Teenagers are pretty competent at seeing through adult bullshit, and when you tell them "get off your phones and touch grass" and then arrest them for doing that, they understand that what you actually want is for them not to exist at all!

“Verify your age”: Bought paper plane tickets home for winter break at the campus travel agent.

I have been saying this constantly over the past few years - Trump gives people permission to be their worst selves. We need to establish consequences for that behavior in every aspect of society.

You can and should point out that police killing people daily is the "norm" in America. But that doesn't mean you *accept* the normalization of this violence and the way some people rush to smugly point these things out contributes to collective fatigue. Your horror has been stolen from you.

A report on the ground from the ICE shooting in Biddeford that should make every parent in this country lose their minds:

this is “pete hegseth wants an all-white military”

one thing about writing an entire book about sandwiches is my brain is just full of random facts now. coffee plants were forcibly introduced to java by the dutch. tuna fishes have extraordinarily high lung capacity. barbecue was a status symbol denoting slave ownership in the antebellum south

re-upping this thread on the wonder of jurassic park because the great sam neill has left us an incomparable actor who truly understood the magic of cinema thanks, sam, for sharing that magic with all of us

when you tell us that the people who murdered comity and civility—who are trying to kill and rob and enslave us—are actually your dear friends, you don’t create civility, but despair; we see you don’t actually believe the danger is real, can’t be trusted to fight the battle that needs to be fought.

I find the story of Hegelochus unreasonably funny. Imagine dying and the only trace of you millennia later is the time you accidentally said you saw a weasel in a tragic play in front of a packed audience, because people mocked you about it for centuries. (Thread for ease)

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

On the one hand: yes of course. On the other hand: there’s always this brief spark of optimism in the mornings, of ‘maybe it happened last night,’ and it never has happened but I kind of don’t want to give up the daily moment where it might have.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a father of three who built houses in Houston, started his own business, and raised his family here for 35 years. His son became a teacher. ICE agents killed him in cold blood. 🧵

One thing I keep butting up against is how to undo what the captured courts have done, we don’t just need court reform or expansion, we need something that looks a lot more like radicalism; revisiting recent decisions absent a case or controversy and saying they are corrupt and void.

I’m legitimately so mad about this. Salad is one of the few things the US does better than Ireland. I’m visiting family next week and I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO THE FRESH PRODUCE. Now I’m gonna be nagging everyone to cook everything.

I do not celebrate his death. I celebrate that he can no longer hurt people. It looks the same. It is different. Death comes for all of us, good or bad. But when it's a bad person that dies, the living get the peace of mind that they are no longer injured by that person.

I find it frankly bizarre that the government should be so afraid of children wearing clothing and using names that might not align with the gender they were assigned at birth. you want me to get a doctor’s note so my daughter can wear trousers? I’m sorry but that’s just extremely weird

I will go a step further and say that learning how to do this is part of what high school English classes are *for.*

You don’t have to cheat. You do have to make choices about where to allocate your efforts. Learning how to make those choices is part of what college is for.

A lot of this is also rooted in the fact that left wing men would rather try to win back white working class men than build a coalition with white women with college degrees (who are decidedly economically progressive) and Black voters (older ones are conservative. Younger ones are more left-wing)

The Republican Party did not want Trump in 2016 but couldn’t do a thing about it and now it’s nothing but the Trump party

This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.

We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller. But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend.

Hope The Odyssey is a huge success and inspires more big budget adaptations of famous poems. An empty icebox. A fruitless marriage. Jessie Plemons and Kirsten Dunst in This Is Just To Say

Being afraid to go for enthusiastic consent is the absolute weakest bullshit imaginable. The fact that they all glorify violating consent as ~masculine~ and strong and tough, and that we've let them pigeonhole consent as weak is the most aggravating bullshit imaginable. Be someone folks wanna fuck.

yeah, not all that surprised that a guy who was incapable of taking responsibility for any of his choices or decisions also refuses to take responsibility for this one.

I want all the cis men who are wondering why a woman didn't come forward UNTIL NOW and are musing that women certainly aren't powerless and blah blah blah First, shut the fuck up. Second, I want you to, while shutting the fuck up, think about the time you didn't say anything. You know, at work.

It also literally used to mean “Meemaw fed Peepaw rhubarb leaf pie and everybody looked the other way.” I think it was @karnythia.blacksky.app who did a brilliant thread on this one day. Mariticide rates dropped quite sharply after no-fault divorce.

Couldn't fit this into the piece, but the belief that the left needs its own oaf means that Trump is still dictating the rules of engagement. Believing 1) white working class men are the voters that matter and 2) that they will only vote for themselves is just MAGA with a different coat of paint.

In rape culture, everything a woman says means yes and nothing she says means no. This seems to assert that though she said not to come over, said no repeatedly, struggled against Platner, an ambiguous prior comment constituted irrevocable consent. Not a shocking breach not to include it.

British drama school training is the envy of the world and, as more film + TV jobs are moving to the UK, our drama schools are the backbone of a global industry. These cuts are artistic vandalism and economic stupidity.

If we let the “rape is fine actually” guys into the big tent, none of us are safe under here

Trying to pick apart a woman's text messages to prove she's lying about being raped is gutter behavior. Consent can be revoked at any time and reading insinuations into text messages that the sender denies were there is ACTUAL journalistic malpractice. I would not trust a man who does this!

THEY MADE CARTER SELL HIS FARM

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

"why didn't she come forward about the rape earlier" Because police don't do anything about rape most of the time, they try women for "false accusations" some additional percentage, and what was she supposed to do, upturn her mental health only for some judge to give him a suspended sentence?

What really enrages me about it is that it's meant to sound labor-coded. It's meant to sound like if you care about rape or sexual assault or your comrade calling you a cunt, you must be some corporate management bitch who hates workers. Because real working class solidarity means tolerating rape

ICE is not about immigration. ICE is not about the southern border. ICE is about normalizing paramilitary force on our streets. It cannot be reformed. It cannot be retrained. ICE must be abolished.

Speaking as just one guy who sues the government a lot: This basically does not happen. It is a transparent effort to shut down further inquiry by conceding relief. What they are seeking to cover up must be unspeakably bad.

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Maybe NOW you will all listen to me when I say that you do not need left-wing men to perform masculinity, you need them to be a good person.

Sick. Awesome. Thanks for that. Really preferred this to funding a Blade game by the Dishonored people or people at Obsidian having jobs.

It was a fuck up with enormous, national consequences. Not only did the Democratic Party declare itself Nazi-agnostic, but it may *actually* end up losing us the Senate, the very thing supporters insisted any criticism of Platner would do. This is a major league fuck up, and was 100% avoidable.

"don't be a rapist" doesn't seem like a particularly high bar to clear, dating history-wise, but thanks for telling on yourself for the ten thousandth time

Sometimes you’d have to just never know.

The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.

I double dog dare u, Maine

Star of a TV show run by a monster, at 1 point, heard EVERYTHING & more from credible & voluminous reporting on said monster (incldg some facts not published) He considered & said "we don't throw people overboard," illuminating that all the people *already* thrown overboard were invisible to him.