David Monroe

My son and his fiancée are running away and eloping (is it eloping if we all know about it?) in three days! I'm so crazy excited and happy for them.

LGBTQReads Bookshop Queering up your shelf, one rec at a time!

Reminder that it is always a good time to support both queer books and indie bookstores, and you can do both at the same time while finding exactly the queer book you're looking for in the highly organized LGBTQReads Bookshop! bookshop.org/shop/LGBTQRe...

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

Perfectly normal stuff

Resistance is

going to the park
reading at the library
viewing handmade art
laughing with your friends
drinking water
eating healing meals
writing poetry
living

#poetry

Went to a Goodwill in southern Indiana yesterday and found these amazing and helpful cookbooks. #hoosiersky #booksky

Galaxy 2: As The World Falls Down by Jadzia Axelrod: 9781799503446 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books The highly anticipated sequel to the YA trans coming-out graphic novel Galaxy: The Prettiest Star brings more romance, more action, and more queer joy as Taylor faces her biggest fear: the Vane. Tayl...

Heyyyy! Wanna do something awesome for trans creators today?

Galaxy 2: As the World Falls Down is available for preorder. It's the sequel to Galaxy the Prettiest Star by @planetx.bsky.social and @ryehickman.bsky.social and it's gonna be BEAUTIFUL.

LINK:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/799756...

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson This Week in Politics | Explainer

The video begins with her talking a little about the Posse Comitatus Act.

Heather Cox Richardson said in yesterday's "This Week in Politics: Explainer" YouTube that the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 is "one of my favorite Acts in American history".

It's one of mine, too.

Me to myself: "We're not going to meme and hot-take our way out of this."

Also, me: liking a particularly pithy meme

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

Sitting in my EV, having a virtual therapy session. Weird times.

Harrowing.

Sometimes apparently it is just a stupid Instagram ad that gets you

“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”

– @lainitaylor.bsky.social

No War on Chicago; No War Anywhere! “The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to ga...

No War on Chicago
No War Anywhere

Free healthcare to all residents of the US regardless of immigration status would rule, actually. Universal benefits for universal problems (having a body that can get sick or hurt)

Chicago neighbors are forming watches near schools to protect students and guardians from ICE. blockclubchi.co/42v94TN

MAGA says that the Super Bowl halftime performance should be by someone who's both Christian and American. Good news for them, because Bad Bunny is a fourth-generation American and Catholic.

I left on my own for southern Indiana early this morning, with my bike in tow. Working on what a friend has called 'less screen time, more green time'. Taking a break for lunch before I put more miles in on this gorgeous fall day. #hoosiersky #cyclingsky

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Actually @governor.ca.gov has until Friday to sign the bills.

Call his office and demand he sign them.

(916) 445-2841

The hold times were long— they offer a VM option if you can't stay on. Let him know the political price he'll pay if he fails to stand up for a community under attack.

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

Pizza. Pancetta, parmigiano reggiano, mozzarella, and bell pepper.

Midwesterners too!

Smug Maine Coon cat, at peace with its life choices of doing crimes and anarchy.

Me to the cat just now:
Good boy. That's right, we sit in chairs, we don't potty on them. Do we?

(said cat pissed on said chair two days ago)

Look at what they have to face