Further: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security. Fun facts: -DHS is only 23 years old. - Its creation stripped 180,000 government employees of their union rights and other civil service protections. - No one called the US “the homeland” before George W Bush.

The thing about Colorado's conversion therapy ban is that it did not make it illegal for someone to tell their kid they should not be gay, or that they could not be gay, or any other number of horrific things that are still legal.

Hey all, we still have a limited number of these charming stickers left over from our last Romancing the Vote. In honor of SCOTUS fuckery on today, the Trans Day of Visibility, we'd like to offer you the chance to get one. (Thread continues.)

The best monument to Donald Trump is to build a high-ass tower in Miami a few meters from the shore in the year of our lord 2028. I'm sure there won't be any foundation issues involved in *checks notes* rapidly increasing king tides and storm surges.

To keep y'all entertained while Bree is recovering, we've scheduled chapters of our new serial to drop every Tuesday & Thursday. O'Kane fans can catch up with Bren & Six and see what happens when a broken Makhai soldier comes to Sector Three. www.kitrocha.com/202...

This last weekend, I was at the Colorado Democratic Assembly. Part of that process was adopting a Democratic party platform for the state.

I said this in replies elsewhere, but I want to say it loudly here. Anything other than a fullthroated affirmation of birthright citizenship in this country by SCOTUS is an act of treason. It is grounds for immediate impeachment. It is a violation of every oath they have made.

I love all you last minute people. If this is you, DO NOT FORGET. Yes, you have very little time. But yes, you still have time. GO GET YOUR DOLLARS.

"I just want the Romulans and the Federation to shoot at each other for no stated reason, and we just know one of them is the bad guy because they look weird." Fixed it for Andy.

If you are freaking out and need help doing this, TELL BLUESKY. One of us will help you! DO IT!

Hello! Today is THE LAST DAY to file a claim in Bartz v. Anthropic. GET YOUR MONEY! Check the works list to see if you are on it here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/ File a claim here: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/claim-form

When you start the game, the properties are all held by someone else, and you can only buy them if you earn enough money, but the only way to earn money (since you can't buy properties when you land on them) is Community Chest and passing Go. Nobody can win? You're not passing Go hard enough.

Hi all! We have a few whistle makers who are in need of filament. If you're able to help out by getting them a spool, they will turn it into 500 whistles. Here's whistle maker #1, someone who has been making whistles since Chicago in the very beginning: www.amazon.com/registries/g...

You could literally just read the Victorian era texts if you want to do this. Just read them. They’re available. You don’t need to read them mashed through a meat grinder and re-extruded into something plausible.

Colorado Democratic assembly results (from memory). Colorado platform adopted. Minority report suggestion to add “abolish ICE” language to the platform accepted by something like 98% of delegates.

This time, though, the earl is going to discover that wallflowers can fight back /jb Amazon: www.amazon.com/Unloc... Apple: itunes.apple.com/us/... Nook: www.barnesandnoble.c... Kobo: http://store.koboboo... #HistoricalRomance #Romance #Romancelandia #HEA #TurnerSeries #Novella

@philweiser.bsky.social is speaking in Pueblo and he brought Roy Romer up on stage.

We love a Mone / Kaori podium. 😭

Let’s go Seventh Continent!!!

Surely I have a scientist or nerd following me that can assist with this?

I see we're doing "such-and-such protest accomplished nothing" discourse. Every time I see someone saying "Well, that protest accomplished nothing, we are still here and little has changed" my answer is always to glance at the timeline for women's suffrage and say, "nothing has changed YET."

So, I've been trying to read up on the candidates to be voted on at the state assembly in two days, and anyway, this is why I will never, ever, ever vote for @breslinforsenate.bsky.social. This is absolutely disqualifying in my opinion.

Four separate novellas at a pretty decent discount. /jb Amazon: www.amazon.com/A-Nov... Apple: itunes.apple.com/us/... Nook: www.barnesandnoble.c... Kobo: http://store.koboboo... #HistoricalRomance #Romance #Romancelandia #HEA #Novella

Hey everyone! You have until MARCH 30, 2026 to file a claim in the Anthropic Settlement. If you have questions about filing--or if you aren't sure if you've filed correctly--call the settlement administrator at 1 877-206-2314.

