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Thank you Emily! Was really nice to be there and talk with you all.

Beloved, visionary Fanny Howe, a beacon of ferocity, honesty & integrity—a fighter in all senses of the term—has moved on. Read her. The powerful voice does not depart. It only grows louder….

1940-2025

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Opinion | Something Extraordinary Is Happening All Over the World

An absolutely monumental piece from @polgreen.bsky.social this morning. Appreciate the research, array of sources, and nuanced thinking on the complicated issue of migration.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...

Great chatting! I hope the number one takeaway is this: this bullshit bill is not yet law, and public pressure in the next 24 hours could kill or at least delay it. If you’ve never called your rep before, make a plan to call tomorrow - especially if you have a GOP rep!

We are facing a serious threat to democracy, law, and liberty. The abuse of prosecutorial power to intimidate, investigate, and detain political opponents is upon us. It is a constitutional crisis. I will keep speaking out until public outrage overflows. I just hope it’s not too little, too late.

Opinion | Beware: We Are Entering a New Phase of the Trump Era

Great piece by Gessen. Names something complicated about the numbing quality of what it’s like to be in all this right now and ultimately reminds us to keep resisting. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...

Every Memorial Day is painful. I have friends who should be alive right now, not buried in their early 20s with their whole lives in front of them. But this year, it's especially hard to reconcile their extraordinary sacrifice to our country with the unchecked incompetence and corruption of Trump.

If you are in a district where the House Rep voted NO [either Dems of GOP], take a minute today to thank them and to ask them to go out on the road while on recess to SPECIFICALLY share that this bill is going to kill people.

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

Happy pub day to my amazing sister Karen! She wrote a story once for high school English about a society where a face mask machine got stuck and everyone had to wear the same one, the B17. I still remember the mask name! She has always been so original & attuned & inspiring. Big congratulations!!❤️

A major part of the ongoing catastrophe of Trump in office is that some political reporters and pundits continue to treat all of this like it's a game. For them, this is fun. They enjoy covering the drama. Their priority is playing into that drama instead of appropriately informing the public.

"Try imagining that there is no end. There is just action and counter action. There is just protecting life and love and/or destroying life and love. That’s it..."+

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This is so wonderful to hear!! Thank you for telling me. 💕🎈

LIVE: Cory Booker goes for floor speech RECORD YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

Cory Booker is doing something incredible on the Senate floor. If you're not watching, you need to watch: www.youtube.com/live/Ej6locU...

Go, Cory, go! Nearly 18 hours in and @booker.senate.gov is holding the Senate Floor to highlight the harms this Administration and Elon Musk are having on the American people.

You are an American Hero, Senator! And we are right here with you! 💪

The Deaths—and Lives—of Two Sons The truth is that however I choose to express myself will not live up to the weight of these facts: Vincent died, and then James died.

Yiyun Li’s new book — from which this essay is excerpted — is one of the most beautifully controlled expressions of grief and anger and abyss I’ve ever read.

You as a single individual DO NOT have to "keep up" with ALL of the information of every single thing happening across the entire world daily. You don't because it's impossible. Focus on a couple of things and act on those things. Don't feel ashamed that you are doing that.

GREAT news everyone!

The Onion is hiring! For a bunch of new positions.

Sports Editor (yes, we're bringing it back): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...

Entertainment Editor (going harder here too): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...

And a Staff Writer (!): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...

Apply or die!

Find Your Voting Locations | WISDEMS Voter Protection Team This searchable map shows you early voting and dropbox info for hundreds of villages, towns, and cities across Wisconsin. Enter the address you're registered at and your options will pop up!

There’s no official site that lists every Early Vote location in Wisconsin. So, every election, the WisDems voter protection team calls clerks all over the state and compiles our own.

In-person early voting is open NOW, and you can register at the polls. Find your location here: wisdems.org/vote

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.

☎️: (202) 224-3121

Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.

The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.

Call retiring Senators too!

*Jon Ossoff* just announced he's voting no. You think that happened out of nowhere? CALL YOUR SENATORS. 👇

Bernie Sanders: "If you do nothing, you sit back and say, 'it's gonna be terrible.' And that's right. A shutdown will be terrible. But our job is to put the onus on the Republican president, the Republican House, the Republican Senate, the people who control the govt"

Noon today at the federal building on Wilshire in LA.

If you can, please show up at one of these rallies today! You don't have to be a scientist. But if you believe vaccines, cancer research, climate change, etc. matter--please go! 👇

Roxane Gay Books & The Audacity Submission Manager THE AUDACITY, my newsletter, features an emerging writer twice a month. I define emerging writer as someone with fewer than three article/essay/short story publications and no published books or book ...

I am accepting submissions for my emerging writer series at gay.submittable.com. You should have three publications or fewer and no book contract. Yes, this is a paid opportunity. Guidelines at the link. Plz follow the guidelines.

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

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We took up almost a block! Tesla takedown happening in Boston every weekend. Dancing and chanting. Great band. Highly recommend- we need to make Tesla a totally toxic brand #teslatakedown