Your ability to eat should not depend on your productivity

Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity

Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity

Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.

It aids fascism.

How would you describe that worldview? My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: “Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.” It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it. In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people.

stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES - WHO’S A CHILD RAPIST - IS GOING TO STEAL $230 MILLION FROM US B/C HE THINKS HE’S DUE REPARATIONS FOR HAVING BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF CRIMES HE COMMITTED.

THIS IS WHILE HE SMASHES THE WHITE HOUSE & WEAPONIZES OUR MILITARY AGAINST US.
Call. Your. Reps.
202-224-3121
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As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive

And do it often.

No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down” is a thing I’ve said so many times this year it no longer feels like a literary reference

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A president who is crashing the economy, destroying public health and terrorizing immigrants keeps slipping in the polls. He could:
A) stop his bad behavior to stem the slide
or
B) try to crush free speech to cover up his failures.
Right now, he’s choosing B.

This FCC does not have the authority, the ability, or the constitutional right to police content or punish broadcasters for speech the government dislikes.

Free speech is the foundation of our democracy, and we must push back against any attempt to erode it.

They can’t win fairly with policy or eloquence or fairness or intelligence so they’ll just silence everyone who disagrees with them. It’s fascism but in its most cowardly and pathetic form.

YouTube video by More Perfect Union I Took Bernie Into Deep Trump Country. Can He Win Them Over?

This is the way.

Charlie Kirk was a horrible bigot who spewed dangerous conspiracy theories and misled many young people. He marched for Trump’s authoritarian agenda. None of this justifies violence or murder. Political violence only escalates and makes us less safe.

Sadly, we dont have a leader but an arsonist.

Federal agents detained two firefighters in Washington state...

...while the firefighters were in the middle of fighting one of the largest wildfires in the country.

Under Trump’s regime, cruelty takes precedence over everything else.

Every Republican senator voted to confirm RFK Jr. as health secretary except for Mitch McConnell, who is retiring and thus was under no re-election pressure.
The entire Republican Party has embraced anti-vax policies. It is pro-polio, pro-measles, pro-Covid. It's a death cult.

Two angels standing at golden gates. Thought/speech bubbles of “thoughts” “prayers” float nearby. One angel says “They keep sending us their thoughts and prayers” second angel says “and their kids.” Shadows of children are walking past him.

And the nightmare repeats.

One more for the file marked "stories that would have wall-to-wall coverage if the president was a Democrat"

If you’re trying to make it harder for people to vote, stop pretending to give a shit about democracy.

Every American - regardless of their political views - deserves to have their voice heard.

The universe knew I needed an orange cat. ❤️

Orange and white kitten sleeping peacefully on someone’s arm.

This is Gromit. Because cheese.
I was sideswiped. The kitten was in my hands before I knew what was happening.
Clearly I’m really angry about it. How very dare. The nerve.
But…
That face…
Welcome Gromit. A small nugget of sunshine for my heart.

the colonizer makes history but only by erasing yours.

A message for the most “transparent Administration” in history:

Release the Epstein files.

I moved to DC in 1986, when there were still visible sign of the 1968 riots, and I live a few miles outside of town now. I can honestly say I have never been more frightened than I am now. The crimes committed at the WH take away more than property. They threaten democracy.

Controversial opinion: When it comes to US presidents, "blatantly breaking laws and violently violating people's rights" is a bigger deal than "is old," meriting greater public concern and a higher percentage of attention.

Important.

Oh not everyone knows: information about anti-ICE and anti-Trump protests is being so algorithmically suppressed that everyone has begun calling them “music festivals” to get around the suppression. Right now “music festival” is what to search for current protest updates. That’s why I use it here

Same.

I’m leaning into the designation. I mean, I have mental illness and I have 9 cats. Where’s the lie?

My reporting has come to the attention of Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney. Here’s the response I provided to the @thedailybeast.bsky.social