Zine cover reading: MAY DAY STRONG Friday, May 1, 2026 HERE'S WHAT YOU DO No school, no work, no shopping
Made a #MayDayStrong zine! Here's what we're all doing on Friday, May 1, 2026, friends -- and why! Check out the zine in this thread and check out maydaystrong.org for events near you!
Finally got someone quoting 1 Timothy at me! 💪💪💪 But it was a video about doing church outside instead of inside, and you’d think ladies would at least be able to do that much.
Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.
Yep, found my reading for Sunday service. I’ve pared down the personal parts because that seems appropriate, but I think this is important for my congregation to hear.
Once again @mskellymhayes.bsky.social thank you. This really helped me.
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness. - Mary Oliver
God this poem is haunting me again.
I got a person on the phone for my Rep, though had to leave voicemails for my senators. For all the good any of this does me. But I did it anyway!
Banger post from one of my @reproaction.bsky.social colleagues on the anti-abortion movement's increasing coziness with proponents of white supremacy and antisemitism. There's a reason they're more publicly welcoming Nazi saluters and white nationalists, and it's because they want to!
Science can do wonderful things and it can do terrible things. On my laptop, I have two windows open. One is a livestream of Artemis II from near the moon. Another is CNN, with Trump spewing venom about using American missiles to dismantle a whole country. Both are products of same rocket science.
Progressive clergy say challenging nationalism requires reclaiming religious narratives.
buff.ly/V3eDpWW
Image of facebook post explaining my thoughts about some of the critiques of the recent No Kings protests. The text: I have found some of the critiques online of the No Kings protests a little weird. Not because I agree with all of its framing or strategy. I particularly don't agree with its nationalist framing. But, I've also helped organize protests where I didn't agree with the framing (haha), tactics, or strategy. The point of doing the work, for me, was about taking action with a group of people I cared about to help protect others, getting more folks involved, and trying to build some momentum. The actions weren't about what I prefered, it was about what we decided was best at a time. Sometimes we got it right, sometimes we did not. And sometimes I was wrong. That's just part of organizing.
Image of my facebook post explaining some of my thoughts about critiques of the recent No Kings protests. The text: But, and this is what gets me about some of the criticisms (some I've seen I actually agree with), some of the best organizers and activists I've encountered also knew how to turn any gathering, from an academic talk to a national protest, into an opportunity to educate more people about the best way to escalate their tactics and to build coherent strategies, not to mention to try to convince others to come to future meetings and join their organizations. There's a reason why so many activists show up with stickers, flyers, zines, sign up sheets, etc. Yes, people remember the protest signs and some of the imagery from the protests, but some people also remember when you put something in their hands and had conversations about potential next steps.
Image of the last two paragraphs explaining my thoughts about the critiques of the recent No Kings protests. The text: Just telling folks that X protest is not going to work, or even making fun of folks participating, without coupling that critique with a discussion that expands folks' imaginations of what disruptive collective action and building power could look like in a fascist time just seems like a missed opportunity. One thing I've learned through experience is there's a such thing as being completely right in an analysis, but while you might be right, you might also demobilize and discourage people. And it doesn't mean you have to cheer on every protest you disagree with. It doesn't mean big protests are beyond criticism. But it does mean finding ways to communicate a critique and illuminating a path for folks to follow.
Some of my thoughts about some of the critiques of the recent No Kings protests I've seen online:
Hey UU and/or pagan author friends! (You know who you are.)
A photo of Irene making puppy dog eyes at the camera with a thought bubble that says "Please?'
Heyyyyyy author friends! Crossed Crow is preparing to release "Foundations of Witchcraft," the manuscript that is Year One training in Blackfeather Mystery School, the magickal academy I offer in Maryland.
Please lmk if you're you willing to review/potentially blurb it? Endorsements are due 5/15.
The Immanent Frame gave me the opportunity to reflect on aspects of God Bless the Pill that felt politically hard as I was writing.
"Two Ways," by Steve Garnaas-Holmes.
unfoldinglight.net/2026/03/23/t...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/a...
This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation.
I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment.
This summary is just fantastic.
OK BUT A SERIES OF MAZES THAT INCREASE IN DIFFICULTY BASED ON HOW FUCKED UP THE ABORTION POLICY OF THAT STATE IS
People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos
see?
here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared
okay but consider
Yosemite Sam as Pontius Pilate finally believing he’s got Bugs on the ropes once and for all, rolling that stone across the tomb door like “LET’S SEE HIM ESCAPE THIS!”, and then three days later he strolls back into Jerusalem chomping a carrot like “what’s up, Doc?”
There's currently an $18 mountain of Love & Rockets and associated comics on Humble Bundle, and I'm going to be overseeing a low-key Discord book club to read it all over the course of a year or so. www.humblebundle.com/books/love-a...
@exhaustdata 2 months ago Ten thousand dissertations all called “the American novel since 1945” reduced to a single sentence @chillextremist 3 months ago When I'm in the suburbs for too long I start to think about dying
“This is the legacy of the imbeciles”
Please enjoy some pure uncut Texas bullshit and I am from there so I get to say that
I am considering an entire tub of Blue Bell homemade vanilla.
The cover of The Complete Persepolis by Marianne Satrapi.
Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).
Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission.
Full statement from the band:
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done
- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy