Good morning Bluesky 💙🦋💙

These two things are completely unrelated, so don’t even think of trying to make a connection between them

April reading. Pretty light as I had two long flights during the month. I’ve found that I prefer watching videos to reading while flying now. Details in thread. #booksky

Three generations of mothers and me. ❤️ #mothersday

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Is 2026 your year to run for office? Candidate Filing Week starts today! Online filing is available 24 hours a day until Friday, May 8, at 5 p.m. learn more and file online at kce.wiki/RunForOffice

Yes, I move the chair regularly so that Lelu gets as much sun as possible. #caturday

This is a Justice Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor appreciation post. Thank you for your just and righteous voices and your fierce defense of our democracy. ❤️

I asked our witnesses at today’s hearing what they would say to Americans who have fallen victim to anti-immigrant rhetoric. Listen to their responses:

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

93 Candles 🎂 today for one of my favourite entertainers & people — CAROL BURNETT. Amongst others she’s received 7 Golden Globes, a Grammy, 7 Emmy’s, 12 People's Choice Awards, 2 Peabody’s & a Tony.

Seattle Torrent!

Another shout out for Books Unbanned. No matter where they live, teens can check out e-books, thanks to all of the participating libraries. booksunbanned.com

US media needs to start calling Trump's shit out too! He's trying to control all of it except some independent news sources.

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Yes.

All moral agents in our legislature, en masse, should be standing on the steps demanding Congress to be open to address this madness. You’re all really still home? Do you need a fucking invitation to uphold your oath?

First time in months Emma’s squeezed into the basket.

Amaze. Amaze. Amaze. youtu.be/y-wRUfdALQM?...

As we send a Black man and a woman around the moon for the first time, let’s remember the trailblazing Black woman Katherine Johnson, whose brilliant calculations were critical to the initial Apollo 11 mission. Her work spanned 33 years at NASA, including contributions to the Space Shuttle program.

March reading and it’s only April 2! A lot of books, but also a lot of lighter reading. (Gee, wonder why?) Magic and mysteries abound, with a few exceptions. Details in the thread.

Books Unbanned is one way to fight book banning idiots. Teens can check out ebooks from libraries across the country, regardless of where they live! booksunbanned.com

Lady Liberty 🗽 being arrested ✊🏼 at the L.A. protest by a couple of fascists in blue, who said that arresting her was the highlight of their day. 😒

Bwahahaha!

No. No, I cannot.

And Romy invented the Post It.

I did not know this. Pay TSA.

Five-time draft dodger says what now?

Jeff Bezos is worth $220 billion. After building that fortune from overworking and exploiting his own workers, Bezos is now developing a fund to acquire manufacturing companies and automate them. Why do we always hear about immigrants taking jobs when the oligarchs are actually to blame?

Ossoff: "The president is sending out fundraising emails featuring photos of service members in flag-draped coffins. It's the most callous & disgraceful disregard for the sacrifice these service members made. It gives the impression the president & his team view those who wear the uniform as pawns"

Judge rules US government overreached with transgender health care declaration

Ossoff: "The American people need to know that the president is fundraising for his political campaign and his PAC using images of American service members killed in action, and it's a disgrace"

Let's keep talking about both the idiocy of the war with Iran and that we want the Epstein files released. We can walk and chew gum at the same time.

Compare and contrast.

What? You’re surprised?

‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Director: “This is about how you lose your country — through small acts of complicity: when a government murders people on the streets, when oligarchs take over the media… we all face a moral choice. But even a nobody is more powerful than you think."

Please end this "spring forward/fall back" bullshit I am DYING

February 2026 reading. Just too lazy to write individual notes this time. All good reads! #booksky

Shame on Kansas.

2026 basically

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84. My thoughts are with his family. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

True.

A million people turned out on the streets simultaneously. They went to cheer & scream for a team of football players who won #TheBigGame. Can we get a million people onto the streets of a city to sing & chant & hold signs in favor of our democracy? Y'all have practiced it now.

The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.

Bondi suffered the third degree third degree burns by intelligent empathic Members, this was on top of her pants combusting. I honestly can’t believe she is not a pile of smoldering ash and sulfur conglomerate

“A letter tossed over the detention center fence said they’ve been held 290 days… haven’t had a single piece of fruit… no pain meds…” @corecivic, folks