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A lot of the “achievements” of western civilization actually kind of suck but one thing that definitely does not suck is how half our children don’t die anymore

imo the left really needs to put a lot more effort into organizing veterans, especially now. they aren’t a political monolith, and a lot of them are getting screwed over right now.

Here is a nice mushroom

this is still so funny to me

I'm a broken record on this so I'll just say again that you should take every opportunity to [if you can] gather with other people who are trying to do constructive things in the world. Attend the zine fairs, the craft circles, the workshop sessions, food distros, people's assemblies, all of it.

People also need to understand this isn’t federal money, this is DC money collected through DC taxes. They’re openly stealing from the city with the intent to immiserate the people living there because they resent the idea they should be allowed to govern themselves.

Everything is so unbelievably stupid right now.

I've been quiet lately for... a lot of reasons. But honestly: Fuck all this shit. Gloves off. Cowards to the back.

There is a reason I spent several years reporting in Texas and the South. There's a reason the fiercest Dem resistance lately has been from Black Dems from Texas. The playbook for what we are seeing on the national stage was tested and fireproofed in the South.

Resistance Guidebook, a doc full of very concrete answers to "What can I do?" docs.google.com/document/d/1...

For no particular reason certainly not one named Chuck Schumer and the his punk ass Senate colleagues I am again sharing this academic work showing that accommodation pushes politics to the right www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I think that the *we* is doing work here. Because Black intellectuals, organizers and activists have been saying and writing this for generations. Folks haven't paid attention.

“I was one of the critics that sat on the side and made the decision there was only two genders, so I got an education that was unbelievable. And I don't know just exactly how to say this but my perspective for people have changed [...] I’d like to apologize" good things still happen sometimes 🥲

The only reason this hasn’t also been treated like an alarming constitutional crisis concerning free speech is because people in positions of influence in the media, business, and politics at least tacitly agree with the aims of this movement.

Well comrades, times are hard and we keep pushing. Everyone is right to be furious. Where are the most vulnerable people in your local communities? How can you be in solidarity with them during these hard times? There's a lot to do. Take some time to regroup and then get back to work.

Even if you agree with Schumer that voting for cloture was the lesser of two evils, he handled this with such total ineptitude, in a way that could not have angered and demoralized Democratic voters more if it had been designed to, that it's impossible to justify his leadership role.>

Do not be deterred from DOING. You WILL make a ton of mistakes and that's OK. Keep going.

Is not tomorrow, boy, the ides of March?

A full moon, lunar eclipse AND the Ides of March tomorrow. Big rebellion energy right now.

At the very least, Schumer should resign.

it's too grim to write down but we just lived through the moment when a sitting u.s. president said in a speech at the dept of justice that he thinks news gathering has to be illegal, as covered by a far right tv network, with an ad for "angel cream" placed next to his head

ONE PERSON is responsible for a huge # of book challenges in SC. ONE PERSON is responsible for 40% of book challenges in FL. (His name is Bruce.) A single voice absolutely makes a difference. Use yours and raise it for good. For god's sake, are you going to let fucking Bruce run the show?!

Logging off since it's almost time to break fast. A reminder to those who may need it that people are in motion everywhere and will continue to be. If you're not already joining in, find your place and join. The more the merrier. Take care, everyone. Good night.

OK, done with Democrats in DC for the next few years. I'll be continuing to focus locally. I have faith in the millions of people who make that their site of struggle. There's other work to be done.

Every time I wrote about my home state, readers would just be like "F-- Texas, throw the state away", not realizing that what I was trying to do was show them what was going to happen nationwide. That money is king, that people, yes, are cowards, and that "rules" are made to suit the powerful.

boy this is really testing my deeply held belief that we are all entitled to imagination, fantasy, and a rich and private inner life

Schumer will be at Politics and Prose in DC on 3/19. Would be great if he were greeted by the "Resign Schumer Choir" - www.eventbrite.com/e/senator-ch... - Let him know in song that he's a traitor and should resign immediately.

I wrote about the kidnapping and potential deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, the histories of repression this case is built upon, and the new and horrifying moment we are experiencing.

Why, You grave but reckless senators, have you thus Given Hydra here to choose an officer

Trying not to be bitter about being yelled at for years about how bad I was for saying the Democratic Party was completely ill equipped to handle the rise of fascism by the same people who suddenly have realized the Democratic Party is completely ill equipped to handle the rise of fascism

Government shutdowns are bad, yes. Dismantling agencies is bad. Pulling DC's own funding from its schools, yanking money from Medicaid... all these are bad. You know how the Democrats get a seat at the table to stop this? By showing that they will use the filibuster to stand firm.

