Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
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Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Remember, the epidemic of mass shootings is neither inevitable nor unsolvable.
Thank you on this labor day!!
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Important things to know: 1) Blaha does this every year since she started running for office. It is honestly #MarketingGoals 2) LOOK IN THE MAGNIFYING GLASS. SHE USED BIGGER BEANS.
It's not over. Steam isn't allowing games with 'mature themes' in Early Access. Call, email, letter PayPal, Stripe, Mastercard, and Visa. Do your dailies.
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
"The straw man being put forward is that it's either we have the military or we're going to get our throats cut at night in DC. Is there no middle ground? Do local law enforcement account for nothing? We've got the National Guard GARDENING right now in DC. Is that an efficient use of our resources?"
Tech people are insane
The White Earth Nation’s bison herd welcomed its very first calf, marking what tribal leaders call ‘a new chapter’ in returning mashkode-bizhiki (bison) to Anishinaabe lands. Bison are being reintroduced through a partnership with the InterTribal Buffalo Council. buff.ly/XMsVVPs #ShareGoodNewsToo
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
IMHO, these are all inextricably intertwined: 1) authoritarianism 2) eugenics & racism & sexism 3) vandalism of public goods, property, and services 4) pseudo-science & anti-science They feed into one another and they never travel alone. Find one, and you'll find elements of all the others.
What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s was actually like.
Well, get your measles vaccine or booster before then, I guess🥲
it shouldn't be easier to get a gun in America than the covid vaccine
New York’s hottest club is Blame Zohran Mamdani for Crimes Committed While Eric Adams Is Mayor Under Laws Signed by Andrew Cuomo. It’s got everything—corrections officers who aren’t registered to vote in New York City, etc etc etc
This is a great time to remind everyone that EOs aren’t laws, the federal government doesn’t manage voting in this way, and it’s all a scare tactic and any reporting that doesn’t provide that context is enabling potentially lawless activity.
Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,
“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” - Fred Hampton
hello to everyone else who had no idea how you were supposed to pronounce “foyer” or “hors d'oeuvres” to the point that you heard both of them in real life and didn’t connect them to the words you read in books for years
From this week's It's A Hellscape, Friday Night Live — www.patreon.com/posts/137679... The MAHA eugenicists want to suppress demand for the COVID vax so they can kill it off completely. That's one reason you should go out of your way to get the COVID vaccine
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.
We should be ready for a cascading # of well-known politicians dying in the coming years because these people are incredibly old.
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Gavin is grandstanding on Twitter while punishing trans and houseless Californians. This is what he’d be doing if he wanted to really fight.
Excited for art historians to interpret this in a couple centuries. Good luck!
I think yes to this. RFK is a genuine threat the health, well-being, and lives of millions of Americans. the harm he has already done is hard to calculate. if there's any card that gets rid of him, now is the time to play it
I want a politics that widens the circle to include everyone, not one that shrinks the circle by throwing *undesirables* under the bus. I think this is basic. I am interested in a politics that is rooted at the sources of people's suffering. I am interested in a politics that attends to basic needs.
I keep saying this, but... ...punishing the homeless is how big-city and blue state liberals do fascism.
Fucking losing it how little of the reporting I’m reading about the CDC not mentioning how an anti-vaxxer gunman killed a police officer and fired hundreds of rounds at the building 2 weeks ago. An end to end ouroborous of delusional mania. The GOP will probably give the shooter a posthumous medal.
they think they can just erase trans joy and trans freedom. they can't. they can make things a lot harder and more painful. but that joy and that freedom is not theirs to take and it is incumbent on all good people to say so.
For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
I realise that to cis people, when trans people lose access to gender-affirming care, it seems like we're bitching about not getting our little treats. I have more than one friend whose body is currently falling apart because it no longer makes its own hormones and the government banned their HRT.
Demanding accountability of the entire trans community for this single mass shooting but not demanding accountability from the cis community for the thousands and thousands of other mass shootings is monstrous beyond all belief.
