the Prairieland defendants' state trials. 20 people have state charges related to this case. While today's federal sentences are horrific, they are not the end. Texas also seeks to make examples of the Prairieland defendants, but we cannot let them. This fight is not over.

Through the years, immigrants have been essential players helping American sports teams thrive and win. “In the 1950 #WorldCup, the U.S. team won an improbable victory over England on a goal by Haitian-born forward Joe Gaetjens”👇🏽

What will you do in this time of great failures and great injustices? What will you do? How will you help each other? How will you help yourselves?

It is Bookshop's Anti-Prime sale which means shipping on EVERYTHING is FREE. You can support indie bookstores and load up on reads for your summer. This includes my novel, THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS, which drops in three weeks. I want to thread some other book recs, though!

The UAW, a union with some 400,000 active members across the U.S., has voted to divest its estimated $400,000 from Israel bonds. The divestment vote makes the UAW the first major national union to vote to divest from Israel.

FREE THEM ALL

The Guardian telling readers that the Prairieland trial was a a fucking farce in journalist speak: "Even though many of the protesters did not know each other, or were loosely affiliated, prosecutors said the attack on the officer was premeditated and part of a conspiracy." 1/2

"This is the latest turn of the ratchet in criminalizing resistance to ICE. If you thought the convictions of the anti-ICE demonstrators in Prairieland, Texas were egregious, this time, the Justice Department isn't even alleging any actual act of violence. " www.forever-wars.com/the-next-ste...

Today, 8 anti-ICE activists facing decades in prison go up for sentencing. Most are only loosely connected to the offense at the heart of their terrorism convictions. Many observers point to the Prairieland case as a template for Trump's crackdown on dissent. www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

Keep your eyes on Texas today! Eight defendants in the landmark Prairieland "antifa" trial are being sentenced—likely to decades in prison—after what can only be described as a farce of justice overseen by a notorious Trump-appointed judge.

the Prairieland case means the criminalization of all dissent, even just the distribution of information and opinion

the best chance the Prairieland anti-ICE protesters have is that we keep their names and their case on our lips as we eventually move to a post-Trump era, that we fight for their pardon as an essential part of departing from fascism.

Solidarity to the Prairieland activists being sentenced today.

Federal sentencing has started. Zachary Evetts was just sentenced to 50 years by Chief District Judge Reed O'Connor. Maricela Rueda was just sentenced to 840 months / 70 years by Judge Mark Pittman.

CLARKESWORLD is doing a subscription drive! Clarkesworld is one of the best magazines in the business to subscribe to and submit to! donate! share!

Skoden!

One of the faculty at the "anti-woke" Christian Nationalist school is Adam James. He's also running for WA St Rep.

Bwaaaaa hahaha

To my darlings whose fathers are absent, you are loved. Be kind to yourself today. I love my dad, but he didn't make it easy. Gone 25 years now, half my life. Baffling that I have existed longer without him than with him, now.

Happy solstice! May summer be kind to you.

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My good friend Darryl came over for friendsgiving & started to prepare his delicious beer batter for chicken. Couldn't find a jar, so he figured a plastic margarine tub would do, so in it went flour, stout, select herbs & spices, & he gave it a vigorous shake 1/2

My beloved uncle came to visit and I tried to warn him, but he scoffed in his old Native biker way. Later that night we had to get take out because he could barely walk he was so high I respect my elders but my dude, you've been smoking Oklahoma ditch weed since 1972 and the game has indeed changed

Smoking Brightleaf tobacco, grown by Black hands, on a Black homestead, in honor of the enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas. I gather with friends and family, and laugh with ALL my teeth in their honor.

welcome to seattle, our weed is very strong www.seattletimes.com/sports/world...