Ross's "conservatives must be above informal judgment, or else" goes hand in hand with Trump's "conservatives must be above the law, or else". If society will not accommodate them in all their unpleasantness, will not "say thank you", they would choose a state of nature & the war of all against all.

fictional characters aren't real and are incapable of consenting. Survivors of sexual assault are silenced from being able to share their stories and process their trauma through art. We're simply asking for more robust tools to let us label our art appropriately so we can express ourselves safely.

A Black teen named Kalief Browder was falsely accused of stealing a backpack. He spent 3 years tortured at Rikers & died by suicide A wealthy white man named Tom Homan was caught by FBI accepting bribes. He was promoted to a powerful law enforcement position This is what white supremacy looks like

the Brazilian right is attempting to pass measures through the legislature to shield Bolsonaro and other legislators from the legal consequences of the failed coup, for which Bolsonaro was recently sentenced to 27 years. these photos are of the massive protests in response.

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

There are two apocalyptic fantasies I see floating around these days. One is about rugged individualism and destruction of social responsibility. The other, which I vastly prefer, is about community care.

Children's hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court, was released from an Ohio jail Friday as DHS abruptly withdrew its case against him. “This is beyond my dreams,” he told ProPublica.

This story has been updated to reflect that these rumors are not true. So let’s make them real. See y’all Friday morning at 1930 Beach Street!

big props to everyone who convinced the public that email server practices were the single most important issue facing the nation, glad we’ve kept that focus up throughout the following decade

periodically I see the president doing things like “post crimes for his attorney general to do that were maybe supposed to be an unencrypted DM on his own personal social network” and I remember that he got elected in large part because of information security practices and I black out in rage

They’re killing women.

i was just thinking about how much of a bone deep racist you’d have to be to even think of this. i know hegseth belongs to a religious cult whose leader thinks slavery was good. how about someone ask pete what the thinks the proper station of black people is.

real issue with most of our political commentators having very little experience with the military, to say nothing of black people in the military, is that none of them clocked this for what it obviously was

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

Arrested because a white woman demanded he change the way he was sitting and when he didn’t, she complained to the conductor about his posture. His posture.

Are you 2SLGBTQIA+ and live in the US? Even if you are housing insecure, you can get a library card through QLL with access to loads of resources!

One thing I am realizing about this administration-- not just Trump, but his underlings-- is that they all think running the country is functionally the same as being able to have everything they want, all at once, immediately. There is no strategy, just naked expectation of instant gratification.

The fascist are blinding the world to their planned social murder well in advance of their next actions. The goal is to make it impossible to clearly state the reality of the impacts of the Republicans decisions so they can do what they’ve done with climate change and cast doubt on the effects.

disney adults are currently doing pretty much exactly what they should be doing, and dumping on them is super counterproductive.

The devotion of some people to annoying others in the name of Truth gives me so much hope for the world

The funny thing about Brian Kilmeade being forced to apologize for wanting to kill homeless people is that many of the people aghast at his comments have functionally the same beliefs; they just may not consciously realize it.

Sounds like the segregationists in Connecticut are having a grand ole time “While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said, ‘You’re not the minority anymore.'” www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Based Dua Lipa

Oh look they finally admit it.

ICYMI: "I can exist in between gender identities and alter my form whenever I like – there’s no limitation or gating to the times I can customize." @jhensliterature.bsky.social on the gender euphoria of the Saints Row series' character system:

Oh, and for the record: the Economist article was put together and published without any input from the study's authors, who clearly pegged it as a hack job.

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

Ethnic pogroms and daylight terror, torture and death in camps, save your lectures on the strength of this regime until we find the +50,000 humans, thus far, who have been disappeared under the colors of our flag. Reparations and justice will be the proof of their weakness, nothing less.

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Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

I've had similar happen to me twice in my life. Once in college, I was physically removed from a protest of my then governor Bobby Jindal, and many years later during a protest in Baton Rouge I got snatched pretty hard. I'm 4'11," but, like the women mentioned above, I towered over the cowardice.

And from a purely professional standpoint as a fascism studier, no one looks back on these photos and videos and thinks "man, I'm sure impressed with the state violently attacking its unarmed citizens for exercising their right to protest on behalf of their fellow humans."

I've seen a lot of videos lately of women that are peacefully protesting being violently thrown to the ground by angry men dressed in tactical gear with big guns. It's disgusting and jarring, but can I also point out that the women aren't the ones that look weak or scared.

Time to look at some of the old suffragette tactics too.

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

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An amazing number of people didn’t bother to read this story and thus don’t realize the 37 year old man mentioned here was *horrified and reported it* - he is not the problem here! Mark Zuckerberg’s historically evil company is!

The fact that Charlie Kirk was viewed as some kind of a Titan of free speech and debate shows a bizarre trend where it somehow became acceptable for adult non student conservatives to invade college campuses and talk about why women and black people shouldn’t have basic civil liberties

David Rose, the police officer and Afghanistan veteran with a wife and 2 small children, was murdered by a white, right wing extremist man a month ago over antivaccine conspiracies pushed by RFK Jr. and this administration. He did not get recognition from political leaders or even much news coverage

Please help my friend

“transphobia is a distraction” would be a hell of a lot more compelling as an argument if any of you motherfuckers actually paid attention to what they’re doing to us.

the single most important thing for your development into an adult as a queer person is getting the absolute fuck out of your parents' house, but with $2k+ rents and no full time jobs there simply is no alternative. so many of my trans friends are boxed in, and there's nothing i can do to help