Oof.
Former sociologist, lawyer, AIDS activist, and union organizer. Queer parent managing variable disability. Still punk AF. π€ they/she Fight like hell for the living.
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Oof.
Yes lol, and I say that from my couch in the suburbs π
"This Sunday, I retired as a command sergeant major. In nearly three decades of wearing the uniform, I never carried a government-issued weapon into civilian spaces in the States...Civilians didnβt see us walking into Krispy Kreme or boarding public transit with pistols on our hips..."
Thereβs a woman who sits in front of the Heritage Foundation with a sign that reads βHeritage = Nazisβ and just blows a whistle at every staffer who leaves the building, and I love it and love her for doing it.
And these particular two are both gold elite level husbands each on their own.
This is the way.
I need to check the schedule, there is definitely always good stuff playing. The guys saw the Muppet Christmas Carol there last year.
Also Raul looking like a young Clive Owen here is doing me in π₯΅π₯΅
Yep. This is your generation's Some Kind Of Wonderful for making people bi.
βThe assumption is it's your AC that's driving peak load and therefore the size of the system. But with data centers, that goes out the window. Ninety-100% of future expense is attributable to data center demand growth. Not residential, not small businesses, not farms.β www.wusa9.com/article/news...
The ad campaign criticizing the use of masks by federal agents working in Washington, D.C. has expanded to 115 bus stops, per organizers
These movies spark so many good family conversations about masculinity and sexism!
Love this one! Is it still at the AFI through the month? My teen recently got into Hitchcock and they would love to see one in a theater.
For me it's Douche Hat
Aaaaiiiiiieeeeee
When we say the revolution will be the parents of trans kids, we are TRULY not fucking around. Lose my fucking number.
Ahhh. Virtual hug and a cup of coffee while wrapped in a blanket on the deck to him. Another way in which we are similar, my stress dreams are similarly detailed and layered!
Displaced in Gaza upholds the long-standing Palestinian tradition of storytelling, documenting both the horror of the genocide and the resilience of the Palestinian people. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2620-d...
Someone asked me what victory against the forces seeking to occupy Chicago looks like. Obviously, those forces being repelled is the goal, but there are layers to what success looks like in these deteriorating conditions. The first is to successfully resist the normalization of military occupation.
I've been there! It really does taste different/better.
NEW: DC grand jurors reject more Justice Dept cases Former DOJ attorney: βNot only have I never heard of this happening, I've never heard of a prosecutor who's heard of this happeningβ www.cbsnews.com/news/d-c-gra...
I've been keeping in touch with Mohamed off the app. the good news: he finally finished school! the bad news: he didn't eat to afford school fees. send him some congrats with a donation/share?
I was amazed at how I was never confused! I still think about parts of that show, it was (as we say in our house) so much better than it deserved to be.
Ooh I love that first one! The lines and color blocking are both fantastic.
Great books on this are Whiteness of A Different Color by Matthew Frye Jacobson and Canarsie by Jonathan Rieder (probably more recent ones exist!). Shout out to Al Young at UMich for his urban ethnography course that blew our minds.
Perhaps not obviously, these recs are for fellow readers who want to go deeper, I know Jamelle knows.
Great books on this are Whiteness of A Different Color by Matthew Frye Jacobson and Canarsie by Jonathan Rieder (probably more recent ones exist!). Shout out to Al Young at UMich for his urban ethnography course that blew our minds.
Today is my baby's first day of high school how?! I am handling it super well.* *singing Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt to the dog
Schumer is out of his fucking mind. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
A kind reminder that a "politics of you deserved this" (cancer, vaccine-preventable disease, natural disaster, etc) has no place in public health. We can hold bad actors to account without punching down on the groups most harmed by their actions and/or resorting to shame, blame, and stigma.
This is the face of a cartoon cat who is being confronted by its human owner when it still has the live goldfish swimming around in its mouth
Folks, a party iffy on protecting completely innocent and ordinary immigrants and transgender people is not going to go out of its way to defend the human rights of accused drug traffickers. We're talking about people who lack the moral courage of the average Pomeranian. Don't know what to tell you.
again weβre seeing how the glide path toward authoritarian overreach here is disrupted by regular people than by big institutions or the powerful people who run them
They choose to do this for their job precisely because they don't see people as numbers. Good therapists know for every person they treat there are a dozen more they wish they could help. You aren't going to be nameless to them. π
Mask up punks! We save us!
Weβre regularly told the fate of small rural towns is of vital importance to our nationβs soul. But a town of 700,000 people is not so important to the country.
Was going to take the kids to the new activation by @downtowndc.org.web.brid.gy in Franklin Park after school pickup but watched a reckless and dangerous Park Police response that involved officers almost hitting pedestrians to respond to a single unhoused person and now I'm not.
metro stations have clearly become one of the top targets of national guard deployment.
Iconic photo of pioneer punk women taken by Michael Putland 45 years ago. #music From left to right, top to bottom: - Debbie Harry (Blondie) - Viv Albertine (The Slits) - Siouxsie Soux (SATB) - Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders) - Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex) - Pauline Black (The Selecter)
[That wasn't meant as disagreement, I love to see this basic stance return!]
Not even left, just basic principle of "people supporting us chose our version, why would we give them the shit they rejected instead." That has been entirely lost outside the neo-Nazi parties.
My dog is not here for my bullshit* *being the only one left at home at the end of summer break
You have to go 12 miles over the limit to trigger a speed camera. So. Maybe just drive *less* over the limit next time, I don't know.
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. NΚkiβwah brother.
My kid starts high school today too. How is this happening?
how do i explain to my kids two women being married?? how explain sun go away at night but come back next day? how explain magic rectangle show people talk??? HOW
There are studies that show not closing schools led to tens of thousands more deaths in the places that stayed open. I am sure the hundreds of thousands of kids whose primary caregiver died would have rather learned a bit less math that year.
