🚨 St. Louis City Police, now State Police, work with ICE. Previous incident refered to by @annielrice.bsky.social

Whats good TV for you all? My stories are important to my periodic escapism and emotional regulation and I am in a lull. Tell me what you've been watching, please and thanks!

The death cult is harming and killing people with more and more momentum.

They cut school lunches and THIS is the bipartisan school funding bill they come up with? Fuck you.

Implementing the thing you didn’t think about enough is always the easiest part.

Hey NYT? How about we interview people who act from an ethics based on caring about other beings and the planet and stop interviewing death-culters who only care about themselves? How about that? Try something new!

A greatly under-appreciated, under-reported feature of the MAHA movement and its leader, RFK Jr, is its extreme & grotesque racism, which is a key plank in its overall eugenics framework (along with vile anti-immigrant fervor) From www.npr.org/2026/04/29/n... H/T @noethematt.bsky.social

Lush gifts of alley and yard. Grateful for beauty.

World-famous atheist abandons all reason and dives head first into superstition because he told himself it was a girl who thinks he’s smart.

I do not think I have ever said white women do not struggle with misogyny. Have I? Ever in my life? No. Good lord. To think our liberatory project must center white women misses something important. To question impact of white supremacy in this moment is suspect. White women are not more at risk.

I wrote a thing and I am ready for people to run me out of town on a rail for not being a purist but goddamn I never have been. This is the shit I send out once in a blue moon to my email list if it is useful to you. buttondown.com/RokusekLisa/...

The particular grievance flavor within white feminism is particularly horrible to me. It always bums me out.

Haha someone just said I am unwilling and unable to acknowledge women being oppressed and I'm sorry I may need to melt onto the floor laughing forever. Hilarious.

Very very telling. It’s been a big question how the govt was able to get a grand jury to sign off on this particular conspiracy charge. Seems pretty clear the govt had dirty hands on that front.

Today is a trip. Having recruiting calls where I talk about empathetic imagination, an ethics of care, positioning by listening and pixels of persuasion while going through an attention destroying reality fracture is probably NOT WHAT PEOPLE EXPECT.

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Some days a very real practice I need and am grateful to have developed if in an imperfect state is reminding myself the future is not yet written and nihilism is stupid small and petty. Oddly the best reminder of that is pulling weeds in the garden in my back yard.

queen shit

I think it's really underappreciated that a large chunk of people across the world are everyday being served images of the world's worst atrocities, essentially live as they happen, in ways previously only experienced by people on the frontline, who have historically had years of trauma as a result.

Yesterday I talked to a friend doing aging parent care and imparted most important lessons I learned from my time. Give yourself permission to vigorously coordinate w/the many doctors to keep them on point. Always demand testing for UTIs at the first sign of behavioral changes. Fight if needed.

This applies to normie people like me in the US as well. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

Attacking “leaf-eaters” was unexpected. This is a never ending caricature of ignorant bigotry. These people are ridiculous un -funhouse mirror images of dumb shits performing stupidity.

The insta seashells being seen as active voice while security's guns were shot with the most passive of passive voice. Quite a reality breach we are living in.

One earnest and sincere question I have for folks who position the restoration of "the social contract" as the way out of this: How can you restore a social contract among people who no longer experience a shared reality? This is not snark. I'm asking.

Passive voice walks amongst us doing all kinds of mischief.

Absolutely chilling.

Vought needs to be in the first rank of the dock at The Tribunal, along with Elon Musk

Ultimately a lot of insiders do not like describing things as they are because it would obviously require an extremely different menu of (legal) strategies that are not currently being used.

This is both correct as a norm-setting function and evidence, since conviction and removal is unimaginable, bordering on impossible to so many people, that our constitutional system is fundamentally broken and badly needs comprehensive reform if we are ever to become a working democracy again.

Society is much more fragile than many of us realize. A shared reality. An awareness of interconnection. A sense of well being intrinsically bound together. This is not where we are.

Has something changed about when we issue weather warnings versus watches lately?

What Would David Graeber Do?

When we (collectively) keep engaging with bad faith in good faith it eventually leads to a breakdown like this current moment. A rupture of reality and possibly faith itself. A dark dark place.

I hope the Harper’s people are unhappy. (They are not.)

Guess I'll say something else out loud, too: Assassinating a fascist leader is not a shortcut to defeating fascism. It also has blowback effects: cults of martyrdom, crackdowns, retaliatory assassinations, etc. We need mass protests, strikes, election wins, and new governing structures.

Some events help me prune my following fetish that’s for damn sure.

Yes, this.

I do not think this cabal of corruption and folks within the bubble of the elite understand the emotional flavor of regular people in this moment. It doesn’t feel exactly complacent.

Certainty is such a luxury. I never realized how cultivating not-knowing or at least the ability to withstand the seductive pull of certainty would serve me so well under this regime. I’m surprised at the usefulness.

The “are we the baddies?”question asked and answered. Over and over.

Spent some time picking up trash on South Broadway this morning. So many humongous liquor bottles. Very fancy tequila was number one, followed by lots of vodka bottles & almost no gin. Way too many tiny fireball bottles. Lost count of trash bags filled. Sad to say no concrete buddhas this time.

Domination is abuse.

If I were a Democrat trying to make some headway in Utah, I might point out that Trump put someone in a key decision-making role who blithely dismissed the safety of 3.5 million Utah residents, and joked about how no one lives there.

I am almost ecstatic at watching things grow in my garden and listening to the birds that seem to find it their happy place. Sometimes between calls I just go pull some weeds and I feel so chill with the sounds and colors and smells of dirt and plants.

I interviewed @chanda.blacksky.app about her new book, The Edge of Space-Time. We discussed cosmic wonder, the mythology of genius, Deep Space Nine, and thinking beyond false narratives and manufactured inevitabilities. If your brain is stuck in the churn of bad news, you'll want to check this out.

The attack-the-academy movement was never, ever about freedom and diversity of thought in the academy. It was always going to play out this way. It’s never been “nobody should dictate thought,” it’s always been “WE should dictate thought.” www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

I had several talks yesterday with people working in tech who like me have worked in it for several decades. They said things like we’ve seen this all before - beginning of web, move to client server, move to virtualization - all bubbly frenzies. And I agree but now still feels different, darker.

For me being queer means living differently than the dominant power paradigm. Non extractive, appreciating difference, interconnected. News out of Texas Tech makes me want to yell & write about our queer compound even more loudly. We are queers living in community being good neighbors to all.