4/13/26
' Ramsey County, Minnesota , is investigating the arrest of a Hmong American man by federal officers that was captured on video as a potential case of kidnapping, burglary and false imprisonment, officials announced Monday.'
📰 AP
apnews.com/article/minn...
A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.
For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.
One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
Celebratory dance in Hungary
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
"After months of total darkness, there is hope. There's a sense that liberal democracy can still triumph against the populist threat, it can withstand the joint assault from the Kremlin & the WH ... the war can still be won & the battles are still worth fighting"
Our March Issue of Lavender Rising Magazine is out now, and just in time for #TransDayofVisibility! Love how that worked out.
We've got some amazing works in here by queer creators, and we're so happy to share them! 💜🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✒️🎨
#queerartists #writesky #artwork #lgbtq+
onceuponaqueer.com/lavender-ris...
My friend’s 99-year old great grandmother attended her local #NoKings protest. This is her sign.
📣‼️ The handmaidens at 👇🏽
#NoKings Nashville protest
holding names 📃 in the
Epstein files ‼️📣 ✊🏽
Yesterday cities across the US, the UK and the world came out onto the streets To say
#NoKings
And to #StandUpToRacism
Via Viola Davis, The Queen!!!
What an amazing turnout!
Bravo 👏 to everyone who showed up or otherwise supported the day!!!
#NoKings
#Pinks
Donald Trump is pressuring Republicans to restrict mail-in voting for everybody else — while he’s sitting at home voting by mail himself?
He's literally urging Republicans to withhold TSA agent’s paychecks until they pass his voter suppression bill — the so-called “SAVE America Act”.
![(a graph showing the event totals from No Kings 1 in June 2025 [1,400 events], No Kings 2 in October 2025 [2,096 events], and No Kings 3 in March 2026 [3,000 events]) WE’RE CURRENTLY AT 3,000 NO KINGS EVENTS AND COUNTING!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rrfwruhud4ovela3oe6isre5/bafkreib75kdp7rjrvm3pqqfmmlu5agkes2ejeyke4vgho7svcw4wkepsva)
(a graph showing the event totals from No Kings 1 in June 2025 [1,400 events], No Kings 2 in October 2025 [2,096 events], and No Kings 3 in March 2026 [3,000 events]) WE’RE CURRENTLY AT 3,000 NO KINGS EVENTS AND COUNTING!
Saturday is already set to be the biggest No Kings Day yet — and like the last two, we’re expecting a massive increase in interest this week. Chip in if you can to help us vet new events, provide safety and security trainings and support protests around the nation: secure.actblue.com/donate/nokin...
HANDS OFF: 1300 events
NO KINGS 1: 2100 events
NO KINGS 2: 2700 events
NO KINGS 3: 3000 events and counting
Let’s make history. Again.
Tell your representative to oppose H.R. 7661. The House Committee on Education and Workforce has advanced H.R. 7661. This bill threatens to block funding promised to schools in order to give politicians the power to censor school materials based on ideology. Unite Against Book Bans.
Rather than supporting government censorship, Congress should invest in literacy education. The Right to Read Act (S.3365/HR 2889) offers a better path to support children, parents, and educators.
The Right to Read Act:: Supports well-staffed and well-resources school libraries; strengthens evidence-based literacy instructions; and protects library workers. Tell your Representative to vote NO on HR 7661 and to support the Right to Read Act instead!
On March 17th, a House Committee voted in favor of H.R. 7661, a book banning bill using a vague definition of “sexually oriented” materials. Tell your Representative to oppose H.R. 7661 and support the right to read: app.oneclickpolitics.com/campaign-page
Wonderful first day at @awesomecon.bsky.social and also my first day as part of @crowdedshelf.bsky.social! Fun to hang out with fellow word slingers @meganmackie.bsky.social @waylandsmith.bsky.social @jepittman.bsky.social and @brmichaels.bsky.social, as well as the amazing Amy!
John Oliver on right wing grifter, "brain" behind the "censorship industrial complex" and USAID destroyer, Mike Benz:
"a chronically online lunatic"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU8S...
Alright Texas! Early voting has officially started. It’s time to show this nation exactly what Texas is made of. Make a voting plan—get to the polls and make your voices heard.
BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/
Amari Kato is the last of her kind. An orphan running on borrowed time, haunted by loss and fueled by the promise of revenge.
Taliya Camry is a street thief and hired blade.
When Amari makes a mistake too big to ignore, the second is sent to eliminate the problem.
bookshop.org/p/books/shat...
Amari Kato is the last of her kind. An orphan running on borrowed time, haunted by loss and fueled by the promise of revenge.
Taliya Camry is a street thief and hired blade.
When Amari makes a mistake too big to ignore, the second is sent to eliminate the problem.
bookshop.org/p/books/shat...
Well played. #Davos
Trump in Davos, Switzerland:
"Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German".
German is the main language of Switzerland.
“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and racism. The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power”.
—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Today we honor Dr. King by remembering that his legacy wasn’t comfort or quiet it was courage, sacrifice, and resistance in the face of injustice. He knew progress is never handed down; it’s pushed forward by ordinary people who refuse to accept inequality as normal.
I must point out that the consensus position of Greenlanders is not "we are content with Denmark," it is "we are trying to build up and diversify our economy so that we can become an independent country at soonest possible opportunity." Notably, of course, neither of these positions involves America
#HandsOffGreenland protests in Denmark and Greenland!
I'm dying at this fucking article title. "[Dripping flop sweat] Epstein files? Sounds cringe and gay. Sounds real bad. You guys, who even cares"
