Alex

You heard ‘em - time to use the Senate phone lines as therapy

Black banner that says in white letters: "Jews say no to ethnic cleansing"

This should be the easiest statement to make right now. For EVERY Jewish organization and community:

Like even without physical force, I’m 99% sure I could at least make them cry with words alone.

Breaking news: State attorneys general from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Vermont, and Wisconsin advise Trump's EO banning trans care is unlawful, hospitals should provide care.

Big counter salvo!

Read Black Writers Read Black writers all the time. Always. For the month of Feb we're recommending a book a day to highlight great voices, so compiling here. 

The MF can try to cancel Black History Month

but it's still Black History Month.

(You should always be reading Black writers. All the time. But here's a list if you wanna get in the mood.)

Doing the math:

Current US Population is ~335 million.

335,000,000 x 0.035 = 11,725,000.

So our critical mass is 12 million folks taking action.

That's Illinois. Two Wisconsins. Four Kansases.

We can do this.

Ok here is the thing with action/praxis/protest/showing up:

Sometimes you contribute by being a megaphone. Sometimes by being a wallet. Sometimes by being a physical body. Sometimes by being fuel or being relief.

If you can’t be one thing at any given moment you can almost certainly be another.

how your email finds me

Sydney Kamlager-Dove: "It's total corruption... to try to take control of our govt, to have access to our social security numbers, our medical benefits, all of the information we use when we're trying to get a motherfuckin' tax return. And you're gonna take our money? Homie don't play that."

The world feels like it’s ending and I still have to figure out dinner and work and do laundry and they’re staging a coup and I’m paying bills and

legiscan showing US Congress Senate Bill 9 Status Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 36-0) Status: Introduced on January 7 2025 - 25% progression Action: 2025-01-08 - Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 2. Summary A bill to provide that for purposes of determining compliance with title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth. title: Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025

hi, cis folks! meet S.9. it's the senate sports ban for trans athletes—a big step to something making trump’s executive order federal law, which is much harder to undo.

short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️.

if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time.🧵


legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...

What can you do? If you’re a Michigander, contact Speaker Hall and tell him to do his job in sending these bills to the Governor. The Constitution is clear.

517-373-1784
MattHall@house.mi.gov

If he doesn’t, we in the Michigan Senate are prepared to commence legal action.

Have you called or emailed your senators today? I’m committed to being the squeakiest possible wheel for the next four years.

A fluffy orange and white cat perches on a knee wearing dark grey pants. She looks regal and reproaching.

A smol grey cat is curled up sleeping on a turquoise heating pad on the seat of an office chair. A cream colored blanket is draped across the handles, like a fort.

Cat respite from the horrors

How the fuck can you sleep at night, trying to raid an ELEMENTARY SCHOOL you pieces of shit.

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

Amazon removes 'equity for Black people' and 'LGBTQ+ rights' from company policies Amazon has quietly removed protections for Black and LGBTQ+ workers from its company policies.

For The amount of swearing I'm doing daily, I might as well be Roy Kent www.advocate.com/news/amazon-...

I'm just going to keep pointing out these small* moments of collective action until it starts to click with folks that if we stand together we have all of the power.

*this is actually a huge fricken deal, and it only took a couple clicks from a bunch of folks who collectively said No Fucking Nazis.

We could barely talk about gun violence IN OUR INTERNAL FACEBOOK GROUP without people rage quitting back in the day🫠 If you’re conservative, derby is not for you!!!! Fuck off into the sun forever, please and thank you.

democrats: oh my goodness. can he DO that?

democrats: (continue to let him do that)

democrats: he just DID that. give us $100

Throwing sand in the gears of terrible machinery is also resisting.

Please do not send your multivolume Sonic the Hedgehog mpreg fic to this email

Hey everyone! Incredible news!

Trans Scouts selling GS cookies this year on my list have sold over 50,000 boxes of GS cookies!

If you want girl scout cookies, consider buying from a trans girl scout this year! They'll mail them to you!

This is literally my fav thing to do every year :)

& a few more.

Some nonfiction for times like these- YMMV, but if you are also a chronically ill & neurodivergent queer Jew- hi hello let’s be friends and also enjoy.

And more:

The Democratic Party needs to get out of this woman's way.

As a teacher, let me just...
*taps the sign

(True for authors, but let me also say, if you are a person that lives in a community and values education, you, too, can send letters of support for authors, books, teachers, and librarians)

seeing this across so many subreddits, this is AMAZING organizing