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I'm a farmer, parent, and collector of oddities and hobbies. Always trying to stay wonder-full.
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Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
February 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
There was a flock of robins in the yard this morning, looking floofy and eating from the neighbor's privet hedge. This is the earliest I've noticed them, but apparently they're pretty impervious to the cold and just go where there's food.
February 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
There was a flock of robins in the yard this morning, looking floofy and eating from the neighbor's privet hedge. This is the earliest I've noticed them, but apparently they're pretty impervious to the cold and just go where there's food.
This is why you don't comply in advance.
NEW: The Trump administration is now bragging about hospitals that are preemptively pausing, reviewing, or stopping gender-affirming medical care for those under 19 following Trump's anti-trans executive order relating to health care, asserting, "Promises made, promises kept."
February 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This is why you don't comply in advance.
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Saying it louder: Utah has banned TWO MORE BOOKS from public schools *in the entire state*.
These are YA books that were available only to high schoolers.
TWO schools in the state are responsible for over 80% of the state-mandated book bans.
So much for "local control."
These are YA books that were available only to high schoolers.
TWO schools in the state are responsible for over 80% of the state-mandated book bans.
So much for "local control."
Utah has banned DAMSEL and LIKE A LOVE STORY, making them the 15th and 16th books to banned in every single public school library in the state.
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Utah Has Banned Two More YA Books From All Public Schools
Two more books have been banned in every public school in Utah. That brings the total to 16 state-sanctioned book bans–and students cannot bring personal copies to school, either.
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February 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Saying it louder: Utah has banned TWO MORE BOOKS from public schools *in the entire state*.
These are YA books that were available only to high schoolers.
TWO schools in the state are responsible for over 80% of the state-mandated book bans.
So much for "local control."
These are YA books that were available only to high schoolers.
TWO schools in the state are responsible for over 80% of the state-mandated book bans.
So much for "local control."
@massago.bsky.social Thank you for all your hard work! I hope you will address the massive data breach at the Treasury. It seems like Musk and his team must be violating MA data security laws.
February 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
@massago.bsky.social Thank you for all your hard work! I hope you will address the massive data breach at the Treasury. It seems like Musk and his team must be violating MA data security laws.
If you know enough to know you don't know enough about water management in California, congratulations, you're smarter than the president.
February 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
If you know enough to know you don't know enough about water management in California, congratulations, you're smarter than the president.
Dear @warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov @neal.house.gov,
This morning, doctors at Boston Children's Hospital began calling patients and their parents to cancel their appointments for gender affirming care.
This morning, doctors at Boston Children's Hospital began calling patients and their parents to cancel their appointments for gender affirming care.
January 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Dear @warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov @neal.house.gov,
This morning, doctors at Boston Children's Hospital began calling patients and their parents to cancel their appointments for gender affirming care.
This morning, doctors at Boston Children's Hospital began calling patients and their parents to cancel their appointments for gender affirming care.
Email I just sent my elected officials, a thread: Defeating the Nazis is one of the best things the United States has ever done. Standing against Nazis isn't a liberal thing, it's an AMERICAN thing.
January 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Email I just sent my elected officials, a thread: Defeating the Nazis is one of the best things the United States has ever done. Standing against Nazis isn't a liberal thing, it's an AMERICAN thing.
Leonard Peltier is going home, and I got to be the one to tell my Mama, who taught me so much about justice.
January 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Leonard Peltier is going home, and I got to be the one to tell my Mama, who taught me so much about justice.
Okay, I'm getting a ton of spam follows, which is to be expected -- but why are literally ALL of the women named some version of Alex?! So weird.
January 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Okay, I'm getting a ton of spam follows, which is to be expected -- but why are literally ALL of the women named some version of Alex?! So weird.
"At best, no one has fact checked this number in 20 years. At worst, it's made up."
So in all the discourse over how men don't read, I've noticed something weird.
All the articles about this issue say that there are multiple studies showing women account for 80% of fiction sales. But none of them link to the studies — just to each other. www.vox.com/culture/3929...
All the articles about this issue say that there are multiple studies showing women account for 80% of fiction sales. But none of them link to the studies — just to each other. www.vox.com/culture/3929...
Are men’s reading habits truly a national crisis?
The questionable statistic at the heart of the “men don’t read fiction” discourse.
www.vox.com
January 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
"At best, no one has fact checked this number in 20 years. At worst, it's made up."
Hippos are such great role models. They eat their fill, know how to relax, are excellent at holding their boundaries, AND they sweat out their own sunscreen. Goals, right?!
