AIDS, Palestine and the Queer Shadow of Death: A Shared History (in which I give a short lecture on my last pride as Renberg Chair)

If your response to Trump winning was to say that Dems needed to shift right on immigration, trans rights and anything related to DEI then you don’t get to cry racism when people ask you to move back to the left

centrists went seamlessly from "breaking up the big banks is racist actually" in 2016 to "maybe Donald Trump is right about immigrants and trans people" from ~2021-25 to "criticizing Hakeem Jeffries is racist actually" now. woke's back baby

Voters : we dont like what you’ve been voting for or prioritizing so we’re gonna give this person a shot Incumbents : this is anti democratic and will be the end of this political party forever, you people need me ,you’re ingrates, you entitled pieces of shi

If the unconditional happiness of the pup is too much, Tiger offers her ominous positivity.

A happy puppy for your feed

Fuck the reflecting pool. This has not gotten nearly enough coverage or generated the proper outrage. People thrown in prison for 30-50 years for the "crime" ofmaking zines and belonging to a book club!! This is straight-up totalitarian atrocity. Political prisoners thrown in a gulag to rot.

The Trump-Biden-Trump era on Israel really does a good job of showing how it really does not matter at all whether or not a POTUS likes Netanyahu (or any PM of Israel) on a personal level. Every Axios article about how Biden/Trump is really mad at Bibi is basically fanfiction and meant to misdirect.

Hmm

If your version of saving society involves accommodating any of these things, then you don’t actually want to save society - you want to save YOUR part of society. You’re announcing that you don’t care about saving other parts if they get in the way.

A livable wage is not in fact too much to ask of our employers. Housing and healthcare are not in fact too much to ask of our government. Safety and equity are not in fact too much to ask of our community for Black/brown people, women, trans and gender expansive people, and disabled people.

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

i don’t mean to alarm yall but things might be about to get real wet and real wild

Made a post on TikTok for the first time in years. Asked questions in regards to the differences in Patagonia vs Pattie Gonia Merch. The environment on TikTok has changed soooo much! The bots are numerous and more apparent. Disinfo flying around over an argument yet to be fully heard.

HAPPY PRIDE

Was talking to my parents about Pride Month. They asked about PDX Pride and had to look up the date, knowing it’s been moved to July for a while now. Telling them the exact date, they were confused about it being outside of Pride month. Opened discussion to Sister Cities and Father’s Day.

The most strategic fumble I’ve witnessed among dem leaders is letting their cops beat up their constituents. And it’s been going on for years and weakening us all. It leaves people with few options but to lose faith in the entire system. And faith is all you got because there isn’t very much proof

“It wasn’t really twelve. It was just six,” is actually factually crazy. One is and should be enough but dude has a full blown Tenchi Muyo anime harem and they still knew and went forward! These are wholly unserious people.

fucking stormtrooper ass shit

Remember we were saying the Democrats had to come up with a better response than "shut up you ugly fuck"? Well, this is what they came up with

Patagonia (The company) is suing Pattie Gonia for their parody of the name Patagonia (The Region). Suing grassroots climate activists isn’t supporting them. Should be obvious but here we are. Haven’t bought from them in a long while, so little difference as it makes, won’t be doing so further.

Even if it wasn’t a proper rave, ticketed locale and all, EDC was a healing event for me. Starting conversations with complete strangers, in fact going so far as to ask to join conversation. As a shy pup, that’s a huge change from the person always questioning the potential damage of interaction.

1) Look, if people who have listened to Platner talk - especially marginalized people - are convinced he's the best candidate & want to roll the dice? I'm not in a place to tell them not to. 2) OTOH, it's Ranked Choice Voting, and if you like her policies you lose nothing by writing in Laflamme!

Some sleeping pets for your feed

Got lost in the crafting. Both what was offered in their camp and what I was able to craft myself at home. Specifically made a necklace for the “Pancake Mom”. Hundreds of pounds of mix, thousands of pancakes served, everything free, donations refused. Just does it for the community.

Unpacked. Rested. Feeling more connected, yet off. My Alpha took me to EDC for my Birthday. First time in attendance, first time at a rave, first time seeing a drone show. That last part is where my internal congruence breaks. I’m more familiar with the violence than the art.

This is the official Democrat Position btw

"Over time it became difficult to distinguish the policies of Black and white mayors, as both were beholden to the police and corporations in their cities and thereby unwilling (and often lacking any real power) to advance policies to help rank-and-file Black Americans." Whew. That's Andre Dickens.

“People on BlueSky just want to be in a bubble.” - User who turns off comments and quote posts to protect their bubble on BlueSky

one of my fond memories of early 2020 as COVID precautions & closures were happening with a stipend of $1200 being argued about before finally sent out was people posting the various parts of building a guillotine & it costing about $1200 or so

"There no silver bullet" - Ken Martin There's no fucking content either

In a baffling choice, Third Way seems to believe the DNC autopsy — the document that is riddled with basic factual errors, misspellings and potentially AI-hallucinated claims— proves their worldview correct

I was getting texts from various Oregon candidates reminding me to vote, and hopefully for them. Mind you, they waited until 5 days before the voting day to send said texts, one even texted 3 days before. I had already submitted my ballot. Maybe reach out before the ballots arrive? 😅

weed and higher minimum wage: places where lefties and libs have built the coalition, have won the arguments, have gathered the votes, and frequently any forward progress on these is still only accomplished in *spite* of their elected representatives

Where are the "oh you care about Gaza but what about Sudan?" people? This is one of many reasons why genocide is not a "single issue."

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Jared Golden was the only Democrat to vote NO. If he voted yes, it would have passed. He isn't even running again. He's just a bad person who wants more people to die and wants a job lobbying for defense contractors. www.cbsnews.com/news/house-i...

And got the road to the Denver Airport Arrivals shut down temporarily so we could get the RV back on the road that has actual clearance for the RV 😅 Puppies causing trouble already

At this point, plushies are a requirement for flights. White knuckle death grip on takeoff 😅

Neanderthals had a civilisation that could afford dental care. Meanwhile, me in 2026…

Wow, New York Times, how did that ever happen

you can't talk about declines in trust in public health without talking about the massive dark money campaigns led by right wing billionaires which targeted pandemic policies that threatened their profits + the politicians who supported them

A tale of how moderation works around here, in two parts

Before you make your next post about "mean trans women" I want you to read and sit with this story for awhile.

‘can i afford the tax? yes. is it going to deter me? no.’ cool well no further questions, thanks for answering the only relevant ones

Rage baiting