It’s International Women’s Month, and @data-wit.bsky.social is sharing a daily quote from a woman that other women have found inspiring.My contribution is a quote is from @cindygross.bsky.social ‘She realized she didn’t need to solve the problem to be safe; she just needed to stop carrying it.’

Sign this petition to remove Schumer then use the contact form on Senate.gov to ask your US Senators to replace Schumer as Senate Minority Leader.

This is vile, cruel, racist kidnapping sanctioned by the current administration. These ICE agents need to be brought up on human rights violation charges as well as kidnapping. This is NOT the country I want to live in.

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

Run to the Hills was on my playlist today. As a teen, I didn't appreciate how radically anti-colonizer the song is. Today's Trump admin - profa - wants to treat us like my Indigenous ancestors & make anyone who stands for justice - Antifa - run for the hills. Instead, We're Not Gonna Take It.

What makes anyone think that the actual, authentic Epstein files will be released? They've had months to modify them to suit their own goals. Hopefully the task was given to someone incompetent and/or to unreviewed AI.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

I am just so fucking proud of her.

Y'all do know the difference between drag and trans, right? I feel like many don't. -Drag means an outward appearance - clothes, hair, nails, makeup - doesn't follow strict gender norms. -Trans means a person's innate sense of gender doesn't match external body features. -Cis means not trans.

Andor would want you to cancel your Disney+ subscription. It's the least you can do for the Rebellion.

What a contrast on legacies. Robert Redford opened doors, created opportunities, & lifted up people who were very different from him. Charlie Kirk slammed doors shut, cut off access to anyone he didn't see as enough like him, & encouraged harm.

I do not want to live in a culture where we solve problems with violence. Also true: too many people with a lot of power use it to create mountains of harm for people they don't like. Charlie Kirk focused significant harm on trans people, women, brown and Black people, & non-Christians.

From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...

White folks out here thinking "at least I'm safe" - no, we're not. Whiteness changes all the time. Not long ago German, Irish, & Italian people weren't white. Indigenous people weren't white unless our daddy was white. Hispanic people may be seen as white until someone hears Spanish words.

Data from 33 cities across the country discredits the claim that bail reform causes crime to increase. bit.ly/4dkG58o

I used AI to tell a truth I see every day: Underestimated leaders aren’t broken. We carry dragons — fear, brilliance, dreams — just trying to thrive in systems never built for us. What if they (and we!) are not the problem… but the power? See what resonates: befriendingdragons.com/meet

Renewable energy has been cheaper than fossil fuels for several years now. I learned this from a public radio story recently & I don't understand why it hasn't been headline news multiple times. It's a major milestone, in normal times it would signal a sharp decline in fossil fuel market demand.

Trump continues to put America and most Americans last. He can say "America 1st" all day but it doesn't change that he puts himself and other billionaires 1st and those with the least power last - always. Trump's actual lived motto is America Last.

This is Trump moving funding from investigating actual crimes regardless of who the perpetrator & victim are (FBI, ATF, etc) to detaining people for who they are (ICE). Sure, there are mountains of biases in who gets investigated but at least the idea was to go after crime. Now identity is a crime.

Jason Stanley, philosopher and expert on fascism said “You know you're living in a fascist society when you're constantly going over in your head the reasons why YOU are safe.”

Trump has destroyed the rule of law in America. It's already gone. Voter suppression has ramped up even beyond the historic levels that got him elected. Oversight of elections, courts, & lawmaking is either dismantled or under his control. He's under the control of project 2025 + foreign bad actors.

I'm old enough to remember when Republicans & conservatives were aligned, when they wanted to uphold the constitution, were against activist judges, and voted for law and order aka the rule of law.

Trans kids and adults deserve to live

Check on your strong friends. Ain’t a one of us operates in a vacuum. Strength is a collective power we draw from one another, and we’ve got to have each other. That includes the ones who appear the strongest.

1/6 Today marks the anniversary of the Indian Removal Act, signed into law on May 28, 1830 by President Andrew Jackson. This act remains one of the most disgusting and despicable pieces of legislation in the history of the so-called United States.

The Trump admin claims they're playing 4D chess, but they're throwing checkers across Settlers of Catan boards, misquoting Ticket to Ride rules, and tossing in Can't Stop moves willy-nilly. They create chaos, leave it for others, then call us disloyal for calling out their fake games.

