Hey folks! For the past few years Jim and Dave opened their home and hearts to two foster kids and were in the process of adopting them. Now they’re in a legal fight to try and keep their daughters. The costs are mounting, and if you can help and want to… gofund.me/04917947c

Pope, who has spent a large part of their career as a public interest lawyer at community organizations, is trying to get the cash up to take the required CLE courses to maintain their license. If you’re inclined to assist a person who assists.

It’s that time of year again. I’ll have a handful of slots open for needle felt creatures. Most people give them as gifts or hang them on tree. Message me if you are interested.

Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message. /1

Come on folks, spend my money!

Yes indeed! And that $308 will pay for 12 students' worth of groceries! bsky.app/profile/swee...

Question: is there a small-but-useful tool for hooking a car door and pulling it shut using your inside hand? My grabber thing is too big / unwieldy for the space Searching Amazon has given a list of things to get *into* the car, but that's not my issue -- just need to close the driver-side door

For those of y'all just seeing this, the thread start is here -- it's a long thread, featuring a lot of history Please reskeet and help spread the word since we don't have a universal algorithm here! 🥰 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ bsky.app/profile/greg...

Goats In Coats 🚨🚨🚨I repeat GOATS IN COATS!!!

So your $5 gets added to $54 ➡️ $59 Then that $59 gets doubled by Brian ➡️ $118 And that $118 will buy a full bag of groceries for 5 kids! 🔥 Or 262 apple sauce pouches 😄 Donation links here: bsky.app/profile/greg...

#Washington Congrats to Katie Wilson!

*** 11th ANNUAL BULL CITY FOODRAISER FUNDRAISING THREAD *** It's that time again! 🦃 For the 11th year in a row, we need your help providing groceries to 5,100+ schoolkids! ➡️ GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/11th-annua... ➡️ PPGF: www.paypal.com/US/fundraise... (Plus other donation options in thread!)

@schumer.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social Don't you DARE sell out the American people based on "promises" from the Republicans when you know they're lying. Don't you dare do it.

If they do a 21 gun salute at his funeral, fucking duck.

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Need to fire up a Foodraiser thread soon, but the Costco order is in Food comes out to $129,606.45 this year, up +2.28% YoY If you're willing to be one of our per-donor matchers, please let me know!

Anyone up for a Flash Weekend Fundraiser to help two very special kitties? Snowshoe and Scooter both have important upcoming medical procedures. Drop your pledge below and I’ll launch a GoFundMe for them. Our goal is $5000. This our new partnership with HVSPCA.

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com Altria Group Inc. Amazon Apple Inc. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. Caterpillar Inc. Coinbase Global Comcast Corp. Hard Rock International Google HP Inc. Lockheed Martin Corp. Meta Platforms Inc. 1/3

I'm posting an updated Pesto fundraiser. I added in all the details on GoFundMe. We are cautiously optimistic because she is slowly responding to the very expensive medication Marquis. She is also being treated for Lyme. Plus lots of vet visits and fluids/ bloodwork. gofund.me/ee16714e

Anyone up for a quick UlcerGuard for Pesto? www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

We’re thinking of an inn-to-inn hike in the UK next year. One of you had a blog with their Hadrian’s Wall hike. Anyone remember that?

Meet wee little Scout. She was just days old when found. This is life saving work. Sound ⬆️ to hear her little motor. I’ll be slowly introducing new kids to Croutonia ❤️

Release Day!!! Crouton’s aunt Neko drops an exquisite record. 🤍 get it!!! #NekoCase

CHONK ALERT 🚨 Meet Sheldon. If you’d to help us get the Hudson Valley SPCA all set up here at the sanctuary please consider a donation gofund.me/f9aba9f6b

Updated link to the HVSPCA GoFundMe 🤍https://gofund.me/87db54745

this may brighten your day tbh

Youngkin has mobilized the Virginia National Guard to support ICE ops - @abigailspanberger.com - you might want to put out a statement saying you'll have them stand down if elected. www.pilotonline.com/2025/09/17/v...

Thank you to everyone that has donated, shared and commented. We have made some progress. Just not enough. I’m hoping for a good couple days ❤️

/6 Also: if a Left-wing activist even remotely as strident as Charlie Kirk had been assassinated, Charlie Kirk would have smirked and applauded, as would have many of the people who are going to be loudest about Charlie Kirk. Don’t buy the hypocrisy.

there is good in this world u just have to know where to look

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Once upon a time a bunch of farmers in the Middle East came to an agreement allowing some slinky local creatures to do pest control for their crop storage. Cut to 9,000 years later: Happy International Cat Day! icatcare.org/internationa...

Hi journalists! Before I start targeted emails to journalists I've talked to before, I'm just going to put this out here and see if it works: Now that Reflect Orbital https://www.reflectorbital.com/ has officially filed to launch their first satellite, does anyone want to write an article about […]

Apparently you can't just record yourself screaming as a description, so I have relunctantly written some actual words about the problems we're facing as a rescue

Off topic from the assorted horrors of the day, y'all remember the org Crayons2Calculators that I used to raise money for? They provide school supplies to elementary schools in Durham NC? Planning to do another Bluesky fundraiser thread this Friday, and hope y'all will join me Tell a friend

I enthusiastically aid and abet terrorism.

Hey, who has a good resource on termites in eastern North America that's NOT pest control propaganda?

just added some new stuff nora.jewelry

Hard to articulate how devastating this is going to be Y'all know how much time and effort goes into the Bull City Foodraiser each winter – feeding those 5100+ kids for 2 weeks is ~$150K $11M is roughly 73 foodraisers, *poof*

Hey remember when people said “we need a domestic terrorism statute” and people like me said “that would be super ripe for abuse for whatever lunatic is in power, would you want Trump to have that power” and you sneered at “slippery slope thinking”? Yeah, I remember, dipshit.

It's not Friday (and I'm keenly aware that ::gestures broadly:: is a dumpster fire) but just found out a guy I've worked with re decriminalizing weed in NC was badly injured in a runaway bus accident a couple months ago I'm donating $5-per-donor til 1159p tomorrow: www.gofundme.com/f/assist-chr...

Ms. Sonia has gotten her stuff out of storage and paid off the storage and the rent but her car will be repossessed if she doesn't get $1750 ASAP - pay links preferred as GFM takes days to process through. #HelpSky #MutualAid #HelpPeopleLive2025 #DV #ShowUpForWishes 💸💕

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do! www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

Several people have asked if anyone has done a survival guide for federal employees — a collection of resources, links, advice, etc. If not hopefully some people knowledgeable about federal employee rights will do it.

Reminder: Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these. Avoid directly leaking images; instead, request that the information be rewritten and the image recreated

Elon Musk is a terrible president.