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
the thing that's so fucking infuriating about this is how much more that matters for the bottom 10% $1200 can be life or death at that level of income top 10%? $13K is nice, to be sure, but it's "maybe we'll take another vacation" nice not "oh good now we can afford to eat this month"
Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? “Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
Schmittian constitutionalism
in the last year this is the onion headline i most often think about
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
Essential deep dive into an under-the-radar, but important, election this fall in Maine.
I don’t want to hear shit about “the shooter was trans” from a media that has spent the last two decades painting every radicalized white male shooter as a lone wolf
Back in 2020, YouTube suspended OAN's channel, demonetized it, and noted it was not an "authoritative" source. Now, five years later, the Google-owned platform has inked a deal to put the MAGA propaganda network in millions of living rooms. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/youtube-oa...
From an uptick in comms from wildlife rescue places lately: don't use glue traps, they're so cruel; do not spray paint wildlife, including birds and turtles; do not pick any animal by the tail or you can severely injure their spine. This includes opossums, for whom it can be life threatening.
What to know: Senator Murray is one of the most effective Senate Democrats. She is the highest ranking Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Recording of tonight's emergency live going through what we know about 2025-2026 COVID vaccine availability and answering questions is now available here: www.patreon.com/posts/record...
A decade after a massacre near Santa Barbara, @markfollman.bsky.social's interviews with the killer's mother hold valuable lessons for prevention. From 2024:
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
I have found a lot of use for Melinda Cooper’s concept of the anti-social state: a government that exists only to extract wealth and inflict violence, and dismantles all its pro-social and life-enabling functions. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Trans women were the most targeted among us before and they will be even more so after today—especially in the US, but this targeting could travel everywhere. If you know trans women in your local community, I would suggest asking if they feel unsafe and how you can help. Protect our sisters.
So I wanna talk about Shoppin’ Sheryl and her Mini Market for a sec cuz this may be the most woefully mis-marketed doll in toy history She had A jointed thumb like GI Joe’s combat grip A goddamn MAGNETIC hand Swivel hip joint 360 jointed neck This is not a “shopper” this is a f*cking ASSASSIN
Shoppin' Sheryl out here with soup and sandwiches for her family wow betide the fash who come for her neighbors!
This from Riley Gaines is why trans people freak out when Democrats try to carve out some compromise over sports. The politicians and activists attacking trans people are not interested in compromise! They're interested in our eradication from public life and are exploiting sports to that end
Gonna need to see a lot more politicians call for removing “A.i.” from government and education and defunding OpenAI and ChatGPT.
Some say it couldn't be done, some swore it would never happen, but the day is finally here. I convinced @alexsteed.bsky.social to let me talk about Jackass for a very long time on @youaregood.bsky.social
I'm calling it the mail loneliness epidemic
RFK Jr's post on Elon Musk's X . com says the vaccines will be available "for all patients who choose them after consulting with their doctors." Pfizer has announced they have begun immediately shipping vaccine. Analysis is at: www.patreon.com/posts/137487...
This is one of the best pieces of writing and culture criticism you’ll read all year.
I'm so sick and tired of all the senseless mass killing in our country committed as a result of easy access to guns. I can't even grieve the senseless loss of innocent children without fearing for my community's safety in the aftermath because the far right wants to scapegoat trans people.
You get money from a book you published on a date you can't predict. it will be a sum you can't predict. you will never know if the ranch is saved or not. Everyone makes interest off your royalties before you do, and you're probably not making *any* interest at all And you don't have dental.
The chatbot mental health crisis is here. No one is ready for it www.platformer.news/chatgpt-suic...
an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening
Anyone who uses this is a fool being parted from their money, and educationally abusing their child. This will fail, expensively, and the people most harmed will be the children who had no control over where they went to school, and did not learn to read or write or reason. Gift link
Pritzker is describing Trump’s fascist invasion of Chicago with total moral and political clarity. It’s an example that every other Democrat in the country should follow.
“Jordan, why do you bully people about AI on the internet?” Because I don’t know them in real life. I’d love to bully them in person.
