The way we need to market this shit is to do what conservatives did for the past 30 years and write books like “The ten forbidden truths you’re not allowed to say on politically correct tv” and then it’s just cities are mostly fine and it’s good to get a flu shot

What got us Trump was the GOP being a malevolent force for evil and the Democrats at every turn refusing to fire full blast at the right (including before Trump). It’s obviously not all on Harris but a cycle with Democrats assuming the left would just show up without any motivation is a big reason.

Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.

Vaccines cause adults

for instance: its been an hour since the treasury secretary said "nothing bad is happening" two weeks before a holiday when families will have higher costs, less to spend, and have probably been laid off. the democrats should be all over it. tweets denouncing it. releases mocking it. etc.

There have been at least 19 murders in D.C. since Trump deployed the National Guard here in August. One was the murder of a Guard soldier less than a week ago.

Glad I got to become disabled in a world that already had Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social in it. I learned so much from her incredible writing & activism. May her memory be a blessing, & may we all continue her work. Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.

one last observation: donald trump has never won a majority of the vote and yet the political press treats him like the embodied spirit of the american people. will be interesting to see how they discount mamdani as representing new york if he wins less than a majority.

A thing that kills me about these posts is that when they believed there was a pandemic they ABSOLUTELY wanted others to take care of them. They railed against antimaskers and cheered for healthcare workers. And the second the threat to them, personally, lessened, they became diehard libertarians?

Really glad that Colin Hanks keeps using his nepo baby connections to make great documentaries.

In any other context, imagine hearing about an adult zip tying children to each other. No really, what would you call that?

Violet Affleck is to the Covid movement what Greta Thunberg is to climate. Both represent the next generation, are articulate, focused, & grounded in science. That scares people. And there's a gendered aspect to all the vitriol they face

it may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation

this would give you a heart attack if you saw it in 1998

Basically, their effort to portray Autism as preventable and curable is part of a larger project to eliminate anyone they see as costing society more than they contribute. And, short of that, to push those costs fully onto families and off of the state.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

in retrospect, there’s probably never been a name as threatening as “America Online”

Three high schoolers, who likely didn't make a career out of enabling and encouraging fascism, were shot in Colorado today.

For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on.

One thing that today is illuminating in a fundamental way is that political violence is only seen as bad if it affects one part of the population: White men of privilege.

Immunocompromised children are entitled to safe access to public education and yes that requires herd immunity-inducing vaccinations and precautions against respiratory diseases like Covid and yes that requires a tiny bit more effort, like building a wheelchair ramp requires some concrete.

War dot gov is basically Homer changing his name to Max Power.

I think people who haven’t been keeping track of covid truly have no idea how much vitriol and harassment disabled people have experienced regarding covid precautions the last few years, often from former community members, organizers, friends, family, strangers, etc.

pls mask in indoor organizing spaces. the exclusion of disabled ppl from covid-era society is a facet of fascism that cant be allowed in antifascist spaces. the pandemic, mass incarceration & state violence are all disabling. we’ll never win if everyone who gets disabled is excluded from organizing

Here is the truth about museums: Museums are among the most trusted institutions in American society. Especially history museums. Museums support over 700,000 jobs in the US. Museums generate $50 billion in economic activity in the US every year. Just the facts. That’s what we do. #museum

proof of what i've been saying forever PEOPLE NEED TO BE SOLD ON THE IDEA OF GOVERNMENT they have NO IDEA. NO! IDEA! what government does for them. NONE. NOT EVEN A LITTLE. even i, spectacularly well-informed by most standards, didn't know jack about USAID.

That Big Balls is not punched in the face everywhere he goes shows the incredible restraint and lawfulness of DC residents.

Trump has made no comment. The White House has found the time to post a video of the arrest of that guy who threw a sandwich at a cop, but nothing about a cop killed defending the government's own employees. Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose district includes parts of Atlanta, has also said nothing.

In March, Chuck Schumer let Republicans in Congress and the White House STEAL ONE BILLION DOLLARS from the people of the District—including $300M from DC public schools. No one threw a fit over this egregious attack on ~700K Americans. It was always ending here. Only a naive idiot couldn’t see that!

The relationship between the city and the MPD after this is going to be unrepairable and it’s going to make everyone a lot less safe. What. The. Fuck.

This is what you “elect Jon Stewart president” people sound like!!!

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

I can't stress enough: I don't know how many region-wide, all-night cookie delivery services a city can support and still be called a bastion of crime. But it has to be less than three.

Just thinking about how DC was already the most policed city on the planet before they did this fuck ass surge

We are on a bullet train to the end of US science, and possibly the country as a whole, when political appointees are reviewing every scientific grant submitted to NIH to determine if The Regime finds the science acceptable.

I want more men giving the most deserved flowers to the women who make them. I'm admittedly biased but this documentary is hitting in ways that I didn't expect.

If they ask why you are still bothering to wear a mask, ask them to look around, ask them to really look around, and then tell them when you are standing on the deck of the Titanic it's a wise choice to put on a life jacket.

Age verification laws are spreading in the US. The tools are often easily beaten performative trash but they're still a danger as goldmines for bad actors, holding PII data from anyone who obeys these laws. The laws also invariably get weaponized against all LGBTQIA+ content. Fight them as you can.

when i see posts on eugenics from prominent folks who never talk masking, never show themselves masked, im forced to assume their understanding of eugenics ends at theory, even if their words insist they too see it unfolding before them. if you comprehend our eugenic present, how are you resisting?

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

We know that there will be elections because Trump’s folks are demanding state voter roll information.They are working to gerrymander Texas even more. They are relaxing the IRS rule to allow churches to endorse candidates. There will be elections or else they wouldn’t be doing all these things.

It's been obvious for years that, apart from a handful of congressional districts, "Republican-lite" picks up a trivial number of swing voters while depressing base turnout, resulting in a net loss. Problem is, the most influential people in our party prefer a loss to a win by anyone to their left.

Just like with Climate change, fascism is something you see on your phone in videos until you are the one taking the video.

"Are you going to mask forever?" 🤡 We use water filters all the time. Masks are just air filters. Not sure why people don't get this. Unless you enjoy inhaling others' ejecta?

Advocates for missing kids say that viral misinformation both clouds and clarifies what remains a problem the public should focus on: kids, many of them Black, who do go missing. 51st.news/no-sudden-sp...

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

I want to respect everyone’s mental health, but when exactly will it be okay to talk about the ongoing & future harms that #COVID infections cause?

Everytime you don’t outsource your thinking to a machine a capitalist cries