Prepare to defend trans and queer people

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

been so heads down working this morning I missed the antisocial choice of the day made by higher ed cowards catering to even horrifyingly awful bigots. tiresome and harmful. wash and repeat. this shit will kill us all.

Appropriate response to so many leading this planet: “I have found - I have experienced - new dimensions of volatility and energy power from a new resource, which is my contempt for you.” A quote from Joanna Macy aimed toward the death cult running far too much.

Things are getting weird on LinkedIn. I kind of love it. It’s a good weird. Someone posted about how all jobs are worthy & I posted an agreement and a comment ending with “The people united will never be defeated!” A white tech dude answered back Assata Shakur to me. We are the great turning!

Doing your best to literally destroy life-sustaining ecosystems while also sanctioning the torture of people is hard on the spirit, wow who knew

I'm ICE, boys. I love crashing cars, getting divorced, crashing cars, bargain bin jeans, texting while driving, crashing cars, OLD GLORY, and let's not forget my one true passion in life—crashing cars

This is why fascists oppose gender-affirming care.

There was a blissful moent when Keith Oldermann was gone from my consciousness. Just nothing about him in there just nope, none of him. Those were the good times, friends.

Free Speech says, "Bari Weiss? I never knew her."

I long for a world where I am not *constantly* reminded, entirely and utterly against my will, of the icky sex proclivities of random mediocrities with money.

I could not find my copy of Madness Rack and Honey and almost bought another. But I found it and it is now back on my desk where it lives to anchor recruiting with poetry. Mary Ruefle keeps me keeping on.

My just can't evens ran out and now I'm screamin'.

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

even if she is lying (and we have no reason to think she’s stopped being racist or bigoted or antisemitic), the nature of her lie is notable: it shows us she thinks the permission structure for acceptable public behavior and rhetoric is changing. She’s never been dim, so she’s changing too.

Eight years ago. Damn.

Aw shit y’all I’m back on my (glorious) bullshit of sharing Dabrowski bell hooks Mark Epstein and Joanna Macy in almost every conversation.

We lived in the cursed timeline where Olivia Nuzzi still gets pixels. I'd give almost anything (all the roses I could ever sniff) if we could move to a different kinder better less outrageously ignorant and smelly universe.

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

Oh gosh, how many people will drive off the edge of the earth. Here there be dragons.

Joanna Macy gave me a framework I didn’t realize I needed and then when I realized it she helped me refine it. She (along with so many) influenced how I deal w/ despair/suffering in order to find my way to gratitude to build a better future starting w/my intention.

I believe Mamdani is the future. Sing with me. :) He is the placeholder for the next wave we will bring into fruition. The refutation of a politics of hate exclusion & extraction. The refutation of a society built on suffering of the most for the pleasuring of a few. We can have nice things.

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

I am once again dizzy from the awfulness of the billionaire and techbro capture of the media ecosystem.

what a tremendous loss—Lex’s leadership and commitment to taking risks and doing right by people with less power is so rare, and frankly, this way of working is no longer being resourced at the scale we desperately need

Fuck Conde Nast for firing Teen Vogue's entire political reporting dept. I encourage all of you to cancel your subscriptions.

Appalling.

"We can have our Great Gatsby Party but you can't eat nor visit your families" is a HELL of a threat

Excuse me but DUH. gizmodo.com/microsoft-ai...

there’s a new ad running at wapo where you can access all of their articles for free without a sub if you read using comet, an ai-powered browser controlled by perplexity perplexity is an amazon-backed ai product i have no other words, really

this is why i watch videos of people telling ICE agents to get the fuck out of their cities

I have discovered Katseye and the song Gnarly really nails the mood of this moment.

Watching as a guy like Nick Fuentes has built himself into a major force for right-wing politics has been wild. I wonder if TIME hadn't interviewed him years ago after the Unite the Right rally, boosting his profile, if he'd still have become famous.

It is Saturday so lots of men on LinkedIn who are not recruiters are telling me a recruiter how recruiting works. I love that so much!

The Carondelet factory whistle has had it with 2025 and sounds like we all feel.

Sudan Sudan Sudan.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Is Joe Rogan TRYING to get sued again?

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

The racists among us aren't just sitting in some trailers somewhere. They're doctors, lawyers, judges, prosecutors, cops, federal agents, lawmakers, nurses, firefighters, paramedics, and any other profession you can think of. They are in every aspect of society.

That very MUNDANE action that you don't take because you are too busy fantasizing about being a superhero instead would actually DO something for someone. Your fantasy does not.

Who I ask, WHO will save us from the podcast bros thinking they can save America.

i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this

the needs of the anxious comfortable white male doing midcentury working class drag are at the very bottom of my list right now

if you want to defend the working class? buy out a street vendor’s cart so they don’t have to choose between their income or kidnapping by ICE

Despite the enraging bullshit of deadly tantrums all around us I commit to being the person I want to be building the future I desire right here and now - an ethics of care in action building mutual thriving. Intention and practice are powerful weapons in this moment.

Long past time people realize a willingness to play footsie with fascism lives in more than a few Dems and some are happy to wholeheartedly lick boots to keep their own power. We must carefully discern who to keep and who to punt.

We really could have had a few more nice things if the death's head freaks didn't accumulate so much power.

We need to know these things are happening and we need to remember and deliver consequences.

Soylent Green, Logan’s Run or that one Star Trek episode were not aspirational,you absolute antisocial jackasses.