Julia Gayden Nelson

I just finished rereading Reticence by @gailcarriger.bsky.social . It’s at least as much fun on the second pass.

Hands up if you called your congressfolks today.

I'd rather watch his trial.

Today I looked up the phone numbers for my representatives. My next thing is to write myself a script for my daily phone calls to the reps.

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Let me guess, you went to a witch with a terrible twitch to ask how your future impressed her?

My son is obsessed. We have all three books (hard copies and audio), and he keeps telling me that this is nonfiction and that he will be the one to build Roz.

Always

Well THERE’S my well-informed freakout. Finally. Sorry for the delayed reaction: I was busy hoping our government couldn’t be overthrown this easily.

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. Rage; blow.

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

One voice can be very very loud.

And by being so, it can inspire others to speak up too.

In another “Big Government” move…

I’m cracking up watching him shoot himself in the foot like this.

The Democrats should use this as a chance to radicalize regular people in favor of, uh, the idea of a functional government. Every time that an important but unnoticed federal department fails because Trump fired everyone they should make a big deal out of it.

air = 💨
ere = ⌚️⬅️
heir = 🫅
err = ❌

I’m so glad you were able to vote. I couldn’t: I was homeless at the time and my shelter adamantly refused to let me use their address for anything. Salvation Army saved my butt in a lot of ways, but that was one thing they could have handled better.

I’m just hoping that in two years, they’ll face the biggest political gridlock of our lifetime. Midterm elections are going to be eye-opening for some of these precipice-privilege flunkies.

Cover of the world according to mister Rogers by Fred rogers

Text from the book: The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love. When those things that we care about so deeply become endangered, we become enraged. And what a healthy thing that is! Without it, we would never stand up and speak out for what we believe.

what would mister rogers do?

get enraged

seriously. his word choice. he gave us permission, said it's healthy:

Left of Trump: 1John Thune 2Scott Turner 3Eric Trump 4Chuck Schumer 5Mark Zuckerberg 6Steve Scalise 7Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 8Jared Kushner 9Ivanka Trump 10Jeff Bezos 11Mike Johnson 12Pete Hegseth 13Sundar Pichai 14Beverly Aikins 15Elon Musk 16Doug Burgum 17Usha Vance 18Mike Waltz 19Amy Klobuchar 20JD Vance 21Barron Trump 22Vivek Ramaswamy 23Tim Cook 24Melania Trump

Right of Trump: 25Jill Biden 26Joe Biden 27Doug Emhoff 28Kamala Harris 29Bill Clinton 30Hillary Clinton 31Deb Fischer 32Dana White 33George W. Bush 34Anthony Kennedy 35Clarence Thomas 36Javier Milei 37Laura Bush (obscured) 38Brett Kavanaugh 39John Roberts 40Barack Obama

What I’m getting is “hooray for retired military being willing to call bullshit.” Gotta love that world-weary readiness to cut the crap.

It’s scary to be seen, but now is the time when taking a stand matters.

Congratulations! It’s impossible to pick a favorite but this one is among the contenders.

Thank you for this. I take solace in the way he’s alienating his own party so quickly. It might not take even the 2 years I expected before he will find himself in political gridlock.

Did my part for democracy. Set the tv to a documentary about Hitler. Take that, ratings.

From midnight tonight until next Saturday morning, there's no TV, no Internet, no Social Media, no nothing for me.

Symbolic protest is better than none at all.

#5DayBLACKOUT

a man with a backpack carrying a small animal on his back ALT: a man with a backpack carrying a small animal on his back

It's Friday. And on Friday... DANCE, we must? 😩

Bluesky, why do I see a bunch of random people instead of a feed full of folks I chose to follow?