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#TFW your new 2025 #GeoHipster calendar has arrived! 😁 #TFW you recognize the maps in your new 2025 #GeoHipster calendar. 🫠 #TFW you order the 2026 #GeoHipster calendar. 🙃

The world is watching.

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

Don't really have anything planned specifically, but gonna take some time to write up something in Python this week. ❤️🐍

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

@aoc.bsky.social, @sanders.senate.gov or someone. Rs aren't interested in reopening gov until after the clock runs out on the subsidies the Ds are fighting for. Knowing that, what is the point of continuing to fight for a lost cause and letting SNAP stop adding to the suffering?

I’ve had a cold, did my taxes through a fog of tissues and rage, and now I’m out here selling popcorn. Why? Because I love my LGBTQ+ community that much. This is a 4-day fundraiser. Buy some popcorn. Share the link. Tell your friends. Help us fund our programs. popup.doublegood.com/s/zk120f2e

@underthedesknews.bsky.social @samisagesays.bsky.social I'm sure scaled up, the new podcast cover looks cool, but at a menu size of less than an inch, the title is very tough to make out. Consider a revision.

I should have made more AOCs.

@sanders.senate.gov Just wondering where you were yesterday.

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

If you’re in Wisconsin, vote today for Susan Crawford. There are also two special elections in Florida’s 1st and 6th districts. Let’s show Elon our country isn’t for sale.

The Tyrannicide captured at least 20 ships while engaging in commerce raiding during the Revolutionary War. She was launched in July of 1776 and ultimately scuttled in 1779. We've been fighting against tyranny since the beginning. Don't stop now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massach...

Ironically, detransitioners are at least twice as trans. www.advocate.com/politics/rep...

@katieporteroc.bsky.social Really jazzed you're getting back in the ring again. And hopefully back in DC again one day. 💙

@mcbride.house.gov Just saw that exchange that happened in committee. You go, chica! 😉👍👍

Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome x.com/repalgreen/s...

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.

@equality.house.gov I hope y'all are making some noise and causing trouble over the purging of federal LGBTQ+ employees going on.

Sending extra love to all who need it today. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🩵🤍🩷

Happening TODAY at 3 pm Eastern Federal dataset are disappearing. Join the Internet Archive and the Library Innovation Lab working to rescue them and learn how you can help. www.muckrock.com/news/archive... #gischat #geosky 🌊 ⚒️

I'm advocating that we use this opportunity to demonstrate how easy it is to accept and use one's new name and pronouns without throwing a fit about it. Even if i don't agree with it.

And who determines what the executive’s legitimate power is, JD? The executive?! Come on. Let me put it in terms you’d get. It’s like football. The judges are the refs, and they say whether you’re in or out of bounds. And Musk is waaaaaay out of bounds with these takeovers of our systems.

“Why do I need NOAA? I’ve got a weather app.” Is equivalent to asking “Why do I need farms? I can go to the supermarket.” www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...

Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

no this is why theyre targeting trans people, especially trans women and considering the leaked list from today showed they’re not funding grants with women or female in it, you can add “women’s rights” more broadly. bsky.app/profile/cana...

simply repeating the straight reporting of what is happening in the executive branch makes you sound like you have lost your mind.

When the Nazis first came to power, within a few months, they raided the Institute for Sexuality which did the first studies of trans people. The books they seized were burned here, including a copy of Heinrich Heines poem that said, "where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people too."

WHO DID THIS!

You guys need to see this and take it in… Wise words from someone who is a target. And he’s been listening.

Picard Shakespeare tip: Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Just days after Trump returned to the White House, Instagram is censoring abortion content. This is what Aid Access' account looks like right now - posts about how to get abortion medication has been blurred out.

Speak up, even if your voice shakes when you do it

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

Hey everyone! Incredible news! Trans Scouts selling GS cookies this year on my list have sold over 50,000 boxes of GS cookies! If you want girl scout cookies, consider buying from a trans girl scout this year! They'll mail them to you! This is literally my fav thing to do every year :)

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

The bishop's sermon is 2025's inauguration crowd sizes

“The French grew tired of the Republic as if she were an old wife. For them, the dictatorship was a brief affair, adultery. But they intended to cheat on their wife, not to kill her. Now they realize that she is dead, their Republic, their freedom. They are mourning her.” ~Irène Némirovsky

German newspapers of record "Die Zeit", front page today: "A Hitler salute is a Hitler salute is a Hitler salute"

It seems to me that since Meta is beginning its decent into the MAGA mayhem, the natural replacement for Facebook would be a spinoff duplicate of #LinkedIn for social use. The LinkedIn layout is so similar to Facebook, that the learning curve would be minimal even for older users. How about it?

Maybe it’s because I’m not a newspaper columnist but I genuinely cannot fathom how you can actually think “this guy is a misogynist, racist, and a sexual predator, but he’s right about trans people” without any self-reflection on whether you might be wrong about us