When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

The situation with Massie just demonstrates how intense misogyny is an essential loadbearing pillar of today’s Republican Party. If you believe that underage girls should not be raped by rich older men? Then you’re not welcome in the GOP.

Minnesota Becomes First State to Ban Prediction Markets, Feds Immediately Sue gizmodo.com/minnesota-be...

So Maureen Galindo is such a deranged antisemite that even Track AIPAC is denouncing her

History teaches us that rights are rarely lost all at once. They disappear piece by piece while people convince themselves it is only happening to someone else.

Dennis Hastert was a Republican Speaker of the House, the longest-running Republican to ever hold the position, and he was sentenced to prison for paying off children he sexually abused. Nobody associates this with the Republican Party because they’re the “law and order” party, because they’re white

This is the most Jewish thing ever.

Pedocon theory remains undefeated

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

Who saves a life safes the entire world.

The murders of three men, including a security guard, at a mosque in San Diego yesterday are horrific. No one should ever have to fear being shot and killed in a place of worship — or anywhere. Every single person should be able to gather in community in safety. May their memories be a blessing.

This is Amin Abdullah, the security guard at the Islamic Center of San Diego who died protecting his community and whose bravery very likely bought time for the students, teachers, and others at the mosque to find safety. A recent Facebook post gives you a sense of who he was.

An death just like George Floyd: In Dublin, Ireland, Yves Sakila, a Black Irish Congolese man, appears to have been killed by criminal justice system actors who kneeled on his neck moments before he died. Yves Sakila mattered. Black Lives Matter. Details: www.instagram.com/p/DYfk9HWiPx...

Lots of antisemites know they're not supposed to be antisemites, and they'll go through complicated gaslighting to explain why they're not actually antisemites. Islamaphobes rarely go to the effort, and it's rarely demanded of them.

"Hm. Bluesky is down," I tell @mareht.bsky.social "Did it happen?" she asks, "No" as she checks the news. "They must have done another code push."

This is the correct way to report it. They dropped the case to AVOID the court reviewing it. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

“99.2% of GPS patients who received gender-affirming medical care continue to identify as transgender into adulthood. Of the remaining 0.8%, most did not regret the medical treatment they received.” This is why transphobes are terrified of youth care, and why youth care should be legal everywhere.

Judge Reed O’Connor has prohibited a party from seeking any help from real judges.

New gender neutral toilet about to drop in LA.

Periodic reminder to the kids too young to remember Ronald Reagan: He was a shitty President who set the stage for the present fascism.

Now: About 100 rank and file Legal Aid Society attorneys and allies are rallying outside Brooklyn Criminal Court after a woman was forced to give birth in arraignment. They’re discussing other instances of clients dying in custody & harsher punishments for NYC’s poor.

Three things: 1. As noted downthread, Judge Devin Robinson presided over a woman being forced to give birth in shackles in his courtroom. 2. NYT shows expectant mother was kicked to curb by hospital: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/n... 3. Judge Robinson was recently celebrated for community justice.

"He is being targeted because he is Palestinian, is the President of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, and has spoken out for Palestinian human rights. ... We see this for what it is: the Trump regime using antisemitism as a smokescreen to crush our civil liberties...."

Reminder that "Semitic" is a linguistic category not an ethnic designation, and that no humans are "Semites." The term 'antisemitism' was intentionally built on preexisting racist labels of people groups and ethnicities. Also, the term, while shitty in origin, exclusively refers to Jew-hate.

As I have said before, I know it is possible to be critical of Israel without antisemitism, but a huge number of gentiles can't even be critical of antisemites without being antisemitic

When we don't do this, people like Dolores Huerta spend decades in silence because they've sacrificed their own well being and their voice for the cause, and we frankly don't deserve those human sacrifices as a species.

Did you know that the Mason-Dixon survey began in Philadelphia? www.realphillyhistory.com/blog/why-the...

State and nonstate violence operate in tandem in genocidal movements, and incentivizing the harm is always added as it accelerates. bsky.app/profile/whit...

oh i am HERE FOR THIS

You have to actively and repeatedly make your place unsafe for Islamaphobes, misogynists, antisemites, predators, homophobes, terfs. You have to do it once, and then you have to do it again, because they'll come back the moment they think they're allowed.

Perpetual reminders: Antisemitism is Jew hatred, not hatred of Semites as a category. It is a word that was created in the modern era to sanitize hatred of and discrimination against Jews. Having Jews in your movement does not mean it’s impossible for it to be antisemitic.

Given the prevalence of antisemitism in society, if your movement is large enough, it's there. If you don't think it is, it's probably because you either don't recognize it as antisemitism or you're ignoring it. (Same with misogyny or homophobia). Movements aren't "safe" unless we make them safe.

I want to know the name of the judge who presided over this. I want that judge’s name and email address public. I want people to be able to ask that judge what the fuck was wrong with him or her. /1

“There’s only one supposedly progressive New England Democrat that has used a swastika in their campaigning and it’s not Graham Platner” feels like a batshit sentence to write and yet here we are

i keep asking them when i get to genocide evangelical christians for wanting to kill me for being trans yet i never get an answer.

A federal judge also ruled that federal funding was withheld to coerce a pardon for Peters.

Progressive candidate for Colorado AG calls for censure or impeachment of Gov Jared Polis (D) for giving clemency to Tina Peters

On this International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia: "We envision a world where homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia no longer exist. Where all queer people are loved, respected, celebrated, and free." It's quite simple 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

wait too late to offer my submission for the next james bond?

Forced forgiveness reinscribes existing power structures, as I say again and again in this joint:

All these notes will sound familiar

AI shills trying to go one notch below Juggaloos. "Citations, man, how do they work?"

Incredible ending. “Yeah the prison rape stories are probably true but admitting that helps our enemies, so better to discredit it with a genetic fallacy and argumentum ad consequentiam”

“AI” boosters baffled that the author of a paper is required to know what all of its citations contain do not seem to understand the basic concept of a citation.

This isn’t even a case of a guy with other choices making that choice because he believed it was right and then learning otherwise once he got there. He already knew it was wrong. He wanted to be a tough guy and kill people. That’s truly all there is to it.

Gerontocracy is how I still occasionally see people talk about AOC being too "young" and "inexperienced" for a presidential run despite the fact that in 2028 she will be 39 and have spent a quarter of that life as a US congressional member sitting on 5 different oversight and finance committees.

ICYMI: I wrote about the irresolvable tension between Hillel's desire to be the big tent organization that speaks for all campus Jews, and their desire to draw boundaries around acceptable and unacceptable Jewish campus politics. forward.com/opinion/8254...

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Using human blood to make baked goods isn't something *anyone* does, while weaponizing sexual violence is a thing *every* society has done.