1/ Dark money is not a donation. It's a rigged operating system. Cash moves through nonprofits and front groups so billionaires, fossil fuel firms, and crypto players can shape elections without ever signing their name. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

An administration so ignorant that it is indifferent to American history. Kash Patel goes snorkeling over a site where 2,403 Americans lost their lives. And when Donald Trump visited, his chief of staff said he asked what happened at Pearl Harbor and why they were there. apnews.com/article/fbi-...

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“The most violent element in society is ignorance.” Emma Goldman, who died on this day in 1940

Terrorizing any child for any reason is abhorrent. Americans need to wake up & put a stop to Ice & their brown shirt tactics designed to horrify & petrify small children. Stopping this admin from harming children should be a top of everyone reading this. Only the weak target the vulnerable. #Pinks

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

JD Vance, the VP of the man who is currently shaking down the DOJ for a $10 billion "settlement" and the Treasury for an additional $1 billion for his tacky, vanity ballroom, appearing at a "Protecting Taxpayer Dollars" event, is shamelessly comical.

This is Natty. He's the first official team dog for the Washington Nationals. He makes his big-league debut on Friday and will learn basic skills and socialization with the team before he goes on to formal service dog training with Canine Companions. 13/10

We are on our way to losing our measles elimination status. Meanwhile, Australia is on track to becoming the first country to eliminate cervical cancer. Gardasil, free to 9-25 yr olds as part of their national immunization program, played an important role. 🧪 www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clini...

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Toni Cade Bambara was a writer, filmmaker, activist, and educator who helped shape the Black Arts Movement and the rise of Black feminism. She also co-founded the Southern Collective of African American Writers to help ensure Black voices were heard. Her legacy still endures. #SheShed

Saying the quiet part out loud...

ICE has illegally started construction of a detention warehouse in Santa Clara County in violation of our county zoning ordinance prohibiting such facilities. The protest is being organized by the Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network Organization (SIREN). @50501sanjose.bsky.social

The pushback against southern Republicans targeting black representation includes a recall petition started by 2 women who want to fight back against the power grab. Their initiative “Louisiana Deserves Better” started w/ a recall petition for a mayor, then the Governor, and now the AG. 1/2

The president is negotiating against his own administration to shake down taxpayers for $10 billion. The corruption meter is flashing red and sounding the alarm. ca.news.yahoo.com/doj-consider...

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

Destroying Tennessee’s only majority-Black congressional district wasn’t enough for Republicans. Now they’ve stripped every Democrat—and every Black member—in the state house of their committee assignments. Disgusting, racist, and undemocratic.

Betrayed and detained: An 85-year-old French widow spent 16 days in federal custody after her stepson allegedly used her expired visa as a weapon in a fight over his father’s estate.

Goodmorning everyone. Hope you have a safe and wonderful Wednesday.

It’s National Children of Fallen Patriots Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 May 13th, we observe Children of Fallen Patriots Day to honor the children who have lost parents in military conflict This day reminds us of the ongoing support needed to help these families move forward. We will be Okay Love Foxy

#RISEUP #STANDUP #Georgia Woodstock Georgia Hide & Seek with Loudermilk Thursdays Mar 19 through Sep 17 4:30 – 5:30pm EDT Sidewalks in front of Loudermilk’s office 9898 GA-92 Woodstock, GA 30188 www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

An ICE removal flight operated by Journey Aviation just landed in Myanmar--the second time this year. Migrants onboard will have been shackled for 19+ hours. Previous Burmese deportees were immediately sent to a nearby torture prison, per @jamesstout.bsky.social. gillianbrockell.com/three-craven...

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” - William Butler Yeats #magic #booksky #poetry #books #usedbooks #yeats #poetics

Bravo Hawaii ✊🍃🌺🍃✊ #NoMoreCitizensUnited ⛔️

Republicans refused to show up today for the #Epstein survivors testimony. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett explains this shouldn’t be a partisan issue. She’s right. Shameful.

