Is writing part of your 2026 resolution? Check out this interview about storytelling and the power of narrative arcs by @elisacp.bsky.social of Optionality with eunicebrownlee.bsky.social, @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social, jentheeditor.bsky.social, and me! optionalitylife.substack.com/p/deep-dive-...

Please join me in wishing President Joseph Biden a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂 Today Joe turns 83 years fierce Thank you Joe for everything you have done and you are continuing to do for your love of the American People Wishing you strength and love My favorite photo of Joe

Technofeudalism is the GOP’s dream scenario!

Republicans refuse to even discuss this issue! 267,000 U.S. VETERANS TO LOSE THEIR COVERAGE WITHOUT HEALTH CARE TAX CREDIT americanscovered.org/267000-u-s-v...

“Donald Trump doesn’t get to tell us how to be Jewish.” Also, Brad Lander just seems like such a lovely person.

Important list of resources if the GOP lets SNAP benefits stop…share and save to have handy. #MomSky

Optionality's PT staffer writes about what it's like to be a GenZ college grad in today's job market. It's not pretty, but he closes out w/a reframe of GenZ...sharing how he wishes employers would think about what it means coming of age this past decade: optionalitylife.substack.com/p/the-collap...

Away on a girl’s weekend in a red part of CA this weekend. Closest #NoKings rally was in a nearby town of 10K. We all went, and it was great…great turnout, great vibes, great signs! (I asked permission to take these pics & post them, except the one I took from across the street, so I blurred faces.)

The government is shut down. Why? Because Trump and Republicans are trying to rip health care away from our parents, kids, and loved ones. 24 million people will see their premiums skyrocket and 15 million will lose health care altogether. This harm is preventable. #TrumpsHealthCareShutdown

Our hearts are broken for the LDS community. Because of potential gun violence, we are now afraid to go to church, send our kids to school, and just live our lives. This is not freedom. How has gun violence made you less free? https://action.momsrising.org/survey/gvp_story_collection/ #MomSky

Imagine if Russia waged a new kind of disinformation war against America to instigate a civil war & destroy the US from within. Imagine if Putin installed a Russian asset as US president & he dismantled America's cyber security, leaving us defenseless. No need to imagine. It's actually happening.

I cannot even share that Katie Miller “sexual matador clip. These people are so weird. So deeply deeply delusional. Jesse Watters saying she’s the “envy of all women”…just, what? Why? Can you just not?

Yes I will be fighting back against the unjust firing by @washingtonpost.com. I have filed a grievance and will be represented by none other than the amazing @katiephang.bsky.social and an incredible legal team. Journalistic freedom is a bedrock of a healthy society and is worth battling for.

One thing we've learned in the last 12 hours: The Sinclair-Nexstar ban on Kimmel, in terms of his reach, means nothing in an era when late-night shows have an afterlife or simultaneous life on streaming. Kimmel's average audience is 1.6M. On YouTube, last night's monologue is already at 8.4M views.

The "surge in young conservatives running for office" is a half dozen people... @runforsomething.net has had nearly 50 people sign up *today* and it's just past 10am on the east coast. rollcall.com/2025/09/17/g...

Is it clear to everyone now? We. Are. There.

This thread is great. One thing I learned when an employee was being stalked online: if someone is threatening you or claiming they’re watching or near you…check what they can learn about you via Google. You may find they only cite details easily avail online, which helps define the threat level.

We don't yet have any idea what the ideology of the Kirk shooter was. But we do know that the Denver school shooter was a far-right white supremacist. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

Asked by a reporter today how much I blame Joe, Kamala and/or Ds for P4547’s win (re: KDH excerpt.). Me: I blame millions of ppl more than them. The GOP who didn't oust him even after his big loss. Media folk who get up every morning & spread propaganda. Last but not least those who voted for him. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thinking about the family of Representative Melissa Hortman & her husband who were assassinated at the hands of a radical MAGA shooter in June. Melissa was doing such important work for the state of Minnesota & this country-we grieve her loss & demand strict gun reform legislation.

Being Latino and speaking Spanish is not probative of anything but being Latino and speaking Spanish The only way the Court could conclude otherwise is if it thinks being Latino is incompatible with innocence ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/noem-...

This woman went to three grocery stores and found produce sections either bare or rotting. That’s #Trumpflation. Trump’s war on immigrants and careless financial policies make him richer while families struggle with higher prices and empty shelves. Seems fair?