The vast majority of people have never protested anything in their life. And I really think that this needs to be taken into account when evaluating who you should respond to on socials re: protests. Folks don't know. They are completely in the land of opinion and vibes.

I do think the next era will be women gaining ACTUAL power because we ARE TIRED OF PLAYING NICE.

not to be too Bush-era anarchist about it but the idea that government officials should worry about what their constituents think and always maybe have it in the backs of their minds that things could go very, very badly if folks get too mad is a GOOD thing, not a bad thing

Stop listening to Adam Jentleson and the Pod Save America Bros.

can we bring back the record business as a viable industry so that I can have a desk position where I come up with ideas for reissues and compilations with themes like "seasons of jazz" and it's four CDs, released quarterly, avail individually or by subscription, tailored to the moods of the seasons

I will never be one of the elders that has to be told by younger people to exit stage left. It's important to cede the stage & to do so with grace. Go do other work. [stay out of my mentions about ageism]

When people say "DEI" and "extreme wokeness" I challenge them to articulate exactly what they mean with that. What was "baseline" wokeness? Thus, what counts as extreme? Are they against integration? What are the facts and figures to demonstrate harm? They rarely do/can. Now, here we are.

I knew two months ago that #TeslaTakeDown was going to be important and said so. I saw many people immediately start pointing out everything they saw as a problem. I'm grateful that folks just went out and started picketing.

“First They Came for Columbia…” and Columbia said, how can we help

Columbia’s caving to fascism so they can be the thing they always wanted to be: a hedge fund that thinks it’s weird there are so many students hanging around.

I don’t think we pie enough politicians in this country, and it shows.

This should read: "Part of an effort to re-segregate the Department of Defense." We need to stop pretending this is about DEI. This is a purge of actual people. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

There are tools for you if you need help narrowing down your focus to figure out what actions you might take in the coming days, weeks, months and years. I co-created a zine just for this: millionexperiments.com/zines/making...

Every reporter and media person should have alt text set to default and it’s very frustrating to see accounts with big followings who claim that their attention to detail and truth is why they’re worth following not put alt text on images…especially when those images are text-based!

My favorite part of this story is where Schumer decides the imaginary family he makes decisions for can’t be Irish, because that’s too edgy

undisclosed location in 70s moon colony.

I signed some copies of Let This Radicalize You at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social last night.

that travel ban list is crazy who even has beef with bhutan lol they just there chilling without internet

To put the $400 million Trump is holding over Columbia's head in perspective, the university's endowment is $14.8 billion. I know nobody ever wants to touch the nest egg except on rainy days, but...the storm's here. Columbia can be as autonomous as it decides it wants to be.

Wild that they voted 62-38 to make the boot they have to lick bigger.

UPDATED LIST. Whitehouse is also a no on cloture. Let's get talking to: Schatsz Hirono Durbin Peters Klobuchar Cortez Masto Rosen Hassan Shaheen Cantwell and King in addition to the NY sens who are already hearing it every which way. IF YOUR SENATOR IS STILL NOT A NO ON CLOTURE, CALL.

It must be pretty sweet being a senator. You get to inside trade as much as you want, unlimited gun industry cash, the privilege of selling us out every three weeks, and lunch with Lindsey Graham.

I just said to my husband: "We don't need to be super strategizers, we just need to be more persistent and annoying than Bruce! I'm 100% confident that most Americans can be annoying if they put their minds to it!" Be peristent and annoying in fighting for democracy. Keep calling. You can do this.

Schumer +1 (212) 486-4430 - Just left a message.

Call this morning. 👇 A shutdown is better than caving.

Chuck Schumer literally makes up white people to be upset on behalf of… dear god.

Beautiful statement of why protesting matters, even if it feels like you aren't making much headway. You're not just speaking to power. You're speaking to others and making it possible for them to join in.

Even though the concession has been made, keep calling your Senators if they’re potential cloture votes. The best case scenario is Fetterman and Schumer left out there alone while the rest of the caucus thinks about how much rotten fruit they’re going to clean off the front of their houses.

"Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable, but, as the Columbia case suggests, it’s not working. Columbia’s leadership made repeated concessions to right-wing critics, only to be the first to come under attack. Remaining silent will not protect us." 👇👇

Back in the day, when we had the chance, we should have actually won the civil war

So many people desperately want to avoid any discussion of racism as a substantive matter in society but the racists just won’t let them.

