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Actor Jonathan Joss, best-known for voicing Native characters on King of the Hill and Parks and Recreation, was murdered in a hate crime perpetrated by a San Antonio homophobe. Here is what his husband wrote about what happened.

Happy Pride month, all! Way back in 2018 I made these galaxy pride flags. They were shared many thousands of times, featured on Vice, and even made their way onto book covers and into video games. Here are the original ones I created (in no particular order!) so Bluesky can have them too. 💙

Because of… reasons, this year we decided to anchor our Pride fundraising to a series of perfumes inspired by the apocryphal “first brick thrown at Stonewall.” First we crafted a single-note Brick fragrance, and then we incorporated this earthy, gritty accord into four additional scents. 🌈🧱

Some bigots are coming up to Cambridge to spread hate.

Fun fact - the current owner of this burnt out husk of a relic to the worst part of US history is an Australian health care billionaire.

1. The Department of Health and Human Services has launched a national "snitch form" to report gender affirming care providers. The last few times state Republicans did this, they were overloaded with memes and Bee Movie scripts. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

did not have space lasers on my "every accusation is a confession" list but here we are

Elon Musk is autistic. Benjamin Netanyahu is Jewish. Marjorie Taylor Green is a woman. etc. etc. you can be a horrible person and oppress others and also be part of a group that gets targeted and oppressed in various ways. this happens all the time.

Under Trump, ICE has become a weapon. Protesters are arrested. Immigrants are disappeared. Kilmar wasn't a threat, he was a legal resident who fit a profile. Mahmoud wasn't silenced for violence-he was targeted. This is an American Gestapo. (1/3) #FreeKilmar #DefendDueProcess #BringThemBack

It is very good question and one I’ve been asking for months. If there is an international agreement with El Salvador for these renditions, the Trump administration is legally required under the Case-Zablocki Act to share it with Congress. To my knowledge, they have not done so.

I added some more materials from recent years. Folder now includes seder material from @bendthearc.bsky.social, @joindayenu.bsky.social, @jvp.bsky.social, Jews United for Justice, @halachicleft.bsky.social, @atlcol.bsky.social, @hias-refugees.bsky.social, & @jfrejnyc.bsky.social

This Peysakh, we remember: our liberation story is not a Zionist fairytale. The Exodus wasn’t about founding an ethnostate. It was about breaking free from empire. Our ancestors fled, not to dominate, not to colonise, but to imagine freedom beyond Pharaohs.

Today is AANHPI Equal Pay Day. That means that in order to take home as much as a white non-Hispanic man made in 2024, AANHPI women had to work from January of last year until today. We must close the gap and ensure equal pay for equal work.

Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.

They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.

Love love love love

April 5th: REMOVE / REVERSE / RECLAIM 50 Protests, 50 States, 1 Movement. Add your action by 3/28/25 to have your flyer shared on 50501 socials. Go to www.FiftyFifty.one and click “Add An Action.” #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #PeoplesMovement #NoKings #ImpeachTrump @polrev.bsky.social

NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself:

Please read this statement from the chair of Seattle Worldcon 2025 regarding the convention's response to the current political situation in the U.S. seattlein2025.org?p=3420

Let’s be very clear about what’s happening: The Trump admin is exploiting real concerns about antisemitism on the left to undercut democracy & civil liberties — while even further normalizing right-wing, white supremacist antisemitism via dangerous policies & conspiracy theories + gov’t appointees.

"For someone who is now in a senior role in the federal government to have directly and explicitly engaged in this sort of conspiracy theory tells me that she is frequently trafficking in these neo-Nazi and other antisemitic spaces." - @amyspitalnick.bsky.social in @npr.org

1. Despite Republican attacks in recent years, America is queerer than ever before. LGBTQ+ identification has risen to 9.3% in the last Gallup Poll, a huge jump from 7.6% last year. I cover the latest numbers in my story. Subscribe to support my journalism.

If you need help with remembering alt text, there's a toggle in your settings to keep you from posting images without it. If you need help applying alt text, you can use the hashtag Alt4Me, which summons a volunteer to post alt text for you. (Which I should spend more time trawling. 😅)

Countries need to stop being cowards and ban Elon Musk’s disgusting Nazi website. Yes, right wing extremists in those countries will squeal about it. That’s better than continuing to tolerate a website that’s actively attempting to put those extremists in power globally.

If we can't sleep peacefully, they don't get to sleep peacefully. Don't call your republican reps because you think you can convince them. Call them because fuck them, they don't get a free pass on this shit.

Elon Musk is openly attacking Zelenskyy on his idiot website now. The Boer must go.

🚨The Trump admin is moving to terminate Temporary Protected Status for half a million Haitians in the United States, seemingly illegally moving up the expiration date from next February to August of this year. In a single day, 500,000 people could lose work authorization and deportation protections.

Elon Musk absolutely loves throwing vicious tantrums at people who are far more talented and brave than himself. What a worm.

NEW: On Section 504. "Attacks on any one group will be used as a wedge to attack all of us. You may not personally know any trans people, and you may even be uncomfortable with the idea ... but letting this attack go forward will eventually hurt you and the things you love, too." /1

I talked to Black and brown veterans who are raising awareness about veterans who've been deported to their birth country. thetriibe.com/2025/02/blac... “No immigrant is safe, not even those that serve in the United States Armed Forces. If you were not born in the US, you are a target.”

Trump talked a big game about how he’d bring down costs for working people, but this is what his administration is actually doing.

I’m not a democrat. But every tool is a weapon if you hold it right….so here’s what they are doing (they post regularly this kind of update) and what I can hold them accountable on.

Precisely.

Tired: conservatives hate Kendrick because they're racist Wired: conservatives hate Kendrick because they feel attacked by his anti-pedophile stance

Beyoncé won Doechi won Kendrick won Eagles won This the most magical Black History Month in my life

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.