Some things simply aren't worth the labor they require to sustain.
The waters that wash salt to the sea. The whisper of leaves unfolding. A planet awake and aware. PhD student in Environmental Studies. Writer. Scholar. Womanist killjoy. Alchemist. Owl. Dark as night. Black as pitch.
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Some things simply aren't worth the labor they require to sustain.
Man I’m so glad I trained on the Kate Middleton disappearance. I am ready to SCRUTINIZE some grainy cell phone footage. I am ready to be BAFFLED by an obvious photoshop covered by an even more obvious lie. LET’S GO. MY BODY IS READY
3. A fetish for death and rot and the desire to kill people so there's more death and rot.
My point was that America was founded on stolen land using first stolen indigenous and then stolen African and African American labor. And thank you. It's part of the Mississippi before its course was altered.
If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.
This labor day let’s never forget that the President of the United States has laid off a quarter million hard working Americans in the name of efficiency while simultaneously spending $200 million dollars on a golden ballroom for the White House.
Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Trump and his greedhead cronies may get a big surprise in spite of their efforts to rig the 2026 election. They could find themselves swamped by a blue wave. Americans are wising up to the fact that Trump is turning the American dream into a nightmare.
We'd definitely achieve a form the likes of which they have never seen and for which they are not possibly prepared.
He doesn't read.
Honestly, the hour-long run and march of people shouting “Free DC” up 14th Street today is the energy I needed this morning. I love you, DC.
Did this reader recently emerge from a medically-induced coma?
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
Pretty privilege.
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Probably because it's so plausible. 😆
Can we stop to talk about how remarkable the timing was? Compliant at 1am, Judge engaged at 2am, ex parte call to the Government at 2:30am (they did not answer), TRO at 4am? On a Sunday of a holiday weekend?!
Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s clerks this Labor Day weekend
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I stopped and turned back.
White ladies are wild.
Send this man to the dazed, drunken and endless swirl of entitled Hampton's key parties at multimillion dollar beach shacks, where he belongs. Somebody lure him. Tell him Miffy hit a horse with her Porsche and they need him to come render the meat. Tell him it's moldering! He'll love that!
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
Halfway through the alt text and ... I... cannot.
That is both awful and good to know. I'm sorry about what happened to your friends. Terrible.
I'll settle for a short video of him reading it.😈
He looks like someone a woman camping or hiking alone does not want to have to ask for help.
Again. It's trafficking children AGAIN.
HAPPENING NOW: Emergency hearing before Judge Sparkle Sooknanan is underway. I'm live posting for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow updates in the thread quoted below 🧵⬇️
As I've noted for some time now-- this is a culling.
I would watch six seasons of this followed by two somewhat-regrettable films and a revival series that comes out about 20 years after the first series ended.
“Manifestation isn’t real” well it’s worked pretty well for the right wing. They’ve created an entire alternate reality for themselves and our reality has bent to their will because of it. There’s something to be learned from that
Agreed. I've thought for a long time that Trump is a master of manifestation and the Law of Assumption. He clearly shows how easily they can be used to destructive ends if you don't know what you're doing or if you know what you're doing and you know others have no idea.
I asked ChatGPT to eat shit and it replied, "With noodles or rice?"
There's a morbidly obese Polynesian man working the cash register at my local Ross who thinks Trump's working hard to save white South Africans and who got into a shouting match with the white female security guard working the door, telling her she had no idea what he's capable of. Uh...
When he said he wanted to make America healthy again, he meant by unleashing a scourge that only the "healthy" would survive.
"He may have been a felonious rapist insurrectionist, but he was *our* felonious rapist insurrectionist.."
Worth remembering that any time I say "It's happening!" Kurt Vile just announced a tour.
Look forward to Stephen Miller's criminal trial and then life in prison for crimes against humanity.
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
They also pretended to care about children, all existing evidence to the contrary. Now that they're in power, they aren't bothering with that anymore.
Is the pre-workout he blends with those ingredients that's really impressive.
Myself, personally, I want to see rich white male criminals end up in prison not Rolling Stone.
Yes, we honor the innocent, they honor the violent.
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
I think, depending on the type of student or thinker you are, this could be incredibly challenging. I notice that if someone is watching me do a task, it takes longer and results in more mistakes I have to fix. But if I can hide away quietly and focus, I consistently produce strong work.
Personally, I feel more joy in rigor when I can think without someone standing inside my head.
I hope Michelle goes on vacation somewhere beautiful and luxurious with a really nice spa.
