Tracy Piombo

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Have a look at what @annamcqueen.bsky.social has been saying too!

An illustrator friend did a kid's book where one of the mums wore hijab. Not to make a point, just as part of a normal city school background. Took it to publisher and was asked to remove because it 'wasn't a book about inclusivity'

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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#USDemocracy
Stacy Abrams, from her book,
Our Time Is Now:
“Beyond Congress, there are the unmentioned corridors of power we too often cede: state and local elections [...] These elections matter because the architecture of our rights begins closest to home.”
To find such US elections, check out:

So is Jane.

Waj is right about everything tonight.

He joked multiple times about Paul Pelosi getting smashed in the skull with a hammer.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

Do they have less power than the Black and brown Americans who had their citizenship, their land, their vote, their dignity, and their humanity taken from them, and *still* persevered?

Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System

All of your most sensitive data and our country’s checkbook are in the hands of an unelected billionaire.

This is the most corrupt administration in history and it’s putting our economy & government in serious jeopardy.

It’s time to speak out and fight back.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

It’s a coup. That’s what’s happening. It doesn’t matter if it’s only been two weeks. Impeachable offenses aren’t like wine. They don’t need to age.

At.
Gunpoint.

Musk is telling duly appointed and security cleared government officials that they will be shot if they don't turn over to Musk sensitive information to which he has no right.

In any other country, we'd call it a coup.

Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”

"More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a New York Times analysis has found, as federal agencies rush to heed President Trump’s orders targeting diversity initiatives and 'gender ideology.'"

This is why Congressional Democrats should be breaking down the doors of whatever facility manages payments and seizing control of the federal treasury because people are going to die as a result of the budget they passed and the money they allocated not being distributed according to the law.

White House reporters need training in asking questions. Not “is Elon Musk doing a good job?” Ask “how and why does Musk have the power to control Treasury?” Damn! FFS!

Guess what? We’re still here. 😂

People are asking what they can do:

1) Keep calling your electeds!
2) If you’re local to DC, come protest at OPM & the Old Executive Bldg, where word has it Musk works out of. (haven’t confirmed that)

Just stay on public sidewalks and be kind to federal employees.

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

Gunn High grad part of Musk's effort to control federal spending A Palo Alto resident and Gunn High School graduate was identified by the magazine WIRED on Sunday as one of the engineers who is working with billionaire Elon Musk to gain access to federal government...

I don't have an address, but maybe a better place to look for one. www.paloaltoonline.com/palo-alto-sc...

Stop trying to debate things that aren’t up for discussion. The right of trans people to exist, racial equality, and disability rights are non-negotiable. Debating them only legitimizes bigotry

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options.

Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.

So are Vancouver bartenders whipping up a maple syrup and tequila cocktail?

may every trans child grow into a trans adult

Taps mic: hello ALL Cis people, gay or straight:

If you see any other institution, business, organization, or individual use the term LGB, *call it out.* Ask for it to be changed back. This erasure can’t be normalized. We need your action and will work alongside you, but we need your numbers. 🫶

Who runs Bartertown?

Except with all the gerrymandering and voter suppression and dark money, was it really a free and fair election? Free, mostly, but fair?

Life goals.

🚨🚨🚨Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced that the province will remove all American alcohol products from Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) shelves, affecting nearly $1 billion worth of U.S. wine, beer, spirits, and seltzers and eliminate American products from its catalog.

Photo of a plant on the sidewalk: small white narcissus flowers with a tiny yellow center.

Narcissus flowers seem an appropriate welcome to the second Trump administration.