Heather Ash
@writermath.bsky.social
Writer, Educational Therapist, Birdkeeper, Rouser of Rabbles. My pronouns are Try/Me.
I LOVE(D) TEEN VOGUE. More corporate obeyance in advance.
Teen Vogue is getting folded into Vogue and losing most of its staff. It’s the end of one of the only publications that allowed young people to share their own stories and took them seriously as political actors.
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What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue
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November 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I LOVE(D) TEEN VOGUE. More corporate obeyance in advance.
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How I look at people that don't vote today
November 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
How I look at people that don't vote today
Hello from Time-change-with-loud-birds land! Only four months of standard time here in the (far-ish) north US.
STANDARD time is what you want. Yes, it would be nice to have daylight after work. Just like it would be nice to only eat pasta alfredo and chocolate for every meal.
STANDARD time is what you want. Yes, it would be nice to have daylight after work. Just like it would be nice to only eat pasta alfredo and chocolate for every meal.
Hello from Time-change-with-a-toddler Land!
THE SCIENCE SUGGESTS THAT YEAR ROUND STANDARD TIME IS BEST.
I know it’s the least of our worries right now, but let’s get some data driven policy going and end this hellscape of twice a year time change.
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THE SCIENCE SUGGESTS THAT YEAR ROUND STANDARD TIME IS BEST.
I know it’s the least of our worries right now, but let’s get some data driven policy going and end this hellscape of twice a year time change.
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
Study suggests most Americans would be healthier without daylight saving time
According to a new analysis by Stanford Medicine scientists, changing clocks twice a year disrupts circadian rhythms, leading to higher rates of stroke and obesity.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Hello from Time-change-with-loud-birds land! Only four months of standard time here in the (far-ish) north US.
STANDARD time is what you want. Yes, it would be nice to have daylight after work. Just like it would be nice to only eat pasta alfredo and chocolate for every meal.
STANDARD time is what you want. Yes, it would be nice to have daylight after work. Just like it would be nice to only eat pasta alfredo and chocolate for every meal.
Funny that. Bad actors are taking advantage of bad actors to kidnap and assault random people.
New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Funny that. Bad actors are taking advantage of bad actors to kidnap and assault random people.
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New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social:
ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday.
Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events.
Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:
ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday.
Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events.
Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:
What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez
Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.
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September 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social:
ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday.
Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events.
Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:
ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday.
Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events.
Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:
"Just following orders."
“We are not monsters,” the officer told her after she asked if she was safe. “We do what the government tells us.”
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Tufts University student details poor conditions in ICE detention ahead of Monday hearing | CNN
A federal judge in Vermont will hear arguments Monday on the legality of Rümeysa Öztürk’s detention at a Louisiana facility the Tufts University PhD student described as “unsanitary, unsafe, and inhum...
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April 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
"Just following orders."
This has been my experience.
The other thing that's interesting is people who have quit target say they're buying less overall. Like yeah Costco is getting some of the traffic, but you don't really pop into Costco to just get one thing and walk out with 20 items the way ppl said they did with Target
The funny thing is Target really thought they were special and irreplaceable in people’s lives and this has been a tough lesson for them.
April 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This has been my experience.
It's true. Those Costco lines are insane now.
I only go to the Baby Target for one prescription, and then walk out.
I only go to the Baby Target for one prescription, and then walk out.
on my knees begging Target to reinstate the DEI policies. please. Costco is too crowded now 😭
April 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It's true. Those Costco lines are insane now.
I only go to the Baby Target for one prescription, and then walk out.
I only go to the Baby Target for one prescription, and then walk out.
Exactly. The moment you cross him, it's you, and/or your loved ones, on a plane to El Salvador. Pam Bondi won't even bother to comment publicly. They'll deny it happened.
To republican members of Congress (and other Republicans): you realize this includes you, right?
“Trump is claiming the power to ignore…the U.S. Constitution, declare someone a criminal, kidnap them, send them to a third country, and claim that there is no way to get [them] back.”
“Trump is claiming the power to ignore…the U.S. Constitution, declare someone a criminal, kidnap them, send them to a third country, and claim that there is no way to get [them] back.”
April 13, 2025
April 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Exactly. The moment you cross him, it's you, and/or your loved ones, on a plane to El Salvador. Pam Bondi won't even bother to comment publicly. They'll deny it happened.
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You know why Republican politicians stay silent while Trump tells an outrageous lie about Ukraine starting the war with Russia? Because Republican politicians – at every level of government – are traitors to democracy.
Trump has fully turned on Zelenskyy: "He's always looking to purchase missiles. Listen, when you start a war, you gotta know you can win a war. You don't start a war against somebody that's 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles."
April 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
You know why Republican politicians stay silent while Trump tells an outrageous lie about Ukraine starting the war with Russia? Because Republican politicians – at every level of government – are traitors to democracy.
This. Right in the video. Then the laughter.
Any snippet from today's press conference - and the fact the AP was barred from the press pool despite a court order - confirms that Trump and this administration have assumed full Authoritarian Dictator mode.
Your move, Congressional Republicans.
Any snippet from today's press conference - and the fact the AP was barred from the press pool despite a court order - confirms that Trump and this administration have assumed full Authoritarian Dictator mode.
Your move, Congressional Republicans.
When he says “home-growns”, he’s talking about US citizens. He wants Bukeke to build more torture prisons in El Salvador for Americans. Not me saying it, Trump saying it. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."
April 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This. Right in the video. Then the laughter.
Any snippet from today's press conference - and the fact the AP was barred from the press pool despite a court order - confirms that Trump and this administration have assumed full Authoritarian Dictator mode.
Your move, Congressional Republicans.
