This is a great point and brings up something I've been thinking about. Critical literacy is a teachable skill, and while it's easiest to develop in grade school, it's also something that adults can learn. If we could develop a community ethos of teaching literacy, it would be enormously powerful.

Just learned that Monarca, the local rapid response network that hosts trainings regularly, has its own website. Includes link to sign up for trainings as well as the hotline to call if you see federal activity. monarcamn.org

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Can report back from the Charlotte No Kings that "free Palestine" is now, if not the normie lib position, then at least fully accepted among the normie libs. Lots of signs and flags scattered about, no apparent drama at all.

it's OK to find the democrat wine moms cringe or w/e, but you have to realize the democrat wine moms 1. have access to retiree money and 2. are RAVENOUS for justice. if you don't have any of these women you love, or who love you, you're at a disadvantage. swallow your cringe. make friends with them.

I've met these two wonderful parents before. i was reporting on a roundtable discussion of trans parents held at the HRC HQ and then we all went out for dinner afterwards. after dinner Keisha and Sean insisted on walking me all the way to the metro stop to make sure i made it okay.

I am begging people to understand that “disabled people” is not “me and people exactly like me.” We’re like 1/5 of the US population and a big chunk of us often don’t even identify as disabled (see: some older adults and veterans).

OK, here’s my contribution to the discourse: It grinds my gears when people say “disabled people” want everyone to mask. A pretty big proportion of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities can’t wear masks and at this point are pretty hostile to them.

The WinRAR librarian 📚

At Patterson Park in Baltimore today.

Rest in power, Miss Major. www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

video of people being snatched by ICE at a laundromat shows an intersection between housing and immigration enforcement. if your unit and building don't have (working, available) laundry, that's one more errand where you have to spend significant time in potentially vulnerable public space

@alsobrooks.senate.gov I voted for you, what's the deal here exactly because I'm starting to regret that decision

Pale light of autumn

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

wizard frog is insane

me: hooray, got my signup for polish thanksgiving food sale! also me: what do you mean it's time to sign up for polish thanksgiving food sale,

okay i get that all the “these people weren’t bullied enough” jokes are funny for millennials but as someone whose life was genuinely almost ruined by it i’d appreciate it if we knocked it the fuck off

Look, these people are Protestants.

>spend three weeks agonizing about application deadline, freaking out that i won't get it done, mad at myself, self-loathing >today, the deadline, i say "if it doesn't get done, that has to be OK" >i get it done the next hour why does self-forgiveness WORK 😡

ICE ARE USING WATER MANAGEMENT VANS IN WISCONSIN

Anyone but the Blue Jays. Sorry. Toronto seems like a lovely city with lots of lovely people but I don't like your baseball team and I wish them no success whatsoever.

BALTIMORATORY RETURNS THIS MONTH! Featuring: Baltimore puppeteer extraordinaire Michael Paradiso and his friend Allen the Frog performing the University of Maryland commencementspeech delivered in May 2025 by Kermit the Frog! #baltimore #themuppets #puppet #baltimoratory #kermit #theatre

on destroying the internet

oh hey, the thing i've been tracking since may is on kotaku!

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color Every queer press org should be picking up this story

The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.

god, i use the term "titan of industry" as sarcasm so much that i had literally forgotten it had a non-sarcastic use case

he declined to share the one that said "kash patel is a fugly slut"

ahhh, seeing people talk about conan o'brien on the timeline this morning brings back good memories. used to stay up late with my sister and watch it during the summer (i was in elementary, perhaps middle school, so way too young to be watching it in retrospect LMAO)

last repost that shit sniped me. i'm doing it now. but it did snipe me. looking forward to not being out of half my meds

gooooooooooood evening, campers it's time to step away from whatever you are doing and take care of yourself. it'll still be waiting for you when you get back weekly reminder 💊⏰

We all panic, lord knows not without reason, but 15 months of homelessness taught me that it's a betrayal to be consistently lax about how that panic influences one another. Hope is a skill.

Two books to allay this cynicism: @chenoweth.bsky.social's Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know, which shows how much broader the menu is, and how it can be effective Cobb's This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed, which shows how org'ed community defense is often a key complement

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

The funniest thing about Earl Weaver is this tiny ball of rage was legitimately 25-30 years ahead of his time as a tactician. My favorite manager of all time, maybe my favorite head coach in any sport

hm. there is a pattern of social media, for myself and i suspect others, that is shaped a little like self-harm that goes "hey, look! look at all these people who hate you. look at all these people who think you are a bad person, that nothing you do will ever be enough, that you are lazy and awful"

battle doomscrolling by posting five small pleasures in life: 1) a clean, soft robe after a long shower 2) fireflies 3) the moment you finally see the solution to a puzzle 4) internet radio 5) observing a really dumb cat

by age 30 you should have: * strong opinions about birds * 12 different "when i get time" projects on indefinite hiatus * sandwich(es) you fruitlessly yearn to have again * a growing list of obituaries you're looking forward to reading * parasocial friendships with other people's pets

If you are a white person who subscribes to the Washington Post, your solidarity should not be expressed in "feeling badly" but in cancelling your subscription today if you have one. Otherwise no one wants to hear anything from you.

got jumpscared by catherine breadbowl in the comments

My CA and Venmo are literally the same handle.

I'm 70. It's that stupid frog the bigots have cooped to be their symbol. My symbols all eat frogs for lunch...