🧵 regarding the shutdown: The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives. If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

How to keep troops loyal: make them beg for food from the people you want them to oppress

The last image in that Mamdani video. That’s the photo that is/was on Sylvia’s page on the Stonewall website. The one that got altered.

Despite the ongoing horrors, protesters have been met with pretty much non-stop honks of support from drivers and truckers passing by this morning.

This is a great piece on a great ad. Mamdani just gets it. And he loves EVERY SINGLE PART of NY and raises them all up. Together, we are stronger.

Between Mamdani in New York and Zack Polanski in the UK we finally have a pair of actually progressive political leaders speaking out unequivocally for trans rights. Read @katelynburns.com on Mamdani’s ad here: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

This dude gets it.

Cartoon by John Deering.

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

"Trans issues aren't this shameful thing that Democratic consultants suggest we hide from, it's the same fight undocumented immigrants are fighting, or those who can't access health care are fighting."

I had known this day was set in bone. After all, that pull to North is hollowing me, too. But now it’s come, and all I think is grief… —Roseanne Watt, “Migration Day” from MODER DY (Birlinn, 2019) #poetry #poem #WorldMigratoryBirdDay birlinn.co.uk/product/mode...

They're literally installing Racism Dial bsky.app/profile/numb...

there's only so much you can mitigate. since the start of the trump _regime_, it's clear that payors have accelerated the rate of decay. for example, it took me an hour _just to find out the name_ of the medication that a caremark robot called to tell me was denied. CareMark robot calls me,

Seriously. As a public health scientist? I cannot stress enough how poorly prepared this administration is for an ultra deadly & infectious disease like Ebola to make landfall here in the USA. The best defense for the USA is fast resolution of an outbreak overseas.

Just five more minutes, mother! 😊😊😊😊😊😊🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 #bluesky #nature #animals #wildlife

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to brave the dogs, farmer’s markets, capybaras, and marathon runners of Portland this week.

Misinformation about #trans kids is spreading like wildfire I’m a Harvard-trained psychiatrist & researcher who has spent a decade working in this space My new book Free to Be: Understanding [The Science Medicine & Politics of] Kids & Gender Identity is available now: allstora.com/products/fre...

this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025 "my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists" "your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs" solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too

Dolly Peel, fishwife and smuggler, South Shields, 1850. When her husband and son were press-ganged, she snuck on board ship and hid. Discovered, she was allowed to work as a nurse and stay with her family.

it just feels like.

I think he likes the new brush... 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 #bluesky #animals #nature #wildlife

Can I get a ribbit

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CHICAGO — WGN News editor/producer Debbie Brockman grabbed by Trump’s ICE goons.. who then intentionally ram a bystander’s car as they peel away. More: www.fox32chicago.com/news/wgn-new...

This speaks for its self.

11th of Owltober! An adult Great Horned Owl with an injured wing was caught (after killing two chickens!) at a ranch near ABQ, New Mexico. Was taken to Tijeras for a vet exam then Hawks Aloft for rehab. Want to donate? hawksaloft.org/donate Source: fb.com/125498107666... #owlsintowels #owltober 💛🦉

A few other notable Dr. Seuss political cartoons:

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

President Trump’s tariffs and demeaning “51st state” rhetoric spurred a sustained boycott among Canadians traveling to the U.S.—and has cost the country tens of billions of dollars in visitor spending, according to tourism experts.

Great point from @mjtoma.bsky.social: Millions of us absolutely do see what's happening to the USA. "We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends." newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

Recurring🧵of cartoons: when you get to the end, click on Read 1 more reply. If you save a cartoon, keep caption w/ artist's name & handle. Previous 🧵s under Feeds tab of my profile. Pat Byrnes @patbyrnes.bsky.social

Greens growing. Reform ratttled. PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite. Join.greenparty.org.uk

The last Randian will die of starvation at Galt's Gulch.

Hop not Hate

The Green Party is polling higher than ever before. Our membership is growing rapidly. And every single day we are surging. Where Labour have failed, the Left must be ready to take on Reform. news.sky.com/story/bring-...

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

Just a baby! 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺😍😍😍😍😍😍 #bluesky #nature #wildlife #animals

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi. David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison. Here's their story.

Antarctica may have passed a climate tipping point of no return, scientists are warning, with mounting evidence that a sudden slump in sea ice formation since 2016 is linked to human-induced ocean warming.

the world is a really amazing and beautiful place

Especially for @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social ❤️🐸❤️

peak spirograph performance

ONLY ONE MAN INCITED AN INSURRECTION IN THE USA!!!! 🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

He got the COVID and flu Vaccines like every 79 year old should this is a good thing. "Cardiovascular age validated by by ECG and found to be 14 years younger than chronological age" is a nonsensical phrase. I am an internist this is not something we do or write in medical reports.

I hope this video brightens up ur day... 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 #cat #catday #bluesky #animals #nature #wildlife

Speaker Johnson is delaying my swearing in to avoid releasing the Epstein files. Join us in demanding Speaker Johnson: End the Shutdown. Swear me In. Release the Files. SIGN OUR PETITION 🔗adelita.us/sign