Anyway, give to June because unless you have lived in the United States (or in a country like Chile where neoliberal dogma was imposed by a US-backed dictatorship) you likely underestimate how bad it is here. (You don't have to give in USD!)

I have repeatedly had conversations with my Spanish boyfriend in which I have attempted to explain basic features of US life in regard to employment, healthcare, or housing, and I know my Spanish is all grammatical, yet he responds, "No entiendo."

This morning I read about both the Berlin state government (CDU) and the Madrid community government (PP) giving multi-million Euro grants to the NFL to hold games in their respective capitals. European center-right politics = giving money to racist Americans for things no one wants.

The key to understanding a lot of US politics is that the unspoken premise on which it all rests is that personhood begins at a certain tax bracket.

I've replied to each of the lecturers with this. Not one has given yet. One doubled down on lecturing on the utility of the block function. So I followed his advice and blocked him. Challenge: rich, cisgender liberals do something useful for oppressed people. Difficulty level: impossible?

every yiddish student learns to introduce themselves by saying “I am called [name]” (כ׳הײס [נאָמען]) and i am only now learning that it is common to instead just tell a stranger ״THEY CALL ME [NAME]” (מיך רופֿט מען [נאָמען]) like some jewish cowboy of some renown

Surprisingly good wine pairing: Whoppers (the chocolate covered malt ball candy) with Beaujolais

Gender is a performance and mine is an open mic, open to all.

I was eating pussy before Lucy Dacus was *born*.

Woke up this morning convinced a dream had told me that a man was dead, but wasn't sure if it was: 1. My father, 2. [REDACTED], or 3. The man I pretended to be for so many years. It turns out the first two are still alive, so by process of elimination...

Another incredible sandwich: - a local goat cheese based on Humboldt Fog, bought at the Hudson NY farmer's market - apple slices - roast turkey - spinach on a Mennonite-made whole wheat baguette (also purchased at the farmer's market)

It's a month's worth of necessities, what could it cost, Michael? $481?

If you're sharing autoplay video of the man with autism getting arrested by Border Patrol because he can't speak, I will unfollow you. I don't care what point you are trying yo make. That could easily be my brother-in-law, and I don't want to accidentally traumatize my partner.

Espose, Kid 2, and I are trying to make "Gen Alpha middle schoolers rebuilding the pre-2008 internet one goofy website at a time" into a trend.

We hold these annoying truths to be self-evident, that Mastodon is the Germany of social media platforms, that Germany is the Mastodon of countries

Espose and Kid 2 are bonding watching an Actual Play together (a video of people playing a TTRPG). It's not my thing, but I am delighted that my kid can share interests with a caring adult.

Today I figured something out about @themountaingoats.bsky.social that should have been obvious years ago: Unlike most songwriters, John Darnielle is not a lyric poet. He is a novelist whose POV characters just happen to all be lyric poets.

Me too. Follow the instructions, because they deliberately made this unintuitive.

While we're talking about sandwiches, I would like to share that I had an excellent sandwich for lunch: tinned sardines, a fried egg, and fresh spinach on toasted German whole-grain rye bread.

No donations in two days. Where are all the "allies" hiding? www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Can confirm (This goes double for trans women)

An exchange with Kid 1 about European cuisine that I find hilarious.

Hi Jay, why has your institute illegally terminated the MOSAIC program then?

You're kinky, but are you "laughing hysterically while getting pummeled in the tits with a dildo" kinky?

“Even though she and her children live in a crowded one-bedroom apartment, she has been ordered by the judge to pay spousal support to her ex, reducing the resources available to provide for the children's well-being. As the process extends, her legal fees mount as well.”

Despite yesterday's setback, we continue. The attorney's fees keep mounting. Once the divorce is finalized June and her kids will have certainty, at last, and she'll be able to restore her credit. If you're cisgender and reading this, give now. www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Mamdani proudly stating he is a socialist in his VICTORY SPEECH is exactly why you don’t settle for the oyster nazi who embarrassingly refutes being a communist while refusing to take accountability for his 20 year old nazi tattoo.

TIL about the genocide of Romani people in Spain en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_G...

Me to Espose: "I'm a masochist, but even I wouldn't want to be the mayor of New York."

the people yearn for shachtmanism

This is exactly how the Partido Popular has been governing Madrid. Shocking coincidence! (Note for confused Americans: the CDU and PP are both center-right parties whose only durable commitment is to enriching their donors, i.e., like most of the Democratic Party.)

Strong agreement on b!

Today's tale of structural transphobia is brought to you by Equifax. As described in the GoFundMe I set up for her, June needs a larger apartment. Her credit is shot due to circumstances related to her divorce. They told her to get a co-signer. www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

I hope if you who think this is a good and normal country with a good and normal legal system that you never have to tell an elderly woman being evicted by a gentrifier from the only home she's known for decades (and who has nowhere else to go) that there's nothing more you can do and you lost.

Cleavage

The group home holds a yearly awards ceremony for the residents, which I attended this year with Espose and my in-laws. The CEO reassured my in-laws, to our great shared relief, that SNAP is not their only funding source for food and they were making contingency plans.

Something I need people to understand is that conservatism and fascism are very different ideologies, the former is almost comically weak to the latter, and the Democrats are conservatives

to the extent there is any overarching coherence in the modern GOP beyond "whatever trump wants" it's "florida" - it really is just a bunch of freaky floridians now

I am hanging out with June and her kids right now. It would be lovely if I could inform her of some new donations. Current status: $2,400/$22k www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

We got off to a strong start yesterday, but it's been 17 hours since the last donation. This hottie is still entangled with an ex who insists on referring to her as a "husband"! Let's get her free. www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Los delitos de odio se propusieron para proteger a colectivos vulnerables frente a agresiones racistas o por orientación sexual, pero hoy se han convertido en una herramienta usada para reprimir a activistas de izquierda, antifascistas, feministas y propalestinos zonaestrategia.net/delitos-de-o...

"Don't beat yourself up, or you *will* get beat up." - Kid 2, age 11 Some of you grown-ass adults could stand to learn this.

What Vance said about his wife is frankly unforgivable. You don't get to decide your partner's faith or spiritual practice or beliefs, just like you don't get to decide what they do with their body. It's basic respect. You either respect your partner as an independent human being or you don't.

My girlfriend is facing steep legal and housing expenses as she struggles to take care of her kids in the face of her ex's transphobia. Please give as generously as you can, and share even if you can't give right now. gofund.me/8da1ea8fb

Plus many of the staff who work at group homes are not making a living wage & rely on SNAP. The agency I work for is trying to find solutions for the people we support & our staff. we would love to pay a higher wage but are constrained by low rates from state & federal governments. Everyone loses.

A perfect album from 1989

My brother-in-law has severe autism and epilepsy, and lives in a group home with other people with complex health and developmental issues. TIL that while he receives SSDI, his food is paid for by SNAP. My in-laws are preparing to make sure he has food; not all his housemates have family resources.

For the record I intend to keep mine. It works just fine as long as your expectations of dick-function don't treat "getting rock-hard on a moment's notice" as non-negotiable.

the hostages are home. during the ceasefire, zionists did not post about the genocide and starvation in sudan, but palestinians did. various non-zionist jewish advocacy groups did. ms rachel did. israel is bombing gaza again. the hostages were returned. we cannot be silent. never again, for anyone.