oh (white) cishet people… (from early January 2020, at a hotel in Portland, Oregon)

this is not a manufactured rainbow, it is a real one. a reminder that there is beauty found on the other side.

this is the most twilight-esqe early morning monsoon I’ve ever seen. and what timing considering the news. be careful y’all.

thank you 😭🕊️

CBS is toast. That’s really sad.

The way the word elites has become devoid of all meaning is interesting. It’s a placeholder for “someone I don’t like” and it fascinates me that the people who use it most are wealthy, went to “elite” schools and hold positions of power. Look in the damn mirror. You’re talking about yourself.

Max Delsohn’s “Crawl” is a stunning collection of stories you just savor every moment. Sweet and sour, warm and tender, hilarious and delicious, compellingly queer, and so damn fucking sexy to read. One of my favorite short story collections of this decade. This is trans literature as its finest.

AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS? HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON? HOW??????????

If more and more men kissed each other, there’d be a lot more queer-identifying men in the world let alone we would not have to ever feel the need to condition ourselves.

happy 100th birthday Mr. Dick Van Dyke

starting to think Bluesky is the Matrix for democrats – it’s always 2017 here and hashtag resist and whatever else, all while the real world is ash and gruel

Btw for anyone wondering why "the left" has become so obsessed with the culture of punishment, exclusion, purity, and disqualification, I wrote a book about the fascist function of social media, including websites like this one. patricknathan.com/image-control

I know everything is so fucked up and weird right now but I just want to remind everyone THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE NEWS.

I have not, will not, and have no intention in watching the Sean Combs documentary. It’s one thing to center a man who has harmed people and abused his power for his own personal gain, it’s another thing when you have an executive producer of the documentary talking about it with a smiling grin.

this is very sad to hear. I’m not from New York, yet this pains me to hear this. and this further levels up the concern as to what radio will look like in the upcoming future under this administration a forthcoming.

When I taught HS, a student once said that middle aged and elderly folks who can’t afford health insurance deserve to d!e because they should’ve planned better during their youth. 🙃

Epstein was quite the shutterbug. Among other things.

I’m starting to believe that the reason pet dogs immediately start to bark at me, knowing for myself that I have done absolutely nothing harmful to them, is because their pet owners do not train them well, white pet owners especially. y’all act so fucking entitled with your pet dogs.

Post you from a different era of your life.

Exactly 🐻🩵

😭🕊️

If there’s anything I could advise people to do on a day off when you feel like there’s nothing to do, visit an independent bookstore or local thrift shop.

Many abusive men are well-adjusted, nice looking guys with good jobs and tidy houses. When I work on the DV hotline and counsel survivors, I learn about the nightmares that unfold in these houses. Sometimes they end in murder.

it’s so weird to do so. like that’s how badly you want to maintain power.

www.kqed.org/news/1206519... it's going to be a month in a few days which is surreal and wild. I cried reading this, and, got a lot out of people sharing how we are carrying @sfdirewolf.bsky.social 's work forward.

Just so everyone is aware, it’s every day and always fuck Harrison Bukter.

For a show named after loving the city, let's hope season two can actually love the city a little more for who and what it is, not for just what it appears to be on cellphones. The full story: lataco.com/i-love-la-re... By Francisco Aviles Pino

In today’s video, I breakdown 3 reasons why U.S. foreign spending on HIV is not “aid” or an”gift”

I’m not an alum but I just donated $100 to help support African American/women journalists at the University of Alabama. They were abandoned by their school, which shamefully buckled under Trump. Together we can support young journalists to maintain a free press & keep hope alive!!

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20 years later and this still is a fucking banger.

It’s so weird and so mind-boggling that the wife of a fascist president can come to a local hospital and read a children’s book to a crowd of children yet drag queens be damned say they do the exact same thing.

What we knew of each other’s inner worlds were just projections of ourselves. -Jenny Xie, “Holding Pattern”

Profound and sweet, very smart and deeply tender, and beautifully written. Jenny Xie’s “Holding Pattern” is a warm big hug, and we could all need a hug. A loving portrait of mothers and daughters, secrets and choices, the immigrant experience, and professional cuddling. I loved it.

"I'm canceled," he says in the sleek profile they gave to him in the New Yorker while his latest special & his new novel is coming out. A lot of people wish they were that canceled.

The last few days in Los Angeles, temperature-wise, has been pretty good. You have the sun, the cold weather, and a chill breeze anywhere you go. It’s legit.

We need a 4-day, 32-hour work week with livable wages. There is no reason that people need to be working this much. People need time off to rest and spend with family and friends.

Some studies show that 1 in 3 women will survive DV. One of the best ways to avoid becoming a DV survivor is to avoid heteronormative coupling.

Tucker is well-read and a serious student of history, so when he alludes to groups that seek to put the population in “mental bondage,” without naming them, he can’t credibly fall back on ignorance when people call him out. He’ll claim ignorance, of course, but it isn’t a legitimate defense.

The funny irony of Sydney Sweeney standing her ground when it comes to politics is that her politics are literally affecting her career. The blue jeans ad is one thing, 4 of your films flopping at the box office is another thing, wearing a red dress & blonde bob wig on a talk show is something.

two things can be true at the same time: Quentin Tarantino is a great filmmaker AND he’s a piece of shit. this is also the same guy who incorporated the n-word over 100 times in one of his films.

is it gonna be called ‘Netflix Brothers’

If this is going to be considered “pro-worker”, then the most decent action you can do is actually pay the people who work in the industry, those working behind the camera as well as those working in front of the camera. otherwise, you’re simply engaging in exploitation and self-interests.

Rep. Adelita Grijalva D-AZ says she was just pepper sprayed by ICE agents in Tucson

facts. and that’s the bare fucking minimum.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Federal judge orders unsealing of grand jury transcripts from abandoned Jeffrey Epstein investigation in Florida.

Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies. Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market. This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵

Shitheads run everything.

It is truly an emotionally bizarre experience to be watching and listening, from afar, the news on Univision and Telemundo and seeing the visceral contradiction of the footage of families targeted and then traumatized by 🧊 while the Kristi Noem ad is consistently played on the air.

Mitch McConnell, once again, freezes after being asked a simple question. There’s a part of me that is aware that this isn’t funny, and on the other hand I kinda wanna laugh considering this is Mitch McConnell. That said, this shouldn’t be normal, old people in politics staying in office.