Two of them #makeaterriblecomicday2026

currently reading a whole bunch of petitions and editorials from black americans of the revolutionary era and it is so striking (and frankly inspiring) to see how the ink wasn't even dry on the declaration before black americans were demanding that the patriots live up to their stated ideals

The plays own title is “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” and these smarmy signs are the perfect example of people criticising something on the basis they feel too superior to engage with the work in the first place. The entire point is they can’t be silly teenagers bc they inherit a blood feud.

I love the reaction of cat lovers upon seeing a cat. Every single time the level of excitement is like they've read about cats for decades but never actually seen one in real life and they're SO EXCITED. Every. Single Time. Even if it's the hundredth cat they've seen that day.

I know the ratio on this is already ridiculous but I was still thinking about it when I got up this morning. We're not your resources. We're not your volunteers. You're the ones constantly asking for OUR money even though most of us have so little. We'll keep primarying anyone who doesn't get that

Trump’s own Surgeon General released an extremely rare “Surgeon General’s Advisory” in 2018 urging all Americans to carry Narcan spray

Please speak up. Record your objection. This is crucially important.

Beginning next week, Australians get free electricity for three hours every afternoon. That's what happens when you build out wind, sun, and batteries open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

I LIKE this guy. “We need your imagination, your narrative creativity and your lively thinking […] I thank you for every time you have sown seeds of reconciliation, of encounter and of friendship.”

We can afford Medicare. We actually could afford full universal healthcare coverage. We cannot afford the parasitic billionaire class.

Sorry not sorry for the next several months of relentless book promotion, I didn't create this system! But for real, though, if you've ever thought anything I do is any good at all, I hope you'll read this book I poured everything into: geni.us/broughttoyouby

Trying to do the thing again because this book held me up by making my cry on walks during COVID. Shout out to @amalelmohtar.com and @maxgladstone.bsky.social

“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. “You are not numbers or case files. “You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV

One is required above all to feel himself the brother of all beings and to recognize their claim to his love and beneficence. Do not suppress your compassion or sympathy for the sufferings of your fellow man. —Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch

I love this. Affordable, electric, no frills (but AC, which isn’t a luxury). But my favorite part?

Same. And every organizing effort I'm a part of right now contains women over 60 who have HAD. IT. with establishment dems.

Again, it isn't just leftists who are powering this movement and voting out incumbents. Run of the mill Democrats are done with the party establishment as well. Party leaders are ignoring the base at their own peril.

This fits my mom to a T. The ICE invasion of Chicago shook her, and she's been out protesting ever since. She's always voted Dem but now she's a lot more vocal about who the Dem should be.

my mother is in her 70s and has always been a pretty standard center-left Dem but the last two years have left her ready to vote for every progressive on the ballot and it's not even close. Boomers who had to live through this shit once already are FURIOUS.

I know them because I talk to them in, I organize with them, I rally with them and I've even been known to hang out with them -- in red-district PA where I live and across the country. The rah-rah blue no matter who we ❤️ Dem establishment thing is one of the more "online-only" movements I know.

I know a lot of suburban and rural older white ladies who are intensely active and involved in their communities, many of whom volunteer serve on local dem committees. They, almost universally, hate the democratic establishment, status quo dems, and are clamoring for proactive progressive policies.

This is Mohammad Nagar, aged 1, who died last year when USAID cuts meant the clinic had no medication and couldn’t treat him for meningitis edition.cnn.com/2025/07/22/a...

In Kenya, Jane, aged 9 died of malnutrition in a refugee camp because her mother Rovina couldn’t find care and also feed her other eight children hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

In Afghanistan, USAID cuts closed 400 pregnancy clinics, leaving at least 30 women dead. They each had names and families www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...

In Cote D’Ivoire, 70% of HIV medication was provided by USAID via PEPFAR. Over 2,000 health clinics have closed globally due to USAID cuts. In Somalia, child malnutrition has risen 73%

For the first time in 30 years, child deaths are now rising, in large part due to USAID cuts Lancet modelling shows USAID cuts will cause 14 million deaths including 4.5m children, by 2030. Independent CGDev research backs this up

Thanks to ODA, since 1990, we halved the number of children dying before the age of five, from 10 million a year to 4.9m In 90 countries, child deaths dropped by two thirds In just 3 years, we cut maternal deaths by 40%, down to 280,000 USAID saved an estimated 92 million lives over two decades

USAID provided ~ $63BN a year to 130 countries for essential food, health, agriculture, rights and democracy needs. The US accounted for nearly half of global Official Development Assistance

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

In 2025, USAID stopped funding clean water in Goma, DRC. Goma then suffered the worst cholera outbreak in 25 years, with 1,479 deaths, a 361% increase. Every one of those people had a name www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issu...

Team Algae is here at the reflecting pool.

Trump take housing

Congress can do to its job, reinstate USAID & other programs, and end the ongoing crime against humanity by Trump, Rubio, Musk, Vought, etc. at any time. Require that it do so, United States.

That's the story, yes. Bad for the economy, for people, for coal workers, for everyone other than the coal plant owner, and there, too, only in the very short run.

Last night’s victories for a new and more optimistic generation of Democrats—ones who will hopefully be more forward looking and more accountable—are owed in no small measure to those women’s courage.

For a long time, the New York Democratic machine was corrupt, sclerotic, hostile to progress, and completely implacable. That started to change when 13 women came forward, at great personal cost, about the sexual harassment they experienced from Andrew Cuomo.

Good morning! 🪶

“People will come…The one constant through all the years…has been ⚽️. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt & erased again. But <⚽️> has marked the time. This pitch, this game…It reminds of us of all that once was good & it could be again”

I went back to toadapalooza with my good camera.

Here's tonight's sunset. Worth staying up an extra hour to process to get up before the morning :)

Oh this ones gonna be good

If your values are in line with the values of the Democratic Party, you should absolutely run as a Democrat. I would rather have an angry candidate who criticizes the party and goes hard in the paint for civil rights than a Republican looking for a soft place to land and hide from Trump.

good to see this. Musk is clearly getting visibly angry at the rising awareness of how many hundreds of thousands of people his DOGE wilding spree has already killed, millions more if this stays in place into the future. Everyone can participate in spreading the word about all the blood on his hands

They have to desperately, violently, spew their hateful bigotry to try to get people to believe the lies they spread about our people and our culture, but the truth is _so plain to see_. There is joy in our hearts, and on our sidewalks, and we're trying every day to make things a little bit better.

The city where strangers embrace in the street, where people line up to vote to feed and house and educate the most vulnerable in their midst, where more people choose to live than any other place in the country, the place enjoying the safest era in its history — this is the *real* America.

Congrats to @bradlander.bsky.social who came to Minneapolis during the heart of Operation Metro Surge to help us resist ICE’s illegal occupation of our City. Can’t wait until he’s in congress where he’ll work to abolish ICE.

Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public. And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired. What a disgrace @sciam.bsky.social

Whoa! Simultaneous papers announcing the discovery of a new directly imaged planet - beta Pictoris d!!! arxiv.org/pdf/2606.23801 arxiv.org/pdf/2606.23789 It's just so BIG. I can't believe it's just so ROUND, it's like OUT THERE. 🪐 (Courtesy of my kids who have just discovered Sir Mix-A-Lot)

Great timing on my "make them all fear the primaries" post. lol But no really. I want them pandering to us so hard we get tired of it.