We hear from an economist about why the prices that matter most to you are rising w/ @kedseconomist.com. #Trumpflation #MomSky https://www.momsrising.org/bt01sep25/?source=bsky

Trumps tariffs are costing everyday Americans on almost everything they buy. And what is the federal government doing with that money? They surely are not helping people survive these crazy prices! #Trumpflation

“WE HAVE NO INFLATION. PRICES ARE DOWN ON JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING.”

Folks. CAs like @gavinnewsom.bsky.social fine, OK? You’d think everybody hates him. But no. He outperformed D pres candidates here, incl Obama. He outperformed previous D Gov in respective 1st elections. He beat recall the amount he won initial election by. Don’t get sucked in. CAs like him plenty.🙄

If nervous re: poll that CAs prefer independent commission…yes, we voted for it. (BTW w/commission we have 44 Da/only 9 Rs in House.) BUT: Poll was BEFORE @governor.ca.gov presser & asks, “hey y’all voted for this 10 yrs ago, do you wanna keep or scrap it?” WHICH IS NOT WHAT WE’LL VOTE ON IN NOV.

That’s it. That the post.

I watched this whole thing. No lies detected. We need this energy and this rejection of cynicism, doomscrolling, and obeying in advance. Thanks to @heathercoxrichardson and to @gavinnewsom 🙏🏻 #MomSky heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/live-with-...

“We will not be complicit.” Hell yeah. #CaliforniaLeads #CaliforniaVotes

Newsom on ICE action outside his presser: "It's pretty sick & pathetic. It's everything you know about Trump's America & the authoritarian tendencies of the president. Wake up, America. You will not have a country if he rigs this election. You will a president running for a third term. Mark my word"

#MomSky Meet the architect of Social Security! magazine.columbia.edu/article/arch...

The cruelty is the point 😡 #MonSky

😡 #MomSky

I’ll just leave this right here. #MomSky

I dug into a trending post re: voting anomalies. 1 anonymous unverifiable source cited another such source. No cred, classic disinfo tactic. Same source is now behind ex-CIA whistleblower story. And making some folks mad at Dems. 🤔 (The point IMO.) #MomSky Here: elisacp.substack.com/p/how-i-fact...

Miguel “Mike” Fernandez is suspending two $5 million gifts to Florida International University until undocumented students’ access to in-state tuition rates is restored. This is powerful, values-driven philanthropy we like to see! #MomSky

An interview I did for PreVetted. We cover a lot: 🎭 Why theatre is the best team-building "sport" out there 🫆 Why my identity is who I am not what I do 🧬 Humans managing humans...getting it right & not-so-right. 📀 An in-real-time workshop on how to hire more women www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYo-...

My partner is a trade guy who says that in normal times, even a 2% increase in tariffs would have been a huge deal. Folks, we are now dealing with across the board tariffs of at least 10%, so well beyond "huge deal" territory. #MomSky

I wrote about my summer reading list over on Optionality (with only a couple of story detours). What are you reading? optionalitylife.substack.com/p/my-analog-...

Frickin' Cuomo. That special flavor of dude who cannot take "no" for an answer. In all the ways. Of course he's hoping to siphon *GOP* votes with that fake strongman attitude.

Your post inspired this.

Andreeson & “his people” have a simple ideology underlying every political move: 1. Don’t tax me 2. Don’t regulate me 3. Don’t make me feel bad, let alone do something, about my biases…blah blah meritocracy blah. And just like MAGA I have to ask: Why are you so mad dude? You WON at life right? 🤷🏻‍♀️🙄

As she says: ALL children are OUR children. 😭 #MomSky open.substack.com/pub/lgumbinn...

This is what happens when the false narrative of "government fraud and waste" is used to cut services to enable tax cuts for billionaires. The USA is a democracy, a government FOR the people, BY the people, but no government seems to be where MAGA is taking us. #MomSky

The New York Times’ editorial decisions make more sense when you remember their publisher is a fifth-generation owner who was handed the paper as a birthright while the managing editor was a Harvard legacy whose father founded Staples. They’re very firm believers in the meritocracy, you see.

#ProudCalifornian #IChooseTheBear #ThisIsMyFourthofJulyPost

This. 💯 I will never refer to “Congress” only the “GOPs in Congress.”

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

The Republicans who changed their votes were swayed with Trump merchandise. Your life, the sick, elderly, all of us, as Americans doesn’t matter to a Republican. They changed their vote for a Trump trinket - probably made in China. #Pinks #ProudBlue