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monsterfly.bsky.social
Tonsorial Artist. Musician. Buddhist. On a lifelong quest to be a better human, with a strong emphasis on kindness and compassion. But also, Wile E. Coyote is my Spirit Animal.
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🚀 Rewatching, researching, & recording this was already a blast, but hearing it on the air? More fun than 🧥 a fur bikini in an ice age! Huge thanks @trek365.bsky.social for the clever edit—amazing how much you packed into 365 seconds (6.8 mins). 😆🔵🖖 #RidiculouslyUnderdressed #Trek365

Frank Capra's "other Christmas movie", give it a watch.

You’re the US Marines band at the White House and Mavis Staples 👑 walks into the room so you start playing "I’ll Take You There" and this happens👇

🚨BOYCOTT STARBUCKS🚨 Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store between Dec. 20 -Dec. 24 while the workers are on strike! Here’s how to support: x.com/sbworkersuni...

Fred hates the rain.

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

I got adopted by a stray cat yesterday in a grocery store parking lot.

I am such a believer in this. Down-ballot is the way. It’s also how we build a sustainable future of good leaders and infrastructure to elect and support them, as well as the movements they represent. We don’t just need strong candidates. We need strong organizers, managers, CoS, grassroots, etc.

In 2018 Dems elected the largest class to Congress since Watergate, ~60 seats. A lot of it was, yes, Trump backlash. But the winners also had another thing in common, despite a wide range of differences: most rejected corporate PAC money. It’s a hugely compelling factor to voters & underdiscussed

Now it makes sense.

Happy Thanksgiving week, everyone. We’ve been spending the last few days addressing food insecurity across NYC. Shout out to our supporters, small-dollar contributors, and volunteers who make all this happen and help us support similar efforts across the country. I am really grateful. ♥️ Thank you

The ACLU's Chase Strangio will be the first openly transgender lawyer to argue before the Supreme Court when the justices consider Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Since this book is fairly heavy, I’ve decided to read a chapter a day. Two chapters in and I feel I’ve already learned more than in every American History class I was ever forced to take in grade school.

As long as everyone washes their hands, I’m good.

My wife and I have matching g Mohawks.

Lots of stories about how mass deportations will spike food prices and cause inflation. But as Tom Bonier noted, only one published before Election Day...

This is a proposed law targeting exactly one person: Incoming trans Congresswoman Sarah McBride of Delaware. Nancy Mace is a transphobic, hateful troll who voted with teen rapist Matt Gaetz to depose her own party’s speaker, but the bathrooms. That’s where she’s focused.