Allison Harbour E.J. Hughes 1966

I call what Mikki is referring to “Suburban Utopia Mythology.” It was one, maybe two generations, where a portion of the middle class was able to create domestic dynamics similar to upper classes. It was also a lie based on race. I get into it more here, free. www.patreon.com/posts/115041...

Every sex worker I know uses Proton mail. For years, it was the IYKYK of secure emails. People mock me for being a luddite elder millennial but I'm feeling saner by the day for having a paper planner, individual passwords for everything that I've physically written in a journal, analog media, etc.

well, today in floridly depressing news: the French helpline for female victims of male violence is facing "coordinated" attacks from men's rights activists, who keep calling up in the hope of making it harder for women to reach their services

"I sexually exploited a now-dead employee and also I've got God on speed-dial and he always does what I want" is quite the self-portrait. Of right-wing Christianity. And evangelical entitlement.

I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it

Breathe Jeff Dillon 2022

Spring is on the March Franz Johnston n.d.

'“If you’re ballooning a military budget, that’s a choice to steal those funds from health care, housing, public services — from the things that actually guarantee the security and health of people from across this country,” says Small.' #DefendOurDemocracy #InvestInCanadians #CdnPoli ✊

If you have not read Persepolis you should, it is an extremely powerful graphic novel thats available for free on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/pers... Though I would also highly reccomend supporting Marjane directly and purchasing it as well.

Cannot emphasize enough that one of the best ways to understand our current political reality is to read Dave Cullen's book "Columbine." It unpacks the moral panic, the right wing propaganda, the media complicity, toxic masculinity, etc. So many parallels to what we are seeing right now.

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

They blew up a girls school

If you spend time in the bad place, you’re hearing this claim a lot: Alberta sends $23B more to Ottawa than it gets back. If we separated, we’d erase the $9B deficit and have a $14B surplus. It sounds simple. It’s wrong. Here's why. 🧵

Warm and in good hands Kareem-Anthony Ferreira 2023

This is a history lesson in why the incompetent drunkard and the brain dead pedophile shouldn’t be allowed to replace human judgment with AI.

Farm Near High Park J.E.H. MacDonald 1911

Landscape with Snow Tom Thomson 1916

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

If a trans person were caught jaywalking Republicans would be ranting about it every chance they got, meanwhile a trans person JUMPED INTO LAKE MICHIGAN IN THE WINTER AND RESCUED A STRANGER’S BABY and it’s crickets.

When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast. They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

this is outrageous and the clearest example yet that carney is downplaying human rights and credible threats to canadians to pursue his economic agenda. cozying up to the emiratis despite what they’re doing in sudan was bad enough, but many canadians will not just accept this u-turn on india.

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

Which is not a particularly encouraging analogy for what AI will do or rather what AI corporations would like to do to us.

Nope, sloplords, there were just far fewer horses after they ceased to be the central transit and hauling technology.

Full article here: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-red-wh...

Nobody said it better @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

by @lyz.bsky.social "It never ends with a joke. Jokes are a test of boundaries, a way to push until your achievements are a punchline, your work is just a hobby, and your passions are something to be set aside to devote to his life, his dreams, his needs"

To anyone whose not yet read @sarahkendzior.bsky.social work on Trump, you are missing out one of the most prescient, accurate & frightening commentators writing from the USA. Her truths are not always kind. She's described him as the face of those he represents since before his first term in office

"the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building." www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

Trump does it more explicitly, but this is the same death-cult logic as we are witnessing south of the border. Billions of dollars into a stalemate war where both sides are fully captured by far-right forces, but no money for libraries and hospitals and schools and culture.

highlight of my day is that I got connected to this guy and am sending him a copy of my book to thank him for the piece of perfect cinema.

It’s only February www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

this is an absolutely astonishing feat of independent journalism, top to bottom, and proves that the only way to truly fight billionaires is not being funded by them. just…read the whole thing.

Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital halts mass eviction after London Centric uncovered what was going on. Hundreds of Londoners now receiving bizarre door-to-door visits blaming misinformation and being asked to record videos saying they don't want to be evicted. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Genuinely fascinated by this "emergency shovelers" concept. This is... maybe what it looks like when your city gives a shit about the sidewalks being cleared too, not just the roads? 🤔

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

Anyway lululemon fucked this whole country’s Olympic hockey program

"Without feminism, the sequence of events that led to Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest would never have happened. It’s a reminder that feminism is powerful and important and even transformative, which is why there’s so much pushback..."

Under Northern Skies Elizabeth Lennie c. 2025

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

Crépuscule d’hiver (Baie St. Paul) Clarence Gagnon 1915

get you a candidate who proudly stands up for what’s right

Sacre coeur Bruno Côté 1981

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social writes in The Last American Road Trip, “To be an American in the twenty-first century is to be viewed by officials as disposable. This is not a new feeling for the majority of Americans who have lived under various forms of subjugation