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Reader. Writer. Gardener. Library worker. Living on Wabanaki land.
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Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

🔥 “There’s something wrong in this country… everything has gone up but wages… how many yachts and houses does one person need? — They want us to stay poor, stay hidden, and die silently.” 🇺🇸 #FightTheOligarchy H/T @violadavis.bsky.social

Imagine you’re the Secretary of Defense and your aides have to remind you not to share sensitive operations details in non-secure ways. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

Mic drop

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.

RIP Kurt Vonnegut. Gone 18 yrs. Dang.

We're hosting a Community Read of Fahrenheit 451 on Monday night... couldn't be more f-ing timely.

Monument Square Hands Off Protest today, Portland, Maine! @stephenking.bsky.social #Maine #HandsOff

Yes. Figure out how to survive rather than bend the knee.

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.

Sending love to everyone in Wisconsin who showed up to stop Musk from buying another election. This was so important and y'all did it. ❤️

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

"If America hasn't broken your heart, you haven't loved her enough." Corey Booker, just now.

"We don’t want your Nazi cars / take a one-way trip to Mars" is a pretty good chant

Holy shit: the weirdo running Social Security added administrative burdens to service delivery in Maine after its Governor disagreed with Trump over trans athletes. The idea that public services should be provided consistently and honestly seems beyond them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

there are like three overlapping scandals with signalgate — illegal distribution of sensitive government materials by top members of the administration, illegal attempt to circumvent records laws and possible unlawful use of military force — and democrats should be screaming about them all

The decisive test of our society in my lifetime was the 2024 election and our failure was spectacular and total. I will never again have any faith in the American electorate to do the obviously right thing.

“Speak up, speak out, get in the way. Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.” – John Lewis

CHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK! Friday, May 2nd at 6:30pm No tickets necessary! Come hang out with us! @chuckwendig.bsky.social

A bunch of billionaires have convinced a large portion of the US that it is their patriotic duty to suffer economic hardship to make the country great. If that’s not evidence of how propaganda works, I don’t know what is.

We just walked out of the state of the Union. My shirt showed Trump an important message: NO KINGS LIVE HERE. In the spirit of student protestors from the Civil Rights Movement, I’m proud to have protested and walked out with many of my colleagues. This is NOT a normal time.

The idea that a political party must do more dramatic things in response to defeat is not new to the social media age. New bio of John Lewis describes his approach to Newt Gingrich et al taking the House in 1994. Lewis applied Civil Rights era lessons and a willingness to burst norms to hurt Newt.

After Trump & Vance’s utterly disgraceful performance it’s good to see European leaders step up. It’s profoundly American to criticize our leaders when they stray from democratic principles let alone what we are seeing in Trump’s administration. As a proud American I intend to fight for our country.

Macron: “But we must not forget one point—if anyone is playing the Third World War, it is Vladimir Putin. He was the one who started the war three years ago, and he brought 10,000 North Korean soldiers to European soil.”

The summit in London has begun. European and NATO leaders have gathered for a group photo.

Pretty much sums it up

The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?

House Republicans just voted to gut Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 Americans overall, including 41% of births and 63% of nursing home care. They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely. This won’t just harm people. This will kill people. They own this.

Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

This is the “waste” Musk and his DOGE scumbags are cutting, housing for almost 100 Maine people is cancelled over night leaving kids and their families on the streets.

i will become a total shill for whichever politician decides to become the joe mccarthy of rooting out silicon valley ideology and influence

Allegory alert!

I feel trapped in my own country with these people. Sincerely. I feel trapped. Surrounded by crazy people.

Please encourage your Democratic Reps to use the power of the purse effectively. This is the ONE place that we have leverage. It should not be squandered.

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

1. EXCLUSIVE Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information. The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work

Everyone should be pointing out what is happening at CFPB. There is zero argument to be made here that this is being done to provide taxpayer value. The agency's budget is minuscule, averaging like $600 million/year, yet it has obtained $20 billion in payments from corporations to Americans

F**k Elon Musk

They’ve called armed federal officers to the scene. We aren’t dangerous. We are here to represent our people. To defend public education. This is an authoritarian regime. You cannot block members of Congress from entering the Department of Education.

This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x