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Old queer nerd, recently retired. Books, games, currently LOTS of politics
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Trump and MAGA claim they own American values, but we're the ones who are really representing American values in this moment: Freedom, standing up for our neighbors, and doing what's right. We hope to see you in the streets on Saturday for #NoKings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

This! These are the protests you go to if you’re just getting started or if you haven’t protested in donkey years or if you’ve got middle-graders or older coming with you. Go during the day, wear sunscreen and a hat, carry water, carry masks, and if things feel hinky, fade. It’s all good.

2,169 events across 20 countries. Millions of peope are standing up tomorrow to say with one voice: No Kings!

Now watch this video knowing all this: "FBI ‘Escorted’ Him To Trump DHS Presser They Claim He Crashed" www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...

A retelling of Beauty & the Beast, complete with a curse, a rose garden... and a magical library. ROSE & THUNDER is $1.99USD in ebook through these retailers until June 24. books2read.com/rosethunder

if you're in Minnesota you have to go get this member of the Adonis extended family. right now!!

From All Saints Episcopal Church in San Francisco 🕯

On 6/12, DHS Sec’y Kristi Noem said “We are staying here to liberate [LA] from the socialists and the burdensome leadership this governor and mayor have placed on this country and this city.” This use of military force to displace a democratically elected is the very definition of a coup.

"While it’s billed as a celebration of the United States Army’s 250th birthday plus Flag Day, the former isn’t true, and the latter is so trivial that federal workers don’t get the day off. Conveniently, June 14 is also Trump’s birthday."

Boston's No Kings parade tomorrow would have clashed with the Pride Parade so the city has decided to lump everything together and call it "NO KINGS, but YAAAAS Queen!" Go Boston!

1. Trans troops are now being separated from their jobs, and we have learned what discharge code they are being given: "JDK," a code that was used to remove communists and gay people, and can be seen as a "black mark" on their service. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

While we're talking about Whiskey Pete Hegseth...He had three days of hearings this week, each day worse than the day before. The full HASC Republicans got bored, so it was almost as if Dems had the majority, bc they sure as FUCK weren't bored flogging Whiskey Pete. There were so many highlights--

@jvl.bsky.social: "Having a mass of popular opposition to Trump visible this weekend is vitally important....If 100,000 people show up for Trump’s parade, but 5,000,000 people turn out across the country for No Kings rallies, who looks strong and who looks weak?" www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-n...

Your daily reminder that Trump has not invoked the Insurrection Act, and therefore any use of military forces to engage in the ordinary business of domestic law enforcement is illegal. I do not think saying so has any magical power but think it’s worth noting so I will continue to do so.

If you were unable to attend the Gaithersburg Book Festival and wanted to see my talk, or if you'd simply like to hear a discussion of sci-fi, worldbuilding, and suspense, the Festival kindly posted the entirety of the discussion here: www.mymcmedia.org/lady-astrona...

“ICE” as snatching people from churches now. Never forget they said this👇🏾 MAN AT CHURCH: “We don’t want this in our property.” ICE: “The whole country is our property.” No IDs shown, non-government out of state plates, basic tactical vests that just say police. Who are these men?

Border Patrol is continuing raids on farm workers in Ventura County, especially Moorpark and Oxnard. Agents are circling like sharks. Farm workers in areas with heightened activity should check in on each other and take steps to stay safe. Report what you see to us.

Yep—also, as James and Miriam point out near the beginning here, if you show up tactically decked-out at an event where the vibe is sun protection and hydration, people may *reasonably* suspect you are a cop, fed, or at least an unpredictable person www.liveliketheworldisdying.com/protest-heal...

You remember that advice from six months ago that the correct response to authoritarianism is broadly "fuck you, make me"? This is where it plays in. Trump cannot possibly win the fight he's picking. Make him try.

Former Rep. Billy Long has been confirmed as the new head of the IRS. While in Congress, Long tried to abolish the agency. He's one of many Republicans who wants the IRS to lose capacity so that the rich can get away with paying fewer taxes. apnews.com/article/bill...

