After a weekend of grading and, well, just living in these times, Oliver Money looks how I feel.

I'm here in the DC suburbs, I'm thinking we need some music down on BLM Plaza. We need the songs of solidarity, of resistance, of truth to power. These guys were my gateway to social consciousness.
@vurnt22.bsky.social
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@willcalhoun.bsky.social
@dougwimbish.bsky.social

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."

She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

Rachel Maddow: "History is calling. So what are you going to do? Whether it's calling voters in swing states... or just, on your own, calling or texting everyone in your contact list, in your phone."

Don't know how to do those things? Nervous about what to say? Let me help! ⬇️

New: Major newspapers are giving Trump’s federal criminal indictment a fraction of the coverage they gave former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server in 2016 www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...

Bringing back my favorite manicule, from a 1634 printing of the Salernitan Regimen of Health.

I figure my first post here should be a cat photo. Meet Oliver Money (say this aloud). Here he is roughly 4 months after we adopted him. He had major surgery, hence the "Money" and is wearing this sock sweater to keep him from his stitches. Worth every penny.