“You got a lot of equipment over there… left your wax cylinders at home?" stereogum.com/2499981/jack...

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

Again, that this stuff doesn’t immediately end his presidency is a total failure of Article I of the Constitution. A complete collapse of the polity.

I'm torn as to whether this is more satisfying than the Cybertruck that was taken on a boating excursion.

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

"Silence equals complicity. Bystander intervention means interrupting harmful behavior early, questioning abusive dynamics, and refusing to normalize misogyny."

This makes me twitch, remembering all that same nonsense, ra-ra garbage I sat through.

UK TRAIN STOP NAMES

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Remember that whenever anyone tells you that we don’t have the money to pay for things to help our neighbors, they are lying to you.

ICYMI — After Republicans stripped majority-Black Memphis of representation, this was @brotherjones.bsky.social in the rotunda. Damn. (From NC5)

This is exactly why language matters: “women were given the vote” frames equality as a gift from men, instead of hard won political power extracted through organized resistance. Nobody gave women anything. Women fought, marched, strategized, endured violence, went to prison and died for it.

*white women vote for Trump* Everyone: those bitches *white men vote for Trump* Everyone: okay how do we help these sweet guys see the light and come back to the Democrats????

Timeline cleanse!

wrote about femicide, and how men murdering intimate partners is not a mental health issue, and isn't an accident or a tragedy for which no one is to blame. It's a deliberate act of political terror to enforce patriarchy. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/femicide-i...

For fuck's sake, sign up for The Onion, and get a free limited edition IW tote. A share of merch sales will go to the Sandy Hook families, which will be the first time they get any money since they filed this lawsuit eight years ago. Legal fees have been insane. Please sign up and help us out!

"Are you a boy or a girl?" "Chiitan" "No, what's your gender" "Mascot" "No, what's in your pants?" *pulls out baseball bat, violence ensues*

CIS people (especially white men) please read this. This fight is not trans folks fight. This is why they are leaving. This is why gay folk are leaving. This is why all women should be making plans. What they take from one they will take from all. This story lays it out succinctly, w impact

RIP Flat Earth Dave. You would have hated this.

Thou cold sciatica, Cripple our senators, that their limbs may halt As lamely as their manners!

Basically feminism for the past 250 years has been a struggle to establish that women are people endowed with certain inalienable rights, and among those rights are life, liberty, and bodily autonomy.

This is the conservative pitch to most Americans: Sure, you might be suffering as a result of our policies, but other people -- people who are different from you, people you don't like -- they're suffering a lot more than you, so it all works out.

oh look at that www.pew.org/en/research-...

HERE IT IS: Earlier this month, without any planning, I drove 6 hrs to the desert to capture the last full lunar eclipse until December 2028 Over 3 hours I shot over 3000 stills, but not the stars Last Tuesday I drove 4 hrs to capture the stars After 30+ hrs figuring out editing, this is DONE 🧵

The White House & the Capitol were designed in a deliberately straightforward & non-ornate style—in sync w/the rejection of the pomp of monarchies. People sometimes specified “plain style.” It was supposed to be a tribute to NOT being a monarchy. A vital political statement. And now…here we are.

For Renee. For Alex. For Keith. For all those who aren't here.

A judge was more concerned about the future of a white, privileged young man than the victims whose lives he ruined. That sounds familiar. www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-a...

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Receipts:

I said what I said. We're not ready to push forward into the renewable future. We still want to cling to This old silly fossil fuel world that is killing the planet. If you had an EV that costs under $20K, and subsidized solar cells on your roof, you'd be partially insulated from gas price hikes.

Sonny Burton is set to be executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday. There is a direct line between a government that murders its own citizens and the devaluing of life abroad. The sin has always started at home.

On International Women’s Day, in Women’s History Month, reviving my reminder to MEN that we must step up and demand equal justice for all women in America. Here’s your 90 second history lesson. ❤️✊🏽 youtube.com/shorts/CKdUn...

Had to doublecheck the date on this

I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."

When Bluesky was down today I went back to Twitter and was punched in the face by the stench of abandoned aquarium. Milo Yiannopoulos, who I honestly thought was dead, stanning Hillary Clinton. Dem flaks earnestly retweeting Nick Fuentes. It’s time to cordon off anyone left and introduce alligators.

Well, in more pleasant news, the Fish Doorbell is back... 🧪

Board of Peace - Season 1

What's wrong, babe? You've barely touched your horrors that persist

AAAAAAAAHH

"Inclusion without respect is not equality." Thank you, Jody. This is the meat of it all.

Terrific piece on how the New York Times and Politico failed to spot pink slime and how it all plays into a reckless smear on AOC and Gov Whitmire. open.substack.com/pub/spinclas...

This is making my sciatica flare, but it's perfect in every way.

Two issues I'm pondering. One is that you can't move this many people without inflicting tremendous physical and psychological harm on those deported and on society itself. The second is that left in place for years, mass detention on a whole new level will be normalized. It rarely vanishes. [1/3]

US Women's Hockey team now has more Olympic gold medals than the US Men's team.

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

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This needs to happen every time this man dares to go out in public for the rest of his life. And funeral parlors should refuse to handle his corpse. Let the vultures have at it.