it is worth mentioning that many of these laws are written so broadly as to define any discussion of LGBT topics as pornographic

It is not “big tent” to bring in one group of people by kicking out another group of people.

The Palestinian photojournalist who Israel killed an hour ago, Yahia Barzaq, was a newborn photographer. I’m sharing here some of his photography.

Seconded, fantastic and thorough book that's going to feel exceedingly important.

Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"

NEW: I interviewed Leonard Peltier at his new home in North Dakota. Now 81, he has a LOT to say about his ~50 years in prison, why he thinks Biden bucked the FBI to finally release him, how Indigenous people are "in danger" under Trump, and his next chapter. www.huffpost.com/entry/leonar...

The homegrown violence fascists are playing games trying to bait comrades in Portland. We knew this was the game but here's a great thread from someone on the ground seeing it play out firsthand.

Welp. Hoping for Dems to find their spines over this feels foolish.

Red on a red 💅🏼

Ezra Klein is a wealthy guy with a podcast whose closest interaction with low wage workers are the people who make his coffee and serve his food. I’m not taking political advice from people who haven’t spent significant parts of their lives working hourly jobs.

Okay holy shit?

This bookstore rules

Trump's assault on Portland is not just a fascist power grab, although it is certainly that. It is frothing at the mouth, howling at the moon, eating bugs and bats for breakfast lunacy. But it's also a sign of weakness, not of strength. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

Finally took the plunge on a bold red for my nails and y'all I feel like I could take on the world

NEW: The Heritage Foundation is pushing a terrorism designation based on "transgender ideology" on the claim that "50% of major (non-gang) school shootings since 2015" involve a transgender shooter or trans-related motive. @dell.bsky.social and me on why that's false: www.wired.com/story/herita...

What a bizarre action. Not entirely sure of the point beyond...what? A display of access, control...like, football spiking? The buildings are leveled, the children are dead or starving, what further level of oppression and threat is needed?

Rest in power, Assata Shakur.

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

New Jersey PBS, the state’s only public television station, will shutter next year after suffering “very significant” budget cuts implemented by the Trump administration, the company announced

"First they fascinate the fools. Then they muzzle the intelligent." - Bertrand Russell on how fascism starts. Good grief, is this ever true given all that's happened to me.

Begging young queer folks and baby leftists to spend more time listening to queer elders and comrades of color. They've learned the hard lessons of survival & protecting joy during the kind of direct hosility from the State that's cycling around again in force.

All I’ll say about the idea that modern medicine causes autism is that there is a 5-vol single-authored history of plants from 1561 that lists, in this order, the stems & leaves, flower & time of flowering, fruit, number of loculi, lines of dehiscence, rows of seeds, root, and smell for 500 plants.

TikTok deciphering the date of the Rapture feels pretty spot on at this point.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

Just spilled coffee all over the front of my dress if you wanted to know how my Monday is going.

The thing, too, about saying Dems should run pro-abortion candidates in red states, or abandon "woke" and trans rights, is that it's easy to suggest *someone else* in the coalition sacrifice core protections. But which core protections are white male Dems willing to sacrifice?

Never been woken up by an earthquake before, whew!

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

The perfect metaphor for the more unhinged edges of contemporary Left vs. Right, if we're honest

This is a fantastic listen.

Last week, Israel targeted and massacred 34 newspaper reporters in Yemen. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it was the second deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded.

France showed us the proper response to this.

*Group of trans women huddling together in the camps, struggling to keep warm* Sarah McBride: "Okay but what are we going to get the Commandant for his birthday, you guys?"

The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more. This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”

Trumpism combines a promise of blamelessness to its adherents with an obsessive paranoia about contagion and contamination. Nothing is your fault, you are surrounded by agents of infection. Trans people become the ideal scapegoat in this scenario, a perfectly diabolic alien other.

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Ezra Klein is a superb example of someone with the privilege of preaching discourse that is polite to fascism because it isn't, yet, an existential threat to them.

Because I look into bad things for a living, I try hard to avoid being too pessimistic and do my best to avoid doomsaying. Things are bad in many ways and have been for some time. Still, I'm worried things are about to get much worse for many people.

So right-wing oligarchs now control X, Facebook, TikTok, WaPo, Fox News, CBS...and others not controlled by them are capitulating. Do I have that right?

Glad someone smarter than me wrote on this, a similar line of thought has been percolating for me the last few days.

Seeing the type of hideous sunglasses often worn by paramedics as a bit becoming a mainstream fashion trend fills me with dread for the future of society.

When trans people say our very existence in public is resistance, it's not just flowery language.

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Excuse me what the absolute fuck

It feels increasingly clear that fascists on a global scale are tasting blood in the water and are quite happy to push hard for this to be an inflection point in their collective consolidation of influence and power. They're not unapposed, but it feels like we're losing on most fronts.

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