I have flounced back to celebrate Bono's birthday with a new poem from me (title's a bit...whoops) and a gorgeous painting from @kellyeddington.bsky.social. Happy birthday to the man!

The real reason I've stopped posting here is that every time I log on my timeline is full of people spewing the most hateful garbage in service of claiming the moral high ground. I'm sick of it. Your antics helped get us to this point.

Oh good! :')

They made us do stuff! And we didn’t really mind. Please read our slightly irreverent response to U2’s “Easter Lily.”

I suppose Kelly and I will write about Easter Lily for @achtoonbaby.bsky.social in the next few days. But for now: Edge's guitar on Resurrection Song is the best thing I've heard in a long time. No one else can ring those bells. #U2 #EasterLily

BREAKING: A judge blocks a Trump administration order to end federal funding for NPR and PBS. apnews.com/article/trum...

I had a choice of several No Kings protests in the NY area. Didn't attend. Sorry, but even one Keffiyeh Karen makes it a nazi rally, and why would I support that? I voted for Hillary, Biden and Harris. The "king" is not my fault. What did YOU do to defeat him in 2024?

If you know you know.

Please don’t be dumb enough to vote for this dummy.

I haven't really found my groove thang on this site, but it's Adam Clayton's birthday, and U2 has carried me through a lot of rough seas. Here's a poem by me and another GORGEOUS watercolor by @kellyeddington.bsky.social. #HBDAdam #U2 #achtoonbaby

Yep

Exactly this.

The new N-words for Regressives: Woke. DEI hire. DEI. Identity Politics. Unity over Systemic oppression. Slave Mentality. AIPAC.

You don’t need to ratio every Democrat who doesn’t word things precisely how you want. You can use the switchboard & call to make demands of the Republican majority & pretend you can do basic math instead. Dems aren’t the ones who killed that last war powers resolution.

I loathe Trump and I would never support Netanyahu. But now, I'm going to be quiet and let the Iranian *people* have their say about this.

We're in this together. 🤎💙

Thread. And everyone should read it.

Current situation: Windows coated by blown snow. Forgive my assonance.

Sigh over the painting, and read our stuff too.

Well, Simon Schama retweeted me today. He's someone I happen to admire tremendously but I'm being normal about it. Aren't I?

And… IT IS GOOD

I knew U2 were up to something because they’ve been using their social media more than usual. The mini heart attack I just had was fun!

Erev laissez les bon temps rouler sameach

Periodic Bluesky check-in: Happy Valentine's Day and/or Happy Saturday and/or Shabbat Shalom.

Democrats need to focus on what the DSA really is. While we’re fighting fascist Republicans, they’re running primaries against solid, productive Democrats. Slurring Black women Democrats as “AIPAC princesses.” The DSA is racist, antisemitic, anti-democracy, and dangerous. Sit them down.

This is how you react to the Epstein files when you’re not guilty.

@pbs.org THANK U for the BRILLIANT #BlackAndJewishAmerica!!!

Pogroms.

TRUTH! Get to know who represents you in your state capital, because they have influence beyond just your state. For example, in NY, the state legislature passed a law allowing NY medical providers to mail abortion medication to patients in red states. reproductiverights.org/resources/in...

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need a lot more of this. www.ms.now/news/minneap...

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. You can mark it by not comparing the Holocaust to things that aren't the Holocaust — especially if you haven't so much as noted the steep rise in global antisemitism that began well before 10/7. (1/2)

Republicans have always been mean and stupid, but if you're on the left and you voted third party, or left it blank, or stayed home in 2024, you're just as responsible as MAGA for every one of the Trump regime's murders, kidnappings and detentions. And also? "New Gaza." Well done. 🖕

I thought the very same thing. I think it's partially revenge against Tim Walz for daring to run for VP, but also that they simply couldn't handle L.A. or Chicago. If they try NYC, they will look pathetic.

Doing my occasional check-in here. It's cold. It's fucking cold out and we are expecting something like a dozen Ms. Rachels of snow. That's the equivalent of three DSA candidates, or five and a half MAGAs. A full-on nazification of the weather, if you will. Okay, bye.

i think that it should be absolutely accepted to be a candidate with narcolepsy and i have loved ones with this issue, which can be life disrupting and makes being able to run a campaign impressive - it’s a real disability HOWEVER if your campaign message is “get the olds out of public life,” uh

Me: (exists on social media) Bluesky: You love killing Palestinian children A year ago this would have upset me. Now? I no longer give a shit. So: I also control the weather, the banks and the media. I poisoned your well, gave you bubonic plague, and let the air out of your tires. Good night.

Never in my life did I ever think that this particular line of dialogue from The Thing would be relevant in any other context. youtu.be/jiVePEMrRas?...

History, if it continues to be written, will not look kindly upon the MAGA-right, the Hamas-left, the voters they brainwashed, and the public officials they silenced.

Holy shit. This is disgusting.

The people who couldn’t be bothered to vote for Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris have taken so, so very much from us.

Another big deal!

Seems like kind of a big deal!

Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.

There aren’t words strong enough to describe what a horrible, evil person Kristi Noem is.

I watched the events of January 6, 2021 on live TV. It was an anti-American, antidemocratic coup, and it ended up succeeding on November 5, 2024. I won't forget the so-called progressives who ousted Biden and failed to vote for Harris. You are all Trump's handmaids. GFY forever.

Shit just gets worse and worse.

DEMS DO NOT CONTROL WHEN THE HOUSE AND SENATE RETURN THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO CONTROL THAT ARE MIKE JOHNSON, AND JOHN THUNE You can scream and holler all you want, but that doesn’t change the facts. Congress comes back on Mon. Dems have absolutely no ability to make it come back today or tomorrow

Call me an ancient hoary liberal, but the fact that bad guys exist does not give an American president the green light to rout them out in the dead of night without a word to Congress or to the American people. Even Dubya had to try and convince us about Iraq.

Oh cool. Trump started a war with Venezuela. We’re off to a great start this year. Stupid orange motherfricker wants to be Putin so bad.