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A timely reminder that Moby Dick is the gayest of the great books.

not good

i actually think most cops and fash are fairly clear-eyed about who the goodies & baddies are and just choose to side with evil because its a quick & easy way for weak men to feel powerful they know theyre evil & they relish it because villainy is cool & naughty while heroism is vanilla & cringe

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

This is 100% correct and is without a doubt true about the long history of the NYPD, which from its inception has been an armed gang unto itself bent on protecting & expanding its own turf, budget and impunity

It's so strange seeing everyone say over and over again that there's no such thing as a trans kid when I literally was one. I was homeschooled and I still told my parents I was a girl at eight years old. They were doing conversion therapy on me years before I met a trans person for the first time.

The New York Times knows crime is not “out of control” in major U.S. cities — in fact, crime is way down from past years and decades — but NYT amplifies JD Vance’s lie without a fact check. It’s journalism malpractice that helps the fascists.

Is Corn Grass? Yes. Is Corn Flakes? Also apparently yes. Is Corn Hats? I see no way to avoid it.

well someone here is certainly lying, disingenuous and dishonest but my bet's on Noem

Actual practical question (practical informed answers only, please): CNN and a number of other news sites no longer offer opt-out choices; have the rules changed and we can no longer opt-out or is there a secret path?

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Option 1: Dementia Option 2: Strategy Option 3: He's a moron who has always said whatever self-serving thing popped into his head and never worried if it even remotely plausible or what the consequences might be.

In light of the #USNavy 250th Anniversary on Oct 13th Here is my article in @HISTORY. 9 Remarkable Facts About the US Navy www.history.com/articles/us-...

Soon they’re going to make it illegal to call them fascists And they won’t see the irony

People enjoy seeing Black people poor , they enjoy lecturing us about it, they love ignoring our observations by pointing to " commitments" and they love feeling justified when we have appropriate human reactions they can villainize to justify the inequality

My most conservatively masculine coded trait is that I think we should bring back dueling to first blood as a matter of honor. So many online arguments lack stakes and could be avoided. None of this English pistols at dawn shit either. Sabers or Epees. Learn a skill.

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

Besides the rainbow road. What other ways are there to get refugee status to come into Canada first LGBTQ folks wanting to leave their country ?

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Trump Admin rehiring CDC people fired yesterday. These fucking idiots just bounce from one to the other. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child. She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck. This is not about immigration enforcement. It's about terrorizing Americans.

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

I am deceased

If y'all wanted to go into your evening smiling: some dude none of us have ever met has a wheelchair that works now. The broken one has been donated to the same shop I got the new one from, so they're gonna repair that and give it away. Mutual aid is a force multiplier. Virtue cycles are awesome.

ICE is in Jamaica Queens now

It’s pronounced cyclist.

I looked these up in light of the gutting of our ability to respond to Ebola and every other possible outbreak, but it struck me that THIS is the guy who wants to criminalize criticism of the president and his leadership?

The prosecution of Tish James is the product of a broken system that allows lawless billionaires to rule alongside corrupt politicians. It’s as much a story of New York City as Washington, D.C. But it's here in New York where a new era of politics will be born.

de minimis chaos. Shipped a $30 CAD item to the US via UPS Monday. UPS is now on its second attempt trying to collect $56.52 USD government charges and $44.50 USD brokerage charges from the receiver. I suspect they won't be successful.

Drake paying his lawyers for his losing lawsuit:

evergreen

The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.

I hope all the Indian diaspora aunties I know who voted for this fucker are so happy with the exponential growth in anti-Indian racism. There is a saying in my language referring to someone doing something self-defeating or self-ridiculing: Don't lie on your back and try to spit at someone else"

Good - make them pay for their bigotry

worth revisiting this piece on the value of prosecuting killer cops (or lack thereof) www.essence.com/feature/breo...

In case your opinion of Scientology was not low enough already tonyortega.substack.com/p/blacks-not...

thugocracy

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

They like what Trump is doing, this really isn't hard. It's not both-sideism, it's running cover for the regime by choice in order to reach a desired outcome. Can we please stop cutting this institution slack it does not deserve?

"A 'very significant' unpublished story by Jack Kerouac...has been discovered after languishing in the files of an assassinated Mafia crime boss for at least 40 years"

That's how his ankles are so powerful and thick

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Trump could die of natural causes 10 years from now and there will be a significant number of his followers who'll remain convinced it was because he got vaccinated for Covid-19 today

Mamdani: "Trump ran on 3 promises - punishment of his political enemies, easing cost of living crisis, & mass deportation. It's that second promise that brought so many to his campaign. And yet he's unable & unwilling to deliver bc he's beholden to the very billionaires that are profiting off of it"

unlike the rest of these folks (and unlike appellate judges and supreme court justices), the job of a district judge is essentially to see what's in front of them

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but