I'm in @thenation.com this morning on the repeated failure of transphobia as political strategy, efforts to scapegoat trans people for Democrats' own failures, and Zohran Mamdani's model of solidarity

TL;DR: to put it in sports terms that may be more easily understood, anti-trans policies and politicians are fucking losers.

It tickles me that Wallace Shawn has another iconic role. Top tier "recognizable face & voice" actor, on top of just being a solid guy by all accounts.

People don’t know what the federal government is doing in Chicago. Share this article far and wide. Not just here but to your friends and family elsewhere

Gargoyles had a solid fanbase when it was airing. But over thirty years later, its greatest legacy lies in it being proof that if you tell kids stories in a way that respects their ability to comprehend not only plot but sincere emotion, they'll embrace your work forever.

Since your government hates you and doesn’t care if you starve despite you paying taxes into a system that should help you like SNAP… This is where you can get food if you need it.

I kind of do this w/ my nephews "do you know about Aang!?" "ah yes, the sacred texts..." "🤩" The absolutely do not appreciate right now that I was full on adult when something like Avatar the Last Airbender came out.

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Okay: 1. yes, more sports highlights on here 2. this is exactly why Cooper Flagg needs to regularly play w/ a point guard!

It's because white people can always see the humanity in each other and not in the POC Kirk targeted and actively harmed.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander & Luka Dončić are shooting guards…I will take no further questions.

October 16, 1968

And both sides will be spectacularly wrong.

*IF* we take the premise at face value (which obvs we shouldn't), 9/11 led to a massive increase in military spending, which then created a surplus of military equipment, which then filtered down to PDs, who then use it on local populaces w/ marginalized communities face the brunt of that.

There should only be a single X-Men comic.

every ai bro who has reduced miyazaki to empty gentle aesthetic should no exaggeration get the judas cradle bc this man's markmaking & passion about telling WAR STORIES

Please understand, the noise is not meant to distract. It is meant to steal your will to act. As far as I'm concerned, they've stolen enough.

I can’t begin to tell you how damaging “the world isn’t fair, get used to it” line has been to every child’s psyche growing up and therefore has led to a world that stays unfair. If we teach children to get used to an unfair world, we are destroying the possibility of a better world.

Italy's largest union is calling for a general strike on Friday in protest of the treatment of the flotilla

They have deleted Sahars account again. As a result she received no support yday. Please help. Please.

I want to say, you might think, “Oh, if I want to learn about her life, I can just read Wiki or an article about her,” but I want to emphasize that this book is not just a life summary, but a reflection on politic from a revolutionary—in the brilliance of her own words—and I think that is crucial.

Assata taught me that “Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.” May her spirit fly free!🤲🏾

I’m so fucking tired of the argument that pro Palestine protesters only target Kamala. Literally every week since Oct 7 there are Palestine protests multiple times a week. Someone just interrupted Trump dinner. Watch videos of ICE protests in LA — tons of kuffiyehs. You’re just not watching.

I genuinely cannot emphasize this enough. Law enforcement manufacturing evidence and testilying isn't novel to the Trump administration. It's not even more common. They're just worse at it so they're more easily caught doing it.

Now is a good time to really commit to memory who was actually brave during that Charlie Kirk McCarthyism panic. And I don't mean Kimmel, I mean people who took risks actively pushing back against those seeking to canonize him. @karenattiah.bsky.social and @espiers.bsky.social are two examples.

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

Anarchists and antifa have been threatened with terrorist designation at least 5 times in the last decade: terrorism is an enhancement mechanism for charges that has been largely ineffective against decentralized movements, most recently Stop Cop City where terrorism enhancements have fallen apart

You should be talking to old Punks, Goths, Ravers, and Hip-Hoppers who used zines and flyers and whisper networks to coordinate events THEY KNEW would be surveilled and shut down if things got too public. You SHOULD NOT be listening to people who have never had to operate under the radar. Period.

i honestly think the level of energy these guys have about getting people to RSVP to a protest doesn’t make any kind of sense unless you take into account that most of the people saying “don’t RSVP“ are Black women and then you see they’re just dunking on Black women Then the energy makes sense

First the grand juries, now the trial juries. This Admin is not winning.

Smash two movies together: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in King Arthur's Court.

Apropos last repost; I appreciate how that article points out the interpersonal and social costs of gen ai on artists as well…

People keep referencing the Redford/Graduate anecdote & one reason it wouldn’t work is bc of Redford k Ross’ chemistry would ruin the ending, which is on display in Butch Cassidy but is overshadowed bc Redford & Newman have probably the greatest chemistry committed to film…leading to this…

Imagine you just spent the last few days performatively crying over Charlie Kirk, and then the actually beloved Robert Redford dies and now you have to pretend now that these two events are of equivalent importance to our culture. Could not be me. Sundance would never.

One of the last things my Grandad ever said to me was I looked like Robert Redford (not that I actually believed him) but he was so tickled he had made that connection & it was oddly the most vulnerability he’d ever shown w/ me.

A thread of all the elected Democrats who've put out statements of support for trans people this week as Republicans manufacture a genocide: 🧵

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

Mission Hill and Bunheads.

New from me. The biggest labor story in the US is happening at Microsoft. More people should be talking about it. I spoke with 5 tech workers who have all been fired for protesting Microsoft's complicity in genocide. They don't regret it & won't stop @therealnews.com therealnews.com/the-biggest-...

People with trauma and decent education often intellectualize their traumatic experiences. A lot of passive tense etc. Winner does not. She is very direct. Listening to her, you realize what a difference that makes.

The Virginia Department of Health has issued a standing order so that people can get the COVID vaccine without a prescription. You can print out the order here: www.vdh.virginia.gov/content/uplo...

I will not grieve people whose only connection to my life is through the wrongs they have done. I owe them nothing and I reserve the right to celebrate how their death makes my life an inherently better place. That doesn't make me their killer, that simply makes me someone they cannot wrong again.

The *hilarious* thing is that if Dems/Liberals had said nothing today, it probably wouldn’t have registered at all, but our political class is terminally online compared to the average person & they ALWAYS feel it’s necessary to pull right

It’s a very hard thing to read, but I recommend people read “I Saw Death Coming” by Kidada E. Williams for an in-depth exploration of first-hand accounts from people who suffered from attacks like those propagated by the Klan here in the US, to have a full understanding of how disrespectful this is.

What white people and rich people don't understand is that this "Papers, please" harassment--which is MUCH OLDER THAN ICE--is stealing labor and life from people of color.

The “We Are All DC” March is massive. Thousands of people marching down 16th Street NW against the occupation of DC.