Fifty years ago today, Arizona Republic journalist Don Bolles was assassinated by a car bomb.  His legacy of truth-telling and working to expose white collar crime and political corruption is as relevant as ever.

1/x I know I'm kind of a mouthy embryonic sugar glider about this, but while this story is important and if you care about trans ppl I encourage you to read it, I want more such stories to come with the reminder that *naturalized gender is a project of fascism*. This isn't *just* about hatred.

Look into your local school board and your child’s student handbook if you’re a parent. Find out about policies re: bathroom and locker room use. Reach out to the principal and express your concern or conversely to laud them for nondiscrimination protections. They hear from the other side every day.

me: time for bed my brain: just one quick round of Worst Case Scenario

starting to think the male loneliness crisis could be alleviated by men getting a fucking library card

why hasn't anyone in Widow's Bay realized that over 300 years of haunting shenanigans IS the tourist draw?

everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about. mine is that one spoon in the drawer that just feels weird in my hand and even though I hate it and never use it I can't bring myself to get rid of it.

Check out my latest profile of Cool Jacket Man, the middle aged fascist. And yes, if you read closely, I do subtly pushback.

Hassett: "Ohhhh, you mean the *individuals* who are falling behind on payments? We've talked to the CEOs of private prisons who are gearing up to pivot to the old debtor prison model and they assure us that profits will be made no matter what."

Post something random or you'll have an awful June...

siquesevehn would be a beautiful name for a baby

the velocipede revolution will not be motorized

BREAKING: AI Robot Trips Over Stairs on the Way to Give Commencement Speech, Dies

I too will be unable to attend Don Jr.s wedding, because I very much do not want to. My desire to not attend weddings of kleptocrat assholes will not allow me to do so.

BREAKING Tempe voters oust 2 City Council incumbents, elect newcomers Brooke St. George & Bernie Sanders-backed Democratic Socialist Bobby Nichols. Only 260 balllots left to count, per Maricopa County elex.

me approaching everything like it could be a trap

flashmob revival - everyone dresses as a robot and falls down in the village square

reminder that this "settlement" is literally just a crime

ambient rage. we're soaking in it.

but they CAN kill people abroad at home at the same time, so there.

Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial

(watching a show that has a bunch of very bright blinking lights) me: "i wish they made earplugs, but for your eyes" them: "that's just eyelids"

Our friend and colleague Jeremy Duda’s new book — “Murder in the Fourth Estate” — is the comprehensive account of the assassination of Arizona investigative reporter Don Bolles.

will their gerrymandering and intimidation be enough to offset their malice and incompetence and willful neglect and grifting?

i see your travolta and raise you a billy bob

🤷🏿‍♂️No he didn't. Only white people believe this. People in Asia and the Middle East had been using a technique first developed in Africa, called variolation, to do the same exact thing, for hundreds of years. Jenner himself was innoculated against smallpox as a child, using the African technique.

I wear my sunglasses at night so I can, so I can see where I'm driving cause they're prescription and I left the regular ones at home

"A hurricane that's a 5 on the wind-speed scale is really like a hurricane that's 2 or 3 because we've tightened the border. So if a state has 40 or 50 hurricane related deaths that would have been 400 or 500 deaths a couple of years ago. These are great numbers."

i will avoid your podcast the same way i avoid "water cooler chats", with disdain

"rikki don't lose that number, send it off in a letter to yourself" has to sound like gibberish to anyone under the age of 40

slightly increase a band Tony! Toni! Toné! Toenay!

i am feeling under-babied [no one to feed me and put me down for a nap]

slightly increase a band: Green Week

Kris Mayes beat Abe Hamadeh in 2022 by only 280 votes. Arizona has over 4,000,000 registered voters.

What do you call camps where people keep disappearing and dying

the only vibes I acknowledge

Trump acting attorney general Todd Blanche just said out loud “there are some individuals who are [U.S] citizens who shouldn’t be” which has always been at the heart of what this discount store administration wants to do: The Final Solution 2: Fascist Boogaloo

This year U.S. Mother's Day (second Sunday in May) coincides with Mother's Day in Mexico which always falls on May 10. Donating to support detained migrants would be a great way to commemorate the day.

hmm...

The Russian government is charging and convicting LGBTQ people of "extremism" solely for advocating for their right to exist in Russia. This is a preview of what the right wants to do here in the US. www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/under-new-...

Recovery from a severe illness is hard. Unexpected physical changes, even temporary ones, make the mental aspect of recovery that much harder Protective hairstyling should be taught and viewed as part of routine patient care to prevent unnecessary challenges to the healing process

Further Films from the Team That Brought You Andy Serkis’s Animal Farm www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

When Harry Met Grogu

i listened to an interview recently about the SCOTUS case re: Roundup. they interviewed a pro-pesticide farmer who, in all seriousness, closed with "first they came for the glyphosate..."

is a "pipeline" like a well? was baby jessica a nazi?

me researching my ancestors - farmers, hmm. miners, ok. irish, sure. UNION organizers? fuck yeah!!