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ICYMI: I spoke to @reproutopia.bsky.social about the feminist imperative to fight fascism, even when the fascists are other feminists (and especially when those other feminists are providing a pseudofeminist alibi to a rightwing assault on bodily autonomy and trans people)

submitted 51 days ago • 5 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 52 days ago • 2202 comments

Corporate Dems being outflanked on the left by Bill Kristol - who is saying what should be obvious.

submitted 58 days ago • 10 comments

"[Issue x] is a distraction!" is a corrosive outlook. All outrages are important to fight. Nobody can fight them all, but together we can cover them all. You telling somebody who is fighting an issue that you aren't fighting that what they're doing is a distraction is a distraction. Stop.

submitted 58 days ago • 23 comments

If you're playing online games like Wordle, Strands, etc... Please just take a screenshot of your results to post with alt text here. The wall of emojis y'all are posting is a mess for accessibility.

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

If we are going to quote Hannah Arendt - I’m going to do the longer and more meaningful one for me: ‘In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, 1/5

submitted 76 days ago • 3 comments

Interviewer: “so what’s this gap in your resume?” “Oh, those were the years when they weren’t hiring Black people.”

submitted 83 days ago • 283 comments

And if you must, fucking tag/alt text it so content moderation works. Forcing others to see that is really disgusting.

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

It is the time of the coward.

submitted 87 days ago • 22 comments

Underlining, we actually should call people who use DEI as a slur segregationists as a norm.Talk plainly.The mealy mouth defense of diversity rather than simply talking about reparation, repair,& representation is what got us here.No more ambivalent euphemisms.Values, at full volume.

submitted 90 days ago • 16 comments

The wind gusts are devastating. Truly a hurricane of fire. Video: @stuartpalley.bsky.social

submitted 97 days ago • 987 comments

Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California? Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

submitted 97 days ago • 182 comments

So disgusting and hateful and from a craven asshole.

submitted 97 days ago • 13 comments

Why are US oligarchs so anxious to cultivate the kinds of relationships with the president that, in the country they’re aping, have led to oligarchs “falling out of windows” and such? To the point where there’s a whole Wikipedia page on the topic? Who wants to live in a place like that?

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Do better, Nigel parents.

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

I know that, as a parent, I always based my children's names on recent Social Security data.

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments