A friend sent this important reminder to me this morning in honor of my birthday, James Baldwin once again speaking necessary truth across the years, in a time when showing compassion, care, and love, to “magnify each other’s light” is critical work. #hopeinthedark #wisdom #inspiration

Underreported in most of the stories about the silencing of Jimmy Kimmel, Sinclair Broadcasting has snapped up hundreds of local stations with an eye toward promoting conservative talking points pre-packaged as "news." Media consolidation is a key tool of autocratic governments.

How I wish this Mary Oliver poem was not so prescient about this terrible moment we are all living through #poetry #poems #truth

So funny, and not funny at all.

A little something to soothe the soul in these crazy, crazy times.

We're three lines into "First they came..."

On nutrition, Jeffrey Dahmer has broken sharply with the mainstream.

"Life in the United States is profoundly changing, is profoundly different than it was even six months ago, because we do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge." Rachel Maddow, August 4, 2025

Get great content, support my local public broadcasting, and stick it to the thought police all at once? Oh yeahhhhhhhhh. I am so in.

The name "Alligator Alcatraz" reminds us that America is currently run by adults who are like malicious, giggling children using magnifying glasses to burn ants.

👏 Also, Prime Day sales were down 41% on the first day, according to Bloomberg. #dumpAmazon

We are literally living through the absolute dumbest moment in history.

Need another reason to avoid Amazon? You're welcome.

“As a nation we are as close to autocracy as we’ve ever been. It seems like fascism is basically a war on consensus reality and we need to put a pin in those points where it’s so obvious that it’s not true...We need to flood the zone too but with the truth.”

Love this #poem and the way it meets this particular, difficult moment #poetry #hopeinthedark #wisdom #inspiration

I'm probably never going to know the details of the floods in Texas because I can't stand reading about them. But I do think two things can be held true simultaneously: -no voted for this, no one deserves this -extreme weather shows why we need government, why rugged individualism is not enough

From a scholar who ought to know. #neveragainisnow

Here's a friendly reminder. 📣🇺🇸

I needed this @nikitagill.bsky.social #poem this very difficult #independenceday and the clear-eyed #inspiration it provides. #hopeinthedark #poetry #persist #resist

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

May our anger at this abomination of a budget bill be the fuel that fires us up to win back the House and Senate in 2026.

A friend sent me this moving beauty of a #poem yesterday, which gets it so right about our relationship with dogs and why I love them so. #poetry #doglover #poetrylover #dogsofbluesky #dogs #doglife

Love this artwork and message from Little Truths Studio #inspiration #hopeinthedark #stillhere #pride #belovedcommunity

I wonder if Little Ronnie will still be laughing when he needs those FEMA funds spent on this vile travesty for the next hurricane to hit Florida.

Another favorite. So, so good. #poetry #poems #summerreading

Clearly, I'm very much not alone in how July 4th is hitting differently this year. Also, maybe Democrats should take heed of how frustrated their base is with their anemic response to these very real threats, as also illustrated in this polling.

“Evil is not what we should fear. Creatures with power acting in their own interest: that is what should make us shudder.”––Shehan Karunatilaka, in The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida #bookquotes #booksky

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on this day in 1969 the Stonewall Uprising, "a pivotal moment in the LGBTQ+ rights fight, began and sparked a movement led in part by two transgender activists: Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera." Let us honor them today by fighting for love and equality today.

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander: "I don't think the line for the [Democratic] party right now is between progressives and moderates; I think it's between fighters and folders."

A terrible day for our country, a devastating blow.

Sotomayor nails it. There's no longer anything called general public education, & kids can only be exposed to what their religious zealot parents want them to see, no matter how important or valuable the general lessons are. Math offends your religious views? You can opt your kid out. Evolution?

Oooh oooh! I know which ones they mean!

10 years ago today, the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. "They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law," then-Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the ruling. "The Constitution grants them that right."

You don’t have to concede ANY bad-faith arguments to right-wingers to win elections. You really don’t.

Good news out of NYC. Even with a ton of money and a party machine aimed against him, a thoughtful, energetic candidate who did the hard work of vigorous campaigning and has a vision that speaks to the issues of greatest concern to the most folks won. I hope the DNC is paying attention.

The flock has gathered at the Little Flamingo Free Library to celebrate National Pink Flamingo Day. #littlefreelibrary #booksky @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

LOVE this!

A question every reporter should be asking Trump and Republicans: If Trump doesn't trust his own Director of National Intelligence, and by extension, US intelligence, then which country's intelligence is he relying upon?

I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

I cannot say often enough that for all his narcissistic swanning about the stage "agonizing" about "his" decision, the Constitution flatly forbids Trump from attacking a sovereign country that has not attacked the US without obtaining congressional consent.

I just finished the best kind of #beachread, an open-hearted, sweet, often funny, and ultimately very readable take on the deeply serious issue of book banning as it unfolds in a small town full of quirky, compelling characters. #booksky #summerreading

“This is what we mean by courage, to be like the hummingbird I saw yesterday—not searching for nectar, but instead with its needle-beak gathering dandelion fluff to line its tiny nest in the tree above, making at least one soft place to land and rest in this harsh world.”—James Crews #poetry #hope

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“but when we are silent/ we are still afraid/So it is better to speak/remembering/we were never meant to survive.” I think about Audre Lorde’s powerful poem & its call to action often. It seemed especialy appropriate to share this #juneteenth, during this #pridemonth #poetry #wisdom #inspiration

Just as importantly, reading and writing are how we learn to think. Uncontrolled AI is a mortal threat to the children’s brains.

The assault on LGBT+ folks continues. If you are telling yourself this doesn't concern you, that you are safe from this sort of treatment, look to history. Transgender and gender-nonconforming people, for example, were among the first to be dehumanized in Nazi Germany, with others soon to follow.

Thanks, Faye, for the most adorable timeline cleanse.