Sounding great!

I'll be leading a band and playing original music at Bird and Beckett in Glen Park, in two weeks. Don't miss it.

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

Did you know?

In 1968, 24 Black men in Pittsburgh revolutionized emergency medicine.

The Freedom House Ambulance Service was established to provide emergency medical care to underserved Black neighborhoods—creating the world’s first paramedics.

Hi hi!!

It’s a scary time here for all of us. It feels comforting to know how many global fam are in support of us and the fight we are faced with now.

Thank you for finding me!

It’s so good, and so digestably short. :) “On Tyrrany” by Timothy Snyder. Happy reading!

It's like America's a bus
& an elderly narcissist speed addict
is maniacally driving us off a cliff;

and we're all staring at each other
because 30% of the passengers
enjoy that his driving upsets the rest of us.

I think countries around the world should levy tariffs specifically on Tesla in response to US tariffs, as well as banning Twitter as a national security threat

driving a wedge between our co-dictators may be the most effective thing they can do

The USAID website is offline. www.usaid.gov

If, for various reasons, you find yourself with a tighter budget in the coming months/years (or just want to save/invest as much as possible), remember to take full advantage of your local library — and not just for books.

We need publicly owned systems on the internet. Publicly owned alternatives. I'm not content with my only option to post my work to youtube, where I have to code my words in what is the internet's equivalent to cockney rhyming slang to not upset the machine in charge. It's absurd.

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive):

1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment*

2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything

3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can

4. Citizens march en mass

I just issued an executive order to capture and store more water from the upcoming storms in California.

We’re creating a literal rainy day fund for our hotter, drier future.

Banking regulator rescinds more than 200 job offers for examiners it needs A government-wide hiring freeze is adding to a staffing shortage at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., complicating the agency’s efforts to oversee thousands of banks across the country.

do you enjoy knowing that when you deposit money in a US bank, you won't lose that money? nice, right?

it's because bank deposits are insured by FDIC.

i don't know what FDIC ever did to these people, but apparently it too is now on their blow-it-up list:

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps app after government updates In posts on X on Monday, Google said it will follow the government's lead in changing the names on its Maps app.

Hey Google,

🖕🏼

www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/g...

We need to pay attention to this now before it’s too late.

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Thank you!! I really love that song. Even all these years later. :)

The artist, David Cohen is an Asheville-based artist/musician and resident of over forty years. His cartoon work spans various subjects ranging from local issues based in Asheville to more national political events and even to one-off, word-play-oriented jokes. ❤️ Give credit to artists when you can.

Don't know the original source but so very accurate.

Far-right pundit rails against women in law enforcement: ‘It’s an absurdity!’ ‘If we’re being honest, female cops are absurd. It’s an absurdity. I’m sorry. It’s just ridiculous. It’s cartoonish,’ Matt Walsh ranted on his podcast this week

This entire project is *very expliclty* about fully purging black people and women from huge swaths of public life, employment and education.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

🚨 Today Target said it will end its three-year DEI goals, stop reports to external diversity-focused groups like the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index and end a program focused on carrying more products from Black- or minority-owned businesses.
You guys know what to do?!

Workplace raids have begun—none of these people were rapists or criminals.

Even if you’re not a US citizen, you still have due process in this country. 3 workers in Newark were taken into custody by ICE w/out a warrant. One, a veteran, endured the humiliation of having his military docs questioned.