In a world where the US military embodied the values it professed, and are portrayed as having in domestic media, most of the officers in that room would resign in protest. Having seen how quickly and thoroughly they turned against trans service members, though, I know there is little honor there.

I don't know about "prominent critiques on the left" but the ADL has been openly on the side of Republicans for years. The Israeli government has no use for an organization that identifies hatred and bias, either, as long as the brand persists as an ironic tool of ethnonationalist supremacy.

I'm gonna be out of here for the holiday in a bit. Easy fast, y'all!

Republicans are bad at business

🚨 NEW STORY: Anybody that tells you folks in Red States haven't been resisting Christian Nationalism in education ain't talking to the right folks. I spoke to citizens in 3 states who are fighting to keep public schools secular. @theprogressivemag.bsky.social progressive.org/public-schoo...

My hot take on the Turing Test: it's pretty wild how computers' ability to at-least-sort-of pass it seems to have had a huge effect on the psychology of human relations with their machines. "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked" and all that.

Just in case you thought we were finish with measles because you haven't heard about it in a while, I'm just here to remind you that measles case continuing to rise. There are 1514 confirmed cases for 2025 so far. This is about 5.5 times more than the cases in 2024, and 26 times more than 2023.

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything. Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

This is great. You might also read me and @juststimming.bsky.social on “profound autism.” It’s one of the pieces I’m most proud of. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Oh, what the hell.

I'm gonna be out of here for the holiday in a bit. Easy fast, y'all!

but this, from In Our Name's director Cody Edgerly, is helping: "our rituals aren’t about wallowing in the pain of falling short and not being enough, but about returning to essence our inherent goodness, and taking actions that align ourselves with our moral core."

Or kicking out trans service members without cause, labeling them problems.

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US. And nobody covered it. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

"But it's pretty cut and dry with Saudi Arabia. I can never support the regime in charge of that country. They murdered my journalist colleagues and commit human rights violations against disfavored minorities as easily they breathe."

How is it that a population who gets this right keeps voting for them anyway?

Corporations have rights; why don't they have responsibilities? They get profits, they should face consequences.

We're in the blue PHEV zone since 2021. Probably cuts our gas usage by about half, overall. Not enough, but better. (would be more if we had a newer model, but we only get 24 miles pure electric range; enough for just about any around-town driving, and commuting is now public transport)

The tireless @alyssaur.bsky.social stayed up past midnight last night so that this piece on what the shutdown means for trans Americans could have the latest info. Thank you, Aly!!

My piece from this weekend applies also to Azeen Ghorayshi's work at the NYT. truthout.org/articles/ant...

It’s not a fun irony, but it’s an irony nonetheless that the entity supplying the US secret police with technology capable of tracking millions of people simultaneously by using ad-spyware hidden in weather apps & pixel trackers lodged in load screens is, itself, a mist of conflicting data points.

An honest Unetanneh Tokef, something that's been coming to me over the last few years... spore.social/@jondresner/...

I don't know about "prominent critiques on the left" but the ADL has been openly on the side of Republicans for years. The Israeli government has no use for an organization that identifies hatred and bias, either, as long as the brand persists as an ironic tool of ethnonationalist supremacy.

Oh, don't worry about this. It's just a kickstarter devoted to putting the voices and visions of queer people on the page to enliven and educate the world. Probably nothing y'all are into if you follow me.

The ADL is openly caving to right-wing antisemites. No one should looking to them to arbitrate what is and isn't antisemitism, least of all school systems and universities.

COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER: The Public Scholar - A Practical Handbook. "Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"

We are subsidizing AI usage.

It's Flytrap Tuesday! co-founder @sesmith.lol writes about gun violence, the continued insistence that mass shootings are about mental illness, and how that supports eugenics approaches to neurodivergent and mentally ill people: the-flytrap.ghost.io/mental-illne...

- Did any qualified JAGs read or sign off on this speech? Reminder, "But Hegseth said so" will NOT protect you from being charged with war crimes or other criminal charges. 9/

In a world where the US military embodied the values it professed, and are portrayed as having in domestic media, most of the officers in that room would resign in protest. Having seen how quickly and thoroughly they turned against trans service members, though, I know there is little honor there.

Oh holy moly I am actually, actually dizzy because @mariahaskins.com picked my story, "The Yew's Embrace," for one of her two from 2011! I've never fainted, but this is close! --Thank you, Maria!!

As someone who started doing clean energy research over a decade ago, it amazes me how we've reached the point where we can get most of the way to our climate goals by mashing the buttons for solar cells, buses, trains, and heat pumps

Saves money, too.

New Oz webcomic page just for you! yellowbrickramble.com/comic/the-qu...

🎵 generals gathered in their masses just to listen to two asses 🎵

Hegseth's justification is the myth that we 'lost wars' because of limiting rules of engagement, as though anyone else is *winning* asymmetrical conflicts with less humane standards. Is there a counterfactual in which we didn't flee Vietnam, pull out of Afghanistan? What would winning look like?

There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments, only patriarchal power grabs.

Aside from being an obvious fascist 'violence in the service of the nation is virtue' move, this is grossly ignorant of the history of the laws of war, trying to reduce civilian casualties, unnecessary suffering by armed forces, while still achieving useful, justifiable objectives.

The post office is *infrastructure* like highways and sewers. Modern life requires it.

Self-medication needs to be *fully* integrated into our social, cultural, and economic history.

Time to call my new representative and let him know how important trans issues are to my vote, my support, my money...

Republicans are bad at business

This is evil. Wheelchairs cost hundreds to thousands of dollars and are often customized to one person. Loss of mobility means loss of income, mental health, healthcare. This is eugenics. Remember: anyone can become disabled at any time. The folks in charge haven’t forgotten. They weaponize it.

Fun fact - Olive Oyl once wiped out a sentient race because they were immune to violence but she found a way around it, all because they were enslaving the Goons. ... and now you're wondering if that's true or I'm messing with you. (I'm not. RIP the Oids)

I think the thing I love most about Milholland's turn on Popeye is that, while fans of S*P can see his fingerprints all over it, it's not really a shift from the insanity Popeye has been up to for the last ~90 years, and some of the wildest turns have actually been pulled out of the ass of CANON.

This is going to be a big, big deal - get on it!

Hey hey! Do you want a book with my trans comics in it? GREAT NEWS! robin-brooks.square.site I'm selling signed copies of Basically How It Happened and Transphoria, as well as a couple prints!

#SourceOfTheDance High Holy Days mood! spore.social/@jondresner/...

Republicans are bad at business

A Hyde Amendment type thing for transition care would be DISASTROUS. I know SO MANY trans people who are only able to access their necessary medication through federally funded stuff. I'm not kidding when I say this will kill people.