They've lost the 9yos

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

I say this with 300 years of Franco-Ontarian Catholic ancestors standing behind me: fuck the Ontario Catholic school board.

This is really great reporting from Mother Jones - the "godfather" of evidence-based medicine disavows the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine for misusing his work. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"I just don't think it's right to sell your body". WHAT ARE *YOU* SELLING TO YOUR EMPLOYER THEN GHOSTS?

Keep it up everyone, if we just keep making games with women and pronouns we can eventually ensure that the chuds never get to enjoy a single new video game ever again

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

This is something I try to make clear in my early American history survey class, the system of slavery did not just organize labor and the economy, the oppression of black people was a central organizing principle of ALL aspects of American society

I've said this before, but I feel pretty strongly that the building of concentration camps - and now, the inevitable disappearance of 1,800 people from those camps - is the biggest story in American public health right now that isn't being treated like one

"Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism." @readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom): reactormag.com/with-the-ser...

Absolutely gutting to learn of the closure of Bluestockings, a hub for so much of my activist life in NYC, where I had readings and book launches and just met up with my friends. A huge loss for the community and the city www.bluestockings.com

Ezra Klein isn’t stupid, he’s just a Republican. I wonder at what point people are going to understand what those of us on the academic side have been saying is true that the centrist Democrats and neoliberals are just right wing ghouls attempting to radicalize the party to the right.

It is fully irresponsible to argue for an American return to global leadership. This country is deeply unwell and has no business leading anything until that's no longer the case. There's a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems. We must tend to ours.

Anyway here's the real article, please share this one and not that one heated.world/p/charlie-ki...

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

They're going to stop making Outbacks at the plant where I grew up. The Subaru plant is an institution there, as is the little "union-made in Indiana" sticker on the car window. Not the biggest or worst thing they've wrecked, but it still smarts.

CW: Death, Loss, Grief This Friday marks our beloved @tinu.bsky.social 's first yahrzeit. It's a very hard time for everyone who loved her, especially since so many of us have been dealing with the loss of loved ones this year. Do what you need to take care of yourself right now. cont...

Just a reminder that a staggering number of Black women have also lost their jobs due to capitulation to this administration. That deserves more outrage.

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

l'shanah tovah, my good bitches. may we make incredible impressions on 5786.

Love when people here reply to a joke with “is this bait?” Well, in a sense I guess it is. It’s a joke. They often have twists at the end, traditionally known as punchlines. Most people learn about jokes at a very young age.

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

“I see protest as a genuine means of encouraging someone to feel the inconsistencies, the horror, of the lives we are living. Social protest is to say that we do not have to live this way." — Audre Lorde

Pioneer Press article gift link.

We can't talk about what's going on without talking about the deplorable state of law enforcement in this country and Democrats can't do that until they discard reflexive rhetoric like "Of course we have to respect the police." No we don't! Not when they act like this! And you should say it!

you come to me, on this, the 21st night of september, and you ask me if i remember

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

If Delaware reactivated its two underutilized secondary rail lines, electrified them, and ran trains at 79 mph, cars would be slower for travel upstate across all 27 communities served.

Ghana??? What is happening.

bluesky deleted noor's first account, which as @mommunism.bsky.social noted noor opened two years ago, WHEN IT WAS STILL INVITATION-ONLY her internet is so unreliable, she can't even post 1x daily to ask for help she needs so much tent fund: 130/1200—can we make it $150 today? bit.ly/support-noor

Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact. www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

Fried Green Tomatoes is an all-time fave! MSM was one of my first celebrity crushes, and the movie got me to read the book and made me a lifelong Fannie Flagg fan. I saw MSM in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and got my FGT VHS tape autographed (I came ready!). 🥰

According to WaPo’s termination letter my post referencing Kirk’s views on Black women was not even brought up. The Post’s stated reasons are *worse*. Read the termination letter for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Everyone post a Batman!

I'm gonna shake the table here: Boycotting means boycotting them little football games. Because see, Disney is doing this to curry the favor needed to get that ESPN/NFL deal approved. And a lot of people either don't know or don't want to know that's a bigger deal than some Star Wars/Marvel.

any way everyone post a batman!!!! i want bats on the feed even if it's bats filling out nightwing's suit

Walt Disney was a bad person! And he built a company that would stand on the shoulders of all the horrible shit he believed in! And Disney Co is a company that holds fast to tradition and its own history and upholding the beliefs of its founder!

You mean pro-sepsis candidates? Pro-women bleeding out in parking lots candidates? Pro-forcing girls to carry the product of rape and incest candidates? Pro-goverment all up in your cooter candidates? Just the most unserious conciliatory pendejo shit these two are peddling.

today's post is brought to you by Firefox, which in its latest update will "summarize" pages if you shake your phone and, if you look in your settings under General > Tabs this new hot garbage which I immediately turned off because it was ON BY DEFAULT like it ALWAYS IS when they do this shit

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

Yeah. When we criticize someone like Sarah McBride, it’s not because she’s trans. When somebody poses as a champion for trans voices, and uses their the voice to be walked all over and become part of the system, that’s a big issue.

Doing a Batman thread for Batman Day. Batman!

Happy Batman Day!

“When the machinery of the state chooses to grieve selectively, it teaches the public whose humanity is recognized and whose is disposable.”

The Democrats in the Senate and Congress did *not* vote for a "murder is bad" resolution as some are claiming, they voted to *honor* the actions and ideology of a Nazi and grant him a national holiday. Let's not let this truth get twisted.

Dems like Newsome, Kamala Harris, Buttigieg finding “middle ground” on trans issues (or Ezra Klein on abortion rights) but none of them ever finding middle ground on taxing billionaires or policing or bankrolling Israel or etc. Apparently middle grounds only run through people’s bodies.

My brilliant friend has a new book out, and if you're a podcast person you can get a taste of it here. I always rec her books with @swordsjew.bsky.social's because the 2 of them are excellent at breaking down the white supremacist christifascist turn in this country.

No one should get violent threats. But if you’re gonna change your vote because of it, you should resign. I’Ve been getting violent threats all week and not only do I have no intention of shutting up, I think it’s evidence that we need to say it louder

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

this exists it is called thinking