If your House Rep is GOP, today would be an awesome day to send them an email or call their office and ask why they aren’t working and yet getting paid. It’s not about the shutdown. It’s about the Epstein files. So ask them when they plan to vote, and how, on releasing those files.

I had the opportunity to visit NASA Goddard and speak with scientists from a half-dozen missions, a few years back. They do incredible work and deserve our support! Please take action.

First step is to show up at the office, Mike. Get the House back to work. Oh, and release the Epstein files.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 94th day out of the last 106. 12 days of work in 106 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Yay!

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103. 12 days of work in 103 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Mike Johnson could reopen Congress today and call a vote on Sen. Josh Hawley's bill and extend SNAP benefits tomorrow. It would have bipartisan support across the House. Having 41 million Americans, including 16 million children, go hungry is a choice Republican leadership is making.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

I never had a Spotify subscription, but I’m spreading the word of the boycott. Any outfit advertising for ICE needs to be frozen out.

Fall colors, Lancaster, PA, yesterday #BlueSkyArtShow #autumn

While federal workers go unpaid during a shutdown, these members of Congress still collect their $174,000 salaries. Congress keeps getting paid no shutdown for them.

47 needs to go. He’s destroying the WH while people are losing access to food and healthcare.

Fill your eyes with fall. #autumn

Millions of Americans are about to see their premiums skyrocket, millions more are on the brink of hunger, our air traffic controllers & other federal workers just missed their paychecks... and House Republicans are on day 40 of their vacation. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

This morning’s walk at Cape May, NJ. The light was amazing and the ocean never disappoints.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

Wherever you day takes you, find a moment of beauty in it. #capemay #beach #sunrise

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Memory is a wonder, bringing back a moment in time with perfect clarity, given the right trigger. open.substack.com/pub/anniewyn...

Contact your House Rep and demand they get back to work!

Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva — because her vote could force the House to release the Epstein Files. The GOP is doing everything they can to keep Trump's Epstein cover-up going. act.indivisible.org/sign/seat-gr...

A scar that will be remembered for a very long time.

Thoughts on a Fall morning… open.substack.com/pub/anniewyn...

Sheltering under the leaves of #autumn #momentsofjoy

Mike Johnson doesn't know sh*t

Followup to #NoKings protest, here’s what sponsoring organizations are saying is next. And thanks to The Guardian for reporting on it (no one else seems to being doing it… which is one more reason I’m a Guardian yearly subscriber.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Up before sunrise to catch the golden hour light on this specific tree. Fall colors make me so happy. #momentsofjoy

Spent the day assembling squares into row and rows into a quilt top. 4 row done, 6 to go.

Our pro-democracy movement is surging. Now it’s up to each of us to channel this incredible energy into the organizing power it will take to win. Join us on Tuesday for a mass call of movement leaders and activists to discuss what’s next: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even... #NoKings

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

Thank you, worldwide resisters of authoritarian regimes 💜

#NoKings Lancaster PA - lining the streets with signs and flags and joy 💜 ❌👑

Portland wins 💜

Today is THE day, folks. Get out there and resist the authoritarian regime. I’m doing it because I love my country and I hate fascists #NoKings #penzeys

If you're taking to the streets to protest today, know your rights.

Don’t want to see the current administration trying to pollute Bluesky? Here’s a good block list.

Thinking this is wrong and untenable isn’t radical. Thinking it isn’t, is.

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

Typical of a government who gives no shits about its hard working employees. 1. Shut down the government and don’t even bother to try to work with Dems to figure out a compromise. 2. Threaten for a week to fire employees. Enjoy our trauma. 2. Fire us. At 9 PM On Friday of a 3 days weekend.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

Oh, she was one of the best of us humans.

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Republicans don’t need a single democratic vote to fund their regime. Here’s why. Please share widely.