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🚨 SAVE THE DATE: OCTOBER 18. Millions of Americans took to the streets in June to drown out Trump’s birthday parade. As Trump’s regime escalates his authoritarian power grab, we’re gathering again on 10/18 for a nationwide day of peaceful protests to say NO KINGS: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
JUST IN: Harvard won summary judgment against the Trump administration with the court finding that the admin violated Harvard's 1st amend. rights. The court has vacated the funding freeze orders and termination letters and issued a permanent injunction. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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"This is exactly the situation community members have feared could quickly grow out of hand. The feds have no experience with crowd control or neighborhood policing, create unsafe environments when called in by MPD, and MPD tries to match the bravado of ICE agents by acting like crass bullies."
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Bernie Sanders at the Workers Over Billionaires rally in Concord, NH today. Great to listen to speeches about the value of labor and workers’ rights from many speakers. Heard there were 4,000 people there! It was great.
here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road
We the people are having to step in to protect the country from these lunatics. Here’s the T-shirt I just made for a Labor Day rally. It’s time to get loud.
I made a T-shirt for the Bernie rally in Concord tomorrow. #workersoverbillionaires #freethejab #firejunior #saveourshots
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
If you don’t believe that Trump’s authoritarianism can be defeated, look at how scared MAGA is of chalk:
Zellet Schwarze Katz! When I was an underage drinker a zillion years ago we loved that stuff. The cat logo was our fav. Much better than the Blue Nun label.
What a day in the garden. Perfect weather, peak celosia (foreground) and helenium (back row). #bloomscrolling #gardens 🌱
When I go to museums, I head for the side galleries where the tiny things live. That’s where the real treasures lie. Like this little guy. Thank you!
Workers Over Billionaires Events In New Hampshire Sept. 1 kentstreetcoalition.org/2025/08/17/w...
Inhuman. “I don’t have any choice” is a lie.
New, from me: The CDC shitshow is a microcosm of the mismanagement of the Trump era. It also demonstrates some extraordinary courage among principled public servants, who were willing to lose their jobs to draw attention to damage being done to public health donmoynihan.substack.com/p/your-gover...
Kennedy is going to take away the right to vaccination. This administration is an authoritarian death cult. #freethejab
It’s raining and there are dozens of bumblebees sheltering under the parasol flowers of this big clump of Joe Pye weed. #bloomscroll #garden 🌱 #bees
That guy’s mitochondria are messed up. You can just tell.
And so it begins, fingers crossed.
This could be the start of something beautiful.
This is fascism.
Photos and videos from occupied DC.
Congratulations for taking a stand! May she be a role model for other people under attack. If everyone would just stand up to the crazy, things would change.
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
I used to hate zinnias. With age, wisdom. Zinnias are now my favs. Also, celosia. Look at the crazy energy going on in the back row of this bouquet! Medusaesque, even. #bloomscrolling, #gardens, 🌱
I keep getting asked for my salty thoughts about the Salt Path as my position on nature cure narratives is v clear! A mere fraction of those thoughts published here @literaryhub.bsky.social, with thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and @nicwilson.bsky.social for their earlier pieces linked below.
I cannot type the words I actually want to say, so for now I’ll just hope these people are haunted forever.
Baked tomato-feta. Slice a juicy tomato or 2 or 3. Put in baking dish. Grate some fresh garlic on it, a few fresh or dry herbs - basil, thyme, oregano - whatever. Add some olives if you like. Crumble feta over all. Drizzle with olive oil. Bake at like 425 til bubbly. Eat with crunchy bread. Yum.
one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder
UPDATE: Lisa Cook says she's not going anywhere and Trump's bid to fire her is baseless. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
a bit late but the whole jillian michaels thing last week gave me an excuse to talk a bit about the economy of slavery in detail youtu.be/pRs2Xu1FWR4
I dreamt that Trump showed up at my farm and demanded I hand over my pigs (I grow flowers, not pigs irl) so he could take them to DC for photo ops and to show off how good he is at swine-herding. He was going to get great photos of him helping a sow give birth and all the cute piglets. I was pissed.
I made this for you. And you. And your trans friend. And their cis friend’s trans kid. And your lawyer friend who does pro bono. And your mom who keeps saying we’re overreacting. And your attorney. And your partner. And your provider. And your representative. And your city councilor. But mostly you.
#ProudBlue TX Rep Ann Johnson brings the 🔥🔥🔥 An absolute MUST LISTEN 🎧
Tom, I’m the mother of 2 adult trans people. The term cisgender is extremely helpful in discussions -it’s specific, clear, useful. There is no reason to be offended by it. I’m not going to stop using it because of fake culture wars nonsense.
“For many, the idea of a ‘frog sauna’ might sound bizarre,” but this simple solution is saving some Australian frogs from a deadly fungus. [nature.com]
I find it funny when people—and I’ve seen comments like this — say we need to build fusion reactors instead of wasting time on solar. It’s like, honey, there’s a big fusion reactor in the sky that is always sending us power and we just need to collect it.
This morning, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org livestreamed from in front of John Bolton's house, where there appeared to be FBI action. Watch the video:
How the heck was @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org the first one on the scene of the FBI raid at John Bolton’s house? What a scoop! youtu.be/ZFP7qf6fhUE?...