The saga of being a state delegate continues. I just got a phone call from someone who I believe was a paid telemarketer who read a script about Karen Breslin as swiftly as possible. The script included her personal telephone number. I asked if he could repeat it, but he had already hung up.

Also just want to add: there is a reason that these big-brained executives thought this would be a modest film that would barely budge the needle, and that reason is because they are racists who bought the bullshit that the public doesn't want "DEI" (which means: anything about nonwhite cis people).

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA GET THEM.

Complete non sequitur: why does this require teaching the "humane treatment of birds and animals"? I'm not questioning why they're learning about humane treatment. I want to know why the Pennsylvania legislature found it necessary to say "birds and animals" as if birds are separate from animals.

"sign their very first check" Bro. You could have used an example more salient to the modern world, like "sign away their rights to sue their employer by agreeing to an arbitration clause for all clauses."

I LOVE THIS

I don't even know what to say about how bad this is. People have been denied due process by not being able to attend court hearings for fear of being kidnapped; other people HAVE been kidnapped for showing up to do the exact thing we say we want.

Good news! I just foraged asparagus at our local asparagus forage spot. Bad news: it’s about a month and a half earlier than last year.

In this week's tea newsletter, I talk about why--hear me out!--billionaires are a little bit like border collies.

Someone is spamming delegates to the state assembly with desperate screeds about why we should vote for their guy for governor at state assembly, and frankly, if this is an example of their campaigning, I understand why they don't have any delegates interested in voting for them at state assembly.

In order to annul their shotgun wedding, Camilla and Adrian absolutely must not, under any circumstances, boink. /jb Amazon: www.amazon.com/After... Apple: itunes.apple.com/us/... Nook: www.barnesandnoble.c...

If this is you, I want you to know that the amount per work is very likely to be > $3000. Half that if you're splitting with your publisher.

HEY WRITERS (not just SF/F writers) HAVE YOU BEEN PROCRASTINATING ON MAKING YOUR ANTHROPIC SETTLEMENT CLAIM? SFWA is running a webinar event OPEN TO ALL WRITERS (not just members! not just SF/F writers!) on Thursday. Sign up here: www.sfwa.org/events/anthr...

Good news is, they are less likely to be drinking on the job because it's not legal for them to buy alcohol yet

Remember how I said that I got to go on a SHARK TRIP with @whysharksmatter.bsky.social ?? The official SHARK PHOTOS have been officially released. Here is the beautiful tiger shark that I got to say hello to up close and personal

I really wish Colorado had ranked choice voting, but it doesn't. Without ranked choice voting, splitting the progressive vote in high profile races like the Senate race means that Hickenlooper will get another term.

I was already considering getting rid of MS Office, but they just convinced me that I had to do it. Apparently if your subscription expires and you don't notice and your computer crashes after a day of work, it just won't...save. Or autosave. Or anything. Because they're trying to make you re-up.

Why do they always think they will get away with this?

- Pace yourself - don’t go too crazy - no fedposting - stay on top of regulating your nervous system - act local - find people who’ve been doing the work and ask how you can help - tend to the myriad biological needs we need as confused little apes - give grace to dysregulated people on your side

A reminder that we are still sending whistles to anyone who wants them! linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

In support of this post, here are some extremely negative things that I expect to happen as a matter of course because of this.

Stunned by all the “ICE isn’t gonna do anything more than what TSA already does” rhetoric. Untrained white supremacists who’ve been told by bosses they’re not subject to laws will have POC and women lined up in front of them to grope and abuse and they don’t even have to chase them.

This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

So I'm not in Lakewood, but I am in another local group where people are talking about housing policy because apparently there are people who are trying to roll back zoning policy that Lakewood just passed.

Look there is nothing wrong with liking burgers but why would you bring a kid like this to an uptight sushi restaurant?

Alright you folks who use sunscreen NOT from the US. What do I look for? Where do I order?