The new Submittable logo… is bad…

news seems to be bending over backwards to not just report that the president *declared a civil war today*, describing the military occupation of major urban areas "a war too. it's a war from within"

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

Disabled people tried to warn you that fascism wouldn’t stop with us Other marginalized people gave the same warning Fascists never stop Hegseth ramped up the discrimination by targeting “fat troops, generals & admirals” He’s going to force them to do PT tests Resist. They won’t stop with us.

You don’t have to read between the lines. Trump is literally saying, publicly and out loud, that he is at war — actual, military-involved war — with Americans and American cities he personally dislikes. That impeachment is politically off the table is a national scandal.

starting to think that an increasingly senile trump is being shown a different reality by his aides by making ai videos of shit and telling him it’s real news

What the fuck.

A huge win for trans people in California: the state legislature passed five bills protecting our rights! Now it's time to call on Governor Gavin Newsom to sign them. Contact him before October 12th: transfamilysos.org/action-neede... #TransRights #TransYouth #TransCalifornia

If ever there was to be a time of widespread uprisings against the closing fist of this authoritarian frenzy, it would be now: Things are becoming bad but are not yet so bad that no one can do anything. Very narrow window for action here. Is Broadview, IL an outlier, or a domino? Time will tell.

BAHAAHAHA LMAO

Alejandra is not overselling this. This executive order, if weaponized by a lawless administration like Trump, could lead to the dismantling of institutional/nonprofit opposition to Trump. It can also be used for surveillance and disruption ops similar to the civil rights era and red scare.

It doesn't matter who gets killed, it doesn't matter what the circumstances are, the Right is going to use it for their own purposes. If this isn't obvious by now you're choosing to be obtuse.

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

this exists it is called thinking

I’ve been justifying my book hoarding for years by saying this would happen.

i think the reason i find relatively well-heeled american people’s doomerism hard to bear is that it’s no less self important than evangelicals’ assertions that these just happen to be the end of days. and compared to people in e.g. the global south most of us ARE relatively well-heeled

They picked trans folks because there are so few of us they think they can get away with it, and they are perfecting a playbook they will use to go after more groups of people until they've concentrated enough power to be unstoppable. It's entirely up to cis people to stop this. Please help us y'all

Everything is terrible but I published some poems the other day! Perhaps they can provide some comfort or inspiration. www.literarycherry.com/paul-s-page

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

so ICE murdered a father in cold blood from a routine traffic stop, we're murdering random Venezuelans in foreign waters, we're shackling S. Koreans for building the factories we need to keep the southern economy alive, and we have a majority party trying to tie passport status to political views

This is something that I think needs to be said more for the young people. This shit got worse. Google was more useful in 2006 than it is today. Meemaw and Peepaw regularly post shit on Facebook that would have got you banned from Newgrounds.

“Violence is ALWAYS wrong, a human life is ALWAYS precious!!” Okay will you wear this mask to prevent disabled people from getting an infection that could kill them “OBVIOUSLY NOT”

It’s Litquake szn and where is the disability inclusivity 🫠

🚨Ok, folks, we need to deal with this again, right away. 🔹️Telehealth expires on Sept. 30. That's in 3 weeks. 🔹️What happens to Medicare will 100% happen to private insurance. No one's telehealth is safe. ☎️ CALL your Representative & tell them to vote yes on H.R. 4206, aka the Creating... 1/5

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

There is a lot for disabled people to be enraged about. I partnered with artist Finnegan Shannon on #DisabledRage public art. All graphics are downloadable & feel free to share and wheatpaste all over your community disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/

wow is it possible for seven people to all be wrong about something? www.axios.com/2025/09/02/a...

Oops, I did it again!

y'all we just have to manifest harder, I believe in us. we clearly got most of the way there 🤣

Here’s a fresh hell:

If Obama or Biden had said this, it would be rightfully understood as them arrogating dictatorial authority to themselves, it would be the only thing anyone in the media or opposition would talk about for a year, and it would probably end their presidency. For Trump, it’s literally just Tuesday.

Good news, everyone! Half of this skeet was incorrect! My publisher is still selling my book, they just had some incorrect text saying it was unavailable! blacklawrencepress.com/books/adapta...

right now, I'm surviving on mutual aid. without it, I don't have a way to meet my basic needs or stay safe while I'm this sick. if you're able to help or share, it makes a real difference in whether I can keep going. #NEISvoid 💸💕

Everything is shit and fascism is here and we're not going to be saved; we have to fight it together. Go volunteer at a local food bank or library or something, joining existing networks will save you time and energy and show you how those connections look and feel if you need to rebuild them later

The military takeover of Washington is not a “distraction” from Epstein. It’s a military takeover of Washington, which is an even bigger deal, and those of us who kill brain cells reporting on this stuff knows it’s been an explicit goal since before the election.

Recording music is just constantly finding out you need to purchase another cable to do the thing you’re trying to do 🫠

We live in the tackiest failed state

Seeing an awful lot of people sick with Covid right now. Many saying “Covid is back”. It never left. That’s why some of us are still advocating for mitigations. Every infection is a dice roll with disability. Wear a mask. Clean the air. Stay home when sick.

behold the "HTML bomb" It's a counterattack for AI companies that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to when a scraper grabs it, it becomes a 10-gig HTML page and 💣 goes the scraper Item #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

Poetryworld makes no sense. I have a manuscript that gets fond praise from big presses and extremely fast rejections from small ones. I have been submitting for years and I feel like I’m losing my mind. Where is its home? How many submission fees must I pay? 🫠

This is the giant Canary in the coal mine of what AI will do to education. Improperly adopted, it will destroy critical thinking and educational attainment. For the oligarchs, this is a feature of AI, not a bug. restofworld.org/2025/colombi...

He doesn’t want to “reduce chronic illnesses,” he wants to reduce people with chronic illnesses

the way you actually fight fascism is by locking up as many of their leaders as you can as quickly as you can, and identifying all their sources of power and influence and breaking those. they control the courts? break their control of the courts. crush fox news. destroy the federalist society. etc

Worth remembering that before the extremist take over of our government the consensus was the biggest terror threat to the US came from domestic right wing extremists. So this is, um, worrisome.

I don’t know what universal law is behind this, but I always make my best music when I’m not recording.