You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

SHIVERS - COME MORNING, I CARRY INDUSTRIAL DUST AND LET IT SETTLE ON TREE LEAVES. I SHAKE THE DUST FROM THOSE LEAVES AND ONTO YOUR COAT.

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

the fascism is for sure happening now. all the far flung harms you anxiously laughed off before are on the table. take time to think earnestly and calmly what you need to do to stay safe and survive. the time for brushing it off as alarmism or prematurity is over.

This has always been us.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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PSA for folks visiting any National Public lands (parks, forests etc) during the shutdown: PLEASE take everything you brought in with you, including trash! Don't leave it in the bins if you can avoid it - those are emptied by National Parks/Forest workers. If they're furloughed that job isn't done.

It’s odd because when I was growing up in South Jersey my grandmother said “bless their heart” all the time and she meant it in an endearing way. I didn’t learn until I was older that in the South it’s used in a condescending way. Or does it depend on tone?

It is objectively bad when people can’t read and we should do everything we can to empower people to read. How is that controversial?

a general strike may be one of the only ways that this works in this country to slow down the fascist consolidation going on. I know a lot of people think that they’re impossible to pull off in a country as geographically large as America but with planning, it could be and should be considered.

It's an issue that has a negative impact on all of society. Folks who can't read more than brief snippets are also unprepared to understand and analyze complex arguments and issues in our society and are much more easily conned and manipulated.

If a tiny fraction of the resources deployed towards AI was invested instead in actual artists we'd be enjoying a renaissance rather than drowning in a sea of garbage

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Serious question: has the Fed govt ever arrested so many elected officials in such a short period of time, across multiple cities, and not for legit corruption reasons?

This seems like a distinct degree of anti-democratic escalation.

It’s the little things that get us through troubled times

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Under the most conservative estimates, according to NPR, Israel has killed a Palestinian every fifteen minutes this year.

EVERY. FIFTEEN. MINUTES.

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

We will regret not acting faster on climate change.

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Do you ever think about how this guy has allegedly kicked NSF out of their building so he can live in it

These posts from @andr3wsky.bsky.social on threads (I checked to see if he also posted here but he didn't) were actually hard to read, because Black folks have said this *so* often and been argued *down* about it, reading someone say it as a 💡 feels damn near insulting. But maybe ppl will listen