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Not me realizing at 2am that I don’t have lunch for work tomorrow and can’t just grab something on my way because I don’t yet know what I can safely eat so I have to rush to the store for overpriced veg and meat to stir-fry something in 20 minutes. 🙃
The disconnect is astounding. I KNOW y’all sending these emails are volunteers with as much shit on your plates as me. Wtf are y’all doing cosplaying as capitalist elites trying to convince the populace that Everything Will Be Fine If You Help Us Maintain The Status Quo.
@demsabroad.bsky.social Shocks Me By Sending One Email That Doesn’t Ask Me to Donate to Another Goddamn Candidate Challenge 2025. (Has not yet won this challenge.)
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“If they are willing to do that to a congressional candidate on camera in front of press, imagine what they are willing to do to their detainees behind boarded-up windows.”
It’s fine to recognize a Palestinian state. But one should also, as the ICJ insists, not recognize the legality of Israel’s presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. #FreePalestine.
My cat Mila watching large bugs on the plants outside. The privacy fence blocks the ground floor view of the street, so we indulge in all-natural cat entertainment. 🥰
“We still have to live under that — that fear of losing our identity, losing our culture, our religion,” Leonard Peltier says about his continued commitment to Indigenous rights. “The struggle still goes on for me. I’m not going to give up.”
ANOTHER UPDATE from Huffpo (because nothing is real or stable in these times) "After initially planning to temporarily close the Broadview facility, the Department of Homeland Security decided Sunday to keep it open and operational, according to agency communications."
Everything in me wants us to take a victory lap but there are two important points to keep in mind: 1. ICE might be saying this to get protesters to back off because we'll think the job is done. Stay vigilant. Don't take these liars at face value.
we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
“Capitalists are interested in categorizing humans as resources into ‘can get pregnant’ and ‘can get others pregnant’ because they are interested in doing eugenics at scale to maintain the future ‘labor force’… AKA ‘humans as a resource’ to continue growing. Capitalism is a death cult.”
This is brilliant!
“Those of us who have grown up knowing nothing but this system fail to notice the forest through the trees: we have internalized that everything must be measurable to be real and profitable to be worthy.”
Felt similarly as a gay man in the ‘80s & ‘90s during the original HIV/AIDS epidemic and again in 2022 as I reviewed the science on COVID & learned how dangerous it truly is—at the same time it became apparent the government was going to basically try & disappear the virus.
“A successful and healthy response to COVID would have seen our public toolkit expand over the last five years. Most critically, we would’ve seen a comprehensive plan for upgrading indoor air quality in all public buildings.”
“Our government has no plan to mitigate this wildly contagious virus. Our government has no plan but infect you repeatedly, in biannual nationwide surges, with a highly disabling virus, as research continues to show that repeated infections carry myriad long-term risks.”
“Our government has no plan but to offload the costs of this virus - the costs of mitigation, the costs of infection, the costs of long-term damage to your health, the costs of lost wages- onto you.”
Timeline right now is clips of government officials saying "We love God and we all must follow his Acts" intermixed with their actual "Acts" (children's mangled bodies; healthcare GoFundMe's; disregarded trafficking victims; masked agents ripping people away from their families)
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BREAKING: The Assembly obtained a draft of the bill the General Assembly may pass in response to a Charlotte stabbing. Among other things, it allows judges to hold any defendant in jail without a hearing for up to 3 days for a mental health evaluation. www.theassemblync.com/politics/cha...
Same!! I’ve been in agony from eating pretty much since the beginning of August so this is a huge relief.
Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
I would actually argue that modern transphobia is a new form of old homophobia because the current level of trans panic is very similar to the panic around gay men in the 1980s
What election are these people trying to win? At least the band on the Titanic was playing for the benefit of other people. This crap makes no sense.
Those who repeating transphobia unthinkingly are merely telling on themselves, that they've been gotten by the right-wing propagandizing effort and haven't cared to consider *that*. THAT IS IT.
Kind of annoyed that the allergy clinic gave me first-gen antihistamines because they knocked me OUT for almost the entirety of yesterday. Took me ages to get my brain back online. It was a good reset in terms of reducing histamine in my body, but holy shit, it felt like a lobotomy.
Sam: "They aren't targeting people who already know art. They're not targeting artists. Their goal is to target the people who just don't know any better. [...] -and they might show them these process videos to just try to con them and make them think they drew the entire thing."
one of the top-five funniest things in #checkplease is that ollie and wicks were a couple the whole time and seemingly no one noticed. #omgcp #omgcheckplease
So the bad news is that I am too exhausted to move, but the good news is I have eaten things for two days that have not upset my body.
🇦🇺 AUSTRALIAN DOCS IN GAZA: “70-80% of our patients are kids and pregnant women… It’s a nightmare… bombing after bombing… We’re making this video because we could die at any moment… Can someone please stop this terror and horror?” Full: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMRReCVY/
The agents who assaulted the crowd and seized multiple protesters while many rounds of pepper balls were fired at us move back into the facility.
