I cried when I read this. Being a Molly Grue… we come by it honestly, through pain, and ultimately through love. You captured that tension and expressed what it is to be old, and disappointed, yet still to live in hope and belief. I give you the lilac wood of my heart in thanks

Bernie Sanders: "We're not only dealing with a move toward authoritarianism, we're dealing with what is new to America -- politicians have always lied, nothing new about that. But the level that we're seeing right now. The big lie, over and over again ... "

youtube.com/watch?v=1CPL...

Fun! Wish I could have been there

What’s yours? What songs or artists give you strength?

For me that list includes:
The Beatles (my first love)
The Cure
Depeche Mode
Kate Bush
The Sundays
Lush
Metallica
Rush
Tori Amos
Joy Division/New Order
Bauhaus/Peter Murphy
The Smiths/Morrissey (even though he is horrid as a person)
Alll the yacht rock
Enya (ha!)
Nickel Creek/Punch Bros.
John Prine

Could someone place an order for 100 more Jasmine Crocketts for overnight delivery to the Democratic Party

thx in advance

Really don’t think we can understate how much troll culture is now political culture

Sometimes when I just can’t manage I go listen to foundational music, and magically, I can

At least 600 workers to leave BPA, spurring concerns about transmission grid The Bonneville Power Administration, the region’s largest transmission grid operator, will lose at least 600 workers under President Donald Trump’s sweeping efforts to reduce the federal workforce.

DOGE Nazis have illegally fired 600 workers from Bonneville Power Authority, a hugely important federal utility in the Northwest www.oregonlive.com/environment/...

@theredtailwitch.bsky.social
Thanks, I needed this today.

Becoming Molly Grue: How I Found an Unlikely Millennial Icon in The Last Unicorn - Reactor Older, wiser... but ready for new quests, and new beginnings.

reactormag.com/becoming-mol...

Oh! Read this beautiful essay by Asa West. “We steal bits of time to make our art, embark on whatever quests we’re given…”

This is what oligarchy looks like.

I think the reason people are frustrated with Democratic leaders is that they expect these elected representatives to act like a real disaster is happening, which it is. Four-day weekends and bratwurst junkets in Munich kind of undercut that

The community note 🤌😘

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand.
#resist

If you’ll take me, yes. Instantly.

May they reap what they sow

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

I don’t have insomnia, I have anxiety. I am very tired but then also my brain says we are being hunted

Here's a crazy but true sentence: I am running out of toner, and it is cheaper, easier and QUICKER for me to buy a new printer than it is for me to get the replacement toner.

Plasterwork of a skeleton blowing bubbles set against a pale blue wall.

I am so, so tired. And I know you are, too.

Here's “Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery’s dissolution, it became a hospital.

A 600-year-old medieval hat from Lappvattnet.
The hat, which is made of felted sheep’s wool, was preserved in a bog. Now housed at the Västerbottens Museum in Sweden.

The University of Virginia has created a website of archived government websites—bookmark it—you’re going to need it later.

guides.lib.virginia.edu/c.php?g=1451...

Oh my gosh, you’re RIGHT. That’s exactly it. He should be in a dispute with Kermit right now

A plump tortoiseshell cat on a mostly red rug, surrounded by a jumble of toys that she savaged. Among the victims are a crinkly sushi mat, jingly fish, and an anthropomorphic burrito and cactus. A much mangled dill pickle toy is just out of frame.

Aftermath

Doctor, is it normal to have a decline in sleep quality during the fall of the republic

I feel this in my weary bones

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson