Reminder that muting specific words on social media for a day, a week, a month, or even forever can be laudatory self-care.

America now

A really worthwhile thread.

So uh, anybody want to buy a weaving?

I’ll post what I have available with a base price + shipping, all at a DEEP discount since I’d rather make a sale/recoup some of the $300 I just spent at the vet than wait around to get top dollar for them!

Preview here!

OK here is the disgust framework analysis of Gavin.

Gavin is 100% playing into and trying to take advantage of disgust politics.

The two groups he has most blatantly "broken with the left on" are trans people and unhoused people.

His strategy seems to depend on disgust.
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I made a promise to the women of Illinois — as governor, I will ensure your medical decisions will be your own.

Now, we continue fulfilling that promise.

Public colleges will now provide contraception and medication abortion at on-campus pharmacies and student health centers.

Virginia Giuffre’s family denounces “DAG Todd Blanche’s bizarre interview” of Ghislaine Maxwell in a statement. www.allrisenews.com/p/maxwell-tr...

if you are ever tempted to write off the residents of a "red" (i.e., gerrymandered) state and say "set them adrift, let them secede, they deserve what they voted for", you are missing all the thousands of stories like this where the human beings in those states are pushing back every single day

We are beyond proud of Fort Worth State Rep. Nicole Collier for standing up to ridiculous GOP bullying! Full talk: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Need taken care of!

I wasn’t expecting that 😂🥰

Video of Columbia Heights residents driving ICE agents out of their area. source: www.instagram.com/reel/DNjkvLQ...

Y'ALL!!! We have someone who has offered to donate all the labor for this need! So we only need $115 more to pay for the parts!!!

Could you chip in $5 or $10 tonight and share this need as well? I would love for him to be able to buy the parts and get started tomorrow!

Some Texas Democratic women have torn up their permission slips and will now be hosting a “slumber party for Democracy” on the House floor.

$100 taken care of! $900 to go!

NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia files motion to dismiss his criminal charges in Tennessee based on selective and vindictive prosecution

"Mr. Abrego was charged because he refused to acquiesce in the government’s violation of his due process rights."

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

And for clarity, we have not fully met the need for the single mom but have been able to take care of enough that we could pause and try to help with this urgent situation.

🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”

For non-Texans, Sen. Molly Cook's bio: "emergency room nurse and grassroots organizer." She's a white woman.

This is the energy I'm talking about. You cannot allow one person alone to shoulder the burden of opposing the govt or police.

Could you help share my pinned post?

Hands down, the best piece on the swirl of events around Rep. Nicole Collier, the threat to arrest her, and the wellspring of support that has emerged.

From @thebarbedwire.com's @oliviamesser.bsky.social and @iamleslierangel.bsky.social

URGENT need! We have a woman whose brakes need replacing immediately. She is a single social worker doing beautiful and important work but not getting paid a living wage. She lives somewhere without functioning public transit.

We need $1,000 ASAP!

nowsherises.churchcenter.com/giving/to/ri...

Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier is suing over "illegal confinement" after Republicans locked her in the state Capitol for refusing police surveillance

More from a Houston Chron reporter who was in the gallery before it was closed: