THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
HI! Please share! I am running a new fundraiser with Cylon whistles. 4 great orgs benefit. I explain the whole deal here, but basically if you donate $25, I'll send you one of these BSG-coded whistles. You can email or DM receipts & the more you donate, the more u get! www.moryan.com/by-your-comm...
Not gonna share the video of Republican US Senator Tim Sheehy breaking a protesting Marine's hand, but you can find it on @charlotteclymer.bsky.social's timeline.
I'll just say that in a functional country, Sheehy would be expelled by the Senate.
Democratic Senators should publicly push for that.
You’re both awesome people! 🥰
Still looking for my next role - if you know anyone who needs an award winning game designer, narrative designer, or content designer with technical skills and people managing experience who has been at it for 15 years and has made stuff that is taught in schools, hit me up at zoe@unburntwitch.com
So yeah we’re funded and you still got some days to grab a copy. And if we can get to 100 backers there will be something. I dunno what yet. I haven’t asked @djkirkbride.bsky.social even. But something. You’ll see.
I'm stoked that the Humble Bundle of my and @annaleen.bsky.social's books from Tor has raised nearly $5000 for the TGI Justice Project and Miss Major/Alexander Lee Black Trans Cultural Center.
www.humblebundle.com/books/charli...
Let me tell you about when I went to the TGIJP's anniversary party
For ppl who aren't aware:
Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut.
They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures.
You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!
Texas judge Denise Hernández was recently recognized by the Human Rights Campaign for her achievements.
https://mrf.lu/h_Qn
beloved friends, if your eyes were bigger than your crafting brain and you are wondering why you oversupplied yourself for your craft market projects... CHECK IF JAY NEEDS YOUR SUPPLIES for this awesome project!
Joyce Beatty (OH-03) Jared Golden (ME-02) Greg Stanton (AZ-04) Sanford Bishop (GA-02) Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) Bennie Thompson (MS-02) Brendan Boyle (PA-02) Adam Gray (CA-13) Derek Tran (CA-45) Troy Carter (LA-02) Greg Landsman (OH-01) Gabe Vasquez (NM-02) Yvette Clarke (NY-09) Donald Norcross (NJ-01) Marc Veasey (TX-33) Lou Correa (CA-46) Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) Gene Vindman (VA-07) Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) Don Davis (NC-01) Hillary Scholten (MI-03)
22 House Democrats (including some surprising ones!) just joined Republicans to vote to allow domestic abusers to buy tasers.
I will not sit in the State of the Union while Donald Trump lies, demonizes immigrants, and threatens democracy. Instead, I will use this time to speak with my constituents about their concerns and hopes for OR-01. I am grateful to announce that @agdanrayfield.bsky.social will be joining me. 🧵
This is an absolute nightmare.
This is amazing! 😻
🚨Want to know which Canadian companies are profiting off of ICE and Trump’s violent mass deportation agenda?
Well I just spent the last few days digging into exactly that.
Here are the companies I found, how much they’re making, and whether they’re getting Canadian taxpayer dollars.
Sneak peek:
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
Thank you, Mo. 🙏🏼❤️ Keep on speaking truth to power! ✊🏼
I wrote about this moment. You can skip to the end if you just want a list of ways to help. If you want, you can also read about the time I almost died, was in ICU, and a nurse was my light in the darkness www.moryan.com/the-crack-in... 💚
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RIP Alex Pretti,
He was my Dad’s ICU nurse. He read my dad’s final salute at the VA after he passed away. Never wanted to share this video, but his speech is very on point.
ICE just abducted a 4-year-old boy in Minneapolis. ICE is using the boy as “bait” to get the mom. Father is also abducted. Absolutely disgusting, horrific, inhuman stuff.
Help. Us. Fight. There is only one right side of history on this.
To recap: the two major parties refuse to rein in the reign of a demented sociopathic king who daily is marching us into both World War III and the next Civil War simultaneously because a Black president once made fun of him and also the Special Boy wasn't given the Shiny Golden Medal he covets
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. January 19, 2026. "A dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many and give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character." AFL-CIO Convention, December 1961.
Today America’s unions honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s unwavering commitment to justice and equality.
His legacy reminds us that workers’ rights and civil rights are inseparable. Let’s continue his work by standing for dignity, fairness and opportunity for all.
Honestly boycotting the World Cup would be the most effective and probably the least disruptive of all of the options available to Europe. I’m not sure how you can send teams and fans to contribute to a spectacle designed entirely to celebrate a guy trying to invade your territory.
Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder.
" Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..."
www.al.com/news/2026/01...
Hey Minnesotans, that green smoke is BAD! It's zinc chloride, and they used it in Portland.
Here's a quote from a science paper about it:
"...led to acute, delayed, and persistent health issues in the exposed population, including bystanders."
pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/uerc/2021/Po...
My mother lived in Mpls in the ‘40s. I have spent such delightful times in that wonderful city, experiencing evil shit beyond belief. Support MN if you can.
That is because you are a decent human being, and a heck of a nice guy 😉