January 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Hippos are such great role models. They eat their fill, know how to relax, are excellent at holding their boundaries, AND they sweat out their own sunscreen. Goals, right?!
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56 small tasks to be proactive against book censorship in 2025. Choose one per week to help ensure that public goods like schools & libraries remain viable democratic institutions & to protect our most vulnerable populations.
Book censorship is about more than books.
bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
Book censorship is about more than books.
bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
56 Small Tasks to Be Proactive Against Book Censorship in 2025 and Beyond: Book Censorship News, January 3, 2025
Choose one task each week of 2025 for a year full of anti-book censorship activism and advocacy.
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January 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
56 small tasks to be proactive against book censorship in 2025. Choose one per week to help ensure that public goods like schools & libraries remain viable democratic institutions & to protect our most vulnerable populations.
Book censorship is about more than books.
bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
Book censorship is about more than books.
bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
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Trying to approach 2025 the way St. Margaret is approaching Beelzebub
January 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Trying to approach 2025 the way St. Margaret is approaching Beelzebub
I love my @thestorygraph.com year in review! This mood map is pretty funny though. I legit listened to three Lady Hardcastle mysteries in December but apparently it wasn't enough to counteract the plague novel and the slow collapse novel. #booksky
January 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I love my @thestorygraph.com year in review! This mood map is pretty funny though. I legit listened to three Lady Hardcastle mysteries in December but apparently it wasn't enough to counteract the plague novel and the slow collapse novel. #booksky
Isn't this lovely? (I myself will probably not be well rested, but I also won't be hungover, so at least there's that!)
December 31, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Isn't this lovely? (I myself will probably not be well rested, but I also won't be hungover, so at least there's that!)
A classic from Emily McDowell
December 31, 2024 at 3:45 PM
A classic from Emily McDowell
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reading an old children’s book that describes a “wicked old woman,” propped up by pillows, “reading a sprightly story, at which she was laughing. Beside her was a bottle of champagne; she sipped a glass from time to time,” and if that isn’t life goals.
December 20, 2024 at 2:34 PM
reading an old children’s book that describes a “wicked old woman,” propped up by pillows, “reading a sprightly story, at which she was laughing. Beside her was a bottle of champagne; she sipped a glass from time to time,” and if that isn’t life goals.
Due to a glitch with the wishlist app I use, my husband got three 8-packs of reusable hand warmers -- the one thing I put on his list that he didn't specifically ask for 🫠
December 30, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Due to a glitch with the wishlist app I use, my husband got three 8-packs of reusable hand warmers -- the one thing I put on his list that he didn't specifically ask for 🫠
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Nikki Giovanni
(1943-2024)
(1943-2024)
December 11, 2024 at 4:51 AM
Nikki Giovanni
(1943-2024)
(1943-2024)
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Katy ISD (under the school board’s authority) is blocking students from checking out over 400 LGBTQ+ library books.
www.txftrp.org/400_lgbtq_li...
www.txftrp.org/400_lgbtq_li...
400+ LGBTQ+ Library Books Currently Blocked by Katy ISD
At least 400+ books- targeted for their LGBTQ+ content - are to remain on the shelves while they undergo internal reconsideration- and students are being denied access if they attempt to check out an...
www.txftrp.org
December 11, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Katy ISD (under the school board’s authority) is blocking students from checking out over 400 LGBTQ+ library books.
www.txftrp.org/400_lgbtq_li...
www.txftrp.org/400_lgbtq_li...
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This is Trump’s FCC pick. By threatening to yank broadcast licenses, he is hoping the media companies obey in advance and won’t say critical things about Trump. It’s a fascist tactic.
November 25, 2024 at 8:18 PM
This is Trump’s FCC pick. By threatening to yank broadcast licenses, he is hoping the media companies obey in advance and won’t say critical things about Trump. It’s a fascist tactic.
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Enjoy A Union Made Thanksgiving
November 22, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Enjoy A Union Made Thanksgiving
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AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride.
"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."
"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."
November 21, 2024 at 2:48 AM
AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride.
"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."
"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."
Our air quality had been fine despite the 1000+ acre #ButternutFire in Great Barrington, but around 2:30 the winds shifted and the smoke blew in FAST and surrounded us. Popped my mask on while we finished putting up the cross ties on the new high tunnel, bc asthma.
November 20, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Our air quality had been fine despite the 1000+ acre #ButternutFire in Great Barrington, but around 2:30 the winds shifted and the smoke blew in FAST and surrounded us. Popped my mask on while we finished putting up the cross ties on the new high tunnel, bc asthma.