Free markets require that the organizations that extract profit from an activity pay all the associated costs. That includes preventing harm to people and the land we live and play on, paying medical costs+, restoring land they've polluted, & addressing other "side effects."

Why am I still asked for my title aka Ms, Mr, Miss when I am on federal government sites? Aren't gender markers and pronouns now forbidden? The difference between Ms and she/her is mostly the level of formality and if it's Mrs or Miss then it's pronouns + marital status.

Imagine a future where we are totally safe and thriving. Imagine OUR future when we show up TOGETHER and make that future happen. Lots of things are being broken, that's our opportunity to step in and create the change WE want. #BefriendingDragons

Trump & Vance are creating expensive gaps in our relationships with every other country on earth while destroying our American economy & systems of law. All in pursuit of white nationalism. They aren't some natural top of the pyramid, they're immature assholes. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My ancestors, the Lenape, felt American genocide. We lost 90% of our people in removals, famine, disease, & fighting caused by the colonizers arriving on our shores. Our very name as a people & our culture was stolen and replaced with the name of a conqueror - Delaware. History isn't pretty.

Never, ever let newbies walk in the door & redo all your processes, policies, procedures, payroll, expense reporting, etc. They don't know the system. They don't even know what questions to ask or how to fully understand the answers. They're doing what any experienced person knows is BAD BUSINESS.

Question the narrative. Don't hate who they tell you to hate. Don't hate at all. Shower the world with kindness, empathy, and curiosity. #BefriendingDragons

Does Musk want to go to Mars because he truly believes the book "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" is literally true? Does he think he'll find some closure that he's "good enough" with that external validation of his masculinity?

I spent my 1st 50 yrs thinking everyone agreed these things are bad: 1) Nazis 2) Fascism 3) Billionaires stealing from everyone else 4) Genocide 5) Sith lords I never thought we would slide so fast & hard into large portions of the USA thinking these things are good. Come back to the light folks!

To Musk & Trump, the entire system of Medicare, Medicaid, & Social Security is fraud & waste bc it supports people they can't relate to. When they say they want to eliminate fraud & waste they are 100% saying they will eliminate the entire social safety net. All of it. #fraudandwaste

Small businesses like mine rely on predictability. Like my decades in tech, we expect the same response time every time we do a repeatable activity. Chaos is bad for business. Trump is introducing massive amounts of chaos with his on & off tariffs, firings, & cuts. Any CEO would be fired for this.

DEI isn’t some new idea—it’s shorthand for our civil rights & access to personal freedom - keys to America’s progress from the start. But Trump + the GOP want to dismiss liberty as a culture war. We can’t let them. Read my latest with @jenpsaki.msnbc.com for @msnbc.com: www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

Trump & Vance aren't "Daddy," they're acting like they want to be Putin's little boys by abusing America & Americans. They're giving away America's mighty power-political, financial, and mindshare-to Russia. China is grabbing power that leaks around the edges. www.theframelab.org/trump-vances...

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

Get your flu shot if you haven't already. Get up to date on your covid vaccines. They are the most widely tested vaccines and have a huge return on investment for our health.

What does being mean to trans people do to make your life better? Name one way that isn't actually a comment on the misbehavior of cis men. Just one.

It seems they are underestimating the speed & certainty of the already well established fascist Trump dictatorship. The US has already lost the respect of other countries & is quickly giving away all our soft power. We are now a country in decline - or worse. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump and Musk put themselves first, they have zero interest in promoting America as a country, culture, or society. They are well into a naked, public power grab, where the destruction and chaos are part of their strategy. They don't care how many of us are harmed, bankrupted, or dead.

We've reached the point where a sitting Supreme Court Justice once in the long ago past supporting a key constitutional right to freedom of the press is both framed as past tense and seen as noteworthy. Fascism is now the norm. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

WTF? "We" plan to "purchase" another nation's territory against their will and then rename it some entirely nonsensical but vaguely "patriotic" sounding name? Renaming without permission is a bully's way of gaining abusive power. www.41nbc.com/buddy-carter...

For people at government agencies and companies requiring people to remove pronouns from signatures, are you simply replacing it with MS, Mx, or Mr? Or some quote with a pronoun like "People say Cindy's superpower is "She says the things no one else will."

"Stop Confusing Tribal Sovereignty with Race" nativenewsonline.net/opinion/stop...