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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 10 hours ago • 95 comments

If a reader dislikes your politics, then no amount of subtlety will prevent them from accusing your story of not being subtle enough. Not even if the politics of the story are about your right to live. Don’t go quieter to appease the callow.

submitted 9 hours ago • 9 comments

I've seen an old misunderstanding going around; that libraries don't benefit authors. But they do! A lot! Here's how:

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1074 comments

It's strikingly similar to the white supremacy campaigns in Reconstruction North Carolina, as described by Gregory Downs in Declarations of Independence (p.192), where Black employment in government jobs was framed as prima facie evidence of anti-white discrimination.

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

Republican events for a month now (including Inauguration Day!) have featured a prominent Nazi salute & legacy media outlets ignore it. Seems like a trend worth covering, no? Maybe access to the Nazi party shouldn't be prioritized??

submitted 12 hours ago • 21 comments

Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.

submitted 23 days ago • 246 comments

The current attacks on nonwhite scientists reminds me of this paper by Lisa Cook, on how Jim Crow violence undermined Black scientific activity. This time neo-segregationists seem intent on just destroying scientific institutions outright. lisadcook.net/wp-content/u...

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

Libraries buy books; authors receive royalties every time a book is sold. Authors aren't missing out on compensation. Libraries don't cheat authors. I'm an author. Libraries carry my books. I love libraries.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

You could write an entire book, and still not say as much as one panel.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

submitted 1 day ago • 242 comments

Right wing media constantly runs at a huge loss because they don't care about profit, they have billionaire patrons pouring money in to keep their lights on. Left wing media doesn't have that billionaire sex pest money on tap, when it runs at a loss it just goes under.

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U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick was peppered with boos and catcalls throughout a town hall meeting in Roswell late Thursday, as hundreds of critics jeered the Republican for backing President Donald Trump’s agenda during his first month in office. #gapol ajc.com/politics/mcc...

submitted 1 day ago • 127 comments

It's 100% a war on women. They started with trans women. Then poor women, black women, Latinas, lesbians. It's only a matter of time until it's you, no matter your colour, creed or class.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I love the show, yet this is a valid criticism.

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I don't think there is a single topic where the gap between reality and the median American's opinion is larger than the question of Donald Trump's business acumen

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Keep pressuring Republicans. Call them. Write them. Visit their district offices.

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

Please know that if you're a friend or acquaintance of mine and you're publishing on Substack, I would very much like you to leave them and their bigot-and-nazi-supporting-leadership behind. Many people already have. You can do it! Begin the baby steps today.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

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BIG NEWS! I'm assistant directing & producing a trans-focused sci-fi short directed by Susan & Tilly Bridges (Star Trek Prodigy) with producer Dr. Erin Macdonald. It's a heartfelt story of trans healing—I'm honored to be a part & we need YOUR help to fund it! seedandspark.com/fund/long-aw...

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

The FIRST thing Kluwe says against MAGA is that they are trying to erase trans people from existence. Did you doubt me when I said our community could lead America back from the brink by serving as a symbol of all the freedoms Americans are losing every day? This is exactly what I meant.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Can someone let me know if scolding and abusing people on the internet is an effective comms strategy

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

...really, just the whole damn depressing-but-true thread.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

submitted 3 days ago • 134 comments

so many people fucking forget that "self care" was coined by a black queer woman who was fighting for equality while also dealing with cancer and yes self care is fucking resistance go read Audre Lorde & stop preaching to & overlooking to the black women/queers who HAVE BEEN doing the work.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I appreciate that @anthrofuentes.bsky.social called out the BS of pretending that science can be “neutral”

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Are you familiar with the fantastic #QueerLoveBundle? @drivethrurpg.com has bundled FIVE #TTRPGs and #larp that give voice to queer love and intimacy, and make sparks fly!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

If we can flip the House, we can open investigations, stop legislation, subpoena testimony, etc. Democrats have won a few local races across the US in red states, in Trump districts (that he won by +20). Momentum is on our side. Just because it's a long shot doesn't mean we shouldn't take it. LFG.

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Pattie Gonia gives history lesson on feeling joy despite state of world: ‘A strategy to fight back’

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Whoever came up with the ridiculous idea of "government by doing CTRL+F" is also proving one of the absolute limitations of LLMs which is that language is contextual. Words aren't just data points or tagging systems; they derive meaning in relation to each other and through use.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

I often think about how the main non-occult antagonist of the first Ghostbusters movie was a guy who worked at the Environmental Protection Agency, & it was just taken as read that we'd all boo a guy who was a threat to freedom loving Americans' god given right to store nuclear waste in Manhattan

submitted 5 days ago • 104 comments

A week ago, Musk refers to DOGE as "we"

submitted 4 days ago • 353 comments

Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

submitted 5 days ago • 764 comments

"Ok so yeah, our plan is to take black kids away from their parents, deprive them of modern medicine and force them to work on a farm. This is a completely original idea that nobody has ever done before and I don't know why everyone is yelling at me."

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Holy shit. It's "RIZOLLI AND ISLES, but they actually kiss!"

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

#uspol

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Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...

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i am 100% of the belief that simply forcing take-writers to answer the question "who specifically said this and why are they significant" would result in substantially fewer bad takes circulating in the world

submitted 5 days ago • 177 comments

Holy fucking shit. Kentucky is drowning under floods, mainstream media is silent about it, our "fearless leader," his Nazi boss, and VP Soul Of Appalachia himself are all AWOL, and so @coyotewallace.bsky.social has been covering it hourly with photos and updates. bsky.app/profile/coyo...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Love.

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