my teacher friend asked, if people have more to give, to help meet the goal on this rent relief fund they have set up for families unable to live home due to their status. if we did $2k in 20 minutes we can do $24k by the end of the day, right? please amplify!

I've been planning to write for a long time about how ICE and their allies sure are a bunch of whiny bitches, for all they talk about how tough they are. I'm sad that this is the occasion. But by god, these "tough" guys are pathetic cowards. www.salon.com/2026/01/09/i...

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. Here's why. gregpak.net/2025/12/19/i...

People think "politics" is what you say, but politics is in fact how you wield power. In that sense, driving a car is one of the most profound ways to reveal what your actual politics are. How people drive reveals the sickness at the heart of our society: wanting power, but not responsibility.

In the Times today there’s an op-ed saying that childless women may have legitimate “private” reasons for declining to give birth. But one reason I have is not private but explicitly political: I want my life to serve as a rebuke to the notion that childbearing is women’s highest or truest calling.

COYOTE put together some tips and resources that will always be free to access www.coyotemedia.org/what-we-can-...

Three newly published books argue that cars are destroying society as well as the planet. Is the world finally ready to rein in the automobile? My essay, in @bloomberg.com (gift link below)

U.S. Border Patrol agents shot a woman on Saturday morning in Brighton Park marking the second shooting since President Donald Trump’s administration launched an aggressive immigration enforcement operation in the area last month, the @chicago.suntimes.com reports

Please read and share and consider becoming a paid subscriber. I depend on the generosity of my readers to continue to do this work as my opportunities within mainstream media get smaller and smaller. <3 burns-notice.ghost.io/what-would-t...

No. Your friends don't secretly hate you. You're just dehydrated.

the cultural crisis is straightforward: there are no longer any formal consequences for blatantly anti-social behavior, and the rest of us are constantly just getting lectured that we have to put up with these assholes making our lives worse

(Person who destroyed homeless peoples belongings with a smile on their face) political violence is bad

Abolish ICE. Abolish "A.i." No arms for genocide. Protect trans kids. Shut down the concentration camps. Abolish tariffs. Fire RFK, Jr. Boycott Avelo & Tesla. Delete Twitter. No crypto. Care over punishment. Vote Mamdani. Primary every do-nothing D. Protect vaccines and SSRIs. No fascism. #NoKings

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

Every single person who thinks a trans person should just pipe down until we restore democracy is, in my view, an enemy of democracy. I’m not doing it.

And if targeting trans people and the unhoused is somehow a "purity test" for you, then what the fuck are you actually fighting for and against? I'm serious: If the literal things our enemies are doing are not bad enough for you to say "hey maybe this guy isn't actually on my side," then *What Is*?

I'm going to be honing the set of muscles that allows me to gleefully imagine throwing Gavin Newsom in front of this administration like a grenade, but also being very very clear that I do not like grenades or want grenades to run for president. Not everyone on this battlefield gets to be a hero.

Reports indicate plans to occupy other US cities. We need Congress to act now if we are going to stop US troops from being spread throughout the country. act.sojo.net/page/86796/a...

HUGE: The Trump administration will no longer permit any solar or wind projects on federal lands unless they produce more energy-per-acre than coal, gas or nuclear power plants. Solar and wind literally produce less energy per acre, so simply this may just kill off any project on federal lands.

That they overturned Roe and immediately the media started a nationwide moral panic over “male loneliness” has got to be one of the least subtle moments in the long history of antifeminist backlash.

Tell the State Department to free Chris Smalls and other US citizens on board the Handala which was on a mission of mercy to Gaza. X: @StateDept and @SecRubio FB: @U.S. Department of State Instagram: @statedept @secrubio

I don’t want to ask CoPilot, I am making a Word document. I don’t want to search with Meta AI, I want to search Instagram. Leave me alone

Facebook is censoring this article.

"I received your missive of Thursday last with the greatest of gratitude, as my brave compatriots and I have now waited five hours for the orders to approach a moderately busy intersection in the shopping district of a mid-sized American city."

There's nothing to do but make jokes. What else is there to say, other than: To EVERYONE in charge, EVERYONE in a position of power, EVERYONE with money, EVERYONE with influence: you are failing us, completely. We are terrorized, we are stressed, we are homeless, we are dying. You are failing us.

Free expression is a hallmark of the First Amendment. All our rights are in jeopardy when trans peoples’ freedom to exist is undermined.

Comment on COVID-19 vaccine booster.

Flexible/remote work is good, actually! When executives can’t make it work for their company, that’s a problem of leadership. Return to office mandates are about real estate costs and shitty bosses covering their asses - no matter what excuse they give. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/16/s...

That’s my thing. All I have heard about my entire life is men’s many problems. Whomst among us has ever had the freedom to ignore men’s problems?!! All nonsense. Men need socialism and a nap.

every person online who thinks the tariffs are a good idea are people who are trying to figure out how to take their first step as a huamn being

republicans like it when pedestrians and cyclists die! they think walking or cycling are unusual, aberrant behavior that gets in the way of drivers and should be discouraged and punished with violence by motorists.

Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness." Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.

Every mainstream attempt to grapple with the rise of Tate and other misogynist ideologues have posed them as a product of men’s despair. Few have posited them as an assault on women’s safety and dignity.

rugged individualism is by far the most bizarre belief because unlike every other position good or bad which can be traced back to some part of human development over the evolutionary process, this one is truly alien, it's a rejection of the primary advantage our species had that helped us take over

I wrote this as a reminder to myself when I’m becoming too pessimistic about the world. Despair builds no movements. Hope however builds entire futures.

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

Please, science Bluesky. I am begging. I need to know the most ridiculous looking species. Please tell me what the weirdest little weirdos on the planet are. Give me your weirdest animal facts. My feeble grip on sanity is dependent on you.

REP. RASKIN: “We don’t have a 4th branch of government called Elon Musk.” 🇺🇸

According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, approximately one-third of the nation’s residents don’t have driver’s licenses. So why is our transportation so car-centric? Find out here ⤵️

Black history month starts today and this administration would like us to forget it,

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

Damn, all those high fantasy novels were right: evil must be defeated in *every* generation and we must be ever watchful for its return

An unusually broad spectrum of Oakland politicos and labor and biz leaders are trying to draft Barbara Lee into running for Oakland mayor. oaklandside.org/2024/12/19/o...

You can measure an economy's actual, real life, concrete health by: are people able to do their own weird shit? Do they have money to survive doing their weird shit? Do they have the free time to do that weird shit? Fuck the metrics, just look for the dirtbags and artists and musicians and writers