All right, tonight's local urgent needs. We have a buch, because good lord, things are grim here for EVERYBODY. But we have three brand new ones just today/tonight. The first is one for our dog peeps. It's also a heartbreaker.

And here’s hoping they really do get rid of Opus Dei who have been accused of enslaving people and human trafficking.

Once the cat reaches Level Four (the top of the bookshelves) he must be fed because otherwise Level 5 is going extremely unpleasant for you.

i think what we're seeing is a party that has largely bought the idea that the Democratic Party brand is too feminine, too Black, and too queer, and that it's losses with the white working class are a product of bigotry, and so they must forcefully go to the right and superkick the super woke left

America saw police violence against demonstrators in Los Angeles, Denver, Memphis, Portland and Broadview, IL yesterday. It's true that most protests went off without incident but it is also true that proximity to feds or local cops will always bring some risk, especially near ICE facilities.

“She is like a deranged maniac!” “No matter how strong a woman, she cannot equal a man!” The bullshit is as old as recorded history:

Second again to Old Man Nickerson! The Nickerson’s as a tribe seem quite superhuman

How Denver is helping Tribes bring back bison www.boisestatepublicradio.org/environment/...

No Kings is actually an organizing opportunity.

The premise of this article makes no sense. There is no either/or between protests and organizing. It is a plus/and. (1/3) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/u...

And I don’t know why he even thinks this letter from Franklin Graham is a slam dunk. Graham tells him to turn from his sins. He manifestly has not done so!

The beagle wants something

Franklin Graham expressing concern about your immortal soul isn’t the slam dunk on the Pope saying God will reject your prayers that you think it is.

“If people do not know their history, they are liable to repeat it." Bryan Stevenson on the importance of facing our past honestly, the power of hope, and the opportunities that emerge when you stand with condemned and disfavored people. @edwardluce.bsky.social @ftweekend.com

One of the reasons I wouldn’t want No Kings to have a single focus is because this regime doesn’t have a single target.

Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area

Amen: “What is at stake, then, is not whether science communication is pleasant or useful. The much more provocative tension lies in recognizing that the work of clarifying, contextualizing, and defending knowledge is as much a technical endeavor as anything else.”

So glad I am paying for this.

Kid Rock is definitely in the chain of command now.

If you have a religious vocations, one would think you'd be slightly more concerned to not get on the shit list of a significantly higher and more competent authority that a narcissistic DUI hire who couldn't find God in a chatty burning bush.

Hegseth is wildly dangerous and needs to be stopped. Weaponizing Christ for war is blasphemy. All Chaplains of good conscience must resist - and will; Chaplains are much tougher than that drunk jackass will ever be.

9.) Protests offer HUGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE who share some similarity of grievance against state actions (usually violence). At protests, folks are registering voters, organizing volunteers, building databases for further actions, debating various courses of action, and creating relationships.

Just now:

“Vice President JD Vance thinks aliens are visiting earth and that they are Demons” is the most “I wish Carl Sagan were alive” moment I’ve had in a while.

I was surrounded by angry old women at the one I went to and it was great

Many thanks to the folks who organized the tabling at No Kings Boston today! We had a ton of people who came by to learn more about our work at the MA Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence, and then sign up to get involved. Lots of people getting connected with ways to take action today!

Demonstrating some basic confusion about where the demons are currently located.

JD Vance Says UFOs Are Actually Demons gizmodo.com/jd-vance-say...

I’ve been teaching people how to build different kinds of community groups (not orgs) for a very long time and only now has anyone really been interested. People are getting themselves ready.

I’ve been organizing for a while, and people are more receptive to getting involved than I’ve ever seen. I find a lot of hope in being able to move beyond convincing people of the threat, and instead helping turn concern into action

Showing up to the protests, demanding my paid agitator check

CANTERBURY, England (AP) — Sarah Mullally, a former cancer nurse who became a priest at the age of 40, walked into the cathedral to celebrate her historic election as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury since the post was created more than 1,400 years ago.

The reason you see a lot of hate for No Kings from some terminally online leftist quarters is because some of those communities are deeply invested in the idea that they are the only true anti-fascists and Evelyn Normielib will actually go full Nazi if workers get more rights for some reason

Demonstrators denouncing US President Donald Trump's policies took over streets across the US on Saturday, for the third ‘No Kings’ rally. More than 3,200 events were planned in all 50 states against what protesters see as an authoritarian form of governance.

Here are some of my favorite signs from the #NoKings protest in Willimantic CT. I know some people are gonna say sign holders aren't doing enough, but as someone who has also written emails, signed petitions, called Congress reps, boycotted, donated $, & more, stop yucking our joy.

apparent to the only thing more reliable than people turning out to protest is the array of guys telling people not to bother

There are people on this site dramatically underestimating the degree to which many many “Normies” have been radicalized by the second trump era Are they commies now? No. Is it all super defined by strict ideological commitments? No, they’re normal. But liberal voters are now fucking furious…

Jane Fonda read a letter from Renee Good's wife, Becca Good, at the #NoKings rally in St. Paul. "We were robbed of an incredible human," the letter reads. "It has made people pause, take a breath and choose sides. We choose the side of love."

Maggie Rogers, Joan Baez, and Tom Morello performing “The Times They Are A-Changin'”

Ah, you think No Kings is going to accomplish anything? It's nothing compared to my approach of never being around other people for any reason

The harshest sign I saw today said “Dead men don’t r*pe” And nice little old ladies cheering it as it passed by.

and instead they KILLED IT just weeks after introducing version 2.0, which was absolutely certainly the death knell for Hollywood, except for the tiny problem that it was setting more money than you’ve ever seen in your life on fire every minute it was alive and it had no monetizable use cases

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

People who live in glass bunkers…

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth moved into a home at Fort McNair traditionally reserved for the Army’s vice chief of staff. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others also now live in military housing.“ Try not to be so despised that you have to live behind barricades.

I often wonder if people ever get tired of denigrating others with slightly different political opinions and it seems the answer is no

Someone I don’t know but is now blocked called me a “commie” because I don’t like Graham Platner and think he’s a weasel. lolololol!

Really feels like non-grass-touching Bluesky thinks these events are a lot more centrist than they actually are

"Conditions on the ground have grown more dire than I’ve ever witnessed in the 11 years I’ve been traveling there."

cringe is an opp tbh. if they can get you to cringe at the earnestness of people who are on your side guess who benefits