Science is amazing and it’s maddening to witness the destruction being wrought be this administration and its collaborators.

I'll give you threefer

If you know people in NYC, can you please help us to spread the word that Black Zine Fair is on Saturday and that they should register to come? pools.events/event/WFzHwJ... - It's free but donations are always appreciated. We have 4 days to let folks know about it.

The GOP is working on a reconciliation bill that could give ICE and Border Patrol up to $140 billion more to fund concentration camps and militarized deployments to US cities. It’s vital that Republicans hear from constituents now.

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THIS is why there have to be consequences - ones that that have weight and are enforced - instead of pardons & forgiveness in the name of unity and moving forward. Every time these fuckers get away with this shit they get more brazen.

Please make this happen! Order a Peony! And also buy the book that features Peony so I can have a second volume!

With all the respect due to this position FUCK. OFF. Instead of lining your pockets with AI money you could actually have a spine and morals and start talking about the real world harms this industry is responsible for.

You pieces of dogshit conceded ground on public school funding for decades which put our kids behind and now you want to line your pockets with AI cash? Now you can find the money for the kids? You worthless asshole.

there is an effort to get people together to buy spirit airlines and turn it into giant “nationalized” people-owned airline i need them to fix the website so i can pledge my share 😩

Early voting has already started in Georgia, and election day is on May 19th. Join our campaign here: jasmine4ga.com

Good thread made in response to another post. I found it helpful as I’ve been working to understand what it looks like in practice.

Good results from Texas. Local organizing matters and that’s going to be especially true following Callais.

Before or after the parade, add Mercado Central to your day. They’ve been through hell and need our support. Tacos, empanadas, and delicious strawberry milkshakes!

You’ll wrap up meetings early and try to beat the rush by heading to the metro early and you’ll be greeted with a little checkpoint made up of these guys and the local cops …to stop little Black kids from being in the “wrong place” after school.

Jesus fucking Christ. No.

This makes my heart happy!

This wasnt covered in my U.S. history or govt classes in HS & it should have been. (B4 anti-DEI/CRT BS) I’m so angry that the ppl I trusted to teach me about our history lied & omitted things leaving me ignorant. Racism hurts all of us. Ppl of color more obviously.

Because they’re fucking stupid and can’t read? Cool, close your fucking Schwab, Fidelity and Vanguard accounts. If you have a lot of money, waste their time by requesting long private meetings about moving your money to them. Tell them at the end why they’re not getting your account.

Go visit your local comic book store!!

The Fifth Circuit just told millions of women that three judges know better than the FDA, their doctors, and 25 years of evidence. They don't. This restriction on medication abortion is a nationwide abortion restriction, full stop. I have no intention of letting this stand.

For those of you who, like me, are learning all of the ugly history of the U.S. so we can hopefully NOT repeat the patterns of our past.

The Continent is Africa's best English-language news magazine. Subscriptions are free. Yes. Those two facts shouldn't go together, but they do. This week, excellent coverage of the crisis in Mali, plus a terrific, colorful photo-essay about the ancient & unstoppable Nissan taxis of Ibadan, Nigeria.

For all you asshats out there being dicks saying we should just let the South secede/they get what they voted for/they should vote harder: I give you this shit brought to you by the Grand Old Party of LA. They will do ANYTHING to remain in power & to keep Black ppl FROM power. Vote harder my ass.

You can still send a comment, but the deadline is midnight tonight!

If you’d learned jack about shit with ANY sense of humility and obligation to others, you wouldn’t be edging in at the front of the parade. Do some chores at party headquarters or something! Accept nonprotagonism!!

I will lose my natural mind if I see one more person conflate “people who’ve made mistakes should be allowed to learn, grow, and make it right” with “it’s mean to suggest that the rightful next stop after Nazi tattoo is not necessarily the US Senate”

AHH YAY hello sunshine made the Graphic Medicine Awards shortlist!!

Thrilled by this @publisherswkly.bsky.social review of A SECOND SIGHT. Love the book - which in my head is a sobering intervention into media and democracy - being called "upbeat." Come for the analysis stay for the hope my subjects generate despite everything.

I'll leave you with where we end the book:

Folks, these are the stakes. Black Americans spent a century fighting and dying for the VRA. It is no more. It falls to all of us to pick the work back up, and carry on. Lament. Rage. Cry. Scream. I've done all these and more this week. But it will take our demanding it for it to happen

Every institution of learning- be it K-12, university, prison, or even senior center- should have a library, and every library should have a full time, stable librarian.

Mm. I would say “mask off” but lets be real, that mask wasn’t wver even on. That mask wasn’t even a mask. Anyways, we told y’all.

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Oh look. Red, gerrymandered legislatures are calling to further disenfranchise folks in their states. www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...

“But Colette. Calling Congress doesn’t make a difference!” You wanna fucking bet? I sit in meeting nearly every week where staffers tell me they aren’t hearing about these issues. SQUEAKY WHEEL GETS THE GREASE, YOU GUYS!

people fucking died for the voting rights act. to wave it away with a magic wand is just so grotesque

This is the closest I've seen so far to "they're going to cancel elections" and I'm gonna need every person who has ever whispered that possibility to be BIG FUCKING MAD ABOUT THE VRA

My statement on the Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act.

Oh look. Racism hurts white people too. But we knew that and are set on Black folk getting nothing even if it means white people also have to get less. We need to fix ourselves.

Congratulations John Roberts.

This bullshit is fucking gross, and frankly shows just how ignorant folks are. As if there haven’t been decades of gerrymandering and voter suppression and racial violence that have led to the current makeup of those state legislatures. Fuck off with that shit.

There is still time to vote! And also, her doodle is AWESOME!!!!!

Bree has come through for so many people and organizations for so so long, if you can help, that would be amazing 👇

Abortion might mean relief, joy, grief, a combination, or anything in between. There’s no right or wrong way to feel. Honor your experience, whatever that looks like.

White people, we have an opportunity and an OBLIGATION to NOT repeat the past. This is our fight, to NOT let the racists and bigots erase the voices of our fellow Americans, to not let them represent US. We should have been doing so all along.

What is even the point of them?

Read the whole thread to start your day with some loveliness!

Michigan! You deserve better than this bigoted, ignorant Republican in Democrat’s clothing. She has no political integrity or intelligence or instincts and cannot read the room as far as her base is concerned. Primary her.

Rolling over invested retirement accounts is a medium-sized pain in the ass, but I’ll be doing it, and you should, too, if you can.