courts and state bars need to become willing, and quickly, to disbar govt attorneys for bringing these blatantly political prosecutions

This is why the Democrats need to understand that I will burn my voter card before I vote for Gavin Newsom. I've held my nose for 2 decades to vote for the "lesser" of 2 evils in most elections. "Lesser" evil is no longer enough. You have to actively be bettering the lives of ALL Americans.

Sucks for all those other daughters but I'm built different.

Denizens of Bluesky, I am arranging a Soup Party for January when my friend group need a lil' post-holiday morale boost.

Remember how slave-owning Confederate planters assumed they could get England on their side in the American Civil War because of the importance of cotton to the English textile industry? And how the Brits turned to Egypt instead because crops like cotton can grow other places than Alabama?

I made 10 quarts of chicken stock because ya girl believes in being ready for Soup Season.

We still have Fat Bear Week, the only large-scale democratic institution left we can trust. share.google/VrBLYEG1pjni...

Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'

If you think Tylenol is bad for your kids' health, wait till I tell you about guns.

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

Somewhere in the world, a couple just had a baby they'd been praying for. Somewhere in the world, a person found out their cancer is in remission. Somewhere in the world, two people are going out on a 1st date that eventually results in a happy marriage. Remember that there is still good out there.

If your personal bubble/experience has kept you insulated from the sort of state violence routinely perpetrated against minority groups before 2025, it seems like you'd be better off listening to people from said minority groups rather than telling then the best way to respond in the current moment!

As a result of being a stray, Fancy had a heartworm infection. This is more dangerous in cats than in dogs because there is no treatment for cats. It can kill them suddenly and they don't always get rid of it on their own. But guess who tested negative for heartworms at her most recent vet visit?

I believe in a sort of reverse broken-windows theory where to properly socially condition people against violent crime, we need to let people off for crimes that rule

south korea is reacting to its citizens being illegally detained and tortured the way i thought other countries would react to its citizens being illegally detained and tortured

it's a simple conversation "using AI will make you and your friends stupider, and anybody who wants you to use it is probably a pedophile"

the thing to understand is that for many people the violence of order maintenance is simply not seen as violence in the first place

i am so dead serious i think it might be. you are essentially socialized to not understand that there are other types of human people that can't *not* have consequences.

Was at a meeting with this particular grumpy dude a few days ago. He was texting while someone else was talking. I leaned over to him and said, "You kids and your damn phones." He chuckled and playfully pushed my shoulder. This is what SUCCESS looks like.

Big day for a lot of different things to be true.

Quick friendly reminder that Bluesky is entirely fucking public and you should post accordingly! Heads on straight, gang!

We're about to prove LOVE IS REAL in Raleigh, N.C.

I had to correct someone making a Waffle House joke because they made a reference to the Queensbury Rules for boxing. Those Rules assume the use of boxing gloves and every Waffle House I have visited is bare knuckle only.

I need Democratic online types to understand that because of this, Newsom is dead to me. Dead. I'd sooner vote for an actual corpse. There is no hope, none, that he'll win me over, *because he has established he is a bad person*. There's no coming back from this. Take my advice and move the fuck on.

It’s kind of reaching the point where I’d be less embarrassed to walk in on someone watching porn than them having CNN on. Like whatever your proclivities are CNN is far more perverse.

The wildest thing about this era is watching so many institutions say out loud yeah, we’re done committing ourselves to excellence, we’re going to specialize in the coddling of mediocre white men

Look, of all the (often terrible) classical philosophers, Diogenes probably would have been the most pro-trans.

On this Chairteenth, we celebrate the good folks of Montgomery, especially our guy AquaMayne. Special shout out to the folks who, within 72 hours, recreated this in their apartment complex. A COMMUNITY!! 💀

They did the same thing with Fred Hampton’s actual headstone here in Louisiana so it’s been covered with a bulletproof casing.

Plenty to criticize about Cooper but I'll be goddamned if I listen to a bunch of Yankee or West Coast trash bitch about a comment on prayer that I (leftist, atheist, lifelong North Carolinian) have no problem with. Same fuckers who think everyone in red states deserve to suffer when disasters strike

"What did you get up to this weekend, Grace?"

The war on Gaza is genocidal now, it was genocidal in October 2023, it will be genocidal tomorrow. There was no time when it was a just war with noble aims

It took 641 days of love, patience, and security but today Fancy let me kiss her on her sweet, soft forehead and she didn't react at all.

It’s only Wednesday

I currently share a bed with a man who has a Ph.D in a sub-discipline of geophysics and he can't comment on quantum physics beyond a fairly basic level. But sure, these fucknuts are getting to the "edge" of what's known in quantum physics after reading A.I. slop for a few hours.

This is their holiday

we need to be there for each other now more than ever. mutual aid & community, that’s all we have at this point

Y'all pick a lane. Then make a little progress in your lane each day. Every serious, experienced organizer I know is Doing Their Thing. Instead of freaking out about each bit of bad news, we're in our lanes rapidly building dual power infrastructure and networks that don't rely on the goverment.

Anyway you'll find me in my communities continuing my mutual aid work, creating local vehicles for organizing, and actively modeling the world in which I'd like to live through practicing community care in the ways I can.

I need people to understand the Supreme Court is not the be-all and end-all of everything, even legal things. Abolitionist lawyers went into court and won freedom suits under the Fugitive Slave Act, after the Court upheld its constitutionality. They helped build a movement that dismantled the FSA.

We knew this about this Supreme Court. I guess everyone is on the same page now that the courts will not "save" us. The question is really how to save ourselves. On that, we need a lot more people doing a lot of different things for many years.

Lots of folks here talking about songs which require a certain vocal range but I'd choose "Godzilla" by Eminem because I will never on my best day be able to do anything that fast.

One of my hobbies is finding grumpy men at least 10 years older than me and forcing them to become fond of me. There has been one grumpy dude in his late 50s/early 60s that I have been working on for two years, and I finally hooked him yesterday by talking to him about his wood pellet smoker.

Go on then, here's the Jaws/Life Aquatic mashup where Brody is replaced by Steve Zissou. Enjoy. #Jaws50

At a maritime museum today and there is a beautiful bouquet of Dads out here for Father's Day. Lovely seeing so many specimens in their natural habitat.

yep. a common form of wishful thinking seems to be that 'good cops' (or perhaps 'good soldiers') will protect liberals from fash. in reality, actually-existing police have been instrumental political actors in the rise of fascism