People like that can't see so much as a white tear without demanding Black suffering. Of course she wants him killed.
I looked it up. God, I'm so glad I left undergrad in 2000. Nothing like a little performance anxiety and feeling closely watched to fuel critical and creative essay drafting. It's like trying to craft poetry in a panopticon.
What fresh hell is Draftback? As someone who already wrote very well in undergrad, without creating separate drafts that could be easily uploaded and tracked, that sounds like a program that would just make me do more work to prove that I was really doing the work I was already doing.
Might take us a while to notice.
This pre-party's gone on way too long.
Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.
Yep. And then we act shocked when Ma Nature does a little pest control of her own.
if you mishear someone a 4th time and don't have the heart to say 'what?' again, try 'run that by me again big dog' instead
In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen
It's been a heck of a year. Would we notice the shift?
A federal judge has ordered Florida to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," after the state spent a staggering $218M to build the now-vacant detention camp. Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M. An utterly cruel and costly waste.
Art.
It is less a mass deportation regime as it is a mass kidnapping and indefinite detention regime
Thei wante us talkinge on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.
Remember: You can't trust Gavin Newsom but you can use him.
Hi. Did you just wake up from a medically-induced coma?
I'm confused. Do brain worms eat mitochondria?
I imagine future historians will judge us by recent events where the shooting of children in church is met with shrugs, thoughts and prayers, and a tech bro getting the crap kicked out of him by a 15-year-old girl resulted in a military occupation of the nation’s capital
I am so sick of unfuckable men.
It’s time to take serious action at the State Capitol to address gun violence.
Those look like they would make incredible gifts. Especially alongside some coffee beans. Really lovely.
I started school when they still taught critical thinking and I never missed a class. Your mind is ripe for propaganda and you're just letting it flow right in and then churning it right out.
Steal cigarettes, get choked out in a parking lot by beat cops. Launder millions, get a profile in Rolling Stone.
There's not a single fact in the article. Not one. It's bullshit until it's confirmed. A wish is not a fact and, until we know more, Wilson is wishcasting.
Hearsay, rumors, and whispers.
Donald Trump is a Republican president. Of course he trashed the economy.
They think if they let something happen to her that Black people will give them the riots they're hoping to exploit.
Now they're claiming that Black people are less then 2% of the population? She's full of shit and playing in our faces.
RFK Deuce's children and grandchildren just climbed out of a public sewer. You may want to slow your roll.
Just so we're clear, brain cancer doesn't only afflict the children of Democratic voters. They're trying to sicken everyone, supporters and opponents alike.
"No, no, my upside down calculator is definitely conscious. See, it says 8008135--it has carnal lust, a feature of consciousness."
The GOP and @JDVance have spent more time this week acting upset that "thoughts and prayers" are not a solution for gun violence than they have over the reality that the gun violence actually happened. It will continue to happen because "thoughts and prayers" is all they have.
Respectfully, "we" is carrying a heavy burden here. Many, many, many people, especially women of color, have been trying to avoid a regime like this for years. Speaking, working, organizing against this very potentiality. Even among Democratic voters, the failures are not distributed evenly.
Our government's response to Hurricane Katrina was a failure of civil rights and infrastructure policy as Black communities were left unprotected and forgotten. As extreme weather events get more common, elected officials must root out the racial justice failures that enabled Katrina’s destruction.
Missed opportunity to make the new logo in the shape of a severed whale head.
Remembering the late great GENE WILDER - who left us 9yrs ago today.
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O thou monster Ignorance, how deformed dost thou look!
The man looks like he hasn't had a satisfactory bowel movement since 1979.
LAW DORK: “A federal appeals court on Thursday evening took steps that Democratic appointees wrote could represent that best possible way of helping organizations funded by foreign aid payments to get money before a quickly approaching September 30 deadline.” www.lawdork.com/p/the-dc-cir...
And Elon Musk.
“Mr. President, JD Vance says he’s ready to take over for you as soon as you die. Any comment?”
Polis is a mask-off ghoul.
Did AI write this? His swollen ankles are consistent with frequent hand shaking? Pathetic.
Subterfuge incoming.
Maybe not where you're eating.
70 years ago today, Emmett Till was lynched by white supremacists. Here in Illinois, we promise to never hide from our history — no matter how painful the chapter. We honor his memory and his brave mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, by continuing the fight for civil rights and justice.
That woman really thought that no one would ever shoot her because she was a white woman. Hundred percent. And if it had been a Black person in that video, she would’ve been the first to say they should have complied.