“Because to confront Israel isn’t the sort of strength the liberal class lauds. To put your body on the line against a genocide backed by the west isn’t the sort of courage they applaud.” @natebear1.bsky.social www.donotpanic.news/p/the-libera...

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

“Our future depends on finding each other, on building something better together, overcoming the lure of passivity and consumption.” @jphillll.bsky.social www.jphilll.com/p/on-social-...

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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

During the pandemic, the US implemented the most effective social welfare policies in our history -- programs that worked because they were big enough, simple, and universal. And then we withdrew them. This remains imo the central economic-policy story of our times. davisvanguard.org/2025/05/3hou...

“If I keep lilacs close, might the faeries see through this mask? Might they recognize the wild, untamed part in me, loosen my bindings, and set me free?” Kristi Marciano @orionmagazine.bsky.social orionmagazine.org/article/spri...

Can someone please explain why journalists have stopped pointing out that the executive branch has no constitutional authority to end these programs?

💯🎯 #TransDayOfVisibility

A world without Trans people has never existed, and it never will. More than visibility, we need safety 🏳️‍⚧️

Ozturk is apparently being detained because she wrote an opinion essay. Fulbright is a program of the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. They have a duty to speak up for the rights and safety of international students participating in Fulbright exchanges in the US.

friends, please help the quoted post circulate, we need to flood Governor Healey’s office with calls today

Her crime was writing an op/ed. Her visa was valid, but she wrote an op/ed

Another student kidnapped and disappeared by masked ICE agents for voicing an opinion.

“Because when you love something, you plan. Then, from the one in the denim vest and jean jacket: ‘I just thought he would live forever.’” @mossyair.bsky.social @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/rossi/onl...

“One thing we all share: we begin and, inevitably, we cease.” Lovely artwork by Angela Mihm @astrolabe.ooo www.astrolabe.ooo/mihm-choices...

“Inside, we found: flakes, ridges, cliffs, dales, meat, oil, smell, sound.” Robin Steve @astrolabe.ooo www.astrolabe.ooo/steve-interl...

“The whole sky was filled with squealing and feathers and what my brother called ‘a terrified love.’” Jessica Richardson @astrolabe.ooo www.astrolabe.ooo/richardson-g...

“On the other hand, raspberries do grow, I suppose, up in the air, to some extent—in comparison, at least, to the Erdbeeren sweetly ripening down there amongst the summer straw.” @l42r.bsky.social @astrolabe.ooo www.astrolabe.ooo/wessel-skybe...

“I am spraying him back, the little womanwoman, with knucklesknuckles and hairless fingers upon a purple trigger.” Devan Murphy @astrolabe.ooo www.astrolabe.ooo/murphy-goatboy

“Her clutter, too much. I’d be sifting through it soon. ‘Three months,’ she said.” @maryloubuchi.bsky.social @astrolabe.ooo www.astrolabe.ooo/buschi-warthog

Thrilled to be part of the @astrolabe.ooo universe with my piece “Self-hypnosis, or Dig Deep In There Until the Bottom of the Ocean of Your Childhood” www.astrolabe.ooo/bellas-self-...

Spring is here! The Stitches materialized today. Explore these worlds by @mrbearstumpy.bsky.social, @l42r.bsky.social, @maryloubuchi.bsky.social, Robin Steve, Jessica Richardson, Devan Murphy, and Angela Mihm. www.astrolabe.ooo