AND STAY OUT 👊🐸

you probably shouldn't let what commentators like Ezra Klein say be the limit of your imagination or determine what you think is politically possible. He doesn't have a clue what is possible.

Here’s why it’s MUTUAL Aid: - Street vendors win bc they make money & don’t get kidnapped - Food-insecure ppl win bc they get 250 tamales! 🫔 - Bike peeps win bc they’ve found where their community needs them to be & it’s awesome - And everyone wins when la migra loses!

This Douthat could have been a Chotiner.

Every day is STFU Friday around the NYT!

“I have 4500 whistles in my lobby and I’m realizing I didn’t fully think this through.”

HEY BOSTON PEEPS! If you live in/near Dorchester and you have the means to help a family who's fighting the SNAP struggle, please DM me and I'll connect you with a known local org that's matching people up. (IDK if they want to be shouted out so until I hear back imma play it like this.)

This is one of the places where bsky gets in its own way. So many ppl have never shut up since day effing one abt all ICE agents being J6 militia that it's virtually impossible to track ACTUAL stories/discussions of people impersonating LEOs. And we really want to track those.

Every media outlet is like FIVE TAKEAWAYS FOR CIS WHITE-CENTERED DEM VOTERS THAT ARE THE EXACT SAME THINGS WE SAID FOR LIKE TEN HOURS STRAIGHT LAST NIGHT BTW

TRANS RIGHTS ARE A WINNING POLITICAL ISSUE Every single centrist claiming we must all compromise our bodily autonomy for their personal comfort is a traitor to American democracy & rational human decency. They have no place in a modern Democratic Party, toss them out. Total liberation for all.

“Something funny? What? Say it. SAY IT, MOTHERFUCKER.” (Share an angry bird and the curse you think it embodies.)

There’s no need for this shit. There’s no fucking call for it. Cities need to breathe. They won’t fucking let these cities breathe.

This is some high key bullshit. Wanna know one of the reasons “less-lethal” weapons aren’t called “non-lethal” anymore? Boston cops killed a college student at Fenway Park while she was celebrating the Sox win over the Yankees in the 2004 ALCS. Restoring order. I hate everything happening here.

Reminder to la migra who would take advantage of Día de Muertos to carry out their ghoulish work: You, too, have ancestors. And your face coverings do not hide you from them.

…with a bodega cat cameo midway through bc nyc 😍 Mamdani’s whole campaign rn is like “come at me bro (and I’ll make you look so silly, this is gonna be so much fun)”

Food banks help some but not all. The #1 best thing you can do for food-insecure ppl is help them buy the food they know they need. Check your local mutual aid group. Staff at my kid’s BPS school arranged to get a discount on Stop & Shop gift cards; I’m fundraising for those. Stuff like that works.

1/ So hey, I know there's so much going on right now. So much. We've got four cities under violent federal occupation. The govt. is starting a campaign of nationwide starvation. But I am pleading with you, as both an activist & a mother, not to hand them this unearned win against trans youth. 🧵

The only thing I thought was worth the govt shutdown was the "no, the President does NOT get to ignore Congressional votes & do whatever the fuck he wants anyway" part. But I don't think anyone's even talking about that? It's only about the Dems saving the Repubs from their own shite hc policies?

Jesus wept. (I broke stuff.)

It’s 🐄🚫 time, y’all

I got through Katrina. Katrina didn't look like that shit.

DOJ: That protester assaulted our fed ghoul! PubDef: Does that fed ghoul have a relevant criminal record? DOJ:... PubDef: Yo. You have to answer. DOJ: He doesn't. We swears on the Precious. PubDef: Dude! WTF! He totally does! Judge: Wait, what? DOJ: N/m, no one assaulted anyone. IDK that guy.

There should be two different words for "anonymous" when it comes to giving: one for "I am giving anonymously because I don't want you to ask me for more money later" and one for "I am giving anonymously because I don't want you to feel weird and indebted to me."

