President Donald Trump has pardoned Rudy Giuliani and scores of others accused of involvement in the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Trump's pardon attorney said late Sunday. www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/...

I can’t get this out of my head

I always share when I come across this quote again:

Announcing our 2025 Monarch Queer Literary Awards nominations!! @icarus-flies.bsky.social "Grief Is the Raven" Olivia Lehman "Winter Solstice" @gardnerdorton.bsky.social "Love Poem Featuring Ton 618" Malik Thompson "*" Keenan Teddy "Sonnet Unrequited" CB Wilson "We Harvested, We Harvested"

This is so important.

I love Wonder Woman❤️💙💛

A poem I wrote today, in response to my own creeping feelings of powerlessness. It’s hard not to sometimes feel small beside the sheer scale of the problems we face. But we have more power than we think we do, as individuals and as a collective.

This is why these facilities are blocking oversight and accountability. Because their actions are MONSTROUS. I believe these victims. We must stop this.

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

🔥 @agiftfromtodd.bsky.social : "Y’all get it now?? Do you understand what’s possible? I don't wanna hear no more 'my vote doesn't matter. Nothing ever changes.' Look what happens when you participate. We win everything. There are more of us… for the rest of your damn life, you gotta vote.”

Very Well Said, Adelita…. Adelita Grijalva: "THANK YOU Mike Johnson! By obstructing my swearing-in, you highlighted how corrupt this administration is. People all over the nation wouldn’t have even known about me otherwise."

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Something, something, ‘participation trophies for these snowflake public figures.’

Sandwich Guy appears to have more decency in his fingertip than the entirety of the Trump administration.

“We won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now it is something that we do.”

No, we don’t have to line up behind someone who isn’t fighting for trans rights. One of the many hope-filled lessons Mamdani’s win teaches us is that NO ONE’s rights need to be sacrificed, and in fact, fighting for everyone is a winning platform.

I'm super stoked that Colorado voted to fund free meals for kids for schools. (I've been saying lunches, but the program includes breakfasts, too.)

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

New Jersey, it is the honor of my life to earn your trust to become this great state’s 57th Governor. I promise to listen, lead with courage, and never forget who I serve.

“So hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.”

AOC: “We have a future to plan for, we have a future to fight for, and we’re either gonna do that together or you’re going to be left behind… This is about: do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now, and the assignment is to come together across difference no matter what.”

This is an OFF-YEAR election, and so this kind of election turn out is incredible!

Thank you, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social , for making ‘exercising voting rights’ cool again.

An ICE agent’s worst nightmare:

Vote, vote, vote!

Happy Zohran Day to all who celebrate!!

A poem I wrote some months ago showed up at my door today in the first issue of the relaunched Southerly magazine.

Using AI to solve problems is like traveling on a boat that is dragon-powered. “Look how fast I’m going with this dragon pulling my boat!” “But…the dragon is also setting your boat on fire!” “Yeah, yeah, but can you believe how much time I’m saving?!”

The words are coming back to me. Here’s some #midnightpoetry

Kristi Noem claims that ICE has not detained or arrested any US citizens. We're calling BS.

The absolutely brilliant pitch perfect troll of getting targeted by your opponent with virulent Islamophobia and then immediately releasing an ad in all Arabic.

Current events of the past month have left me a bit speechless. It has been difficult to know what to say that isn’t trite or redundant, even though words are usually some of my best friends. I think this is the point, of course, to leave people paralyzed and unable to react. But…(1/2)

Some of these billionaires and grifters act like they’ve never had a Lit teacher drill them on the fatal flaws of greco-roman epic heroes—and it shows.

This whole thread. “Oh no, someone might eat food!” Good. That’s good. “They might buy something they like.” Cool. “They might get a treat!” Also cool.

I visited Grand Street Senior Housing on the Lower East Side today and tried a little Bomba y Plena…

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

In a win for the arts and universal basic income, Ireland plans to make permanent a $1,500-a-month pilot program for artists, citing benefits to creativity, mental health, and financial stability.

Know what doesn’t cost $29.99 a month for the privilege of playing an ~$80 RPG with/without friends? D&D, folks! Time to dust off the ol’ player’s handbook.

One day, when this national nightmare is over and speaking up has no consequences, everyone will claim they were against this.

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.” — Anne Sexton #5amwritersclub #amwriting #writerslife #writing #wattpad #mustread #amreading #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #WIP #poetry

"The word of truth is single in its nature; and a just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument, since it is sick, needs clever medicine." #Classics #Quotes 📚💙

Source: @kylec.bsky.social An amazing crowd and photo. No Kings, Denver, Colorado.

Today’s the day. See you in the streets.

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!

Been printing this at Sherman Park for a while, and just added the protocols from Rogers Park!