“Are You There, Luigi? It’s Me, Margaret” premiering in SF in April 2026! #luigi #freeluigi #luigimangione

Feeding into the binary fallacy that death is the only bad outcome from COVID-19 does nothing except normalize & forward the agenda of the anti-vaccine movement.

No. Our mask requirement is not "virtue signalling". It's protecting a) the cancer patient and b) the child who is still too small to wear a mask. And also--and I can't emphasize this strongly enough--you.

but because so few spend any time actually analyzing how protests function, they see viral moments and seek to replicate them, believing this to be what solidarity is. would they replicate the shadowy figures throwing gas cans back? no. they don’t want to get their hands dirty.

Dear liberals, If you identify as a leftist who believes in intersectional justice & fighting fascism, please wear a mask in public. It’s one small act of solidarity with the millions living with long Covid - and a reminder that caring for others includes protecting their health

Those who understand SARS-CoV-2 (Covid) causes neurological, endothelial, cardiovascular, and immune system damage, and that damage from repeated infections is cumulative, mask. And those who don’t will soon find out. I don’t “live in fear” typically means, I prefer to “live in denial.”

Blinder than blind is the faint-hearted Trembling with hope that the thing is not evil He gives it a friendly reception Disarmed, tired out with terror Hoping for the best … Until it’s too late

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you will never be amenable enough to the demands of a fascist tantrum to make it stop without selling your soul and becoming a fascist yourself. there is no amount of compliance that is acceptable short of absolute indoctrination. the more you bend, the more they push you down. stop helping them!

similarly, appeals to decorum and civility are the most crocodile tears pearlclutching horseshit i’ve ever seen in my life. you’re getting scammed into extending your empathy to people using it to attack your neighbors. they don’t deserve it! you’re not good for giving it to them! it’s bad to do!

David Bowie’s secret final project discovered locked in his study

If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

What we think serial killers look like vs what they actually look like:

I sure do love that whenever a trans person says anything negative about Newsom that a horde of people who are locking in Newsom as the 2028 Dem nominee pop up to scold you. Very fun!

No intellectually honest person says “Dem/progressive” in 2025. Those are different groups with different goals, and anyone saying otherwise is just PR. The idea that you can be both is like people saying they support both newsom and the homeless, or newsom and trans folks. Not a real thing.

Bluesky treating Taylor Lorenz worse than Twitter, not beating the “we’re just shitlib version of musk’s app” allegations. If you’re defending Chorus you’re either and idiot or on the payroll

One of my fave parts of watchmen is they include nearly every song that boomers think are sacrosanct. Just to point out that they fell asleep

Matt Taibbi very obviously wants to be Hunter S. Thompson but his career arc is like if someone called Thompson problematic so he became a Reagan supporter

San Francisco voters ousted Chesa Boudin and installed a "tough on crime" DA. Guess what? There's still crime, drug addiction, and homelessness. But there's not a coalition of right-wingers and "moderate" Democrats constantly screeching about how crime is an existential threat.

Curtis Yarvin keeps being extremely racist in public—and Vice President JD Vance keeps following him. Hmm, why is that? www.thenerdreich.com/curtis-yarvi...

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” — Hannah Arendt

1/ I represent 5 anti-zionist students and faculty challenging the outrageous claim that the Palestine Solidarity Encampment was a "Jew exclusion zone". UCLA refused to defend. Today they agreed to pay millions instead. I can't overstate how dangerous this is. 🧵 www.latimes.com/california/s...

85% of Gaza is on the brink of death due to starvation. Israel could let aid in at any moment. And some people (like these men tried to do with me on Friday) are still trying to justify this atrocity. There is no justification. This could stop at any moment. End the blockade now.

Blue sky needs more @imanibarbarin.bsky.social and less neolib genocide apologists. Plz and ty

I get the worries about Colbert BUT what if this is just the end of broadcast news, not journalism? Bc broadcast news hasn’t been journalism for decades. Most people watch Colbert on YouTube, not cbs.

The MAHA crowd want to make people believe that disability is a personal failing. That if you eat right, have a healthy lifestyle and exercise you won’t ever become chronically ill. They want to blame people for being sick so that they don’t have to provide care.

It’s not possible to follow the Epstein saga and not know trump was involved. Anything else is just an elaborate troll from the right, not genuine naïveté

I don’t think it’s true that pro-Palestinian activism over the past two years has been a failure or that it has made things worse. My understanding is that it has pretty significantly shifted awareness and opinion around Israel, especially among younger people and Democrats

In my experience (living in SF where the % of people wearing a mask on the bus went from 90% to 50% in a couple weeks, and then down to 10% a month later) I’ve found the non-maskers who aren’t anti-masking worked backwards from “I don’t like masking.” It’s petty inductive reasoning for lemmings.

Love parks & rec but I can’t help but think it’s helped alter Hillary Clinton’s image to match Leslie’s knope’s. Leslie is a hardworking civil servant who wants to make the world a better place. Hillary is a centimillionaire war criminal who had slaves in Arkansas. Not the same. At all.

I chased a couple down the street in college holding a bong and offering them a hit. Sending LDS kids to Isla Vista was a cruel joke

How far are we from grok carrying Elon’s baby? Feels like they’ve been spending a lot of alone time together lately

Support the immigrant farm worker strike about to start! And why not add a general strike to this effort!! #huelgaparaladignidad

Call to action: farm workers and labourers across the US are planning a nationwide strike the #HUELGAPARALADIGNIDA translation #StrikeForDignity. They’ll announce it 3 days prior. If you work in other industries or are in a union organize to join the strike when it happens. #3E #NationalStrike

Fun fact: rfk jr ran on the American Party platform in CA in 2024. Bc the irony of running under a party that formed to boost your dad’s main rival was just too sweet to pass up

Biden, September 2023: covid is over Covid, July 2024: Biden is over

Bc the true purpose of the Democratic Party is to stave off the threat of socialism on behalf of their oligarch donors. They’d rather lose to trump than win with Bernie. The saddest part is how many ordinary Dems have been fooled into thinking the DNC reps them

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

The establishment will continue to do what it always does: blame the left. But fascism is firstly the fault of fascists and secondly the fault of those in power who capitulate to fascists. Remember who enables the smears against antifascists while cozying up to the alt-right, an ongoing process

Now, European elites had benefited immensely from this handy thing called antisemitism, which did an amazing job of keeping peasants in line by giving them a highly visible group of outsiders to blame for everything. So they went around recreating this in all their colonies.

“What we're seeing in LA right now can't be understood w/o recognizing impact of how organizers responded during the fires in Jan...the student intifada, the 2020 uprising.. expansive mutual aid efforts, & tenant organizing spearheaded by LA Tenants Union”

I think the LGBTQ+ community should start a massive organized religion and start suing the fuck out of everything.

RFK Jr: "My vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years." Cost: $27 billion RCTs proving population health benefit: 0 Meanwhile, US contribution to Gavi vaccines: $1.2B over 4 years RCTs supporting Gavi vaccines: >300 Children vaccinated: >1 billion Lives saved: >17 million

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Establishment Democrats have done more to stop Zohran Mamdani than they have to stop Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Palantir or the Crypto Corruption machine currently swallowing American democracy whole.

Spectacular news - the Medicaid ban for transgender care is OUT as a result of the Byrd rule.