Happy Labor Day, comrades π«‘
Happy Labor Day! This holiday was established in 1894 to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the contributions of working people. Celebrate with us with some thematic reading, pictured below.
he'll always be dead in our hearts
Join local journalist and NABJ award-winner Lonnae O'Neal for a conversation with deputy editor of Politico, Teresa Wiltz, discussing Lonnaeβs book βBibb Countryβ September 2 at 6 pm at the Hyattsville Branch Libraryπ Info & registration: pgcmls.info/event/14448203
my sister googled "fun things to do in Boston this weekend" and it told her to go sit on Storrow Drive and watch a bunch of college kids peel their rented Penske moving trucks open like tin cans
Local outlets have been reporting on these exact same community efforts in Los Angeles over the last few months, and itβs heartening to see that folks on the ground in DC have taken notice and are taking similar action for themselves and their neighbors.
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I get it! I was a devotee of their single bean Bolivian "full city" roast for a decade, but then I think that farm went out of business and it disappeared.
Aye aye! bsky.app/profile/nml-...
I am a devotee of Love Buzz, we buy the 5lb bulk bags. shop.equalexchange.coop/collections/...
Nice to meet you, Donnybrook π
I can fully believe that the delicious yet not-hotβspicy garam masala flavor was invented for Europeans.
Ugh, phone changed Pine to Pines all over the place π
Oof. Good luck!
This time of day, always (workers' coop organic) coffee. And being reminded that Chris Pine likes the same tiny bright-colored corduroy shorts as my teen. Also, those shorts.
I showed your pic to my teen saying "look, Hammies spotted in the wild, now you've seen someone else wearing them!" They looked me in the eye and deadpanned, "I saw Chris Pines wearing them." π
Not weird at all, I love it! I am selective, but I have a couple out.
no matter your politics itβs disrespectful to joke about someoneβs death. donβt say rudy giuliani died from driving his car into a wall painted to look like a tunnel and all his clothes flew off in the crash and then a sixteen wheeler semi truck ran over his dick and balls. donβt say stuff like that
Okay HAMMIES ππ The only shorts my teen will wear for the past 4 years, they have them in 6 colors. Thank god they last so long (and my kid grows slowly) or I would be bankrupt π
Yess lol
hereβs a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road
That is exactly what my teen is doing this afternoon! They have had some lucky finds (nothing this good though).
tiktok taking down their live feature in indonesia while the protests are happening shows they understand the ability that app had to show people what was really happening in gaza and they intend not to let it happen again
Big "if you are silenced why can I still hear you" vibes lol
For the evening crowd: if anyone has specific ACTUAL information about providers or pharmacies who have verified they will be administering the novavax COVID-19 vax THIS YEAR in the Washington DC area, please let me (and many others watching this thread) know!
For nearly an entire year of college, for lunch I would get a salted soft pretzel with a slice of provolone at the student cafe, that I would microwave for 10 seconds just to make the cheese soft. Damn, now I want a pretzel.
Salted pretzel in the streets, cinnamon sugar in the sheets* *airport/mall
This DC/MD spike is not messing around, everyone take care of yourselves.
Seeing all these posts waiting for that man to die got me thinking bout you and wondering why our love had to dieβ¦ I know you gave me 45 chances but I hope this ainβt how our term gotta end. π
Didn't we just go through this with the vp ffs.
You took a (long) break from wearing a mask, right? You got away with it. But, guess what? There's a *lot* more Covid around again. And, access to vax is up in the air. Just put a (good) mask on again when you're out and about and you'll be much more protected as well as protecting others. β¨β¨β¨
A Texan among us!
Saw a skeet that said βIβm an atheist but last night I prayed for one very particular thingβ and do you know how much you gotta hate a mfer to pray for their death to a god you donβt believe in?
Us being here everyone who isn't making money from the scams. If you're not the dealer, you're the mark. Watch a heist movie ffs.
When will people see that they are only ever going to try to take more from us. Nothing they do is going to be a gift of time, energy, or life for us. We have to refuse it and take what's real for ourselves, or die trying.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says βCan I help you find something?β βIβm looking for the obituaries.β βThe obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.β βNot the one Iβm looking for.β
The fed takeover is a violent escalation from anything we dealt with at the city level before. But pretending that local officials & police arenβt at least complicit, at worst actively cheering this on, is an insult to anyone with the bare minimum awareness of whatβs happening on the ground
They're all up and down the green line, and a lot of kids up here go by metro to school. It's incredibly fucked up to set up Chekov's gun on the fucking train with these weekend soldier cosplayers. Someone is going to get killed through stupidity and sheer malice.
Setting off the alarms on both cars and cheering in the streets.
Middle school bestie always.
standing on our balcony yelling down to each boy and asking him βwhat newsβ
This story is bullshit. I am one of the 7,000 New Orleans public school teachers/employees they fired 2 weeks after the storm. They privatized our schools & took our community healing away from us. Charter schools are based on eugenics model. We need a journalist who has the spine to tell our story.
I remember being impressed by Ray. And yeah, I generally hate them and don't watch them.
βWhen you see multiple failed indictments like this, it indicates either that the government is bringing extraordinarily weak cases,β said a former Justice Department official, βor that there is some kind of jury nullification or show of discretion by grand jurors is taking place.β
Itβs baffling to me that so much of the U.S. (and the world) has decided that letting their kids get sick at school all the time (and spread illness to their parents and everyone else) is preferable to just β¦ adequately cleaning indoor air
WE'RE STILL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIGHT AND PAYMENT PROCESSORS STILL AREN'T BACKING DOWN. WE HAVE NOT WON YET.