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

“The fact that organized protest can break the spiral of silence, and correct our impressions of what other Americans think, is one of the most immediate and important values of protesting in the first place. Scientists have [shown] protests update our impressions of what other citizens believe.”

Lucie needs a home- maybe you need a Lucie?

yeah can i get uhhhhh menu with pictures please

Need to get into something new to distract me from the omnipresent doom, anyone have any suggestions

why wont ice release the hostages

in the history of the 21st century, the Biden presidency will be remembered as a footnote during the long Trump era. Stephen Miller, architect of this hell, will have shaped America more, in no small part because Biden, like Obama before him, left in place the infrastructure facilitating deportation

#OtD 3 Jul 1883 radical author, Franz Kafka, was born in Prague. Often reduced to abstract philosophical despair, his writing was also often a scathing critique of capitalist society and bureaucracy informed by his contact with radical political groups stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1019...

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"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."

The book: “Everyone was smiling and laughing.” Alito:

Yeah my job is pretty cool. My uniform is a tactical vest that’s two sizes too small and a gaiter I bought in a gas station. They send me to sneak into schools to kidnap little kids because people got mad about having to press 1 for English. The president had to warn everyone to stop spitting on me.

Wrath keeps overtaking me everytime I think about RFK. Why? I'm a type 1 diabetic. I got it when I was 14. Guess what you need if you're a type 1 diabetic? Insulin. Or you die. But my family believed that it could be cured with herbs & faith healing. I had a near death experience when I was 14. 🧵

It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, — to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves. Samuel Adams

Training to outlive my enemies.

top 10 anime betrayals

Movie music goes "this bit is sad. This bit is tense", while game music goes "this bit is a swamp. This bit is a volcano." That's way better actually! Movie soundtracks should try being indifferent to their characters' inner worlds and their stupid little problems and tell you they are in a field