I’m excited for Mamdani to win the mayoral race in part because it will make the worst people in New York sad.

“How about women don’t drink so much if they don’t want to get raped?” Check him for Nazi tattoos.

I honestly believe that opposition to Me Too—or even willingness to mock it—is an indicator of personal moral rot and nascent conservatism. So far this has a 100% predictive accuracy.

ok but why does "art that makes you uncomfortable" mean rape porn half the time? like i was just having a conversation about how one of my favorite films triggered a literal panic attack, i promise the critique of rape porn isn't primarily driven by "discomfort" or "ick" or whatever.

"The review of mifepristone marks the second time in less than a week that the Trump administration has marshaled false medical claims and junk science in an effort to constrain the freedoms of pregnant women and curtail their access to relief," writes Guardian US columnist Moira Donegan.

yes and no. the idea that "rape is about power, not sex" was meant to communicate the first part of this post: rape is not the result of uncontrollable desire. it was never meant to fully *desexualize* rape as a practice of social domination though, and that's problematic.

y'all know you can just go to 4chan if that's your thing, right??

making it clear that everyone in a porn video consented is good actually

a lot of folks who took a principled stand in favor of platforms deplatforming fascists are about to make a hard 180 and suddenly decide deplatforming is censorship actually

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Metroidvanias are either Protestant or Catholic. Castlevania? Catholic, of course. Metroid? Protestant. Blasphemous is Catholic. Dead Cells, Protestant. Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.

“The University of California will survive federal funding cuts if it must... It will not survive the sacrifice of our institutional autonomy, academic freedom, or civil rights on the altar of a specious claim to be ‘combatting antisemitism.’” jweekly.com/2025/09/24/j...

the problem with "indigenous people were actually already doing science, we were just too racist to recognize it" is that you are still upholding white western forms of knowledge production as the standard against which all others are judged

really enjoying this. the only critique i have is he does this thing liberals often do in the face of radical decolonial critiques of science, where they try to water down those critiques bc surely reactionaries are lying when they say these scholars deny the universality of scientific knowledge

video www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyU5...

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fuck widow so fucking much

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

"We have to cancel kristallnacht 2.0 because the guy was one of the people we were grooming to take part in it" is a heck of a twist to be sure

"Don't speak ill of the dead when they can no longer defend themselves." Actually their entire life is their defense. Their legacy is the sum of their words and actions, a testament to the person they were. If you want people to remember you fondly, don't leave behind only rancid memories.

Goddamn Martha

CHICAGO / SUBURBS NEW "HOW TO REPORT ICE THREAD" - there's an important correction to one of the previous posts in this thread from 10 days ago, so I'm going to recreate that thread here *with* the correction

Do any of the “Charlie Kirk did politics the right way” crowd have the courage to directly defend lying about election results, bussing people to Jan. 6, and advocating pardons of convicted seditionists? Does US politics need more lying, coup attempts and violence? Or do they always keep it vague?

God its so disingenuous to pretend that all CK did was “have horrible opinions”. The man co-founded an organization that’s sole function was to fight tooth and nail to indoctrinate children at school into violent white nationalism. He wasn’t even just a pundit. He was ceo of the baby Nazi factory.

shoutout to @peezytx.bsky.social for putting me onto this yesterday lmfao

"if you think what someone posts is icky just block and move on!"

liberals are absolutely insufferable sometimes

you should buy your trans friends coffee or something today

Questioner: “So, if you had a daughter and she was 10 and she got raped, and she was gonna give birth, and she would gonna give birth, would you want her to go through that and carry her baby?" Kirk: “The answer is yes, the baby would be delivered.” www.news18.com/world/charli...

This is class solidarity. In case you’re at all confused.

Lots of men really think that being punished or even embarrassed for sexually exploiting teenage girls is a great injustice, and that actually sexually exploiting them is somewhere on the spectrum between “okay” and “pretty cool.”

9/11 is a great time to remember that the imperial power will seize on any opportunity to do what it was going to do anyway, especially if it gets to do it under the gaudy pagentry of being the Aggrieved

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starting to think that allyn walker maybe deserved being pushed out of their university jfc

and people wonder why there's so much left criticism of sex positivity these days lmao

how the fuck is the bluesky app buggier than xitter???

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the failure of the equal rights amendment, and specifically the year 1980 when republicans removed support for the era from their platform, might genuinely mark the beginning of what would culminate in our maga fascist moment

Don't eulogize Nazis

RIP Charlie Kirk, you would have loved politicizing the shooting of Charlie Kirk.

i think it's justified to shoot fascists actually

damn if only that applied to the marginalized groups of people who constantly face disproportionate violence and not a literal far-right propagandist

Does America care about these kids? Will tears be shed in Washington D.C. for them? Will people even know their names?