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Just overheard my mom in her garden calling a bee a nihilist.

I guess we're all coping with 2025 in our own ways.

"...it would bring down costs "60, 70, 80, 90 percent, but actually more than that if you think about it…mathematically."

So excited for the K-12 A-1.

I'm losing count of the number of times I've read "rescinded" in this reconciliation bill text. The Big Beautiful Gutting.

Time would have been better spent attending local Indivisible group meetings. And I'm saying this as someone who worked for Senator Whitehouse and is obsessed with climate/energy policy

CA growing a pair

I'm kind of stoked for the first Math Pope.

This week's episode of policy whiplash:

Don't tax the rich.

Tax the rich.

Don't tax the rich.

Also the move from science for public good to science for corporate profit

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

Why Protests Should Be Promises Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met."

Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time

time.com/collections/...

First They Came For A website dedicated to cataloging the people who are being kidnapped by the Trump administration.

firsttheycamefor.com is being updated to list all of the people being illegally detained or deported by the Trump administration in one place

#signalboost #resist #freeRumeysa #freeMahmoud #freepalestine #abolishICE

Happy birthday, Willie. Your music has been the soundtrack to so much of my life.

If we all agree that oligarchy is a root cause of many of the existential threats to our system, why are we even remotely entertaining the idea of another billionaire on the ballot? No more billionaires on the ballot. None. Not even the “good ones.”

Exclusive: Sheriff Fred Harran Enlists Bucks County in Trump’s Nationwide Immigration Crackdown - Bucks County Beacon The Bucks County Sheriff’s office has an application pending to participate in ICE’s 287(g) "task force model", which essentially makes local law enforcement officers de facto ICE agents.

WTF! Like we haven't had to deal with enough of this garbage in #BucksCounty?!? Bucks County Sheriff seems to want their own little piece of fascism right here. Good on @buckscountybeacon.bsky.social for breaking this one!

buckscountybeacon.com/2025/04/excl...

YouTube video by Monty Python What Have The Romans... - Monty Python's Life of Brian

Underappreciation of government infrastructure is timeless. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7H...

So the dude behind the "They count government spending as part of GDP. So I'm going to separate those two and make it transparent" is likely advising on tariff calculations? It makes so much sense why it makes no sense.

@buckscounty.bsky.social Let's go!!!

Hands Off! Quakertown Fights Back Presented by the Indivisible Upper Bucks United · Hands Off **Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them.** We are fighting back! PROTEST WITH US ON APRIL 5TH They're taking everything they can get their hands on—our health care, our data, ...

If you can't make it to Philly or DC on April 5th, join us in Quakertown! www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...

Virtual Assembly with Senator Whitehouse YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

Check out @whitehouse.senate.gov's virtual assembly on Social Security live now: www.youtube.com/live/Ek_6sJQ...

This is some excellent good trouble

Pocan to Invite Van Orden to Town Hall in Lafayette County WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, U.S. Representative Mark Pocan (WI-02) announced that he will host a town hall in Belmont, Wisconsin on Saturday, March 8, at 11:00 am. Today, he formally invited Congres...

@repbrendanboyle.bsky.social you're invited next door, but if you'd rather have us over that works too pocan.house.gov/media-center...

"The President uses his incivility to take advantage of our civility."

If you can't face the people you work for, maybe public service just isn't your gig.

Natural sequestration of carbon dioxide is in decline: climate change will accelerate The rate of natural sequestration of CO2 from the atmosphere by the terrestrial biosphere peaked in 2008. Atmospheric concentrations will rise more rapidly than previously, in proportion to annual CO...

Love it! What about the paper behind the "plants have lost appetite for CO2" news headlines? rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

@repbrendanboyle.bsky.social @congressmanboyle.bsky.social Your neighbors here in PA-01 would love to have you visit.

@whitehouse.senate.gov @hirono.senate.gov @repbillfoster.bsky.social @repmarktakano.bsky.social (among others) know this well. Thank you for your continued efforts.

Rep. Al Green shouts Trump has 'no mandate' before being removed from House chamber The Texas Democrat stood, shouting, as the president addressed a joint session of Congress. After refusing to retake his seat, Speaker Mike Johnson ordered Rep. Green removed from the chamber.

Thank you, @algreen.house.gov. Finally, some real "our country is sliding into autocracy" energy. More of this, please. www.npr.org/2025/03/04/n...

Yep. This is what normalizing "I don't do math" gets you. Sadly I suspect "I don't do reading" is next.

@indivisiblebux.bsky.social

@repbrendanboyle.bsky.social I'm your neighbor in PA-01. Would you consider holding a Town Hall here since our elected official lacks the courage to face the people he works for?