New England ICE Rapid Response/Immigrant Support Lines: Vermont Migrant Justice: 802-881-7229 NH Solidarity Network: 978-219-7586 Mt. Washington Valley: 603-726-6680 LUCE MA: 617-370-5023 AMOR RI: 401-675-1414 New Haven: 854-666-4472 edited to add RI, CT, and Spanish versions of SALUTE/ACTUAR

Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

janice for president

@wizardsfan73.bsky.social oh it's about sports ball? I thought it was about Magic The Gathering and Of The Coast

Ayotte vetoed the bathroom bill and I am real grateful but can we also not have ICE building camps here? please? thnx

bring back shame

I’m a business owner who felt lied to during her state of the state. I don’t consider myself a liberal advocate or activist, though I suspect many would give me that label. I’m just a person who cares about other people and who doesn’t like being lied to. And I feel like I'm being lied to!

i told you i would

“Knowing what to expect, having a structure as to what what's going to happen…it always starts off with us shutting the curtains, and we've got an LED light…Diana will go off and get dressed, and then just the tactile stuff feeling working my way up and then just we go forward.”

I will block you if I don’t like the cut of your jib and it’s that simple

it's not this thread, it's everything it's not me, it's you I wish you well adieu

“My autistic brain really gravitates towards patterns and sounds and numbers, and what that tells me is that what we have on the ground is not new, and if we don't understand it in terms of the larger pattern, we are in even more trouble than we were before,” she said. & she's right.

“At that point, I stopped asking for a lawyer,” she said. “I was like, I just have to make it through this alive.”

i mean, come on now how can I have a bad day sharing air with this baby?

it's #FoliageFriday and the #FlowerReport feed is doing their thing but I'm over here staring at my current favorite plant this is an anthurium ['Justin' x (Red Velvet Cake x Zara)] and she is a beautiful dark leaf emergent and dark blue velvety iridescent mature leaves with little rippling abs 🤩

they got the sammich right today hopefully this bodes well for how the rest of the day will go

[ braces self for the inability to tolerate the dialectic in my replies ]

To all the corrections officers I've worked with: SOME of you are really brilliant, kind, compassionate humans underneath your bias. You did incredible work with my patients & I'll forever be grateful for the relationships we forged. Y'all are the reason why ACAB can be hard for me. I SAW you care.

The ICE detention warehouse proposed in Merrimack is a threat to citizens, detainees & officers. Allowing this to happen in our state is to be complicit w/ fascist murderers. If that sounds dramatic I'd love to intro you to the people in MN who have lost loved ones due to this lawless band of goons.

If anyone would like to tell Gov. Kelly Ayotte how fuckin' cool Abigail is for doing this, you may do so by filling out this webform. Kelly said she was "blindsided" by plans to turn a Merrimack, NH warehouse into an ICE detainment center & then Sarah Stewart stepped down as scapegoat but that's it

🧵Gov Kelly Ayotte (R - NH) lied to us about knowledge of ICE warehouse detention plans in Merrimack & then gave an hour long speech yesterday with more egregious lies that were hard to listen to in fact Paige Beauchemin (D, candidate for congress) was so frustrated she 🖕🏻 w/o much thinking about it

anyway the reason the adult has to be the one that draws the boundary is that the kid can’t do it if they don’t believe they’re still a kid. at 16 we are SO desperate to be treated like an adult and we want to believe that’s what we are. we will crash through any boundary that’s not steel-reinforced

when I was in high school I had male teachers in their 30s who I totally thought I was adult peer friends with. when I was in my 30s and was a high school youth group leader I was like “those are not my friends, those are children.” that’s when I realized those men just had bad boundaries

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

hello good morning it's 8:13 am on friday the east coast of the US in the year of the lordt twenty-twenty-six & we are all very tired but i hope you got enough rest to face the horrors again today drink something take yer meds if you got 'em don't take shit you got this I believe in you & in us 🫶🏻

After reading this it occurs to me that I can see the same thing in the talent of a lot of young chefs under Mario Batali too and less famous (but more talented) chefs, too, for that matter so much talent, skill, and hard work - crushed and hidden by mediocre abusive men across all industries

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

Feeling sad? Have a leaf! #WTFucculent I love how DARK this is. She’s not perfect but the veins are so cool. Reminds me of a turtle meets dino skin. Anthurium (Zara by Michelle) x (Zara by Michelle), a red crystal hybrid I love her Ok back to the horrors I guess just kidding more leaf photos

[hushed whisper] I had anticipated a lot more discourse about how the president pooped himself on live TV then there has been. Are we doing okay? What's happening?

*resting head gently on desk, slightly muffled voice* I did not think that this liminal space could/would be 11 months long and counting, but alas...

A kiddo is diagnosed as Autistic in young age, gets awesome supports, loving parents, does quite well. Years later parent says, "I don't know if they're REALLY Autistic, they don't have meltdowns or self harm!" Therapist: "That doesn't mean they're not Autistic. It means they feel heard & safe."

“I had never imagined this would be part of the job,” she says. The material was graphic and relentless. When she raised concerns with her manager, she recalls being told: “This is God’s work – you’re keeping children safe.” We don't need to be doing this. Vicarious trauma is just as traumatic. WTF

It's really not hard to stay out of the pedophile files if you're not a pedophile or actively enabling one.

unraveled is *two* people, doing work that much bigger newsrooms aren't

Drink something because I woke up so dehydrated I am nauseous and I'm hoping karma or osmosis or something means whenever you take a sip, it helps me too I also need to water plants I took my meds happy Thursday everybody

Happy Thursday 🎉 for those of you us who work M-Fri we’re almost there! For those of you like Jeanne Shaheen & Maggie Hassan who think they work FOR residents but are ACTUALLY just lining their pockets & continuing to cast votes that perpetuate this dumpster fire, I hope your car breaks down today.

Today’s reminder that your distress is likely to be IN PART a normal response to abnormal circumstances. Does our baseline mental health make a difference? ABSOLUTELY 💯 Is it worth targeting those baseline symptoms during this crisis? Yes! Of course! But we need to be real about what’s happening

[head gently resting on the desk, voice somewhat muffled] hello friends it is 8:34 pm EST on a Wednesday & it has been a very long day I really need to water plants but the guilt, the executive dysfunction, the horrors I am le tired

Gov. Abigail Spanberger seems to be ACTUALLY taking steps to protect citizens AND officers from entanglement with ICE. If you're not visibly against this creep of fascism, then you are complicit. Prove us wrong. Do something meaningful to protect the citizens of New Hampshire."

If anyone would like to tell Gov. Kelly Ayotte how fuckin' cool Abigail is for doing this, you may do so by filling out this webform. Kelly said she was "blindsided" by plans to turn a Merrimack, NH warehouse into an ICE detainment center & then Sarah Stewart stepped down as scapegoat but that's it

love to see it

Accessible transportation Better hospital care Better hospitals Free public and accessible transportation Better sidewalks

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Are you a white ally? Longtime DC organizer Arianna Afeni Evans shares some ways you can show your solidarity. bit.ly/afeniandawkword

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Suburban observers say ICE has only been more aggressive since Homan: “I think they’re getting angry that we’re winning and the country is rallying around us. We’re so organized and we act with such integrity. They don’t want to admit they feel threatened by us.” share.google/ei9giIFLsuEJ...

#AutRes "I had to prove it…I had to jump through hoops to get what I wanted… When I first started they said ‘If you miss one appointment that means you are not serious’ and I go ‘Look, I have got other conditions as well, so one of those appointments might clash with my physio or whatever."

@mistresscaution.myatproto.social I need to drink more water, my brain clearly isn't running correctly