Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US. If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.

someone asked on insta what “be brave enough to be kind” means and why i say it on my podcast and at screenings being kind is always a vulnerability - it exposes your belly. love puts us in harm’s way always. we gotta find the courage to risk being hurt. or else i don’t know what the point is.

Everyone book mark this. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

If you have “sincere concerns” about trans athletes in sports, all it means is that you have given yourself a rationale for your bigotry that you sincerely believe exonerates you for aligning to a far-right tactic for marginalization and exclusion.

Whenever someone says they are “neither right nor left,” prepare to discover that they are so far right it will take your lovely breath away.

Let me give you a thought experiment: Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should. www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

If you want to know how the culture of abuse got us here, you should be following the work of @dlmayfield.bsky.social , @juliusgoat.bsky.social , @swordsjew.bsky.social , and @rlstollar.bsky.social .

This weekend, I wrote about the state murder of Renee Good, and the fascist claim that her murderer enjoys absolute immunity, and a common-sense reversal of qualified immunity that protects civilians from authorities, rather than the other way around. www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...

i wrote about dissociation, reading as comfort, vice and self obliteration during times of horror, and also about reading exclusively about gay love for like. a year buttondown.com/theswordandt...

"I understand you would like to cancel the 'Black in America' subscription package you chose November 4, 2024, but it's not an immediate process. It is arduous &painful. It is why people usually are warned to prevent the charges on your card. You were warned about this from people grandfathered in"

I’m tired of calling cowardice “strategy”

Yup. If you’re wearing an “I Voted” sticker, they’ll pass over you like it’s the blood of the lamb

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

lot of things i could say here but mostly i guess i would like to implore everyone to find a personality other than "least favorite roommate during a house meeting in portland, oregon"

Every time you hear about conservatives banning books that showcase queer people remember it's not truly about people being gay. They actually want to ban books that talk about autonomy and consent, because if kids learn these concepts they cannot be easily controlled and exploited.

If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money. Famously, we know that's people working in child care.

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

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All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

White men are 30% of the population. They are also: - 98% of presidents - 90% of CEOs - 90% of billionaires - 80% of Congress Forever oppressed.

Almost every day I see new report about an evangelical right-wing man arrested for CSAM or sexually abusing children. If it were queer/trans people abusing children at this rate it would be a part of the 24/7 news cycle. But since it is primarily Christian men, it is swept under the rug.

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Happy Wednesday, y’all! But especially to Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @jasmineforus.bsky.social! 😎🔥

Amazon is making money off AI copies of books - and putting the onus on authors to prove they’ve been plagiarised. Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

This really resonates, as I grew up in the Evangelical church where child abuse is a sacrament.

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

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Reconciliation without reparation is one of supremacy's greatest sabotages of the act of repair. Whenever abuse is exposed, it offers free exoneration to the abuser at the expense of the abused, and calls it redemption. It's the traditional and popular response to abuse in our supremacist society.

NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about. DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom. Tonight, at Law Dork:

@iwritewrongs.bsky.social I squealed when I saw the price: www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/Vari...

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Emergency Aid for those displaced from Nur Shams & Tulkarm Camps www.chuffed.org/project/tulk...

🚨NEW STORY 🚨 Last month, over 400 activists were imprisoned by Israel for trying to bring aid into Gaza. 1 of them was Zue, an army vet. Here, me and Zue discuss her voyage to Gaza, imprisonment, NOLA's role in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, & more. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/zue-...

My latest on Republicans playing Russian roulette with people’s food: Let White People Be the Face of Trump’s Hunger Crisis rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/11/04/f...

Agreed. Chuck Schumer stepping down is like planting a tree. The best time would have been twenty years ago, the second best time is now.

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

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I wrote about Nazism in a small Michigan town, and in a large North American country; about the uses of and limits of shame; and on the importance of holding shared standards. www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of...

November 1st. Time to crack open the new edition of Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas by @aduralde.bsky.social

Be ready with a box of tissues for this one. What a lovely & kind man. I hope all his dreams come true. He derserves it. 🥲 Andry won’t say it but I will…may Donald Trump & his entire WH of degenerates burn in Hell for eternity. 🔥 youtube.com/watch?v=-ySs...

like, this has been the consistent position of right wing protestants since FDR; they have hated social welfare for a century. because they want to control who eats and sleeps inside through the church and gain power that way.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

Old Soviet joke: Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three? One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals

You can listen to the STRONGWILLED podcast wherever you get your audio content normally, or you can listen/read the transcripts on our website. Truly the best way to be a nightmare to religious authoritarians is to tell the whole truth about who they are: www.strongwilledproject.com/focus-on-the...