hey all 💜 super off script from what I usually post 😅 my cat is getting an urgent surgery to amputate his leg since there's an aggressive cancer in his soft tissue. it's a very expensive surgery, and I need some community support! gofund.me/3874ae1a7 #GoFundMe #cat #surgery #cancer #donation #donate

Marsha P. Johnson said it best: "No pride for some of us, without liberation for all of us." I'm proud to be a co-sponsor of the Trans Bill of Rights. Our trans siblings deserve safety, dignity, & freedom.

It's Judy Blume's birthday. She's 88 today. Back in 2013, she said, "It’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers."

Just finished Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar by Sonido (Sonora) Reyes & I've got Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha as the earliest one next in my TBR! #booksky

Pam Bondi has been a complete and total failure at her job. The Epstein survivors showed more courage just by being in that room than she did under oath. She refused to answer questions and chose complicity. America deserves better.

Just turning yalls attention to potentially the most dominate hockey team we’ve ever assembled on the world stage going 4-0 in prelims, and no, it’s not the men’s team. LETS FUCKIN GO TEAM USA LADIES 😤🥇 LETS GET GOLD

"I guess I let the people around me help me. I allows myself to lean on my loved ones. On you, your mami, and Yamilet. And when you went to the hospital last year, I realized I needed to take care of you back. Loving you was loving myself. " #booksky #sonidoreyes #mentalhealth #bipolar

sonido is coming for my FEELINGS. "You hate yourself when you're with me. And as much as I love you, I cant love you out of hating yourself." stopppppp 😭😭 #booksky #goldenboysguidetobipolar #sonidoreyes #YA #mentalhealth

reading the follow up to lesbiana's guide to catholic school, golden boy's guide to bipolar, and this line really hit. "Hurting the people around me is the most effective way I know to sabotage myself. So no, I'm not a hypocrite. Just a coward." Sonido Reyes got me in a chokehold 😭 #booksky #bipolar

This is an authoritarian power grab, full stop. Nationalizing elections would put the executive branch in control of who votes and how. That’s how dictators rig outcomes, crush opposition, and assault democratic self-government. This should alarm everyone: www.ms.now/news/trump-s...

"Right from the start, the government had worked tirelessly to block all outlets of imagination, eliminating cognitive surplus, overturning the communications revolution, and abolishing what used to be known as the internet." #booksky

"Imagination had truly begun to shrivel and fade away, proving that if you control a human being's circumstances, you can drive their development in a certain direction..." (1/2) #booksky #bookcensorship

im reading the book censor's library by bothayna al-essa & boy is it giving Palace of Dreams. it's like you're floating around and everything in the world is just a dreamy nightmare. nothing makes sense but youre forced to believe it bc the government says so. it's so scary 😨 #booksky #censorship

so...this #StorygraphReadsTheWorld challenge is shit. People are just adding books with no care whether it actually fits the category. Thailand was a mishmosh of a bunch of Asian ethnicities, and now I'm seeing Senegal has Nigerian writers in the list. This ignorance is pissing me off. #booksky

Black history goes far beyond a single month—and at the PWHL, it's part of the game year-round. 🙌 Our Black History Celebration continues through February and beyond, recognizing the legacy, impact, and continued influence of Black athletes, leaders, and communities shaping the game..

instead of trying to add up hundreds of books at the end of the year, im going to start a #librarysavesme series where at the end of the month, I list how much I've saved reading from the library. January, I saved $347! 😅 I realized just how expensive some of the audiobooks are 😭 #booksky #library

here's my little #januarywrapup from #storygraph! I was committed to reading less in general this year, and commit to reading more prose than graphic novels/manga. I didn't win this first month, only because I had so many leftover library books that needed to be read from the prior year!

tell me why im looking through the suggestions for Thailand for #StorygraphReadsTheWorld and theres every kind of Asian in there with very few of them actually being Thai?? Taiwanese, Hmong, Singaporean-Chinese. And tell me why there are WHITE authors on the list?? make it make sense. #booksky

