Had a full on panic attack reading news so I checked into some hobby reddits & the earnest way people are addressing this real composting question restores hope. Be a helper who looks up the half-life & degradation products of benzocaine coated frogs for a stranger! www.reddit.com/r/composting...

Calling is better if you can swing it, but if you're phone shy here's a slightly augmented script I made for faxing/emailing/etc (feel free to steal in alt text). Find Your Senators: www.senate.gov/senators/sen... Find Your Representatives: www.house.gov/representati...

Uhhhh I went to bed early last night. I got up at 630, started laundry and ordered my seeds for the garden in a hopeful move because spring is definitely gonna arrive someday and thought, "maybe I'll look at what's happening in the world Jesus Mary & Joseph WHAT WAS I THINKING"

"The warmth of collectivism" is IT. We're nothing without each other and we should act like it.

The juxtaposition of assembling ice alert whistles and listening to the inaugural speeches is pretty damn jarring.

After talking about trans people and immigrants and Black children, Jumaane Williams’ final line calling us to bring along everyone who falls through the cracks had me weeping. This image will carry me for a while. “As we march forward, no one let go of anyone’s hands.”

“Self-deport” is a whitewashed way to describe “fleeing the country under the threat of state violence.” I agree with Maria here — it’s important to call that exactly what it is.

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/

Was talking to a kid and she’d never heard of cooties. What a lucky generation. All those cooties shots worked.

You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.

Merry Christmas, nerds. Here’s a pretty song for you from Taylor Mac’s Christmas Album. youtu.be/TRcgJPujiXM?... .

This is my home. Some of my classmates worked on almond farms from the minute they got home from school til bedtime and did their homework on the bus both ways. This administration is changing their hard-fought pay raises that still aren’t enough.

The Mexican restaurant La Madre in Minneapolis is giving away free whistles.

If you want to make your ADHD kid feel better about himself, I highly recommend leaving the house without taking the whistle blitz materials you spent several days printing and bundling. And then needing to return a second time for your phone.

Attacks on feminism are similar to attacks on vaccines. We begin to take for granted a world where women have rights and most children live to see adulthood, and then, over time, we begin to forget, neglect, and (now) reject the movements and innovations that brought us here.

Yuanxin is six years old. He sat in a classroom in our neighborhood. His family fled danger seeking safety and were met with state violence and deportation instead. This is a moral failure. Demand accountability. Support local immigrant defense efforts. Refuse to let this happen in silence.

Reminder: seeking asylum is legal and something generations of people have found here. They came to the US seeking safety for their family. What danger have they been returned to?

At Tompkins Distro we support our neighbors with hot food, treats, fruit, pantry items, hygiene supplies, coffee & cocoa, and other resources such as masks, covid tests, know your rights info etc We could use some help with handwarmers this winter! www.amazon.com/registries/g...

This. This is how we fight in New York. We got you.

There is a very grumpy dude who pushes a granny cart through Flatbush with the bangin-est boom box and tonight, he rolled past my house blasting this. I threw open the door to let it in and weep a little. youtu.be/wEBlaMOmKV4?...

Human beings are being kidnapped and tortured. If you're in the Philly, Delaware, Maryland area, I need your help! I'm printing whistles to keep our neighbors safe! Looking for people willing to put kits together, fold zines, put on key rings, 3D print more, or distribute them.

This bill is a nightmare. I'll be calling Gillibrand later. In this house, we stand up and fight for trans folks. Full stop.

214 Democrats signed a discharge petition to force an up-or-down vote on extending Affordable Care Act tax credits to make sure tens of millions of Americans don't experience skyrocketing health insurance premiums. They just need FOUR House Republicans to join them. ☎️ Call YOUR rep at 202-224-3121.

Be the light we'll remember you for. Rob Reiner and his family were eating dinner next to us in a schmancy restaurant on my 21st birthday. We sat around a bar facing into the kitchen. When his wife stepped away, I asked "are you...." "Nah," he replied, "I just look like him. 21 huh?" then said

In other words, if you're non-white, ICE/CBP will assume you are a non-citizen until you can prove otherwise, and they won't accept your Real ID as proof of citizenship.

Yall you gotta order your Christmas gifts by the end of the weekend.

"My takeaway is always that this is a citywide, nationwide, twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week need for protests. This is a nearly infinitely wide highway, and we need every single lane to be occupied." Our Interview with Rachel Cohen [email protected] progressive.org/magazine/lan...

In court filings, migrants have said in sworn statements that they’ve been put in the WRAP for “unruly” behavior like asking to speak to their attorney. More on the WRAP: www.ap.org/news-highlig... More on ICE contractor Key Lime Air/Denver Air Connection: coloradonewsline.com/2025/10/23/c...

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

Call Jeffries and your own rep and tell them you don’t want this corrupt MF in this role when any number of people could fight against the kidnappings happening all over this country.

900 whistle cards assembled today! Mostly newcomers. Almost everyone felt empowered to take a bundle of 25 to canvass here in Flatbush. #weprotectus

i’m at the brooklyn training. amazing energy.

This week we are averaging 750-1000 whistles distributed per day- and those are just the ones our volunteers are providing and coordinating. Be safe, form a crowd, and BLOW THOSE WHISTLES.

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

I'm looking to connect people with 3d printers to a couple mutual aid groups who need whistles in NYC. Do you have friends who want to to make whistles but don't have connections? Particularly looking for Crown Heights/Prospect Heights/PLG/Park Slope folks and uptown (Bronx/Morningside/

One of the most effective things about the 1965 VRA is that it did not presume "legislative good faith", after multiple decades of racist electoral policy. It's time to bring back the presumptions that such policymakers are bad faith actors.

I just spat out my tea.

Imagine you're a menstruating teen who doesn't have money for sufficient supplies, so you're visiting the restroom every 1-2 hours to check that you don't bleed through. Whoever's guarding the restroom is absolutely going to make humiliating comments on the how often you go. So you'll stay home.

Best Christmas decorating I’ve seen. Every nativity scene should have a sign, FREE art pinned on my profile.

We’ve just stopped talking about the disgraceful complicity of every MSM outlet and reporter that has chosen to remain on a site that is an explicitly racist, Nazi cesspool. It is unconscionable that they have CHOSEN to continue using it as their primary social media platform.

Joy and gratitude for being picked to be that special girl allowed to cut the life support for hungry children. They should make a Hallmark movie about it.

Brooklyn political machine continues to be shady as shit.

My great-uncle was born in the Russian Empire and wrote God Bless America

LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD: It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS. I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x

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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

As Immigrant Youth Come Under Attack, These Schools Are Trying to Protect Them truthout.org/articles/as-...