I just want to do some good in this world. I will fuck up, I will listen, and I will learn. That will, I believe, allow me to do even more good. I also hold an expectation of you all to do the same. Be strong for your heart and mind, but also be willing to admit your mistakes.

If they will do this to children, on the flimsiest excuse, they will do it to anyone. Including, on the flimsiest excuse, you.

Read the whole thread. Absorb. Understand. Enact. #snotnoseguttersnipe

This country is a horror movie.

It took me a long time to realize that many people DON’T know that farmland is a vital resource. All soil is not created equal. Losing good farmland is a bit like losing a forest—you can’t just transplant it elsewhere at random and get the same place back again.

Good morning, happy people! Do you like... * Mermaids * Horrifying biology * Really well-researched science * Realistic diversity in fiction * Feeding my cats? DO I HAVE THE BOOK FOR YOU.

1) Border Patrol and ICE were gestapo-level assholes under both Rep and Dem leadership -- this problem isn't new 2) We're spiraling down into unabashed fascism under the current administration Both of these things are true! They don't negate each other. https://t.co/deY3HMiBPK

I am reading these first-hand accounts of mothers who had their children taken from them, with no word of where they were going or how to contact them, and I'm thinking about someone doing that to me and my kids and I feel a rage so powerful I think I'm gonna pass out.

We were the country that accepted you when you ran from danger toward a better life. That is what we said. Today we are literally ripping sobbing children from their parents, and then losing the kids. This is a nightmare. It’s so horrible it defies words. #WhereAreTheKids

reminder: you can empathize w the trauma #JunotDiaz experienced as a child & still hold him accountable for the trauma he’s caused others.his abuse provides context, perhaps, but there is no justification. it is possible to be both victim & abuser - one doesn’t outweigh the other

Nice is not the same as kind. Nice is not the same as ethical. Nice is not the same as moral. The older I get, the less interested I am in “nice.” Nice is the gift wrap; it says nothing about what’s inside.