You grave but reckless senators

I swear I love you all but some of you test me, you really stretch it, when you repeatedly choose not to put alt-text on your images.

If you are caring for and cherishing and protecting someone that capitalism sees as disposable You are on the front lines already.

Listen: because I am hearing this a lot from folks who are in caregiving roles with disabled, sick, dying folks, elders, or children in their care: You are not unable to do anything or unable to take action. Care work IS justice work

The 49ers fan shot reaction killed me

BFF just made the best chicken fried rice I've ever tasted. 😍 #FoodSky

Anyone who knows Ganz knows this is how he will be. Hanania is trying to win sympathy because he is a supplicant & a toady at heart

One day in the 11th grade, a friend and I were sitting in the cafeteria, desperately trying to recall the name of the creatures from Land of the Lost. A year later, in the middle of a class, he spun around, pointed at me, and said, “SLEESTAKS.” This was our Google in the 80s.

MAINE, USA - Maine Sec'y of State Shenna Bellows has paused issuing confidential, undercover license plates after request from U.S. Customs & Border Protection. H/T to @shennabellows.bsky.social for acting in best interest of Mainers, & to @indivisiblebangor.org for the post. #MEpolitics #ICEOut

Happy Caturday!!!! Freyja says if she fits, she sits!!!! (on a small unused bookcase)

#Maine #LookUp

Well worth a listen.

These are what the cookies look like without the Fuck blurred out

#book #politics #capitalism Just finished the Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici. It's an information-dense book. It's a great book. If you didn't hated capitalism, rich people, "the elit", institutionalized religion, and patriarchy so far, at the end of the book you will, viscerally.

Another view

"ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval w ppl loudly expressing their disapproval. The noise has the added benefit of drawing large crowds of bystanders who can quickly outnumber the ICE agents, who then have to decide if they want to escalate a situation or perhaps abandon" it.

Art Sled Rally at Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis. Ten sledders go down first, each as bowling pins, each with a name painted on: Trump, Putin, Miller, etc. Then they all line up at the bottom. Then the bowling ball comes.

Portland protest doubles in size amid rumors of ICE surge in Maine * This story has been made free to access as a public service to our Maine communities.

The light has been the same middle-grey since morning and for hours the snow has fallen silent & relentless. Like looking out the windows at static. #Maine

this is what the nail girlies are up to

Kudos the the folks playing Disney music over Jake Lang’s hate speech! When he tries to make hate content it will have a harder time spreading as Disney is quick to issue DMCA takedown request.

This crew of comrades offer some of the best training and they are generously offering another on Monday. It is a virtual session and they have asked this to be shared in particular with MN folks if you want to join. Open to others too.

A small story: Some of you know that while I don't have a tattoo, I entertain myself imagining what tattoo I will get; it's my version of the Meyers-Briggs test and just as scientific. The tattoo must be personal and specifically meaningful now but not so "now" that I flinch later.

Update:

"Those women may or may not have been fucking bitches," I thought, "But I definitely am. And it doesn't hurt to be reminded of that. Because weak men are terrified of fucking bitches and if they're going to kill me, ideally I should be spitting at them when they do it."

I made an account just for posting victories over the Trump regime. Consider it anti-doomscrolling. Hopescrolling? @we-will-win.bsky.social I'm sure I'll miss a lot, so please @ me over there with the good news - court cases, reversed decisions, charges dropped, etc - and I'll repost verified info.

It’s important to remember what we’re fighting for. So proud of the staff at Maine Department of Secretary of State who registered Maine’s new citizens today (as they do regularly). www.pressherald.com/2026/01/16/w...

nonprofit friends! working on a grant to a funder who I know from the "classical music programs for youth" sphere and it turns out they also have a "free or affordable legal services for marginalized people" grant category and it's open until Feb 20 feels like some of y'all might need that

I spoke to CBC earlier this week about what it’s like to live in Minneapolis. It’s only the tiniest snapshot of what it has been like in this city. But I hope it helps people outside of Minnesota understand what ICE is doing to our community.

BREAKING: Judge enters TRO blocking feds from interfering with or arresting peaceful protesters in Minnesota. Judge Kate Menendez, Biden appointee. Order: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

This is Minneapolis: I am SO behind on *every* basic life chore: grocery shopping, cleaning, laundry, errands. Today I'm doing laundry for a neighbor family, who has been too afraid to leave to go to the laundromat for 6 weeks. Maybe after that I will have energy to do my own family's laundry.

bringing this back around for the entertainment of @dly.bsky.social who deserves nice things what’s your favorite fart sound?

biblically accurate angel wakes me from sleep: be not afraid me: ok angel, nonplussed: *knocks some of my shit off the nightstand* be a little afraid

behold, courtesy of my amazing wife, the coolest thing anyone has ever made for me the Imperial Ministry of Silly Walks

Y’all wanna see the cutest battle of all time? Introducing: BUNNY BATTLE

I called the Herr's Product Quality Concerns line and reached a nice lady. She listened to my whole little saga. She waited, then said, "I bet you believe they're made from real potatoes now!" I may never recover.

Pals - I'm trying to get into a new endeavor and away from corporate life. If you'd be willing to help me out by taking a quick survey and sharing with others in Pgh who might also be interested in a queerer, better sex shop experience, you'd be doing me a huge favor. 💜

My office roomie tagged along with me to the local library at lunch "just to get out of the building" and that, my friends, is how my local library gained a new member today! Muahhahahaaa! 😃💙📚 #LibraryLife

Strike day. Friday.

New Hampshire: Approximately 130 officers have been identified from local and state PD to help in ICE operations the ACLU of NH is suing under freedom of info to know what those training documents look like my takeaway: our police will not protect us please be safe we will win please be safe 🫶

As ICE operations begin in Maine, local organizers are raising money for rapid response via the Solidarity Fund. Donations urgently needed, starting to hear of arrests as of last night www.mainesolidarity.org

pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:

Lewiston, Maine: “One property manager whose tenants are almost exclusively African immigrants showed a reporter a form being passed around so undocumented parents could designate temporary guardians for their children in the event of their arrest.”

Goldfish 1: knock knock Goldfish 2: who's there Goldfish 1: who's where Goldfish 2: what

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

Ok Maine, apparently it’s our turn now, what’s our local flavor of ICE opposition? #MEpolitics

The Nobel Prize museum in Oslo subtweeting the fuck out of Trump today.

Reminding myself while I remind y’all-passport cards don’t have your address on them, unlike your drivers license or state ID. If you need to show ID and don’t want to share your home address, definitely worth getting one.

I spoke with a colleague in Lewiston. The town is gearing up for ICE to invade, but he's pretty sure they have no idea that they're walking into. In his words: "We have a collection of older white folks who have been protesting twice a week for over a year, no matter the weather."