I swear that whatever's wrong with me is going to be really basic and normal (like diabetes, food/environment allergies, or an autoimmune disease like celiac or a thyroid issue) that every doctor has just assumed some other doctor already checked for.
Disney+ on TikTok:
Thank you!! Exactly, I just want answers. I just wanna know what to eat (or not eat), what medicine to take, what lifestyle habits to start or stop.
Yeah they agreed that my condition is serious, which was also new bc usually I go to a hospital or clinic looking like death and just end up paying for another blood test, MRI, or CT that the doctor tells me looks fine. I’ve got a referral letter for a specialist hospital, fingers crossed.
It was also mind-blowing to say that I was concerned about costs bc I’m always sick so I can’t work much and they were like, “Of course, obviously!” Which is like. Something I’ve never experienced before in a medical setting. Oh, and they gave me an IV bc I needed it?? Witchcraft. Ditto
Holy shit. That was an unusually validating doctor experience?? I’d submitted a list of symptoms ahead of time and they were like, “WTF do you mean you’ve never been tested for allergies??” and were genuinely concerned about how shitty I look and that I said I was dizzy and can’t breathe well.
Bruh
NEW: Brendan Carr — the FCC official who had a role in suspending Jimmy Kimmel amid Trump’s crackdown on speech under the flag of stopping “political violence” — once railed against censorship specifically against “late-night comedians” and said Donald Trump was responsible for “political violence.”
Lol wouldn’t it be funny if I got diagnosed with half a dozen allergies this week. Wouldn’t it be funny if I found out I’m just having mild anaphylactic reactions to stuff ALL THE TIME. Wouldn’t it be funny if me feeling like this wasn’t normal and should, in fact, involve an epi-pen?
Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.
I like when my cats and I sit and watch the rain outside because I think it reminds all of us that they don’t have to worry about being out in it.
"words are not violence" Is an unambiguously fascist thing to say and has been for a very long time now. The whole point of it is to avoid engaging with what's being said by the people your words are hurting. It is a deliberate "playing dumb" to make marginalised people seem unreasonable.
None of this should mean you shouldn't take them seriously as a threat to our existence and way of life. But they aren't the overwhelming dark empire that has a chokehold on ever aspect of life they want you to think they are. They're a bunch of power mad idiots hoping the ride never stops.
Things are gonna get harder and scarier and we gotta rely on each other and our communities more than ever, but I truly believe it ain't gonna end with The New Empire lording over us for the foreseeable future. There are already cracks showing and it ain't even been a year. Keep going.
We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.
The Deputy AG is talking about prosecuting the people who protested Trump at Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab under RICO. Which, tbc, is despot shit. So no, I'm not going to sign up and give you my social security number before I go to your protest. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
From Milton Mayer's "They Thought They Were Free" I first read it in November and I'm rereading it now. It crushing feeling the exact same things as this academic did. It's the same process.
There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok
With Carl Heastie behind him, Zohran Mamdani has the nominal support of the governor and the two state legislative leaders. We'll most likely soon find out whether those endorsements mean anything in the brutal Albany cold of budget season. hellgatenyc.com/plan-to-tax-...
this is the only way for people to connect under conditions of a total internet blackout. please give.
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Israel has “already begun negotiations with the Americans” on a “business plan” to make Gaza, home to 2.2 million Palestinians, into a real estate investment. The plan is on President Donald Trump’s desk, Smotrich claims. He added that the plan is so lucrative the genocide “pays for itself.”
It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.
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Not to continue to do this Cassandra bullshit, but here is a clip from two years ago that outlines exactly the playbook in this moment: a government and private law enforcement army run entirely on grievance, culture war slop, and weaponizable data points, deployed against boogeymen, absent facts.
Trump signed an order authorizing the deployment of National Guard troops to Memphis, Tennessee, on Monday. The order also creates a so-called safe task force, which Trump claims will address violent crime in the city.
It is basically impossible to ship packages into the US right now, which is very cool and normal and not at all an economic and social disaster of unhinged proportions
We’ve got someone asking whether there’s a mask bloc / similar initiative distributing respirators in Japan. Those of you with the right social circles and language skills, would you mind boosting that question and finding out?
I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.
Kash Patel and Republicans won’t tell the truth about the Epstein Files — so I will. I entered into the Congressional Record reporting about Trump being told his name is in the files and Ghislaine Maxwell’s comments to Todd Blanche about Trump’s cabinet.
Best time I ever had on TERF Twitter was waking up from top surgery to find out a Tweet of mine about masking on a plane had gone viral. Once the TERFs figured out 🏳️⚧️ wasn’t a country, they let loose and it was hilarious to watch from my hospital bed in my gender-affirming bandages.
