Is this...is this REAL?

It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.

I’m *extremely concerned* about the way folks are reforming their image of the cops in light of everything that’s happening, even though we only have a handful examples of them disagreeing with ICE, while still being responsible themselves for the murders of Black and brown people across the country

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Look at my friend Audrey's art! She's amazing. I especially love the window in the vignette on the lower right.

Speaking of the day- it’s my birthday. 😁 As per tradition, I would be honored if you, dear viewer, shared my #art and helped me find new friends here on BSky! #digitalArt #sciArt #wildlifeArt #illustration

"Should we vote to give more money to the people shooting my constituents in the face?" is not a complicated political question. And yet, Democrats don't seem able to answer it.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

Oh for fuck's sake.

Breaking, again.

Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List

I just discovered #adoorablethursday is a thing, and I want to play. This is a shop in Rochester, MN.

If all we needed were dead bodies, there'd be a lot more of them impeached than just RFK.

Y'all. I. Love. Murderbot. The books are a stunning exploration what it's like to realize you are, in fact, a person. It's hilarious, beautiful, clever. Along with @ceruleancynic.bsky.social's Greta Helsing series, Murderbot Diaries has been instrumental in healing so much of my religious trauma.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." - Frederick Douglass

About to do some early Christmas shopping.

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

Oh heck yeah. This will change the way I consume media.

Well fuck this.

Imagine being the richest man on the planet and your trans daughter is just bodying you with more wit and humor than you have in your entire stock portfolio.

The correct thing to do if you are just now realizing that the entire Trump model is incompetence built on top of a precarious heap of the worlds’ most fragile egos is to start calling for him to be impeached. Or 25thed.

All these business people with no goddamn sense signed on to Trump’s vision of returning to 1910 without remembering, somehow, that the reason we abandoned that shit was that half the world underwent violent revolution between 1911 and 1940 and rose up against the wealthy ruling class.

This house now has an actual flagpole with a Trump flag-- both in their yard, and on their vehicle. Jesus is gone though.

I should've spent more time in the last four years stockpiling energy and sleeping. And getting therapy. Doing this a second time is going to wear me out, friends.

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

i think they should invent a us government that doesn’t do eugenics on trans children

This book. Is so good.

remember, the blitzkrieg is intended to make you feel like there is nothing you can do about it; that’s the only reason to go forward in this haphazard and sloppy manner all in the first week and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you *will* do something about it

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

Ooof

Take no shit in 2025. Make hatred LOOK ignorant. Show it its cruelty. Be intolerant of bigotry. Don't abet a worsening. Lose friends who insist only some people deserve dignity. Understand who has your back and who's only there because it's convenient. Dig in. Set your jaw. Rewrite the narrative.

Be smart. And pick your people and fight your corner. Whenever, wherever, however you can _protect your people_

Merry Christmas from South Texas.

Merry Jolabokaflod to all who celebrate.

I didn't even know I could *be* disappointed anymore. But Warnock and Ossoff feels like a particular betrayal.

We're in the stupid place.

Never not iconic.

That's a feature not a bug.

People keep saying “but how would we pay for it” about single payer, and the answer is “by not paying shareholders excess profits, and by cutting out hundreds of millions of dollars in health care executive and administrator salaries when you stop prioritizing how to deny worthy claims.”

This is my shocked face.

This is an excellent distillation of what I want to pass on to my kids.

My *mother* who is seventy years old, has lived through some shit, who is the least alarmist person EVER, saw a blurb about Matthew fucking Walsh's assholery in front of the supreme court today and said "that's genocide. he's talking about genocide." Sweet Jesus I hate that man.

Even Kavanaugh didn't get Kavanaughed. Also, I once knew an absolute asshat of a man who was mad at Megyn Kelly during the first Trump campaign. He posted: "she's barely a 5 with makeup." I told him he could be an asshole without being a misogynist, but he actually couldn't.

Chase Strangio said we need to intervene in any and all narratives that work to blame or isolate transgender people. 👀 Step up, push back, be loud. Trans people need to know they aren’t alone and that their allies are legion.

something that came from the disability rights movement. A beautiful and perspective-altering thing to learn about, imo—especially because this argument about regret is likely to come up again and again in legal battles over restrictions on gender-affirming care.

Abortion and gender-affirming care are not the same, but what they have in common is very low rates of regret. However, the real reason I'm sharing is because of the fascinating convo I had in this episode with bioethicist Katie Watson, in which she explains the concept of "dignity of risk,"