Current* conditions near Michigan City, IN:

my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing. they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors. their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen. their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

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I don't think transgender athletes are the problem facing girls and women in sports.

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*1868 They're citing the date of Kim Wong Ark but it should be the 14th Amendment itself. The Court didn't create it and that's not a nit-picky distinction here. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...

People love to talk about the hypocrisy of pro-BDS, anti sanctions on Russia leftists but the inverse is basically the policy position of every single European and American liberal lol

Current* conditions near South Haven, MI:

i think that we should charge even people who have been pardoned, because there is no conceivable way the founders intended the pardon power to permit the executive to order people to commit crimes and then pardon them for them

A just after 7:30 thanksgiving shower is so nice

In case it makes news: there was a World Zionist Org aliyah fair at a London synagogue today and Jewish pro-Palestine groups protested against it. Various right wing or pro-Israel groups are pretending they were just protesting a synagogue for the sake of it and that the protestors were not Jews.

Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned

They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.

Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all

Excited to hear how McCreesh’s NYT mournful elegy for the rich rapist paradise that was New York City before metoo is actually ironic so it’s ok to write that piece and we all need to learn to read better.

Not to lay my cards on the table but I think this narrow focus in online discourse on who deserves to be rewarded really elides the actual societal value of the education system (teaching members of society important stuff that it's valuable for them to know)

It’s good that moderation of violent rhetoric is viewpoint-neutral. It’s good that moderation doesn’t treat you differently based on blue check or celebrity status.

#OtD 26 Oct 1881 communist Indigenous activist Dolores Cacuango was born in Ecuador. She took part in several strikes and uprisings, the landless and indigenous movements, and fought against sexual abuse of Indigenous women by hacienda bosses stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9863...

We are going to end up with two political coalitions in which one thinks "fighting antisemitism" means shutting down universities and deporting students, which polls show most actual Jews oppose, and the other thinks all antisemitism is a right-wing wedge issue. And Republicans want it that way.

Candy corn is good, actually

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time. All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner." It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

video of people being snatched by ICE at a laundromat shows an intersection between housing and immigration enforcement. if your unit and building don't have (working, available) laundry, that's one more errand where you have to spend significant time in potentially vulnerable public space

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Nonbinary people don’t wear clothes

New online: John Ganz (@lioneltrolling.bsky.social) interviews Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

“Should I pretend I, as an intersex person, don’t exist?” - Georgiann Davis www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

may I speak with the primary poster in your household?

you can think people making jokes & having fun with kirk’s death are tasteless, degenerate, short sighted, etc. but whatever you think of it, one thing is absolutely true: they more than anyone else here are “continu[ing] his work.” he was a vile piece of shit who encouraged and celebrated violence

One of the challenges of this age is these guys are basically moral chimpanzees and the rest of us have to both deal with the America they create while also protecting universal truths for ourselves to draw from AND for these people to rediscover someday.

I saw The Blair Witch Project way too young and it made me afraid of projects

The New York Post is reporting the Minneapolis shooter was a far-right detransitioner who made TERF claims about their medical care ruining them in his manifesto

Me when I see my first tree that has a brown or yellow leaf in the canopy

They are vaccine skeptics because they are dumb, selfish people who were eager to believe lies that give them permission to be dumb & selfish, and there is a vast propaganda machine designed to provide those lies. They did it. They are responsible for it. It's on them.

Allies of the fascist regime are referring to the residents of our capital city as “cockroaches.” This is explicitly neo-Nazi language used in service of making Jeffrey Epstein‘s best friend into dictator for life.

I haven’t seen it illustrated like this before. Very effective messaging. Of course it actually depends a lot on how fast the vehicle’s being driven, how big the vehicle is and how it’s designed, and how small the victims (too often kids) are. Via @yegbike.bsky.social #SpeedKills #CarBloat

Even so our houses, and ourselves, and children, Have lost, or do not learn for want of time, The sciences that should become our country, But grow like savages—as soldiers will That nothing do but meditate on blood⁠—

#OtD 12 Aug 1900 Dorvalina Martins was born in Brazil. She set up the rationalist Modern School in her hometown, educating 400 working class children, later raiding a Catholic barracks with her husband to rescue children from poor conditions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8370...

If dehumanization was roasted goose we’d all have Christmas dinner

One thing I find striking about the gender breakdown is that the cities disproportionately favored by women tend to be the ones that right-wing media depicts as deadly warzones, too dangerous to visit for even the manliest warfighters.

One could argue that the past 100 years have seen a series of different experiments in finding a stable political structure consistent with capitalism. One could further argue that socialism and labor unions played an important role in many of these experiments. Capitalists can’t govern themselves.

Brother it’s going to take more than locks and chains and cops to keep me from getting to that sweet sweet grease

Billy Bat

They don’t air the episodes of scooby doo where they don’t catch the crook and they make everybody who appears in them sign an nda

“You feel like you’ve been abducted by a gang of aggressive, violent people who are trying to manipulate you and who are lying to you. And while you are being abducted, you know that these people are capable of doing anything to you because they don’t care.”

the reason they’re so mad about normalizing a genetic condition which cannot be prevented or reversed is because they are eugenicists