The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

new visual allegory just dropped

1. It's shutdown day, and anti-trans provisions are on the line... either today, or in a few more weeks if a clean continuing resolution passes. Trump posted a video this morning blaming a shutdown on trans people and immigrants. Here is your shutdown guide. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Author copies have arrived!

I use a cane for balance and to compensate for depth perception blindness. You should NOT: TOUCH/GRAB ME Get closer than 6’ (it’s been 5 years of COVID learn social distancing) Move without looking in the direction you’re moving FAIL TO LOOK DOWN in the direction you’re moving, short people exist!

By the way, since writing this, things have generally improved for me. I got on the right medication and nonfiction is back in my life. Fiction is a little more touch and go, but I can watch a whole movie now. I will go to the mat for people who can’t.

Reskeeting for my few English friends who maybe have not seen this but GIN AND TONIC JELLY GIN AND TONIC IN JELLY FORM WIGGLY G&T

Young Dinornis at the Beach 🏖️

TELL ME ABOUT YOUR DOG!!! The Giant Database of Dogs is a data collection project for classroom use. 6 quick questions to help students learn statistics! ALL good puppers are welcome! buff.ly/f6weaUE (please share widely!) (pics for tax, of course!)

Voting for the Ignyte Awards closes later this week (August 15th), and ANYONE can vote! Don't forget to vote for what you loved! ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/

Still recovering from travel, but my @oishinythings.bsky.social necklace went with me to Rockland, Maine for the 78th Annual Lobster Festival! mainelobsterfestival.com

Reminder: My Rowan Summer School sock class starts tomorrow. Everything to make you into a great sock knitter, whether you're starting as a beginner or you have a bit of experience. Sessions are recorded - attend at your convenience. www.rowanconnect.net/socks-intens... 🧶

KIDDO: Batman Ninja is free on Youtube and I’m going to convince you to watch it with two screenshots ME: I doubt that KIDDO: So they have to disguise Batman in Feudal Japan and this is what they do. Also the brown-haired girl is Catwoman ME: dammit

We all need this! www.npr.org/2025/08/02/n...

Attorney @l-toczylowski.bsky.social "said Hernández Romero remains in danger in Venezuela, the very country from which he fled persecution. Her team is exploring third-country relocation, but options may be limited by his lack of freedom of movement under the Maduro regime."

In a “barrage of attacks on workers,” Trump’s Labor Department is planning to overhaul dozens of rules that protect workers from exploitation and wage theft.

"ICE deported teenagers and children in immigration raids. Here are their stories," "Venezuelan Little League team denied travel visas to U.S. for World Series," "Pope Leo reflects on migrants and refugees as ‘messengers of hope’," and more must-read #immigration news.

"Bail reform does not allow people to evade responsibility for their crimes or walk free despite posing a risk to their communities ... These reforms simply seek to end the risk that someone who is legally presumed innocent can be jailed simply because they are too poor to pay money bail."

Shop is live once more! Shares are appreciated. ko-fi.com/themeekwarri... Come check out my pendants, stickers, and Bijou Dragon sculptures, among other random things. More on the way!

Just a few more days to grab one of these guys. Even if you don’t buy a figure, joining my collectors club helps me so much with monthly income.

"Despite federal investigations and a growing awareness of the industry's adverse consequences on patient health ... regulations for dental service organizations are scant, and attempts to regulate them have largely failed."

"[T]he people who are employed to cover the genocide are they themselves starving to death ... [T]here are people who still believe this an appropriate price to pay for Jewish freedom."

This problem has been known since at least Katrina.

"Trump appears to be quietly reviving a plan from his first term that would kick families of mixed immigration status out of public housing and prohibit them from receiving most forms of rental assistance." "58,200 children could lose housing." #USA #Housing #EthnicCleansing

Leonard Leo spent 35 years and $600 million building a Supreme Court to do EXACTLY what it is doing. Paving the way for Catholic Christofascism. And NYT spent the last 20 years covering for and protecting Leonard Leo. Why? Google Catholic Integralism. www.rawstory.com/supreme-cour...

We've reached the point where a naturalized citizen won't speak on the record "out of concern for her safety." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/t...

"Because of [Joshua] Divine, millions of student loan borrowers remain buried in ... debt."

TRUMP: I'm not a fan of your mayor. I think he's done a terrible job. The mayor of London. A nasty person. STARMER: He's a friend of mine TRUMP: I think he's done a terrible job

Embarrassing, UK.

My biggest annoyance Is there entitled driver I wish we could flip the script and tack back this word

"We were raised to believe that in this country, freedom of speech mattered, that journalism mattered, that hard work and honesty meant something ... [N]one of that seems to matter right now."

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is run by Trump evangelicals who are openly killing Palestinians and shouldn’t receive a dime from our government.

I've never been the biggest fan of hers BUT the shit that is said about her pisses me off. Intellectually, there is no position in the government that she isn't qualified for. Not one. These mediocre yt men keep belittling her intelligence & it's infuriating.

This is, no exaggeration, Trump stealing a billion dollars from the United States. There are other planes for POTUS to use. This one will not be functional during his term for long, if at all. But this one he will keep afterwards via his "presidential library."

TX State Rep Giovanni "Capriglione mentioned wanting to ejaculate into batter for cookies that would be sold at his daughter's bake sale ... Capriglione said he enjoyed the thought of children — particularly young girls — consuming his semen." Guess which party www.sacurrent.com/news/gop-tex...

When you strip away humanity

european cars now cheaper than US cars lmao what a great deal- if you're Renault

DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution

Just at a basic level, saying a judge’s orders can be ignored seems like it should disqualify you from being a judge as no one would ever need to follow your own orders

Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape. Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.

Also spare some hate for tricia mclaughlin, who as the spokesperson for all of DHS's outrages gets up every day to slander the victims with totally insane lies while the media can't muster anything stronger than "she provided no evidence for these claims"

Writing-wise, most ridiculous moment of decade was as writer-guest for a workshop held at someone's house. During the workshop, I got a massive headache & asked for aspirin. Someone gave me aspirin after which I began to itch. "Sorry--gave u my anti-itching pills by mistake." 1/?

Taking a break from my child sex trafficking scandal to condemn the lack of manners among starving kids these days

PART FIFTY SIX?????

The president calling for the prosecution of individuals & companies he doesn't like should immediately end a presidency like it would have for anyone before this One Special Boy

Had a wonderful time reading "The Man in the Red Coat" (the short story that inspired my new rock climbing horror novella Crevasse) on Story Hour! Come check it out for some chilling horror from myself and Anna Orridge :)

this is what beit hanoun looked like (from arabi21.com/story/155862...)

Some notes about what ICE has been doing, with links; intended for people who think that ICE is only going after violent criminals. (Compiled by someone who asked to remain anonymous, July 2025; lightly edited by Jed Hartman.) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This is so far over the line I don't even know where to begin. Trying to get students -- your own students -- expelled or deported because of political activism? Jesus, I won't even punch down at random college students on *social media*