4.75/5 for The Cheesemaker's Daughted by Kristin Vuković! I appreciated the realness of life, the complicated histories both personal and national, the description of the cheesemaking process and the cheese itself, the gender dynamics, & the familial love. #booksky #Croatia #StorygraphReadsTheWorld

I didnt think I'd be so emotional reading this book! The Cheesemaker's Daughter by Kristin Vuković. Grandma's wisdom: "Sometimes you need to fall apart to become who you're supposed to be." #booksky #Croatia #Croatianauthor #cheese

"you just never know how it ends" and thats what makes life worth living, doesn't it? I really felt Nora's renewed desire to try on life again, and to go at it with full force. to appreciate the unremembereds in her life, share her care with her neighbor and old librarian 💜 #booksky #midnightlibrary

my soul needed this as much as my eyes and nervous system, breathing with the river and trees, accepting the peace gratefully 🤍🕊️ . #ArtistsOnBlueSky #BlueSkyArtShow #WomensArtBlueSky #Photography #PhotographersOnBlueSky #OregonCoast #Estuary #Oregon #Pines #River

it's giving telling on himself that Kristi Noem's Gestapo are criminals 🤷‍♂️

This goes up today.

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.

When Donald Trump says who he really is, believe him. He's raising your grocery prices. He's violating your civil rights. He's rolling back your health care. He's taking away your education. It's past time to stand up, push back, and be loud for America.

Just finished the Palace of Dreams by Ismail Kadare, and it was very slow and windy for just over 200 pages. The constant confusion and fear, feeling like the protagonist is always trying to catch up felt like a solid parallel to how it feels living through authoritarianism.

in a moment of bleakness, I thought it right to read the midnight library. I learned lessons listening to it the first time, and it helped lift the bleakness a bit, enough to be able to breathe again. so, lets try it again 🥲 #booksky #midnightlibrary #audiobook

Another Gestapo murder in Minnesota. Six agents wrestle someone to the ground and then shoot him in the back www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

ICE just gunned down ANOTHER person, beating a man half to death before shooting him at point blank range. What the fuck are we doing? ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW. I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.

I want to buy a tarot #journal from a #queerowned shop, preferably POC. anyone have suggestions? #journalsky #tarot #divinersky #lgbtqia

I just voted HELL NO to giving ICE a single penny. Congress should not be funding an agency that has terrorized our communities, kidnapped our neighbors, and killed people on the street with impunity. We must abolish ICE and end qualified immunity for ICE agents NOW.

Pouring more money into DHS while it operates with impunity and a blatant disregard for human life is unconscionable. You don’t fix abuse by funding it. You stop it by cutting off its funding and dismantling the institution that’s terrorizing communities. tinyurl.com/mr3em3k8

There’s no way I could vote to give ICE more money. Let’s be clear: ICE is now one of the wealthiest law enforcement agencies in this country, and they continue to prove they are ineffective and unqualified. (1/2)

Deporting children with cancer. Using a 5-year-old as bait. Shooting moms. ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.

This past weekend, I went back to Broadview for the first time since being federally indicted. I will put my body on the line no matter how many times it takes.

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

Instead of tipping them, the “grab & go Gestapo” kidnapped their servers. 🤬 www.startribune.com/ice-agents-e...

Mubashir and his family came to the United States as refugees from Ethiopia when he was a child, and they all became naturalized citizens in 2019. Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:

Federal officials say the ICE officer who shot and killed Renee Good suffered internal bleeding, but videos raise doubts, with the extent of the agent’s injuries still unknown.

Pam Bondi being a Scientologist makes a lot of sense, actually.

Trump’s secret police are killing people in the street. People can’t afford rent or groceries. Health care is absurdly expensive. When politicians take AIPAC money, they’re telling you whose priorities come first, and it isn’t yours. AIPAC wants to buy this seat. We can’t let that happen.

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

People should not have to work on their period. Just saying.

This is a corrupt, politically motivated attack on the Federal Reserve. The strict independence of the Fed has been paramount to the stability of the global economy for over a century, which will collapse if Trump moves to seize control of it.

Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.

The Vice President of the United States is a fascist.