@stitchandwitch.bsky.social is the most voluminous reader I know— and that’s saying A LOT check out the kick a** review she did for us @therumpus.net ! therumpus.net/2026/01/12/p...

Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms. 3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers. 4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against. It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power. Story to come.

Do you guys realize just how many audiobooks Mara Wilson has read? The fact that grown up Matilda reads me stories all the time is just so great to me.

Just in case you don’t know this, school boards aren’t providing gender reassignment surgeries to students.

When freedom is under fire you can count on me to ramble and mutter incoherently.

I was just reading about workers who banded together when their coworker was unfairly fired and demanded their boss rehire her. SAG-AFTRA has a new president who could lead the way on such collective action. Hollywood needs to stand together for Colbert and Kimmel or it’s gonna keep happening.

"Democrats don't want the Epstein files released because it would compromise Bill Clinton." Yeah, no, I don't care who's in the files. If Bill Clinton is implicated, I want him held accountable. I'm not part of a cult. I don't give a shit if they're a Democrat.

This country had one of the most advanced emergency management systems in the entire world specifically so that we are not helpless in the face of disaster but this fucker and his little buddies decided to dismantle it.

In 30 days, LGBTQ+ youth will lose the life-saving suicide hotline—a program that’s supported over 1.3 million young people. When folks are in crisis, this admin chooses cruelty over care—every time. But this is the party of “family values,” right?

Why don’t ICE agents have uniforms and badges?

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If we’re using immigrants to cheat in elections and there are so many immigrants then why’d we lose?

If you take one thing away from today, let it be that we outnumber them.

Trump is shutting down Job Corps—kicking vulnerable young people out of housing, job training, and education programs with zero plan. Don’t tell me this man gives a damn about the working class when he’s gutting the very programs that help folks get on their feet.

“My name’s Donovan. Irish. Both sides, mother and father. I’m Irish, you’re German. But what makes us both Americans? Just one thing. One, one, one. The rule book. We call it the Constitution and we agree to the rules, and that’s what makes us Americans.” — Bridge of Spies

The way tech is trying to shove AI down our throats is making me even more disinterested and disdainful.

If Hulu is going to insist on pushing Handmaids Tale on me I’d really appreciate if they didn’t have rape scenes in their trailers.

Guys, it's the oligarchs. If you want to blame someone for 2024, blame the oligarchs. Anyone telling you to blame someone else is part of the oligarchy. Dark money has been to blame since citizens united.

ICE agents should not be allowed to cover their faces, and if they don’t have uniforms and badges I’m assuming they’re not agents.

How we beat back the corporate takeover of America: 1. Break up corporate monopolies 2. Continue building union power 3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

Thank you to everyone who shared their story today on the Capitol steps or online. This is how we will stop cuts to Medicaid, this is how we will stop Trump and congressional Republicans devastating agenda, this is how we will rise.

Congressional Republicans are preparing to gut Medicaid and essential services to give the ultra-wealthy a tax cut. Talking with Leader Hakeem Jeffries on the Capitol steps this morning about how we make our voices heard in this moral moment.

I swear to Christ, the biggest problem on this hellsite is the fact that so many people are convinced that they are the only competent person in the room.

Coward.

The devil going ‘down to Georgia’ implies Satan normally lives in the northeast US, possibly Canada

#leftists of Bluesky a brilliant, young friend of @stitchandwitch.bsky.social has created an a perfect anagram for a certain Tesla oligarch. It's "Leon Skum". I think the tales of #LeonSkum should be spread far and wide.

You have to be a citizen to register to vote. There's no need to prove this again unless you want to make it harder for people to vote and drive down turnout.

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA): "I'm writing to the White House to demand who knew in advance that the President was going to, once again, flip flop on tariffs. And are people cashing in? There is just all too much opportunity for people in the White House and the administration to be insider trading"

DOGE Oversight Subcommittee held a hearing on reducing federal property. All they said was “fire sale” this, “fire sale” that. Meanwhile, they’re lighting all of this s**t on fire — while their incompetent leader wastes millions of taxpayer dollars golfing, all while steering us towards a recession.

I’m not usually one to appreciate any changes to my comfort foods, but the new @wendys-usa.com taco salad really is way better than the old one… I just wish it had more little chip things.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Your child is more likely to die from measles than get beat by one of their trans peers in an athletic competition, and I wish our government's actions would reflect that.

If you still think it’s okay for the US Women’s Soccer team to be paid less than the US Men’s soccer team, I don’t care about your opinions on trans girls playing sports.

Canadians are pissed off. Cory Booker is pissed off. It's revenge of the nice people out here

I don't know how you can watch Cory Booker - hoarse and emotional after almost 24 hours on the Senate floor - and not be moved. What an extraordinary display of patriotism. "It is not left or right. It is right or wrong. America, this is a moral moment. Does the Constitution live in your heart?"

After talking for 25 hours straight Booker was still more coherent than the current White House occupant is on any average Tuesday.

Whoever designs shampoo bottles, I will reject your shampoo if the bottle is too hard to open when my hands are soapy. Just so you know.

Breaking News There are more top officials in the current administration leaking top secret war plans than there are trans athletes playing in women’s sports.

Do they not know actual old people?

Mind = blown What if transgender women did not exist. Couldn't cisgender men still dress up and pretend to be women in order to get into women only spaces in order to do bad things to women and girls?

At the moment, I don't care about 2028. Show me Democrats who will lead us effectively through the rest of 2025, and I'll be open to talking about 2028.

You know how people like to compare the current political situation to being in the orchestra on the Titanic? There are moments right now where being a union rep feels less like playing in the orchestra and more like trying to change out a broken string on a violin while on the Titanic.

I don’t remember “I’m gonna bully Canada” in any of his campaign speeches…

Dear YouTube Vlogger, Either speak louder or turn the music down. Thank you.

just taking tonight to really appreciate all these years of journalistic tut-tut-tutting about how over-the-top it was for anyone to focus on trump's affinity for russia and putin.

Happy #internationalwomensday !!! Don't let the patriarchy get you down. We outchea!

Uh-huh.

I just did a tiktok about my love of Libro this morning if you follow me over there…

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