Emma Stebbins, the artist behind NYC's iconic 'Angel of the Waters' sculpture, described herself as “a soft-shelled crab, forced by circumstances into hard-shelled positions.” youtu.be/7WlbhxLZhF0

Saw Thunderbolts last night and it has replaced Winter Soldier as my #1 Marvel movie. I can’t wait to talk about it when every thought I have won’t be a major spoiler.

I was today years old when I learned that “restaurateur” does not have an “n” in it. 🤦🏻‍♀️

So, this is bad.

Me: Ok, time to have a nice relaxing Sunday evening so I start the week well rested. The Kings: Best we can do is overtime playoff hockey.

I just spent an hour at the DMV and it was absolutely PACKED, but everyone was being patient and polite. The two dudes who met in the line behind me compared notes about the best AA meetings because one guy was new to town and didn’t like the one he tried. These are the moments that give me hope.

In person: The LA Kings winning the 2014 Stanley Cup in Game 5, after playing all 7 games in each of the previous 3 rounds. The team was so exhausted and banged up that they were playing by sheer force of will. TV: Freddie Freeman's walk off grand slam in Game 1 of the World Series last year.

It’s true, I am! Come sip the tea with us!

Yes to this whole thread.

i do not think the mainstream press is equipped or capable of covering ideological white nationalists and eugenicists as such, or even capable of noting that this is what they are. it is related to the wide belief that racism is simply a matter of manners.

One of my friends just described the current shitshow as “Kafka meets Noises Off” and it might be the most accurate description I’ve heard to date.

For Day 11 of 30 Days of Queer Poets we're celebrating a poet whose 2023 book "Falling Back in Love With Being Human" is required reading for queer people right now: KAI CHENG THOM ( @razorfemme.bsky.social ). youtube.com/shorts/ERl5W...

Nick Fuentes has been saying this for a few years now. I did a whole video about it. youtu.be/k3L8SP-fekA

Can someone help me understand why this Dodgers / Phillies game hasn’t been called yet? It looks like it’s pouring and pitchers are fighting to get traction on the mound.

i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record

It's Day 5 of 30 Days of Queer Poets and today we're celebrating bisexual and bilingual poet, memoirist, translator, and immigration advocate MARCELO HERNANDEZ CASTILLO. Performance clip is from @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/gy-Mn...

For Day 3 of 30 Days of Queer Poets we're celebrating indigenous poet, screenwriter, and podcaster Tommy Pico. youtube.com/shorts/KJuu5...

A lot of people could learn from the example of local L.A. legend Jeremy Frisch, when, in an open community meeting hosted by the LAPD in the wake of the George Floyd protests, ended his comment with, "Suck my dick and choke on it. I yield my time, FUCK YOU."

For Day 2 of 30 Days of Queer Poets we're celebrating Saeed Jones (@theferocity.bsky.social), whose most recent volume of poetry is essential reading for these times. youtube.com/shorts/gunhT...

And he talked about the issues at hand for the ENTIRE time. Thurmond resorted to reading the encyclopedia once he ran out of ways to explain his racism.

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

We’ve made it to April and we all need some joy in our lives, so Amanda is celebrating National Poetry Month with 30 Days of Queer Poets! Day 1 is Colorado’s Poet Laureate, @andreagibson.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/q6PiO...

Just did a quick look at a few channels on YouTube livestreaming Senator Booker's marathon speech. Currently: C-SPAN - 66k+ live viewers Cory Booker's channel - 49k+ AP - 41k+ MSNBC - 14k+ PBS NewsHour - 8.3k+ This matters. Optics matter. Seeing leadership DO SOMETHING matters.

Happy #TransDayOfVisibility! In my newsletter, I wrote about a time when I decided to be *less* visible as a trans person — and how it allowed me to come back twice as hardcore. buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Wrapping up this very long and draining week with a tax appointment certainly is a choice that I made.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Lesbian war correspondent Evelyn Irons’ daring 40-year career spanned the globe from Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest to the jungles of Guatemala. youtu.be/iX3EhLrBRyw

Excellent short essay on the fragility of our world view, by medievalists, @profgabriele.com and @lollardfish.bsky.social buttondown.com/ModernMediev...

The cruelty of this administration is only surpassed by their utter fucking incompetence.

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

Build coalitions with people who have different views on how to nationalize our healthcare system or what to do about the budget deficit, not with people who have different views on whether or not trans people are people who should be allowed to pee and play sports in peace.

That’s gonna be a real short report.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

I am profoundly disappointed in Newsom. I don’t know if buddying up with Charlie Kirk reflects his genuine opinions or a strategic move towards a 2028 presidential run, but either way it’s gross. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Amanda’s back at E3 Radio for Women’s History Month having conversations with Anna DeShawn about queer women who made history! The first episode is up today: Lesbian socialite and hero of the French Resistance Isabel Pell. youtu.be/rE5_jen4z20

Wrapping up Black History Month by honoring a brilliant visionary who changed the landscape of modern dance: Alvin Ailey. youtu.be/ZzL99Q5knkU?...

Yes @chrislhayes.bsky.social, there has been a mass purge of queer people from the U.S. military before. Last time, after WWII, it was lesbians who were the first to go. 500 suspected lesbians were purged from the Women’s Army Corps base in Tokyo alone in 1947.

Thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development staffers who worked at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. were given 15-minute time slots to gather their belongings and were escorted out of the building by federal officers on Thursday.

Now would be a great time for @maddow.msnbc.com, @chrislhayes.bsky.social, and @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com to raise hell at MSNBC. Kutler just fired or sidelined most of your non-white colleagues, almost certainly in acquiescence to Trump. Use your platforms and your privilege to call it out.

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Award-winning journalist Gail Christian was KCET’s first News Director, and the only Black woman News Director in the country at the time. youtu.be/yz0_5kF7Mhk?...

"If the study of literature or history were really that pointless, a government trying to control the minds of its subjects would not go to the trouble of putting humanities students and professors in jail." @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social www.zocalopublicsquare.org/frivolous-hu...

Historian here. I assure you that Elon is not the first cartoonishly evil supervillain, he’s just the most recent one. He seems like he’s straight out of Gotham or Metropolis because he’s wearing jeans and a blazer and waving a computer around, but he’s nothing new beneath the modern trappings.

It’s. A. Nazi. Salute.

Voting by mail and delivery of prescription medications by mail - especially ADHD medication, SSRIs, and abortion medication.

Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"