Welch's ActBlue page: secure.actblue.com/donate/danie...

So excited!! @daniwelch.bsky.social is great!

If you are in Tennessee, call 844-HELP4TN to speak to a licensed Tennessee attorney who can give you referrals to attorneys in your area. "ambulance chasing" is illegal, real attorneys will never do this.

Last night home alone, so I am living the wild life, knitting and watching cartoons and making @comixaction.com buttons for Sunday.

I appreciate that the People's Plan affirms that this is a CUT & also that the city budget is constrained because of the state's unwillingness to tax the rich. Further, they make sure to point out that the city must still step up to protect vital services which is also good.

Artist and comics friends, please do check it out and consider drawing something cozy for #keepMNhoused! I will repost the heck out of it for ya!

Wish list is updated with additional requests from residents! Please help me rebuild the art & craft room at a women's shelter in Brooklyn! www.thingstogetme.com/2169641a9c163

Trans journalists are part of a legacy. Join us next week for “Carrying the TransGriot Torch: Remembering Monica Roberts,” a Black History Month webinar honoring the life, work, and lasting impact of the trailblazing journalist and community advocate. RSVP: members.transjournalists.org/events

Wish list is updated with additional requests from residents! Please help me rebuild the art & craft room at a women's shelter in Brooklyn! www.thingstogetme.com/2169641a9c163

Having a weird brain day, so of course I need to write two cold opens in the next hour. 🕴️

Call your house rep and tell them to support HB 2540 which will increase the amount disabled people can save from $2k to $10k and remove the marriage penalty where you lose your only source of income if you get married regardless of how little they make. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

Clarifying and answering some of your questions about #grok doxxing me. Thank you @noelleperdue.bsky.social and @404media.co for reporting this story. Stay safe, my friends, and FUCK GROK 💚

Romance novelists who are loudly anti-AI are also currently 3D printing hundreds of thousands of whistles for ICE resistance, so anyone throwing around terms like Luddite without context can go hang out in the sea.

Last week Donald Trump registered the trademark "Donald J. Trump International Airport." This week Florida Republicans voted to rename Palm Beach International Airport Donald J. Trump International Airport," putting taxpayers on the hook for licensing fees that go straight to him

Politicians could also just, you know, provide more housing for people who need it, regardless of their ability to pay. But they don't, and won't, because they're structurally more accountable to corporate landlords than to regular people.

Politicians could choose to listen to unhoused people about what they need and what would actually make them safer. But instead they continue to deny their agency and destroy their belongings in the name of "safety."

BREAKING: Trump admin issues new policy aimed at ending transgender-related care in federal prisons. "It's a really dangerous policy,” an ACLU lawyer representing trans people in federal prison suing the Trump administration tells Law Dork of the new Bureau of Prisons policy.

As a former teacher and principal @jamaalbowmanny.bsky.social legislated as an educator and always stood for the future of our children, from his work on greening our public schools to cancelling student debt. It is an honor to have the support of former Congressman Jamaal Bowman.

Shelters often treat their residents in a patronizing, infantilizing ways, and people want to make their own decisions rather than being told what to do constantly Shelters often just don't have enough beds available to be a viable option

Also: there are so many good reasons why unhoused people don't want to go to shelters, including: Shelters are often unsafe, and people have been assaulted or had their belongings stolen Shelters don't allow pets, which some unhoused people have

To all the people defending Mamdani's supposedly kinder, gentler encampment sweeps: Taking away people's agency and destroying their belongings is violent, whether it's cops or social workers doing it. *And* Mamdani himself said that cops will still be involved, as "observers."

A whole bunch of my sketches and sketch-cards, and books and original art are included in this sale! Go browse!

Hey, writers and other creative storytellers! Jay is an awesome coach who can help you reach the next level with your projects or work in general! You may think I’m biased because we are married, but I wouldn’t have married him if I didn’t think he was brilliant

can recommend, worth checkin' out

Hey everyone, Green Lantern is one of our printers who is in dire need of filament right now. They are going through about 28 kg of filament a week (about 50,000 whistles). www.amazon.com/wedding/shar...

New Yorkers, please contact your city council member to get them on record to support 0.5% of the city expense budget allocated to the public libraries. actionnetwork.org/letters/city... - please share with your networks.

every high profile anti trans critic has an origin story that goes "years ago someone asked me to respect trans people and instead I chose to go insane"

I believe that the fallacy of suffering as inseparable from art creates and lionizes harmful, unsustainable habits; and that you should get to do what you love without self-immolating.

I work with writers across genres, media, and experience levels; and particularly love working with neurodivergent writers--popular wisdom often works less well for us, which leaves us with the weight (and freedom) of cutting our own trails.

I come packaged with 24 years as a working writer, editor, consultant, and facilitator; a head full of subversive theory; a deep hatred of hustle culture; and a compassionate, trauma-responsive approach to helping stories–and their writers–work. edidin.wordpress.com/coaching-for...

Hello, writers! Need support in developing a project, coming back from burnout, or learning a new medium? I have a handful of openings for new coaching clients! If you're interested, drop me a line at jay(dot)edidin(at)gmail(dot)com, with COACHING QUERY in the subject line! More info here:

They're denying treatment to ICE detainees with HIV in the prison where Nicolas Maduro and Luigi Mangione (and, I feel obligated to add, the guy who shot Jam Master J) are being held.

Turns out the real checks and balances were the friends we made along the way

The vast majority of transgender youth in the South and half of transgender youth in the Midwest live in states with at least one law or policy that restricts their rights. Read the full report at tinyurl.com/anti-transpolicy

And if you’re a founder, a foundation, a celebrity, or someone else with serious money who wants to help immigrant families in Minnesota? Contact us, we’ll hook you up to do serious good.

If you have the means or the platform to fundraise for it, I very much recommend adopting a rent. It makes a concrete difference in a family’s life, and it feels so good to do that. And if all you can spare is a dollar or $5 to a rent fund? That makes a concrete difference too! Every bit matters!

That’s $1.5 *million* in matching funds. Let’s go!

Jay is an extremely skilled baddie whom you should totally work with

Talking to students this week about physically making zines & sharing some masters & printed zines of Nancy's Magazine so they can see the process of creation for this pub. Love the use of graph paper, white out, & glued bits of paper.

I talked with @andreapitzer.bsky.social about why we should understand the Trump administration as a concentration camp regime, and what it means to fight back.

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

I’ve been working with Jay this last few months and it has been amazing, highly recommend.

Hello, writers! Need support in developing a project, coming back from burnout, or learning a new medium? I have a handful of openings for new coaching clients! If you're interested, drop me a line at jay(dot)edidin(at)gmail(dot)com, with COACHING QUERY in the subject line! More info here:

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation. Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

“I am the best artist” Wooster Street, SoHo 1988 by Victor Macarol

This is something I feel so fucking strongly about.

And a reminder that everyone can request whistles. We send out 100 to church groups and classrooms and people who just want to give them to their neighbors. And we'll send out 18,000 to Marie! 💓