Do something. Maybe it won’t work. Do it anyway. Maybe it will or maybe it will inspire someone else to do something that will.

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since we're doing USPS discourse again, a reminder of what Dems should be saying

A reader comments "So the elimination of 30 million girls is now a sad story about how men are lonely?"

Pittsburgh Mayor elect Corey O’Connor has skipped his third Jail Oversight Board meeting in a row. Instead, he sent an illegal designee to do his job for him.

One more thing that doesn’t make sense: If these guys were in the water for an hour, why didn’t we send a boat to pick them up, arrest them, interrogate them, and get more intelligence on these drug ops that are threatening our country? bsky.app/profile/bgru...

What accommodations are you worried about? Why not make an educational system that works for everyone? There are a lot of people who could use accommodations but have not been diagnosed. Students have to have parents who care and have the ability to jump through hoops to get diag. Some don’t.

“To be clear, Samantha Fulnecky’s essay is objectively terrible and a hot mess.” It is bad, really bad.

Reminder that Sam Altman is being sued by his younger sister for sexual abuse.

From a sharp friend: “I left the room before they killed him” is the new “I did not have sex with that woman.”

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Trump frequently talks like he ran against Obama and Biden. If anyone pointed out that was only able to get elected when running against GIRLS, he might melt like a salted slug. (Maybe we should test that theory.)

Pete Hegseth should resign.

if elon musk had a butler he wouldn't be spending all day online posting about trying to get grok to make a girlfriend for him, he'd be laying on the ground with jarvis spooning him, cradling his head gently

Why are students having learning challenges? I can't imagine:

"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture

We’re not shopping at Target, shop Black-owned. Here’s a list of Black- and minority-owned businesses that are in Target, buy from them directly. open.substack.com/pub/ninaturn...

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Pretty sure Anonymous was right all along and taking this down in it's entirety involves a lot more than Donald Trump. But, I'm definitely game for bringing down the global hierarchy. Long thread by Heather Marsh a few months ago about the scale of this shit. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/your...

Many problems. A simple answer: Tax the rich.

@joycevance.bsky.social covers the horrendous "Quiet, Piggy" remarks of Trump aimed at a Bloomberg reporter simply doing her job, & how his lifetime of misogyny is leading to his own undoing — his unglued panic to stop the reveal of the #EpsteinFiles. Women, claim Miss Piggy. 🧾 is.gd/vyzQOc

If you’re having a tough year and need a little extra help this season, many places are offering free Thanksgiving meals across Pittsburgh:

This IS who we are. This is who we’ve always been. We have an opportunity to change. Will we?

I’m going to keep calling for this: I really think we need a conclave of Black ladies. Y’all discuss the candidates among yourselves, and then let us know. I’ll be waiting outside. 👍💙

"Trump is governing like he's going to cancel elections" "Trump is governing like he doesn't expect to live to 2028" "Trump is governing like a cast iron idiot" are, unfortunately, all observationally equivalent.

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Suddenly the people who claim democrats can’t define a “woman” are having a real tough time defining a “child”.

Instead, the most consequential stories for our safety are largely ignored by mainstream news, appearing every now and then as special investigations rather than daily urgent stories like crimes of the poor. outlets like @levernews.com try to close this gap. www.levernews.com/shutdown-dea...

this video does a good job explaining stuff that should be on the nightly news every night instead of mug shots of poor people and people of color accused of street crimes. one of the most important questions you can ask yourself is why it's not. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Ds3KE9/

The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won

All you have to do is poll a random group of adult women to see how many were abused in childhood to know we've already demonstrated this. Epidemic levels.

The only bright spot in all of this is that a lot of wealthy and powerful people are no doubt feeling deep panic right now. I hope they all have many sleepless nights, upset stomachs, and nervous tremors to plague them until justice can be done.

"This could take down Democrats, too." I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office. Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.

Black thinkers & activists have been saying the same thing for more than 150 yrs: the rights, laws, & programs passed by Congress are meaningless if white Americans remain unwilling to enforce them.

ICE may think the masks protect their identities but payroll data lasts forever.

You cannot (accurately!) yell "fire, fire, fire!" as you enter a home & then not break down doors & windows to get people out. Otherwise, your cries of alarm are untrue or you're not up to leading.

Hey @fetterman.senate.gov

Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.

This is, unsurprisingly, nonsensical. Is he suggesting eliminating health insurance and giving people a few thousand dollars instead? And then when they get a cancer diagnosis they just go bankrupt? He is so unserious. That's why we are shut down and Americans know it.

Hi Bluesky, God just needs 17k followers to hit 600k. And then 66k more after that to hit 666k. That will be funny. Thanks, God

"Since the 1970s, Assemblies of God churches have repeatedly reinstated ministers and volunteer leaders accused of sexual misconduct, returning them to pulpits and youth groups..." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

We @civrightscorps.bsky.social fight constitutional cases to re-sensitize our society to the everyday brutality of the punishment bureaucracy. Support us, we need your help now more than ever because a lot of large donors are abandoning us. civilrightscorpsorg.secure.nonprofitsoapbox.com/donate

If you search the phrase “private planes” in this article, you will not find it. Why are they not simply grounding private jets first? Does Mr. Bezos not want to be inconvenienced? Isn’t this a basic question all journalists should be asking?

Transphobes are already targeting the biggest star in women's soccer and baselessly alleging she's a man because she's Black. This is what trans people warned would happen. Gender policing that becomes explicitly racial. www.outsports.com/2025/11/6/24...

A friend just sent this to me. I thought you’d like it. There are many reasons to treat each other
with great tenderness. One is
the sheer miracle that we are here together
on a planet surrounded by dying stars.
One is that we cannot see what
anyone else has swallowed. —Rosemerry Wahtola Tremmor