Mayor Johnson is cooking

Broadview.

it is october 7. for two years hamas has been offering to return israel's hostages in exchange for an israeli withdrawal from gaza to which benjamin netanyahu has said "no," ignoring the hostages' families demands and prioritizing the destruction of gaza over saving the hostages lives.

as SCOTUS considers conversion therapy (what! is! there! to! consider!) thought some of you may be interested in this choose-your-own-adventure game I released a decade ago, REPARATIVE. you play a therapist at a conversion therapy clinic: jamforleelah81.itch.io/reparative

entranced by these bits from Edwidge Danticat’s introduction to Hadriana and All My Dreams.

Divest from the "Novel That Wishes It Were a Screenplay" industrial complex NOW

last time I saw him he was going through a phase most accurately called “pirate ska”

I’m watching Hellraiser free with ads so every half hour it cuts to someone opening a can of tuna. Pinhead’s cannery side hustle.

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obsessed w the medieval origin of harbinger, it's an amazing word: traveled from Old Saxon through medieval French, conveys in origins harbor, a place of safety. A medieval harbinger was one who provides lodging, as well as one who travels ahead in search of safe dwelling, a herald and guarantor.

the last twenty four hours have made me feel absolutely insane

The one time we got the smoking gun of undeniable ideology that mapped neatly onto american partisanship in political violence was J6, and we decided it was too scary to treat it as such, so now we return to deciphering memes of school shooters like medieval peasants panicking at an eclipse.

Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.

and stay out, you little rat fucks

I actually think "we are not giving the GOP a single vote to fund this govt so long as there are troops in our cities or even could in the future be troops in american cities" is a good message and one easily intelligible to the average american.

Know your rights, Chicago. Ask for a warrant. Record the goons from a safe distance. We don’t want or need them here.

no more indie rock bands with “mom” or “dad” in the title. how am I supposed to tell anyone’s 90s softcore grunge-pop apart.

We don’t talk enough about Melville’s commitment to the bit

The course evaluation clause is ripe for abuse. It also gives the government pretext to strip work visas, green cards, or naturalized citizenship status from professors. bsky.app/profile/weed...

trans women shall not be welcome on campus

All these private universities rolling over for Trump … they have endowments in the billions and they’re acting like they’re built out of paper. Throwing trans students, students of color, anyone who’s spoken out on Palestine, directly under the train for what? A little peace and quiet? Fuck you.

In the discussion of what is acceptable in art and writing, it's always interesting to me that there are a million sexuality-based restrictions, but they never mention regular degular violence. Can't have a boner, but I can cut the head off anyone with a sword and drink their blood

I've been banging this drum for years now, I know, but Zohran's Big Night is a clear illustration of the power of giving people a vision of the future that boldly contradicts the rhetoric of Republican fearmongers. Not just "disagrees on policies," but actively paints a different image of the world.

Any politician who falls in line with this, I hope a crack opens up and swallows them and drags them into the mantle of the earth.

America has been fighting pointless, torturous wars in the Middle East as long as I’ve been alive. Because our government wants to do it. Because it strokes our ego. Because it makes us money. Because one senile man slithered back into office and felt small, and bored.

God my absolute heart is with the people of Iran, who’ve fought so steadfastly for their own liberation, and are getting fucked half a dozen ways by a whole pantheon of geriatric war criminals while being told they should be grateful for it

trans people will always exist (laudatory) trans people will always exist (threatening) trans people will always exist (factual)

Folks, @resnikoff.bsky.social is right

It’s really comforting that as food skyrockets in price, your neighbors are disappeared by masked goons, and people die en masse of preventable illness, Republicans and Democrats can come together and say: fuck this one trans teenager in particular for trying to run track with her friends

at the point of vacation where I’m thinking fondly about going home and finishing the boring season of Buffy while jet lagged

And now I can return to my beautiful status quo: not knowing one goddamn thing about the Catholic Church

More elections should be announced with burning something and communicated via smoke. The NYC Mayor’s Race should be announced by burning down Times Square

shirley jackson: stop reading lesbian subtext into my novels also shirley jackson: the only thing more contemptible than men is the thought of marrying to one

your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast

Support my fools

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

The purpose of the deportations we have been seeing has not been to fight antisemitism, but rather to use antisemitism as a beachhead to eventually do away with foreign students altogether, using Jews as a pretext for a non-Jewish political agenda.

'sold as slave labor to El Salvador' is I honestly think a fair way of describing it

You can't argue somebody out of the spectacle. It's not a thing of reason, but a totalizing environment that doesn't reject rationality, but supplants it. Debord describes it as a false consciousness. When arguing with a false consciousness, you might as well be arguing in a dead language.

I'm rereading Debord and it has me thinking about my -- and many of our -- experiences as "people who argue on the internet" -- an approach that hasn't worked. It presumes a rationality that has been replaced by spectacle.

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

why tf aren’t we in the timeline where that man blew himself up trying to reach Mars

I see we’ve bravely decided to turn the entire country into the Christian Science summer camp where I caught mysterious lake disease and suffered fever visions with no treatment

This is all of Medicaid, by the way. This means people will die. It means disabled kids like my son will lose our extra medical coverage and our waiver funds that help pay for his care. This will devastate the country in ways you cannot imagine. An absolutely hate-filled group of people

may every trans child grow into a trans adult

Emilia Pérez is a 30 Rock bit and you can’t tell me any different.