they are so close to figuring out the normies hate them, so incredibly close

imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead

They don't care what you believe. They are about imposing dominance and control over everything including you.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Part of the issue is that those most actively protesting and leading mutual aid are women and gender non-conforming people. Both groups are illegible to many as protesters. This helps explain the invisibilization of current protests and resistance.

This is insane not just the explicit "go break the 4A" substance but how they knew how bad it was, acting in guilty paranoia to cover it up and suppress the written evidence. This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.

When people say genAI is "inevitable" they are literally repeating desperate marketing lies by the people who profit from that lie and that is all they are doing.

the stylist’s

When you focus on the regular people showing up magnificently in all of their flawed beauty, it helps you to keep going.

I'm re-listening to @thislynne.bsky.social's stunning podcast, *When We All Get to Heaven* to choose an episode for a spring course. A difficult choice! www.heavenpodcast.org

800 people at Whittier International Elementary right now to coordinate ICE resistance. EIGHT HUNDRED, at one little school. Recall there are only 2,000 ICE agents in the entire metro. Puny!

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

at no point in this headline did i know what would happen next

May we continue to be radicalized by such dehumanization. Another world is possible. May we reach together for its horizon. #FuckICE #FreePalestine #DogsForPalestine @dogs.bsky.social

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

NEW: At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality. Our latest:

the way church folks are responding to the mcclurkin allegations with unrestrained support, prayers for him and “no weapon formed against you shall prosper” scripture quotes, and by calling the accuser the devil and satan—when an email that he (allegedly) sent exists publicly—

Maybe local media will be better but we do not have the national mainstream media needed for the current moment we are in.

It’s disorienting for them to be speaking so plainly about things that used to be … somewhat covert. and the plainspeak is still bullshit and contradictory: ‘we choose your leadership and undermine your sovereignty for democracy‘s sake’

The Christian church really has to deal with the fact that its homophobia and anti-queerness results in all sorts of harm. The suppression of one’s identity leads to so much chaos. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

And @ashoncrawley.bsky.social says it way better than I can. bsky.app/profile/asho...

i have so many (enraged, sad) thoughts about donnie mcclurkin. this is one of them.

Remember: we rest in shifts; we resist in cycles. No one can survive in fight mode all the time. When we have collective power we don’t have to carry any challenge alone; and that makes the burden lighter.

Whatever we do. Naming it has to be apart of it. Naming the confusion. The exhaustion. The fear. The simple act of naming and owning can sometimes help us get clear. Help us see better what’s within & around us. Presence to our emotional realities is sometimes the best “medicine” we have available

There are no easy answers during this time. Sometimes we need to sit and be present with our sadness and our disappointment. Sometimes we need to channel that energy in to organizing and helping people near us however we can. And sometimes we just need to cry and scream.

A lot of us are holding massive grief, rage and disappointment at world leaders and the state of politics globally. It is devastating to witness decision after decision be made to destroy the earth, and dehumanize every one who doesn’t bow to their power. The grief is heavy. The rage is real.

I need people who think that social programs should only go to the “truly vulnerable” to come up with a clear and concise definition of what that is.

“Well… we can’t just keep filing impeachment articles all the time.” Yes you can! If the man is committing impeachable offenses on the regular, you’re acquiescing to a standard that raises the bar for impeachable offense to absurd levels.

There is a water main break every 2 minutes in the US. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

NO OTHER RACIAL/ETHNIC GROUP VOTED IN THE MAJORITY FOR THIS MAN. That is paragraph 1 through 1000 of the story.

Are white people aware that Trump won twice BECAUSE A MAJORITY OF WHITE PEOPLE WHO VOTED PUT HIM IN OFFICE?????????? Why is this consistently elided???? Stop being ridiculous.

a friend of a friend was writing a piece about silver consumption in 2023, people buying silver clothing for beyoncé’s tour and then dumping it in trash because they only wanted it for that one occasion. the silver was filling landfills that is unnecessary waste.

A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles. When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies. This is outrageous.

In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons… To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.

stomach bug. yay.

no one seem to care if “a dialogic thinking space” is making shelby county’s air impossible to breathe. yay, education! </sarcasm>

I see the Panthers are being invoked. I like to remind people about what the U.S. government and local police forces did to the BPP. This recent book is useful. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

You don't need to take my word for it. You can simply ask yourself what you would expect to see from an opposition party that was serious about abolishing ICE right now. Are you seeing these things from the Democratic party or from its voters?

The question people ask me most in my current position is about AI. People passionately opposed to AI, people who believe it is the answer to all our problems, people who wonder what it will mean for the humanities. However most people change the subject when I mention the people bearing AI's costs.

I am telling you that a large part of their dysfunction is that several Trump officials imagine themselves, constantly, as being in a social media sizzle reel where they display status and dominance over others. Their online personas are driving their actual behavior.

NEW: From the Bronx to Accra, lives are being rebuilt — or dismantled — under a U.S.–Ghana deportation pact few know exists. In Ghana, I met the people caught in between: the deported, the waiting, the afraid. Read the story: capitalbnews.org/ghana-us-dep...

A Capital B analysis of government data shows that deportations of people from African countries are on pace to nearly triple this year compared with the annual average during the Biden administration. Most have no criminal record. capitalbnews.org/deportations...

I’m dealing with very severe income & work loss, which impacts housing & more and need urgent support. TY so much.🤍🤍 tinyurl.com/gfm-care-support

as somebody on instagram-twitter said, his momma named him kennedy center, imma call him kennedy center. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

some words about the book that has been ruining, and saving, my life—FROM INFINITE WORLD: THE SOUND OF THE HAMMOND ORGAN AND THE TRAGEDY OF AIDS IN THE BLACK CHURCH. this is all imma say about it for now.