Join the largest Palestinian community in the U.S. at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit this weekend, August 29-31, "to strategize, prepare, and utilize the existing skills and capacity of our movement in this next phase of struggle." peoplesconferenceforpalestine.org
Inside of me are two panda bears, always eating and falling off of shit
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
No More Police: If you want to dive deeper, our co-founders @prisonculture.bsky.social and @dreanyc123.bsky.social wrote an entire book about policing, and why cops don't stop violence. You can check out book-related resources, including interviews, a discussion guide, and more: bit.ly/NoMorePolice
I know this is not a unique observation but public health was basically created to deal with the Spanish flu, and then a century later COVID hit and killed twice as many people and our response was to destroy public health
“If someone tells you it's raining and another tells you it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. It's your job to look out the fucking window and find out which is true.” -Jonathan Foster, journalism professor
this is your reminder that our ✨Pride✨ section never closes www.peculiarityshop.com/pride
Abraham Lincoln was a messy bitch who lived for drama
Simone Zimmerman on the US Jewish community's obligations for accountability wrt Palestinian lives. Crucial. Honored that she built on my book ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR. Tho imho more credit due to a couple orgs--PIN lead on weapons embargo, Truah did advocacy in ways that just weren't CD.
They call your Social Security & Medicare 'Entitlements' so you don't call them something silly like 'Earned Benefits.'
She was never apolitical, she just took aim at fat people, which people thought was acceptable and therefore they misinterpreted her as apolitical.
help me stay alive so I can make more stupid shit ♥ patreon.com/mrlovenstein thank you so much
States can and should resist federal overreach when it comes to voter data!
Happy birthday Marsha P. Johnson, visionary and fiery Black trans activist who birthed a movement. She’d by 80 today, and should still be alive. Her legacy is one of revolutionary advocacy for global LGBTQ+ liberation. Her life is a testament to the need for sex worker rights & decriminalization.
So many people's politics are entirely irrational, just fully vibes-based. Standing on business against their own best interests, or even their own survival. And don't be under the impression this is uniquely American. This is a human failing.
You know one thing that really annoys me about this latest craze is that the obsession with reducing one's "biological age" is occurring in the same moment when many of the same people would rather die than consider that "biological sex" is mutable.
If someone claims to be scared of the subway but isn’t scared of being in a car on the highway—which is exponentially more dangerous + deadly—they are not a serious person
genuinely difficult for me to get into the headspace of someone so insanely narcissistic that their response to criticism and dislike is to say "everyone who disagrees with me isn't an actual human being."
30 Helens agree this is BS
Serenity (2005) & preceding TV series Firefly (2002-2003) met my spouse in a Firefly/Serenity/post-apoc-themed virtual bar in Second Life in 2008
I made this for you. And you. And your trans friend. And their cis friend’s trans kid. And your lawyer friend who does pro bono. And your mom who keeps saying we’re overreacting. And your attorney. And your partner. And your provider. And your representative. And your city councilor. But mostly you.
People are constantly asking me — what can I do? Between now and the 2026 midterm elections, here are five practical steps you can take to make a difference.
Also we need a law that requires a mandatory C Suite austerity program before a company can begin layoffs of its workers
No matter what you think about Mr. Abrego Garcia, if you believe in due process you should be infuriated by this. The Trump admin is threatening to dump him in Africa as punishment for not pleading guilty to criminal charges they brought to avoid complying with a court order.
hey if youre sick of seeing all this shit about Payment processors and censorship ID laws etc trust me, us folks talking about it are sick of having to post about it too. we wanna be posting about anything else right now but we are collectively at a point of no return we HAVE to fight this. NOW.
Like I'm not even an artist and I feel insane that this has to be pointed out to ostensive experts in the industry but concept art is not just pretty pictures to help a CEO 'visualize' an idea in his withered brain
"AI" has no mind and therefore cannot possess concepts
Unbelievable. This coverup is absolutely unhinged.
the only two genres of posts i want to see from elected representatives are (1) “this government is fascist and illegitimate and we must organize a true resistance and so i’m doing [X]” or (2) “look! it’s senator what’s her face!”
New special "Kill the Butterflies" is out now.
