UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified

Apparently the state of Ohio needs my ID in order to get direct messages on this app. Big Brother is watching and all that.

*blank stare*

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

Well. It increasingly seems like freedom of speech is coming to an end around here.

Something happened outside of my school today and we got put on lockdown. The person wasn’t able to get inside of the building thankfully. But it was really scary and I came home and sobbed.

trying to talk about Harpers Ferry without talking about slavery is jokes like, slavery is the only reason why you know about Harpers Ferry. wouldn't be no Harpers Ferry National History Park _without_ that part of the nation's history, you revisionist shits

I’ve never had marigolds turn red before! I love them 😍 #BloomSky

I keep seeing this float around social media. America would rather force her children to be heroes in the face of unspeakable violence than take the steps needed to protect their lives.

May we all be blessed with the confidence of a 12-pound pugahuahua who sees a fully grown, giant antlered stag and thinks… “I got this!”

@nnedi.bsky.social! I found this friend struggling a bit on the ground. She’s missing a bit of her wing. She walked right on to my finger and then flew over to the flowers for a photo shoot. Made me cry a little that she trusted me to help her back up to the sky!

America: Universal healthcare creates wait times for healthcare. Also America: waits six months for a neurosurgeon consult and a year to get into a dermatologist…

The maddest someone has ever gotten at me was when I talked about the child sized manacles Jefferson had at Monticello for 9 year old children. They could not cope with the idea that a child the same age as their child had been enslaved. And it made them angry that I made them know facts

Imagine the uproar if Obama had done this.

Why hello, dear monarch!

once again you think the president's mistress directing impossibly cruel policy would be a bigger story but it does not get much play outside of overtly liberal outlets

Is it even possible to take a bad picture in a field of sunflowers? #BloomSky

Me: Babe hang on! I need a pic of this grasshopper for @nnedi.bsky.social Grasshopper: Oh I’m gonna be famous? Here let me move up on this sunflower a bit so you can see how cute I am!

These little marigold plants came in the same little pack but they sure have grown differently! They’re planted just a few feet apart but the first is in an older garden plot and the second is in a raised bed I made this year. I wonder if the soil I got for the raised bed affected the colors?

“I did not steal food… why you ask?”

@nnedi.bsky.social I disturbed this girl while watering the garden. This was the best picture of her I got before she jumped into the grass and became invisible. Or maybe she went to another dimension. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I bet the interns who answer the phones at my senators’ offices are going to be real glad I’m going back to school soon. Now they’ll only have to listen to my voicemails and read my emails. Not talk to me live.

What Mrs. Bond said.

Being surprised by how willing white Americans are to let the structures of prosperity and wealth be dismantled if they can warm themselves with the thought of being at the top of the social/political/“genetic” hierarchy just shows that you never learned US history correctly

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

WTAF! Any questions?

I’ve been super anxious about *gestures at the world* lately. I thought maybe some music from childhood would cheer me up. Nope. I just ended up on one of the songs from Aladdin that Robin Williams did and cried for ten minutes because if he was still here the world would be a little brighter.

Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.

Welp. I hope tr*mp supporters enjoy the fresh new tariff hell they voted for. I hope they enjoy $10 gallons of milk and not being able to afford basic necessities. Too bad they inflicted this on everyone and not just their own selves though.

Trans kids are not •disposable •the reason Dems lose •a threat Trans kids are •deserving of basic human rights Trans kids should be •protected, always

Flowers in the neighborhood make me happy #BloomSky

Dear Scotland, please keep him.

A zebra swallowtail came to visit the marigolds today! #BloomSky

Just a fuzzy bumble bee doing its thing 🥺

🔥 🧊

Not Andrea Gibson though 😭

Concentration camp.

Baby got confused and followed me around the other day. She was brand new and still had wobbly legs.

Country’s falling apart but this is some GOOD popcorn. Plus, it’s for a good cause. Barney’s hires folks with disabilities and pays them a fair wage. Also, my lighting sucks. It’s more blue than green. And. It’s. So. Good. barneyssweetshop.com

I’m thinking about the teachers in Texas who will get in to their classrooms in a few weeks. And they’ll look at certain cubbies. They’ll stare at that one desk where a beloved little student sat last year. They’ll look at photos. Replay memories in their heads. My heart hurts for them.

Hey Siri, show me an example of environmental racism.

Sometimes I just walk around the garden center and try to focus on pretty things.

After today, should make it crystal clear for everyone that "all lives matter" was a lie.

It is 1:34 in the afternoon. Is it broad daylight. And this country doesn’t deserve a birthday party. Put your goddamn fireworks away.

Calling my senators and screaming this into their voicemail until I stop crying or pass out.

Fuck.

New fear: that some of my friends, former students, my aunt and cousins… will be put in a concentration camp in Florida. Fuck all of this.