Lady Starlight

The worst thing you can do right now is hide or go quiet.

Stand up and talk back.

A screenshot of a Reuters article stating that the US FDA suspended milk quality test workforce cuts.

Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

the sunrise over a mountain outside king city, california. composite of 3 different shots, so slight misalignment due to being handheld. taken about an hour ago

It's a good as hell day to fight back the urge to be controlled by the despair.

It doesn’t matter if you think your impact might be small.

Resist.

Always.

Have you given up?

Or are you still ready to fight?

Indivisible Calls on Schumer to Step Aside

NEWS: After an emergency meeting of Indivisible groups across the country, Indivisible is officially calling on Senate Minority Leader Schumer to step down from his leadership position. indivisible.org/statements/i...

Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.

We have each other. We are the Resistance now. All of us.

“Within each of us there is some piece of humanness that knows we are not being served by the machine which orchestrated crisis after crisis and is grinding all our futures into dust." - Audre Lorde

Being able to read this is better than a CAPTCHA at proving you’re human. 👀

Rep. Al Green is a goddamn hero.

A mostly blank page with the words Strong and Free, from the English version of the Canadian national anthem ) Below the fold of this newspaper sheet , in smaller type, news and editorial references to the trade war

This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record)
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before

I can't stop thinking about how imprisoning a woman for ending a non-viable pregnancy is "protecting the rights of children not-yet-born", but which prolifers are protecting the rights of kids to get vaccines and not die of measles and other VPDs? Bc they're dying.

As a professor of English, allow me to try, humbly and with the proper respect, to offer an appropriate response to the President’s address:

Fuck you, you fucked-up fuck, and fuck all the fuckers who willingly fuck with you, especially. You can all fuck all the way off, and then fuck off some more.

No Democratic member of Congress should sit thru the SotU. For maximum impact, as soon as Tr*mp comes out, all Dems rise and silently walk out together. Make it a spectacle. @aoc.bsky.social

I wish libraries did reading challenges for grown-ups. I would love to read 5 books and then get a bookmark. 5
10 and then get a baseball cap.

Just saying.

customer: your darkest roast please

barista: whoever created man wasted a good asshole when they put teeth in your mouth

Must-Reads and the Work of Unsettling We must resist the impulse to settle in, and that will sometimes mean unsettling others.

My weekly list of must-read articles and some final thoughts for the week.

A man says "there's so much hate in my heart." He picks up a Flying V and says "my only instinct is to write incredibly hostile riffs." Another man comes in and says "I'd like to listen." They both have a wonderful time.

What’s the opposite of a Nobel Peace Prize?

I think we have a winner.

If you're ever bored archive.org is a free internet library with billions of hours of stuff between movie books music etc.

A German word for being embarrassed by the actions of someone else is Fremdscham, or “foreign shame.” A similar word from Icelandic is aulahrollur, which is quite tricky to translate but basically means something along the lines of “cringe quake” or “douchebag chills”

CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

You know where you can go and not worry about breaking the economic blackout today?

Your local library! All those books and you won’t spend a penny!

If you are a liberal in deep blue territory, one thing you could try doing right now is figuring out how to replace your Democratic member of Congress next year. With very few exceptions, the typical safe seat Dem is not meeting the moment. Find someone who will and help them.