In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, the far-right, led by the Trump administration, has doubled its efforts to crackdown on transgender people. My latest article in The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today initiated the process for a label change for acetaminophen to reflect evidence suggesting…” *stares in pending abortion pill ratfuck*

The Trump administration announces a "review" of the safety of the abortion drug mifepristone—suggesting they may move to reverse Biden-era regulations that made the pill more available, including by mail.

Them: So what have y'all been up to? Me: Haha, you know. The usual. The Usual:

Important to understand that the undercurrent to right-wing thought is utility. They will never truly condemn something that serves their end goal. So, a better way to think about this is not just that they haven't done anything about it: it's that right-wing terrorism serves their goals.

Putting aside the researchers' inability to identify acts of state terrorism, the number they're using to justify this subhed is five.

Many of us called out that this law passed by Democrats would turn out to be a massive self inflicted wound. They never should have passed the TikTok ban. It was a bad idea even WITHOUT oligarch capture.

I'm appalled but unfortunately unsurprised to hear that ICE is targeting my neighbors in Rogers Park today. Unidentifiable and unaccountable agents are roaming the streets with their faces covered targeting schools and community centers. It needs to end. Abolish ICE.

This person is correct!

It’s likely that this happened to them, in which case, again, this should be much bigger news. We can’t just disappear thousands of people without notifying anyone www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

No amount of better messaging, being nicer on social media, or having modest political goals was ever going to work to stop this backlash because the world's richest and most powerful people have all decided they don't want us to exist. How do you even fight blatant lies like this?

Utterly ridiculous and the cowardice of companies like Apple has to be called out. You might think it's a coincidence that Apple pulled a show about infiltrating online extremist groups right as this white nationalist government is going after TV shows, but I do not. 9to5mac.com/2025/09/23/a...

1. In a groundbreaking legal filing, transgender patients, represented by Women's Law Project, have filed a legal complaint against UPMC for capitulating to Trump and dropping trans care. Federal funding threats do not override state law. Subscribe to support our journalism.

So ICE held a 5 year old girl hostage so that they could disappear her father (who has an active asylum case ongoing, which means he is following the law), and the police came in and rescued her from ICE? Abolishing ICE is a pretty moderate position.

Looking at RFK's recent moves, including an attack on the hepatitis B vaccine and on painkillers for pregnant women. The common theme: That all children's health problems are due to "bad" mothers. This isn't about making kids healthy. It's misogyny. www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...

i know we have to "push back" or whatever but this administration has us saying the goofiest, most obvious shit. late night hosts are allowed to make jokes. actually, WE pay tariffs. no, that's not how tylenol works. could be solving climate change but instead we're debunking middle school rumors

What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.

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."

Today, the president of the United States of America said that the country's current pediatric vaccine schedule was "too much liquid... going into that baby" and then issued a decree announcing that anti-fascism is terrorism

There's no legal authority to do this at all. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The Trump admin is going to do what Russia and Hungary have done, dismantle liberal civil society to ensure that the only power centers that remain are either the autocrat himself or those aligned with him. It's about eliminating independent centers of political power from academia to the media.

This isn't about antifa, this is about the NGO's. The goal here is to eliminate philanthropic support to major liberal groups through intimidation. They're going to starve liberal groups of funding while hitting them with millions in legal fees from investigations. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis

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Happy to be doing some editing on this exploration of several blocks and factions of Prospero's Dream for #MothershipRPG, coming to #MothershipMonth25! Click below to learn more + get notified when Flatline on the Blocks launches. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... #ttrpg #rpg #scifi #horror #osr

Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to know what happened to him. By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social

i reference Dream Askew / Dream Apart SO frequently when editing, giving design feedback, etc. & it's such a shame how few have played it relative to other indie games. it's such a groundbreaking set of systems & is upstream of basically every narrative TTRPG since it released. you GOTTA know it.

Speaker after speaker at this memorial is explicitly likening him to Jesus Christ. (Slain in early 30s, etc.) Don't know how this goes over with people raised in other faiths. Having been raised as a church-going Protestant Christian, I say: What the hell! This is not how Christians talk.

Donald Trump just announced at Charlie Kirk’s football stadium funeral that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has cured autism. (This is all one big collective acid trip, right?)

DC police are using excessive force against Black people

Time to ipdate the definition of firehosing, I guess.

Pretty fucked that they had to split the right wing into flavors to get it all to fit in the chart

It’s so bizarre to hear my own actions be lied about. No, I wasn’t storming the facility. I was trying to help a protester who was about to be run over by a car. Yes, I was wearing a mask. We were being gassed + shot w/ pepper balls. Ofc that doesn’t matter to Laura Ingraham but it’s still weird.

Sinclair would have had to cancel itself for quoting Charlie Kirk

Being Czech I can tell you two things: fuck appeasement and my grandmother who had an SS officer stomp on her face as she was pleading for the life of her father being dragged away on a train to an extermination camp always insisted it was the collaborators who were the real gleeful monsters.

All of this can happen in Canada and it's already begun. They have disinfo/harassment/threat/crony networks here they've been building for years. Governments are aligning. I fear Canada will wake up one day realizing it's been absorbed into MAGA fascism without anyone needing to announce annexation.

“'Like students facing hard exam questions, large language models sometimes guess when uncertain, producing plausible yet incorrect statements instead of admitting uncertainty,' the researchers wrote in the paper. 'Such ‘hallucinations’ persist even in state-of-the-art systems and undermine trust.'”

For the last few months, I've been selling tabletop games at general - not geek or gaming - markets through Cardboard Monster. Here's what I've learned about selling games to people who don't think they like games:

Much of our current moment can be explained if one posits that The Thick of It is an SCP that has escaped and eaten the news.

Here's the thing to understand with this: In spreading easily disproven lies about trans people, the media is embracing exactly the same kind of stochastic terror that appears to have gotten Kirk killed. They are the problem.

Nearly 50 college instructors across #Illinois landed on #CharlieKirk's “Professor Watchlist.” @wbez.org reached out to all of them and found the list triggered hateful messages, threats of rape or death, and intensification since Kirk's killing. #twill www.wbez.org/politics/202...

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

All they had to do to circumvent the 1st Amendment was outsource the censorship to the oligarchs. The oligarchs have seized control of not only the media but the very platforms and algorithms used to disseminate information itself. www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One: *TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME *TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES *TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO