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the reality is this: Bluesky is nobody’s first social media account. I appreciate its simple functionality. It feels much more like people I know saying and sharing things without the promotional drivel. I like that a lot. But as far as social media goes I just don’t have it in me to do this AGAIN.

Kochina Rude. @kochinarude.bsky.social Lolly Gaggers: lollygaggers.bandcamp.com 🤘 #Art #Punk #Queerpunk #Drag #GayArt #DragQueen #InkArt #QueerArt #Queercore #HailSatan

Useful legal analysis on 1st amendment implications of discussing political violence. See especially third “but”: legal rights are only as good as the judges upholding them (or not).

TONITE 👇👇👇

This is one of my political education friends I organize with all the time he made a strong statement followed by a question at the Oakland Mayor's forum last night: "Street crime is very visible, and is caused by community poverty and hopelessness....

Things are coming apart quickly, so a word to white folk: you’re going to have to get used to property damage if you want to survive. Getting upset protesters set an empty Target on fire & making THAT & not police murder the focus is part of how we got here.

People’s reactions to these stories tend to be of the leopards-eating-faces variety but this is a great piece of reporting in part about how voters very disconnected from politics make their choices. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

TOMORROW 🐖💥 IYKYK

Announcement incoming on IG 👈📢

LISA SIMPSON EAT YOUR HEART OUT

POV the last thing you see after stepping off the curb to cross the street

Perhaps it’s the increase in my medication dose or the national decline into fascism but my eyebrows have been diabolical lately

Leak police misconduct to @ddosecrets.com

BTW I’m selling shirts! Please email me with size/address kochinarude@gmail $15 + shipping :)

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

100%. SF has its own Trump lite.

FRI 2/28 @ EL RIO SF 11PM RECORDS & KOCHINA RUDE PRESENT STRONG BOYS (DUBLIN, IRELAND) REPRESSION GRUDGEPACKER COCKRING GREYHOUND DJs JUMPR & PRINCE BATRICK (TORONTO) DRAG BY HOUSE OF RUDE $20 ADV / 21+ / 8:30PM

Muhsin Hendricks, the world’s first openly gay Imam, was murdered yesterday. His work supporting LGBTQ Muslims had led to numerous threats against his life. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

School play gets canceled for "inappropriate content". In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival. www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...

Now they intend to control all the algorithms. I've been trying to tell folks, these apps aren't for organizing anymore you need to get off and build a strong local network you can trust. Localization is key, ground up.

In 1973, a brilliant critic named Stuart Hall created a diagram that changed the way we study media, and could help you survive this moment. Just dropped: the second letter in my series about how to analyze the media in a time of crisis. It's all about codes. buttondown.com/thehypothesi...

Been sad about an old bestie who passed a few years back so I decided to do a lil number from one tramp to another 🃏🥀

Boost

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HATE IT HERE

Seeing a few too many drag shows forgetting it’s black history month js

We've prepared a zine version of our text "It’s Safer in the Front." Please print and distribute! crimethinc.com/zines/its-sa... “Counterintuitive though it is, in a confusing situation, often the best—if not safest—place to be is the front lines, so you can see what is going on around you.” 🏴

Mr. Game&Watch, Bowser, Jigglypuff

This movie is free to watch on YouTube. Highly recommend. It was banned and buried in the US for 30 years and it’s easy to see why.

I was up to something last weekend (clock the 👂 tape)

When Hormona Lisa said “I’m a fan of her…her drag, not her personally“ I FELT that

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@kochinarude.bsky.social almost roundhouse kicked me in the jaw

The SF ballet is LIT

It's a lot right now, yall. 🙃

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

hey just for no reason here's an article I wrote awhile back about go bags and why you should have one and what might go in one. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/get-yourse...

I'm trans and have been a journalist for over two decades. Absolutely do not ever, under any circumstances, for any reason talk to a journalist about DIY HRT.