They were funny, respected, well-loved activists. They were rightfully scared about what COVID could do to them. They were “the vulnerable”—chronically ill Black women who needed $$ for healthcare costs—the government wanted, and wants, us to find acceptable to abandon. They knew what was happening.

I remember when Hudson tweeted this. It was one of her last tweets.

It especially makes my blood boil when people treat COVID conscious people like they’re over dramatic or oddities to be amused by when I think about Tinu Abayomi-Paul and Shafiqah Hudson.

I don’t think it will all fit in there.

Updated map of the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. Health departments who have officially confirmed that they are part of the collaborative include Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and New York City.

Activists in Seattle just sent us this update from the Tesla showroom in South Lake Union. This is the heart of Seattle's tech core, blocks from Amazon HQ and Google's Seattle campus. We can win. We are winning. Keep pushing. #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall

Saw this #SesameStreet reel on Instagram and felt so seen, it hurt. "And it only Tuesday." I wasn't expecting Sesame Street to still be making hella-relatable-to-me content when I was in my 50s, but dang. www.instagram.com/p/DOHCqVyjgvQ/

An evening making music with my @vixyandtony.bsky.social bandmates @vixyish.bsky.social , @tfabris.bsky.social , and @stealthcello.bsky.social for no other reason than because we love each others' company and love playing together. My heart is comforted and full tonight. 💜💜💜

"That is the central flaw of deservingness politics: the ... moral hierarchies that require the belief that someone is deserving of deportation. That way of thinking keeps the systems that brutalize immigrants in place, with the fight narrowed to carveouts for specific groups of ​'good' immigrants."

I reiterate that immigrants should NOT go to immigration court. They can comply by setting up a Zoom meeting. Call 888-462-5211 for help completing and submitting a Motion to Change Hearing Format form. Please pass on this information!

Come join us at Seattle Worldcon 2025! We're on Friday 08/15, preceded by a Sunnie Larsen concert set and followed by the improvisational string trio Ménage à Trio. Bonus round: We'll also be the backup band for Mollylele on Thursday! Details and times at vixyandtony.com and seattlein2025.org

you have been visited by the Skylight Napping Fox and will have good fortune for the rest of the week 🤗

Venus Williams just won her first match in two years and at the end when they were interviewing her about what a miracle it was, she said she had to come back and play a match; they told her she was on cobra and she’s always at the doctor so **she needs the health insurance**

Me: "I never know what's gonna come out of my mouth until it happens." Betsy: "That's why I love you, Vixy." #gettingthebandbacktogether

"Who wrapped this cord, David Copperfield???" --Tony #gettingthebandbacktogether

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok

Seattle is halfway between Vancouver

and while it's not over, the fact that we were able to get this little political win in a political moment where so many want to throw us out on the curb is going to be a big boost to so many trans people who need a boost right now.

here it is with alt-text! thank you Nico! bsky.app/profile/nico...

i’m not a foreign policy expert but i don’t think this is how ceasefires work

Alriiight Seattle! You Guys ROCK! 🤘 Thanks for turning out! ❤️ #NoKings #NoKingsSeattle

#Seattle #nokings

Timelapse of the HUGE #seattle nokings march! www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/co...

“At the largest rally in Seattle, over 70,000 people flooded the streets shoulder-to-shoulder, marching en masse from Capitol Hill to Seattle Center — making it one of the largest protests in the city’s history. “ SEATTLE SHOWS UP FOR DEMOCRACY! @seattletimes #NoKings #Seattle

We did it! We broke the 3.5% rule. Estimates currently at 11 million protestors. We stood up and peacefully told tyranny to suck it. #nokingsday #nokings

The Pretty in Pink/Back to the Future crossover you’ve been waiting for. #NoKings Los Angeles!!! (Leah Thompson is a real one)

I love you Seattle. #abolishice #nokings

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

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

we have video, we don't need answers we need fucking actions.

Here's another angle from Fox News reporter Bill Melugin of Sen. Alex Padilla getting roughed up by law enforcement after he tries to question Kristi Noem at her presser: “I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary. Because the fact of the matter is, a half dozen... Hands off!”

they just assaulted a sitting united states senator and dragged him out of a press conference "opposition legislator violently removed by regime thugs" would be an accurate description if you saw it anywhere else.

Everyone saw Grand Park's hot pink benches being stacked into a barricade on Sunday. What an exceptional statement from RIOS, the benches' designers instagram.com/rios.imagines "These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect — and now protect"

Do me a favour and let them know it's me? 🥰

Just before the previous clip, the skater kid was practically taunting the Border Patrol agents by dancing around their munitions shots.

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

At least 50 of those men were here in the US legally and never violated immigration law.

None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.

THIS IS HUGE! TWO Phase I HIV vaccine clinical trials have demonstrated that a stepwise mRNA-based vaccination strategy can SUCCESSFULLY activate AND advance immune responses toward producing broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs), a CRITICAL milestone in HIV prevention. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

The new polyamory flag really is beautiful

Very illuminating thread, I think. 1/8

OF COURSE there were kids with ADHD in the 50s and before that, they just never knew that’s what the problem was. The lucky ones either outgrew it or managed to develop coping skills on their own. Those who didn’t outgrow it were just labeled losers and fuck-ups and left behind.

The Papal conclave is expected to start between the 6th and 12th of May. Eurovision is between the 13th and 17th of May. Social media is about to get very confusing.