The time to talk about what we want from candidates is NOW, well in advance of primaries, so we can spot people with potential and start building them up! We are participating in democracy! We have BEEN talking about this; one reason we're seeing a growing number of pols who align with our values!

This whale is not dead; he is only dispirited; out of sorts, perhaps

The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps. It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.

Coriandrum sativum inflorescences.

Yes: there is no double jeopardy for impeachment proceedings. You can keep doing it over and over.

ICE threatening charges against people for asking supposed officers to show their badges is weakness. Not succeeding where they hoped to, left relying on threats that likely won’t go anywhere in court (harassment isn’t nothing, but it’s limited). It’s a sign to resist their abuses more, not less.

Have separately confirmed. Secretary Kennedy should be removed.

A host of caterpillars native to Hawaii use silk glands to spin protective cases studded w/lichen, sand & other materials. This one is the first to use ant heads & fly wings. Scientists found just 62 of the carnivorous caterpillars in over 20 years of observing. apnews.com/article/carn...

Fascism is destructive & awful & "not everyone lives to see the other side, but it always, always fails. It takes work. It takes fighting back. It takes throwing punches. It takes doing whatever it takes to beat it back..." dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

#HandsOff rallies across the country.

#HandsOff Kentucky

A thousand people turned out at Louisville, KY #HandsOff despite heavy rain at times. www.courier-journal.com/picture-gall...

The United States is currently a country where you can be kidnapped by secret police and shipped off to a slave labour concentration camp without ever being charged with a crime or getting a chance to argue your case in front of a judge. If you think it can't happen to you, why do you think that?

Wild. Right after Cory Booker went viral for speaking on the "wretched truth about America," he just voted to keep arming a government that just officially achieved The Deadliest Conflict Ever for Journalists & executed and buried 15 paramedics and their emergency vehicles

A useful cheat sheet “I never unfriend people over politics” (h/t; mastodon.world/@BrianJopek/...)

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

They claim they can snatch people up, put them on planes, and deport them to a country run by an authoritarian, where those people will be forced to work slave labor at an inhumane prison. All without due process, and in defiance of federal courts. The hypotheticals are over. This is the nightmare.

*sigh* Totalitarian regimes are not ones in which people stop working. The world does not suddenly become tinged with sepia when you are no longer free. Sunlight will still shine. Jobs will still exist—indeed, the issue you may have is it becomes harder to not work than ever before.

Ways to organize in the workplace. libcom.org/article/work...

As always, the whole of Milan's thread is relevant.

I just saw someone say "what non-performative actions do you want democrats to take?" And like plenty, but I'd also like them to take performative actions? We're in an attention & morale war, the GOP is putting on daily shows. START PERFORMING

Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.

We have to remember that the American public being misinformed and lacking knowledge of what’s happening right now is only their fault *to an extent* Our entire media ecosystem has been purchased and controlled by billionaires and oligarchs. A misinformed public is MANUFACTURED AND INTENTIONAL.

What currently looks like a bare stick is a newly transplanted pawpaw tree (Asimina triloba), one of several we received as a surprise donation & had to get in the ground today. I've got my fingers crossed that they survive. #IndigenousFoodways #CommunityOrchard #NativeTrees

About halfway through slicing veggies for soup I'm making in my biggest pot. Despite being first to cook I chop the onions last - that way I don't have to wash my chef's knife in between.

They are reconstructing the nation. They are trying to change the rules of *who* gets to belong and have power.

Take note of every single person and politician that is willing to throw trans people and Black people under the bus for a quick and dirty vote.

Seed leaves of a 'Dazzling Blue' kale seedling. Some of the seedlings are nearly purple. Some a dark green shading towards teal. This one is a mid-green w/purplish tinge to the stem. Fascinating range of color.

Go go go go Bernie! Go!

It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids

This is how you do it.

Malcolm X was assassinated 60 yrs ago today. See his timeless wisdom on the true meaning of “progress.” “If you stick a knife 9 inches in & take it out 6—that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound. They wont even admit the knife is there.”

Working on this.

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

Fuck yeah. This is how science should work; diversity of people and ideas lead us closer to truth.

Sadly, this is the truth. The goal of this regime is not to eventually return to normal operations at the NIH after some "review". The goal is to fundamentally destroy the NIH that we all know. Plan accordingly

Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master!

The United States needs millions of people doing community work. A single hero won’t save us. We will have to save ourselves, collectively 💙🫶✊

Wisconsin, 2011: they planned “people’s filibuster” of “budget repair” bill & got 100s of people to testify @Capitol during public comment period. Some of those people didn’t leave & more kept joining. It was the beginning of what became a weekslong occupation.

Getting small moments of humor from @weirdsatellite.bsky.social. Liminal Boombox Park, indeed. 🙂

This is also the political result of prosperity theology. If you’re good and virtuous, you’ll be rich and healthy. Poverty and disability are your own fault This is fifty-plus years of Christians using the Republican party to legally impose their poisonous doctrine on everyone

"More racial justice organizations have been coming to understand their shared stake alongside migrant sex workers who are used as scapegoats to justify broader surveillance, more cops, tighter border restrictions & racist narratives..." #antifa #migrantrights truthout.org/articles/mig...

This chart is worth understanding before you say something ridiculous like 'Democrats lost everything,' especially if you're blaming Kamala Harris. And notice who's right at the bottom of the chart. #trump #50501movement #protests #elonmusk #KamalaHarris

Testing various Ai / LLMs has led me the opposite conclusion. People with advanced degrees (or experience) would easily note mistakes Ai makes, as well as nuanced details it often misses. People stop using Ai when it takes them longer to fix the output than do it themselves in the first place.