"Who would have predicted this?" - Black women did. - Trans people did. - The *entire* disability community did. - The anarchists did. - Post-Evangelicals did. "Well why didn't I hear them." You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.

It's not a matter of autistic people being the only people who need things, while you are a bastion of calm independence. Your needs get met as a matter of course because the system is designed for you. I am asking for a fraction of that energy.

YOU need things explained to you a certain way. YOU need your feelings managed. YOU need people to make eye contact with you when they talk, or you feel uncomfortable. YOU need people to read subtext so you don't have to say the quiet part. Those are YOUR needs and I try to meet them every day.

If I could get non-autistic people to understand one thing, it wouldn't be that I have support needs. It would be that YOU have support needs.

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

I ordered some stocking stuffers for my kids, we can never have enough fidgets or bookmarks in this house!

“Why aren’t you arresting my political enemies faster?” is a hell of a thing to ask as another story about excusing your political allies drops.

💫insomnia thoughts, pre- or post-trib Rapture edition💫 The lack of ability to edit is a trial as well. Wait, not waot.

it’s funny how deep the american exceptionalism brainwashing goes. i know better. i’ve known better for years. i’ve breathed gas clouds just like this one. and yet every time i see pictures like this, i want so badly to say “i can’t believe this is america.” but i won’t. because i know better.

In case you’re wondering, it’s barely fall & our children’s hospital is already almost always full with kids boarding in the ER. And the pediatric workforce is stretched thin. Our system does not have the capacity to care for the influx of vaccine preventable diseases that is coming.

I’m just a gen X white lady from the southeastern US, so take my opinion fwiw. But: Unlearning racism is a life-long process. Just bc I am on the left doesn’t mean I don’t have to work on my biases. Just bc I’ve learned doesn’t mean I don’t have learning to do. This goes for all white people.

both Klein’s piece in the NYT and the Burgis/Day piece in Jacobin pretend they are about recognizing that each human life is a human life but actually what they are doing is validating the way some human lives are socially valued more highly than others The example they set is white supremacist

"The white Christian perpetrator always retains his humanity. Even after committing heinous acts of violence, we see these white Christians depicted as human beings, not terrorist 'others.' The media describes their childhood and shows us their graduation photos, not their mug shots...."

Guess who’s back Back again My backyard Coyote friend 🐾 Our side yard seems to be part of a wildlife pathway connecting two wooded areas, and it’s mostly just been deer and foxes recently. Just saw a coyote for the first time in a while! I haven’t even been hearing them.

This is class solidarity. In case you’re at all confused.

Every active and involved Republican under the age of 40 has known exactly who Nick Fuentes is for years. This is a fact.

Let's be clear what this image represents. Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders. THAT is the reference here.

I can’t believe it’s even necessary to say that NO city in ANY country deserves or should be INVADED by its federal government. I thought we cared about people. Isn’t that the real point? Everyone needs liberation, most of all the people who don’t know.

Calling the resurgence of MTHFR gene mutation nonsense (or at the very least- misunderstanding) right now. And I bet a lot of these guys have supplements to sell you for it. They prey on scared parents and society’s fear of neurodivergence to make money. Plain and simple.

“Lady, why are you following me?” 🐍 Eastern Ratsnake (or Central Ratsnake, either way Pantheropsis Alleghaniensis), Northern VA.

Autism *diagnoses* are on the rise. Autistic *people* have always been here.

❗️ALERT❗️ ICE currently at Fort Totten Metro — stay clear of the area. If you see someone being detained, film it, get their name & a family contact and DM us to coordinate getting that information & we will connect them to Migrant Solidarity.

Those of us who pay attention to the online right need to start teaching liberal normies about all the dog whistles and memes that they are not picking up on. The only problem is that we sound so detached from reality when we try.

I wish I had lived my life in a way that this looked as ridiculous to me as it obviously does to normal people. However, I’ve seen a whole entire tent revival in a Walmart parking lot. So sure, of course Byron got saved at the Cracker Barrel. Better than at the Waffle House I guess?

