Good morning: When will white women be held accountable for raising mass shooters & sexual predators the same way you all insisted black women were to blame for raising black men that you all called “thugs?” (Despite that not being the case)😉😉😉
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Good morning: When will white women be held accountable for raising mass shooters & sexual predators the same way you all insisted black women were to blame for raising black men that you all called “thugs?” (Despite that not being the case)😉😉😉
Either we give them the storm now, or there isn't one in 2026. I'm not saying cancellation of elections is inevitable, but anyone who thinks they'll happen without full-throated, non-electoral and IMMEDIATE direct action, just isn't paying attention.
Responding to this thread by making fun of me for being Jewish or suggesting that I don’t care about people from other religious identities isn’t pro-Palestine or a smart gotcha it’s just antisemitism aimed at someone who is very on record about, for example, the major problem of Islamophobia
Besides that, as attractive as it sounds in this one particular case, we know who's disparately impacted by laws that exclude people with felony convictions, and it isn't rich white men.
honestly insane how reporters have kept going "well but crime down so isn't this a good thing" about the take over of DC, dawg the reason why crime has collapsed is the same reason why restaurants are in freefall, because no one is outside because of all the goddamn goons
🚨🚨🚨Heads up, Chicago!!!! The gestapo is headed your way on September 5!!!! Download the @iceblock.app if you haven’t already, start using Waze for your navigation to get and make alerts of ice, and start planning in your communities for active, peaceful resistance!!!!! This is all hands on deck!!!!
Do yourself a favor and go watch the entire series of Reservation Dogs.
why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
why do transphobes have a fucking monopoly on "having some concerns about fairness", can i have a concern about the fairness of normalizing kids getting their genitals inspected by strange adults for reasons entirely unrelated to health or hygiene as a prerequisite for peewee soccer?
I’ve not ordered anything from Bibi, but I’ve heard nothing but amazing things from people who have. You need something, look to Bibi!
Let’s all toast the incredible Judge Sparkle Sooknannon and her clerks for being up since 2:30 in the goddamned morning to ensure this absolute dumpster fire of an administration didn’t deport 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children. On a Sunday. On a holiday weekend. My god. #AltCitizen for real 👏👏👏👏
You don't get rear-ended on the interstate unless you're driving really slow, probably in the passing lane. Are we sure Giuliani wasn't driving?
MORE: Sparkle Sooknanan is still awake -- and she wants a fourth status report from DOJ. The judge orders the government to update her when all putative class members have been returned to ORR custody.
Any time you feel bad about your cooking think about how bad all of RFKjr's recipes are Like his version of a BLT is just doublefisting handfuls of raw bacon and uncooked flour, washing it down with swamp water like some kind of fucked up Shrek
HSI and MPD working together in Shaw
Sometimes when discussing the historical influence of eugenics, scientific racism, etc., "pseudoscience" gets invoked as a kind of game of no true Scotsman so that we can effectively edit them out of the history of science as not being "real" and therefore trivial.
Federal agents in DC have been starting dangerous car cases for small stuff like tinted windows. The chases violate DC police policy. Out of 10 cases, six ended in a crash. One car had a minor in back. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
Griffin’s definition of fascism as palingenetic ultranationalism—specifically a reactionary nostalgia for a lost history of the nation that never existed—remains undefeated. A nostalgia for a type of bread that is ubiquitous, created in the 20th century, and rage towards bread as old as civilisation
The thing I love about the US is that we're the only nation in the world confused enough to: have produced the most CO2 in the atmosphere, wag our fingers at everyone else about CO2 emissions, claim that the world can't switch to solar fast enough, then get mad at China for subsidizing their solar
Trump's contribution to our politics was exposing that conservatives don't care about any of the principles they've said are sacrosanct for 100 years, and all they wanted was to be openly evil instead of circuitously evil. The Democrats who win will be the ones who understand this and act like it
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
Obviously, and no one in this thread has misunderstood that. The point is that it has enormous /political/ significance, and will unquestionably inform state level decisions that DO have legal significance.
& state election officials like Ohio's Frank LaRose & his GOP trifecta, who've been engaged in an ongoing campaign of voter suppression, & are eager to enact every new voter suppression measure Trump references? 23 states have a GOP trifecta, & 2 more have veto proof legislative supermajorities.
#EpsteinFiles
"everyone needs to preemptively agree to eat this shit sandwich in two years. Everyone has to do this right now. It's SO important, you have to do it. why are our voter registration numbers tanking"
This needs to be said more! Through embracing routine fiscal and political crises as the natural terrain for technocratic dealmaking, Dems have been rehearsing the emotional logic and rhythm of Trumpism for decades. “Vote blue no matter who” is part of that.
I'd say that considering who is doing the trolling, it's only a matter of time before it backfires on the most vulnerable communities, as usual with both parties, one party being vastly immune to their own hypocrisy and to shame, I don't see how it will actually do anything but backfire, tbh.
Not incidentally, "The Shoe" was plastered with banner ads for Anduril during yesterday's blockbuster season opener. I don't know how much that's worth, but it might explain why OSU has been so eager to bend the knee to Trump from the beginning.
