TEACHER FRIENDS: On this first Sunday of the new year, I'm wishing you a good night's sleep, the gentlest Sunday Scaries, and the knowledge that you deserve applause at the end of each day--including and perhaps especially after PD!

Texas' 988 suicide hotline is running a $7 million deficit and has thousands of people on hold dropping off mid-call each month as they wait to reach a human. "Somebody’s got to decide to increase the resources," its director tells Stephen Simpson texastribune.org/2025/01/06/tex…

In the long run, January 6th succeeded. What we're left to safeguard is the knowledge that it happened, that it always will have happened, and that it always will be wrong.

....anyway, just got to the part of Gene Sharp's "From Dictatorship To Democracy" where he says that dictatorships are most effectively resisted by collectives, communities, organizations, and groups.

If you want the benefit of the doubt about doing a Nazi-esque salute onstage, one thing I’d really recommend is behaving less like a Nazi offstage.

Could Biden have been more aggressive? Yes. But Republicans will always be able to more swiftly accomplish their goals because tearing things down is much easier than building them up.

🚨 PSA: If you are trans, do NOT mail in your passport to attempt to change your gender marker. The State Department is currently collecting them unchanged and will not give a public timeline for returning them. You could be without a passport indefinitely.

Our film is nominated for an Oscar, the community it is about is now under attack by settlers.

in Trump’s America, whenever a horrific tragedy occurs, i’m glad our first question is always: “was it Black or gay?”

Millennial Poets be like "I just submitted a heckin' big packet" (I am a Millennial Poet)

Grateful to Stone Circle Review for reupping my poem about the place between intimacy and faithlessness, which they kindly published 9 months/2000 eras ago!!!