People who may want to have children in the future should bear this in mind: tear gas can have serious consequences for female reproductive health. The data on this isn't great but I would at least recommend ensuring you have a quality respirator or mask on at all times.

my guy was back out there doin Good Work with a broken rib from his previous encounter. name a fucking high school after him.

I hope their parents are ashamed and thinking about where they went wrong.

This isn't a left-right ideological issue. But it blows me away that anyone who is actually anti-Trump would think running back Joe Biden/Merrick Garland 2.0 will work the second time. No political party can tolerate a very large, armed secret police force committed to murdering its voters.

they’ll blame you for being in their way even when they’re the ones who invaded the neighborhood where your baby was sleeping inside your home

It’s actually really liberating from the grip of paranoia to assume you’re being read or listened to and act accordingly. If you assume what you say is public, if you don’t want someone to see it or hear it, don’t say it or do it. But if you do say it, say it with your whole chest

"I want to see work done that would bring some serious reforms to ICE." Putting lipstick on a death squad.

I am livid that HBO requires gender and DOB to create a profile to use a paid streaming service. You don’t actually need that PII. Fuck you.

I think about how online audiences have been trained to look for reasons that victims are actually the villains, to recast them as the perpetrators, and how these are the same narratives the state uses to ensure the mechanism of patriarchy—violence, abuse, and murder—continue with impunity.

Blade Runner isn’t actually a good movie

Frankly, if I can be honest for a brief moment on main, I think almost everybody is out of their ever loving mind.

DEATH TO THE CONSULTANT, GLORY TO THE IN-HOUSE SME

This is terrifying. "[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them." ... "We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]

Trump is dismantling so much. We shouldn’t waste political capital on “undoing.” When the time comes, we should create a new, better, & more resilient federal democracy.

this should be one of defining images of his second term, because its impossible to tell from looking at it whether he is too indifferent to care or too senile to notice

Also it is objectively unhinged that Mike Johnson has simply chosen to freeze an entire branch of government by refusing to call it into session. He’s the second most powerful person in our government and is treated like he has no obligations or responsibilities.

Holy shit I didn’t realize he’d taken out THE WHOLE WING.

I guess my regular chants of “fire Chauncey” at Blazers games finally manifested something.

The Timberwolves’ uniforms look like little sailor suits. They just need the hats.

Oh for fuck's fucking sake he got it covered with a Norse Ragnarok tattoo of Fenrisulfr devouring the world

In fairness, I do cherish the memory of renting a LOTR “satire” at Blockbuster, it turning out to be hardcore porn (labeled as PG-13!), and explaining that to the kid from my Spanish class who was working there the next day when I returned it and suggested they remove it from circulation.

This whole thread needs to be read, understood, and internalized by lots more folks.

Couch Street

People are selling out to authoritarians for shockingly small sums.

Here’s my theory on people like this, as well as constitutional originalists and biblical literalists. It’s projection and/or a lack of theory-of-mind. They don’t actually mean what they say, so they assume that’s true of others as well.

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

This a federally-monitored website. The regime is on highest alert. Anyone posting advocacy for violence right now is a fedposter or a fool. This has nothing to do with what is right or wrong or what you have a right to say. It's simply a fact.

I taught myself to knit as an adult from library books before YouTube existed.

I casually took the bus downtown today and everything seemed safe and fine. The only thing out of the ordinary was there wasn’t a dog on TriMet. Perhaps Portland, Maine has been destroyed?

I actually really love finding out so getting to fuck around beforehand is just a bonus

Thei wante us talkinge on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.

I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

if you’re a politician and thinking about using some variation of the word “bipartisan,” i recommend reading the sentence aloud while adding “with nazis” right after “bipartisan” and see if it still scans as something as you want to say.

There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details

“In defense of” articles usually work better when they aren’t authored by the person being defended. What a fucking turnip.

Hear me out. @sheaserrano.bsky.social and @netw3rk.bsky.social are great examples of emotionally intelligent, kind, healthy masculinity. Get more young people listening to them and they’ll learn more than a buncha cool basketball shit.

Stephen Miller is talking about suspending habeus corpus and @repdexteror.bsky.social is skeeting about a failed budget amendment, @wyden.senate.gov about higher prices, and @jeff-merkley.bsky.social is AWOL for more than a week. We’re cooked if y’all don’t do something to protect the constitution.

there are 400 million guns in this country Every adult and child above adolescence in this country should have stop the bleed training

This could have been you @repdexteror.bsky.social but there’s still time for you to co-sponsor it! @citizensimpeachment.com

Finally got response from @jeff-merkley.bsky.social re Signalgate. He assured me he’s very concerned and is working hard to hold everyone accountable. Bro wrote TWO letters to the admin asking them why they suck AND said Hegseth should resign. Then kept approving unanimous consent. Fucking useless.

Meanwhile, @repdexteror.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov and @jeff-merkley.bsky.social haven’t said anything about it and I once again sent emails to all 3 begging them to do their jobs because we are in a constitutional crisis. I look forward to getting perfunctory form responses in 2 weeks.

the only way kidnapping and illegally detaining lawful permanent residents (or citizens!) in foreign concentration camps "plays out" is we all live our lives under fascism or the fascists are jailed and many of them executed. that's it. read a fuckin book.

If the U.S. cared about privacy we'd pass a real privacy law. If the U.S. cared about propaganda we'd take an aim at the biggest one ever built: the GOP right wing pseudo-news industry. If we cared about national security we'd regulate data brokers and wouldn't be firing cybersecurity experts

I received 2 truly perfunctory replies from @repdexteror.bsky.social this morning. Don’t fucking tell me you’ll do everything in your power to hold Trump accountable when you haven’t brought a single article of impeachment for any of his many impeachable acts. This is malpractice. Primary them all.

Honest to god I think the @trailblazers.bsky.social forgot they’re bad and have been playing out of their goddamn minds