3 Possums in a Coat

Our neighborhood mechanic's house got hit by a tornado last year, & he was fighting with the internet company, who wanted him to restart the modem, when the whole dang pole was just.... gone.

Daniel (15) is on the school bowling team but he's the only one who doesn't have his own ball. He often has to rent one which embarrasses him. Daniel is one of the few Latino bowlers in the district and believes he bowls for a purpose greater than himself. Can Alice pay for a new ball?"

YES!

As a science teacher, it is a secret joy of mine to have kids draw thermometers. Bc I have the maturity of, well, them, sometimes.

Every American needs to watch this:

Abolish ICE.

There’s no reforming it.

There’s no compromise.

There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

This can’t be repeated enough. Not only won’t they investigate, they may never even tell us who did this.

Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.

"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."-Elie Wiesel

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.

Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.

Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.

ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status.

Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

Incredibly emotional to hear my poem has been turned into a song of resistance and is being sung in Minneapolis right now. Please do not give up.

over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)

As someone who consistently grows lettuce from seed, I didn't know the daisy thing, but good heavens, the conditions are always right for lettuce to decide they don't want to be lettuce anymore, & just wanna be pretty, bitter flowers instead.

People are skeptical about the decline in numbers of people who read books in the U.S. but you only need to talk with high schoolers to see that it's not overblown. It's part of the reason that the revival of zines is important IMO because they make reading and writing less daunting.

If you substitute 'child' for the various drug references in Maduro's indictment, it could also be used for him.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

Giving real "Sponsored by Karl's Junior" vibes.

A possum screams "Make the world better with art!" in a little beret with bags under his eyes, holding a paint pallet. The title says Bad art for good an art & community event. The possum is painting an easel that says "Leave your leaves to help species", with a scrawled possum giving "ta da!" hands popping out of a pile of leaves.

TONIGHT in Philly, we're getting together to make art centered around activism (environmental or whatever's important to you)

This event is FREE!
I'll have everything you need!
I'll even give ya free beer & cheese (thanks to cheese sponsor Perrystead Dairy)!

You just need to RSVP
luma.com/w8v2xk5i

I get a lot of good ideas in the shower and today I thought about an app called “Primary Everyone,” in which you could put in your voting district to see who sucks ass the worst and when you can fire them

A black & tan terrier mix dog sunning on a wooden porch. Picture taken through the screen door.

Also Dog. But different. But same.

My mother was diagnosed terminal in August. She says the best part is she won't have to live to see the rest of his presidency.

Now comes the even harder work. But for tonight, let's celebrate.

4 grounding questions [if useful at this moment]:

1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]?
2. Who's already doing work around this injustice?
3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them?
4. How can I be constructive?

Shiny.

I love it! I've been reading it in my free time on Libby for months, but then running out of library loan time, so I finally bought it for myself for my birthday. Needed to be able to hold it in my own hands.

“I love America more than any other country in the world, and exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”

~James Baldwin

I bought it last weekend! It arrived yesterday! And then I left it at home for the day!😭

For me, it's the bit from Tiny Toons with Plucky Duck. "I push the button! Ellelator go down the hooooole." I am very likely aging myself with this reference.

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

Gulping, bc something has gone very, very wrong for one or both of us.

Gaza is starving. This isn’t the result of a natural disaster, this is man-made, this is forced starvation. Aid is being restricted and used as bait for massacre. We are witnessing genocide. We are witnessing a Holocaust.