Was talking to @lonelocust.bsky.social and realized what #SOIAF really needs at this point is for GRRM to begin a *sequel* series.

Sad to think that, if not for the ironclad commitment of most white people to white supremacy, we might have a country whose 250th birthday is worth celebrating, and we might have celebrated it in a way that doesn't give the vibe of a chinz-ass failed casino run by Nazi cosplayers.

"The lack of protection built into the design of TPS is the original sin: there should always have been a pathway to residency and citizenship for people who make their lives here in our communities, regardless of how they came. People’s lives should never be left up to political whim."

Mel Brooks is a greater piece of American heritage than the Confederacy.

Ruling against TPS for Haitians, the Trump justices on the Supreme Court have set a new impossible standard for proving discrimination against non-whites: if there is any other reason *in addition* to the racism, the racism doesn’t count www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Here is the "WARNING NOTICE" federal agents hand-delivered. "YOU MAY BE IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW" It's the second of these notices I am aware of. If you've received one, please get in touch: fire.org/alarm

For people upset about Article 13 of this U.S.-Israel-Lebanon trilateral agreement – or its other sovereignty-negating provisions, which effectively put Lebanon in U.S.- and Israeli-supervised receivership – this is where this process was always headed: foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/15/t...

She wanted to be in this war and argued that the only reason Keir Starmer didn't want to is that he was in hoc to British Muslims. Not a serious person.

There is no greater bond than sensory issues + dysautonomia + ADHD meds + heatwave. Absolutely generational teamup.

Many such cases. Trans people get chased out of cis led activism and then chastised for sticking to trans led stuff.

Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally shooting a health insurance executive on a Manhattan sidewalk in 2024, is due for a hearing in federal court on Monday ahead of his federal trial on stalking charges after murder and weapons charges were thrown out.

Cops and jails don't solve homelessness and often exacerbate it. They're not even a band aid; they make situations worse because the system requires $ ppl then can't spend on housing. But even in "liberal' Austin, it's like the only tool the pols have is a hammer so every problem looks like a nail.

Texas, recently went the other direction. It was like magic. All we had to do was criminalize begging and sleeping outside, and after that, we had no more homeless people and everyone stopped complaining.🪄 Oh wait, it made things worse and the entitled NIMBY whiners still didn't stfu.

You cannot wake up those who pretend to be asleep.

SFPD attacked again for a second night in a row. bsky.app/profile/prid...

For full Pride 2026 coverage, read our dispatches: missionlocal.org/2026/06/san-...

TONIGHT Several people were arrested at the end of the Trans March, the kick-off event for San Francisco Pride weekend. Police officers ran into the crowd & handcuffed people, allegedly for earlier acts of vandalism. People were heard yelling "Get off him!" & "What the fuck?!"

the deep irony of two nights in a row of cops beating up trans people in the Transgender Cultural District, where they paint little trans flags on the street lights 🙃

Apparently there were 15+ arrests last night at an informal Pride event in SF. If you were there or have info, DM me or hit me on Signal @misoshnik.13 You can be anonymous

"Until she [Haiti] spoke no Christian nation had abolished Negro slavery. Until she spoke no Christian nation had given to the world an organized effort to abolish slavery. Until she spoke, the slave trade was sanctioned by all the Christian nations of the world... /17

People like Frederick Douglass also talked about Haiti and recognized its importance. I'll end with what Douglass said about Haiti: Frederick Douglass on Haiti at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago: “My subject is Haiti, the Black Republic; the only self-made Black Republic in the world. /16

4. However, diplomatic relations suffered under Jefferson, who was concerned about the revolution influencing the U.S. (which it did). He refused to acknowledge Haiti, and the U.S. didn't acknowledge Haiti until 1862. /11

2. The Haitian Revolution challenged many beliefs that existed about Black people, particularly their desire for freedom, their ability to be free and sustain themselves, and their intelligence related to organizing and fighting. /3

The U.S. and European powers have always targeted Haiti/Haitians because Haiti's story is one of Black resistance, and these powers (still) try to invalidate and denigrate the first self-made Black republic at every turn. But its struggles are linked to colonial powers attempting to destroy it. /1

"but we owe incomparably more to Haiti than to them all. I regard her as the original pioneer emancipator of the 19th century” This thread serves as a reminder Haiti mattered then, and it matters now. We in the U.S. must do all we can to fight back against racism/oppression against Haitians. /21

Israel does not have the "right" to be a Jewish state at the exclusion of all the non-Jews it controls the daily lives of. This is objectively true. All these people are coping that Mamdani has found a clever way of saying so which inverts the question.

