Kelsey Halliday Johnson

GoFundMe has proven this week it is reprehensible/exploiting profits at the expense of community services/aid. Its AI machine made 1.4mil (nonconsensual) “fundraiser” sites for hardworking 501c3s. Mutual aid must exist outside of this company. I’ll be asking how to pay otherwise from now on.

Confession: I thought there was some kind of technical definition of a "weed" like I thought you could show it to a plant expert and ask "is this a flower or a weed?" and they could tell you. But no, weed is just a slur for any plant you don't personally want around

So odd that Congress is so willing to have their power usurped and stripped from them.

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

Spotted in the wild recently (maybe signs I need to rewatch)

The GOP's plan to defund Planned Parenthood would add $300 million to the deficit So much for cutting costs.

The plan to defund Planned Parenthood would cost taxpayers $300 million over the next decade, according to a leaked preliminary estimate compiled by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

Cost of the four jets? Just over $60 million a pop, roughly the same as the entire annual budget for the National Endowment for the Arts.

PBS didn't "become woke". You grew up to be a bad person.

Yay for Kara Peruccio repping Maine well (and in the answers to boot!) on Jeopardy!

Nice to see that everyone is referring to the new pope by his chosen name.

🏳️‍⚧️ Do the same for trans people! 🏳️‍⚧️

A Crisis Is No Time for Amateurs The unfolding conflict between Pakistan and India needs to be handled with the utmost care and competence.

“Every American, and anyone who cares about global peace, should wish Rubio well and hope for his success.“

Trump Seeks to Eliminate the NEA The president’s budget proposal also called for getting rid of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

President Trump proposed eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities in the budget he released Friday, taking aim once again at two agencies that he had tried and failed to get rid of during his first term.

DOGE sought to assign a team to an independent nonprofit group A representative of DOGE met with leaders of the Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit organization that advocates for lower incarceration rates.

DOGE wanted to assign a team to… the Vera Institute of Justice, a completely independent nonprofit that is in no way part of the government…

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This is a test. If Harvard folds or loses the court fight, it's *terrible* news for every nonprofit, foundation, advocacy group, etc. This is very important.

I don’t want AI; I want clean air, water, and old growth forests.

The Trump White House is axing the wire service spot from the coverage pool, the latest salvo in its battle with the AP | CNN Business Instead of restoring access to The Associated Press newswire, as required by a federal judge, the Trump administration is removing the wire position in the daily press corps rotation altogether.

Instead of restoring access to The Associated Press newswire, as required by a federal judge, the Trump administration is removing the wire position in the daily press corps rotation altogether.

The NPR, PBS Grift Has Ripped Us Off for Too Long For years, American taxpayers have been on the hook for subsidizing National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which spread

As a biologist, I'm appalled at pride the White House takes in willful ignorance.

In yesterday's executive order about NPR and PBS, their first example of "the trash that passes for `news' at NPR and PBS" is the statement that "banana slugs are hermaphrodites."

But this is unequivocal fact.

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Portland, Maine had an awesome adults arts and crafts week.

I had a pixie cut in the early years of high school and regardless of my gender identity, it was an important, powerful part of shaping me. Affirmative haircuts for people at any age!

I looked it up on Snopes & felt truly sad (in fair measure to my disbelief / horror) to read it was true.

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was just demolished by Musk’s team. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 million.

A thread about 18F:

18F staffers- who were summarily fired en masse overnight- issue statement expressing shock, bewilderment:

"18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated."

Student Loan Borrowers Blocked from Affordable Repayment Plans The Education Department has pulled down all applications for borrowers seeking to enroll in income-driven repayment programs. Here’s what to know.

According to the NYT there are 330,000 of us who are unable to move forward with payments & would be owed forgiveness in the year since the Supreme Court injunction. 330k who have committed ten years to public service jobs & committed their end to a rotten deal. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/b...

A rare 'parade' of all 7 planets will move across the night sky this week This phenomenon known as a "planet parade," will feature Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all present at the same time along a line in the night sky on Friday, NASA says.

This phenomenon known as a "planet parade," will feature Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all present at the same time along a line in the night sky on Friday, NASA says.

"daddy, what did you do in the war"

son, i archived all 6,793 videos from the Kennedy Center before they disappeared from the internet

we all did our part

Adore it! Also digging the cover art.

“One of the less frequently noticed luxuries of the postwar liberal order was the licence to be a fool. …prosperous, scientifically minded countries have tolerantly sustained an underbelly of madmen and extremists who would quickly have come to grief in less congenial surroundings.”