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LTC was brave enough to ask "What if a flying, trampling, hasty 6/6 was a 2-drop that also ramped you to hell and back?" and I think that's beautiful.

Trans people exist. The anti-trans movement is a vehicle for international fascism. Ceding this is a danger to everyone. Queer liberation is an international struggle. It should be self-evident why abiding state-defined exceptions to safety, dignity, and personhood is untenable and intolerable.

"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.

This card was ridiculous at Tarkir prerelease last night. Very proud of my son and his son and his son and his son.

my god

"Under Biden, the United States became the first country to face an attempted coup and not only fail to punish the coup plotters but allow them to hold office and make laws. There is no parallel in world history. Even Hitler had a prison interlude between his putsch and his presidency. "

"We have yet to reckon both totally and personally with the fact that the smartphone is an anti-social instrument of control, surveillance, and self-annihilation." This is an excellent essay. Names a lot of fears and thoughts I've had as I've tried to rebuild more sound mental health, get offline.

The NYT-Schumer piece is a crystal clear example of how Democrats help shift the Overton window rightward in reaction to GOP oversteps. Mahmoud Khalil is a lawful resident. But black-bagging dissidents is okay as long as you can accuse them of a crime first. This isn't ground you cede.

Sometimes you just need to get squamshed

"It's just when we do it, it's evil when you do it" is a cudgel fascists will use up to and through the point of exterminating their enemies. It's why "debating" the right is such a dead end.

1. OPINION: Governor Newsom’s Depraved MAGA Betrayal Mandates Mass Resistance From LGBTQ+ Californians. Newsom's transphobic rhetoric in his interview with Charlie Kirk is an attack on Californian democracy that must be met with resistance from LGBTQ people. www.madycast.com/p/opinion-go...

If I were a Democrat I would simply not fight for new draconian toys for the Trump administration to further limit speech, but what do I know

Extremely promising signs someone at wotc has been reading my Universes Beyond: Dudes You Meet in the Palladium Bathroom letters

Read Pirate Care last night (with Tiggy) - worth checking out if you're feeling helpless in front of "what can we do" kinds of questions right now. Worthwhile reminder of the transformative potential in gathering enough courage to "practice care dangerously."

We're doing a fundraising drive for one more year of librarypunk. Hosting and recording costs money, and we'd really appreciate your support to keep the show going. Everything we make will continue to be free for all, but we wanted to offer ways for people to show their support.

Past revolutionaries can guide us through this moment. Kwame Ture: "Now, I think the biggest problem with the white liberal in America, and perhaps the liberal around the world, is that his primary task is to stop confrontation, stop conflicts, not to redress grievances, but to stop confrontation."

Last year we raised $60k in our first 24 hours... ...this year we raised $100,000 in just 9 hours! This community is standing together to show our love for our trans friends, our trans family. 🏳️‍⚧️ You can donate at give.translifeline.org/tolarian Let's make some Magic! 💙🩷🤍

Cats know how snow days are supposed to work. Photos taken four hours apart.

Sleeving up Goblin Lore, Life from the Loam, and Lava Dart in the same modern deck amid ascendant fascism

The word "appeasement" has been so thoroughly reshaped by the way we teach/warn about the spread of fascism that it is hard to use in other contexts. You have to be so willfully complicit to argue that a mouse deserves a cookie here. Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds, I guess.

Old man, new toy

For nine years now I have not known peace. Happy gotcha to my foulest son.

1. Here are some of my thoughts on the news by Erin Reed that some hospitals are denying new minor patients for gender affirming care: Hospitals that obey in advance to illegal executive orders can and should be targeted for protest actions by trans activists groups. bsky.app/profile/erin...

An opposition party would demand his immediate resignation, a fearless White House press corp would counter his "DEI" slurs with questions about his competence and criminal liability. Ah well,

Less than two weeks in and they're trying to kill kids.

Me + My first commander blub blub blub blub blub blub blub

Bout time or some State & Revolution reading parties I reckon