"The F/A-18 is at least the fourth of the $60 million fighter jets the Navy has lost this year." At least? AT LEAST.

Massachusetts said oh that’s how we’re playin it? Ok

Oh HO what do you say to THAT you Zohran-pilled commies

My new favorite game is attributing this quote to different historical revolutionary leaders in my head and making myself laugh. You have to imagine a portrait of them in a book with this under it. (And yes, I am calling the actual author of the post one too, minus the historical part. Bc dude.)

I could feel Día de Muertos coming in my bones this past week. Normally I love it. But the thought of ICE agents anywhere near an ofrenda, let alone what they might do - I can’t explain it. It’s horror. It’s a limb in the wrong place. It should not be. Forgive me, I am unprepared.

Thing is, I would totally dominate in this game and my kids would be mad af.

Last night I sat w/ my child through sharp waves of gender dysphoria. Meant to say: We'll figure this out, we'll find a way to make it better. What came out: We'll figure this out, and if anyone gets in your way I'll kill them. And then I stroked their hair, like I did when they were just small.

ABSOLUTELY THE LIVING MOTHERFUCK NOT If your kid’s school has this & you don’t have the capacity to fight it right now, I got you. I will run point. ICE stole a 13 yr old child out of a town next to me & locked him up 500 miles away bc someone thought he had a gun. We are NOT doing this shit.

This banger also accurately captures my feelings towards Greg Bovino. (Author is @acekatana.bsky.social; had to screenshot ‘cause you can’t quote-post over a quote-post.)

And that is why I could never be someone who supports states —they don’t have the capacity to provide mutual aid.

Here's what to know: it's fucking illegal eight ways to Sunday. You're welcome. (In case you're, like, a details person or something: archive.ph/2qEIK)

Idk if there even ARE Starbucks in Boston, but nonetheless: Unionize everything, right the fuck now

Unionize everything. Right the fuck now.

ICE: You're only a real journalist if you've been kicked out of the Pentagon. Otherwise you're just a sparkling tourist.

Sweet Jesus.

Personality quiz but it's just one question about how the picture of the giant bulldozer knocking down part of the White House makes you feel OK it's two questions and the other one is how the fact that it's probably not a bulldozer but I called it one anyway makes you feel

I want to believe good art isn’t worth putting yourself in toxic situations to produce it but unfortunately the chain by Fleetwood Mac exists

1/ Hey bsky Boston! Do you give a shit about trans youth? I feel like you do. Know who doesn't? Fenway Health Care, who provided gender-affirming care for trans+ kids & teens until last week when the board chickened out, pulled a Comply in Advance & closed up shop. THIS IS MASSAFUCKINGCHUSETTS.

The post below currently has 225 quote-posts & 186 comments. Most of those have turned into their own threads of beautiful, personal messages of gratitude, appreciation, humor & commitment to survival. One person took two minutes & created a tsunami of trans love. All you fascists bound to lose.

USA: Millions of people can get together for a few hours without violence LAPD: Not on our watch

Here’s a 51 sec video honoring protesters in L.A. who’ve been turning out to battle tyranny not for an afternoon but for 100+ days. ❤️ to all occupied cities. [Photosensitivity alert: there are quick transitions (it’s a 51s vid) but not crazy. First 5 seconds are flashiest, slows down after that.]

Gotta say, I saw it coming. ❤️

The revolution will not use AI

Ok Boston! ❤️

I went to the huge nerd convention and everyone there knew you and said nice things about you

Infinitely grateful to the people who write actual sentences while I sit around sputtering “Look what they’re - ! They’re trying…they’re gonna get people to - ! And people are gonna fuckin…they will! They did when…I just, I cannot.” So yeah, cheers for the complete sentences. You should read this 🧵

A Haiku in Praise of Resistance Against Gov Accts: Do not take the bait Just block their stupid asses Go about your day