Laura

I ended up having more extended thoughts on Dolly Parton over on Facebook and I thought I would share them here as well.

This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants.

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

Happiest of birthdays to our favorite autistic grandpa!

@clivethompson.bsky.social please tell me you’ve seen this! www.trainjazz.com

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I feel like people forget that a lot of evangelical fundamentalists believe the Pope is the antichrist, and this kinda plays into their narrative a bit.

“We don’t need their validation to achieve our liberation. In fact, if we sit here waiting for all of cis society to like us and not make fun of us, we may never achieve our liberation at all. And we will crush ourselves in the process.” Beautifully said, all of it.

Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊

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another guy who never protested before radicalized to the point of tears by watching masked ICE agents terrify children in his neighborhood the Republicans are not ready or mentally capable of comprehending the backlash they have generated

Kind of feels like Madlibs anymore. “Oregon will not tolerate [_____ | noun, a crime]. We are [_____ | adjective, an emotion] and demand [verb, something that will continue to happen].”

New date for the General Strike. We demand: Stop ICE murdering, remove the regime and release Epstein Files. There are many different ways to strike: 1) BRING BACK MAIN STREET- 2) TAX STRIKE 3) JOIN LOCAL PROTESTS 4) JOIN MUTUAL AID GROUPS 5) CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES-

They are not! The 12 Values Collective runs on: 1) Anticapitalism 2) Antiracism 3) Decolonization 4) Anti-imperialism 5) Intersectional Feminism 6) Disability Justice 7) LGBTQ Liberation 8) Sex Positivity 9) 1312 10) Expansive Spirituality 11) Covid/Pandemic Realism 12) Revolutionary Love

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

I don’t write voting guides for Deschutes county anymore, but I’m gonna tell your right now who I would vote for County Commissioner, by position: #1: Jamie Collins #3: Amanda Page #4: Maddie McKinney #5: Morgan Schmidt You have some amazing candidates! VOTE FOR THEM IN YOUR PRIMARY!!!!

All that you touch You change All that you change Changes you The only lasting truth is change God is change -Octavia Butler

Despite what we are often told, this line from Mamdani’s inauguration speech is what true pragmatism actually looks like: “Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try.”

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

This year has felt like 9 months of babysitting somebody else’s kid and they’re making you play a boardgame you don’t wanna play and making up the rules so only they can win and also they’re screaming the whole time and their parents aren’t coming home anytime soon and you’re paying them $150 a day

"We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstraction police and threaten us." —Robert Hayden

This is deeply charming, and at a moment in which the rest of the internet feels full of dread and misery, you might need this little pick me up in which the next mayor of Seattle describes herself as “dumpy” and goes to Goodwill for a new wardrobe

DO. NOT. TEXT. AND. DRIVE.

Fuck this guy and may he rot in hell for the damage he caused to so many children.

The defunding of USAID was the American Wannsee, the moment the ruling party’s psychosis and disregard for human life led them to choose to kill millions of innocents for its own sake. There is no normal politics possible after that, and no one has understood that yet (not even me, at a gut level).

Bill Clinton finally being removed from public life as collateral damage for destroying Trump is like when they overthrow Jabba the Hutt in Return of the Jedi and Boba Fett gets knocked into the Sarlacc pit by accident

We need to start talking about the fact that Gavin Newsom is unelectable.

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows How did the city do it? Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Read the whole thread. Feel your feelings but don’t let them grind you down. Find your people and the thing you can sustainably do to build the future you want to see, and keep the hope. 💓💓💓

Loved this from Reddit: HOTTEST TAKE: Stupid-Americans are the names Irish-Americans, Trump is their JFK 😭 www.reddit.com/r/thebulwark...

Hey friends, my dearest Bend-friend has received a devastating diagnosis and needs our help to stay mobile and connected to her community. Please help if you can! gofund.me/e2b49cdc

A grim prospect for millions of Americans. And millions of more insured Americans, too, who will also pay a price. Important reporting by @msainato.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Endorse this idea, big time

The only reason there is a need for this bill is the insatiable greed of for-profit health insurance and pharmaceutical companies.

Demand an affidavit ballot and submit it. Your vote will count.

Where is DOGE when you need it?

As of June 1, nearly 25% of the people arrested by ICE in the interior and sent to detention had NO CRIMINAL RECORD. Data from the last six years, including 1.5 years of Trump's first term, reveals how this is completely unprecedented. It also helps explain the growing backlash.

Fun fact: when the midwife for my first kid suggested I bring a movie to watch during labor, Galaxy Quest was my comfort movie of choice. My labor was way too fast to even need it, but it was there for me! 🤣

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds. While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

So, allies, here’s the best thing for you to do if you encounter bigot protesters at Pride. Take them aside and ask them to teach you about Jesus.