Travel insurance usually costs between 4-10% of the cost of your trip and is worth it for the extra assistance you can get when things go wrong. I buy through Trip Insurance Store because of the personalized service helping you select a plan, and help with claims too (not a paid promotion).

If you have $25 to spare for abortion access, send it to @c-a-f.bsky.social or your local abortion fund. Check out abortionfunds.org to find one in your area.

The world’s ten richest people — all Americans — saw their collective net worth increase by $260 billion in April. These ten people are now worth a combined $2.7 trillion. The bottom 50% of U.S. households, 66 million in total, is worth $4.3 trillion. Wondering if inequality is out of control?

Fuck you, 2026. I am grief-stricken beyond words tonight over the sudden loss of a family member who was loved by everyone who knew him. Why, when there are so many shitty people in this world, do the good ones get taken too soon? It's not fair. If you need me I'll be over here ugly crying.

Readings in honor of May Day and the spirit of labor activism:

The US midterms are the equivalent of a lifebuoy; you are still at risk of drowning but stand a better chance overall. If you blow it or they manage to steal the election again, then you could be facing decades of dictatorship thereafter. Whatever you are doing, double or triple it. It’s pivotal.

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars/Trek, HP, LOTR, Marvel.

If the Panthers take a Tight End at 227 I think we'll have had a very complete draft vs our needs. #KeepPounding

Keep checking your voter registration to make sure it's active all the way up until the midterms in November. The GOP is trying hard to drop as many voters from the rolls as they can, in every state possible.

Not a flashy pick, but the right one. #KeepPounding

If you're at all interested in NFL Draft coverage tonight, follow the NFL Bluesky-Pack feed curated by @minakimes.bsky.social. I can't wait to see who my Carolina Panthers take at 19. #NFLDraft #KeepPounding bsky.app/profile/did:...

If you were looking for a reason to mute certain keywords/key names from your timeline (cough Hasan Piker cough), let the results of this poll give you permission to free yourself from the interminable number of mentions this guy gets on here.

surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

They own this. Whatever disasters continue to unfold belong not to the president and his Cabinet alone, but to the entire Republican Party.

While the bar for impeachment & removal is lower than the bar for removal by 25th amendment, I still applaud Raskin for keeping Trump's mental unfitness for office front & center. I'll be calling my GOP House Rep to support this. He won't, but I want him to hear again how unfit his party leader is.

If I have to have reoccurring subscriptions, I buy a prepaid card at the post office or supermarket and then link the account to it it. Account details get popped or the account double bills? Only to a prepaid card with limited money on it

This is unexpected based on the current state of the CDC, but certainly welcome. #CovidIsntOver #CovidIsNotOver #StillCoviding #CovidConscious #CovidCompetent #MaskUp #MasksWork #WearAMask

I sincerely miss 2015 Twitter when we all got together and watched bad monster movies live on Saturday nights on SyFy. Would anybody else be up for this if I organized it?

Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.

Donald Trump must be removed from office for threatening war crimes and genocide. Speaker Johnson: bring the House back into session. Invoking the 25th Amendment and impeachment must be on the table, but Congress should also move on a War Powers resolution to stop Trump.

He still needs to be removed from office. A war powers resolution will not suffice. He circumvented Congress to start the war. He circumvented them on tariffs and appropriations. Why anyone thinks he'd adhere to a Congressional war powers resolution is beyond me.

I'm sure there will be no long-term consequences to all of us veering between hypervigilance over potential nuclear war and trying to go to work because none of us can afford to pay our bills and may still be trying to recover from health consequences from the pandemic we're pretending didn't happen

From yesterday:

Cat on lap. Pets, purrs. It didn't erase the tolls of a day of hypervigilance, but it helped reduce them.

All of these congresspeople calling for the 25th Amendment are intentionally not understanding that impeachment is by far the lower hurdle, needing only Majority of House + 2/3 of Senate. The 25th Amendment requires VP, Majority of Cabinet + 2/3 each House & Senate. Force an impeachment vote.

No, you need to force an impeachment vote. Stop being spineless and do what is right for the country. Force your colleagues to go on record - do they support this or not? If you do not, you send the American people the message that war crimes are OK with you.

🚨🚨🚨 #StayReadyCrew Make sure your devices are charged. Make sure your backup chargers are charged. Check your supplies. Make sure you have batteries. 🗣️Make damn sure you have water! Make sure you have some cash. www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

If the Iranians really want to fuck with us they should offer to open the straights in return for Trump’s resignation.

They should have been on flights back Sunday afternoon after his Easter morning threat.

Folks, @markey.senate.gov is on record. Please call your Senators and ask if they agree with Markey and let us know how they respond. It’s all hands on deck to pressure Congress today. The man threatened a genocide. This cannot stand.

🚨🚨🚨 Congress must return from recess and use every tool it can to stop Trump from committing war crimes and unilaterally launching a nuclear war. That includes impeachment. Call your reps. NOW. 🔥📞🔥 Info, numbers, and script @ 5calls.org

This is the right direction to be thinking in. Skipping work, boycotting major transportation - shutting things down and disrupting the status quo.

Trump is threatening genocide. We need resistance on a scale that matches the threat. Grind the status quo to a halt. Boycott all US air travel until Congress fires him. Get started and spread the word: groundtheplanes.com

We are not signatories to the ICC nor do we recognize the authority, but the funny thing about war crimes is that they are illegal under international AND American law with NO statute of limitation.

Use the script on @5calls.org as a base to craft your own words when you call your members of Congress today about Trump's genocidal threats against Iran. Their site also has every office phone number for your reps if you just type in your zip code. 5calls.org/issue/stop-i...

Given this morning's unhinged missive, this piece by @sulliview.bsky.social is even more spot-on. margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/how-the-me...

This entire Iranian war has been illegal and they've OKed bombing a school & bridge. Not to mention the double taps on fishermen off the Colombian & Venezuelan coasts. How is the Defense editor of the Economist waiting breathlessly to find out anything different today? War crimers gonna war crime.

Trump wants to spend $1.5 TRILLION on war Universal 4 year college costs $75B. Meaning, for the cost of 1 year of war, we could educate 45M Americans a year for 20 years But instead we have a fascist & likely PDFile sending our kids to war to bomb kids in another nation Remove Him From Office NOW

It is worth noting that advice like this overly focuses on individual effort compared to systemic changes and government policies like equal pay, higher minimum wages, affordable housing, union benefits, as well as funding for childcare, public education, and public transportation.

KEEP IT GOING! PUBLIC PRESSURE WORKS.

How will you be using the No Kings protest to actually build community, and make sure your activism moves BEYOND a single day? Sound off in the comments. A guide on the type of work that EVERYONE needs to be doing AFTER the protest ends: peoplespowerplaybook.my.canva.site

Gonna be historic. Biggest ever. If you can, join in. You’ll be able to brag about it to your grandkids.

Your frequent reminder that Congress could end this at ANY time.

Join us this Saturday at the #pandemicpalshangout! We are a #covidcautiouscommunity #virtualevent that happens weekly at 8pm EST. Details at linktr.ee/pandemicpals !

In case you need a little music therapy -

This is a rebrand attempt. Don’t fall for it.

It’s only cheating when other people do it. 🤦‍♀️ 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

Between this and ICE in airports, the need to boycott U.S. air travel has never been clearer. And the demand we should attach to it is just as clear: Impeach & remove Trump.