Like… people want affordable groceries, housing, and healthcare, *And* they want their friends and loved ones the be alive and safe and free from persecution. These are not mutually exclusive ideas. They are in fact bound up together.

Cyndi Lauper delivered a powerful call to action during her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. "Look at us: We are a community of light. Don't forget that, in case it gets really dark." Photo by Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for RRHOF

Hey y'all, come on through and help @nkjemisin.bsky.social raise money for the New York Common Pantry! If you can't make the stream, donate here: tilt.fyi/YVoFdn7Efo

If you live in New Hampshire, read this piece and then call your senators.

Rock Paper Guillotine

This is such crap. Aren’t we the only country in our peer group that makes it so difficult to pay taxes? Like doesn’t this just happen most everywhere else? Oh to have a functioning government.

Eel facts are fun!

Community organizing matters!

I will also add: I can do this for evictions in Illinois too, if SNAP benefits being cut off or the government shutdown means you can't make rent.

Be safe out there Chicago. You’ve been through a lot. Take care of yourselves.

Sorry to repost this rag but the response to this demand is Fuck you, make me.

This is why we need robust, well-regulated government RUN BY EXPERTS IN THEIR FIELDS NOT POLITICAL HACKS AND SYCOPHANTS

Hey NY! Do the work, have nice things!

CA folks Call and yell at this dude. You elected HIM to do a job! He’s in office NOW! Tell him to act like he’s part of the opposition party and oppose!

DC leaders know what DC communities need. Trump's tax plan would have cost DC $600 million in lost revenue. DC Council divorced local taxes from the federal plan, and instead used that money to create a groundbreaking tax credit for DC families. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

"Standing for something really feels like it could work anywhere to redraw the boundaries, to move the positive and negative space into some new configuration less aligned to terrible lies, more aligned to great truths."

Baltimore, take the lessons from L.A., Chicago, NYC, PDX Start NOW w/ organizing. Red cards, whistles, iirc training, know your neighbors, funds to support street vendors, carpools to support parents, grocery runs if neighbors can’t safely shop. Community organizing matters!

These soldiers were forced to serve in segregated units. And now we’re saying the units can’t be recognized for their service because they were comprised of Black Americans because racist policy don’t allow integration. Disgusting.

Across Mississippi, organizations are providing food aid to residents amid the government shutdown and SNAP delays. Below are resources where people can find aid locally across the state as well as a list of places where people can donate food. www.mississippifreepress.org/food-aid-in-...

Reminder: Today at 11 am Eastern I'll be streaming "The Long Dark" to raise money for NY Common Pantry! With giveaways for each goal! Let's see how long I last. www.twitch.tv/nkjemisin If you don't feel like watching the game, you can also donate directly at tiltify.com/@nkjemisin/s...

If these Sen. belong to you call & demand they DO NOT CAVE! Also WTH?! Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) Jon Ossoff (D-GA) Gary Peters (D-MI) Mark Kelly (D-AZ) Maggie Hassan (D-NH Peter Welch (D-VT) Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) And Schumer, obvs. Tell other Ds thank you & to stay the course!

They’re not going to make noise about it, because they’ve been part of stoking the trans panic to distract from their predation on children.

This looks like something to show up for and support

This is not okay.

"After white men with no devotion or fidelity to Emmett Till tortured and shot him in the head, Faulkner wrote, If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won't."

The easier for people to use, the better!

This is why you’ll pry it from my cold, dead hands. Clarity in communication is important!

This point seems important: "Students should not carry the responsibility of overturning book bans. This isn’t a mess they’ve created; it’s one created by adults who fail to recognize children & teenagers are autonomous individuals with their own rights."

Hey PDX!

Hey, if you need SNAP and haven't checked your SNAP benefits this month because of all the *utter bullshit*, maybe go do that if you're in these states. And pass it on - you may not know who needs to hear this to get groceries this week.

Emily continuing to do amazing work to pull together resources for communities all over! Help spread the word!

So excited The People’sOriject by @theferocity.bsky.social and @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social finally arrived at my library! Can’t wait to get it cataloged so our patrons get to read it!

Hell yeah! No AI.

HUGE NEWS! Because of Democratic pressure, Oregon SNAP recipients are reporting their cards have the FULL November benefits!   Everyone who called out Trump for using hungry children and seniors as a bargaining chip has WON with tremendous results!!

Jake stood up for his colleagues this week....Now he needs a little help. Please help if you can.

A bit a good news today.

Seems like #TeslaTakedown needs to ramp back up?

Yes! This is good news! This is why it’s important to speak up every time the transphobes and bigots poke their little heads out and yell at them until they scurry away again. Send them all to Joann’s mold infested castle.

This is going to be so bad. For just a number of reasons. Say no to AI.

Do you live in NYC City Council district 45 ( Flatbush, East Flatbush, Midwood, Flatlands, and parts of Kensington, Marine Park, and Canarsie)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding? actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

NY, you’re lucky to have this guy in office and I hope you work to support him if he runs in the future!

This is going to get people harassed and arrested. It’s also going to result in death. We saw what happens when we organize. Don’t let up. We do the work. And we fight extra hard to protect our trans family because they are even more vulnerable today.

There are no words for how evil this is

I was going to say I have no words, but the words I have are for the Democrats we already have in office who simply said, "well at least I tried," when ICE refused them entry (illegally) at the gates of detention centers. They have legal power to force the matter. Time to grow up and use it

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

A new deal program where people get employment to help build their communities would solve so many problems in our society I am not joking.

Stand with workers.

Murder husbands!!!❤️❤️

Today I finally got myself organized and did some food pantry donations. I started with the state-by-state stats on who benefits from SNAP the most and picked the 6 states with the highest percentage of recipients. 1/ www.cbpp.org/research/foo...