I’ll keep milking this joke for everyone who doesn’t get it. #america #trump #2026

The National Guard’s mostly quiet walks through Washington, D.C., are expected to cost a little more than $200 million, USA Today reported, and that’s the figure just for the D.C. National Guard, not for the eight states that have sent troops.

Abuse of disabled people in immigration detention is a longstanding issue and it's escalating very fast right now. (Shoutout to orgs like Disability Rights CA, our state protection and advocacy organization, for fighting to get into ICE facilities.)

Let me bump this . It’s been rough and if everyone gives me a dollar I’m set, and even better if you need actual sense about organizing, strategy ,media, audience and policy I can do those things Imma go log out

They're folding. Keep the heat on.

We must preserve the US Postal Service because UPS or FedEx would never do this.

🌟 There was lots to love! 💙 Proud to be included.

@elizabeef.bsky.social Thank you. My beautiful issue arrived!

What's on President Trump's mind, based on his Truth Social feed:

DESTROY ICE DESTROY NAZIS #OperationEpstein

There's no way this is just about "finances," given that they had plenty of finances to bribe Trump. A shame. Colbert is so funny and kind and generous, especially to writers.

The same company that's buying CBS (and needs Trump's approval to do so) is also trying to buy Bari Weiss' website. It's a political decision.

Grateful to Gabriela Denise Frank and @therumpus.net for this chance to speak about my new poetry collection published by @sarabandebooks.bsky.social. 🫶 therumpus.net/2025/07/17/u...

House Republicans shut down a Democratic bid to unseal the Jeffrey Epstein files Monday night, as the MAGA base tears itself apart over the controversy.

With Chump leading The Pack Of Losers,these are some really Lousy Americans.......

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The NYT loves to launder white supremacist talking points

*cough* Christian Nationalism *cough*

It turns out that the very best No Kings Day protest yesterday was the one staged by the United States Armed Forces in Washington—because if you've seen any of the military experts on social media or cable news today you know that their poor marching was deliberate and intended as an insult to Trump

ME: *points at my "World's Greatest Dad" shirt* CO-WORKER: *points at his own "World's Greatest Dad" shirt* ME: *takes a sip from my "World's Greatest Dad" mug* CO-WORKER: *sips from his own "World's Greatest Dad" mug* ME: [eyes narrow] *draws "World's Greatest Dad" sword*

Me, me, me, me, me! Everything is about me!! Everyone should thank me!! Poor me!!

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Front and back of my sign for tomorrow's protests. The former courtesy of @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social and the latter of Dave Loewenstein. #nokings #june14 #wethepeople #50501movement #fiftyfiftyone #50501pgh #peacefulprotest #riseup #democracy #defend #resist #remove #impeach #antifa #antifascist

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

Find your closest rally on Saturday and go. You can tell your kids where you were on the other side of this. Outnumber him everywhere. www.nokings.org#map

@nutmom123.bsky.social I never thought I would be fighting fascism in our own government. My dad fought against fascism in WWII when he was in his 20’s. Now in my 70’s I’m fighting the same fight but at home.

[as your child is dragged away from his fifth-grade graduation by masked stormtroopers] don’t be distracted from the real issue, which is the stock market

My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.

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😂😂

I wrote about the Musk/Trump beef. Probably an attention contest without precedent. It’s worth asking what 'winning' even looks like here. But I get the sense that, whatever happens...we all lose. But in the interim the content is tremendous. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Here’s a joy of mine, lately: Read a chapter from PARADISE by Toni Morrison, highlighter in hand, then listen to Morrison herself read that chapter in the audiobook while I’m out and about.

The media initially portraying this as a spat between two neighbors instead of a married couple enduring terrifying ongoing harassment over their love and inherent traits should shame multiple outlets.

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Canadians rejoice!

We will not accept the targeting of our neighbors or the arrest of elected officials who act to uphold their rights. Proud to rally today with @nywfp.bsky.social in solidarity with Mayor Baraka and against the unabashed authoritarianism of Trump.

The White House threatening to arrest sitting members of Congress for carrying out their duties is dictator shit.

Proud to have two poems in the latest anthology assembled by poet and publisher Fin Hall. Orange is Not a Colour: Poems Against Totalitarianism is a collection of poetry against the current regime. I'm proud to be part this group. #poetry #poetrycommunity

Spatchcock is an excellent and underrated verb.

Disgusting, yes, but don’t miss how weak it is. These fascists expected to ride a popular wave of mass deportation, but only a few months in they’re facing mounting revulsion at their illegality, cruelty, and rejection of innocent-until-proven-guilty, and down to smaller-scale scapegoat reminders.

#april27th #napowrimo Be like the sand in my baby grandson’s hands that delighted him to giggles as it flowed through his fingers.

#april27th #napowrimo Between you and me these words and the sea very little else matters.

when my wife started working as a teacher in the New York City public university system they paid her in a year the same amount the chancellor received as a monthly housing allowance