mamdani being a cheerful normal guy that people project absolute insane things on is one of the things that make him very relatable to me, personally

I quit smoking 16 years ago today. ( (ETA: and I think about it everyday STILL)

I quit smoking 16 years ago today. 🚭
(and I think about it everyday STILL)

Sanders: The people have got to determine the future of what happens in our country and in the entire planet, not a handful of extraordinarily wealthy, arrogant, anti-democratic multibillionaires. That’s what they want. They have their goals. They are not our goals.

As Mexico Enacts Universal Healthcare, Advocate Says Insurers' 'Stranglehold' Is Moving US in 'Opposite Direction' | Common Dreams Medicare for All advocate Wendell Potter said it's "both inspiring and frustrating" to see other nations advance their public healthcare systems while the US dismantles its own.

As Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum moves forward with a plan to enact universal healthcare for her country’s more than 130 million people, a longtime advocate for Medicare for All in the US called the development “both inspiring and frustrating.”

👏 👍 👏 👍 👏 👍 👏 👍 👏 👍 👏 👍 👏 👍

Fed chair Jerome Powell continues to speak truth to blithering idiocy. 🙌💪👏✊👇

Please enjoy this puppy making friends with a butterfly.

And bookmark it for when you’ve had a bad day.

This is egregious

theofficialdawsonmckie Dear America, I'm Canadian, and even from across the border I can tell your gentlest people are doing the heaviest lifting. They are feeding people, protecting people, defending people, comforting people, organizing people, and carrying a country that keeps calling their pain politics. If America has a soul left, it is living inside the people who refuse to stop caring. Your cruelest people may have the microphone right now, but your best people still have the moral weight.

We're terrible neighbors right now, and it hurts to keep caring. Care anyway. You are needed.

The President of the United States and the Secretary of State are attending a UFC event tonight as negotiations with Iran collapse in Islamabad—raising the risk of a massive war restarting.

📸 Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Pool via REUTERS

A UFC fight w hegeth & Trump

Correction: deepening tensions between the Trump administration & the Vatican.
I stand w Pope Leo (and I’m not catholic or religious)

We can explain it to you, but you continue to make it clear, that we can’t understand it for you.

With reality this foolish,
April Fools’ Day should be illegal.

NO KINGS FITZGERALD · No Kings **We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.** What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading fr...

Small town south GA representing! I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS FITZGERALD” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Happy #caturday. She’s judging me

People are practicing and sustaining hope! From the recent #AoCChecklist Good News:

🫂 The volunteer group Haven Watch Minnesota offers support to people leaving ICE detention with emergency support, healthcare referrals, & more.

For more: https://americansofconscience.com/02-27-2026/#goodnews

Following public backlash and criticism, some companies have rejected or canceled sales or leases of warehouses to ICE for use as immigration detention sites. Learn more from @vera.org then take action in the latest #AoCChecklist Open the 1st comment 🔗 ⤵️

I love the idea of Bluesky but my brain can’t seem to remember that any social media apps exist besides Facebook & Instagram. I am off Facebook for lent so I thought hey I’ll spend more time on Bluesky… but alas I still forget Bluesky exists. #adhd

Image of book cover THE ANTI-WAR CLASSIC BY AMERICA'S MOST DECORATED SOLDIER WAR IS A RACKET BRIGADIER GENERAL SMEDLEY D. BUTLER INTRODUCTION BY ADAM PARFREY

War is a racket. www.heritage-history.com/site/hclass/...

No, this is where we are.

Truly a horrible timeline

Overhead lights choose violence.

I can’t stop crying over this damn monkey. First because he was alone and now because he’s not. Sweet Punch.

Check their hard drives & their bank accounts for transfers to mistresses for abortions.

Pants on fire too

My sister is in town #40daysofgoodshit

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.

So Georgia sent a letter of reprimand? That’s it? newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

Adding this to my tbr!