back to Mary Louise Adams: culture shapes bones. CULTURE SHAPES BONES.

the full quote is stronger bc he ties it to the dire need for us to be looking at the house/senate this year as a way to restore checks & balances

The Vatican's polling numbers in the key demographic of "people who fundamentally reject their ecclesiastical authority" are absolutely tanking right now. Because of woke.

“With the denial came the blood, the breakdowns, the rise in rage that experts pretended was mysterious. It was not. There is a saying that grief is love with nowhere to go, but grief with nowhere to go is . . . this.”

It’s cool how people who grievously wronged you can threaten to effectively destroy your life for publicly speaking out about it as long as they have money to exert legal pressure and you don’t

The problem with promising 100 million deportations is that’s 1 in 3 people in the American population

I was recently outside of the US and trying to figure out why I was doing so much better than usual at navigating a hilly city on foot while out and about all day, and recovering so quickly, and I realized: there were benches, big ones without hostile-architecture features, at regular intervals.

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

Trauma may shape us. It may inform who we are. But it is not ALL of who we are. We are not caricatures of pain. We are not our dysphoria. We are whole people, who love and laugh and bleed and cry and feel. And being trans is an incredibly beautiful thing to be.

I believe deeply that the world we make is shaped by the methods we use, that our means are inextricable from our ends, and that we must be better than our opponents, that our moral commitments must be unshakeable, and also, to be clear, in pocket sand and going for the eyes.

So they're making the claim that the 2017 Unite The Right Rally - you know, the one that had very fine people on both sides 🙄 - was actually staged and funded by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)? yes, someone could make that up. And that's exactly what they're doing

My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus

"Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!" - Arthur Miller, The Crucible

Below is a statement from the unionized workers of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Is there not one, goddam normal motherfucker in this entire Administration?

Funny in the most gallows kind of way that forcing companies to cancel trans related shows would result in roughly 3 shows ending

Imagine being buried with a copy of some opening credits

the crime is existing at all.

Not overselling: This is fucking incredible

Hey have you looked at the list of names in the "America Reads the Bible" event other than Trump? Cause. I recognize too many of them or their organizations, and given who I am, and what I study, it's not great, Bob!

Once again tapping my "purity anxiety/border anxiety/white supremacy/eugenics/it's all the same damn thing" sign.

I'm reasonably sure this is somewhere towards the end in the Thirty-Six Stratagems, though.

lol imagine being on a submarine right now

We really do live in a trans media climate where I’ll meet random trannys and hear telephone echoes of the latest fear mongering trends but routinely learn that most of us don’t engage with each others music, books or know anything about the positives of our advancements as a community.

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

My mother, who grew up in time to be the Counterculture, 10000% believed in this theory. "They didn't want anyone to turn out like us again," she'd say. "They wanted more control. So they razed education."

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years. Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?) Distributed physical copies matter.

I've always been absolutist about maximizing our distro at LittlePuss, but I used to feel more complicated about it. I knew where I stood, but I could see how I might be wrong, possibilities in which I'd come to regret sacrifices made for that position. I feel less complicated these days.

“Forest Fights” in rural Virginia are bringing together white supremacist networks like the Wolves of Vinland and the Active Club movement, highlighting how staged combat events are being used to recruit new participants, and embed militant training within far-right organizing. Read more:

Hey, today a few of my peeps and I launched a fund raising money to support survivors of sexual violence and trafficking. For people who've benefited from programs paid for by $ that (we learned later) caused great harm, & for people who just want to be part of bringing more healing: ashrufund.com

Hungarian taxpayers paid American “post-liberal” Rod Dreher $105,000 last year to produce propaganda for Orban’s regime. www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strang...

Hegseth has a giant Jerusalem Cross tattoo on his chest.

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

In his first appearance, Superman beat a domestic abuser so hard his sleeves disintegrated

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

I can think of a lot of more accurate and less flattering terms for dudes who travel to other countries to trap foreign women in subservient relationships than “passport bros”

trans women have a biological advantage at being hot now

Thinking a lot about this passage in @theradr.bsky.social’s brilliant, essential ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World. I wish more people realized/cared that true repentance benefits the person doing the work, and society as a whole.

Celeste Roberge’s sculpture “The Weight of Grief” #art

I’d say the number of people working on that feature doubled because of the legal risk involved, to me and the editor, sure, but more importantly to the leaker. GQ’s fashion spreads paid for those resources. Independent media can do it, too—but it needs resources. *Pay for journalism.*

Thread. I think of a time when I published a piece in GQ that involved leaked body cams of a police killing of an unarmed man. Besides the resources necessary to report it, the leaker needed to know the magazine had the legal resources to defend confidentiality. & I needed those lawyers.

I was at a dog-friendly bar in NW Portland tonight and a table behind me started singing Happy Birthday and then I realized it wasn’t for a person but a really old dog who was wearing a crown and he was old and fucking adorable and I love this city

I appreciate this model for being a researcher so much. It's why I don't care if someone thinks I spend too much time on the impacts of my work or listening to what students and activists tell me are problems with higher ed.

San Francisco is holding the line — we’re going deep on how. Join us & @coyotemedia.org April 28 at the SF LGBT Center for a live interview series featuring leaders in the fight for trans rights, interviewed by trans journalists who ask the right questions. 
RSVP: bit.ly/tjaSF

Today I learned that JD Vance skipped RCIA, the Catholic Church's educational program for adult converts, and instead had a Dominican priest-friend baptize him after a crash course in right-wing heresy. These are lazy men who think they can fast-track/ChatGPT their way to Expertise.

Absolutely mystified by the recent uptick in white men asking us to let them become better people *in public office*. No?? Please go be a better person not on my dime and not when you’re representing the people you’re doing the slurs about??????

Broke: visibility Woke: monstrous to behold