‼️ A new book on federal employees swept up in the Reduction in Force is out, featuring a USAID Foreign Service Officer from the Crisis, Stabilization, and Governance backstop. If it gains traction, it hits Musk where it stings. Pass it on. Spread the word.

Trump feuding with Marjorie Taylor Greene but being in love with Zohran Mamdani was not on my November 2025 bingo card

This is just fantastic read from @notus.com. Democracy is indeed a letter to the editor www.notus.org/perspectives...

The accidental activists of Woodland Park have meaningfully wrestled with the kinds of questions partisan politics often shaves the edges off of: What does it mean to call yourself a conservative, while disagreeing with so many others who do? What does it mean to be a person of faith without…

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Voting in next year's midterm elections isn't going to be enough — it's on us to defend our voting rights and ensure results are accepted. Ctrl Alt Right Delete's @melissaryan.bsky.social breaks down 4 ways we can take matters into our own hands.

I believe Kim Kardashian is fake.

But here we are, right?👇

That's no ballroom

...lots of reasons why this article resonates (beyond the obvious), but most of all I want to say (NOT to Thom. Mann but to many.) Just grow T F up!!

#nokings message to T. and his puppeteers seemed pretty clear!

bsky.app/profile/5050... #coloradosprings #nokongs

you're allowed to make a community garden without also insisting that human society has to completely collapse first you can just do that! Same for talking to neighbours and consuming less stuff. Tough to imagine for rich white people in the most over-consuming countries in the world....

Having just been called a fascist for standing on a bridge with a no kings sign and smiling and waving, this librarian feels the need to share some information. See also "fasces," and in an encyclopedia one could check out Mussolini and fascisti. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/f...

Hey Colorado public school supporters- read this.

Guys, GUYS, GUYS!!!! We forgot to invite David Brooks to the protests AGAIN, and now he’s writing about how we need a mass movement.

The No Kings Map looks PACKED. No wonder Mike Johnson is shaking in his boots! There are even 20 protests in other countries!!! ##nokings #protest

whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow

Several news organizations, including the New York Times, Associated Press and Newsmax, said Monday they will not sign a Defense Department document about its new press rules, making it likely the Trump administration will evict their reporters from the Pentagon.

Here's the fulltext of the petition to change requirement for voter registration. There are 7 days left to protest change on Regulations.gov. I am trusting that there is a real threat here. I am not a lawyer. Please share and correct or confirm if you are an expert. www.eac.gov/sites/defaul...

This would affect any efforts to get out the vote. This is a sneakaround to restrict registration of many, mostly women. It puts some of the SAVE act into effect w/o passing it. 10 days left to comment. Please share.

#bloomscrolling late season Monarch. tithonia.

Wherever you are, your local School Board is probably having an Election soon: ladylibertie.substack.com/p/5-ways-mag...

A Trumper asked me today if I was one of those nutjobs trying to save polar bears. My reply I think shocked him: No. The polar bears are already dead bears walking/swimming. We can't save them. They will go extinct in the wild. At this point, we're just trying to keep agriculture from collapsing.

THE OFFICIAL NO KINGS RALLY Colorado Springs, Colorado Saturday October 18

War-ravaged Portland, 5 minutes ago

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Loyalty is an incredible bookstore with an incredible team. I've done in-person events there, we did the Comfort Reads panels there with @marthawells.com @kjcharleswriter.com @tkingfisher.com, it's a wonderful place. please support if you can. www.crowdcast.io/c/comfortrea...

“Your enemy isn’t across; your enemy is up.” We’ve been divided for too long. The rich and elite continue to drive wedges between us so they can gain even more power and wealth. We cannot do this anymore. We the people must unite, in peace and solidarity with one another, for the sake of America.

I wrote about the caricature of Bluesky that right-wing Twitter accounts were pumping out to hundreds of millions of people yesterday @slate.com. Hey, Bluesky did finally become an echo chamber. Just not the one these people were pretending it is: slate.com/technology/2...

Whether it’s Republican politicians joking about the murder of Melissa Hortman or Democratic politicians expressing their condolences after the murder of Charlie Kirk, both parties have a extreme rhetoric problem.

It's worth mourning the end of a 40ish-year-long broad American consensus that political violence is a bad thing, one that leads to lots of innocent people getting hurt and killed. We've been watching that consensus erode consistently since 2016 at the latest and now it's fully gone.

There is no place for violence in our democracy — against anyone.

In Colorado today 3 High School students died in school shooting.

Massachusetts friends: ICE is already ramping up in the Boston area. Get yourself trained to work on the ICE Watch hotline or to join a verification network in your town. Sign up here: www.lucemass.org

​Dark money and charter school interests are backing candidates in DPS contests. #COleg #COpol

Authoritarianism

This is a must-read article.

Everyone knows what is happening in DC is his practice run. He’s coming for us all. It won’t stop there. He will invade every major city in this country until we collapse.

"Violent crime is up in Washington, DC" says man who pardoned the largest group in history that committed violent crimes in Washington, DC.

Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

We’re hearing from David Graham, discussing how Project 2025 is reflected in current federal efforts, the budget bill, etc. “We can see these things popping up all over the place.” www.theatlantic.com/author/david...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down operations after loss of federal funding:

“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell