Several states (including California, Michigan, Oregon, and Wisconsin) have announced that they’ve begun processing full food stamp payments. Thank you to those states for stepping up to support families in need!

You can't make this up.

It's been 38 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

It’s been really disheartening to see the things people say about those who use SNAP. Many seem to have little understanding of why the program exists in the first place.

Thank you, Senator Jeff Merkley, for your incredible 22-hour and 37-minute marathon speech on the Senate floor!

As part of Trump’s planned Reduction in Force (RIF) during the government shutdown, the Interior Department said it plans to lay off about 2,050 employees, including 272 from the National Park Service (NPS), 335 from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

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For this Bi Visibility Day, pick up a sapphic historical romance by a bi author, with a bi heroine! Lady’s Guide is science vs art bi awakening, Waspish Widows is small town bees and bi/pan, and Hellion’s Waltz is bi4bi enemies to lovers with a heist element! #Romancelandia

Something to remind you It's a world worth saving

Trump had a tantrum tonight over ABC bringing Jimmy Kimmel back, even threatening to sue the network.

Just a reminder that #NBC and #MSNBC fired numerous Black women to placate the far right, including @joyannreid.bsky.social @joy.msnbc.com, and before that @tiffanydcross.bsky.social and Melissa Harris Perry for, effectively, speaking truths that offended their white overlords.

I hate it when my autistic child has to hear ‘news’ stories and rumors about how autism is some sort of plague or how it ought to be cured. He has a hard enough time with his self image. There’s so much he wants to do that he either can’t (yet) or does with massive effort. This bs just hurts.

Idk who needs to hear this but autism isn't evil and people with autism are delightful little gems and beloved children of God. Anyone telling u otherwise is selling something!

We all said this would happen. We knew it would happen. And really no one in power gave a flying fuck. This is a feature, not a bug. www.teenvogue.com/story/men-dr...

I'm gonna need dems to get out there and be like "RFK and the republicans who enable him want your children to die" bc that is what is happening. Like, it's not just RFK, he is being supported and enabled by the rest of that death panel ass cult of a party

Listen up, folx! I’m closing Sapphics with the T on 8/15/25 so we can make a grand donation. Please order what you want before then. They have good deals right now so you can save a bunch! ALL PROFITS ARE DONATED. We have $284.40 online and $287 cash from sales at GCLS. Zazzle.com/store/sapphi...

NH, you can still stop this. This bill isn’t law yet. “If you agree that there’s no room for book bans in the Live Free or Die state, please call Governor Ayotte’s office and leave a message urging her to veto HB 324.” #bannedbooks

Join us for a week of fun with Clare Ashton! Check out this week’s 3 Truths and a Lie with author Clare Ashton over in the IHS Patreon group! This is a free feature so you do not need to be a paid member to read this post. www.patreon.com/posts/3-trut...

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THIS JUST HAPPENED: Brad Lander walked through the fire, got burned, and came back with a fucking gasoline can. ICE arrested him — now he’s escorting migrants right past them, again. Most politicians wouldn’t show up. He showed out.

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Wrote this piece for Harpers Bazaar about the life, legacy, and hate-induced murder of Jonathan Joss through the eyes of being a Two-Spirit Native person this Pride. I hope you take a read. For Him. For all of us. 🪶

It should be illegal for law enforcement to wear masks and not show ID. This makes it too easy to impersonate law enforcement and murder people in their homes.

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Not my little book of penguins, plotting, and payback getting longlisted for a MAINSTREAM crime-writing award?! 🥰 Thanks to the Davitt Awards judges for liking Vengeance Planning for Amateurs. What *brilliant* company my book is in. @ylva-publishing.bsky.social @sistersincrimeaust.bsky.social

Congratulations E. J. Noyes!

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

Constant gaslighting is a tactic to impede people’s psychological ability to see reality. It’s a textbook method of coercive control.

Musk and Trump have contributed to a rise in death threats and intimidation against judges. In Charleston, S.C., police were dispatched to the home of one of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s sisters after a threat claimed a pipe bomb had been placed in her mailbox.

Numerous Social Security numbers — including those belonging to a U.S. ambassador, congressional staffers and intelligence researchers — were revealed to be included in the trove of J.F.K papers released.

Remember this all the time!

Things that are in your control . . . • Who you connect with: ✔️ • What you give your time & attention to: ✔️ • Where you direct your energy & effort: ✔️ • When you ask for help: ✔️ • How you respond—or whether you do: ✔️ Be patient & be kind to yourself. #AuthorSky #SapphicBookSky #LGBTQSky

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I think Marco Rubio probably needs to be sent back to school.. When you arbitrarily rip up trade agreements, threaten a country, and say you’re going to break it, that’s an act of war. And Canadians have responded in kind.

Musk staffers are joking about how upcoming Social Security changes will restrict access by requiring in-person visits while simultaneously shutting down offices. They are touting the cost savings from limiting access.

“Middle age isn’t some ditch at the dead end of Discovery Road, beloved.” My next book, The Second Draft, is out from @ylva-publishing.bsky.social in 2026! An ice queen, friends-to-lovers sapphic romance with two 50+ late bloomer MCs, TSD is about how it's never too late to become yourself 💛👠✍🏻🌵🔥

Do yourself a favor: Buy & read No Shelter But the Stars.

It feels wild to have to say this, but misogyny is not a solved problem in romance media, even with romance media largely. being created and consumed by women. I suggest one reason for this is that misogyny is embedded into the very sexual ecosystem that we use romance fiction to explore.

It's my birthday, and I'd like to celebrate it with you by giving you a present. I put together a birthday book giveaway with five different prizes. Head over to my website to check out the prizes & enter the drawing: jae-fiction.com/jaes-birthda...

Follow the money and see where it goes. Nothing like buying our Congress. Musk has made the maximum allowable donation to members of Congress who support impeaching federal judges who are impeding actions taken by Trump.