If you are Muslim or Palestinian and care about poor people, you have no place in the #Democratic Party. That is one of the lessons this year. #mamdani

Evergreen, forever, eternal. #bdsm

Q: Guess which year this was written in? (Answer at bottom of thread) In fact, the benefits reduction would eliminate the state-level "Heat and Eat" policies currently employed in 15 states and Washington, D.C. Left-wing opponents of the Farm Bill, including Rep. 1/6

The best analogy I can use for the relationship between #Democrats and #Republicans. Repubs are like the abusive drunk parent who beats their children and Democrats are the enabling parent whose response to the children’s complaints is, “Well weren't you drinking too? You had an attitude earlier. ."

From “Our Man in Havana” by Graham Greene. “Do you have never worry about anything?” “I have a secret defence, Mr. Wormold. I am interested in life.” “So am I, but. .” “You are interested in a person, not in life, and people die or leave us—I’m sorry. I wasn’t referring to your wife. 1/6

From “Dasvidanya” by Mary Winsor Mama is crying into the dryer again. If there weren’t always a load of towels or underwear to soak up the tears she leaves in that general Electric, it would’ve rusted by now. 1/3

never buy starbucks

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Superb report on the GLOBAL hate campaign against Mamdani — the cost of aligning yourself with two causes that are verboten to the U.S. ultrarich and their “allies” - poor people and Palestinians. Thanks @equalitylabs.bsky.social for the amazing work here!

a genius.

Evento gratuito e presencial! Dias 08/11 e 09/11 na UNESP de Pres. Prudente. asw.teomewhy.org

End of Middlemarch by George Eliot: “. .the growing good of the worlrd is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” #litsky #writing #novels

10x Daniel Woodrell described winter in gorgeous language in Winter’s Bone: #writing #novels #booksky #literature #litsky #books #writer #reader #bookreaders #readerscommunity #poetry #poet 1/17

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Cheerleading, long distance running, “intermittent fasting,” watching Love Is Blind. .

This is one of the most disingenuous and fawning interviews with this guy that you will see. Its giving the kind of soft ball treatment that #Kamala Harris and #Biden were given post-concentration camp closure in #Gaza. Here are a few of the worst moments 🧵:

From the #Climate and Community Institute: The United States needs somewhere between 270 and 485 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind to decarbonize by 2050; however, based on states’ current plans, only about 50 GW is planned to be online. climateandcommunity....#Climate 1/2

In the summer of 2025, a 38-page blueprint circulating inside the Trump administration was leaked to the press: the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) Trust. 1/10

The opposite of inclusion is exile. In a country with limited public space for young people who are essentially coerced into living a digital-first life, this is one consequence. #trans 1/4

cute 💫 will pick up copies for my niece

#Palestinians again showing the US “what democracy looks like"

Reading Daniel Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone. Marvelling at how many ways he has found to describe winter. Going to do a thread on it soon. #novels

In #disinfo trainings, it is a truism that teens and seniors are most susceptible to #disinformation and #misinformation due to the significant decline in public space for both groups since the advent of the internet. But I wonder whether those who came of age pre-social are worse, tbh. #internet

The Monydel video is emblematic of a trend of deceptive “police-arresting-undercover-FBI-agent” videos that have generated hundreds of millions of views on YouTube since late last year, according to an Indicator analysis.

Thinking about all the #books, #tv shows, #movies, art that would be impossible to get produced today for a variety of reasons. Thoughts? #culture #politics #hollywood #US #censorship A thread I am going to add to gradually🧵:

You can either be brilliant or obedient. #ice #autocracy. h/t to @iansociologo.bsky.social Read & share this fascinating study “Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations"

In November 2024, the #Hebrew press, quoting the #IDF, estimated about 300-400K people would be killed by end of 2024. The #Lancet put the estimate closer to 500-600K. That does not include those who died of starvation, trafficked children in #Germany / #Turkey, etc. 60K = #genocide denial.

Honestly, trying to do media/comms with 50+ers who think the internet is “anonymous” and is somehow what it was post 2002 circa tumblr era, not a totalizing surveillance trap with algorithms with casino style user responsiveness than anything else is like doing science with flat-earthers.

Praiseworthy is one of the those novels that you have to read a few pages at a time, it is so dense. Alexis Wright is brilliant.

Read the book #Tampa recently & keep pondering it. Billed as Lolita w/a gender reversal (not quite), it is about a teacher who preys on a 14 year-old boy in her class. The reviews focus on the salacious aspects, but sort of miss the point. Debating whether to do a thread on it. Has anyone read it?

Is it just me or is bsky’s “algorithm” a little zany?

Michael McAdory was a leatherman and LGBT activist. He was one of the first people in Texas to be diagnosed with Kaposi's Sarcoma in 1981. He was a co-founder and the first president of KS/AIDS Foundation of Houston.

inshallah 🧿

Omg lol!

One of my favorite scenes of all time. #lynch #mulhollanddrive www.youtube.com/watc...#lynch#mulhollanddrive/2

Little Day by Ava Limón This is what it comes down to Me on a park bench, always writing This is what it comes down to. #writing #novels #booksky #literature #litsky #books #writer #reader #bookreaders #readerscommunity #poetry #poet

Do you ever tie yourself? What are the feelings like for that? Yes, I do self ties and self suspensions. But I’ve not been taught by anybody, so even though I can tie myself, I cannot tie other people. 1/4

Incredible diagram of the origins of #kinbaku www.kinbakutoday.com...#kinbaku #kink #bdsm #consent #bdsmky #D/s #shibari #kinbaku

Excerpt from: An Existential Guide to: Making Friends substack.com/home/po... Be a small mirror, not a full-length one. Reflect a little. Don’t cosplay them. Keep your colours. Friends do not fuse; they braid. 1/6

Rest in Power #D’Angelo. One of the best albums of the century. What a beautiful voice. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Rest in Power #MissMajor. “They want us to live in the 1950s. No. Get off our fucking backs and let us live. 1/4

“It is with profound sadness that House of gg announces the passing of our beloved leader & revolutionary figure in the TLGBQ liberation movement, Miss Major Giffin-Gracy. Miss Major, 78, passed away ... in the comfort of her home & surrounded by loved ones in Little Rock, Arkansas,” her team wrote.

Phew #dianekeaton was incredible. Rest in power.

love this so much

Excerpt from “We Are Our Choices” by Nuar al Sadir in @yalereview.bsky.social — I LEARNED THE DEFINITION OF METONYM in graduate school. The professor wrote on the blackboard: All night long. He then asked, What is associated with the night? Someone called out, The moon! 1/15

On PrEP or on Prayer [“spare us your burial rites”] BY SAM SAX spare us your burial rites spare us the first rib the flood, the resurrection spare us your dairy & meats your belief in a life after this one heaven’s a city we’ve been priced out of our mothers fled 1/5

Ceasefire for Palestinians means, we cease, they fire.

This magical thinking didn’t work with Americans targeted by the GWOT. Please don’t think it will work now — unless you are white and have resources. #kyr #ice #lifeintheus

Fascinating and pretty genuine article from a male submissive on #Femdom. Love to see it. iobeywomen.medium.co...#Femdom. #D/s #kink #bdsm #dominant #submissive #s/m #sexuality #powerexchange #control #writer #advice #emotionalintelligence #sub #Dom

Today the FBI-run center is chewing on National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), Trump’s sweeping policy directive that formally directs the national security state to root out left-wing political violence by monitoring so-called indicators of violence, like “anti-Christianity,” 1/15