I think maybe you have just been lucky. I’ve seen some Christians get REALLY pissed about the secularization of Easter. How dare the non-Christians have Easter egg hunts and Easter bunnies, etc.

fun historical fact: among the core political forces in the development of mass incarceration was the "Victims' Rights Movement". Its first major legislative national legislative victory was under President Reagan. The prison population doubled under his administration.

I'll add that Trump's entire political strategy is to be seen *defeating* the people and institutions the MAGA base has been trained to hate.

If you fight back and deny him an easy victory, that unsettles his narrative about being an almighty conqueror, which is why he often scurries away.

Harvard stands up to Trump — they get that complicity will not save you Other institutions take note: It's delusional to lie low and hope Trump goes away in four years

As I wrote this week, the situation at Harvard deserves attention, not because we should share the mainstream media's obsession with elite education, but because there's a lesson in this for everyone.

He's a paper tiger. Fight back. Watch how he will often back down.

www.salon.com/2025/04/16/h...

Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard (Gift Article) An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

There are many reasons to fight back, but a big one: Trump is a paper tiger. Often, fighting back works.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

Trump's team backing down in front of Harvard should embolden EVERYONE to stand up to them. Do not comply in advance. Instead say "Fuck you, make me."

Hopefully metaphorically, at least? 😬

I sure hope no one is still teaching information literacy and/or research skills with "you can trust sites with .gov" addresses because you sure as hell cannot.

Omg yall sobbing after watching a clip of neighbors of all races and ages forming a human chain around a father and son to prevent an ice deportation. In Nashville. I’m struggling with my conviction that people are inherently good these days and seeing stuff like this is so moving.

Protect the most vulnerable, and I'll give you two reasons

1. It's the right thing to do
2. If you don't, you'll be next

I think #1 really OUGHT to be enough for anyone, but if you think it's pie in the sky idealism then just do it for survival. Protect each other, and you protect us all

RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet. "I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."

RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one.

Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

Rough week to be the grocery buyer for a family, I’m not sure if I’m supposed to be shopping to prepare for Easter or for civil unrest. My grocery cart looks totally bonkers.

This makes me think of my question again: is fascism what we call it when white supremacy happens to white people?

Cuz some people already were property.

Calling a bunch of obscenely wealthy tourists taking a luxury jaunt to the edge of the atmosphere 'the first all-female space mission', fuck off. This isn't a 'mission', it's a gigantic ad for elite space tourism.

Farm workers weeding and thinning out a lettuce field

Roman sent us this pic from outside Watsonville CA. He shares, "we are weeding and thinning out the organic red and green leafy lettuce. We need to thin out the weaker plants to allow for maximum growth." #WeFeedYou

A branch in the foreground is bare of leaves, but has two downward-turned, bell-shaped, maroon-colored blossoms on it. More trees and a blue sky are in the background.

Two more downward-turned maroon flowers on a bare branch in the foreground. The flower on the right is particularly bell-shaped, while the one on the left is a darker maroon, almost black in some places.

An upward view of a thin tree, bare of leaves, with dozens of maroon blossoms visible dotting rhetorical branches.

Pawpaws are in bloom in south central Kansas! They don’t leaf out until the flowers are pretty much done, to make it easier for beetles to find their blossoms.

#asiminatriloba #northamericanpawpaw #nativeplants #kansas

Close up of down facing dark red flowers on a tree branch with woods in background.

Pawpaws blooming. Also heard a northern parula up in the trees. #nativeplants

Yet another way to set back research. Without international attendees at conferences, we can't be on top of the most recent developments in research. Conferences often include unpublished data and papers take years to publish, so this literally setting us back years. 🧪

The 'world's coolest dictator' heads to the White House El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele heads to the White House to discuss further cooperation with the U.S., including the continued use of El Salvador's supermax prison for deported migrants.

insane to repeat their self-propaganda like this, with nothing but a flimsy pair of single-quotes. i could call myself the world's hottest writer but they wouldn't put it in the headline bc it's not fucking true
www.npr.org/2025/04/14/n...

Truly @prisonculture.bsky.social, Jane Ball, and @ollycostello.bsky.social are all geniuses at their craft and everyone should have a copy of Prisons Must Fall! The visuals and the poetry of the message are exquisite!

www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2588-p...

there’s a style of reporting that’s basically like “the left hasn’t been duped by the transparently bad faith framing of the right, but I, the reporter, very much have.”

AI is contributing to the need for more computing hardware, which puts a strain on the supply of rare earth minerals, which is why we’re deep sea mining.

So those fake AI videos of deep sea “creatures” are not only bullshit, they are contributing to the destruction of real deep sea ecosystems.

Me when I was 12 days postpartum & the only time I got to myself with both hands free was on the toilet, & I read a headline about how you should NEVER blow your nose on the toilet if you want your pelvic floor to heal, literally as I was finally blowing my nose after needing to for hours

halfway through reading the Hundred Years War on Palestine and I had heard it mentioned Joe Biden was worse than Reagan on curbing Israel, I had no idea just how bad

being worse than Reagan on anything is an embarrassment holy fucking shit

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

Well I suppose this is one way to move past the extractive, exploitative capitalist world system that we’ve lived under for the past 500 or so years…

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Love that The Beach Boys wrote a song about the ritual transition from father to boyfriend occupying the role as gatekeeper of a teenage girl’s freedom of movement, and entitled it Fun Fun Fun