It’s crazy that the most exhausting part of my life right now has nothing to do with my newborn.

We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE

My baby is FIVE DAYS OLD.

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

It's weird how everyone in the world knows a Nazi salute when we see it, with the notable exception of journalists and their editors.

"When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body," says he, "there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest THE SAME monarch or senate should ENACT tyrannical laws to EXECUTE them in a tyrannical manner. "

"There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person." Montesquieu, as quoted by James Madison, Federalist No. 47

A reminder that @scarleteen.bsky.social is 100% queer and trans run and will ALWAYS be providing educational materials, support, and more to youth seeking sex, relationships, and health education from a source who won't casually erase their existence with their political winds.

Times are bleak, it’s true. But people are still out here doing incredible work now, when it matters most. Activists in KY bought land slated for a new prison, and will now fill it with native plants and use it as an intertribal gathering location. 🌱🌎🧪🌿

I’m due in just over a week and I desperately need to take a break from the news or I’m gonna lose it 😩

Fuck me.

If you go to my neurologist wearing a mountain of perfume/cologne, just know that I’m wishing I could wash you down with a fucking fire hose.

The millions in USAID food is STILL sitting at the Port of Houston. Trump fired the watchdogs reporting on this story, he doesn’t want Americans to see this debacle. Wasting millions on food already purchased is the epitome of wealthy entitlement #Voices4Victory www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/usa...

Friends, my mother asked me intelligent questions about the halftime show that I answered to the best of my ability. That said, she has asked for a summary of the symbolism to better explain it to HER friends. Any article recs, preferably by a Black writer?

As a public service, with no paywall until it ages into the archive, 2,304 words of “So You Think You Want to Expat” stoya.substack.com/p/2304-words...

Instead of saying "I didn't understand the halftime show, therefore it is bad art" maybe try and understand why you didn't get it and think critically about the presentation, symbolism, etc. This is part of the beauty of art and creativity.

I can’t believe the Supreme Court said the president was above the law and now the president is acting like he’s above the law.

This is literally the only item right now on the Yeezy website that the Super Bowl ad sent millions of people to last night. The entire site is just a swastika shirt for sale.

What is the most frustrating word to spell and why is it bureaucracy?

Kendrick Lamar has 22 Grammies and a damn Pulitzer if you don’t know who he is that’s a You problem

“Why don’t they play popular music at the Super Bowl anymore.” — Man who thinks 1996 was 10 years ago.

Trump getting booed at the Superbowl was the greatest halftime performance of my lifetime.

I have been trying to make this meme the whole game.

Kendrick Lamar has inspired me to hate people harder and louder 🫶🏻

Kendrick’s American flag motif at THIS MOMENT is subversive. Yes, yes, yes.

The last time someone got buried under a stadium like this, it was Jimmy Hoffa

My partner: “I can’t believe I am saying I miss Troy Aikman…but anyone is better than listening to Tom Fucking Brady this entire game.”

North Carolina reporting tuberculosis on the rise for the first time in decades, as an outbreak in Kansas continues to surge. North Carolina was one of the first States to institute a mask ban. A respirator doesn’t just guard against covid, it protects against TB too

So uh the president is purporting to prohibit "anti-Christian governmental or private conduct," which I'm pretty sure violates the First Amendment if we do still have a constitution

Once again, way too many people appear to have forgotten that the reason strikes and labour laws exist is not because workers need to be coddled but because they were the less messy alternative to the factory owner getting burnt alive inside his home by the workers

the definition of adult vs child is always arbitrary but goddamn, the choices we make. 19: a child if you're trans and looking for healthcare. 12: an adult if you're Black and you've stolen a bike. 25: a kid if you're a white mass shoooter. 13: an adult if you're a girl getting married

If you didn't want to have the law intrude into your personal business, you shouldn't have had a human body. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

I just need to be flooded with good news. I am nine months pregnant, I spend every single client session helping clients process and navigate *gestures vaguely*, and I am struggling so fucking hard emotionally and there's nothing I can do.

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

What a month this week has been. Lemon, it's Tuesday. This is a gentle reminder to relax your shoulders and unclench your jaw. Stay informed, but give yourself a break from the fire hose. You may not realize how intensely disregulating the constant stream of bad news and horror is until you do.

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Percy was about to harass Violet and so I distraught with the theracane. He chewed on it for a brief moment and then promptly fell asleep underneath it. What a little goober.

Lessons to be learned: 1. Centrists align with far-right to look tough on immigration 2. Centrists gain nothing 3. Far-right wins more power

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

again, they have no authority to offer this and you should NOT accept the offer expecting it to be adhered to

Democracy doesn’t mean whoever wins a slight plurality in the national vote gets to rewrite every American institution to satisfy their own whims. The president is not an elected king. If we let him become one, the project of American democracy is over.

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

Yep.

but in trying to be slick while figuring out which programs those are, OMB went too hard and issued a vague memo that told agencies to snitch on the programs that are now bad without any examples and left the targets the admin was avoiding seeming much more vulnerable

imo part of why this is so convoluted is wanting to go after "softer" targets for impoundment, namely grants and loans that go to groups and are then further distributed versus benefits for individuals, since there's usually more discretion about awarding the former