Something that is also asymmetrical in USian politics is that Democrats cannot ever be seen as being "insulting" or "condescending" to the median voter while the GOP can happily talk down to and insult everyone. It would be funny if it weren't pathetic.

I don’t know if Facebook trying to legally stop an ex-employee from promoting her tell-all book about the company will end up as a true Streisand Effect situation but it did just make me order a copy immediately in case they manage to get it pulled from stores too lol

Also (cis)men are shifting right because— and I can’t emphasize this enough during Women’s History Month—they hate women

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Majdoline. Before the war Majdoline was an embroiderer of tatreez and a seamstress. She lost her home and business. Now her and two children Yousef, 4 and Tolin, 2 are trying to survive. They are also struggling with skin rashes.

the right funds its propagandists. the left has to beg for patreon subs.

The center wants outreach to these people and the left thinks that economic pain can turn them around and again, Black people, who have survived these fuckers for centuries, are the only accurate ones in begging y’all to leave them to suffer and talk to apathetic voters instead

“…we should shed the idea that AI is a technological artifact with political features and recognize it as a political artifact through and through. AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power.”

I'm not going to do the "Melania is a hostage" thing of reading people's faces but man Rubio looks like his defense just allowed 700 yards through the air in a 62-13 loss at home.

Yup, that’s me for one second!!!

The history of protest music is often incorrectly associated with men.

wrote a poem this morning it's called DJ Tiësto's St Paul Set Summer 2025

yes ... and, apropos of nothing, once i was in line at a DC bookstore and the woman in front of me was buying Annihilation... I asked if she wanted it signed... and she asked to see my driver's license 😂

Literally Germany in 1933

finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-d... #TeslaTakeDown

i know this is a lil ~controversial in some circles but I love a protest at a powerful public figure's home it's givin I DIDN'T GET NO SLEEP CUZ OF Y'ALL. Y'ALL NOT GON GET NO SLEEP CUZ OF ME

and this man keeps telling me that we “don’t need a cat”

NY has a severe political problem.

DO. NOT. GET. ME. STARTED. ON. THEIR. DERELICTION. OF. DUTY.

Where my musician comrades at? Who can write the "Resign Schumer" anthem for the public to sing? LOL

If folks are serious about primary challenges of current Democrats in office, then this needs to start with organization and with money. You need a democratic decision making process where people can weigh in on a group of members to target. Then you need to raise a TON of money.

Even when you have no power you have the power to refuse.

People Magazine - people.com/elon-musk-s-... #TeslaTakeDown - it's moved outside the realm of regular politics

Oh look #TeslaTakeDown.

About 70% of Americans who want to move abroad are hoping that their country of choice has universal health care ⤵️

There’s a deadly measles outbreak raging in west Texas, and it’s being fueled, in part, by anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. Read the full story by @angiejaime.bsky.social here ⤵️

Casual Fridays: now with white sheets

Fuck these fuckin fascists

Clearing up a few things: 1) ABSOLUTELY i will ship internationally! I love the mushroom homies everywhere 2) everyone who shares the post and is a Patreon member will get stickers, whether you sign up today or from before, it’s NOT a raffle! Thanks for all the support to grow our little club 🙌

Two things: 1. Alt text is a habit you can develop — I’m not saying I never forget, but I always intend to include it. A setting that reminds you until it becomes habit is a great step. 2. Bluesky in particular makes it extremely easy to copy-paste text in an image you are posting.

We're not trying to convince Trump. Or even MAGAheads. We're trying to talk to people who are angry but frozen and and don't know where to start. We're trying to hold onto norms that say no, this shit is wrong. That's absolutely worth doing.

"more specific white" reminds me of this post I made some years back--before The Boy became The Fiancé--which is now, to his parents' amusement, featured on our wedding website

By which I mean: Sen. Schatz.

The devil speed him! No man’s pie is freed From his ambitious finger.

a generational political talent

Here is a quick and helpful explainer on why it's important for ask your senator to vote NO on cloture (not just on the bill itself...). Short version: it's much easier to kill this by voting no on cloture.

Reposting w/ alt text I was already pretty convinced congressmembers should vote no, but I thought one of the stronger arguments on the other side was that a shutdown would be bad for regular government employees and the work they do If the govt workers union says voting yes would be worse? Well.

What a shame... #TeslaTakeDown "New Tesla registrations in the US fell 11% in January from a year earlier, according to data from S&P Global Mobility — even as the company's EV rivals surged." archive.ph/vfYXs

there are too many five-alarm fires being set by one political party while the leader of the other political party says "it would be bad to try to stop the people setting the fires"