This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time. There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

and I feel fine

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

I can’t get over how beyond despicable it is to detain street vendors, people that keep our streets vibrant and safer because of their presence. Street vendors are some of the most vulnerable and visible yet we are being told their detainment is to keep us safe. Ridiculous.

Husband’s choice of dinner attire tonight.

I mean they have dogs in there that they need to keep safe

If you like the alternative rock band R.E.M. then please follow me. Hoping to get to the 1000 number

It’s disgusting how much I love this mad little beast.

MAJOR NEWS: Prosecutors in Tallahassee are convening a grand jury relating to the Hope Florida scandal, the Herald/Times has learned. This is the charity started by Casey DeSantis that used FL legal settlement funds to campaign against medial marijuana amendment.

What is happening with ICE across our country is anti-policing. It is illegal. It is immoral. It is ineffective. And it is also stupid. It’s bad enough when police act like the hall monitors for a city. It’s worse when they act like the school bullies. And ICE ain’t police. it is utterly wrong.

The actual "enemy from within” (🙏 Ann Telnaes) Joseph McCarthy used the same term “enemies from within” in his speech to the Ohio County Republican Women’s Club in Wheeling, which launched the 1950s red scare. I doubt this was a coincidence by Trump’s speechwriter open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

This dog just murdered a bird. I am utterly traumatized.

I can't thank you enough for the massive outpouring of well-wishes on this very special day. 🫶, Mar🐫

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

This revenge version of the U.S. government sucks

Just so everyone is clear, this right here is what an actual violation of the First Amendment looks like. When the head of the FCC says a company needs to do something about someone who displeased the administration or lose its license, that’s no joke unconstitutional

My 6 y/o son asked his Echo dot to play Gardening at Night this morning. As I worry incessantly about the country and world he’ll be inheriting, this warmed my elder millennial mom heart. @remlyrics.bsky.social @remhq.bsky.social

An INTENDED result of going after free speech is it scares people into being silent in a moment where we need everyone to be the loudest.

It’s gotten easier and easier to see who are the good guys and who are the bad guys. But I didn’t realize there were so many cowardly bad guys who’d sell out America and our most sacred rights.

A little while back, we did some #QuestionsForKen where R.E.M. fans sent in some questions for musician @kenstringfellow.bsky.social to answer about his time with the band. Have a look at the videos here: youtube.com/@r.e.m.lyric...

At this moment we need to remember that it’s crazy what we could’ve had. Here’s REM doing the most stunning version of their song Country Feedback. This song is about you. m.youtube.com/watch?v=LAhk...

Today’s US Supreme Court ruling allowing racial targeting, that being Hispanic and working a low-income job and not speaking English proficiently ‘constitute at least reasonable suspicion of illegal presence in the United States’, is staggeringly racist. Shameful doesn’t come close. This is awful

It's wild to watch the central tenets of white supremacy -- that this is a world for white people and no one else -- work their way from like racist sheriffs smashing Black people's taillights all the way up to 6 Ivy League grads codifying "it's okay to smash taillights" into law.

When the Stasi asks for your papers, all you have to do is show them your papers and then they famously let you go on living your life. Easy breezy.

“Uh-oh, overflow, population ‘common food, but it’ll do’, save yourself, serve yourself, world serves its own needs—listen to your heart bleed, dummy with the raptured and the revered and the right, right” And let it be said I’m of the lets eat grandma school of punctuation, so

My neighbor in Orlando mentioned this EXACT concern to me last night!

An enormous number of kids in Florida are going to die unnecessarily.

apple.news/AljZtI59wQ8S... Fucking Florida

🎶September’s coming soon🎶 youtu.be/ahJ6Kh8klM4?...

People are being snatched from their families, too many will lose their healthcare, my family now cannot get Covid boosters… Everything is shit. But here is Suki and her magic ear.

Make Sure Everyone Knows 😊💙 HOLY S**T look at this: Florida GOP Senator Rick Scott just quietly disclosed stock trades a year late – worth $26 MILLION – on companies HE LEGISLATED. 😳 This is corrupt to its core, and he's hoping no one will notice. You know what to do.

Jason Narducy shared these photos (by Christy Bush) from Wednesday night’s Glasgow show and reports that things are going great as he, Michael Shannon and Friends prep for tonight’s Fables show in London. 🇬🇧

Just saw all your comments from last night’s post and someone shared a pic, Orlando showed up and used chalk to bring the rainbow crosswalk back! We love this so much!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

What the actual fuck

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Say what you will about Rev. James Dobson, but he committed his life to being as vile, evil, and hateful as he could be, consistently, every single day. He hated his fellow humans utterly and completely, and that kind of steadiness of character is admirable in this day and age.

Soon.

What’s it going to take? I think about this every damn day

Pirates Under Fire For Directly Marketing Team To Children theonion.com/pirates...

The best feeling in the world The days are long and we have so many challenges with the street dogs. But nothing will ever beat this feeling.

Probably my favorite rescue ever. King Whacker of Scotland. He's been in his forever home for 2 years now. All the way from the street of Thailand

Celebrating R.E.M.’s third album, “Fables Of The Reconstruction”, Michael Shannon and @jasonnarducy.bsky.social and friends. In the U.K. and Ireland This is “Driver 8”:

Detainees at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” are on a hunger strike over what they call inhumane, dangerous conditions. Some haven’t eaten in 10 days. One of them, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized and still refuses food until they are treated with dignity.

It's funny to think that my preference for urban living in areas with dense, mixed-used, walkable neighborhoods, multi-family housing, small businesses, and diversity probably stems from Sesame Street. Like an early education in Jane Jacob's urbanist theories.

I’m a broken record on this point, but whatever you hear Michael singing on the early records is what the lyrics are to you. I just will never understand the impulse of lyric sites and fans to try to nail down what the lyrics “really are.” They’re whatever you hear them to be, that’s their power …

@mollyw.bsky.social I finally read Fourth Wing. Took me a bit to get into it; not my usual style of book and didn’t really start getting drawn in until the bonding with both dragons. And then - the ending. And I immediately bought Iron Flame. Now I’m on Onyx Storm.