The Ohio State University banned chalk on campus just before the start of fall classes this year. Students in violation will be charged for the cost of removal and subjected to disciplinary action. fod.osu.edu/news/2025/08...
This 100%. Newsom and his PR team's only strategy seems to be "trolling Trump." It makes moderate Dems feel a nice tingle, and too many seem to think sharing memes is top tier activism. 😣 Trump may not even be alive in 2028. Trolling tactics won't work with other GOP candidates. What then? 🤷
This is the exact kind of thing that happens in the Centenal Cycle book trilogy by Malka Older (which you should totally read, it’s excellent). Everyone is hyper focused on elections and politics. Even just after one election, the news cycle and social media discussions are all about the next one.
Last January, a source shared evidence with me that DOGE was installing devices on govt servers to upload data to the cloud. Some hosts were FOREIGN. On Friday, a whistleblower resigned and came forward to share the same. Listen to what we found in January: www.muellershewrote.com/p/a-fork-in-...
They find it soothing and cry less, which means the customers aren't disturbed by their shrieks.
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
I don't even want to watch the game. Not while the school is still protecting a dead pedophile, not while Black students can put their bodies on the line for football but not learn their own history, not while washable art is banned as too political. But here I am with FOMO. #OSUTX #NCAAFootball
Yeah popularism is a lot like originalism in that it's just a way to launder your own preferences. Be extremely skeptical of anyone who tells you to change your own real-world advocacy to placate an imaginary guy
Robert E. Lee killed more U.S. troops in battle than Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden combined
Cannot stress this enough but if the bipartisan consensus on Israel-Palestine was held up solely out of electoral expediency, then Obama would have banned trade with settlements and recognized Palestine in 2016 because polls showed *at the time* that a majority of Democrats supported this.
I have been extremely critical of the political motives of the CDC as far back as 2020, but even as it fumbled the bag (generously) on COVID, destroying it completely was never the right decision, and people suggesting it were not friends. This will have worldwide consequences. Death.
The airport, a jail, and a prison in Ohio's Mahoning Valley have emerged as a major part of the network the Trump administration is using to conduct mass deportations. As it has, residents and advocates are raising concerns ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/28/n...
Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
wat
You can take the cracker out of the barrel, but ... oh wait, you can't.
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There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.
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Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.
one commonality between the right's response to disease and climate change... if you want to pretend something isn't a problem and have people believe it, you also have to pretend the solutions aren't necessary and should be abandoned
So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday were unable to secure a felony assault indictment against a man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent on the streets of Washington this month, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Open to all! If you're a scientist, please include your credentials. Anyone, scientist or not, who thinks RFKJr needs to step down before he causes any more harm, please sign and share.
(I mean I get that it's happening now. At scale, in a universally carceral setting - that's coming.)
A judgment is made that someone is "mentally ill" (sometimes a snap judgment, sometimes a treating professional's), and suddenly they have no right to consent or bodily autonomy. You know it won't be long before trans folk are ONCE AGAIN subjected to forcible detransition, just as one example.
Where did we get the idea that a person has to be FORCIBLY prevented from harming themselves, anyway? That the State can harm someone to prevent them from harming themselves? It comes from slavery - the same origin as police.
That's literally an oxymoron. Either their clients can trust them, or they can't. I get that the law in most if not all US states, and possibly elsewhere, requires MHPs to be untrustworthy. Those laws don't make it less of a conflict of interest.
This reads like you're only soliciting signatures from scientists (a sensible approach). Can you clarify whether a non-scientist should sign?
Social workers working for cops is a conflict of interest. It would probably be good for SWs to be called to support the victim of domestic abuse AFTER the perp is removed from the scene. There's absolutely no reason to involve cops in mental health situations.
And it will not stop until our society grapples with its deep and ongoing racism problem. I hope Nas X is being treated well to the extent anyone ever is in “the system” and that he comes out in a better place.
This will not stop until police are not involved in mental health and addiction first aid, and it will not stop until we remove carceral clinical settings as the enforced result of public crisis. It will not stop until the concept of “erratic behavior” loses its power with nondisabled folks.
Racism on top means that BIPOC in crisis are pretty much never approached in any manner meant to deescalate. Any benefit of the doubt a white disabled person might experience, however unlikely, is out of the question.
Policing is set up to enforce conformity, and cops’ bias means they interpret nonconformity, as in someone not communicating or acting as they expect as danger. And given cops have been trained “that their only job is to come home”, they act accordingly. It is weaponized disgust.
Whether the Lil Nas X arrest comes down to substance use or mental health crisis or both, it’s a good time to remember that cops are absolute shit at dealing with disability. 50% of excessive force deaths are disabled people, and that number is even higher when the intersection of race is involved.
Ohhh…I get it now! They removed the picture of the “Cracker” and the barrel.
