Karen M. Poremski

I am limiting my use of social media in an effort to try to help my nervous system (which needs all the help it can get), so that my health doesn't get worse. So I might be pretty silent here. I am rooting for all of us!

They want us to be scared, and sure, there is much to fear. It can always get worse. But a world that can get worse can also always get better, and our power, our vision, our beauty and our joy is stronger than anything they can imagine, and every moment we bring them to one another is a victory

RFK decided to once again target maskers in a speech, laughing about going to LA and seeing people driving in their cars while masked. And I want to make sure people know that studies have shown that the reason someone might wear a mask in their car is that it's none of your fucking business.

This. And if most Americans weren't aware of this in 2019, I'd guess they're even less so now. Public university students were paying for a third of the cost of their education in 2009, and it was up to half by 2019. 2009 wasn't great compared to the 60s-70s, either. www.pbs.org/newshour/edu...

Women don’t come forward because of men like Vivek Ramaswamy.

You can tell Monopoly is an old game because there’s a luxury tax and rich people can go to jail.

so fuck 'em. vote like you're trying to give each and every one of them a god damn election night heart attack. and every place we don't quit win, dig the fuck in because I want them to never get a peaceful night of sleep again because they are having feverish tribunal nightmares.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

GM. I’m asking for help, MA or SettlerSaturday, but I NEED $378.00, ASAP. Sales help me with insulin & medical expenses for my daughter (copays for a specialist, labs and MRI). I am a Potawatomi enrolled tribal member & my beadwork is open to anyone. www.melancholynow.com

Let me be specific: Donald Trump is an f-ing traitor. He is in cahoots with Putin and Russia to break our democratic ally, Ukraine, which makes all of us less safe. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/w...

Americans have now spent $135 billion more on gasoline and diesel purchases since March 1 than the same period last year.

Everyone who worked for DOGE needs full criminal investigation and searches to determine if critical data was exfiltrated for private gain

We have two (2) walking tours this weekend! You can even come on both of them in chronological order... Sat. Oct 17, 8:00pm, Baltimore's Confederate Shadows: Mount Vernon to Midtown Sun. Oct 18, 2:00pm, Black Reconstruction in Lower Charles Village Both @ fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/

Hi, @lauralippman.bsky.social I thought of you yesterday during the schooner parade of sail!

What if you see ICE at the polls? (Don't worry! Read on for the plan!) @indivisible.org roped me in to design and illustrate a new zine! Check it out in this 🧵 - and visit linktr.ee/wewillvote to sign up for the Election Protection Program and find all the resources you need!

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

Ukraine said Elon Musk’s SpaceX restricted its Starlink satellite internet service w/o warning, disrupting Ukrainian military operations…Meanwhile, Russia unleashed an attack on Ukrainian energy infrastructure overnight, leaving at least 600,000 people without power - www.cnbc.com/2026/10/14/r...

Since thou wert king—as who is king but thou?⁠— The commonwealth hath daily run to wrack

That $366 million Elon is spending to try and convince voters that Congress should stay Republican? It's more money than McCain's 2008 campaign spent. But it's also, relative to Musk's net worth, the same as a household at the median income spending $32.

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

Looking for an employment lawyer who has supported people with Long Covid for an article I'm working on who would have 15 minutes to speak Monday-Wednesday next week. Please reach out at jmetraux@motherjones.com

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

“She asked the powers at NASA to let her add a safeguard to prevent that error in a real flight, and they laughed it off as too unlikely… When an astronaut did make that blooper during the Apollo 8 mission, it caused necessary navigational data to vanish, and they called Hamilton in to get it back.”

there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not

In summary, this technology is a blight. We're sleepwalking into normalizing it bc we're scared of sounding too extreme. Enough.

Your periodic reminder: ICE must be abolished

you have to work over 4 hours at minimum wage to buy a 80 count box of name brand trash bags

Since 👇 post 9 days ago, Elon has spent almost $11 million more, over a million bucks a day. In the Senate races alone, he's spent: $8.7m in Texas $4.5m in Ohio $4m in Michigan

Measles doesn't stop harming people when the rash goes away. Measles can damage the immune system, causing "immune amnesia" for up to five years. Measles outbreaks this year and last could leave thousands vulnerable to other infectious diseases. www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles-outb...

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

I understand and share the impulse to blame university administrators. I have written plenty about them. But right now I’d like us to turn the focus to Minnesota politicians and Minnesota voters and ask what functions of the university do you want to see cut? What don’t you care about Amy Klobuchar?

Rooting for the Phillies because, as someone on here said the other day, f*ck the chop.