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This is cute! Definitely AI though so don't give them your money 😅

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

There was a flock of robins in the yard this morning, looking floofy and eating from the neighbor's privet hedge. This is the earliest I've noticed them, but apparently they're pretty impervious to the cold and just go where there's food.

This is why you don't comply in advance.

Saying it louder: Utah has banned TWO MORE BOOKS from public schools *in the entire state*.

These are YA books that were available only to high schoolers.

TWO schools in the state are responsible for over 80% of the state-mandated book bans.

So much for "local control."

@massago.bsky.social Thank you for all your hard work! I hope you will address the massive data breach at the Treasury. It seems like Musk and his team must be violating MA data security laws.

If you know enough to know you don't know enough about water management in California, congratulations, you're smarter than the president.

@warren.senate.gov @neal.house.gov @markey.senate.gov Please speak out against this terrible overreach and do everything in your power to stop it.

This executive order hurts children and goes against Massachusetts state laws protecting access to public accommodations for all individuals.

President Trump has no authority to interfere with well-researched established medical protocols, for trans youth or anyone else.

Trans youth face incredible challenges every day; in the face of political attacks on their very existence, gender affirming care is quite literally life-saving.

They made these calls in response to
in response to President Trump's unscientific and politically motivated threat to end federal funding to hospitals providing care to trans youth.

Dear @warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov @neal.house.gov,
This morning, doctors at Boston Children's Hospital began calling patients and their parents to cancel their appointments for gender affirming care.

Please make noise about this. We owe it to the soldiers who fought and defeated Nazism in World War II, and we owe it to our democracy. No Nazis in our government, ever.

Musk must be made to stand down from his role at DOGE, and if he won't stand down the President must fire him. We can not tolerate Nazis in our government, not even one, not even once.

Musk's use of a Nazi salute during his speech on inauguration day was a disgrace and an embarrassment and it must not be allowed to stand.

That's why I'm writing to you today to ask you to loudly and clearly denounce Elon Musk, and tell the President that we won't tolerate Nazis in our government.

Email I just sent my elected officials, a thread: Defeating the Nazis is one of the best things the United States has ever done. Standing against Nazis isn't a liberal thing, it's an AMERICAN thing.

Leonard Peltier is going home, and I got to be the one to tell my Mama, who taught me so much about justice.

Also the spam that looks like women (mostly p*rn links) all disappear almost immediately, but the spam that looks like men (definitely catfishing) are apparently too slick to get caught by filters or something.

Okay, I'm getting a ton of spam follows, which is to be expected -- but why are literally ALL of the women named some version of Alex?! So weird.

Team Hippos 🦛

"At best, no one has fact checked this number in 20 years. At worst, it's made up."

Hippos are such great role models. They eat their fill, know how to relax, are excellent at holding their boundaries, AND they sweat out their own sunscreen. Goals, right?!

56 Small Tasks to Be Proactive Against Book Censorship in 2025 and Beyond: Book Censorship News, January 3, 2025 Choose one task each week of 2025 for a year full of anti-book censorship activism and advocacy.

56 small tasks to be proactive against book censorship in 2025. Choose one per week to help ensure that public goods like schools & libraries remain viable democratic institutions & to protect our most vulnerable populations.

Book censorship is about more than books.

bookriot.com/56-small-tas...

Trying to approach 2025 the way St. Margaret is approaching Beelzebub

I love my @thestorygraph.com year in review! This mood map is pretty funny though. I legit listened to three Lady Hardcastle mysteries in December but apparently it wasn't enough to counteract the plague novel and the slow collapse novel. #booksky

Isn't this lovely? (I myself will probably not be well rested, but I also won't be hungover, so at least there's that!)

Text image reads a toast to the old you: if you feel inspired to use the new year to help you reset or change habits: great. And yet: the old you has survived every terrible day, every hard thing, every awful circumstance, and every heartbreak you've ever felt. The old you is a fighter, and that's worth celebrating.

A classic from Emily McDowell

reading an old children’s book that describes a “wicked old woman,” propped up by pillows, “reading a sprightly story, at which she was laughing. Beside her was a bottle of champagne; she sipped a glass from time to time,” and if that isn’t life goals.