Eight months in, and Trump/Vought have already accomplished implementing 47% of Project 2025, per this tracker: www.project2025.observer/en

In the United States, there are religious colleges who teach that homosexuality is wrong and students who become pregnant can be run off campus. Those schools get federal funds. This is somehow protected from regulation, but secular private institutions can’t treat trans students like human beings.

asking every white person in congress if they condemn the KKK would produce some incredible interviews

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I’ve been thinking about it a lot, and I’ve finally decided: yikes

Cumbia dancing breaks out downtown at ICE protest #austin #atx #ICE

May these possums shouting in Werner Herzog's voice bring comfort to your day.

“they are *withheld* from us because we’re trans” is unfortunately succinct and correct.

Baby bird *finishes hatching* Sorry… am I in a bowl of sticks? Am I in a fucking bowl of sticks a thousand feet off the ground right now, yes or no

the kid looks fucking terrified, knows the university will probably punitively hold the diploma they've worked three or four years to get, and also knows people have been disappeared recently by fascists for doing way, way less. still says it! just an incredibly fucking brave person

If your literary organization lost an NEA grant this week, I'd like to hear from you for a story I'm writing for the LARB. DMs are open, email is [email protected].

NYU School of Law has told 31 pro-Palestine students they must sign away their right to protest if they want to return to campus and sit exams. theintercept.com/2025/05/03/n...

I love adding this one data point to economic charts. It works every time.

Hello! I like you! From I am a Kitten by Ole Risom, illustrated by Jan Pfloog. 1970.

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

Man they made us read that "First they came" poem so many times in school and people are still like "woah wait the first guys they came for appear to not be the only guys they're coming for"

Here are the US reciprocal tariffs against all the territories mentioned in Enya’s Orinoco Flow

i feel like all the angst some ppl feel about having to wear a mask during covid is just them displacing the actual traumatic experience (global pandemic causing mass death) onto something you can get your arms around to be angry at

Thought-canceling headphones

Here is a legal defense and support fund for Mahmoud Khalil. Their baby is coming soon. Please let's help. chuffed.org/project/just...

Either transgender Americans are important enough to warrant year after year of breathless coverage questioning their healthcare and existence, or they're so insignificant that destroying their rights is the "least consequential" action of a presidency. www.readtpa.com/p/not-exactl...

hey everyone. i was thinking about complying in advance. should i y/n

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Mapping my route from desk to chip cabinet

Don’t want to brag but I think I could beauty influence hot sauce as lip plumper

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the Democratic Party spends each election cycle courting the right, and every time they lose they create a fictional leftist version of the Democratic Party and claim that’s the version that just lost.

Never have I reskeeted anything so fast

In honor of Trans Day of Remembrance and the unofficial start of the holidays this week, I’d like to point your attention toward Transanta, a program that posts holiday wishlists from trans youth. A lot of these kids are in rough living situations and need basic supplies along with some fun gifts.

New: multiple sources, including executives, explain why sites like Jezebel are being shut down despite being very popular. The "brand safety" industry has created a paranoid environment where companies are not prepared to run ads next to important issues. www.404media.co/advertisers-...

i’m going to be furious about this one for the rest of my life

The director of the New York office of the UN’s human rights agency has resigned. “We are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the Organization that we serve appears powerless to stop it,” he wrote in a letter.

modeled on American Writers Against the War in Vietnam, Writers Against the War on Gaza is building a cultural front for a free Palestine. this statement's the beginning of our efforts, not the final word. join us to help figure out what comes next! www.writersagainstthewarongaza.com

RIP Louise Glück, unmatched and irreplaceable

People make fun of zoomers for posting things like “pov it’s the 90s. you play outside in the sunshine all day. dinner is homemade because no processed foods,” but I think it’s a fundamental right to over-romanticize a time you didn’t live in. Millennials though…what is your excuse

new from me: I asked experts and NYT staff to help me understand why the paper continues to pump out so many weird and awful takes on trans people www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...

One thing I learned during covid lockdowns was how awkward it is to say “go big or go home” when you’re already at home

An incredible resource for new blurbs

Ongoing argument with @aaronteel.bsky.social is whether most hats are good. He is pro most hats while I am con

Perfectly-aimed clickbait

In middle school my daily lunch was baked lays from the vending machine & a big bag of sour skittles, and although I have moved on lunchwise I still worry this speaks to some kind of central conflict