You can help displaced Palestinian families surviving the ongoing genocide by supporting The Sameer Project, a Palestinian-led aid organization that helps provide medical care, tents, food, warm clothing, and other urgent necessities

what a giant piece of shit. he bought part of the public hiking trail and closed it because trump (?) lincolnchronicle.org/landowner-cl...

Story time: I have tried, on two different occasions, to get the NYT to report a major sexual harassment story in the comics industry, because I'm too close to the victims to report it myself Both times, the NYT assigned reporters and I gave sources Both times, the reporters ghosted the story 🤷‍♀️

Something that many (at least online) seem to forget it how high this man was flying in January and where he is now. Yes he is richer and still terrible but the Tesla protests pierced the sense that he was beyond reach. And that matters a lot. Thanks to everyone who joined those ongoing protests.

the racism coming from the entire conservative movement targeting the somali community is so goddam disgusting and its just being completely ignored

What a great prompt. I was in an accident in a taxi on the BQE—the driver side-swiped an 18-wheeler and then got out and started arguing with the guy. I got out and started walking toward the nearest exit, and some guy in an Uber pulled up next to me and took me the rest of the way home.

great Caesar’s ghost

This is my last big piece of the year. I wrote it as much for myself as anybody else, because there's so many EOs, court cases, temporary successes, and reversals. I wanted a place to put it all, something to come back to in future years, to keep the knowledge of what 2025 meant to trans rights.

My “favorite” thing about this post is that this was a story from last May, and NPR decided to post it again because they knew what reaction they’d get. News outlets love people being mad at them for clicks. That actually sucks much worse than this shit-ass angle IMO

payroll sent me $220 less than my normal paycheck?? the fuck

It’s great it’s almost at 30K, let’s raise the rest. Dig deep so these volunteers can continue their work. Share. Share again. I’m a monthly donor +. Consider joining me? Every dollar helps. Thank you. donorbox.org/palmetto-sta...

LOUISIANA: ICE officer pleads guilty to sexually abusing Nicaraguan detainee for Months “while she was under his authority”

This is literally the sort of thing that should get people arrested and charged with child endangerment and attempted kidnapping

One striking thing to think about is that he daily posts things that would get you fired from any other job if you posted them, even on a personal account.

Have you donated to @boltsmag.org? no need to turn to cnn/msnbc for national election coverage when taniel is right there!

All of the "fentanyl exceptions" in criminal law -- eg harsher penalties, exclusion from discretionary relief, and special crimes ("murder by fentanyl distribution") really paved the way for this.

New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows. A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j

NPR reported today that the overwhelming majority of the aid Israel is allowing into Gaza is *commercial.* In other words, Israel is banning free food and shelter aid and only allowing in goods that Palestinians have to buy. With money they don't have.

Another entry in @prisonculture.bsky.social's always-correct observation that most people in this country have no idea how anything works: Recently a person told me they might not need a lawyer because they called the White House to ask President Biden to order their landlord not to evict them.

If the next Democratic president doesn’t abolish ICE then the Dems deserve to lose forever

As should be obvious, one does not spend $7,142 to recruit people for a job that doesn't require a college education or meaningful experience. The spend is about rewarding loyal media partners with taxpayer funds while stripping those funds from media the regime views as disloyal to itself.

Calls to strip pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah of his British citizenship pile torment on top of torture. New piece by me on a dangerous and manufactured storm: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It would really be good if a lot of people subscribed to Katelyn's Patreon. She is an excellent and influential trans activist and simultaneously a professional and nuanced journalist, with a great sense of humor and fun to read and listen to.

I love this painting. There's such a hidden story there. Is the painter being annoying? Is the painting meant to be put above the snack drawer her already chunky husband keeps raiding? Or is she judging us through the mists of time? Marco Basaiti - Portrait of a Lady early 1500

if you break your opponent's hand that's a forfeit. roll a D6 1: eat your tie 2: eat their tie 3: disciplinary meeting 4: apologise to the board 5: written warning 6: eat both ties bsky.app/profile/kill...

It's late, and it's almost the end of 2025. If I wrote or produced something (article, post, interview, video, etc) you found interesting, important or funny this year, I would appreciate hearing about it. I will post several photos of Max as thanks.

two low key heaters in an issue chock full of em @theonion.com

At the end of the day, a lot of people derive libidinal pleasure from being cruel towards and wielding power over those they deem as inferior or weak or subhuman. If they can personally profit by doing it, all the better- but people will still vote for cruelty even though it hurts them financially.

"Valenzuela explained to me that she lives with her family at one of the two properties purchased by the soup kitchen. It’s an act of solidarity with other residents, she said, and also to help keep tabs on a place that used to be a trouble spot."

Israel is banning the Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders from operating in Gaza starting on New Year’s Day. www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...

love makes life function

Yemen is much in the news these days. Here is a carpet page from the 'Sana'a Pentateuch' with verses from the Psalms in micrographic designs of fish and mountains BL Or 2348; the 'Sana'a Pentateuch'; 1469 CE; Yemen (Sana'a); f.39r

Good lord

"What was your biggest impact on the Internet?" I drew the original of this. (I storyboarded and assistant directed on this episode.) (Fry, "Shut up and take my money")

A friend suggested Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li and I finished it last night. I don't have words. It was devastating, beautifully written, and a powerful example of how to write about grief without making it mainly about grief. Highly recommend. bookshop.org/p/books/thin...

ladies and gentlemen the president of the United States www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...

one of my resolutions for 2026: whenever i see someone privileged in the academy acting like this Harvard history professor, i will commit to doing that much more work -- a paper, a lecture, notes on a text, a book chapter -- because someone has to do something while they whine and complain

libsoftiktok is now the third most powerful branch of government after the president and supreme court

definitely playing more DnD in the new year -- got a game scheduled for wednesday and will try to have a weekend game too

"...a white mob that, with the help of federal troops, killed hundreds of black sharecroppers in the town of Elaine, on the eastern edge of Arkansas." It's history that we never teach. The review opens with the story of a Black woman who had grown up in Elaine & had never heard about the massacre.

There it is. The final print edition, after more than 150 years, of the Atlanta Journal Constitution elink75f.mail.breakermedia.com/ss/c/u001.o7...

I'll be DJing and there's still room for others to sign up for a slot. Reach out to @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social if you want to join in the fun.

There are a lot of immigrants in my community, so I want to learn their languages and volunteer to tutor English for free. And see if I'm able to find other ways to help from the connections I make doing that.

Just gonna suggest that a strategy for beating all these vile people starts with an answer to this question: who are you helping?

We won't begin to roll back the tide of fascism until white liberals come to terms with the fact that tens of millions of their fellow citizens actively, knowingly, support racist Gestapo policies. Tens of millions of racists were not deluded or misled. How will you adjust your strategy accordingly?

Just a reminder to ”eat their frame” when speaking about the actions of authoritarians. You should never have to prove that every daycare is perfect. You do need to state a bunch of racists are going to use anything influencers give them to attack vulnerable groups.

This is monstrous. He wants to turn the residents of the state against Walz and against the Somali-American population.

lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai... This by comrade @jakeromm.bsky.social is first thing that came to mind

This poem, 'human', written by San Francisco poet-luminary, devorah major.

academics: if you have advice about being a department chair, i could use all of it. any recommended readings are welcome too