Liberal politics exists along the simplest of dimensions. "If the bad guys are mad at a thing it's my new favorite thing"

everyone, please, they say they "don't want politics in media" the same way they say they "don't want to use pronouns." they are not using the word to mean the word. you can try to point out that there's politics in the media they like/make, but they don't mean "politics" they mean "freaks"

Great to see the @foundfootagefest.com again! Thanks for a great show!

This read on NYPD torturing arrestees has me thinking, inevitably, about those whose stories don't make it into the news.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

myth: if you have covid, you’ll know it. fact: with an infection, it may take testing over several days for your viral load to increase enough to finally give you a positive result from home RATs. also, about half of infections are asymptomatic (though that doesn’t mean they don’t still damage us)

You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.

No one supports a war in Venezuela btw

Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.

every time I see a headline framing this as being primarily an issue of the student having controversial opinions, and not the student being an asshole with a right wing podcaster mom who wanted to ruin a trans person’s career for the clicks, I age another ten years

Every year I watch Raymond Briggs' The Snowman. Every year it makes me cry. But never more so than this year. No matter how much you love it, every snowman melts. Watching this when I was 5 was my first understanding of mortality. 40 years later, I'm still sitting by the melted snow wondering why.

Unmitigated illness is a tool used by fascists to eliminate the groups of people they hate & have deprived of resources, while making money off those who can afford to play the pay-to-win game of for-profit healthcare. Wearing an n95 is an act of hope, solidarity, & resistance. Give/get mutual aid:

BLUF: Press is talking about "Super Flu" bc this year's dominant strain isn't a great match to the vaccine. Get vax'd anyway (consider the high-dose vax), wear a mask (protects against airborne pathogens), and have a testing + treatment strategy ahead of time because viral replication is exponential

There should be just a small nominal tuition fee if you're doing a degree for your own edification

WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly: - DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems - Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.

This was obvious from the moment it was announced, but still worth mentioning. The genocide never ended.

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No no. No, we won't be doing that. We won't be brushing the last two years under the carpet just because there is a current ceasefire. This is appalling, Israel should not be allowed to participate until Palestine is free and Netanyahu is behind bars for war crimes, where he belongs.

This is the the funniest-because-it-is-true take on the internet and it is sad that you have to click through to see the context

The most important thing to remember about Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl is that Puerto Rico is a colony whose residents are US citizens and pay taxes but don't get to vote for the president, have no voting representation in Congress,

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

Me whenever people start talking about declining fertility rates or gender relations

How your email finds me.

Probably this kind. Surely, that's who he had in mind, right?

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

when cloud services hound me to pay for the 50th time

Wittgenstein: It is impossible to use words without making meaning. Vogue:

Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.

Awesome! Go little dudes!😀

This is a fact.

Tapping the sign

gender isn't real until it's my turn to speak over a trans woman

Happy #ButchAppreciationDay from me and my butches!

Absolute legend

America now

ONLINE LEFTIST: what if we tried to find a candidate that's good ONLINE LIBERAL: congratulations your attitude just killed us all. we're dead. hope you're happy. we could've just had trans people be dead but nooooo you and your purity tests put a gun to our heads and squeezed. enjoy the camps homo 🖕

there are more trans americans than there are operating farms in the united states

Yeah it’s called having a cat

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

It's so continually frustrating how people continue to misunderstand right wing thinking. Almost every formulation of the social media gotcha "it's so wild how X when Y" is really just another way to say "I've never tried to understand the way these people think."

This is, btw, right out of the Nazi playbook to dehumanize people and give them a permission structure to hate.

The Original Indigenous Names for the Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)