Sarah Schulman would hand me my ass on a platter. David Lynch would find me annoying, and the feeling would probably be mutual. Porpentine would keep a wide berth from me, and I would respect that. FKA twigs and i would have nothing to talk about.

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

i’ve been saying AIs main utility to capitalists is to allow them to bring back all the racism sexism ableism transphobia and every other bigotry under the sun we’ve managed to mitigate in the last century and go “computer did it 🤷‍♀️” when called out for it

i like how many people describing near death experiences talk about seeing their grandparents. you get to the afterlife and the first thing you do is make small talk with someone you last saw when you were 8. "Uhh, hi Grandma. How are you? Do you, um, still play bridge?"

Current odds of a military junta taking power by 2028... 20%. I have decreed it so.

Remember that @govpritzker.illinois.gov has promised at every turn to protect the people of Chicagoland, but in fact has enabled ICE and sicced the Illinois State police on protesters, injuring Kat Abughazaleh.

hot take but nothing has had a better title than "Azure Paler Than the Sky"

giving myself a grace period to lib out and queen out as a vacation from my cynicism

my most pretentious habit is pretending i do not know the names of any of the characters from Family Guy

this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."

Spas should hire giant spiders to wrap people up into cocoons

It’s truly tragic how many of these US war criminals like Cheney never face justice and die in their peacefully in their homes in their 80s and 90s. I want to be happy he is dead but I am not. The million people he killed didnt get the luxury to die how he did.

rest in piss and all, but this feels like celebrating the death of the kaiser in 1941

every science news article is like "chinese researchers invent cure for hurting your back getting out of bed" and every science policy news article is like "uncomfortable bed lobby successfully lobbies trump admin with $500 bribe"

Cure (1997), to me, holds the tension of "what if someone made a very good movie but it was heavily inspired by a movie you fell asleep during (Se7en)?"

This is what happens to you if you let Susan's Place give you lead poisoning. You try to post your way into being a kapo and are shocked when that doesn't convince fascists to moderate their desire to exterminate your demographic.

This is near my niece and nephew's school in Evanston, Ill just hours ago as they are now on lockdown. This is what's happening. It's an occupation by ICE in a Chicago suburb. They must be abolished.

the reason they are going to ban care for trans kids is because they want to kill trans kids. that is not a bug it is a feature

I assumed based on the adults posting about Bluey that it was a situation like 10~ years ago when collegiate stoners were watching Adventure Time and Steven Universe. But I finally saw a clip of it and... it's Caillou? This is a Caillou-type show? You're watching Australian Caillou?

I actually don't think America is doomed. Here are some things that could salvage the empire: - Purge all Trumpists from every level of government and every NGO - Enact a New Deal-esque program that is orders of magnitude larger than the New Deal - Total redistribution of resources

to be fair to ai, if you showed this to a stroke survivor who had just dropped acid it would probably fool them

Source familiar with MasterCard‘s internal workings: The company finds the censorship focus from consumers “profoundly irritating“ amid larger political issues — they want the controversy around paypros censorship to quietly disappear

Please do not play with knives. They are sharp. And get off the counter.

I'm going to start telling people my lower back pain is from this rather than from drunkenly trying to give my boyfriend a piggyback ride when I was 20

While I have been sexually harassed on the train, I have never been in a car crash on the train. And let me tell you, being in just a fender bender, let alone a serious crash, is way more miserable than some creep feeling you up

Fascism is here

This did hit me because it's not just the usual "why did you vote for Donald Trump? Do you have brain damage?" It's also, "wait, you believe this fascistic shit and you didn't vote for Trump? Are you...what?"

what fascinates me is that steam is largely unchanged from how it was 15 years ago, but in the age of enshittification that combined with inertia are enough to make you unconquerable

In authoritarian USSR, tens of thousands of women didn’t get lobotomies in the 1940s and 50s

"Do you need dysphoria to be trans?" I... guess not? What do you mean though? What do you mean by those words? What do you think "dysphoria" is? What do you think "trans" means? What do you care whether some specific word describes you or not?

this isnt “cosplay” this isn’t “dress-up” this isnt a coded message or grandmas boy or some nerd movie reference, this is the head of a military force engaged in an ethnic cleansing campaign explicitly telling you the ideological framework for this project

It is inevitable that the brain geniuses of silicon valley will go from getting so scared of the computer they invent evangelical christianity from first principles to just being standard-issue evangelical weirdos

It's painful for me to read your baseball posts. When I was a child I was viciously excommunicated from the American Civil Religion at the Metrodome when I pointed at a display memorializing Kirby Puckett and asked "Kirby like from Nintendo?"

3,000 people.

for all the talk about it, I've never actually tried pissing and moaning. I'll give it a try next time I use the facilities.

Donald J. Trump "The J stands for Jeep"

Walmart is the largest employer of people on SNAP, and 25% of all SNAP benefits are spent… at Walmart. The Walton family is the world’s wealthiest family.

Nonbinary intersex activist Jim Sinclair on Sally Jesse Raphael's show in 1989

The flat-deck ships that the US currently has deployed to the Caribbean are ideally suited to running helicopter-based search and rescue/aid delivery. We could do this. Just like we could have done this with Maria. But we won’t do it. And that’s a policy choice.

They have a quota of how many of us to lock up a day. A quota. Of how many Americans to jail every. single. day. That's neoliberalism working just fine.

Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean is great because its an adaptation of a play about women getting drunk and revealing their secrets. But wow, if I were Karen Black's character I would have left the reunion basically immediately.

A friend of mine in Chicago just shared a video on IG of an ICE operation near her house. The operation happened just minutes before the neighborhood Halloween parade. ICE used tear gas and multiple parents had to wash their kids' (including toddlers) eyes out.

Video from today's first gas attack. Saturday morning in Chicago.

Ezra Klein running articles about how the Democrats have to move to the center while Border Patrol and ICE tear gas my neighborhood, cannot stress enough that every liberal institution is not capable of dealing with what's actually happening

Starting in Milan, in 73, revolutionary groups would mass up, go into supermarkets and chase out the bosses/security, get on the loudspeaker and declare everything free. They would then make revolutionary speeches while shoppers gleefully enjoyed the discount. They called this "proletariat shopping"

if they were to actually arrest Pritzker that would lead to either full-fledged civil war or a military coup. so I think this is an empty threat meant to encourage ICE freaks to become more violent

If you have more privilege and wealth and haven't done much rn, please support hard-hit nhoods and support the work being done by frontline orgs. Southwest Side nhoods are on the streets daily trying to keep their neighborhoods safe. Rapid responders across the city unpaid but doing the work.