Times and WaPo just dragging Trump across the fascism finish line like

It is 1981. Transition care is "new and experimental". It is 2019. Transition care is "new and experimental." It is 2026. Transition care is "new and experimental."

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

What does it tell voters, who have said unequivocally we want fighters, that you sit & silently witness your own humiliation? If you will not fight for yourselves, are we to believe you will for us?

In our extensive research on activation - who is activated (beyond voting), activatable, repulsed by regime but won't do direct action - a critical dimension is NOT mere disapproval but whether they view regime as break in normalcy vs just a bad regular right wing gov't in a democracy.

"more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice"

No one wants to help people in hard times more than people who have been through hard times themselves.

Genuinely am getting a code of conduct violation from my uni for describing fascists as fascist and otherwise making people “feel uncomfortable”. So, uh, if any lawyers wanna do a lefty free speech case if they escalate to fining or suspending me, hit me up

Your free speech rights end where billionaires’ feelings begin.

#OtD 25 Feb 1941 a general strike was called in the occupied Netherlands against anti-Jewish measures of the Nazis. Organised by communists it was largely repressed the next day & leaders sent to the camps although some survived the war stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9733...

A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

the federal surveillance aircraft are flying so low they’re shaking the house :(

cop: did he send any texts around the time of the crash? cop 2: he sent a post that reads “padding my three track album with 26 skits and interludes” cop: not bad but it ain’t going viral cop 2: posting isn’t just about going viral cop: (sighs) not this shit again

FACT~ The complexities of human biology have defeated all medical tests ever proposed by sports organizations to reliably divide biological sex into two distinct categories.

Incredible shot of Rep. Al Green holding up a "BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T APES!" sign with Trump in the foreground from photographer Kenny Holston (Getty)

"Sadly many people who were featured in this film were killed, injured, abducted, including my sister & her 7 children. They are still under the rubble" In the summer of 2023 Yousef al Helou filmed a documentary capturing life in the Gaza strip. Its called 'The Phoenix Of Gaza'

🎤🎵Memories🎶

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

good news everybody

Important conversation, “Enemy Alien/ICE, Racism & Empire” by AMED at SFSU on the interconnectedness of Islamophobia, white supremacy and all forms of racism and xenophobia w/Palestinian, Muslim scholars & organizers. Includes a call to action to free Leqaa Kordia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUpE...

Gender cleansing

average leftwinger scandal: random citizens in the city actively playing in a snow ball fight throw snow balls at cops average rightwinger scandal:

I know there’s a lot of fans of the late great @sfdirewolf.bsky.social on my timeline. This was one of Alice’s recent projects, in collaboration with another contemporary great of disability justice, @thellpsx.bsky.social. Do donate to Crips for eSIMs for Gaza what you can, especially for Ramadan

Just five weeks to empower this project: mental health days for Palestinian children from Gaza who were detained in occupation prison. This initiative will deliver urgent therapy and more! Absolutely anything helps with materials & facilitation: chuffed.org/project/hmg

This thread is still going 😱

Turns out you get a very different answer on who is to blame when you listen to people who have lived with tourettes AND dealt with racism than people who haven't and think tourettes is a fake disease or think you should just "get over" having slurs yelled at you

The thing I keep seeing from black folks *with tourettes* is that BAFTA and the BBC are the villains here, and their choices led to the worst outcome for everyone involved.

Republican Tony Gonzales allegedly pressured Regina Ann Santos-Aviles, who died by suicide, into a sexual relationship. He is refusing to resign.

The genius of Louise Fletcher's portrayal of Kai Winn is how skillfully she did Erika Kirk face.

I don't even understand how you can call something universal if it is means tested. Just from a purely "this is what those words mean, and they are incompatible when describing the same thing" perspective.

During this assault of “AI” and fascism, three simple things are important: being real, staying present, and speaking truth. Many of us are doing these in our writing. Our art. Our teaching. Our learning. Our politics. Our relationships. Our loving. Keep doing them. They’re angry we won’t stop.

Look at how powerful we were in defending Preschool for All against attacks. If we are going to have a statewide program, it must be truly universal, without means testing, & paid for by corporations and the rich.

We need universal programs and services because, in addition to being accessible to all, they come with a ready made base of people (everyone who benefits from them) to defend them. Means testing services is a failed model advanced by corporate Democrats like Tina Kotek who want us divided.

IL-09 POLL: In an @evanstonroundtable.bsky.social/PPP poll of likely Dem voters in IL-09, Daniel Biss remains the frontrunner at 24%, followed by Kat Abughazaleh at 17% and Laura Fine at 16%, and all others at 6% or less; undecideds stay high at 22%. Polled Feb. 20-21, MOE 4.4%. See below for more!

In the mid 90s Peter Georgacarakos, Michael Lujan, and Joseph Kerrick would form the White Order of Thule a nazi group based around an esoteric nazi newsletter, "The Abyss" Today we report Kerrick is now living in San Rafael and is still active in the movement. bay161.noblogs.org/joseph-rex-k...

Honestly this is too moderate a goal, Woke 2 needs to be so totalizng that historians thinking it went too far isn't possible anymore Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Some people are so worried about their real estate investments paying off that they stress out about the neighbors enjoying their liberty and minding their own business.

I hear about people who live in controlling HOA and I don't want that. Some whole cities do that to discourage self-expression that diverges from dominant white bread culture. They're offended by people who don't look like boring strip mall replicas of themselves and enact laws to punish difference.

Take some action, don't just do lukewarm obvious statements.

Imagine if instead of saying stuff like "Trump lies" or "that isn't leadership," Dems said "trump is murdering Americans, creating concentration camps, enriching himself through widespread corruption and trying to stop you from voting. And as such we won't vote for his nominees or fund his terror"

HERE COMES THE FINAL LIVE TELETHON TOTAL YOU'RE NOT READY YOU REALLY AREN'T

My take as well. Fascism is an ideology but it is also an attitude, a behavior

Let it be so. Amen.

I found that this is wrong. Democracy actually is a powerful motivating force for a critical slice of the population *if they perceive a real threat*. I call this the "legibility" theory of democratic backsliding: the more legible the threat, the more likely it is to prompt effective pushback.

"Not safe for work" is such a weird euphemism for porn because, like, presumably the category of things you don't want to be caught viewing on company time is considerably larger than that.

"The governor said on Tuesday afternoon that it was too early to determine if a universal preschool program at the state level would be means-tested" @tinakotek.bsky.social "universal" means "free" FYI

$1.5T military budget $170B on ICE & Border Patrol $100B on tax cuts for the 1% $20B from Treasury for Argentina $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $500M sending National Guard into cities $250M on Kristi Noem's jets $100M+ on Trump's golf outings $75k for Kash Patel's Olympic trip Priorities.

so in conclusion, the state of the union is actually very bad because a man who tried to end democracy is using the government to personally enrich himself and his buddies while executing citizens and noncitizens alike

i just don’t think some guys who thought only they and their ugly-ass friends should be allowed to vote and run shit should be our north star anymore. i just think like…surely there are better options