Sara Thompto

Happy 14th wedding anniversary @cthompto.bsky.social

We’re on very little sleep, still have packing to do and our movers arrive tomorrow…

But then we’ll be in our new home together making it all our own. I can’t wait for year 15 with you. ❤️🏡

Homeowners ✅

✅ @rooseveltu.bsky.social 💚💚💚

Next up ➡️
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social
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Sitting outside with my dog on this lovely day reading Hannah Ricke’s debut book “The Ground Felt Far Away.” It’s a memoir of sorts and it’s glorious. Only 20 pages in but I’m in love already. Raw, relatable, unrelenting. ❤️

Way to go Wisconsin! ✊🇺🇸💚

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

Black and white fog texture using very small ASCII characters

It’s transgender day of visibility but visibility as a means to security and safety is a lie. Solidarity must be built from a foundation that surpasses the visual/understandable.

#tdov #tdov2025 #transartist

Do you know why Americans are angry?

Over the last 50 years, real weekly wages have been stagnant. 

At the same time, there was a $79 trillion transfer of wealth from the bottom 90% to the to the top 1%.

We need an economy that works for all, not just billionaires.

A reminder for these times.

Change what you can. ❤️

To America’s 2.3 million federal employees:

Don’t accept a buyout.

Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer.

And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it?

Sincerely,
Robert Reich
Former U.S.Secretary of Labor

A new zine series I’m working on.

#transrights #trans #zine #standupforwhatyoubelievein #speakout #fightfascism #fighttransphobia

I went to my Congressman's local office today. First off, they were surprised that I was there. They said they had been getting phone calls, but I was the first walk-in. That said, the phones were not ringing off the hook. If the DC phone lines are busy, try calling the local office.

Already up in my office. 😌

The constitution quite clearly gives Congress the power of the purse, a power the Executive branch is pretending it now has.

Or did you not pay attention at all in school?

Fine dude, you won. You got us all scared. We’re all fearing our lives, jobs, and future. Good work. Is that what you want to hear?

In the meantime, where are the presidents of universities, senators and representatives, and other “leaders”?

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

Thanks Michelle ❤️🙏

Here are the links mentioned in this post:

www.tracktranslegislation.com/script-gener...

www.congress.gov/members

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Anyone else wondering how it’s legal to stop funding by executive order on things that were already approved by congress?

Oh right, it’s not.

www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/f...

The Trump Administration’s action to suspend all federal grants & loans will have a devastating impact on the health and well-being of millions of children, seniors on fixed incomes, and the most vulnerable people in our country.

It is a dangerous move towards authoritarianism.

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

“Last night, Sara and I were laughing about something stupid so hard we could barely catch our breath and it got me thinking about joy as resistance. What if I refuse to consider my body a battleground and instead consider it a playground? A site of joy rather than something to be policed.” - CT

For this I used an iPhone 15 Pro Max and a Canon EOS Rebel SL3 and then also ended up grabbing a few from my 1970’s Canon AE-1 film camera so we could get just the right photo. I was holding the camera in one hand and lighting in the other to get the right shadows.

I spent the day creating art with my wife. ❤️

I love that I can wake up to her saying, “I have an idea. Can you help me make it happen?” And then an hour later we’re setting up lighting, analyzing makeup and shadows from Barbara Krugers original 1980’s Battleground piece and off we go.

I could accept everyone becoming dumber if we were also becoming nicer (golden retriever-fication) instead of getting more evil