People get irate when you don’t “perform” poverty correctly.

This is an incredibly important read. www.justsecurity.org/122643/antif...

I’m a trans woman. My father (who was once a conservative), my sister, brother in law, nieces and nephew, plus all of my friends & family that I still speak with, all vote. So they are going to lose a lot more than one trans person’s vote. Sacrificing trans people = sacrificing winning 🖕moderates

the more i hear about ai the more I wanna go out pick up a rock grind up pigments and draw little horses on the walls of a cavern

All this on the day that the body of a trans athlete was found on the middlebury campus, from suicide, after she was denied the right to compete this year thanks to Trump.

"When I began saying 'I’m autistic& disabled' something shifted. I stopped apologizing for my limits& started protecting my capacity. I stopped pretending my energy was endless& started recognizing it as finite, sacred& worth conserving." @lovettejallow.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/lovettej...

My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”

Reminder: no amount of effort or professionalism you put in today, no amount of excellence, or biting your tongue, or swallowing pride will protect you from being arbitrarily discarded, friends and colleagues from stepping over your body to take your job, or result in anyone swooping in to hire you.

With DEI efforts increasingly under attack, it’s worth emphasizing the dangerous consequences of not having diversity and inclusion—it dramatically shrinks our collective imagination and thus, solution spaces. Thus, we risk making huge mistakes! journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Re the below skeet: visit your local museum! There are all sorts of museums, probably one in your town, keeping history alive. A few years ago I stumbled into the Biddeford (Maine) Mills Museum. It’s in what used to be the mill but is now apartments and shops. Loved talking with the volunteers!

Key thread.

💡Did you know: SNAP benefits have a contingency fund that can be used during a gvt shutdown? This 💵 has already been appropriated by Congress. The Rs refuse to use the 💵 so they can force their fucked up agenda down our throats. apnews.com/article/snap...

Will repost wage theft articles whenever I see them.

For a moment I thought these were paper dolls. Draw some tutus and crowns and ballgowns for these guys please

Welcome to the new Dark Ages. In one self inflicted blow the US is giving up on knowledge generation, technical innovation and medical advances for a generation or more. This is Trump and Vought. This is their doing.

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

"The only world where loneliness is lessened is a world where humans are given a chance to be closer to other humans, not one in which they become a host for a digital parasite hanging around their neck, draining their life in service of profit for a tech company." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I for one can’t believe people within a few years of getting free healthcare for the rest of their lives who own homes worth 20-30x what they paid for them in the 80’s think the economy is doing great as opposed to (checks graph) everyone else

criminal: [flat murders dozens of people] press: well it's a gray area

sorry for ranting it just really sucks to have to risk further disability to attend organizing meetings because even abled longtime antifascists adopted the state’s eugenic stance towards immunocompromised and disabled people and very rarely care to take steps to keep us safe in their spaces

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

Sam's Club is part of Wal-Mart and Wal-Mart workers are among the largest recipients of SNAP in this country. Apparently, some Wal-Marts will help employees fill out SNAP applications as part of their HR paperwork. When people start going hungry on Nov 1 part of the reason is companies underpay them

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

How this all isn't front page material every day, in every newspaper, blows my mind

dental insurance: we only exist to make regular health insurance seem better™

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Even for people who are far from “starving,” malnutrition, and even just lack of nutritional variety, can cause severe, irreversible, and even fatal health problems

I think a lot about how most big-city newspapers used to have a a couple of movie critics, a theater critic, a few book critics, an architecture critic, a music critic or two, an in-house cartoonist, at least two or three foreign correspondents, a fashion writer, and a whole staff of photographers

Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Don't send your sick kids to school.

Just wrote a post inspired by one of the best articles I’ve read in a long time — it put into words a shift I’ve been seeing in how people decide what’s “trustworthy” and explains why experts and institutions are set up to fail in the new media environment (if we don’t adapt). shorturl.at/TbyNF

A very incomplete list of things we wouldn't have done if we waited for the normies to care: - abolish slavery - child labor laws - votes for women - social security - fdic - welfare - medicare - medicaid - desegregation - women's sports

They tortured him to death.

wow, which common vaccine was it?

"There is just one hope of repulsing the tyrannical ambition of civilization to conquer every niche on the whole earth. That hope is the organization of spirited people who will fight for the freedom of the wilderness." -Bob Marshall, making the case for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in 1930

civic religion is a thing and that’s the mfing temple right there should it be, at long last, the thing that breaks the fever? probably not but people really do care about buildings

There’s a reason the government told you Covid is over. It’s so they don’t have to pay to stop it, treat it, or cure it.

My friend told me that her 14 year old son started doing laundry on Sundays for some of his elderly neighbors. He doesn't charge for the labor. And now he is the most popular person in the building and has non stop pies, cookies, and cake. The 14 year old should be our model of modern masculinity.

The destruction of the East Wing is a reminder that America has violated the only check-and-balance that actually ends up mattering: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...

This thread is a pocket master class on the art of the insidious reframe. Read it.

Seems like a great moment for some magazine to do a big spread of photos of the East Wing throughout its history, driving home exactly what kinds of spaces have been taken from the people.

Example of media self-censorship: "Earlier this year, the chief content officer for our parent company, e.Republic, stated in a meeting that we should not run articles that could draw the attention of the Trump White House and have them try to shut us down." www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Dems should push a bill banning such administrative claim payments to presidents even if claims predated their service. Republicans will block vote on it. Let them. Then hammer away at that to voters. Push media to cover GOP complicity in Trump's theft of taxpayer $. newrepublic.com/article/2021...

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.

Finally: If Trump is hinting or outright demanding that DOJ give him $230 million in claims, how can any official who might be needing a pardon later say no to him? Reinforces the picture of all this as a kind of criminal syndicate. Raskin is strong on this here: newrepublic.com/article/2021...

I guess I just don't understand like... if you don't consider being a nazi or transphobe dealbreakers in an elected official then what do you actually stand for

"He didn't know the SS Totenkopf was a Nazi symbol!!!!" Well then why are you, an alleged antifascist, trusting him to know anything about fascism, let alone fight it

It's Invisible Disabilities Week 🫶🏽 Not all disabilities are visible and that doesn't make them any less real. Chronic pain, mental health conditions, neurological disorders, autoimmune diseases & more deserve awareness, respect, and understanding ✨

+ canceling SNAP benefits Nov 1 so remember that when you’re voting Nov 4. Think back to November 2, 2024 . Remember how you used to have a hospital nearby, food in your cupboard, a job to cover your bills, and didn’t live in fear that you/your neighbors were going to be kidnapped off the street.