This is quite a terrifying but must read from inside Trumps' America.... Local leaders and citizens challenge Trump’s ICE in Chicago The politicians of Chicago are joining protest organisers in the battle against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents @dear-starfish.bsky.social

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

The only explosions we need -- echinacea and flea bane.

Our marine friends are grateful for the Freedom Flotilla and hoping for their safety 🍉

Thoughts from the tidepool: If you can't relate to growing up queer, ask yourself if you are really living life. 🧵

Also, to be temporarily serious, I hate that my political awareness as a citizen in a so-called representative government requires keeping up with the personal relationship of an unhinged billionaire private citizen and the man to whom he gifted the presidency

Kinda eerie how a St Louis comrade has been privately sharing disaster zone details — huge swaths of the city leveled, working-class Black folks disproportionately impacted — and how I'm basically not seeing this catastrophe reported by most national media. Read @devintoshea.bsky.social's piece ⬇️

Wild black raspberries on the way. 😋

Gabor Mate's truth and compassion are welcome to our tidepool anytime. www.instagram.com/reel/DJVvEql...

With all that's happening in the world, there is still love and beauty. So say my mallard friends.

Here at the tidepool, we reject the trashing of our environment and removal of supports for our most vulnerable (99%) of humans so billionaires can have tax breaks. We call it the Rigged Unsuitable Shill. US Humans, call your Senators and tell them not to pass it.

In addition to my excitement about Kelly's forthcoming book, I am so happy that my friend and comrade @ollycostello.bsky.social created the book cover. It's beautiful. You can pre-order the book here: www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

Horrific

Man who had a student kidnapped and trafficked because she wrote something he didn't like yuks it up with man who had a journalist dismembered with a hacksaw because he wrote things the man didn't like.

"Accountable empire" is an oxymoron. Those poor people 💔 We know of similar US behavior. (Haditha, Fallujah, the entirety of Vietnam) www.bbc.com/news/article...

Yes! All hands on deck.

"Cisgender men are elevated and protected in theology, beliefs, symbolism, cultural norms, political investments, chain of command, and power while everyone else is systemically sidelined and, ultimately, endangered." sorayachemaly.substack.com/p/no-cookies...

Breaking News: Governor Gavin Newsom called on California municipalities to outlaw homeless encampments and clear existing ones.

Good morning from the traditional homeland of The Council of the Three Fires.

It took this oxblood trillium 9 years to bloom. And the water has been here from the beginning.