@rikiwilchins.bsky.social [Texas cont] In an additional attempt to suppress LGBTQ+ speech, the policy includes STUDENTS: "no degree-culminating student research within the TTU System will be permitted to center on SOGI topics,” thus extending "Don't Say Gay" to dissertations and theses. 2/2

White House Correspondents Dinner is not about broadcasting news, it is to celebrate the year. This year it will be about celebrating selling their souls, their dignity, their self respect to, AND kneeling before, AIPAC & Oligarchs, & their racist misogynist homophobe transphobe rapist puppets.

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

I would never have imagined a headline like this There is very little expectation that a US law enforcement organization will agree to follow the law.

The Israeli military operation in Lebanon is not just about Hezbollah. It's the same playbook they used in Gaza—using Hezbollah as an excuse to target civilians according to ethnicity, intentionally murder journalists, and displace people to seize land. Ethnic cleansing. crimethinc.com/lebanon2026

"As the masks continue to fall and the world reveals itself more clearly, resist the pull toward cynicism. The oppressor depends on our hopelessness to survive. Surround yourself with people who not only believe a better world is possible, but who are deliberately building it..."

“Hypernormalization describes a state where a false, simplified, or surreal version of reality becomes so accepted as normal that people lose the ability or will to challenge it, even when aware of its untruth, often due to systemic inertia or lack of alternatives.”

"Catholicism isn't conservative enough for us" is a big move for a whole fleet of spinoffs that emerged cause some dudes wanted to get divorces and marry nuns.

Zero. Sympathy. They did this to themselves. Oh, and also? There definitely is an easy answer.

Today I listened to a podcast about how Taser bankrolled the creation of a fictitious medical condition “excited delerium” that cops used to diagnose black & brown folks who died after tasering (& asphyxiation) as spontaneously combusted. Nothing to do with them. Can’t hate capitalism enough.

"The logical outcome of fascism is an aestheticization of political life" - Walter Benjamin

i don't like that platner guy because a) nazi tattoo & b) if a genuine progressive was revealed to have a regretted nazi tattoo somehow they would be subjected to relentless attacks over it from places that're suspiciously quiet about platner. i consider that telling

Also, Democratic leaders came out of the woodwork to call Mamdani an existential threat to Jews but have said absolutely nothing about Platner. That is fucking suspicious.

here it is. i never finished the book it's from but this quote has always struck me very deeply

Republican voters were more angry and politically involved about wearing a mask than they are about child rapists and I will judge every single one of them based on that fact.

I asked my Republican colleagues to explain why they want to ban the IRS from providing an online tool that ALREADY EXISTS to allow people to file their taxes for free. *Silence* Every Republican voted against @gluesenkampperez.house.gov's amendment to allow the IRS to offer Direct File.

If I'm sitting on a pile of cures, and someone gets a disease and begs me for the cure, and I tell them they can't have it, I have committed murder. It's not complicated.

Now, between clashes with the stormtroopers of the Trump regime, is a good time to put the pieces in place to be ready for the next round. This guide equips street medics and health professionals to respond to some of the common injuries inflicted by police violence. crimethinc.com/TreatingPoli...

the DNC “spent hundreds of thousands of dollars at least doing interviews in 50 states,” to conduct its autopsy, but has nonetheless decided it won’t “tell the millions of people who donated money to the Democratic Party candidates in the last few years” what it learned from that internal review.

Senate Republicans on Thursday approved a plan to fund Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigrants... (corrupt - lawless - cruelty) Never forget www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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'The Truth Is Better Than Continuing to Lose': Petition Demands DNC Release Autopsy of 2024 Defeat

President Trump just became the first non-Israeli citizen to receive the nation’s “Israel Prize.”

One Palestinian American researcher warned that Israel is seeking “annexation without legal burden.”

At this point, AI promoters are calling to ableist and sanist tropes as often as possible. I expect them to do a version of "trump derangement syndrome", where they paint people concerned about climate collapse, environmental racism, and degradation of critical thought as its own "mental illness".

this government is corrupt.

Okay but this is kinda funny - right wingers totally against trigger warnings, except for the existence of trans people, which MUST be warned for

This is an extraordinary, searing interview. In the context of the repulsive new Jackson biopic, it raises questions about why so many people just don’t want to know what he did. FWIW I saw Leaving Neverland before HBO pulled it, and I absolutely believe those kids.

A small part of me wonders if, decades from now, The Onion purchasing InfoWars will cause people to misunderstand Alex Jones' genuine behavior as comedy. Will some kid in 2050 love Alex Jones because they find InfoWars hilarious, and when looking at original content they see classics like gay frogs?

The kids these days say “AI” in the same way that people our age say “bullshit” (“you didn’t do that, that’s AI!”) and I think that’s beautiful

If only there was a word for “exploitative sexual behavior with a 16-year-old girl when he was 30.”

You’re gonna see a lot of “the ai companies are finally trying to control costs” stories coming soon that will be written with an air of surprise and confusion. Remember that this was all obvious two years ago!

Thank you Reps Mike Quigley and Troy Carter for cosponsoring the Block The Bombs Act! A majority of Americans, including 75%+ of Democrats, are against sending weapons to Israel. By signing on, you stand with them. Tell your representative to sign on today: blockthebombs.org

The real reason that the United States is so regressive. 300 years since The Enlightenment and people are still clinging to their fear and delusion.

Number of Wiccans in Epstein files is probably zero. Someone should count the Christians in them.

That must be why this is the first game-changing tech in history that requires a constant river of sneering Definitely-Not-Crusaders men who can't handle being told "no" demanding it be used and forcing it on everyone.

An outstanding, comprehensive rebuke of AI mania in K-12 by @winterjessica.bsky.social that rounds out by highlighting the growing coalition of parents, educators, and other concerned humans that is working fast and hard to tamp it down.

Every day I log on here after reading that the president has threatened to nuke Iran again or some fascist tech company has put an AI chatbot and some Proud Boys in charge of the water supply or whatever, and the discourse is always something like "the twitch streamer shouldn't talk about stealing"

I attended the trial of Renea Gamble, the Alabama woman arrested for wearing a penis costume to a No Kings protest. Like the viral video of her arrest, it was both funny and enraging. New from me @theintercept.com:

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil is confirmed to have been killed by the IDF. Al Akhbar, her outlet, as well as LBCI and Al Jadeed, have confirmed it. The IDF, the world’s leading killer of journalists, was blocking rescue operations.

The National Post describes, accurately, that the book depicts Indian people as rapists, describing "the feminist who naïvely assumes that her new compatriots won’t rape her" then says without hesitation it's "highly relevant" to Canada's immigration situation today. This is pure gutter racism tbc.

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

Of all the vile traits that embody the Epstein Class: the hoarding of wealth, the megalomaniacal demagoguery and the corruption, it’s their absolute disdain for and the pleasure they derive from harming everyday people that is so beyond my realm of comprehension. The level of sadism is staggering.

Beggars belief that Met Police is in talks with #Palantir about giving them access to highly sensitive data, when there’s already such concern over its links with ICE & Israeli military. Palantir already has UK contracts worth over £500m, incl. with NHS. We should be scrapping them not signing more

The most offensive and appalling part of Trump’s Presidential Message was his invocation of John Winthrop to provide a historical foundation for America Reads the Bible and his participation in it.

Important reporting. Jerusalem is being erased. jewishcurrents.org/the-land-reg...