Gynecologist, to his assistant: "hand me the -

As we continue to defend LGBTQ rights across the nation, we also know that our joy is at the heart of our resistance. We’re fighting for the freedom to be who we are, not who politicians want us to be.

AMERICAN COMEDY: It’s funny because they “tell it like it is” but also there’s always an underlying optimism BRITISH COMEDY: It’s funny because it’s sardonic and pessimistic, but self-deprecating CANADIAN COMEDY: I have no fucking idea why this is funny but it’s the funniest thing I’ve ever seen

A long 🧵, but totally worth a read.

The Appeal reports on a Texas man who was sent to death row based on testimony a witness gave under a debunked hypnosis method:

Lest their heroic efforts be forgotten.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god!

just did some errands and it's just wild to live in what's really a pretty close-knit neighborhood with family owned businesses where you know everyone who sells you food and medicine and then congress is just here sometimes lol

Super cool that the grandfather I grew up in a house with,who wouldn't even talk about his time in France during WWII because of the horrors, fought for a country whose defense secretary is now IRL Hitlerposting from Normandy on the anniversary of D-Day.

Summer snuck up on me and my beach body is less “Baywatch” and more “municipal coastline management.”

I went to the mall and I wrote about it.

May we rage when we must & rest when we can. May we build the peace we so desperately need. May we turn our hands, in all things, to the justice peace requires. The only liberation is a shared liberation. May we have courage sufficient to build it. Shabbat shalom ❤️

Tonight's sunset.

There is a tree on the way to work that I call the witch king of angmar because it's the witch king of angmar. When I drive past while paying attention to the road it gives a slight jump scare. Right at that moment I notice it just in the corner of my vision, especially when it starts hissing.

I don't really talk about this, because I'm actually quite private about my personal life, but many many years ago Tony Head took me under his wing and showed me the kind of person I could be. It's not an exaggeration to say that I'm the person I am today because of the kindness he showed me.

Today I had occasion to use the word “verisimilitude” in conversation and I got a third of the way through it before my brain realized it had never considered how that word was actually said and did the linguistic equivalent of the Wile E. Coyote fall

I will never get over being told men are protectors when it’s always been men that have created or put me in danger and only women who have ever offered help.

The Cleveland Clinic has caved to the extortion by DOJ and settled with them over their provision of gender affirming care for trans youth. They're paying a fine of $308k. Following Texas Children's, they also agreed to create a "detransition clinic."

A successful catch of a Mud Minnow for this Green Heron.

here's an idea: what if we take a 3000 year-break from the misogyny, white supremacy, exploitation reevaluate after and see what we think how might that go

these have been the hardest lessons to absorb, and I've had to absorb them over and over again my entire life, and so has every woman I know, and so has every woman YOU know

Someone already ran on "rejecting Dem HR lady politics," and he won, congrats.

When you have something important to say in a meeting.

When it comes to a toxic man with a history of sexual abuse and wearing a Nazi tattoo, I’m sure the best way to humble him and improve his character is to put him in a position of power.

I’m watching Jeopardy from 6/2 and one of the contestants thanked his parents, and then his therapist for encouraging him to take a chance and try out for Jeopardy. I smiled.

This hasn't received the attention it should but DOJ lawyers are openly misrepresenting things to the courts to get access to the medical records of trans youth. Now a judge in Rhode Island has referred them to a disciplinary hearing to face potential sanctions. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

...in conclusion, the “groomer” slur has it backwards: trans/LGBTQ+ people aren't “sexualizing children.” it's the GOP who is sexualizing trans/LGBTQ+ folks. & we need to confront that sexualization head-on! FIN juliaserano.medium.com/origins-of-t...

Truman: The buck stops here. Trump: I didn’t do it nobody saw me do it you can’t prove anything

Not surprised to see the two senators from Kansas on there. Frankly, at this point, they’re just wasting perfectly good oxygen.

Do not forget the hunger strikers and the deplorable conditions that prompted their protest.

part of a 🧵 of excerpts from my new piece:

there's a real feeling of like...if a man did something horrible to me or someone i know that guys like this just wouldn't fucking care

I don't even think you can say the misogyny is subtextual at this point. It's just the text

A lot of people certainly seem relieved—liberated, even—to no longer have to pretend to care about violence against women.

What *could* differentiate the left is a positive vision, period.

Wasn’t there an American version of this concept? Something like “Run Joe Run”? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lit...

‘dear rax, my middle class parents are ashamed that i clean houses for a living’ www.patreon.com/posts/160262...

Dissociating! in the Parking Garage

Okay, that citation for “manavelins” sounds like someone taking the piss.

If you look closely, you can see this male Common Yellowthroat has caught a tiny bug in his beak.

personally, as a straight man, I quite like women. I think they're pretty neat.

Still drinking coffee at 2 in the afternoon. Midnight me is going to be *so* pissed.

credit where credit is due, getting your cult addicted to tallow before importing screwworms is a good bit

"If I hadn’t already committed three hours of my day to standing in line at this bakery, there's no doubt I would be right in the middle of the proletarian revolution. It’s just that this month’s Cronut flavor happens to be burnt maple with peach jam and, well, that is my favorite."

Nothing east of the Mississippi is the Midwest.

THIS JUST IN: Wind, with dog as a lump in the yard in the background

This

Ever notice how when you spill a little bottle of something like ink, somehow about two gallons comes out?

Friday morning