On this day in 1985, the city of Philadelphia went to war against its own citizens. I wrote about it for @teenvogue.com back in 2020: www.teenvogue.com/story/histor...

We fucking won!!!!

And this just in!

get in loser we're getting Reconstruction right this time

Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

People find politicians' speech alienating but it's not because it's overly caveated, precise, and syntactically complex; it's because it's vague, platitudinous pablum that fails to condemn injustice, fails to chart a path towards a brighter future, and is unaccompanied by concrete action.

When I was at a wedding last year one of my friends got into it with a family member of the bride, who works for DOD (!), and said, “well, there was a lot of fat to cut at USAID.” I maintain that he deserved to be punched instead just argued with.

I don't only think that college should be FREE but I think young people should also receive living stipends while in school. Finally, I do not care what they major in because education needs to actually BE DECOUPLED from a future job. You are welcome. You should have 4 years to study anything.

i am tired of having to listen to dumb assholes just because they have a lot of money

Antagonizing Republican candidates for governor before their debate.

This is a pretty good summary of what it means to have taste.

I listened to Kelly's conversation with Rebecca Solnit and I recommend it. I was particularly struck with what Solnit says here: truthout.org/audio/hope-i...

However he is doing right now, we can all be thankful that Giuliani has lived long enough to see a very popular Muslim socialist mayor of NYC.

First official day of being a Portland Fire superfan with two of my besties. 23 more games to go!

what if cigarettes were a sport?

This paragraph/answer ended: There's a scholar of nonviolence named George Lakey who says polarization is good. That’s when you have clarity. Sometimes people have to pick sides. You do not get authoritarians to behave better by being meek and gentle and polite. You get it by being strong.

Uno is a game where having all the cards means you lost the game

One of my favorite Oscar Wilde anecdotes is that he once did a reading and Q&A in a mine. With miners. Like down a mineshaft. He had this crazy idea that everybody of every occupation deserved and could benefit from art and information

The 5th circuit too.

AI psychosis is just “I really think the stripper likes me” for guys who don’t leave their house

Perfect Friday afternoon bike ride to get a Whole Bowl and check out Anis Mojgani’s poetry in a window on May Day.

‘White Female Mamdani’ Mayor of Seattle Caught Blowing Taxpayer Money on Personal Limousine: tinyurl.com/3n2k7jsv

This is a ruling purporting to halt telehealth prescriptions of mifepristone NATIONWIDE. Louisiana asked the Fifth Circuit for a decision by Monday, May 11. That they dropped it on a Friday afternoon feels intentional to keep it in effect for longer. Expect emergency appeal to SCOTUS shadow docket

NEW: The ultraconservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked the 2023 rule change that allowed for telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone—nationwide.

If this stands, it will block more abortions than the Dobbs decision. www.usnews.com/news/politic...

my "I'm Not Haunted by That 'Silver Springs' Performance" T-shirt is raising questions already answered by my T-shirt

That makes one of us, bitch

To be a person of no consequence, to speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say something and have it not matter than to be silent.

Oh this is a very exciting collab.

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

Put the cocaine back in Coca-Cola you cowards

In today's issue of everything is connected re: CPCs: IPV is a leading cause of death, and that means pregnant people who are experiencing IPV are much less likely to get the support they need to leave safely, instead being counseled to stay with an abusive partner via these religious fake clinics.

It’s worth reminding everyone that in Oregon, Republican electeds LOVE to give money to CPCs and they are a massive contributing factor to statewide misinformation about abortion care and a lack of rural access. Some counties *only* have CPCs, and they are stealthy in how they advertise.

There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.

john roberts has fulfilled his life's work and fully dismantled the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. these fucking neo-confederate freaks need to be driven from power forever

The number one leading cause of death of pregnant women…

they should make musk sit in the room for voir dire. all of it. make him watch jurors squirm & equivocate when asked if their hatred is something they can set aside. i think it’d be good for him to experience someone swearing under oath that they hate him so much it’s beyond all reason or remedy.

Everything is so stupid.

"The structure whose supports our elites are steadily kicking down is also the one that props up their own personal safety from disaster and political invulnerability to accountability. And all of this can go away." me in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

I swear to god she was made in a lab specifically to piss off anyone who is even remotely to the left in the region, and it’s how she gets her energy.

Those harmed get to decide when a process of amends is complete. We still focus way too much on the harmdoer, not on what those harmed need. And if you come across someone who thinks all that is too woke, tell them these ideas comes direct from Maimonides in the 13th century, aka The Wokest Century.

My 2023 book Burn It Down has chapter about exactly this & LCK mentioned obv. Not trying to sell books, get it from library if inclined. Tl;dr: if someone does not do the hard, consistent work of amends, repair & reparation, there doesn’t have to be a path back. If not, experts agree: fuck that guy.

I think it’s great that Meg the Stallion exposed that guy for cheating on her because too many men will date stunning, talented, powerful women and do them dirty but then use the fact that they have an ex like that as social currency to trick new women into thinking they’re worth shit 😭😂

I should have been clear that I probably would have been one of the people opening that wine. It's not a dig, it's the moment we're in.

The dystopia of inequality--that high table for the lords and ladies; the dystopia of violence--all the federal guns suddenly on display; the dystopia of incompetence (they had one job: to keep a shooter out); the dystopia of normalization.

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

Seems reasonable, think about everything that the attendees needed to deliberately ignore in order to show up in the first place

i think megan should be allowed to shoot one man a month

i don’t think it’s productive to act like a woman’s looks or talent make her more/less likely to be cheated on that said i do think its important for the entire internet to yell at klay thompson rn. i do think he should receive feedback on this matter.