Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can. -Arthur Ashe

Holding these words in our hearts and wishing you a good night.

Hey @alt-hhs.bsky.social, @altfda.bsky.social, @altnih4science.bsky.social, any of you attending the welcoming worminar - oops, excuse us, ceremony - for the new director this morning? Make sure to grab a selfie for us!

MapQuest looking super hot lately.

Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were ordered to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “L.G.B.T.” or “pregnant people.”

Every time I remember Stephen Miller designed this rush of orders to burn me out specifically I get a new burst of energy from the spite alone. The very thought of my exhaustion giving him an ounce of joy makes me want to burst through walls

Just finished Noor by @nnedi.bsky.social. It’s the best kind of science fiction - envisions a truly potential future that kinda looks like our present and offers human heroes who master technology without sacrificing their humanity. A tale of triumph and reckoning. So good! #booksky #afticanfuturism

UPDATE: President Trump fired two Democratic EEOC commissioners and an NLRB board member, hobbling two independent agencies that are tasked with enforcing worker protections.

Trump is offering all federal workers a buyout with seven months’ pay to shrink the government—but that’s not the whole story. Reports reveal some employees are being pressured to resign or face termination under the guise of organizational restructuring. In short: take the buyout or be fired.

Text of the OMB memo re: federal grants freeze (source = Reddit)

I'm just going to (re)post this whenever I need to remind myself. Maybe it'll help you too?

1. Focus on things in your control & take ONE action there.

2. Limit your inputs. You can't help if you're paralyzed.

Brooke Rollins and Lee Zeldin are likely to lead the USDA and EPA respectively. Here’s what their confirmation hearings revealed.

Take a break from your regularly scheduled doomscrolling and marvel at this clip. A jawdropping feat of editing by Questlove - incredible!

Well, it’s Monday, and the Inspectors General are resisting Trump’s illegal attempt to fire them with a letter saying, “Heck no, we won’t go!”

One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them.

Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.

Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙

Uh I guess this is where I should mention my most recent novel, OUR MISSING HEARTS, is about trying to go on in an America where books have been banned and other civil liberties are curtailed... 🙃

I read to imagine our future and recognize strategies for survival. I’ve been fortified by speculative fiction/fantasy stories featuring libraries and librarians. Two of my favorites: Our Missing Hearts by @pronounced-ing.bsky.social & Upright Women Wanted by @sarahgailey.bsky.social
#booksky

Pre-freeze garden harvest. Missing those zinnias! But the broccoli plants and winter greens made it through just fine. #atxgarden #frontyardgarden #vegetablegardening

#bookstack #libraryhaul I love my library