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**TRANS RIGHTS** now then: Latin teacher, classicist, TTRPG enthusiast and semi-pro GM, and a fair cook. Pro-LGBTQ, pro-DEIA, pro-CRT, antifascist, and uninterested in opinions to the contrary 💅🏻
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I love the defiance by the younger gen!!!

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record

Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top. #HandsOff2025

Elon’s coming for the Peace Corps, an American initiative he will never understand. Unlike Elon, PCVs are welcome in South Africa. PC Volunteers live on small stipends and a tiny support staff. The budget is $400m, the same amount of money Elon wanted the State Dept to spend on “armored” Teslas.

I'm tired of being polite to people who vote for Republicans and frankly I'm very sick of the Democrats' shit too. So it is past time to just start talking frankly and openly, yes in "polite" company, abt how Rs want to keep people stupid. What is this shit (today's NYT)

At the beginning of Half-Life 2, the game works hard to establish a mood of oppression and fear. A masked cop grabs a soda can out of the trash and throws it on the ground. "Pick that up" he says to you in an electronically distorted voice. In 2007 I picked it up. In 2025 I throw the fuckin can back

someone give kathy griffin a bastard sword

Unearthed flight data now reveals that a member of the unsecured Trump admin war planning group chat was in Russia during the time it was being used.

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

We must only learn from history, we must not repeat its mistakes.

When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.

The fact that these quislings made this vote *while* Trump was threatening people by name, declaring journalism illegal, asking if America is “ready” for death penalty for drug *users*—& praising Schumer for caving…

Making it very easy to know whom to primary in the next few years. Maybe we can replace Gillibrand or Schumer with AOC

They're outright saying they want an uneducated populace without opportunities for women so that they can go back to the kitchen and make babies. They're eugenicists.

@schumer.senate.gov Shut it down, Senator. Do not vote with the Republicans, because deep down you know as well as the rest of us that the president will do whatever he wants if you vote for the CR. Might as well dig in while you still can. Stop his power grab by showing us this is not normal

Putin was counting on Trump. He was Russia’s only hope. And Trump is now delivering for Putin.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

I try not to give clicks to Jubilee, but I finally gave in and watched the "20 Trump Supporters Take on 1 Progressive" video with @samseder.bsky.social from @majorityreport.bsky.social. A few takeaways 🧵

“Wealthy Chinese investors are quietly funnelling tens of millions of dollars into private companies controlled by Elon Musk using an arrangement that shields their identities from public view” www.ft.com/content/6685...

do not travel to the united states in case you thought "oh it's just the land borders that are unsafe" NOPE

Wow. Watch this from Zohran Mamdani. It looks like the exact "fight" and "conviction" people are hopelessly asking for from the people in charge of the Democratic party:

I’m sick to death of people saying we’re “descending” into fascism. The fascism is ALREADY here. THIS IS WHAT IF FEELS LIKE. And if you’re not feeling it, it’s probably because you’re one of the “good Germans.” @michaelharriot.bsky.social explains

The Trump administration: we have freedom of speech at home

The choice of Columbia in particular shows that there's *no* amount of suppression of pro-Palestinian speech a university can engage in that will insulate and protect it; so might as well try to do the right thing, which Columbia has determinedly avoided since October 7. www.gsa.gov/about-us/new...

Columbia student and New Yorker, Mahmoud Khalil - who was targeted and detained for constitutionally protected speech - should be home with his 8 months pregnant wife today. Not missing in ICE detention, unreachable by his lawyers. 1/15

Trump is the author of this hell but he writex it with tools preserved, expanded, and ultimately sustained by first Obama and later Biden. Detaining a legal permanent resident for campus protest, under the flimsy pretense of aiding terror, can only be done with tools Bush built & Obama sustained.

"I can see why the Trump administration is going after Columbia, rather than, say, Stanford, where swastikas were drawn on campus whiteboards, or the University of Alabama, which recently decided to name a building after a former KKK member."

Claudia Sheinbaum as quoted in the NYT today: "we don't want to enter into a trade war. That only affects the people." I wish Claudia Sheinbaum were my president.

Trump I was a Y2K presidency, a very serious disaster made manageable my raw feat of effort behind the scene, taken by most everyone else as a joke