this dc situation looks pretty horrible. i wish i had more to say except that autocracy is always mundane and petty and vicious and encourages you to look away and be safe. and you can live quite normally under it until you're a direct target

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

trump hinging everything on crime fearmonger is crazy since crime is nationally at it’s lowest rate in about 100 years, it’s kind of amazing there’s essentially zero political downsides to blatantly lying anymore

Hell yea theyve finally decided to try and do something Tho honestly, it would've been better if they tried to prevent all of this from happening to start with.

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In the wake of all the interest around this and a desire to better explain why the perpetual "Ghibli-ness" trend is harmful, I've compiled Kashi, a educational guide. Kashi includes links to learn more about Orientalism, Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, and Japanese culture. kashi-info.carrd.co

If you're still here and want to support actual Japanese people, go donate to the Japanese American National Museum which is under attack by the federal government for not bending to its demands for the museum to rewrite the history it was founded to tell: www.janm.org/give

Those bombs which are foundational to Hayao Miyazaki's work that they are reducing to an asethetic. The longing for pastoral beauty in Miyazaki's work is tinged with heartache for a world that has changed because of violence.

When writing teams made entirely of people who look like and think like the people who bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki and incarcerated all Japanese people in the US create fictionalized versions of a culture they tried to destroy, they are the colonizers plain and simple.

Despite the overwhelmingly supportive response to my anger at Obojima, it seems some folks still really don't understand. I'm going to say this as plainly as possible: You can enjoy Japanese culture, but you cannot make it your own. Japan gives freely of so much of its culture, but it's a loan. 🧵

We've become so accustomed to lawbreaking that this probably won't ripple much, but it is important not to forget that firing the IRS Commissioner for refusing to break the law--if that's in fact what happened here--would and should prompt immediate articles of impeachment in any other presidency.

the proposed trump census cannot be allowed to happen. they will subtract people from blue districts and blue states and add fake people to red districts and red states. this will allow red states to gerrymander further to the right and also add electoral college votes to red states.

at the core of all the trans people in public spaces "debate" is this: I don't care if you don't personally like seeing someone in public shut up, keep it to yourself, and let them live their fucking lives

Hi. Anyone saying their argument about trans people in sports is about “fairness” or a “biological advantage” is a fucking liar and a bigot. THE ENTIRE POINT OF SPORTS IS UNFAIRNESS THROUGH BIOLOGICAL ADVANTAGES.

As a writer, something that fascinates me to explore. So much of my work is rooted in the brutality of isolation and what it does to people.

List of resources in the thread ❤️🖤🤍💚

We are in the final stretch! I will close the forms tomorrow at 9am PDT (that's 12pm EDT, 5pm BST). So far 107 people have submitted a form and we have raised 3.5k! Thank you everyone for donating to Gaza Soup Kitchen!

To make a broader point about "the left has no answer to young men not getting any", it strikes me as the same basic argument as "the left has no answer to small boats" or "the left has no answer to trans women dominating women's sports". Yeah, we have no answer because those problems are made up.

Idek why their bothering to claim that all this new censorship on the internet is to "protect kids" when its plainly obvious from all the school shootings and the pedo in The FUCKING White House that they really dont care about protecting kids at all

Do not emotionally or politically ally yourself with companies that exist to make money. They are not people. They are not your friends. If they fuck up in the way they treat you, you owe them nothing. The work of capitalism is to get you to treat businesses like humans and humans like nothing.

No company is your friend.

Can white Trans+ people please stop insisting that transphobia is the last remaining acceptable form of bigotry? Because it very much isn't

They ask why Black people can’t get ahead, meanwhile several times in American history Black communities were massacred for being prosperous.

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.

At the Israeli prison, US human rights defender Chris Smalls was physically assaulted by seven uniformed individuals. They choked him and kicked him in the legs. We condemn this violence against Chris and demand accountability for the assault and discriminatory treatment he faced. #BreakTheSiege

HAPPENING NOW: a group of New York rabbis are being arrested at a protest outside the Israeli consulate calling for bringing food into Gaza, an end to the war, and return of all hostages @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social

Cis people shouldn't be allowed to make decisions about trans people they're just not qualified to do it Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

But again, at the end of the day, the 'debate' over trans girls playing sports is NOT ABOUT SPORTS AND NEVER WAS. It was about bigots finding a wedge issue that they could use to convince wide audiences to accept SOME degree of trans segregation and then push them to accept EVER MORE AND MORE.

sports thing is a trap. they get liberals to agree to segregate us there, off the back of zero scientific legitimacy, then they have set precedent to segregate us and ultimately ban us from public participation libs like @petebuttigieg.bsky.social are not smart enough for the fight against fascism

visa and mastercard deciding what games are allowed to be sold is an apocalyptic level threat to the games industry. phone calls are the highest impact way to help. this is an all hands on deck situation. the enemy got results with 1000 phone calls. we can beat them phone numbers and a script:

Advice for people calling Visa & MasterCard to complain about their censorship of sexual content ⬇️ The tldr is call at least twice on different days and keep them on the phone for longer.

my phone, spitting up blood, 2 GB of storage left: please. have mercy. … just delete something..anything…. me finding a funny image of a cat i’ve definitely seen before and will forget about in five minutes: scren shote :)

Even better, a voice actor called Zane Schacht acted it out....

BREAKING: ICE officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all Medicaid enrollees, according to an agreement obtained by the AP.

it's obscene that Maali has to use cloth strips for her bodily waste. Not one person would be ok with that for themselves or their sister. This creative, kind, loving woman deserves dignity and comfort.

Maali is quickly losing weight and she looks visibly thinner in Malak’s new photos than she did when Malak first reached out to me. We are witnessing the starvation of Palestinians in real time through their updates on our screens: chuffed.org/project/help...

what is happening in gaza is so much, it breaks my heart. But meals in bellies matters. It helps. Even a little help is help.

“People don’t want a handout, it’s not dignified.” Do you know what’s not dignified? Being evicted. Dying in the street from starvation. Every one deserves food, shelter, clothes, healthcare, and other survival necessities. No strings attached, no requirements, no hoops to jump through to get them.

If you're so afraid of losing an election because leftists might not vote for your candidate, then maybe you should try running a candidate leftists would vote for.🤷🏽‍♀️

LINK IS UP! youtu.be/9Kj3iE6HoD4 Theseus premieres this Saturday, 19th July, at 6:30pm BST!