📚🎁 Reminders for everyone looking for specific books to purchase online as gifts: 1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org) 2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦

Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now. Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers. Shameful.

Civics 101.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Well stated- thank you! @thetnholler.bsky.social

@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social DO NOT CAVE!

UPDATE: Donald Trump is so hellbent on denying people SNAP that he went all the way to the Supreme Court to block benefits. Now Trump is trying to bully states into TAKING BACK payments they already made to families. It’s chaos for the sake of cruelty.

FBI: "We didn't zip tie children." REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old." FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children."

Families are already hanging by a thread, but the sad truth is it’s about to get a lot worse when SNAP benefits don’t go out in November. It’s time to find our local food banks and help out with donations and volunteer hours if you are able.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Sanders: Saturday, millions of people are going to come out on a No Kings day. Speaker Johnson said this is a hate America rally because people are coming out expressing their concerns.. It’s not a hate America rally, it's a love America rally.

Republicans are melting down over millions of Americans peacefully protesting against Trump on Saturday. Cancún Cruz is scared because the GOP’s authoritarian agenda is becoming even more unpopular as our defiance grows even stronger. Join your local event: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

20 billion dollars from the US Treasury **was not enough**. So now it's 40 billion dollars! And why stop there? All while the US government is shut down. "America First," amirite? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

A Downy woodpecker enjoying the end of my sunflowers.

“Kids”

“Swear her in! Swear her in!” #TrumpEpsteinCoverup

The embarrassment is real. We need more descriptive words for this depth of pathetic.

"When students critically examine who created the Constitution & what rights it does & does not guarantee, they don’t retreat into cynicism; they step forward as active participants in democracy . . ." -- @jessehagopian.bsky.social via @wordinblacknews.bsky.social wordinblack.com/2025/10/no-w...

From the person who assured his voters that he knew nothing about Project 2025 and was not connected to it in any way.

They’re baaack. 🤣 Repairs and all…

@hcrichardson.bsky.social a screen pic from your latest piece- could you speak to what these states can do? Can these states withhold federal taxes? As always, thank you for your inspiring and detailed work to educate and engage and promote truth over opinion.

Can’t stop thinking about how my bathroom vanity is a threat to national security. But here’s a monarch as an antidote to insanity.

So unifying

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

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Season 7 of our podcast drops today: listen in to learn about three queer women — bold, brilliant, and unapologetic — whose voices redefined music genres and challenged social norms.

Happy birthday, James Baldwin! Baldwin once said, “I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” Keep that quote in mind as you listen to one of our favorite podcast episodes about Baldwin’s legacy.

Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans. This is Washington at its worst. We need to ban Congressional stock trading.

This fight isn't over. Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” is headed to the House, and we have the power to stop it.

Estimates of 200,000 people defy Orban’s ban. This is how it’s done.

Obergefell v. Hodges! On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court held in a 5–4 decision that the Fourteenth Amendment requires all states to grant same-sex marriages and recognize same-sex marriages granted in other states. Let’s all commit to fight to keep this court decision intact.

“The unspoiled land in question includes millions of acres of the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho…” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/c...

We are living in a time period where even our toothpaste feels like we need a pep talk. 🙄

Florida is destroying part of the fragile Everglades to build a detention center.

Ready and waiting for the matriarchy.

So republicans want us to fear trans people in bathrooms but we should be okay with gangs of masked, armed men with no warrants and no identification kidnapping people off the street. This is insanity.

Brownshirt ICE rolled up to my local Home Depot today and got the F-off treatment. Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off. 📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they? Hello?

This is outrageous. Call your Senators and get this removed from the bill.

Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny, has created 20 short lessons from his world renowned book. Each day 1 lesson will be posted here for us to learn & absorb the content together. 🔂 to take your followers on the journey with you. 🤝Together, We are the Guardrails. 👫👬👭👬👫👬👫👭

Let me be clear: Political violence has no place in our nation. Elected officials must be safe to do their job on behalf of the people. The hate and division that dominate our political discourse must end.

Every national park and historic site in the nation is forced to hang a QR code for people to complain about any factual history on signage that disparages white people. If you see one, please report racist fascists attempting to erase history and marginalized people. You all know what to do.

“Staff at the National Park Service were instructed to post QR codes and signs at all 433 national parks, monuments and historic sites by Friday asking visitors to flag anything they think should be changed, from a plaque to a park ranger’s tour to a film at a visitor’s center.”

FIRST ON MSNBC: "It's all BS coming from Trump." Sen. Padilla gets emotional talking about the treatment of immigrants from the Trump administration hours after being forcibly removed from a DHS press conference.

Booker “…Every body in this body should see that this is a crossroads.” Johnson: “I think that that behavior at a minimum rises to the level of a censure.” What a pathetic coward this fuckwad is.

PADILLA: “If this is how the administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, cooks, and day laborers throughout the country.”

How does anyone’s marriage threatens your own? You all can go to the fiery place you fear the most.

Find a rally near you this Saturday and stand in solidarity with others. Show strength in numbers and find your people. www.nokings.org

I love this so much! Austin, Texas in solidarity with LA. 🙏🏽❤️