The Guardian launches its '100 best novels of all time' list, with numbers 100-81. I was one of the 172 authors, critics and academics polled. Afaik, two of my ten choices made the final cut, one in this first tranche:

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Louis Armstrong performing for his wife at the Great Sphinx of Giza (1961). 📷 Bettmann/Corbis

They are trying to silence Ainsley for speaking out against the Georgia Power company using eminent domain to destroy the homes of folks for a damn data center. They could find another path they always could but corporations equal families in the U.S. #pinks #bluedot #Georgia

“The Reflecting Pools in Washington, D.C. were designed for one purpose: reflection. They are supposed to mirror the beauty, dignity, and symbolism of the monuments around them. They were never intended to look like a chlorinated Olympic swimming pool where you can count pennies on the bottom.”

The same administration that told you America was broke that we “have to gut the Forest Service”, slash public lands budgets, and fire federal workers to save money, just spent $29 billion on the Iran war. In only a few months.

Happy National Limerick Day! 📚💙 #poetry #limerick #getcaughtreading

Remembering the late great 3-time Oscar & 6-time Grammy winner — BURT BACHARACH — born 98yrs ago today.

It’s National Limerick Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 National Limerick Day celebrates the birthday of English artist, illustrator, author, and poet Edward Lear (May 12, 1812 – Jan. 29, 1888).   Lear is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry, prose, and limericks. We will be okay Love Foxy

There’s no war here! Calling it a war is just a convenient way to pretend both sides carried the same weight! There is an imbalance. Period. You don’t heal imbalance by denying it ever existed! Call it what it is or nothing changes! #SheShed #SpeakTheTruth #WomensRightsMatter

"The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it” - Mark Twain

📌We are but one serious virus away from a catastrophe, and not near enough is being made about the fact that a former heroin addict and anti-vaxxer, who has ZERO training in medicine, academia, or scientific research would be leading the response. IT IS ABSURD.

🚨 AUTHORS AND WRITERS 🚨 📚💙 The #1 rule of #booksky is that your self promotional posts may not outnumber your other posts to the feed and almost all of you are in violation of this rule! I get so many complaints about this - it's ruining the feeds and driving everyone's sales down too.

Trump promised the Reflecting Pool makeover would cost $1.8M. The actual bill? $13.1M…quietly handed, no bid, no review, to a contractor who fixed his golf club pool. Now he’s being sued. Seven times over budget and counting. 📈​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ #USDemocracy #Pinks newrepublic.com/post/210248/...

Freeing up the solar and wind energy he's paying billions to stop wouldn't hurt either.

John Oliver on the Supreme Court: "It was a 6-3 decision in the case of White People vs. Everybody — and you’ll never guess who they ruled in favor of”

Immigrants are now afraid to call 911 and people are dying because of it. A man called for a welfare check on his sick 4-year-old. Police ran his ID and handed him to ICE. This is what “public safety” looks like under Trump’s deportation machine. #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AXnlgmGZwSui...

Senate Democrats will fight the Ballroom Republicans and their out-of-touch reconciliation bill that funds Trump’s vanity projects with taxpayer money while neglecting rising health care costs and gas prices faced by millions of Americans. We will use every tool available.

Editor’s notebook: An elegy for Tennessee.  tennesseelookout.com/2026/05/11/e...

Trump claimed it would cost $1.8 million to paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue. The Interior Department then moved to pay a Virginia firm called Atlantic Industrial Coatings $13.1 million for the job a 628% increase over Trump’s stated figure.

Shutdown Dilley. Free our Children.

Thanks, @starshine731.bsky.social, for including me in this great Starter Pack. Happy Monday, all!

The U.S. Forest Service isn’t managing forests anymore. It’s running a timber operation and poisoning everything else to do it. A yearlong investigation by Mother Jones found that the Forest Service and private logging companies are systematically spraying thousands of