I converted to Catholicism a couple weeks ago. Here’s how Communion should work.

TO A DARKER SHORE (2024)

My actual job description is activist and here’s what I tell people in despair all the time: do not underestimate how much harm you can prevent by being just a little bit annoying.

This admin is fine with autistic kids dying

my high school drama teacher was obsessed with val and indoctrinated all of us with constant movie showings ....her husband was later arrested for soliciting an underage girl like fuck it's truly pedos all the way down isn't it

I’ve been unable to post almost anything because of mental health nadir so I’m very proud I whipped this up, and if a romcom with MCs who are offended by the state of the world and do fucking something about it might help you weather your own dark nights, well: bookshop.org/p/books/my-k...

This isn't “parental choice.” It’s shelves emptied, stories erased & students cut off from ideas that help them learn, question & grow. Every removed book is a reader who won't see themselves reflected & narrows the world a little more. FL students deserve libraries full of possibility, not fear.

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

I thought today was supposed to be the day when the groundhog comes out of his hole to see if there's light, not Neil Gaiman. Fucker.

Leanne has so many AMAZING ideas and I can’t wait for them to get out into the world 👀🥳👀🥳👀🥳

Oh hey something fun happened for once— Delighted to announce I’m now represented by Alex Land and Mad Woman Literary!

I’ve been unable to post almost anything because of mental health nadir so I’m very proud I whipped this up, and if a romcom with MCs who are offended by the state of the world and do fucking something about it might help you weather your own dark nights, well: bookshop.org/p/books/my-k...

The unspoken rules for protest in the US have been, for decades, that if you have a big tame sign-holding march, it's safe to bring your kids. If you're not perceived as threatening their power, they'll leave you alone. Which means they perceive their unpopularity as a threat to their power

It really is worth understanding what an escalation this is by the feds to be teargassing the big family friendly march

when i say bring that baby home i mean EVERY BABY

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Hey the world’s on fire but I’m glad to get to huddle together with wonderful writer friends and readers in a couple weeks here in SD💕

wait what bardugo’s using the title a darker shore oh I’m cooked

i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine

They’re sending ICE to Milan? Sure we all know what they like to do to fascists there go ahead

I do not care if the people ICE has killed were good or bad. That doesn't matter. What matters is that those people had a right to trial by jury. By being on American soil they had rights. ICE violated those rights, executed them, and did it to terrorize people in the name of a dictator.

all of kiera knightley's future roles should go to kelly marie tran if she wants them imo

My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib. He thought he was going to die. Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors. And a mob of agents killed him.

RIP Captain Georg Von Trapp, you would have loved using whistles to fight fascists

Hell of a day to have been teaching about the children's poems and art from the Terezin ghetto

This has been really noticeable in California for a while too.

I spent the last year writing a book about the ridiculous demands of what it means to be masculine. But a guy who takes care of people who served our country, asks a woman “are you ok?” When she is in distress and looks out for his vulnerable neighbors seems like a pretty good role model for a man.

I'm just going to keep saying this until I die: In a white supremacist patriarchy, you have value only insofar as you serve the white supremacist patriarchy. Kyle Rittenhouse & Ashli Babbitt did. Renee Good & Alex Pretti didn't. On Jan 6, the insurrectionists did. The cops didn't. Rinse, repeat.

"today we remember that freedom is not free. we have to work at it, nurture it, protect it, and even sacrifice for it."

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

you won't return the shooting stars told me the stream below echoed it but you will live forever with your companions

Children screaming and crying can be heard as a possible uprising is underway at the ICE Children's Concentration Camp in Dilley, TX (1/24/26).

Two different agents are visibly firing their guns, with at least 10 shots being heard in total. Most of them are fired after a brief delay, when the man is already lying motionless on the ground. The current videos of the shooting only show these two agents with guns drawn.

Moments before the first shot is fired, this federal agent can be seen retreating with a gun. It appears to match the general appearance of the firearm posted by DHS, including the red dot sight. This agent’s back is turned when the first shot occurs. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Multiple federal agents can later be seen struggling with the man who is shot. One federal agent is seen approaching with empty hands, before reaching around the man’s waist.

Alex is the type of person they hate deeply because he's a race traitor and actually contributes to society. The dipshits in ICE will go to their graves never having been of any value.

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

Stuck on the fact that he was trying to keep someone else from getting hurt and for that he was killed by people who only understand masculinity as offensive violence

"I'm not mad at you" to an armed oppressor "Are you okay?" to a shoved woman This is who they're killing

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

The footage from the person in the pink jacket was is out there. Please be careful (consider turning off autoplay) but tg they weren’t able to squash the witnesses and absolutely devastating evidence.

What we’ve seen in other countries is the violence of the state is directly proportional to the weakness and, often, illegitimacy of the regime in power.

He was a nurse.

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.

If you think ICE - or frankly any 'law enforcement' - should have the right to execute anyone, you are the fucking problem. There is no excuse. None. Nothing justifies this. Abolish is step 1. Trials are step 2. That is the only path to a surviving democracy in the U.S.

Killing whoever they want with impunity has always been the goal. The poor, the sick, the Black, the brown, the indigenous, the queer and trans, the loud and silent.