do we bell riot yet or what

This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them

The intro to this is 10/10 gave me goosebumps

This part.

checking in beyond the existential crises facing everyone: In the last 2.5 weeks my former partner completed su*cide, went to the highest stress social event ever, got COVID for the first time, my 19 year old cat died, worst annual work project, AND going through rabies post-exposure treatment!

Yet this is nothing

Breaking news! there's a new room in focus friend!

Emmett Till would've turned 84 today. He was only 14 when white supremacists lynched him. The white woman Carolyn Bryant who falsely accused him of harassing her, confessed she lied. The warrant for her arrest was never enforced. She died only 2 years ago in 2023 at the age of 88. This is America.

There will be many casualties from UChicago ending ('pausing') PhD admissions in Humantities, but one which I am keenly aware of: this is close to a death sentence for teaching cuneiform in the United States (esp. Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite, Eblaite, Luwian) and it will affect the whole world.

the new clinic i'm going to just they/them'd me and y'all it was so affirming

Context: The guard is picking up trash in DC because Trump and the Republicans gutted DC & the parks budgets.

So when do we stop paying federal taxes

People keep telling me to wait for the next election & I genuinely think this reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of what’s happening. What we are experiencing is fascist state capture by a fascist political party, one destroying institutions, civil liberties, & the rule of law.

The Illinois governor signed a bill to increase access to contraception and abortion pills for college students and one to strengthen the state's shield law. www.jezebel.com/gov-jb-pritz...

Whether the Lil Nas X arrest comes down to substance use or mental health crisis or both, it’s a good time to remember that cops are absolute shit at dealing with disability. 50% of excessive force deaths are disabled people, and that number is even higher when the intersection of race is involved.

What I'm looking for in the 2028 primary is someone who will put Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem in jail, and so far, that's Pritzker

Newsom can successfully ape the worst politicians in America because he’s not so different from them. www.jezebel.com/gavin-newsom...

gavin newsom will be the democratic nominee. he will lose in the general election. he will deserve to lose. the left is warning you right now that this will happen. yet, when he loses, the left will be blamed for sounding the alarm instead of the centrists who promoted him. save this skeet.

He suggested 25 was too young to transition. Just 3 years ago that position would have put him amongst the far right in the Republican party.

For the Pritzker fans (like me), this is a great speech he made:

I saw the "best" minds of my generation stay on twitter too long and start asking grok questions sincerely

the ai bubble is bursting soon thank god

James Baldwin in 1979 speaking at UC Berkeley on Palestine & Israel. Profound. Powerful. Painful.

These are the kinds of things that would merit a mass mobilization and uprising against a dictator. Instead, everyone has become inured to fascism and are just content putting their heads down and doing nothing about it. It's like watching the Weimar republic die in modern times.

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch “Once you get troops on the streets, it’s only a matter of time before it goes bad. Some kid throws a stone, next minute there’s houses on fire and people getting killed.”

When Hasan Piker bought a $2.7 million house in LA for him and his family to live in, critics said he wasn’t a real socialist because it’s too expensive. When Zohran Mamdani rents a $2,300 a month apartment in NYC, critics say it’s too cheap for him and he’s not a real socialist. It’s all bad faith

The propagandists running the @DHSgov account are deliberately pushing thinly-veiled neo-Nazi material through the official communications channels of the U.S. government. Their goal is stirring outrage (to which they will express fake outrage) and signaling to their followers where they're going.

FUCK AI. Stop using it. It’s making you dumb, making the billionaires richer, and destroying the creative soul of humanity AND the planet.

An Israeli strike targeted at least one journalist in Gaza, killing five total

this is tragically going to work. they’re going to roll back all rights to before the time of ronald reagan and it’s going to take so much to reverse course of this fascism

Close, intelligent, in some cases near lifelong friends are starting to talk casually about the use of ChatGPT in their lives or in some cases are clearly getting paid/perks to promote its use and it’s like watching your social circle slowly, and with a big smile on their face, all join Scientology.

At a United Nations meeting on pollution, the U.S. delegate said the U.S. has a "national position" on gender. The position leaves no room for the existence of transgender, nonbinary and intersex people, who face discrimination around the world. My latest: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I'm never get over the fact that this administration's war on trans people is being carried out with the pretext of "protecting women and girls" while the president is a pedophile rapist.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Slaughterhouse Cow Frets Over Personal Contributions To Climate Change theonion.com/slaught...

As he ducks the Zohran question, worth remembering Senator Booker has gotten $900,000 from AIPAC. (He also voted for Kushner’s pardoned father’s ambassadorship)

"Free the People, Free the Land" Seen in Oakland, California

the problem with letting democrats backslide their support of trans rights whether it be trans in sports or using bathrooms is we’ve seen “compromise” in the UK labor party. they gave into “reasonable” TERF demands and it destroyed the labor party and all rights for trans people

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

Conservatives who claimed Obama was using FEMA to build concentration camps really quiet now that it’s real

I knew Trump’s executive order sounded familiar.

This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants. This is horrifying beyond words. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

It is so depressing that it is a bigger scandal in US politics to say "Globalize the Intifada" than to starve tens of thousands of people to death on purpose.