hey, @chicagotribune.com, this is wildly misleading & racist and you know it, you bootlickers RETRACTION NOW, apologies forever and ever and ever

Are cherries on your #July4 menu? They come thanks to workers like "Julia" who shared this pic from where she was harvesting cherries in WA state. She works piece rate, which means she rushes to pick as much as possible while getting the quality growers require. #WeFeedYou

I think often of the violence incited by quotations of “I Love, I Love , I Love My Wife (But Oh! You Kid!)”. These are people having IMMENSE FEELINGS about their relationships via song.

Hey Bayeux Tapestry fans have I made the platform game for you? I’m sure someone else will have done this before but well now I have too… bayeuxgo.live

It's all "ooooh we need a meritocracy" until the wrong people have merit and then it's like "oooh we need to protect us." Trans kids deserve a chance play in sports because EVERYONE deserves a chance to play in sports and nobody should lose that chance because they're disfavored by bigots.

“The people who kept warning where this was going got called hysterical for it. And I’d like to know, from everyone who promised me their concerns were reasonable, whether they ever intend to say enough is enough, or whether the people they dismissed have been right the whole time.”

I have enormous fondness for RIFT (2017), which admittedly meanders around on its way to some deeply eerie scares.

Deer in the yard 🦌

Discrimination is not a criminal offense in the US. If victims can no longer seek civil damages for discrimination, then it is essentially legalized. And that’s what we’re seeing with Title IX. Victims can’t find legal representations because there is little chance a lawsuit will be meaningful.

I talked about survivors’ violated rights a lot on here. Within minutes, there’s always a reply that says “sue them!” I don’t think people realize that SCOTUS are quietly stripping people’s ability to do that, especially along classes protected by civil rights legislation.

If voting is your thing, voting in hyper local elections has more impact on your day to day life than national elections. Yet people focus on the national over the local.

I found the littlest school bus meep meep

Know what TV show actually wouldn’t get made today? The Twilight Zone. Half of these fuckin’ episodes are about fascism.

Always remember: Someone has seen you live your life as an out trans person and realized, for the very first time, that a future is actually possible.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.

You don't have to answer the door for the Feds. Do not voluntarily talk to the Feds. If they have a warrant signed by an actual judge, then they can do precisely what the warrant says. But DO NOT TALK TO THE FEDS. Do not answer the door. If you're arrested, your only words are "I want a lawyer."

Journalists have a duty to tell the public that the president and his aides are seriously considering suspending habeas corpus *when it is happening* rather than saving it for a book rollout over a year later

“One of the reasons why I do what I do is I don’t want you to have to buy something, I want you to take what you have and give it new life and make it something that’s even better than what you originally bought it for, because now it’s one of one.”

You are not too sensitive. In fact it is the opposite. You are too powerful

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

Oh you don’t sayyyyy

same with trans healthcare but it's apparently fearmongering to even mention the material reality of Mamdani promising very specific actions to help trans kids only to turn around and institutionalize illegal healthcare discrimination against trans kids in city healthcare services

Some time ago, my therapist said “That’s your superpower!” and I replied “That’s a skill. I’m great at it! So are plenty of people” and we moved on. Only now am I realizing she thought I was denigrating my skills when the truth is I have not yet disclosed to her what *is* my actual superpower.

we’re so desperate for good news we've accepted the scaffolding as our wire mother

My insurer just told me that my primary care physician doesn’t exist and is therefore out of network.

“A revelatory look at one of America’s most progressive cities—Minneapolis—as journalist @justinellis.bsky.social returns to his hometown to grapple with the quiet history of white supremacy”

happy pride

@dennisperkins5.bsky.social just brought this sturdy cardboard tube to me with both hands and a big smile. “It came with the new hose and I thought it had Crafting Possibilities!”

Okay but I would eat the heck out of a Bob Mackie steakhouse salad

Grudgingly conceding ground to bigots makes you an ally to bigots. “Try being the change you want to see in your politics rather than sucking up to the tiny portion of the population that actually bases their votes on who is most anti-trans (hint: they're never going to vote for you anyway).”

ah WOOOOO werewolves of London

CRITICIZING A POLITICIAN DOES NOT MEAN YOU SUPPORT THEIR OPPONENT. CRITICIZING A POLITICIAN DOES NOT MEAN YOU SUPPORT THEIR OPPONENT. CRITICIZING A POLITICIAN DOES NOT MEAN YOU SUPPORT THEIR OPPONENT. CRITICIZING A POLITICIAN DOES NOT MEAN YOU SUPPORT THEIR OPPONENT.

Almost every time I leave the house, some water carrier for fascism gets in my face, and every fuckin time they’re surprised when I have the audacity to get right back in their faces instead of skedaddling away in fear. Fuck those fucks, teach them to be afraid of little ol’ ladies in public.

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Egg candles, 50¢ at a yard sale, still — AND I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH — in the box. Ever since I opened it, I’ve had the urge to watch Showgirls.

Chicago, I could use your help! 🙏 (thread)

My op-ed piece would be that the idea of a "perfect time" is misleading, especially for coming out. There's never a perfect time. That's not a real thing. You might fuck your life up a little or a lot. Waiting for a perfect time is wasted hours of incredibly meaningful, potentially ruinous beauty

Maine voters: OKAY so for 20 years he had an admittedly Nazi tattoo that he replaced with a plausibly deniable white supremacist tattoo and OKAY so he has a history of publicly celebrating military violence including his own and OKAY so he has a history of blaming sexual assault on its victims 1/2

Casual reminder that @escapepod.org closes for the summer at the end of May! You've got one more day to drop your story in the pneumatic tube and launch it into our portal. Our Democratic Futures submission window, however, will remain open longer. escapepod.org

Spouse brought home groceries and earnestly warned me that “they changed the packaging of your seltzer, it should be the exact same seltzer but in a different bottle. I don’t like it either,” so I won’t be needing that neurodivergence assessment after all.

i was such an avid reader of stuff i did not even get CLOSE to understanding as a kid and all it did was make me read more, and ask more questions about the world. there's a concerted effort from almost every consolidated power on this planet to make people less curious!!!!

Nope, the phrase "homeland security" was intrinsically chilling Nazi shit in 2002. Source: Was alive, had brain.

Can anyone point to a moment in American history where “Instead of prosecuting these people who violated the law to serve their own political ends I think they should face no consequences so we can heal our divided nation” didn’t make things worse

“White anti-racists also need to start realizing that they need to risk something. They need to have the same (or stronger) strength of conviction in their beliefs that racists and fascists have in theirs.”

Always get @dennisperkins5.bsky.social to write about late-night www.avclub.com/stephen-colb...

“Colbert is genuinely heartbroken that the Ed Sullivan Theater—reopened by Letterman, restored to former majesty by Colbert—will sit idle for the foreseeable future. [H]is position as the last steward of The Late Show has seen Colbert lament, ‘I’m not being replaced. This is all just going away.’”