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Historian of science and religion in a previous life. Author @Palgrave (2020). Views mine. He/Him. Orange belt in Karate (2002). I'm big in Japan.
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At the end of the day, this is the President of the United States targeting, harassing and bullying a single individual 16-year-old girl for winning a track meet. The disgusting absurdity of that is only beaten out by how brave AB Hernandez is. She's got more guts than any politician today.

rainbow capitalism is - as we are seeing - completely insincere but a world in which companies feel the need to do it is much better that one in which they don’t, it helps reinforce social norms against bigotry very bad sign that we are moving to an era of corporate vice signaling

this makes sense since the nyt also championed hitler and hasn’t changed much since

Sean Feucht’s political function is to recruit apolitical Christians into the MAGA movement where he molds them into a fighting force for anti-LGBTQ and anti-liberal hate, so it’s not that surprising that he’s remunerated himself quite handsomely for that work. open.substack.com/pub/friendly...

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

This is how the American right reconciles theirs supposed concern with antisemitism against some idealized figure of The Jew with the fact that they openly disdain most actual American Jews - by claiming the right to define who is and is not Jewish.

Leading Colorado Republicans are blaming Democrats for the antisemitic terror attack in Boulder. Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Jurinksy says Gov Jared Polis and other state leaders are not really Jewish and belong to a “demonic cult.” #copolitics

again, this staggering idiot — this living monument to gross stupidity — is basically the intellectual guru of the sitting vice president

Musk has now traveled through an entire arc of embracing anti-black crime panic narratives, embracing overt race science, embracing swastika-bearing neo-Nazis, openly promoting Nazi conspiracy theories, introducing them throughout government policy - all without political elites noticing or caring.

It's great to see everyday Americans support their neighbors by running off ICE but if that resistance is going to continue then everyday Americans need institutional support and you absolutely cannot count on it coming from the opposition party.

They're letting Steve Bannon back on Spotify, in case you weren't entirely sure that it's a fascist-friendly dung heap: nypost.com/2025/06/02/b...

It's far from the main thing going on here, but this is a good example of why I've come to dismiss out of hand anybody insisting things were better when they just happened to be a teenager / young adult. By no possible metric is this objectively true. What did happen in the 80s is Rowling turned 21.

It is so weird how there are no players out in the MLB...

I will never forgive Azeen Ghorayshi.

If you're wondering, I looked it up—this is Pritzker at Chicago Pride in 1993, the year he earned his law degree.

It’s called the C-suite buddy, look it up!

This is so incredibly sad.

if you represent or work for a hospital who gets investigated by the FBI, i want to talk to you. my signal is in my bio.

"Both [Trump and Rubio's] messages indicated that the administration intends to keep treating violence against Jews as an excuse to push xenophobic policies and go after legitimate political speech." Tamkin's an, if not the, essential writer in this space, I think. forward.com/opinion/7248...

100,000 Katrinas

he’s a nazi, debra

They're our biggest propaganda tool

'It is also reported to have spent more than £1 million developing a machine learning tool which was supposed to assess someone’s social media networks to estimate how effectively they could crowdfund a book. It was never successfully deployed.' www.thetimes.com/uk/arts/arti...

I think it's easier to understand the current media environment once you understand that a whole bunch of ambitious people are looking at our descent into authoritarian oligarchy and thinking it's a great opportunity to audition as a courtier.

A group of Labour MPs, peers and supporters write: “We should legislate to root out DEI in hiring practices, sentencing decisions and wherever else we find it in our public bodies.” Devastated to see how quickly this has arrived in the UK mainstream. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Senior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered that VA physicians and scientists not publish in medical journals or speak with the public without first seeking clearance from political appointees of Donald Trump, the Guardian has learned."

"The waiting room cleared out ... The ICE agents were given a box of surgical masks by one of the security guards. Donning their masks to hide their faces, most of the ICE agents entered courtroom number three. Two lingered in the hallway for a while. Later, I would learn why."

Sesame Street can't stop taking W's lately

ICE arrested a student on the way to volleyball practice in Milford, detained people waiting at an immigration court in Boston, smashed a car window of the wrong person in New Bedford, and the list goes on. Communities are right to speak out. This isn’t making us safer.

Lot of random creepy dudes coming out of the woodwork to tell Kat she's being Palestinian wrong

the kids who are actually playing against trans athletes who aren't auditioning for a gig as a right wing grifter are way more mature than the adults crying about it

More than a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, the city’s mayor announced a $105 million reparations package on Sunday. It is the first large-scale plan committing funds to address the impact of the atrocity.

Such free. Very liberty.

Primary him. He's either a coward or he isn't actually in-charge of his delegation. Primary every single one of them.

A Trump intermediary tells CNN’s parent company that they can buy peace with Trump by making a highly flattering documentary about Melania Trump or a TV show about Trump Jr, which would involve paying the Trump family large amounts of money. The move appears to meet the legal standard for extortion.

Commerce Sec Lutnick: "rest assured, tariffs are not going away. He has so many other authorities that even in the weird and unusual circumstance where this was taken away, we just bring on another or another or another." Great news for the small businesses this administration claims to love

Mapping the Far Right Groups Targeting LGBTIQ Events During Pride Month

On the other end of this is that tech barons like Bezos, via his newspaper mouthpiece, have vested interests in maintaining Musk's great-man, tech-genius PR. All super-rich people do really, because otherwise they are exposed as the bozos and leeches they really are.

This Pride month, don’t forget about the trans and gnc activists who made this happen. People like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson, whose leadership at Stonewall has now been stricken from all government websites by a Trump administration that wants us erased from history.

The kids are not the problem

I was in the chamber when he said this and everyone gasped audibly. Then they rationalized it because he was a powerful person bsky.app/profile/lemi...

Now they’re using tear gas & stun grenades on the crowds that witness their cowardly “raids.” They’re shit-scared. This is gonna lead to bystander deaths. Look at these zilches in their Judge Dredd cosplay. This is the happiest moment of their miserable, forgettable lives.

I really, really need people to understand that as a function of supremacy, normal everyday people lie constantly about their intentions—to everyone, but perhaps to themselves most of all—and most often in service of protecting their ignorance and complacency, rather than any coherent ideology.