“we heard tale of expanding the tent”

seven-year-old: “who’s voice is that” me: “Bob Dylan” 7yo: “is that yr friend” me: “no a singer” 7yo: “not a very good singer”

"too"

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

I feel like news publications should put more energy into asking autistic people how they feel about all this because…

22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

Every day is seeing the human embodiment of a C+ in English 101 getting hired to run a revered journal while the most hardworking journalists will release an article a day along with a post asking for $25 so they can 'postpone the Bone Crusher for another week.'

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

Keith Haring, 1983

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

Sorry soc Dems and liberals you will be called a communist and silenced anyway. You might as well just be a communist

Don’t rush to bend your knee at any given moment because it will only empower them

lol at everyone teaching first amendment law

I just learned that the Embark dog DNA test company offers a dog relative finder. As the owner of a puppy mill mama rescue...I am very tempted.

We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.

Are Liberals worried for the safety of others or just worried that heightening tensions means they may now be 'confused with' the people who are already being directly targeted by the Right's violence campaigns?

Glenn Beck’s media outlet The Blaze just gave an interview last month to the person who killed the politicians in Minnesota

(Person who destroyed homeless peoples belongings with a smile on their face) political violence is bad

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

losing my mind at all the academia-centric newsletters this morning calling charlie kirk a "conservative activist" and "leader of the right-wing higher ed reform movement" you dumb motherfuckers he was a highly paid propagandist for forces trying to destroy education

In a suit filed earlier today by three fired FBI officials, Patel and Bongino are portrayed as being so obsessed with social media that it could “risk outweighing more deliberate analyses of investigations."

my tw*tter feed is always so much better for moments like this.

Yesterday was the birthday of movement ancestor Leslie Feinberg Z”L. Leslie was a trans and working class lesbian Jew who stood in lifelong solidarity with Palestinians and viewed her/hir work for LGBT and Palestinian liberation as deeply connected.

We’re fighting like hell to change Texas because this is our home. This is where we live and where we have our families. People who come to our page to insult us and the people of Texas will get blocked.

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Actual text message in my family group text.

James Dobson dying is a staring into the middle distance type of event. You have likely directly suffered bc of him. Few have done more to harm humanity at large in the past few decades. A principal architect of our current nightmare. No redeeming aspect. He was a rat made entirely out of plague.

An update from Rep. Nicole Collier, who spent the night in the House chamber after she refused to sign a permission slip to have a DPS officer escort her around the Capitol

As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.

An obvious, natural consequence of outlawing abortions: Forcing women to endure excruciating stillbirths. interactives.dallasnews.com/2025/texas-a...

“Israel fears the people who tell the world about what is happening in Gaza — the war, the genocide, the famine. Anas made it a mission to tell these stories, our stories, all over the world. And people listened,” a pseudonymous Palestinian journalist who lives in the US writes for @theintercept.com

Donations to abortion funds are down but the need is greater than ever. Texans face longer travel, higher costs, and more barriers to care. Our Intake Director, Charlie Hughes, spoke with @marytuma.bsky.social at @texasobserver.org about how TEA Fund continues to show up for our communities.

my contribution to the 'does the kim davis case mean we need to worry about obergefell' discourse is 'i've actually been worrying about obergefell for other reasons i'm so sorry'

Quick little fact check here: Israel has armed the Burmese military for decades, including during the Rohingya Genocide. Protesting Israel’s genocidal regime directly and materially benefits the people of Myanmar.

On Wednesday, ICE GOONS arrested a mother in the school drop-off line at Inzunza Camarina Elementary in Chula Vista, leaving her two children in the car.

Truly can we outlaw sports betting

The dream! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ 🎁 Article www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...

It's incredibly easy to look at a situation and identify some tiny, marginal group who can be made to wait or experience just a little suffering while the rest of us try and keep the ship steady. The enemy knows so. That's why they make the bargain to begin with. While eyeing up *your* neck.

I have yet to read a single story about men adopting AI at work (without being told) at a higher rate than women that presents it as anything other than men being smart. Not one story about how it implies they're lazier and less ethical. Because that's not the narrative that's being pushed about AI.

Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."

NEW: Anti-abortion legal terrorist Jonathan Mitchell is helping a Texas man seeking to block his girlfriend from getting abortion pills. The suit seems intended to scare physicians out of prescribing the drugs under "shield laws" and women out of seeking abortions, said @jillwieberlens.bsky.social

thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz after touring "Alligator Alcatraz": "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it just. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage...they get their drinking water & they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit"