So the guy that ran on ending wars has now renamed the Dpt of Defense to the Dpt of War. 🙄 It’s almost as if they just don’t even care about votes anymore. Almost if they won’t even need them...

There’s a saying: Whoever discovered water wasn’t a fish. Fish don’t know they’re in water because water is all they know. The water is patriarchy, which we now know is the real enemy of male mental health. I wrote this as a love letter for men and boys. open.substack.com/pub/summeris...

Wakeboarding in Juneau, Alaska. 9 PM.

“We understand your frustrations with our spotty wi-fi. Our carrier terns were in luteal phase, and our glaciers were menstruating HARD. Although watching you get swarmed by mosquitoes like you’ve never pitched a tent in a D.C. swamp, I nearly spit out my beaver testicles whiskey.”

“My condolences, Jake Tapper, that you were picked over Anderson Cooper to report from the frozen tuliwhackers where the news media banishes its low-value males. (1)

I used to think that the underlying emotion of anger was grief, but now I know it’s love. New newsletter just dropped. 💕 open.substack.com/pub/summeris...

Wrote a thing substack.com/@summerisfer...

"You don't have to say fuck on Facebook," my mom said. But frankly, I don’t think women say fuck enough. I don’t think we give enough fucks, and I don’t think fuck is a strong enough word to express the horror at the state of the world. I think we should also say fuck a lot fucking louder, frankly.

Ted Cruz offers prayers instead of flood relief funding while voting to increase ICE's budget by 2,000%. Apparently, God loves border enforcement 2,000% more than flood victims.

Gonna need some whiskey in my covefefe

My friends and I led / danced a crowd of almost 2,000 peaceful protestors (6% of pop.) down Egan highway in our sequins and foam fingers blasting protest songs like a bunch of sparkly Pied Pipers. In Juneau, Alaska

“The worst thing in the world is to feel that you’re the only one who feels this way and that you are going quietly mad and everyone else is in denial,” writes psychotherapist Caroline Hickman. “That terrifies people. It traumatizes people.” open.substack.com/pub/summeris...

In comedy there’s one rule: punch up, not down. It’s almost as if this administration didn’t get the memo.

Teaching girls to be compliant teaches them that their value lies in pleasing others. They learn to make themselves smaller, exchanging their wants and needs for a perpetual state of what-do-people-want-from-me anxiety. (1)

OK now we need people showing up who love democracy as much as they loved the Pope

This ruling is a massive win for immigrant rights and proof that Trump’s authoritarian playbook is collapsing in courtrooms across America. Due process is non-negotiable. Stay loud, stay fighting! 3/3

So much hope…. The judge who was arrested for allegedly sheltering a migrant was released and now there will be no autism registry. PopeJohn Paul, first pope to openly advocate for LGBTQ, appointed 4/5 of the Cardinals in the Vatican, hoping that his spirit and mission live on. (1)

This administration wants to make the country fertile again. You know what would make me fertile? *quality affordable childcare *fully funded public schools *a partner who contributes equally to housework and childcare *a village *less gun violence *a habitable planet * Making empathy cool again

Criticizing the government doesn’t make you un-American. Criticizing Israel doesn’t make you anti-Israel or antisemitic. The deportation/detention of legal migrants who criticize Israel is a litmus test… For all of us.

Breaking news!!! the man who least makes me want to bring life into this world is calling himself the fertilization president!

“Today didn’t see an Insurrection, but a Resurrection.” Best quote yet!

My latest unpacks why it’s hard to have high justice sensitivity right now

think I must be a witch because as soon as I cut my fingernails, they grow back again instantly. 🧙

So cancer enthusiast RFK took a break from roasting under hotdog halogen lights to announce that autism is an epidemic caused by mold and food additives. My daughter was raised in a mold free home and breast-fed until 3 ½ supplemented w/ organic foods. Not that that matters anyway because science.

Neurospicy peeps from U.S., do u feel like your neurodivergence is making u more fearful and obsessed with the news? I don’t know if it’s cuz I’m hypersensitive or I tend to obsess compulsively about things, but I feel that living in Merica is causing me to spiral a little more than fellow Normies.

Every year, our dance troupe the Off the Hook Honeys Performs with Juneau-famous band High Costa Livin at the annual Alaska folk festival, a free music festival! A music festival centered around community and not profit. What’s not to love?

Wow I haven’t lost this much hair since pandemic lockdown.

I’ve been wondering when will it no longer be safe for me to write about politics. I’m a primary care provider for my kids, one of whom is disabled and homeschooled. Are you self censoring? Where do we draw the line between speaking up for the greater good vs becoming smaller 4 self preservation?

You can cut off our blooms, but you can’t uproot our seeds. We were 1,500 strong in Juneau, Alaska. That’s 5% of the population!

My sisters from other misters and I stood in front of a crowd of 1,500 on the steps of the Alaskan state Capitol and sang “What‘s Going On” by 4 Non-Blondes and the audience sang along. I know there’s some seeds rattling under the Earth right now… Happy damn spring. Y’all give me hope.

Approximately 1500 people came out in Juneau, Alaska

I’d guess about 1,300 people at Juneau’s protest today in front of the Alaska Capitol. Largest I’ve seen there since the women’s march and march for science during the first Trump term. Extra credit to the person who had a Greenland flag — not many of those in town, I’d guess. #akleg #Alaska

Recently, I learned that birdsong awakens the seeds under the Earth. The famous mystic Rudolph Steiner has said that for seeds, plants, and trees to grow, birdsong is essential. open.substack.com/pub/summeris...

I just learned that bird song lets the seeds know when to start germinating, and I am shook.

Good read from a good writer and concerned educator!

I stood on the steps of the Alaskan state Capitol before hundreds gathered at a protest rally and gave my speech. "I'm a teacher and a parent," I said. "This administration opened a snitch site, paid for by your tax dollars, where so-called patriots can rat out teachers for using DEI.” 🧵/1

POV: You’re a teacher homeschooling a disabled child in a red state where education is underfunded, they’re doing away with the dpt of education, and on the first day of spring some peeps are playing a song that keeps looping “American Summer, American Summer, American Summer.” OH HELL TO THE NAW.

“Wait guys, P. Hegseth is typing…”

Although the governor of Alaska and his followers seem to have forgotten, education is a right under the Alaska state constitution. We won’t stop fighting for our children’s right to be educated so they can learn critical thinking skills, think for themselves, and imagine a better future than this.

What keeps looping in my mind free of rent is how we could have avoided so much of this if we had just let men (and women!) be allowed to feel their feelings.

Is it too much to ask to live in rural state that’s not red? Is it too much to want nature and also rights?

Just curious, what writers here are using AI to help them write? Do I use ChatGPT and be more productive while using up all the water in California, or spend all day on something that could otherwise take a few minutes? exploit or be exploited? Sigh capitalism…

Came here to say that sometimes taking back your power means dropping out of that one thing you committed to so you can spend time at home walking your dog and doing laundry. (Ask me how I know.)

Apple just erased international women’s day, but we are celebrating with some girl power anthems rewritten for accuracy. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/summeris...

Trump is prepping an executive order to dismantle the Dept. of Education, directly harming students. It will drain resources from the most vulnerable, skyrocket class sizes, make higher ed more expensive, strip special ed services, and gut student civil rights protections. We won't let this happen.

Today I learned that the revolution will not be televised, but will be waged on encrypted servers while making homemade batches of soup and homeschooling my daughter.

After all the news this week, I just cleaned my entire house while battling the flu. There should be a “things people do to feel some false semblance of control” Oscar category.