We can make a society that exists for the care and thriving and enjoyment of the actual people rather than for the enrichment of parasitical greed freaks and the comfort of creepy-minded religious bigots. All that's needed is for more people to stop fearing good things and start fighting for them.

Another angel just got their wings. “The first is that healthcare I spent years fighting to get becomes a punchline. The second is that a political movement with a perfectly coherent plan for people like me gets talked about as if it simply made a logic error. Both are bad.” Please read this.

Jasper Granola

honestly if you have a teenager in your life and you're tempted to make jokes about how they're a teenager, maybe instead tell them they're doin okay and you love them and you wanna see whatever thing they're working on. stop making fun. they're near universally not at a place where it feels funny

Yay, the grunion are running!

Hey, I know that author! My first published bit of true freelance NWSL coverage: fresh reporting from North Carolina on the Courage's efforts to score lots of goals (and a bit on how that proved difficult against the Spirit on Saturday.) Read it and make sure to follow their great coverage!

when you tell us that the people who murdered comity and civility—who are trying to kill and rob and enslave us—are actually your dear friends, you don’t create civility, but despair; we see you don’t actually believe the danger is real, can’t be trusted to fight the battle that needs to be fought.

What can you do to lessen some suffering where you are?

Timeline cleanse: You're watching Mei & Kira, two sea otters (Enhydra lutris) at the Toba Aquarium in Japan, help clean the pool area after playtime. The reward is an ice treat. Enrichment activities like this promote mental wellness. Let's talk about the SUCCESS of sea otter conservation.

I wrote about what the court’s ruling on trans kids in sports means, not in the eyes of the law, but in the eyes of children who just want to play. I really hope you’ll read and share this one. And I hope it helps give you the words to stand up for trans kids. They need us to do so much better.

Something that I appreciate about being a marginalized person in this country is that it makes me unsentimental about it. This means that there's always an opportunity to redo things. This day sucked, well there's tomorrow or next month or next year to do something else. Things should change.

A quick 4 for the 4th. karinwulf.com/trove/four-f...

Headed to bed but here's what's in my head, thanks to the book I am reading by @josie.zone's dad. I am really enjoying it so far! And the musical education is phenomenal. youtu.be/iB0hLsnWyhg?...

Kavanaugh really, really wants people to think that trans sports bans and his decision upholding them are strictly about sports None of that is true! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/west-...

I am gonna watch Supergirl again

Not sure there's an argument here

Jenny Taft reporting an equipment manager win getting Tillman a shoe change before his free kick. That's why the EQT folks do the hard running when no one's watching

It's all "ooooh we need a meritocracy" until the wrong people have merit and then it's like "oooh we need to protect us." Trans kids deserve a chance play in sports because EVERYONE deserves a chance to play in sports and nobody should lose that chance because they're disfavored by bigots.

Got frustrated striking out at pitching opeds to media orgs and couldn't have done this piece within their word count constraints anyway. So now you Blueskis get to read it. Friend told me my superpower is explaining complex and dry law and legal history clearly. I try. You can be the judge. Thx.

Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non binary people are non binary. Everyone has the right to be themselves. Everyone deserves a political and judicial system that respects and protects these rights. We need to make that happen.

#TransPeopleBelong #TransPeopleBelongInSports

Good morning and happy Pride, Trans women are women, and they belong in sports.

anyway i think the proper takeaway here is that a bare majority of the court thinks the plain words of the 14th amendment mean what they say, that four members believe there is a secret hidden meaning only recently discovered by hack lawyers

No sales yet! Only a day left to make rent!

Uh huh 🌈

Florida Surgeon General announced ALL vaccine mandates will be ended As a polio survivor, i was joyous when a vaccine became available. No other child would endure such fear & suffering. He said "who am i to tell u what to put in your body. it's God's business". Hes a doctor! This is lunacy

I wrote this love letter to NYC and to the unique ways that community develops here last weekend, but I haven’t had time to share it here yet. Today seems like a good day! 💙🧡

alright well i’ll just be in the corner crying all day don’t mind me

@adapalmer.bsky.social just so you know

This is 100 percent the Southern California of my childhood

High on my list: Lauren Cheney Holiday, for Gold Pride and FCKC (at the Maryland SoccerPlex), and the USWNT in friendlies in DC and Richmond. Just extraordinary.

I’m pretty sure there’s no mention of pizzas in the Bible and yet

This is a very perceptive, insightful essay. There are a couple of historiographical points I might quibble with—but so what? It also conveys the terrible juxtaposition of Gordon’s death with the moral gravity of the 250th, something we are finding it difficult to grasp.

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

here's an idea: what if we take a 3000 year-break from the misogyny, white supremacy, exploitation reevaluate after and see what we think how might that go

How do you capture jazz on camera? 📷

Sooo… my (now adult) kid and I were having a serious conversation so of course books by Jon Sziesca and Lane Smith came up (as is appropriate for very serious adult conversations) so I feel the need to mention Baloney (Henry P.) and Squids Will Be Squids as required reading for all …

🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

Much respect, which is to say, all respect, where due, but this is the way to view any work with multiple contributors. Collaboration is awesome. That said, RIP Marcia Lucas, whose amazing collaboration opened vistas

As someone who writes about community a lot but is also pretty introverted, I think we would benefit from being gentler on ourselves and others in setting our expectations for what community looks like and how quickly it forms. My years in the classroom tell me that community takes patience & time.

Historian here so honored to have curated the 250th exhibition, The Second American Revolution, at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield based on my new book #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic starting next week. presidentlincoln.illinois.gov/News/135/New...

just remembered the time, back when I was on twitter, that I said 'originalism is astrology for people who feel bullied by the Civil Rights Movement' and a bunch of people into astrology were like 'how dare you' 😭

Down to needing to sell 11 framed pieces to have rent! <3

Soccer’s hottest new club has opera singers (and a pickle) leading chants set to Mozart, a blue-haired midfielder, and jerseys sponsored by Planned Parenthood. My latest, on the first ever @cherrybombsfc.bsky.social game, in this week’s newsletter. im-curious-roey.beehiiv.com/p/im-curious...

So my family out in Garden Grove are able to return home tonight, as the evacuation area has been reduced. The situation on the ground with the MMA leak is still precarious. Thinking about the thousands of people who have to remain evacuated, as well as the fire & rescue & other public safety teams

Garden Grove evacuation area significantly reduced, thousands still remain displaced

Nobody does US constitutional history like this guy (I’m biased, but also correct). Here’s the link to the video: youtu.be/bf6lfOkOhT8?...