"An entire community is mourning a horrific loss in Tumbler Ridge this week ... And the dangerous links being made to trans people at large will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come," writes @melwoods.me

I used to student teach in a kindergarten and a student asked me why people couldn’t get young if they could get old and I said because time only ran in one direction and then he said why

this was way more prevalent when i was still on tiktok but it feels like people are getting really weird about alcohol, coffee, anything that might make you happy--even in innocuous amounts! feels like we're re-engineering puritanism as a method of maintaining control (over ourselves, each other)

Those layoffs are hitting like an asteroid aren't they

I guess this is why the NYT is bear-hugging the right-wing, anti-human rights Manhattan Institute, because they don't like weed. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...

Guess I know what I'm reading with The Cut's article on Pilates pissing everyone off

Legendary halftime show and my decades-long nemesis losing to my dad’s team

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

Dump Truck, by Mikhail Evdokimovich Tkachev, 1956

Bringing out all of the flags made me tear up

so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration

even if you don't care about sports you gotta admit it's awesome that this guy had to hear to his face how the world feels about him

Not to pull the “as a film scholar” card or anything but what the hell does “interplaying with the film” mean like were there Smell-O-Vision cards or something?

Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota. This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup. Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.

An account I've bristled against for months is finally getting pushback and it's because of Heated Rivalry God bless

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

Know what burn journalism down .. we gotta restart this whole thing

Now more than ever before

Those who make whistles impossible make vuvuzelas inevitable

Today is "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" day!

Nice new office Greg!

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

CanCon stays winning

They don’t even care about those they *do* personally know so it’s doubly alien to them

and which of course we all know is false, as the loved ones of Breonna Taylor will remind you

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

Yes, that’s exactly it. The whole reason they’re there is they want revenge for the George Floyd protests

The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...

People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie

You can tell things are going well in America because accounts with names like MovieTVFunZone are posting things like, "THE PIGS ARE KIDNAPPING CHILDREN AND PRIESTS. THE TREE OF LIBERTY DEMANDS TO BE WATERED"

The anger people have at media institutions and college administrators can’t be detached from this, it’s not just that people can perceive cowardice it’s that they see others with more on the line doing more to stand up for their values than the people who have been trusted to safeguard things

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

Republicans will fabricate reality to fit their own pre-formed interpretation of said reality then mock anyone who dares ask where this conjured up reality is coming from They make up their own reality then punish anyone who refuses to see or maintain it

It sure is fun living in Canada's largest city during These Times

This has been a test of The Funny Thing Happened Broadcast Service, and you all did great. See you next time

i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory

ICE raids are not the first time this was made explicit. I think people downplay how much Jim Crow was not just about controlling Black people but it was also about controlling white people. If you thought racism was dumb and acted that way you could end up with a bomb in your home

A U.S. president cannot be held accountable. Therefore, a U.S. president must never make a policy decision.

Part of why we are here is that there WERE in fact millions of white people who took to the streets in 2020 after George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and others were killed by the cops. So no it's not the case that white people are just out in the streets now. Fascist white people were ENRAGED by this.

How many times have I argued that Trump was using white identity politics to consolidate power only to be told by the pundit class and “objective” journalists that the failing of the left was its continuous embrace of identity politics while they were completely blind to whiteness as an identity?

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I think that her being a white woman "mouthing off" to him is part of the trigger. He already likely felt "disrespected" by her wife earlier. To me, this explains some white people's "she had it coming" attitude. How DARE a white woman not submit to his authority? He had to put her in her place.

When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you." That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.

Pot calling the kettle???

What a year this week has been.