This is a starlight tour. This is murder.

@sesmith.lol I just feel like you need to see this.

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

where is justice for Nurul Amin Shah Alam? when will those charged with holding the guilty accountable demand that justice?

just tried kombucha for the first time. this one is strawberry hibiscus. i'm getting notes of saccharine artificial strawberry, sweaty gym clothes, wet leaves, and battery acid. this is awful. do people really drink this?

combine defining trans people as inherently sexually explicit with the worldwide rollout of ID verification on its surface appears to be: “trans people are hidden from minors” wrong: it results in “trans people cannot communicate without showing ID & can only communicate with those who show ID”

ID verification laws provide no safety or protection to anyone they are tools to allow the state to force you into either conforming to conservative values or disappearing from public view entirely they serve no other purpose safety is a lie

"what if kids see it?" is one of the oldest bad faith tricks in the book When women started riding bikes in the 1800s, the pearl clutchers of the day were horrified that children might see a woman wearing pants People didn't acquiesce to the repressives. They got mad and organized. And they won.

Porn and smut are the canaries in the coalmine! If you see governments start to restrict them, you better start making NOISE, because next comes "normal" media and other forms of speech. Inb4 "what if kids see it??" TALK TO YOUR DAMN KIDS ABOUT INTERNET SAFETY LIKE A PARENT SHOULD

the problem is bigotry, but the tool they're using to spread it is *the concept of pornography*. as long as we accept the idea that "pornography" is 1. meaningfully distinct from other forms of art, and 2. inherently bad or shameful it will continue to be a weapon conservatives can use against us!

you can and rightly should go into depth about how this is all a stealth attack on queer expression, about how it's a short leap to labeling gay and trans people "pornographic" and how they are not subtle about this being their express intent. But You Can't Get Around Defending Actual Pornography

you have to be loudly pro-pornography and you have to never shut up about it. you have to become the "they want to take away your freedom of expression vis-à-vis cocks and boobs" person to everyone you know. i'm sorry to say it but it's just how it is right now

Tapping the sign

I think this is one of those things that's stunning, in all the worst ways, and most of them aren't obvious. Let's start with the basics: there are about 5.5 million trans Americans. This means that *nearly 10% of the entire trans population of the nation* has moved. Just Last Year

the fun part is trusting that the id verification middleware won't be keeping records on who is trans, who is talking to trans people, and then providing that information for a cost, or a bunk subpeona or legal threat

With the advent of the internal combustion engine, most horses went from being assets to a liabilities. Now surplus horses go feral and destroy rangelands or are shipped to Canada and Mexico for the abattoir. Pleasure horses are a luxury for the rich. The "freedom" AI gives is abandonment or death.

@governorwalz.mn.gov what are you doing? Folks in MN are days away from rent being due but 10s of thousands of people are being impacted by ICE and the Federal government. You need to push to pass a rent moratorium until ICE IS OUT of MN. Please move on this fast.

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

They found him. He died. Another murder by our immigration goon squads

it's simple really

Never forget that the primary tactic of this movement is distraction. They point to medical statements, procedural wins and tangentially related anecdotes because *they have no evidence of their core claim* If lots of kids were transitioning without assessment they would be talking about that.

The Pixar Theory of Labor has never been more vindicated www.theawl.com/2015/07/the-...

Trump claimed Iran has never pledged to forgo nukes, but just hours earlier, Iran’s foreign minister reiterated that “under no circumstances” will Iran ever develop a nuclear weapon, underscoring Trump’s lie.

When Gavin Newsom says "the Democrats need to be more culturally normal" with "less focus on pronouns" what he's actually saying is "the trannies aren't normal and don't normalize them."

This is cool as hell: An app designed to ping people about nearby smartglasses. Also cool: The creator was inspired by @404media.co coverage, a great illustration of why their journalism is so essential. This kind of work is funded by paid subscribers so become one of those if you can.

Keshia Golden says she fatally stabbed her abusive boyfriend when he attacked her after their baby shower. Now a mother to a 3-year-old, Golden still faces murder charges in a case her lawyers argue amounts to self-defense. chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...

In 2023, Pulte’s charity donated $65,000 to a nonprofit called One World Love LLC for “assistance to underserved people,” according to annual tax filings. But our investigation found no charities with a matching employer identification number or the name “One World Love” anywhere in the country.

The international accompaniment movement teaches us that to sustain an emergency response to state violence, we must build durable, collective and supportive structures now.

Yeah, barring some very weird chemical effects, putting water into your body puts water into your body. Caffeine will make you need to pee more, but not to the extent that it removes more water from your body than you put in! Doctors believe this myth because doctors are also prone to urban legends

Renee Nicole Good’s killing by an ICE agent underscores how policing, borders and cages are “death‑making institutions,” and her legacy calls on people who see themselves in her to deepen solidarity with all communities targeted by state violence.

whenever he is sitting around looking upset we've started calling him "Upsetti Spaghetti, the Italian cat" and i'm pretty sure it just makes him madder

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

(talking about bathroom fixtures for new condo) she gerber on my bemis till I moen

surely Mustang Sally must imply the existence of Camaro Betty

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I am likely permanently disabled because folk just couldn't bear being unable to be served indoors. Prime rib > my freedom

COVID never left. COVID levels are high across the country right now.

After everything we saw, every Republican senator except Mitch McConnell voted to confirm the deranged sadist RFK Jr. That’s not just failing to learn. That’s an agenda. That’s actively seeking the deaths of other Americans. Don’t underestimate the role of eugenics in the thinking of the GOP.

💯 I have long Covid. I've gone into doctor's offices and had nurses look at my mask and wonder if they should protect themselves from me. It never occurs to them that I might be the one in need of protection. I also had a medical provider remove my N95 without permission to "make me comfortable."

This still gets me. I still have to socially isolate, & mask when I go out b/c I have an auto-inflammatory disorder. When I go out in my mask, people look at me like I'm the one carrying the plague... Naw! I'm protecting ME from THEM.

And today, the takeaway for too many people isn’t that millions died and what mistakes were made that contributed to that…it’s that too many were too cautious in trying to prevent further loss of life.

They were stacking bodies up in refrigerated trucks and now people are just either pretending it never happened or blaming vaccines.

I remember a politician saying, “I’ve heard masking only protects other people”, as a reason to not mask. And I knew we were in trouble.

YES. I’ll never forget the crushing grief after Biden was inaugurated and they decided to just memoryhole everything and pretend the pandemic wasn’t happening anymore. So many more lives lost, and a mass hardening of hearts—if you could call it that—that isolated us even more.

My instinct is still always to stand on principle, to say what's right even if it's unpopular, inconvenient, or gets me in trouble. Now is a time to stop restraining that. If human rights in the US are a losing battle, count me among the losers. I don't want to be safe in a fascist US.

If you are serious about "never again" then remember: it's not about standing up to a line of tanks when the camps are already running. It's about standing up to social & professional pressure when the whole thing is just getting started, when it's not yet cool to do so. That's bravery that matters.

"Oh, I didn't want *this* much racism & xenophobia! I just wanted a little bit, the fun kind! I just wanted to say 'retard', I didn't want a eugenicist in charge of health policy!" Oh? You didn't want this? Yeah, fuck off. Fuck off to space. Fuck off to eternity. Fuck off & never stop fucking off.