Wealthy white mad people don't see the ugliest side of psychiatry. They can have a way different experience from a poor Black mad person like me. In the facilities where they're treated, they can come away with a positive impression of the system. Their experience is the exception. We get brutality.

When I was in-patient the staff all treated me with respect and kindness (which was really helpful for me) but I noticed that it didn’t always extend to people of color in there with me. The staff seemed to just have less patience for them.

“the phenomenon of the 'once-in-a-generation' heatwave is now occurring nearly annually. We were warned,’ [WHO Dir-Gen] wrote, adding that ​Europe's homes, workplaces & schools were ill-equipped for extreme heat…. Dozens of people seeking relief from the heat are reported to have drowned.”🛟

It’s also just very funny to look at the current president and believe that natural born is any kind of deterrent/barrier to preventing foreign interests controlling the executive lol

I worked at Colonial Williamsburg the summer of 97, as a college sophomore. At least 3 ppl offered to buy me. Dozens asked me if I was Pocahontas. One asked me if the backyard I was showing was where bad slave girls like me got taken to be beaten. My bosses took to action. And I’m not even Black!

The street finds its own use for things.

My daughter said to me on Thursday “this is the hottest day of my life” and honestly the Homer/Bart “so far” meme has never been so bitter

It was the 2019 Nature manifesto pledge "to plant 1 billion new trees by 2030, 2 billion by 2040" that got ridiculed by tabloids and other journos but as @lisaocarroll.bsky.social commented, the plan was "ambitious but not out of sync with expert thinking" www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Not to get all ‘oh Jeremy Corbyn’ about things but I have very vivid memories of journalists and other cunts all laughing their heads off at the 2017 manifesto commitment to plant fucking loads of trees to help cities mitigate the impact of excessive heat.

this is how hard it is to get fraud resolved in the US. the schools in this were all schools the feds had declared had committed fraud. they sued them. in some cases closing tons of actual schools in the process but they wanted all the kids who took out loans to pay every single cent back

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.

Tough advice to live by, but they're not *wrong*

Her expression turned even more grim. “Corporate slave labor camps.” I said, “Yes, but if we call them that, Marketing and Branding gets angry and we get a power surge through our brains that fries little pieces of our neural tissue.” Indah winced.

Reading @thrasherxy.bsky.social's new book made me think of how British & Chinese leaders mastered indirect rule to supercharge my hometown's economic growth without improving any prospects of self-determination. From Hong Kong to Atlanta, if you look hard enough, you find Overseers everywhere.

It remains one of the main examples of hypocrisy in British politics. Anti/Non-Zionist Jews are either ignored or told they are not sufficiently Jewish, which is textbook antisemitism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=URpI...

Gaza had 12 universities at the start of the genocide. Now it has none, because its civilian populace has been subjected to World War II-level crimes, with the direct assistance of the governments of the white people world. All of whom already knew Israel’s government was fascist and genocidal, BTW.

there is no critical analysis required for ricky gervais’ stand-up it’s not an act or a persona. he’s just a mediocre guy who struck gold once and has been dining out on reputation ever since you can find guys like him making the same ‘jokes’ in every pub in this country we’ve all met a ricky

As usual, the Times downplays the degree of malice involved. The "abortion abolition" movement wants to charge abortion *as murder*, potentially seeking capital punishment.

"Led by figures like Texas pastor Joel Webbon—who accompanied Hall and posed for a photograph alongside the two in Carlson’s studio—this camp has drawn headlines for their embrace of overt antisemitism, white nationalism, misogyny, and hardline theocratic views. 1/2

I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that

Sincerely asking well meaning good-governance types to read up on the history of anti-indigenous, anti-blackness, or environmental sacrifice zones in Canada & the USA, and how many good liberal public servants were proud participants.