I think faith can certainly change and influence our politics, and should! (I’m the odd Catholic convert who went radicalized lefty post-conversion.) But too often politics influence faith, and that’s worrying. No political leader is going to live up to the ideals we should all be striving for.

I looked out the window and this guy was just looking at me.

In Boston, when they "cleared the camps," homeless folks had pills, medical devices, and wheelchairs thrown into the back of a trash truck and compacted. this is what it means when someone "clears the camps" - taking what little these people have left, and destroying it. the hope is they die.

Press needs to stop repeating govt euphemism of “clearing homeless camps.” I’ve witnessed it in other cities: massive destruction of personal property. Not just bedrolls & tents; family photos, Bibles, meds. Times I’ve seen it people weren’t even given option to move their things.

“ICE enforcement activity on our church property interferes with our ability to welcome the stranger, serve our neighbors, and carry out the ministries that are central to our faith,” the Western North Carolina Conference wrote. religionnews.com/2025/08/04/w...

Another shirt design for the company I work for, Planter! You all already know how passionate I am about leaving the leaves, so when one of my coworkers recommended I make a shirt highlighting some creatures that rely on leaves, I jumped on it.

They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.

To be fair, I know a few blue voters who define “crime” the same way, and think this about DC specifically. I hope this shakes them out of their cognitive dissonance and they finally stand up for those who need help instead of looking away.

Today’s a good day to remind everyone DO NOT PHOTOGRAPH OR FILM UNHOUSED CAMPS. IT IS DANGEROUS FOR RESIDENTS & CAN BE USED TO TARGET THEM.

So many of our social issues could be fixed, or mitigated, if people in power cared even an iota about those less fortunate than them.

Hard fucking same. The way that people talk about homeless people--like pests to be eradicated, or like threats to housed people--sends me into a rage. Treat people like people, you absolute gremlins.

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

If you are disturbed and angry at what is happening in DC, please follow and support @remorahousedc.bsky.social and @dcmigrantmutualaid.org.

This! The money spent on “law enforcement” could provide homes for the unhoused people they are going after. Posting isn’t going to protect immigrants and POC. We need to be able to simultaneously see multiple things for what they really are, and pay appropriate attention to each of them.

The "crime" referred to in the headline is "not having a home and living in a tent." The federal and city governments ensconced in DC could give every unhoused person in the city a condo and a job, but instead it's this? A race to see who can fuck the vulnerable populations over faster? Fuck this.

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🚨ALERT: Federal agents are prowling DC streets again tonight (8/10). So far, we have received reports of sightings at: - DuPont Circle - Gallery Place/ Chinatown - H St at 15th St & at 8th St NE - Union station - Wharf - 14th St & Montana NE

This little toad and I startled each other when I dumped it out along with some potting soil it had been hanging out in. 🐸

Oh, Ken. These groups are real, very smart people outside the government know things about them, and you might want to talk to some of those actual extremism experts somewhere between FOIAing and publishing. Also you have a typo in one of your “not a typos.”

“These also will answer: ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’”

I will not spend my entire day arguing with Facebook homeschool group parents that public schools are not “transing” kids and that sex ed is very important actually and that nobody is teaching Gender Studies to kindergarteners and

Somehow it’s fine to cover up child abuse, absolve perpetrators, allow them to receive sacraments while divorced dv survivors who remarry w/o being able to get annullments or LGBTQ+ Catholics in relationships are automatically and forever unworthy of the Eucharist.

Once again asking libs to stop using homophobia, transphobia, and ableism against anyone. It’s wrong even if you think they deserve it. If you think that anyone deserves it you may want to just sit with that for a minute.

Pretty clear to me that one function of the fantasy of pedophilic cabals that’s present in conspiracy theories is to provide an outlet for the rage and despair at indifference and impunity for actual sexual violence.