life is at least a little beautiful idk

My 85-yr old, disabled mother declaring she's ready to go to prison to invigorate the tax withholding movement bc "someone has to do it." And like, yes, I agree, we need someone (really lots of someones) to re-invigorate a protest tax withholding movement, but can we also agree it shouldn't be you?!

It never fails. If my dog is going to get skunked, it's going to be at 10 pm. NEVER FAILS.

I haven't been to Illumination Night since high school, when it was mostly a night to get wasted and stumble around the Smith campus and ooh aah at the pretty lanterns. It's still just as lovely, middle aged and sober.

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

Once you have dehumanized people enough to put them in concentration camps, there is little chance that you will care whether they live or die there. Worse things than murder by neglect will happen in these camps if they are not ended, but it is a sign of things to come. bsky.app/profile/judd...

Have you ever noticed that the massive, coordinated, multi-year assault on trans rights is based on NOTHING WHATSOEVER

They're selling "hot priests" calendars at all the souvenir shops in Rome. I somehow failed to get a photo of the "hot priests holding cats/kittens" version I saw in one lucky shop, but these two were everywhere.

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

Major book hangover today after finishing Cat Sebastian’s latest, Star Shippers, last night. It’s so good. Ugh. Can’t let go.

The trope that associates violent profiteering by elites and their henchmen with being “tough on crime” was pushed by both right wing and liberal media organizations for decades. It is one of the great achievements of modern propaganda to associate cruelty and domination and violence with “safety.”

The international crime lord running this country calling the Pope “weak on crime” is hilarious on so many levels. The harm both parties have wrought with that phrase is stunning, and maybe this is overly optimistic, but I swear he just de-fanged it in one inane social media post.

i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

For yrs, kiddo passionately argued that “no one wears jeans, jeans are awful,” and would only wear sweatpants. Recently, I noticed he no longer wears sweatpants to school, only jeans. I *lightly* teased him about this change of heart this morning and he snapped back, “So what, you never grew up?” 😂

I was trying to explain the violent emotional collision this week between "astronauts looking down at our little planet from up there beside the moon we all love" and "destroying our most ancient forests and historic cities and everything beautiful down here for a few rich guys to get richer"

the guys walking around in shoes that don’t fit are not gonna do a 25th Amendment

HORRIBLE. ICE is averaging more than one death a week this year. It's like clockwork. The last death reported was exactly seven days ago.

they really said "they should have sent a poet"

This of course is secondary to the actual lethal violence inflicted on the rest of the world, which remains distant and unfathomable to much of this country. But I do wonder what it does to us day after day.

In 2002, the US passed the American Service-Members' Protection Act, which authorizes the military invasion of the Hague if the ICC ever prosecutes the US for war crimes. It passed with overwhelming bipartisan support

Look at how many names on this list are *still in power*, still kicking around. They weren't exactly young then, but now a lot of them are much much richer.

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

WHAT IN THE NAME OF LEAVING MONEY ON THE TABLE

This afternoon, I used Claude to circumvent ChatGPT's safety protocols so I could hack into Gemini to learn how to take over Grok, which I then used to destroy Twitter. It's over. Twitter is gone.

I have had this talk with my son. And it’s personal. One of my first summer jobs was patrolling paddle boats on a pond and instead of making sure people didn’t stand up in their boats, I spent the summer protecting a family of Canada goslings with my canoe paddle from the swan trying to kill them.

I had to break it to my California-raised teen experiencing his second New England winter that today’s weather is what we call “false spring.” He was like, no way! it’s real to me! Refused to believe it might get cold again. Ah, sweet summer child.

I just watched a video of Yibo peopling at a fashion event and then letting out an exhalation/sigh in a moment when he’s standing alone, and I really *felt* that.

a reminder that Graham Platner is the grandson of the designer of the "Windows on the World" restaurant at the WTC, has considerable family money, and his main business is selling oysters to his mom's two restaurants. These people are fucking marks.

“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984

Whenever I'm feeling emotionally stuck and in need of a good cry, I just pull up nu_breed's Wei Wuxian Untamed fmv, Tall Tall Shadow, and it never fails to unblock the tear ducts. @nubreed.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Ar...

I don't think anyone pretending there isn't an effort underway by Republicans to eradicate trans people from public life can be taken seriously at this point.

Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

While I was happy for the US women to win, I was faux-Canadian today and probably projected too much global political significance onto this game bc now I am devastated. Plus I hate the tkachuks in a way that is probably pathological and maybe should be studied.

I have only very tangentially heard about the monkey story and know that I am not emotionally stable enough rn to hear more.

The budgets for these lawless federal agencies are larger than the military budgets of many countries. Would love it if we used that money to fund libraries, to fund a social safety net, to make it so that that even well-known Hollywood actors don’t have to sell their shit to pay for healthcare. 🔥👊🏻

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Four Black people arrested. That's not a coincidence. That's a threat.

Massachusetts folks, the LUCE ICE Hotline is ☎️ 617-370-5023. If you see ICE in your area, call and report. And spread the word! Full sheet of stickers here: tinyurl.com/5eddfvrt Print on mailing labels (5160) and stick up around your neighborhood.

apropos of nothing, or I guess my last post, I absolutely love how totally at east Hudson Williams is hanging with his Prime Minister. Maybe it says something about Carney, but I think it's mostly about Hudson. He's one of the most confident, self-assured (in a low-key and genuine way) people ever.

“In some cases” Jesus fucking Christ. This is nothing and it’s garbage

Look, a post of Jeffries announcing that the dems will pass the spending bill if the R's agree to include language that--*checks notes*--requires them to follow a single law that is already a law?! ... Followed by a post of Mark Carney hugging Hudson Williams. I just can't right now.

Hudson and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on the red carpet for the Prime Time screen and media industry conference in Ottawa via markjcarney

Reminder that, in recent days, children have rallied and protested for their freedom inside an ICE detention center where water has been described as "putrid" and meals reportedly contain “bugs,” dirt, and debris. This is where the kidnapped 5-year-old Liam Ramos is being held.

If Democrats haven't announced their proposal for the Donald Trump No Guns in Public bill by the end of the day, they're missing an easy shot