Thinking about becoming less informed

I know this ink was made by squashing kittens and baby pandas in a coal-fired crusher, but I only use it to write poems about flowers.

if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE it will result in dead trans people and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing you see the pipeline right? we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

it is a foregone conclusion that yelling at the tiger will not produce any positive results. the fact that people are yelling at the democrats is actually a positive sign: it means they still believe there is a sliver of a chance they will wake up and become an opposition party

my problem with these takes, is it's like imagine if you were being attacked by a tiger at the zoo, and the zookeeper was over there kinda halfheartedly going "hey. come on now. get off him" and you went HEY WHAT THE FUCK! and the zookeeper went "uh don't oyu think you should be angry at the tiger?"

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.

Breaking news: Iran fired missiles at Israel and at least seven Arab states following strikes by the U.S. and Israel. The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait confirmed hits, while Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan and Qatar said they intercepted missiles.

"We have to side with our country during wartime!" Actually no, we don't. That's just government imperialist propaganda.

The only thing it feels worthwhile for me to say right now is pay attention to whether your feelings & the information you’re absorbing are paralyzing you or prompting you to meaningful action, whatever that is. Paralysis helps no one but the enemy.

I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children. From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.

it’s all just video games to them, they don’t believe anyone who lives in the Middle East counts as real people they’re just making things go boom, watching it on TV, and high fiving

Preventing war with war

not once have I ever needed a text message or email summarized in my entire fucking life

Lotta things wrong with NYC publishing, but at least we get to have sponsored Heated Rivalry-themed parties and call them "networking events"

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

In 1938, the German Reich invalidated all German Jewish passports. They must surrender them, after which their ID will mark them as a Jew. In 2026, the state of Kansas invalidated all correct trans drivers licenses. They must surrender them, after which their ID will mark them as trans.

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org

If you are outraged about what Kansas is doing to trans people— criminalizing their very right to exist, seizing drivers licenses overnight and saying if they drive thereafter it’s a crime, which puts them into the PIC under their gender assigned at birth where rape is routine—I BEG YOU

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

"People don't want to work anymore," "kids these days are too soft to do physical labor"—or maybe all it takes is reasonable compensation and dignified conditions! A functioning society costs so much less than people assume; those in power just have to be willing to allocate resources accordingly.

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

The military is still just killing random people on boats in the Caribbean. No trials, no evidence. 137 kills so far

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“he was 27 and his mom said he loved playing in the snow and now they won’t even tell her how he died” this one really fucked me up they came here because they were being persecuted by law enforcement and then he was killed by law enforcement

Depending on whom Newsom meant when he said, "I'm just like you. I'm no better than you"—the Black mayor? the dyslexic community? the audience, all presumed to be lowly illiterates who needed reassurance of their worth?—he was being racist, ableist, or a condescending shithead. Those are ALL BAD.

Okay. "In context" it's clear that despite being dyslexic himself, Newsom buys into the ableist idea that dyslexia is an intellectual death sentence: you can't succeed in class or on the SAT, or even read a speech—but society will stoop to your level if you're Gavin Newsom and talk enough bullshit.

If you're more upset with people pledging to never vote for Newsom as President than you are with Newsom for being an unfettered racist, stay out of my mentions forever.

Can we get to 4500 letters to NY City Council by tomorrow? It only takes 30 seconds: actionnetwork.org/letters/city... - Also if you've already signed, can you please get 4 others to do the same?

Post-competition figure skating galas are like rumspringa and spirit week and senior prom all in one and they deserve the same size audience as the Super Bowl halftime show

I'll never forget the girl I tutored who wrote an essay about how she idolized Taylor Swift until she watched some TikToks and realized billionaires shouldn't exist

If this is virtue signaling, I want more virtue signaling

In the last 250 years, the United States has done not fewer than a dozen genocides, started not fewer than fifty different illegal wars, and committed several thousand discrete war crimes. Why would Israel need to make us do what we've always done anyway?

The problem with "Israel controls the US" is that it necessarily assumes we wouldn't support the genocide in Occupied Palestine unless they coerce us. And that's just an ahistorical take to the point of being outright fiction.

Unsolicited rec in light of the rice-cooking discourse: the one-button 3-cup Zojirushi rice cooker is the best appliance in my kitchen and it's not close. Small enough to leave on the counter but light enough to store, affordable, easy to clean, essentially foolproof store.zojirushi.com/products/nhs

There are different kinds of rice and they are not all optimally prepared in the same single way and you all need to stop pissing me off with this bullshit

Idk, I see news like this and all I can think is that answer might simply be Violence

Disconcerting that so many on the left see singular candidates failing to live up to their promises and default to “the betrayer must be dethroned” and not “our ally needs more infrastructure and support“

would be nice if every news outlet didnt just keep pretending that the USA has a king who can just do whatever he likes 24 hrs after the supreme court literally says he can't

If you don’t read old stuff you’ll never discover that people in the olden days had the same thoughts and feelings and dreams and anxieties you do, sometimes articulated differently, sometimes exactly the same way. You are never truly alone in anything and old writings are a neon sign telling you so

"People over at the Nazi bar are less likely to disagree with me" I don't know if I'd be bragging about that

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

Life is in shambles but I just remembered I have leftover pad thai in my fridge