Fiction writers, how did you find your writing group/critique partners? #WritingCommunity #writers #romancelandia

Important perspective here 👇

Trump as I and others within the counter far right academic community continue to say is just a figurehead and the true powers behind him have been working this plan for decades. To actually defeat American fascism we are going to have to acknowledge that reality and the damage that has been done

“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”

Renewables are cheaper to build, cheaper to operate and deliver cheaper energy. Which is why about 2/3 of global investment into energy generation now goes into renewables. Especially solar & big batteries. NPR could better ask if fossil fuels have a viable future without tax payer subsidies.

"Where does the climate movement go from here?" Any serious answer to this question must center reforming the systems of government that Trumpists have exploited to send the US into repressive authoritarianism. This will be HARD, but it will also unlock vast new possibilities for climate action.

TIL Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense in a Chipotle

In any conflict, we should oppose the aggressor and defend the aggressed, regardless of identity. I have only contempt for the Iranian regime, but Iran was attacked by Israel and the US without sufficient cause or legal justification. Israel and the US are the aggressors, Iran the aggressed.

That can cause you a bundle of trouble, as partisans of one side or another will see you as their enemy if you condemn the actions of their team. But moral consistency is something we should strive for, and never more urgently than when it comes to aggressive war.

I’m tired of being lectured on what it takes to win elections by people who haven’t been, in fact, winning the most important elections of my lifetime. I do not want to hear from these dinosaurs anymore

We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well. We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.

We’re led by warmongers & cowards. They have no intention of stopping our civilisation slamming into a wall because they were put in place by the forces profiting from it. None of our children get to survive unless we take the money out of politics & end this relentless ascent of psychopaths.

3 Democratic congresspeople oppose. 2 Democratic congresspeople want a procedural vote. That's it. That's the opposition party. #NoWar jacobin.com/2025/06/trum...

Important read, especially for #parents. #parenting #school #health

I promise I was looking for something slightly more sensible on the BnF website when I found these pictures of a keeper at London Zoo in 1925 feeding medicine to an extremely reluctant pelican.

"The incident was the latest in nearly daily mass deaths of Palestinians who were seeking aid in past weeks, including near sites operated by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation."

Today, more starving Palestinians were lured into “aid distribution sites”. They went in hope that they might find a bag of flour. They were gunned down and murdered instead. What utter inhumanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

If you want to know how I'm doing, last night my brain dreamed up a dystopian rom-com. #writing

seeing reports and rumors tonight that do nothing to allay my concerns

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Food systems are the #2 contributor to climate change, the #1 driver of deforestation, the #1 driver of biodiversity loss on land, and the #1 user of freshwater. (It follows that food systems contain many solutions to these problems.)

Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

One of the reasons American fascism has been largely ignored up until now is because actually addressing it would mean addressing massive systemic issues that have their roots deep in America history and it’s proto fascist past and it would also mean deconstructing the core mythos of America

Why Are So Many Children Getting Long Covid? What Could Possibly Have Caused This? Lockdowns? Vaccines? Gluten? Screentime? Anxiety? Fortnite? Face Masks? What?

Which headline have you seen repeatedly? 1) "Virus that we thought was no big deal turns out to cause long-term health problems" 2) "Virus we thought caused long-term health problems turns out to be no big deal"

“Return to normal” was always eugenics and that’s why so many of us have never stopped wearing a mask even though it made us outcasts. Wearing a mask is community protection and solidarity. You can always put the mask back on.

I'm going to restrict myself to one (two part) comment, which is: 1) the entire range runs from execs making 290x what their workers make to execs making 350x what their workers make, and 2) this should frame everything else such execs encourage you to be mad about

cool poop facts

I know I said that word choice matters... but so does punctuation.

So basically the protests were peaceful except that two competing cop departments accidentally went to war with each other

language matters

@msnbc.com reporter at the 1:15 mark. “The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” #nokings

Football Team Wary of Playing Into Opponent's Hands By Driving Towards End Zone Some coaches are feeling the long shadow of the last offensive drive that led to a turnover

Three members of the Madleen team—Pascal Maurieras, Yanis Mhamdi, and Marco van Rennes—are still illegally detained by Israel and may be held for another month. Arrested unlawfully in international waters and denied basic rights,

They just came out and said it: “We both know why you’ve been detained…it’s because of what you wrote about the protests at Columbia”

Al-Jazeera split-screened Trump's speech with footage of LA police throwing gas at protestors.

This evening's surreal experience: listening to Iran-Israel live reporting while watching police riot in LA

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

The No Kings folks are holding Organizer training for anyone who would like to get started with all these good ideas :) www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

“Abducted and disappeared by ICE”

Every fascist uses illness and violence to disable opponents. They disable us with covid, poverty, police violence, climate destruction, war, transphobia. They count on ableism to make us deny this reality and to abandon each other. Resist. Wear an n95. Use alt text. Make protests accessible.

The revolution is full of 60-year-old women who love their trans kids.

For anyone who needs it, I've done a transcript of the video.

How many times did we fucking tell you. You gave up on wearing masks. You let them demonize masks. So they got to write the rules. And the rules are cops “discretion” is that disabled people should be arrested. Because when ableds get to decide who is actually disabled, we lose. Every time.

President Trump is not above the law. We will hold him accountable and show up for our rights in the courts, in Congress, and in the streets.

No kings. No I.C.E. More chemistry. #chemistry

Good call!!!

Sign reads: "Democracy is a Verb!! No Kings!!!"

#nokings #savannah And here’s a lady getting arrested for wearing a medical mask