If you were subscribed to the podcast, you'd be listening to @shannab.bsky.social make a perfect analogy between Texas football and Taylor Swift. Better listen/watch/share/subscribe to hear it! youtu.be/jTxb4goyvdc?...

Once again y'all, a homeless transfem friend of mine needs help to not end up back on the street. Please donate or share as you can.

For the night time crowd:

the republican line to open corruption in the government is “WE DON’T CARE” lmfao

This could be “the largest public corruption scandal in the history of the United States"—amounting to a $2B bribe from an Emirati royal and the sale of the world’s most valuable artificial intelligence chips to the UAE, despite national security concern. trib.al/iZEOnGq

Well, if discussions about Charlie Kirk are resulting in crackdowns, we should all go back to something safe like demanding a release of the Epstein files.

They don’t want production to come back to America no matter what they say about tariffs because this ensures that no one will want to build a plant here

So many words for cheating 😭

those arrested are heroes; I know some are going back despite bail conditions after the Aug one. Latest arrest figure 425; they got to about that at this time in the evening in Aug, but there's at least twice the number there today... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Really wish you all would stop calling the very real and damaging things they are doing “distractions”

She walked out of her immigration hearing smiling — papers in hand, standing tall. She had no idea the man waiting in the hallway was ICE. No idea she was about to be detained. This is happening inside NYC’s immigration courts. Every day. #ICE

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)

Capitulating to an uneducated center (that doesn’t really exist) instead of energizing and standing firm in progressive values that includes rather than excludes people is why we are where we are.

Huge thanks to the dozens of climate scientists who sent us their rebuttals to the catalogue of outright falsehoods and misleading claims in Trump's new 'critical' climate report. This factcheck is the longest article CB has ever published - 27,500 words already and likely to keep growing...

How culturally destructive AI can be, interwoven with a personal story of being plagiarized by this slop tech from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social 3/3 sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...

What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority? ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles /

My stitch to this post. Myron asked a valid question and I elaborated on it.

Love that when outlets like the Atlantic or the NYT finally get around to writing a long piece on Sudan, they never, ever, ever, EVER, get a Sudanese person to write it. Despite Sudanese ppl pitching them 1000x over the last few years. And oh, let’s play ‘How to Write About Sudan’ bingo…

What’s really going on in Texas? I give you Rep. Jolanda Jones in two parts speaking from temporary exile while they deny a quorum to state Republicans. She lays out every bit of it out - chapter and verse. These Texas Dems are the real deal. @texasdemocrats.bsky.social Here’s Part 1:

Protect Rep. Jolanda Jones at all cost. Part 2:

Brown University take notes

I’m so pissed about this deal. Fuck

Hi, I worked at USAID. 👋 Airdrops are universally acknowledged as probably the worst and least efficient way to get aid to people. You airdrop when you a) want to want to so something but can’t, or b) you don’t want to do anything but want to look like you are.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...

Heads up GA voters. Here is Stacey Abrams to explain what you need to do to stay on the rolls 👇🏽

Nah this mad me tear up. I wanna vote for him so much.

I literally can’t. Can not. Nope.

Did you know @shannab.bsky.social knows sports? She's on UDPod this morning talking the WNBA All-Star game, the powerful purpose of that Player's Association, and the Church of Beyonce. Listen/Share/Watch/Subscribe youtu.be/k7WpJHQ4YNU?...

Starting to be a bad look for the NYTimes and its proprietors that Trump hasn’t found that their coverage merits suing them.

As part of their active banning of queer books, the Trump administration and DoD have actively targeted "The Dog Knight" by myself, @breindigo.bsky.social and @mcapriglioneart.bsky.social for removal from DoD schools. However, you can buy it right now and support us! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

You can now watch a video essay version of this post.

You'd think the NIH cuts might buck this pattern. Nope!

Same with the cuts to the Department of Education, which runs a lot of programs to help rural areas. Or used to, at least.

This week's slashing of money for NPR and PBS will also impact rural areas disproportionately

And the cuts to NOAA and NWS and FEMA, as we recently saw in Texas, are going to make it much harder for rural areas to anticipate and respond to natural disasters.

For starters, the Medicaid cuts are going to impact red states significantly and likely force a lot of rural hospitals to close.

It's remarkable that the Biden administration spent money on rural red areas, which then voted enthusiastically for Trump, who has now repeatedly made moves to screw over those exact same areas.

Little Haiti is vibrant. And it’s facing the same cost of living crisis as neighborhoods across the city. That's why Brooklyn Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn and I are bringing the Democratic Party together around a shared vision for an affordable New York. I am grateful for her endorsement!

I don’t think this is the moment to cut weather forecasting services

If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.

I think about this constantly

don’t threaten us with a good time tammy

All systems of oppression are woven together and our work to get free will only succeed when we are woven together.

NEW from me — I wrote about FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson, who has been completely silent and out of view since deadly floods devastated Texas last week, and spoke to staffers about what it's like to respond to a disaster with no leader. Read here:

One question I get asked a lot is "When is Galaxy going to meet Superman?" Meeting someone as iconic as Superman, who Galaxy has idolized all her life, would need to be a very special and meaningful story. That story happens to be GALAXY: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN by me and @ryehickman.bsky.social.