Speaking Truth to Power! Thank you, Candidate Isaiah Martin 🌊 #TruthToPowerTuesday 💙

Jimmy Kimmel's back #kimmel #freespeech #abc www.pbs.org/newshour/art...

What “fascism” means Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DO6EvDz...

Timeline cleanse: a young deer grazes outside my daughter’s house. My SIL says it used to graze with its mom. They’ve seen only the young one the past few times. #nature #deer #cleanse #wildlife

Do you remember The 21st night of September? Love was changing the minds of pretenders While chasing the clouds away Our hearts were ringing In the key that our souls were singing As we danced in the night, remember How the stars stole the night away, oh yeah www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...

It's a good reminder to look at the actual text every once in a while.

The portal entices me To go back, back, back In time before the frack, frack, Fracking of our world. Hear the hack, hack, hack— The wrack, wrack, wrack Of a nation in steep decline. #vsspic

Erika Kirk is this generation's Phyllis Schlafly (1924–2016), a lawyer, author, and conservative activist who got paid to tell other women to stay home. She lived a feminist's life while telling other women that she was against feminism. www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts...

There’s nothing like seeing green leaves next to a very late summer blue sky.

Dutch late night TV has its take

First they came for the law firms, but I did not speak out because I'm not a law firm. Then they came for the universities, but I did not speak out . . . Then they came for the comedians, but I did not speak out . . . WHEN WILL WE ALL SPEAK UP?

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

What happened in Odessa, Texas, may be a prelude to what is happening at the federal level: hard-liners purging professionals, letting friends take over jobs, & crashing the city. The voters reacted last election by getting rid of them all and bringing sanity back. VOTE! apple.news/ArDHXyFZiSiK...

OBAMA: Sir, I’m not the President of the United States, currently. So, there’s no point in shouting at me. I’m not in charge of foreign policy currently.

2022 — a confession:

One of my favorite songs! I can't seem to face up to the facts I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax I can't sleep, 'cause my bed's on fire Don't touch me, I'm a real live wire

I’m looking at flower photos on my phone to ward off the existential dread hovering around me.

I know baseball players look younger and younger as we get older and older. But I mean, really? This is Connelly Early, pitching tonight for the Red Sox. He looks like he's still in high school. #goredsox #redsox #redsoxnation

donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

RIP Robert Redford. A heart throb and great actor. I once showed his version of the Great Gatsby to a high school English class. The girls in class all gasped when his face came on the screen. Yes, I said, we're all in love with him.

A bit of whimsy for the day—

Good Monday Morning #BookSky! Did you add care & joy to the world this weekend? Great! As part of Banned Books Week @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social is organizing Let Freedom Read Day on October 11. On that day, we're asking everyone to take 1 action to protect the right to read. More info & actions👇

Speaking truth.

The old, "I'm not crying, you're crying." I love this dad and his child!

Journalism at one time was made up of very brave people who covered: McCarthyism. Civil Rights efforts. Pentagon Papers. Harvest of Shame. Watergate. Etc. We need this to return.

I'm a Christian and I am offended. I'm also disgusted, repulsed, appalled, pissed off, incensed, maddened, peeved, nauseated, sickened, grossed out.

I didn't know anyone in an iron lung, but I knew 2 polio survivors. One was in a wheelchair & one was walking but very frail. They both died young. I knew an adult survivor of polio who developed post-polio syndrome. Muscle atrophy, pain, joint pain, curvature of the spine. Polio is preventable.

It’s 3 pm here and as dark as 8 pm. Automatic lights are going on. And here comes the rain. And wind.

This is outrageous. A draft dodger cosplaying as a Vietnam War warrior and threatening a US city. We ALL need to be screaming WTF. This shouldn’t be happening in our country.

Only 2 in 10 women with ovarian cancer are diagnosed at stage 1. Most are diagnosed at stages 3 and 4. I was diagnosed at stage 3C. Know the symptoms.

I concur.

We need to see this in so many cities and towns: cheering and supporting those representatives and senators who have forgotten what really makes America great.

Broken Dolls comes out in exactly four weeks! Pre-orders are appreciated and if you're in the NYC area, I'll be doing a launch at The Twisted Spine with @claymcleod.bsky.social www.harpercollins.com/products/bro...

Spent a couple hours protesting today with friends and strangers. Have to figure out a way to get more young ppl involved.

My cowriter today. Gave me some good ideas.

If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

I live in NH. Why is my state not taking part in this?

Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:

“𝐈𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞.” —Robert Reich, professor, former Secretary of Labor

The next days and months and years will demand from all of us great courage — and solidarity. Be prepared.

My ovaries, the two That make me woman Turned on me, grew Too many rogue cells. #Malignant, they booed. Indignant, I screamed, It must be untrue. #Malignant, they claimed, And cut and removed All that made me woman. #vss365

When I was a young adult, one of the sayings on the right-wing side was "America: Love it or leave it." That was bad enough. Today these nuts cry "America: Be like us or we're kicking you out, even if you were born here." This is totally nuts. This is anti-American. So much for the land of the free.

#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/

This is insane. I volunteer for a group that gives food to kids in schools, daycare centers, etc., plus has open hours for everyone else 2x a week. Some who come to open hours don't speak English. We don't care. We have food. They need food. We give them food. I won't ask for proof of citizenship.

#vssdaily Purple haze shows off The color of bourgeoisie It’s beauty for all to quaff It’s beauty for all to see. ’Tis but an iris aloft Celebrating a jubilee.

I. Can't. Write. Anything. Today. I. Can't. Even. Edit. What. I've. Written. My mind is torn into dozens of pieces trying to keep feelings at bay about the country and youngsters being killed and wounded when in prayer.

A long thread but so true. Read it and follow her advice. Those who can't/won't celebrate someone's success can bug off.

"epic mouth off"? What the heck?