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writer, artist, feminist, fancy. dedicated to reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ liberation, and racial justice. professionally trans over at A4TE, but all views shared here = my own.
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Fascinated by the pro-Cuomo argument that it's better to have spent years ruining things as a vicious and incompetent manager than to come to the job with limited managerial experience

I just want trans people to be okay.

We are at 2245 S Michigan now where organizers and electeds are holding a press conference after agents detained at least 10 people today. A representative from Organized Communities Against Deportation speaks about ICE taking people who are currently in asylum proceedings and appeals.

The NYers who say they "have no choice" but to vote Cuomo are lying. I hope people outside of NYC know this.

thank you Tim!!!!

“That child deserves our support,” @governorwalz.mn.gov continued. “Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”

it does readers a pretty big disservice to say that "the US" is making this claim when it's very specifically the Trump administration

and like…I can’t emphasize enough that “the groups” are carrying water for Dems ALL THE TIME. We did a ton of GOTV. We train their candidates. We give Congresspeople briefings and talking points. We do their work for them!!!

everything is just these people being mad that we can talk back to them!

forced by circumstance to start posting on LinkedIn again: that website truly is the ultimate refutation of the idea that people won't say crazy shit on the Internet if you require them to post using their real name and professional affiliation

This is pretty devastating. Lutnick admits that tariffs were never about reciprocity, eliminating foreign trade barriers, or negotiating better deals. They just don't like international trade. Period. He even says about imports: "we don't want other people making them."

One of the most important newsrooms in the country … that will probably never get the attention or credit (or support) it should because a brilliant, honest woman—a Black woman— started it. Others even copy @baltimorebeat.bsky.social innovations without acknowledging—still an epidemic inside media.

the entire republican caucus is currently angry they voted for and passed a bill that none of them read

To understand Elon Musk's whole deal you must read this @juliametraux.bsky.social piece about so-called "Aspie Supremacy." "The Silicon Valley self-proclaimed Aspie is superintelligent and superrational—but not too weird to invite to parties." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Doctors have been clear that she will die within days” without this care, Lawyer Gina Amato said at a press. “Deporting this family under these conditions is not only unlawful, it constitutes a moral failure that violates the basic tenets of humanity and decency.”

I don't think anything in my lifetime has ever worked like the #TeslaTakedown. Makes me think instant karma can be real (if you want it).

remember how construction collapsed between 2008 and 2011-ish and all those construction workers left, retired, or changed industries? y'know how 15 years later we STILL don't have enough construction workers?

63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

This group exists for the specific purpose of trying to get Dems to throw trans people under the bus.

Good morning, internet, and welcome to a new publication that @garnethenderson.com and I have been working on for months

Humanly impossible to see this and not talk shit to these dork ass losers

when I was in Italy a few years ago I bought an Albuterol inhaler from every pharmacy I saw because they were €2 Capitalism must be destroyed

They're literally doing the meme

The brain drain will be when scientists are forced into other careers/jobs so that they can keep paying the bills. They will never return. There aren't enough science jobs in other countries to absorb even a fraction of those laid off.

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Say the words "portland" or "san francisco" to an autoplay-infected boomer and they will tell you this lurid tale of mad max post-apocalypse. They're convinced every city is a warzone. Everyone *else* is trying to live their lives and these freaks think they're in mad max.

Almost no one wants to contend with this reality.

A spontaneous Visual Assembly by local artists and activists took place in NYC It didn’t last long. Security interrupted, and the drawings were washed away. But the moment showed how little it takes to begin: just a bit of space, a few people & some chalk davidgraeber.institute/how-to-do-yo...

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

Three Palestinian students were shot in Vermont. A Palestinian six-year-old was murdered by his pro-Israel landlord. A Texas woman was indicted for trying to drown a 3-year-old Palestinian girl. We don't have to make this comparison to condemn what happened in Boulder on Sunday. We really don't.

The lying and hallucinating is bad, but I actually think the creepiest thing about ChatGPT is the extreme flattery. I understand why the lying and hallucinating happens, roughly - I do not understand why it lavishes everything you say in so much flowery praise.

I have rarely had this level of loathing for someone I didn't know existed until 5 minutes ago

I don’t know who needs to hear this (me) but you were made for these times and keep the fuck going.

An inspiring story: U Mich president withdraws his signature on a letter defending academic freedom because he wants to leave and get paid to join Ron DeSantis's war on higher education, and then doesn't get the Florida job because he supports vaccination www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/06/haha...