Stephen Miller Tears Up As Son Says First 14 Words
The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
Parents who have concerns about trans kids in high schools are grounding their concerns in ignorance and unfounded fears, and we do everyone—including them—a disservice if we validate those concerns. As a party, the Democrats have to do a much better job of *ignoring* bigoted concerns.
I'm peeved that I have to go to X to look for news on Nicole Collier. On the plus side, she's on there. x.com/NicoleCollie...
“The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst. One of those stab-you-in-the-heart short stories that messed me up when I read it in 6th grade.
it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
Operation “Get him to stroke out” is in full swing.
I hope this piece will be followed by one each on the principled sacrifice of the what, 13 now? authors who withdrew from the long-list to show the vast majority of queer writers stand with trans people. 1st-time writers struggling for ££ who put solidarity first. THAT's a story I want to hear.
I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
Thank you Sacha. Both of my adult children are transgender and these are terrifying times for trans people and their loved ones. John Boyne said what he said. It was a terrible thing to say. He’s a writer - he knows the effect of words. That HE is feeling their effect too is on him.
Armed Trump administration agents wearing masks just showed up outside of Gavin Newsom’s press conference. This is what rising fascism looks like.
US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked
Do not turn away.
Really worth reading this entire thread for a good example of the evasive double-speak coming out of this White House. They have settled into a pattern of just claiming laws say things they absolutely do not say in hopes that SCOTUS contorts itself into agreement.
Great response. I hope this is shared widely.
Globe thistle and echinacea #bloomscrolling
Picking flowers for tomorrow’s farmer’s market.
I really wanted this piece to focus on the queer authors who are giving up a rare opportunity for positive mainstream publicity by withdrawing from the Polari prizes, rather than focusing on John Boyne and the specifics of his transphobia.
I am loving this book! A thriller with a sense of humor and heart. Featuring bad guy Christian Nationalists and an ex-journalist granddad on a mission to save his family. Yup, a metaphor for our moment.
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The latest fascist video posted by DHS. (I'm sure the typeface at the end there isn't meant to invoke anything Nazi-like) x.com/dhsgov/statu...
True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing. Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter. Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵 x.com/andrewcuomo/...
I am SO jealous. Kind of droughty here and not much mushroom action. Chanterelles are my favorite!
republicans will distort everything. you dont retreat and become a moral coward because republicans say mean bigoted shit. you support trans rights, black rights, women's rights, human rights by pointing to the fucking constitution of this country.
Bumble bees love zinnias. This one was just lounging on a soft pink sofa. #bloomscrolling #bees
MA put in a 4% millionaires tax 2 years ago, & the GOP said we'd miss revenue targets & millionaires would flee. MA collected TWICE the projected revenues, & the number of millionaires went UP 40%. www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...
Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein now serving a 20-year prison sentence for sexually exploiting and abusing teenage girls, has been moved from a federal prison in Florida to minimum-security prison camp in Texas, her lawyer said on Friday.
The lying, the smirking, the talking over - I just want him to shut up every time I get sucked into watching one of these clips. But he sure chalks up social media interactions for CNN (like this one).
I definitely have bought books from Bluesky. Both because authors promoted them or other people recommended.
Durbin Demands Tapes of Ghislaine Maxwell Interviews www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
Let the blowback happen bc it bloody needs to.
We’re celebrating 1000 members on the subreddit r/comicsbyhumans by posting comics to the prompt “Can AI do this?” #comics #webcomic #laundry
Rep. Rick Crawford: "You're gonna say that there was Russian collusion and that Putin had a clear choice for President Trump? If he did, he would've released that information and damaged Clinton." (Who remembers WikiLeaks?)
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You should never follow any of these color charts. They are all stupid. I'll show you why. 🧵
Page One in Scotland.
You can tell a lot about how Trump feels about his own power and influence by the way he’s posting. In that context, I wrote about Trump's addled social media crashout over the weekend and how it's different from a few months ago when he had more juice www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
#gardening 🌱Harvesting dill seed in the greenhouse. Now if the cukes would just catch up for serious pickling.
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.
My 11-year-old daughter, unhappy with the snacks and the long lines at camp, decided to start her own business with a couple of her campmates. I found this document on my computer.
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WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Impressive, unsettling reporting from @404media.co, who have been doing a better job covering the Trump regime's mass deportation than many bigger outlets, not least because they focus on what's actually happening and how it impacts people, rather than on whether the president is winning or losing.
Concord, New Hampshire Thursday, July 17 Good Trouble Lives On
Voters are sick of the mealy-mouthed equivocating bullshit. It comes across as weak and fearful. He acts like he’s afraid of something all the time so he never sounds like he means what he’s saying.
Gavin Newsom just blows in the goddam wind. He is the kind of phony that gives voters the ick. I have 2 kids and they are both trans. Why would I vote for someone who wants to throw my kids off the lifeboat because he thinks he’ll pick up a few votes? If he’s nominated in ‘28, he will lose.
White House Evacuated After Trans Alarm Goes Off
Love Cole Palmer!
@willsommer.bsky.social is one of the best documenters of maga conspiracy lunacy. Great piece breaking down the Epstein debacle.
10 out of 10 for the ALT text.
When you actually ask what the electorate voted on it’s really clear that trans or even Queer rights didn’t figure. Anti-trans ads are designed to get core far right voters to go & vote. They are a ‘get out the base’ method. They failed in Australia, the UK & US to convince most voters.
Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings: -Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove) -Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%) news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
