Heated Rivalry gang! Form up! For @theflytrapmedia.com, I wrote about how I saw my own queer athlete closet reflected back to me in Heated Rivalry in the most amazing way possible. www.theflytrapmedia.com/icy-hot-heat...

My book on grief, mourning, and how both of these things are deeply broken in a society of runaway capitalism & positive thinking is coming out in six months. Here are some things you can do to help it find readers, starting with preordering. You can do that through your local indie or bookshop.org

@kendrawrites.com’s comment that Jim Crow was also designed to control and punish white people who failed to conform is living rent-free in my head right now.

it turns out it's hard to write when you're in a state of emotional paralysis

there have not been real consequences for the tech and business leaders who are collaborating with the Trump administration’s fascist regime; there are possibilities for impactful collective action by elites, if they dare

Yall outside of MN need to know that observers are STILL out protecting their neighbors. Right now. They know the news and they’re still out there.

For every photo and video you see of the Minneapolis general strike, there are organizers behind it. Some from labor, some from the faith community, some from their street who just wanted to help. The working class has power.

if it’s too difficult for any single person we’ve elected to congress to say, “not one dime for the child stealers”…

A lot of people think they're doing systemic analysis but actually they're just calling for collective punishment and I'm here to tell you every single day that actually those two things are very different

For my newsletter today, I went long on how American democracy and the post WWII world order stands on a knife edge today, and how this moment has been a Republican party project decades in the making. www.burnsnotice.com/how-republic...

Let tonight be a lesson to all of us: Make sure you have established your own, and are aware of your loved ones', advance directives. Do you want to be awakened from your slumber when It Happens? Or do you want to find out when you awake naturally and unlock your phone? Let your loved ones know.

Thursday night-Saturday morning we have expected windchills of -47 degrees. In the Twin Cities, @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social could always use more gloves, more hand warmers, more hats. If you have an extra ten dollars or unused gift card, it would be a big help: linktr.ee/sanctuarysup...

Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.

So psyched to announce that Melissa Em @meowwwls.bsky.social is our Winter-Spring 2026 Flytrap Fellow! BTW we are only able to pay her fairly because of the support of our subscribers! Thank you for supporting ARTISTS!! www.theflytrapmedia.com/the-flytrap-...

*So* honored to be the first fellow and beyond excited that I get to work with the amazing @theflytrapmedia.com team over the next few months! 💜

It's a problem that actual elected officials post on social media as if they are powerless observers and commentators.

Disabled people don’t survive without community care. So for us to be considered worth surviving, that’s building a world where we all survive by supporting each other.

*ahem

My point is… i just think it’s so unhelpful to point to everything going on and turn it into “courts lol” or “like there’s gonna be midterms lol.” Doomerism leads to complying in advance because if nothing matters why even bother.

'There’s only one way to stand up to a radical occupation by armed thugs, & the people of Minneapolis are already engaged in it. They are activated & in no mood to back down. They are not weighing the political considerations and whether their behavior will tick polling in one direction or another.'

When you focus on the regular people showing up magnificently in all of their flawed beauty, it helps you to keep going.

it's important to take time out from the news and focus on less loaded topics like advertising and diet culture and the myriad ways capitalism wants us to hate ourselves

did i get anything done today? no. but did i relax? also no.

I have 99 problems right now and money would solve 98 of them.

It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

I TOLD Y'ALL I didn't want to learn anything else!!! I said I was DONE with information and I MEANT IT!! I don't want to KNOW THINGS any longer! I was VERY CLEAR about this: do not inform me.

Please understand that "reward people for being healthy", in health insurance, also translates to "punish people for being disabled." The people who are most vulnerable, most in need, will be asked to bear higher costs, in many cases, pricing them out of accessing health care, into early graves.

The billionaire urge to move everything to space instead of spending money to fix problems here on the planet…these people are not well.

When a big media company uses genai slop instead of human made art, it is not just taking a job away from one artist to make that thing but *multiple* artists involved in all the things. The entire artist-hiring pipeline gets destroyed in favor of chugging from the hot dogshit pipeline.

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

I’m an every day American terrified about the rise of racism, bigotry, and misogyny as well as the shitty economy, Pete. It’s pretty painful to have my concerns dismissed because I’m not a white dude from the rust belt.

I'm raising funds to make sure the people offering advice at Scarleteen have access to healthcare! Your contributions to my personal fundraising page will count towards an overall $10k match so they count double right now. www.classy.org/fundraiser/6...

i am saddled with the thought of how different our world would be if we believed women.

I‘m not a neuroscientist but it’s hard to believe that the brain is really setup for this, no matter how good we are individually at managing information

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

Chicagoans: Attend this virtual Rapid Response training on Wed 10/14 at 4pm to learn how to help protect our neighbors during this occupation. zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Yes, the underlying reason for the need for this is horrifying, stipulated, but watching so many people stand up and defend their neighbors and their community is a heartening reminder that the people who suck are not the majority even if they are the power

Many things are being destroyed & the news of it is a psychological & political onslaught. So it’s important that you create things. It can be art, cookies, a community pantry, a garden, a mask bloc. It can be beautiful, practical, silly. Just create & share. It’ll do your brain & the world good.

I’m. So. Tired. I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

Do you have the Sunday scaries? I don't know if my piece about how housing haunts millennials will make you feel better, but it DOES have some good book recommendations!

ICE is illegally raiding apartments in minority neighborhoods and Trump is trying to deploy the national guard to suppress dissent and people are really out here wasting their time arguing that LLM bigotry is a thing ??? please wake up and care about literally anything that matters

I really enjoyed working on this piece on horror, the haunted house, and the politics of housing with @freeblackgirl.bsky.social for @theflytrapmedia.com; what makes it even better is this KILLER illustration from @meowwwls.bsky.social This is the kind of cultural criticism I love doing!

It was such an amazing experience getting to illustrate for @sesmith.lol's wonderful haunted housing piece for @theflytrapmedia.com! 🏚️

Spending all day on here made the news feel normal and now that I’m never here it’s so obviously terrible and extreme! That’s actually a benefit given the circumstances.

I have been back and forth over the span of 5 years about whether to publish this article. All opinions and experiences in this post are my own, or from people I personally know, backed up with recent reports and statistics.

Sinners studies

I love art. I love this craft of visual romanticization. Seeing how people interpret the world around them with their feelings and thoughts poetically laid bare in line and color. Art can ignite the imagination and passion in others and it’s all done by moving a stick around with intent and emotion.

Every once in a while I think about how the best paid jobs are usually the least helpful or most actively harmful to society (medicine being the one big exception), while the worst paid ones are the most helpful to society. Then I stare out the window for a while

[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad