highly recommend Charles McCrary's book Sincerely Held if you are interested in an analysis of how "sincerely held religious belief" came to be such a significant trope before the law in the US

.......both things can be true.

Annihilation (2018)

I've been making mixed media art lately. I'm pretty into it, but am feeling some anxiety about showing it to anyone except people I'm pretty close with

The end of PEPFAR and global cuts to HIV prevention and treatment are a longterm health crisis and an immediate, fast-moving economic crisis—not dissimilar from the ways that conservatives are waging war on queer and trans people by coming for their jobs:

It’s World AIDS Day, and as the government is pretending it doesn’t exist, I’d like to tell you a story about growing up queer in the 80s/90s when powerful men also liked to pretend AIDS didn’t exist. It’s about the day I saw the AIDS quilt. 🧵

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Poster by Australian artist David McDiarmid, 1992. He died of AIDS-related conditions three years later.

It’s funny because protest movements are so often discredited as instances of groupthink while movements in opposition, supported at a hegemonic level by decision makers in key institutions, why that’s just common sense.

ICE is horrific...and also an extension of how policing has always worked, not a radical break from it.

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

I’ve spent a lot of time in the past 18 months really working to, if you will, kill the neoliberal in my head. as someone with my politics, I’ve been surprised by how much there’s still been to excise. anyway, maybe productivity and efficiency are scams, and redundancy protects human happiness.

my childhood best friend has a child older than she and I were when we met each other and that is blowing my mind a little

This is me politely asking you all to review this skeet and, as a result, think twice before engaging in "smell-this 'activism.'" DID YOU SEE THIS AWFUL THING THIS AWFUL MAN SAID HOW ABOUT THIS TERRIBLE GUY, ISN'T IT HE TERRIBLE OK, so... why are you his street team? Why are you signal-boosting?

20 books this year before it's even December. Good work, me.

Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.

I genuinely think one of the partisan groups exerting the most influence on American politics is the LDS/Mormon Church, it’s hard to unsee. They have more money than the Vatican at this point, and they use that fortune for the same ends.

I, personally, am quite a fan of ceilings. Easier to not wind up soaking wet in the mud...

this guy is betting on a future with accountability for today’s crimes, so we should too

The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker. Just to level set

The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false. Lots of people are going to die.

""I'd heard of furries, but to be honest, I didn't think they were real. Then one filed to run against me for Congress," stated the email. "Samuel Smeltzer, whose furry name is Elyon Badger, announced he's running against me, in costume, on a far left progressive platform.""

I can't remember if I showed y'all this?

Look forward to Bari Weiss asking "has identity politics gone too far?" while studiously ignoring the most virulent identity politics driving American government

really went dark for the sequel

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen Bad Religion Saul Williams The Roots Wilco Green Day/Blink 182

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

Now this is journalism. Point it out. POINT IT THE FUCKOUT. They are PRETENDING to not get it.

This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.

You’ll see that candidates who won are breaking the pundit stranglehold and realizing you can campaign on economic issues AND values/identity. We’re breaking that pointless habit of calling our opponents good people with whom we happen to disagree. We’re calling them monsters. And winning.

This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).

Pentecostalism is an African American religious movement. There's been whitewashing. Charles Parham a racist gets credited as being the founder (he wasn't) came to L.A. and saw William Seymour's Azusa Mission and was horrified at what he saw. especially that white people who joined a Black church.

I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.

Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.

Corporate Media is going to pretend that Trump is heartbroken about the two West Virginian National Guardsmen being shot in DC, but the entire point of moving a standing army into a peaceful city was to induce violence by The People to justify more violence by Trump on The People in retaliation.

NEW: The two shot National Guard troops never should have been in DC. More troops is no answer. The violence is horrible and unacceptable. Trump, Pete Hegseth, and West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey never should have put the troops in this position. Tonight, at Law Dork:

When I get my T shifted to a shot, I should not pick Wednesday as my day to do it

I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.

Watch out for your neighbors in DC today. Give folks cash if you see them so they can at least get indoors for a bit.

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I know that politicians absolutely need to offer a deeper vision than "we're not Republicans" in order to secure people's votes, but really, at this point, that could even just be "…and we'll fix what they broke (and what was broken before they started)" or even just "We'll Put A Stop To All This."

Today, in Utah, homeowners *or renters* can simply buy a solar panel at Costco, take it home, and plug it in to a wall socket, like an appliance. It just sits there & trims about 15-20% off a residential power bill. If you move to another apt., you can take it with you.

Beautiful series of images by Eduard Pechuël-Loesche from an 1888 book on the strange skies produced the world-over after the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa.⠀⠀ More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/studies-on-twilight-phenomena-after-krakatoa

fuck you the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh

Hello, please recommend to me non-fiction that might be interesting to listen to on a road trip. I'm looking for a book, but I'll take podcast recommendations too

do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge

almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.