Here's Episode 9: "Short Stories We Love". www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/epi...

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

in all seriousness: one of the most important philosophical questions of our time

Oyster Dome.

I miss her so much, but the work is on the rest of us now. @ursulakleguin.com at the 2014 National Book Awards. "I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9N...

Innocent people — undesirables, political dissidents — are being sent to camps here and abroad. A scapegoated minority is being persecuted, made an example of. Wrongthink is being stricken from government institutions and civil society. There is no more "if" authoritarianism arrives. It's here.

#booksky #wordoftheday

An influencer live tweets the apocalypse:

In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger. —Adrienne Rich

Robots! Hauntings! Doxing! Live-tweeting the Apocalypse! River Styx 109 is our biggest and most unexpected issue ever. Explore internal and external Posthuman landscapes. Preorder today. www.riverstyx.org/river-styx-109

Today, around ten thousand people gathered at Tesla showrooms across 50 states and internationally to protest Elon Musk (DOGE). We encourage everyone to join again next Saturday, March 8th, with more events planned.

Me, popping in to see what news I missed today *remembers what timeline I live in* Fifteen hours later…

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊

Plus Joy and Lester Holt? Looks like the slide deck of a Power Point presentation at an employment discrimination webinar. Not a good look @msnbc.com Not a good look at all. A betrayal of your loyal audience & a disaster for your network. www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bl...

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

This week, approximately 200,000 federal workers have been let go.

Erasing our history won't erase us. Transgender people have always been here — and we always will be.

The removal of a transgender reference from the National Park Service’s Stonewall website wasn’t done by NPS staff. Elon, care to elaborate?

The overwhelm has reached max capacity.

We think they should be powerful enough to afford principles. They think they have a lot to lose (and they lost their "don't be evil" motto a long time ago). Google, you coward, you quisling.

Gender affirming care is essential!

“We’ve seen this sort of thing happen in evacuations of war zones,” one official said. “I just can’t believe we’re doing it for the flippant kind of political pageantry that this administration seems to be doing it for.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Entire USAID agency worldwide was deleted by a consulting government employee with no authority to do so. It’s a constitutional crisis that puts US national security at risk and normies won’t get this until legacy media says this clearly and loudly.

Canadian radio is on it! I’ve been hearing ads to buy Canadian all week.

Good morning, hellscape.

NEW: Chaos is consuming USAID as the State department moves to send overseas staffers home. Already, some USAID employees’ email and systems access have been abruptly cut off, making it harder to get official information about what might happen next.

We see all of you, D.C. Please, America, help us. Thank you—you give us hope.

It’s all a part of the same continuum. Genocide & ethnic cleansing from Gaza to the West Bank, silencing of Palestinians & their allies, resegregation, incarceration, and deportation, erasure of trans people. That’s why those who resist have to draw the line at every single moment—no exceptions.

USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

We're going to be outside Treasury tomorrow at 5 PM to ask Elon Musk what he's doing with our money. SHARE AND JOIN US: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

Members of Congress with @beyer.house.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov now seeking entry at USAID

History you need to know: The Montgomery Bus Boycott went on for almost a year.

*across the world.

And I’ve seen screenshots that he’s laughing about it over on Twitter. Making fun of people losing their jobs. People who are in humanitarian aid work.

Billionaire Elon Musk has stated that work is underway to shut down the U.S. foreign aid agency, USAID. Officials have been instructed not to report to work and have been locked out of the building.

It’s official: Elon Musk’s staffers have now illegally obtained classified information from the USAID office. Here’s a recap of what’s happening:

"Foreign assistance is one of the more misunderstood items in the federal budget," the Editorial Board writes. "It creates an enormous bang for a relatively small buck." wapo.st/3PZU3Ta

An anonymous person at the CDC just archived all the public CDC datasets as of 1/28 and uploaded it to archive.org

1,100 EPA employees have been notified of imminent termination.

Support foreign aid workers!

My @newyorker.com piece on the ongoing, likely unconstitutional funding freeze at USAID now imperiling millions: “This is not a pause. It is a destruction.” USAID is also where the Administration is testing out its playbook for eviscerating other agencies. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

What’s happening at USAID is horrifying. People who have risked and spent their lives helping others during disasters are being demonized by this administration.