For anyone who missed this hearing yesterday, a video recording IS NOW AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC!!! It was recorded as a part of the “cameras in the courtroom” pilot program. Watch below (and hear for yourself how Judge Breyer sounds just like his brother) ⬇️ 👇 www.uscourts.gov/court-record...

Wrote a dispatch from the US — inspired by how the Western media often covers African, Middle Eastern, and Latin American countries. Read: US Regime Deploys Troops, Arrests Citizens, and Detains Opposition Amid Mass Pro-Democracy Protests

Spotted in Arlington, VA.

Tomorrow is our Romany and Traveller Heritage Day! Join us from 11am to 4pm for a day of free family fun, celebrating the history of the UK's Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. Featuring blacksmithing, arts and crafts, music, talks, poetry, and more! merl.reading.ac.uk/event/romany...

Going to the Seattle protest tomorrow? Stop by the street fair on your way there or back. Beacon Hill has a huge immigrant community, so come support local artists. Vendors here are hyper local, we have to live in South Seattle to participate! It's right outside the Beacon Hill station.

A monarchy is a system stripped of balancing feedback. The king doesn't have to change behavior no matter the pain of the people or the land or the prospects of the future. A nervous system that doesn't respond to the pain of a finger on a hot stove is also a system stripped of balancing feedback.

NEW: 12 masked armed men try to enter a homeless shelter without saying who they are. ICE agents park outside an elementary school, sparking fear and a car accident. Local police respond to a call about a possible assault, only to find ICE. Inside one day on LI: theintercept.com/2025/06/13/i...

This guy is a menace. www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...

The Senate bill aims to effectively end all civil rights lawsuits against the federal government except by entities rich enough to potentially pay million/billions in fees. I am not making this up.

If you’re in NYC and you need to register so that you can vote enthusiastically for folks like @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @bradlander.bsky.social, and rank anyone but Cuomo, go here to get started: e-register.vote.nyc

"Convincing a jury of 12 NJ citizens, most likely the congresswoman’s own constituents, that she assaulted an ICE officer and made him fear for his safety beyond a reasonable doubt, is another matter. McIver will also have a powerful defense in the Speech or Debate Clause." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Happy FOIAFriday the 13th! NEW issue of my newsletter is out. In March, I filed a #FOIA request with the US Institute of Peace just as DOGE was taking over the agency. This week USIP sent me the most incredible response to a #FOIA request I have ever received. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

I just got an email from Indivisible encouraging me to attend No Kings. It listed 3 events near me. Barcelona Malmo Oslo I live in NJ.

"An analysis by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill requested by top ranking Senate Democrats found that 338 rural hospitals could be at risk of closure based on percentage of patients who are enrolled in Medicaid and past financial health." www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

"Claims that this is a disorderly movement attempting to sow chaos are false. In April and May, protesters associated with the anti-Trump movement—including those explicitly protesting ICE and Trump’s immigration policies—were extraordinarily nonviolent in their tactics."

Guess who was right in the thick of the assault on @padilla.senate.gov? Corey Lewandowski. (He may have been the guy instructing that there's no recording at a press conference and seems to have realized how badly they fucked up.)

Trump uses the royal we to deny that he is acting like a king.

If you are trying to interest folks in signing the Bethesda Declaration, you can share this link jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... and they can listen to broadcasts and read >10 news stories There is a link at the top to the Bethesda Declaration and the support letter.

Senator Padilla was driven violently to his knees–as if made to kneel before the authority of the executive–because the administration called his questions “disrespectful”. This should offend not just the other 99 Senators. It should offend the conscience of this country.

“A president whose disastrous first term ended with a violent attempted coup to block the peaceful transfer of power is now moving quickly in his second term to consolidate power, to accomplish the form of autocracy he sought on Jan. 6, 2021.” This is NOT a distraction!

Seeing several people/local groups in Silver Lake and Echo Park report ICE is either on site or set to do raids on Friday, 6/13, agents dressed as construction workers.

“The Nazis demanded that Germans accept the premises of the Nazi worldview and live their lives accordingly. They tolerated no criticism, dissent, or nonconformity. Hitler's political opponents were the first victims of systematic Nazi persecution.” encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...