oh he on DRUGS drugs

It's very clear that the Minions are the blueprint for Blackwater. Someone ask Platner if he has a Minions tattoo

You can disarm basically any unreasonable person itching to fight by just not matching their aggression

Every Democratic candidate must pledge to pardon and vacate the sentences of Ice protestors

my pitch for movie most about America is Blue Velvet, natch. or maybe To Die For.

punishing the unhoused punishes us all, example 10293810283908315902835

I mean, it's not like there's a great paper showing that The Apprentice significantly increased Trump's political popularity because he was portrayed as really good at "moneymaking" ungated: static1.squarespace.com/static/59485...

saw a movie on one of those AMC X screens last night and 1. was not prepared for what it was and 2. was not prepared for the anger I would feel as I attempted to watch with the X factor

trump’s hand is like chekhov’s gun if chekhov never used the gun in the third act. stop showing me the hand unless it is in the process of going off.

babe, the capitalists are using the patriarchy and enclosure to do primitive accumulation again

“Women could not have been totally devalued as workers and deprived of autonomy with respect to men without being subjected to an intense process of social degradation…” - Silvia Federici, “Caliban and the Witch"

The discourse around yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling about girls’ athletics is a reminder that “transgender” is a label applied by fascists to anyone who does not fit the narrow roles prescribed by white patriarchal heterosexuality. It simultaneously discriminates on race, gender, sexuality, and class.

Charter reform? Not in THIS city, says LA city council.

NEW: Minnesota 15 Defendant Cal Robinet Speaks Out “It’s no secret that a lot of the people that were targeted are union organizers who are being charged for some of their alleged actions on the day of no work, no school, no shopping,” said Cal Robinet, an activist indicted on conspiracy charges.

The other major thing that got dropped from the ballot today was noncitizen voting. While there was opposition from John Lee, and then Traci Park spent awhile also discussing her problems with it, the author, Soto-Martinez, also agreed it needed further study.

After going into closed session about a threat of litigation by the police officers union, the LAPPL, the LA City Council just sent a LAPD accountability ballot measure to committee, possibly killing it for November. The vote was 8 to 6 to take it off the table.

if the pope excommunicates jd vance, he’s gonna get me back in the pew for christmas

we live under a grocery monopoly

if someone made a PraegerU-style animated series but just about stuff from, like, The Jakarta Method it would do numbers

Finally got to this one, and...phew. Devastating, masterful work. "But if it is childish, if any of this—the outrage, the horror, the belief that something must be done—is childish, it is only because a child could see it. It is only adults who find comfort in the reassuring sobriety of pessimism."

Quietly fuming all day about the SCOTUS decisions. Anti-trans laws are bad for all women and girls, including especially trans women and girls.

fun fact: there are fewer attendees here than at the basement comedy show I once did in South Dakota where my friend’s set ended because the cat who live there attached themselves to their leg and wouldn’t get off

If your kids get in a mindset where adults can "check" this is going to lead to more victims. Point fucking blank.

Cannot stress enough what is happening at SCOTUS right now, and all of the legislation and hyperbole and rigamarole that preceded it, is all in the service of ruining the lives of about twenty people, most of whom are children.

thinking angrily today about when Simone Biles bravely stepped away from sports due to mental health concerns and she was dragged to hell and back by Fox News

It was never just about sports. It sure as hell was never about protecting women. It’s about trying to erase trans people, which will never happen, and it’s also about restricting bodily autonomy.

does anyone have that image from tumblr of someone being like “no matter what you read that motherfucker is always there” with a picture of foucault?

oh ok so when America 250 promised “entertainment” they meant “watching a failed grown screenwriter fight with a child"

If the fucking DAR can figure this shit out nobody else has any excuse.

you can't find a tech journalist more directly responsible for creating gods out of the soggy husks of these amoral authoritarian tech nerds just three years ago she was writing columns about how you can't judge elon musk by his tweets

the kara swisher cameo in Devil Wears Prada 2 made me howl. there is no one funnier, no one emptier, no one more likely to be at party thrown by an out-of-touch magazine executive.

With Elon Musk becoming our first trillionaire, I talked to American users of the rapidly growing “Almost Homeless” subreddit, who are struggling to stay housed amid a brutal job market and with social services slashed to the bone. They say this online community is crucial to their mental stability.

Healthcare has to be one of the 2 most important planks to run on in 2028. It has to be Improved Medicare For All or bust. Single payer that includes vision, dental, and mental health for ALL. Go to war with the insurance companies. Tie healthcare to everything because it is tied to everything.

And nobody cares except us. I’m on like six unemployed black woman listservs, where everyone’s freaking out, and nobody’s like “I’m running on trying to get y’all jobs.” It’s like we’re being erased from American society.

every time we put on a really really free market, I get to glimpse a different, better world and it is beautiful.

this is absolutely the case and an additional reason the SC is illegitimate.

American gulag. This is what we are. “Where people go to disappear.” ICE is keeping people in detention for years. boltsmag.org/louisiana-im... mailchi.mp/boltsmag/new...

In the context of this administration’s gender politics, it’s hard not to read Slaughter as a declaration that the big strong boss man doesn’t need to listen to the woke HR ladies

the claim of fraud is simply the claim that americans who vote for democrats are not legitimate members of the political community and their votes shouldn't count.

As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump

White supremacy in America came to a dead end. All of its history is what has produced this white supremacist dictator we now have, he’s the culmination of what America’s alway been. There’s no way forward for America if it clings to antiblackness. It will collapse & that’s what it’s doing.

a reminder LAPD and the city of los angeles have a contract with flock expiring july 11th that hydee feldstein soto is re-negotiating with flock for one (1) dollar and neither mayoral candidate running in november has said whether or not they would cancel the contract

If you are wealthy, I think you should spend more money on clothes. There's no pride in buying clothes for the lowest possible price, as this puts downward pressure on garment worker wages and increases the likelihood of exploitation.

red alert: SET IT OFF is on Tubi

I’m sorry but this is so goofy, the city doesn’t need an excuse. Some anarchists throwing paint at cameras doesn’t justify 100 cops being deployed to brutalize every attendee and blaming the anarchists who don’t want to be surveilled instead of the cops attacking them sucks!

omg cannot wait to go to heaven*** ***the moment when I kick john calvin right in the nuts

The US if John Calvin had died as a child

Homie you hit it exactly! Do you not realize how scared of our power they are right now? That’s why they’re locking up anarchists making pamphlets for life and saving everyone’s antifa that they can come for with state force! They’re scared on the run trying to keep us from winning with propaganda!