You can always check here to find some bail funds to support: www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-dire... - not all bail funds are part of the network but all who are part of the network are vetted.

O cool The hypothesis that the elite were trying to segrigate trans people from society purely to keep us as sex slaves was real, but only for trans women since they see trans men as undesirable for sex and want them eliminated which is EXACTLY THE POLICIES AND RHETORIC WE'RE SEEING HAPPEN RIGHT NOW

so do i get to say that everyone, including "trans" people, who fear-mongers about testosterone HRT/paints its effects as negative and "undesirable" is furthering the pedophile agenda. for the record this has always been the case but now do i get to say it without people doubting me.

"detrans" people are mouthpieces for the pedophile agenda. "im transmasc but T ruined my body" you are a mouthpiece for the pedophile agenda "im scared to go on T because it might make me ugly" you have fallen for the pedophile agenda.

There's plenty of jail and prison abolition work left. 2 of my favorites are Midwest immigration bond fund who are certainly doing relevant work now, and @chicommunityjs.bsky.social are always helping people leaving cook county jail. But there are a lot more real groups too.

this is cracking me up. won’t somebody think of the billionaires

oh boy this is the truth

this “chicago bail fund” and the entire network of newly registered bail funds are all scams. illinois made cash bail illegal in 2023 thanks to the incredibly hard work of many people, some of whom i know personally, so this is especially stupid

There is nothing that can prepare you for seeing a ghost car, knowing one or more of your neighbors was taken and you weren’t there to stop it. No matter how many you see.

No need to imagine. The country incarcerates children as young as 9 years old daily in youth prisons and jails. Those children are routinely sexually and physically assaulted and also emotionally tortured. They are fed terrible food and given barely any education. This country has done this for yrs.

I am begging you all. Please Please Please don't let this place be lost.

when i say bring that baby home i mean EVERY BABY

Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.” This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker

i do not think i fully appreciated until now how deeply explicit elite networks are about the evil that they do and how tightly connected they are. it felt conspiratorial to think that way. surprise!

A small but deeply meaningful local project - digitising issues of 90s Scottish trans magazine The Tartan Skirt so all of us can access them. It's a really modest fundraising target with a significant outcome, please share or contribute if you can!

self-righteous rage does not help survivors heal; it in fact makes it harder for us to

just a heads up for any trans people who are thinking about getting surgery at mt. sinai in nyc

mannn michael watts and catherine o’hara on the same day? bad!! don’t like it!!

relevant 2 my interests, and perhaps yrs

my position on the beatles post-being like 11 years old (i had an elementary school beatles phase for like a year or something?) is that i don’t think i ever need to hear a beatles song again

Happy birthday @flaminghydra.com !!! We unlocked a bunch of stuff today, AND ALSO we've started up a BOOKS PAGE!! Where you can buy books from Hydra authors. Today we're linking purchases through the wonderful @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social in Minneapolis. flaminghydra.com/issue-492/

have picked up exactly one midwesternism from living in chicago for 20 years and it’s “ope,” which as a careful person i say like 500 times a day. i have said it to the CATS

what do you call that fit of jeans for men that just has no fit at all. generic man jeans. unflattering on everyone jeans. no butt jeans. “jeans”

One thing that is really heartening about this time in Chicago (I'm sure in other cities too) is that a LOT of people who aren't normally as plugged in to community organizing or movement work are finding little pockets of involvement and even leading in their own right. It's how we win.

took cta to work today and … why was i driving. what was wrong with me. why do i need car. i do not need car, car is pain

catherine o’hara was absolutely god-tier at harmonization, first of all, and then the fact that she performed this number in character, with all those subtle expressions and moments, is just…fuck. a once-in-a-lifetime talent

We're a third of the way there! I know we can get to $6K by the end of the day and reunite these families with their loved ones 💔❤️‍🩹 Venmo: @peoplesassemblydetroit Cashapp: $peoplesassembly

Trump has now escalated attacks on Cuba by trying to cut off oil. Bombastic—but also less unprecedented than one thinks. Eisenhower tried an oil blockade of Cuba in 1960. He got Exxon (then Standard Oil), Texaco & Shell to refuse to refine oil, & bullied other countries/shippers to end imports...

insisting on calling every mass day of protest or one-day boycott a "general strike" is not the move. it's good to see people rallying around the cause, it matters, but if you want to be part of a large-scale labor action that shuts down the gears of capital, start by unionizing your workplace!!!

What’s there left to say? Journalism is already on fire, and now journalists of color are getting arrested for doing their jobs. While alt-right media continues to roll in dough, those of us who want to actually speak truth to power can’t find jobs, AND have to worry about safety.

oh noooo he's been around too many trans women now he wants to make techno :((((

noting that @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social is collecting donations for on the ground mutual aid orgs here: www.sudansolidarity.com

Federal agents teargassed a school and a Halloween parade in my city, among so many other violent things

"leave people alone" type rhetoric is not going to be enough rhetorically to protect trans people by any stretch of the imagination. but the whole project of elite transphobia is so directly tied into a movement in favor of mass censorship/control that it's kind of impossible to disentangle them

nearly every visible transphobe being a piece of shit in like five other ways is a strange sort of gift to us. like i'm still not convinced we could get a critical mass of people on board to support trans people by itself, but transphobia keeps being tied back into every other shit thing happening

ICE activity has been ramping up in Chicagoland again this month. The city's northwest side rapid respsonse team is reporting 2 people taken this morning from Chicago's heavily Latine Humboldt Park neighborhood, and advising that agents may still be in the area.

In addition to the very aggressive and ostentatious shows of force by ICE elsewhere, they're escalating operations in places like San Diego and hoping no one notices, or that people are too overloaded to take action.

ICE just showed up at our house for the second day in a row. Four cars yesterday, today five. They rolled up slow, then got out to taunt us, and take pictures of the house. They want fear to overwhelm us, to project a fantasy of power meant to intimidate, isolate, produce obedience—not happening.

mr. hole was my father

A couple of us at the magazine were just talking about this. Dan wrote funny blogs, yes, but he also literally changed the course of conversation for an American icon.

Hey sincere post for a sec, I'm involved in union organizing around AI and my media employer is planning layoffs. If you know people especially in nonprofit newsrooms who have dealt with this kind of thing @ me or DM me

this email offers no details about what the actual offer is and you have to opt in before you find out lol

As of now, the Broadview 6 case is going to trial. The government teased their argument this week, and it's not hyperbolic to state that our First Amendment freedoms are at stake. I'm proud to be hosting a fundraiser to support @brianstraw.bsky.social's legal defense THIS SATURDAY! More here ⬇️

Per the article, the Native American Rights Fund is supporting him and others in similar positions. Donate here: secure.narf.org/giveNARF

holy shit she’s even dressed like a ditch weed dealer

activity and abductions in Chicago yesterday as well

Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.

My husband is working with a group delivering groceries to families from an overwhelmingly Hispanic school in Mpls. He will be buying groceries this Friday. $350 will finish covering their food needs for the week; if he raises more he will buy TP/laundry detergent. Venmo: Edward-Burke-MSP.

New: DHS now says that two weeks of missing surveillance footage from ICE's Broadview Detention center isn't "missing," it was never recorded in the first place and thus can't be produced in an abuse lawsuit. An utter shitshow: www.404media.co/dhs-says-cri...

wait till the trib learns about the effects of alcohol