Fascism lies in a specific mixture of individually far more common elements, whose combination is far more toxic than the sum of the parts.

Local dog auditions for carousel pony role. 🎠

here's a little life tip courtesy of me, the smartest and most beautiful girl in the world: the next time you're considering getting into an hours long argument online, or in real life for that matter, just take a moment, look at yourself in the mirror and say "this is beneath me actually"

The way they treat women's healthcare proves that these men only see us sex objects. I'd argue the same goes for trans people. They can't see these treatments as necessary for our health because they don't see us as people beyond our role as sex objects and baby incubators

Make no mistake, this is effectively a nationwide abortion ban. We’ve lost Roe. We’ve lost abortion in many states. Women are bleeding out in parking lots. Their goal is to have full control over our wombs and they don’t care how many of us die in the process.

I fear we've spent so long dehumanizing evil that we forget that HUMANS do evil things. And when you think of something as inherently not a human trait, it makes it easier for us to push it onto people we see as less human than ourselves.

Humans are capable of heinous things, unfortunately. It also means no one is immune to participating in those heinous things.

"Arbeit macht frei" was written over the doors to Auschwitz. "Work will set you free." In other words, the modern credo of the purported American dream.

A lot of people angry at a man for opposing oppression by harmlessly burning down a factory with no one inside and cheering for him to experience state carceral violence are simultaneously confused about why other people aren't taking actions to oppose oppression.

one of the replies called this the “pet to threat pipeline” and I—

One of my only consistent beliefs about books is that the best reading age for child is always slightly older than you'd think, and the best book to give a child is the one they're interested in reading. Don't like it? Talk to them about it.

We really need youth rights protections in general. We can't act like it's non-coercive "just talking" when the power dynamic is that young people are considered property that you have to feed and can't beat too hard.

Trans Day of Visibility. Trans people are our neighbors. Trans people are not dangerous. Today, and every day, we see you. You are loved, you belong 💛

I love and support trans people and I hope all of you are exactly as visible as you want to be. 🏳️‍⚧️

"Normal" in the US means "millions are suffering, but I've got mine so everything is great"

“Normal” has never had any meaning here except to mean complacency — especially if you’re white and well off. Maybe other countries have a normal but not the US

thoughts on today: 1) the protests are good, actually 2) you should go to one of you can 3) it will do you good to see how many other people also hate this guy 4) you might meet people who you can organize with 5) there are more of us than there are of them 6) we are going to win

Shout out to the top 5 kings in the world, Martin Luther, Larry, Don, Stephen and Americans don't have a motherfuckin'.

see you there

I don't know about you but when I encounter a term and am then informed by my peer that it's basically a neonazi dogwhistle being slipped into leftist circles by bad faith interlocutors, I just use a different term instead. It's easy for me

become ungovernable d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/44803208/ori...

I don't know how to talk about how it feels to, every day, watch Israel do unspeakable things, ostensibly in my name, while also watching, every day, as Americans remember how much they hate Jews. And with what relish they announce it.

The question that broke America fundamentally was ‘do all people deserve basic rights?’ This question was too hard for us. Too hard for our leadership. It still is. So now all of our rights are in jeopardy.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto:_... anyway read the most prescient work of science fiction i know.

AI discourse, and similarly: this should all be understood as guys who couldn't hack it in epstein circles knowing that they can't kill servants, but they really, really want to, so they are in the lab inventing a servant it's legally fine to kill.

the problem with robot fiction is that it is written from the point of view of humans questioning whether or not the robot is a "person," when robots are usually textually created to do jobs that already exist and people, human people, do in real life. it reifies the position the worker is subhuman.

The most clarifying thing I've ever heard about AI and Silicon Valley's shit more broadly was a line in a Josh Johnson stand-up routine. They either want to sell you a friend, or a slave. That really is the whole MO.

But there are people who see people who are different from them as a problem, and what they want for that problem is a solution. That's a dark road to start down.

A lot of people seem to believe, deep down that people who are different from them are wrong – lying or crazy or bamboozled. In its mildest form, this thinking is common. Human diversity exceeds anybody's imagination, and sometimes people respond badly to surprise.

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”

I am honestly so glad this is finally being said.

Do not pander. Do not dumb down. Trust your audience to be smarter than you. Trust them to be curious. Don’t erase your own voice for spurious bowing down to factors that bring nothing to the stories you need to tell. #Writing

At this point, the wealthy are LITERALLY trying to ensure that "exposure" leads to the death/erasure of anyone they consider inferior but more educated/skilled than them.

"immigration crisis" is a fake problem. let people visit and live and love where they want to, stop restricting that freedom

The notwithstanding clause was always meant - in theory - to serve as a shield by the provinces from odious federal laws that would restrict the rights of the provinces and their citizens. In practice it has been used to shield provinces from wrongdoing and abuse their citizens.

this is wild and disappointing. (Did not Montreal once, and perhaps still, have a large and vibrant Jewish community?)

Like is it time to talk about how identity politics has been used for years to GRIFT AND MANIPULATE PEOPLE? Or is that still taboo...?

"You just want to be angry" No, I want to be cared for, heard, valued, and maybe even safe for the first time in my life. That's why I'm angry.

Too many white people have no problem with this. It's so disgusting. I hate it here.

Feminism is dead again but surprisingly feminists are alive.

hi there is no 'safe' amount of ICE at airports

they should be paying people to train once they take initial aptitude tests or something. it would cost an insignificant amount of money compared to the other things US administrations spend on

when I see a bad take: [this person follows me]: oh man, they must be having a rough time, best to give grace. [this person doesn’t follow me]: what a credulous dipshit, a stupid loser who believes idiotic things

the problem with being seen as a "prize" because of your gender is that there are some of us no one want as a "prize" and that's an uncomfortable headfake.

“When a woman realizes what her wonderful character is, she’s not going to get messed up with the notion of being pseudo-male.” So yes, ladies, we’re the *destination*, and we should make sure we look and act feminine. Thanks, Joe!

two historical facts I will never let die: 1. The Hero’s Journey is hogwash written by a sexist twerp 2. Thoreau burned down half of Concord Wood because he was a careless dipshit and even at Walden his mum did his laundry for him