There is a difference between righteous anger, directed at injustice, and hateful anger, directed at those who are different. Authoritarian regimes deliberately conflate the two to silence criticism and create false equivalence. It's important we don't let those in power succeed in this endeavor.

Working on a noir parody scene for our new show and it's one of the dumbest things I've ever written.

@mattbaume.bsky.social Every now and then I come across a little piece of queer history that stops me in my tracks. Here's today's that I knew nothing about: www.facebook.com/marketplace/...

Chicago! Less than 20 tix left for our October 9 show! Get yours before we sell out!

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

Don’t just touch grass, let the grass touch 🦄 🕊️ *YOU* 💕☮️

Sit next to any conversation in a coffee shop in nyc and with the right mindset, it can sound like it’s satirizing itself.

CHICAGO! We've already sold 2/3 of our tickets for Nocturnal Omissions on October 9th! GET YOURS NOW, or suffer the sequinless consequences! www.eventbrite.com/e/john-jonah...

My first big show was BLEAK! My second, Nocturnal Omissions, focused on mental health and finding power in the dumb and horny. Our new show we're working on will beat queer joy into you with a stick, like a reverse pinata.

I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.

A reminder to all queer people out there- you’re a thousand times braver than any spineless elected official. You’re fucking magic. Don’t forget that.

News orgs HAVE to stop calling these porn bans. Yes, #HB4938, does also criminalize porn — also terrible — it goes far beyond that. LGBTQ+ sites, social media sites, community forums, Shakespeare, drag, a review of Mrs. Doubtfire, all punishable by jail $500K fine and twenty years in jail.

Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

Dreamt a new modern episode of 30Rock where Jack’s GE division tries to ship an oven with AI, which immediately burns down a series of houses. Jack then tries to neutralize all AI by uploading a backlog of Tracy’s interviews to all LLMs as a poison pill.

Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were. But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk." www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...

What might be missed here is the fact that he spends some time figuring out Kamala Harris's ethnic mix. ("Indian, and I think some Caribbean...") This is essential to understanding who Kirk was -- an unrepentant racist at core, who knew if he wore a tie and was polite about it it'd be fine.

Important.

Thinking about the phrase "political violence" and the number of people who've died on Rikers Island in just the last month.

From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...

he really did not seem to post a single statement anywhere. Jesus

The main thing that causes gender dysphoria in my life is my lack of an animation budget

Classy people come see this show Trashy people come see this show (Ok I think I got everyone)

These two are so good it’s definitely worth braving martial law and presidential fiat to see their show 🥰

CHICAGO! We’re bringing our show Nocturnal Omissions to the Newport Theater on 10/9 for one night only! All tix $25!

"Surely whatever my ingenious brain wrote down over two hundred years ago must be good enough for whatever is going on now."

It’s me, coming at you with that secret blend of 11 herbs and neurospices

Just passed a pro life billboard of a baby asking, “What about MY choice?” And I gotta tell you, kid, I don’t know of a single person who chose to be born.

If you feel like you’ve stalled in your life, just remember that Kim Davis has had 10 years to stop being as hateful a bigot and hasn’t changed a bit. You’ve probably grown more as a person in the past 10 years. Celebrate that.

Marriage equality is nowhere near the full realization of LGBTQ+ rights, but Obergefell seems like such an obvious line in the sand that if they repeal it, we’re fully justified in burning shit down.

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

Reminded today of this timeless adage

This bill would criminalize pornography by legally redefining what it means to be obscene. Period. Full stop. No more porn legally. If you post porn whether free pics or paid vids. this affects you!

True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing. Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter. Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵 x.com/andrewcuomo/...

It cannot be said enough, Buttigieg has spent his entire time on the national stage wrapping himself in the rainbow flag and trying to play like he was LGBTQ Obama. And the MOMENT he decided that image was politically disadvantageous, he yanked out the T and stomped on it

@mattbaume.bsky.social Thank you for the disco remix of the MASH theme that I never knew I needed.

I truly, deeply, hate this man. Mass murdering piece of shit.

Does this calm anyone else's anxiety? Just me?

JK Rowling will not rest until she has eliminated trans people from the public sphere. I get furious when I remember pseudo-liberals insisting to me that she wasn’t a bigot and had been terribly defamed. Presumably they’ve got the message by now

The sports thing is the only anti-trans thing that polls well, so they're going to force through every heinous rollback of our rights under the sports banner. All because people refused to believe the science.

He's more machine now than man, twisted and evil.

MA put in a 4% millionaires tax 2 years ago, & the GOP said we'd miss revenue targets & millionaires would flee. MA collected TWICE the projected revenues, & the number of millionaires went UP 40%. www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

Okay, but hear me out. Maybe it shouldn't be up to the consumer to look for clues that medicine is counterfeit. Maybe the billionaire making money off people selling counterfeit medicine should face legal consequences?

Journalist. Boko Haram survivor. Award-winning restaurant manager. ICE detainee.

"Plastic production is on course to triple by 2060, less than 10% of it is recycled, and around 8,000 megatons now pollute the planet" - report from The Lancet just before the next UN plastics treaty talks begin in Geneva www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

This!