In 1968, 43 African American soldiers at Fort Hood in Texas refused deployment for riot control at DNC in Chicago. “We shouldn’t have to go out there and do wrong to our own people." When will our state's National Guard do the same? #RESIST through #PeacefulProtest #NONViolenceIsPower #StopICE
Trans rights are non negotiable. You start negotiating the civil rights of any marginalized group, and pretty soon you negotiate the rights for every marginalized group.
Some examples of likely net benchmark Silver plan premium hikes in Hartford, CT: acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-...
Here in Michigan, gross ACA premiums are going up by around 17% on average statewide starting January 1st,, ranging from 4 - 25% by carrier. acasignups.net/rate_changes...
It's called fascism. Say it. FASCISM. One more time: They're not distractions because we can multitask. Next.
Okay, but how does your formulation account for the Democratic establishment also abandoning covid precautions? Even when the '24 DNC Convention became a superspreader event that sidelined hundreds of activists at the most critical time in the election cycle, and damaged the brains of many leaders?
Worth adding: blatant transphobia from liberals has steadily risen since the election last year, but now it's rapidly increasing. This is ugly, even if it's not particularly surprising.
Since the Newsom propaganda push ramped up, I've seen a sharp increase in open transphobia from liberals, online and off, up to and including slurs. Talking to other trans folks, including in other parts of the country, has confirmed that a lot of us are facing this.
The median voter isn't a pureed balance of elite centrist takes, they're somebody who has a passionate opinion about vehicle registration fees but couldn't name the current vice president.
4. A drawing of a person looking out a window and talking on a phone. Text: “Families should seek support and counsel. Make sure a legal guardian has been designated for your child. This is frightening news, but you don’t have to deal with it alone.”
Text: “We don’t know yet what the government intends to do with that information, but people shouldn’t assume that their legal and constitutional protections will be honored.” (cont'd)
2. A drawing of Boston Children’s Hospital. Text: “We now now that they specifically requested names of minor patients and details about their families.” 3. A drawing of balance scales and a gavel. (cont'd)
Image description: A four panel comic. 1. A drawing of AG Pam Bondi. Text: “On August 21st, the American federal government requested that 20 children’s hospitals hand over trans youth medical records.” (cont'd)
It is fair to say I've never heard this argument used in the UK to query whether 17 year-olds should take decisions that will result in enormous loans to fund higher education that most will never pay off.
Anyways that rat fuck is a spineless worm who is cowtowing to the right in an effort to appear Sensible when he delivered a toast at a wedding between a trans woman and a trans man in 2019 because the trans dude, Nats Getty, is his GODCHILD. He will sell out ANYONE for more power. Scum.
Child labor laws keep getting rolled back. Child marriage stays legal in many US states. But don't expect medical care til they're 25.
Hilarious that “Overton window” is on this list when you remember that Joe Overton was a libertarian strategist at the right-wing Mackinac Center lol
My university also asked us to implement a viewpoint neutrality policy by incorporating multiple viewpoints on the syllabus which I interpreted to mean adding a whole range—anarchist to statist, neoliberal to communist, starting off with Indigenous cosmology and ending with radical abolition.
VoterRecords.com is rarely inaccurate, since they pull direct from the BoEs. I'm surprised. It might just have been an assumption on someone's part, or maybe she voted in a R primary between '18 and '20, but either way she's unaffiliated now.
She registered to vote in Ohio in 2018. In Ohio, you acquire a party affiliation either by pulling a ballot in a partisan primary, or by running as a candidate in a partisan election. It scrolls off after 2 yrs. Public records only go back to 2021, but she hasn't voted in a primary since then.
so ... you're saying that a person's party affiliation may change, but their political stances don't? I can't really generalize on that point. I know too many people on both sides of it. And if Usha Vance has said anything publicly one way or the other I haven't heard it.
jeez I ain't even make that connection with the gladiator shit jfc
So, "formerly a Democrat." Not currently.
His what? voterrecords.com/voters/usha-...
Right, everyone knows you conjugate verbs and decline nouns
Nah. 72% of all statistics are made up by the person citing them, anyway.
He's a POS but if there's a radical feminist bone in him I haven't seen it.
“‘A walking coffin’: Under Texas abortion laws, some women are forced to endure stillbirth A San Antonio woman had no choice but to continue a pregnancy after her baby stopped growing. He became her third stillbirth.” Laura Caruba, Marin Wolf for @dallasnews.com
You know I bet you could just put a Spirit Halloween sign on any abandoned mall and then just start living there, no one would even bat an eye. Invite all your friends to join you, start a commune in there. Worst case, you gotta buy some masks to sell if anyone stumbles in.
You should want to figure that out, because you should want to not make people feel singled out and crappy for things they can’t help. That some of you get resentful is really despicable.
If access is disruptive, that’s on you to figure out without reducing a group of people to second class citizens who have to enter through the back.
Accessibility is not a “favor” you do disabled people. It’s a human right. And if you do provide it, as decent people are supposed to do, you don’t bitch about it.
Yup. Cultural appropriation isn't limited to stealing brown people's cultures.
In your lungs. Where the air resonates. When the top fuel dragsters used to run 20 miles away from me, I'd feel their runs in my lungs more than I'd hear them. I want elephant music. I bet they have it.