NEWS: The D.C. Council just passed an emergency bill allowing anyone to get a COVID-19 vaccine without a doctor's prescription, which have been requested recently due to changes in federal vaccine recommendations. (And some D.C. residents have had to go to Maryland or Virginia.)
a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason
The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I’m behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn’t just being chilled, they’re freezing it.
This is all he said?! This is why ABC (in response to threats from Trump's FCC) is taking Kimmel off the air?!
it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."
“Autism is a serious condition and we can’t have people going around refusing to pathologise themselves. I’ve got bills to pay, you know.” Help us pay our bills with zero grift by reading the full article on Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/138333...
Over 50 kids were out sick today but thank god we didn’t cancel any classes so the rest of them could sit in closed rooms together and get more of them sick.
Vance, Trump, and Bondi each said things yesterday that were horrifying on their own. Taken together, a very clear roadmap for the future emerges Trump is actively preparing a large-scale crackdown on left-wing dissent. The threat of widescale repression is no longer abstract; it is imminent
The first people the police and the regime target at a protest will ALWAYS be the marginalized people around you: the Black people, the people they baselessly racially profile as likely to be undocumented, the queer and gender non-conforming, and other enemies of the regime.
The ACLU has written a guide to basic protest OPSEC that addresses the very basic risk factors -- it's nowhere near fully comprehensive, but it's the absolute table stakes for responsible protest: aclu-wa.org/story/Protes...
I'm seeing a whole lot of people saying "I will not be intimidated into silence!" That's great! No one is asking you to be. People with experience in the ways one person's opsec failures can endanger the more vulnerable people around them are asking you to have some basic consideration for others.
By all means, GO to the protest! After you have thoroughly read and internalized the opsec documents from the ACLU and EFF, and after taking steps to ensure that your presence at the protest is as safe as possible FOR YOU AND THE MARGINALIZED PERSON NEXT TO YOU. But do not fucking RSVP.
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
Do not register for counter regime activities no matter how bland. We live in a dangerous world now where your name could be used to disappear you. Do not sign your name to these kinds of actions. By all means attended but do not rsvp for any kind of action going forward.
Once again the LAPD has blocked off the street outside the MDC. Probably 50 or so here.
Look what @demgovs.org can do! New Mexico will now the first state in the US to offer free child care to all residents, regardless of income, saving families on average $12,000 annually. 🧵
Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
This is clearly a violation of the First Amendment. This is a government official directly demanding the censorship of speech he dislikes. He also does not understand section 230 at all.
This camp is being violently evicted right now in the wake of a devastating shooting. People are mourning community members and simultaneously having their homes bulldozed. If you have t shirts, drinks, aspirin, new underwear, or cigarettes please bring to 1100 E Lake between 3-7 for distro!
Thank you, I really hope so too. Managing my various symptoms has been a full-time job my whole life and I want a vacation.
Thanks for the info! I’m really hoping that it just turns out I have allergies and can just pick up something from the drugstore and adjust my eating habits. The biggest stressor right now is not knowing how I’ll feel one hour to the next, or what my body needs to feel better.
NEW: A coalition of human rights and labor organizations, fan associations, athletes, and celebrities is launching a campaign to demand the soccer federations of Belgium, England, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Scotland, and Spain boycott Israel for killing hundreds of Palestinian athletes.
My search was “I accidentally made bone broth gelatin” and all the results were “help why won’t my bone broth turn into gelatin” so I clicked on a result and just did the opposite of the instructions. 😅 Now I have regular soup again.
I can’t remember if you mentioned, but how did you confirm it was MCAS and not allergies to specific things? I genuinely feel like I’m going crazy. I’m eating 4 foods at this point and still feel like I’m reacting to everything.
Thank you for the info! If I do have food allergies, I’ll need something on hand. It’s entirely possible that all the times in my life when I suddenly vomited violently for days weren’t heat exhaustion, food poisoning, or stress, but anaphylaxis. And if it WAS, it’s a miracle I’m not dead. 💀
Genuinely, if it turns out that my family’s silly little quirk of “getting hypoglycemic if we don’t eat often enough” is actually our blood pressure dropping from anaphylaxis due to ALLERGIES, I’m gonna be glad to know but also pissed to be the first who was curious.
I’ve got an appointment to visit an allergy clinic and hopefully get tested as much as possible for as many types of allergies as possible, and hopefully get some results that show I’m very allergic to several things so I can GET RID OF THOSE and actually function again.
But literally creators saying “ewww don’t make my characters have sex!” is traditionally ignored by transformative fandom and I think that’s a beautiful tradition! as long as you aren’t actually sending it TO THE CREATORS/ACTORS, anything goes
In this era of social media I understand why it feels different, like the ppl involved in production are right there, and to be fair I also hate that. Like I don’t WANT them to see it!