I know im goin on about this a lot but please contact your senators about opposing KOSA and the KIDS Act. Please make friends and family aware of how this will effect them and their privacy.

when I was doing my ICE deaths tracker during Lent there were I think at least two other cases of people who died in custody that literally just got scooped up when ICE was actually looking for someone else. adds an entirely new level of rage to see how half-assed and cavalier they are

A piece of American political writing always worth revisiting, but especially in the wake of a politically costly and disastrous sectarian struggle. Part of organizing is self-purification, which clearly includes not looking to Blackwater mercs for leadership. www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...

also getting a remedial course in "flashbacks to your own experience as a victim of sexual violence" and "realizing yet again that the society you live in is designed to optimize sexual violence and punish its victims"

🧵LORENZO SALGADO ARAUJO Better organized thread of vigils/protests for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. •Always check date/time •Pls lmk about events I haven’t listed If you were enraged by the executions of Renee Good & Alex Pretti, you should be enraged by the execution of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

PS They lied. Of course. If you were enraged by the executions of Renee Good & Alex Pretti, you should be enraged by the execution of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

Every cyclist death is heartbreaking, but it hits even harder when it's an advocate like this. It's infuriating and saddening. These deaths, especially on roads that are known to be dangerous, are simply policy choices.

Tapping the sign. I should probably get that photo swapped out but really they all look alike

Behind-the-scenes 🧵 on this story revealing that the American Museum of Natural History in New York is holding thousands of hair samples taken from Native Americans, including children at residential schools - despite knowing their names. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/a...

Incredible - do they not have a copy editor?!

I don’t care what swing voters claim to want. Swing voters have heads filled with cotton and bugs’ legs. I’ve met 3 year olds with more brain function.

You friendly reminder Sen. Leghorn himself, Louisiana's own John Kennedy, went to Vanderbilt, UVA Law, and OXFORD for a graduate degree in, effectively, French Law.

One thing about the whole "we have to run rough-hewn manly dudebros to beat them at their own game" theory is this describes, to within a rounding error, zero notable Republican politicians.

It was a fuck up with enormous, national consequences. Not only did the Democratic Party declare itself Nazi-agnostic, but it may *actually* end up losing us the Senate, the very thing supporters insisted any criticism of Platner would do. This is a major league fuck up, and was 100% avoidable.

We know way more about how certain products can impact human health. And I think there's a disconnect between people thinking everything is WORSE vs WE KNOW MORE.

It matters, because now is the time to fight to keep the achievement of the previous generations that gave us this world where we don't even remember what it was like, lest we live to see it again in short order.

A total violation of international law. Eswatini is imprisoning people from multiple countries no crime, based on no violation of law in that country, and with the direct knowledge and acquiescence of the United States.

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

- Open Instagram - Go to your profile - Tap the three lines in the top-right corner - Scroll down to the Sharing and reuse section - Toggle off "Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta" for Posts and Reels

SFF, we need to talk. I'm not here to rag specifically on Bona, who did the right thing by going public. No, I'm looking at all of you. Or at least, 15 of you. Because this right here? This is buckwild.

Tsugi’s littermates are currently up for adoption through Free to Live in OK, if you too need some kitten chaos in your life! They are not listed on the website yet but just mention their name in your app! The tortie is Slapdash and the mini panther is Chicken Scratch! They are both sweet as can be!

yeah, not all that surprised that a guy who was incapable of taking responsibility for any of his choices or decisions also refuses to take responsibility for this one.

They lied about killing Silverio Villegas González in Sept too. They think, with good reason, that it's easier to get away with summary executions of Mexican men. If you were enraged by the executions of Renee Good & Alex Pretti, you should be enraged by the execution of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. 3/3

anytime a candidate is claiming theyyYyyyYYYyyyYy are doing this to me, there’s nothing good where that came from

He knows what horrible things he's done better than literally anybody. He's known the entire time and still felt entitled to this role. He was relying on the silence or dismissal of the ppl he targeted.

If people are calling out Platner's victim, call THEM out. Don't accept their comments. Don't just wait for women to tell you what to do. We know you mean well, but this is the reality of what we have to deal with on a daily basis, and we can't always be the ones to show you the way.

Hey, I say this with nothing but respect for male allies: Please don't put your realizations for the sexism and misogyny that exists on the world on the women in your lives or timelines right now. We know. We are not holding your hands while you have this awakening. You have to do the work.

Between this and the national guard in Memphis it’s kind of disturbing me (yes I know I’m a member of the media) the degree to which these killings aren’t really breaking thru rn

I love being gaslit by an alleged rapist

A friendly reminder that you can get a SIGNED copy of The Dragon Has Some Complaints shipped straight to you by supporting the indie store Oblong Books! I'm heading over there to sign all their copies this weekend.

Unboxing my new Fantasy novel the only way I know how: WITH A SWORD.

Two points I hope Dems (registered voters and party officials alike) absorb and carry forward

Me Too did not go far enough.

Often when I criticize Yglesias I think it can come across as an ideological critique; but I think it's important to emphasize that it's more that he's just a profoundly dishonest writer who is perennially unable or unwilling to engage seriously with either his interlocutors or political reality.

I see a lot of "Stop it with the I Told You So!" and not enough "Wow, next time we'll do things different!"

WHO IS THIS ESTABLISHMENT? Anyone who has every worked for the DNC knows it's a complete shit show and a half, and the idea that they're pulling strings behind the scenes is a hilarious nonsense tale that people who don't understand politics will use as the political boogeymen.

Interesting they all have something besides misogyny in common & it’s a weird determination to ‘both sides’ the Russian invasion of Ukraine

the reason that people are being so loud about "i told you so" with platner is that it sucks shit to have to spend your entire life doing an uncredited minor in how to avoid being the victim of sexual violence and then have that expertise dismissed as you being a shrill hysterical bitch

Sean, I don't know if you've watched "Mussolini: Son of the Century" (please do, if not) but ex-socialist turned defender of power in the garb of revolutionary after getting the slightest bit of push back is an old playbook.

「 it'll be someone shitty 」 probably/at least possibly.. but THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A GOOD REASON TO DRUM HIS ASS OUT LAST YEAR WHEN THERE WAS TIME TO GET BEHIND SOMEONE WHO WAS NOT OBVIOUSLY AN OUTRAGEOUS PIECE OF SHIT.

"And this is why we — former mercenaries with Nazi tattoos, a history of edgelord message board postings, various gradations of sexual assault and sex pest accusations — can't have nice things."

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

I am once again asking people to stop listening to Ryan Grim.

Once again : What women on the left already knew before the Epstein files + Platner is that men can imagine a world of class consciousness (Chomsky), a universe more expansive than ever before known (Hawking), a world where you can live forever (Attia) but not a world where women are fully human.

The Dem party of Maine very specifically put out an entire ass video telling Platner’s team to stay the absolute fuck out of this process and they weren’t welcome in it and yet they are doing this shit. Just fucking resign already. The relentless red flags of this man never fucking end.

real scumbag stuff here from platner’s campaign manager. your “movement” was based on a fundamental falsehood—the only debt here is platner owing it to voters to get the fuck out of the way

With the second Platner sexual assault revelations I’d like multiple big fucking apologies from Chris Murphy, Liz Warren, Bernie Sanders, etc.

Keep fighting. Please.

From Tressie McMillam Cottom's column today: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

This article is a breath of fresh air, and brings substance and citations to something I’ve come to believe for several years. Treating a radicalization problem as polarization leads to inappropriate or even harmful solutions, and also dips into victims-blaming. 🧵