Sewing Dan Sicoli’s SLAG ALLEY and sasha weiss’ blue raspberries @cactus-ghoul.bsky.social

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Not a single major news outlet has covered this story. There is such a blatant, obvious attempt to suppress any and all news that deals with the actual facts about transgender life and experience. As the government rolls back our rights on an unprecedented scale, we have been left out to dry.

if cumming is the little death, is dying the big cum?

My weekly must-reads list and my thoughts on witnessing care and courage amid clouds of tear gas Friday night. "Almost 550 people across Chicagoland have been arrested by ICE during Operation Midway Blitz. It is a campaign of terror focused on a city that our president feels profound contempt for."

🇺🇸☠️Air pollution from oil & gas is linked to 91,000 premature deaths and hundreds of thousands of health issues across the US each year; Black, Asian, Indigenous & Hispanic groups consistently among the most affected. #USA #FossilFuels #Pollution #Health time.com/7311655/us-o...

Mississippi doesn't have age verification for marriage but they do for the internet. You can't make this shit up folks.

in my medium-ugly graphic era. at 10:32 on a tuesday, here are our @sundresspub.bsky.social Best of the net nominees read 'em all: fifthwheelpress.com/nominations

Automated license plate readers "are seemingly popping up everywhere—including 650 new cameras in Illinois cities since 2023." Flock "collects 20 billion license plate scans per month." "[W]e don't really have privacy or rights anymore.” #Illinois #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Policing #Genocide

BREAKING: death of anti-ICE protester in Los Angeles @lapublicpress.bsky.social is reporting Skid Row resident Adrienne Villa was found dead in her jail cell while in LASD custody at the courthouse, hours after pleading not guilty to over a dozen charges of alleged assault/battery on a cop.

Climate Change Is Not A Joke, Except to Chump and RepubliKKKans........

This is huge. For years there's been a misconception that it's psychological and all in your head. We can already show changes in blood vessels, muscle tissue, etc. Now we see the genes that show ME/CFS disposition are NOT the same as the genes that show disposition for depression/anxiety/etc.

I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity. "What service is Microsoft providing?" Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.

I wish as many people wanted to actually click on Teen Vogue stories as like a post about our work being good and important, because this post is almost at 20k likes and that would be pretty good traffic!

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

thrilled to be published in archer! essay on gastroparesis and escaping emotionally abusive relationships archermagazine.com.au/2025/08/gast...

This is a fascist takeover of the school. The owners and operators of Brown obviously decided that becoming an academy for the new elite of the fascist movement is their best path towards continued profitability. So it's up to all of us to make them regret it like nothing else in their lives.

I really want to meet the sapphics4satan behind my all-time favorite meme, which I wish was clearable for my book lol ⚛️ 🏳️‍🌈

Washington coast: La Push 11:35 PM Neah Bay 11:40 PM Long Beach 11:45 PM Moclips 11:50 PM Westport 11:55 PM Port Angeles 12:20 AM Port Townsend 12:45 AM Bellingham 1:10 AM Tacoma 2:00 AM

Take this shit seriously. An American died on 3.11 because he went down to check out the beach. Don't go out like that.

Many of the places under a tsunami warning or watch are *only* served by public broadcasting. Thanks to Congressional Repubs, including AK's Sullivan & Begich, the stations that disseminate warnings could run out of money to operate w/in a few months. Because who needs tsunami warnings, amirite?

Israel Detains, Chokes, and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls newrepublic.com/post/198550/... via @newrepublic.com

Filled with disabled rage that pre-existing health conditions are seemed as a reason to somewhat diminish malnutrition.

As society never gets tired of telling us, when disabled people die or are killed, it’s always less tragic than the deaths of others. Our lives are held to be unfortunate accidents, and many feel relief at our endings.

*INSTITUTIONALIZATION IS WORSE THEN JAIL* Disabled, mentally ill, and homeless people thrown into institutions don’t get phone calls, lawyers, or trails. THEY ARE DISAPPEARED with no time limits or advocate for as long as the state pleases. You know it’s bad when prisoners have more protections.

Children in Gaza have begun to die of severe malnutrition in increasing numbers as Israel continues to starve the people of Gaza. Infants are the most severely affected, as hunger devours their bodies until they reach "a point of no return." mondoweiss.net/2025/07/when...

The Duck Duck Go browser provides an option to remove AI images in image search results. Run a search. Then set the filter to off. It will remember this selection for future searches:

my best friend died and everything feels like a nightmare with no way out. them being gone doesn't make sense so my brain just doesn't work. i can't move. can't breathe. i feel like i failed them. our last conversation was so stupid snd one sided. i hope they know wherev they are that i love them

Soon!

I realized I never posted this flier for a reading on Saturday!

www.ipm.org/news/2025-07... i plan all trips to visit family around cancer screenings because IN isn't safe. not many people can afford to travel, or for that matter, afford cancer care. what are they supposed to do, die? fuck the IN government.

Alright y'all, another stop & start for the RICO trial. Trial will not start for Ayla today. Kind of technical legal things, but the trial court declared a mistrial w/o prejudice (meaning a new trial would start, pursuant to appellate court order), and the defense is appealing that decision.

Morale is a terrain of struggle transgender sex is class war Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

this tracks with skrmetti and y'all wonder why we've been telling you that trans and repro liberation are the exact same thing. bodily autonomy is the underlying right being mulched across the board.

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump's detention plans depend on ICE leasing (or buying) cages from states or counties. We need to monkeywrench those processes and destroy those cages -- or as @silkys13.bsky.social puts it, "Unbuild Walls" www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2213-u...

***Graduate students studying migration and/or ethnic history*** Apply to the Pozzetta Dissertation Award! IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help graduate students with their dissertations. More information is available here: iehs.org/awards/georg...

One thing you can do Right Now is be extremely vocal when you have librarians stocking inclusive collections. Call and tell them how happy you are, show up to board meetings. Bc the other side is *always* complaining and doing it in an organized way. also you can donate to Lavonnia Moore here:

I got pushed out of academia and left for dead by academia. But any of you still working there, may I suggest making an exi(s)t plan, bc the house is collapsing and it’s gonna crush you and your students very soon www.google.com/url?q=https:...

BREAKING: At least 56 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since dawn, sources at Gaza hospitals have told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/n6phyh

Damn, it looks just like the photos of the disappeared that were put up by relatives in the South American dictatorships

The AMA has spent significantly more money funding Republican politicians over the past 35 yrs than Democrats, including >46% of their federal campaign contributions in the 2023-2024 election cycle when Project 2025 Medicaid & social service cuts were on the line: www.opensecrets.org/political-ac...

Italy court sends 11 executives at a chemical plant to jail terms of up to 17 years for polluting water, a total of more than 141 years. Puts UK to shame. UK buries corporate crimes - water, Post Office, Grenfell, infected blood, bank frauds. Govts/Regulators serve corporations, not people.

INDIANA JONES AND THE COURSES THAT ARE NO LONGER TAUGHT AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY

As Congress steamrolls toward passing historic Medicaid cuts of about $1 trillion over 10 years, red-state governors are saying little publicly about what it does to health care — even as they face reductions that will punch multibillion-dollar holes in their states’ budgets.

Breaking | Multiple Palestinians were reported injured in another attack by Israeli occupation forces on Palestinians waiting for aid trucks near Al-Tahlia area east of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip.

An L.A. activist who handed out protective masks to protesters during anti-ICE demonstrations last month has been indicted on federal counts of conspiracy and aiding civil unrest. My latest: www.latimes.com/california/s...