Any snippet from today's press conference - and the fact the AP was barred from the press pool despite a court order - confirms that Trump and this administration have assumed full Authoritarian Dictator mode.
Your move, Congressional Republicans.
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3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie).
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs
The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.
www.cbsnews.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie).
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
All I remember from the Rutgers college tour was the phrase "and I'll fight you on that" used as punctuation.
So this makes complete sense.
So this makes complete sense.
Rutgers Senate Proposes Big Ten 'Mutual Defense Compact' to Block Trump's Campus Attacks www.commondreams.org/news/rutgers...
Rutgers Senate Proposes Big Ten 'Mutual Defense Compact' to Block Trump's Campus Attacks | Common Dreams
Rutgers University Senate takes a stand against Trump's attacks on First Amendment rights, forming a mutual defense compact with other Big Ten schools. Will this bold move inspire other institutions t...
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April 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
All I remember from the Rutgers college tour was the phrase "and I'll fight you on that" used as punctuation.
So this makes complete sense.
So this makes complete sense.
Commence the brain drain. I'll help.
Just a reminder that Germany led the world in science until the Nazis came to power and fired, exiled, and/or killed all the non-Nazi scientists, which was most of the scientists 🧪 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Documents reveal Trump’s plan to gut funding for Nasa and climate science
Critics say Nasa faces ‘extinction-level event’ with budget plan, with climate research funding also to be slashed
www.theguardian.com
April 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Commence the brain drain. I'll help.
Lies, damn lies, and basic math.
Seriously. This is an elementary-level math calculation dressed up with variables and sheer nonsense. I would not be surprised if they used ChatGPT to create it.
Seriously. This is an elementary-level math calculation dressed up with variables and sheer nonsense. I would not be surprised if they used ChatGPT to create it.
🔥 Trump’s Deputy Press Secretary gets owned by guy who wrote the Financial Page for the New Yorker re: their tariffs calculations
April 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Lies, damn lies, and basic math.
Seriously. This is an elementary-level math calculation dressed up with variables and sheer nonsense. I would not be surprised if they used ChatGPT to create it.
Seriously. This is an elementary-level math calculation dressed up with variables and sheer nonsense. I would not be surprised if they used ChatGPT to create it.
It's always worth watching John Lithgow. It's especially worth watching it now.
March on Saturday, April 5th. Flood the zone. Dominate the conversation. There are more of us than of them.
March on Saturday, April 5th. Flood the zone. Dominate the conversation. There are more of us than of them.
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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April 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
It's always worth watching John Lithgow. It's especially worth watching it now.
March on Saturday, April 5th. Flood the zone. Dominate the conversation. There are more of us than of them.
March on Saturday, April 5th. Flood the zone. Dominate the conversation. There are more of us than of them.
Reposted by Heather Ash
I'm a big fan of crowdsourced google docs to organize opposition to authoritarianism. This is a good one.
🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.
Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)
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April 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I'm a big fan of crowdsourced google docs to organize opposition to authoritarianism. This is a good one.
Slimeball.
Mack Schroeder, the HHS employee he taunted on that video, apparently held the "woke job" of ... budget analyst.
Sen. Jim Banks on the job held by a fired federal worker he mocked: "It was a woke job."
Then in the next breath Banks admits he doesn't know what his job actually was.
Then in the next breath Banks admits he doesn't know what his job actually was.
April 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Slimeball.
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pro tip: if you can afford to blow $250 million on a losing campaign in Wisconsin, you can afford to pay a 90% top tax margin
April 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
pro tip: if you can afford to blow $250 million on a losing campaign in Wisconsin, you can afford to pay a 90% top tax margin
I really should have insisted that my financial advisors get me out of the stock market back in late January, but I got the lecture about "timing the market."
When, clearly, tanking the market was what would happen. And here we are.
When, clearly, tanking the market was what would happen. And here we are.
April 3, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I really should have insisted that my financial advisors get me out of the stock market back in late January, but I got the lecture about "timing the market."
When, clearly, tanking the market was what would happen. And here we are.
When, clearly, tanking the market was what would happen. And here we are.
Reposted by Heather Ash
Historians of white supremacy passing the flame to historians of the Great Depression in the world's saddest Olympic torch relay.
April 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Historians of white supremacy passing the flame to historians of the Great Depression in the world's saddest Olympic torch relay.
I always tell my math students they "need this stuff" to keep others from cheating them out of their money.
Exhibit A.
Exhibit A.
I still have to confirm this but it looks optically right and yall…this is insane.
james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
April 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I always tell my math students they "need this stuff" to keep others from cheating them out of their money.
Exhibit A.
Exhibit A.
There is so much wrong with this story, besides the whole "not my data" part.
NEW: Yesterday, a T-Mobile tracking app for children began showing parents the exact real-time locations and images of random kids, and showed the locations of their own kids to other random adults:
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T-Mobile Shows Users the Names, Pictures, and Exact Locations of Random Children
"I would log in and I couldn’t see my children but I could see a kid in California. I refreshed and would see a different child.”
www.404media.co
April 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
There is so much wrong with this story, besides the whole "not my data" part.
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov I agree: Cory Booker for Senate Minority Leader, ASAP!
April 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov I agree: Cory Booker for Senate Minority Leader, ASAP!
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Tell me again how immigrants, people on welfare, people working three jobs and still in poverty are the downfall of America, while we have more billionaires than ever?
Tell me again how immigrants, people on welfare, people working three jobs and still in poverty are the downfall of America, while we have more billionaires than ever?
Being Poor
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April 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Tell me again how immigrants, people on welfare, people working three jobs and still in poverty are the downfall of America, while we have more billionaires than ever?
Tell me again how immigrants, people on welfare, people working three jobs and still in poverty are the downfall of America, while we have more billionaires than ever?