Republicans, Trump included, are zeroing in on transgender people and blaming us for the looming government shutdown. They are demanding that Democrats cave on transgender rights. Many of them are copying the same talking points in their messages.

Pete Hegseth recently announced new personal grooming standards. Naturally, they're designed to push Black soldiers out of the armed forces. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/hegseth-military-shave-waiver-black-troops/ ----- If Only Pete Hegseth’s Military Shaving Crusade Was Just […]

I've been able to pinpoint 11:45am on Thursdays as the exact moment I start thinking "ok, this was a wash but NEXT WEEK, now that's when I'm going to get my shit together!" #meirl

From Teen Vogue, which is doing some of the best journalism about the extremist cult now in charge of the U.S. government: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/men-dressed-as-ice-agents-to-assault-immigrant-women-horrifying-trend We need to assume that every masked person kidnapping people off the […]

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Fridge lunch #lunch

The Damned: great show! #montreal #music #livemusic #goth

FFS none of these are the RIGHT leather bracelet... #goth #accessories #problems

Oklahoma promoting Hitler-Youth-like Turning Point U.S.A. clubs in public schools. State government joining with Charlie Kirk’s organization to indoctrinate high school students into Republican Fascism. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/24/turning-point-oklahoma-high-schools

I've migrated my #mastodon account twice. It was not a very complex process, and took me less than half an hour each time. And I took almost all of my followers with me automatically. And if you are on Mastodon.social, I recommend that you should consider migrating your account, too. I don't […]

#fediverse friends in #montreal! TONIGHT (24 Sep 2025) at #foulab is the Fediverse event! 7pm! I will see you there. https://foulab.org/news/events-september-2025/

Those who accept must report for duty on October 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation, during which time the GSA in some cases racked up high costs — passed along to taxpayers — to stay in dozens of properties whose leases it had slated for termination or were allowed to expire […]

TIL I learned of the Great Disappointment of 1844 following one of many failed Raptures. It " paved the way for the Adventists who formed the Seventh-day Adventist Church." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Disappointment Bonus: the word "Rapture" does not appear anywhere in the bible […]

Schrödinger's Shooter exists as both a deranged leftist motivated by dangerous rhetoric AND as a misunderstood troubled youth who needed Jesus until the waveform collapses

I guess we should thank Donald Trump for making the relationship between fossil fuels and fascism explicit.

TNR - President Trump repeatedly blamed the UN for his teleprompter issues and a malfunctioning escalator in a spiteful speech to the General Assembly. But it seems that both issues were caused directly by his own team […]

And here's the ground track from @planet4589.bsky.social Welp, time to go on the radio and ask Saskatchewan farmers out looking for pieces! (Maybe THIS time I can get some small town to issue SpaceX a fine for littering? That would be delightful.)

Who wants to take a bet that, within the next year, there will be a movement to change the name of the United States of America? My money is on rebranding it something with "Republic" in it. #uspol #predictions

🍎 The Forbidden Fruit Social media is designed to keep you there, giving you everything you think you need, from AI-trained algorithms that know your favourite dog breed, to adverts and shops which will throw the next-best-thing in your face. But, you don't have to stay confined within the […]

@cbcnews how did you report an entire story about Canada recognising the state of Palestine without speaking once to a representative of the state of Palestine, or even to a reporter in Ramallah? You did manage to have an extensive discussion with a reporter in (Western) Jerusalem about how the […]

WRITE DISNEY A LETTER. Not email. Not social media. WRITE DISNEY A LETTER. On PAPER. Put it in an ENVELOPE and MAIL IT. Yeah, they'll think you're old(er). They'll also think you have 1) money and 2) maybe children, more likely grandkids. And […] [Original post on mastodon.murkworks.net]

"What makes this torment nexus special is you can self-host your torment and own your torment identity"

@JDGeoShack We, the people who follow politics closely can easily forget that most people just ignore it. It's cantankerous, confusing and often ugly. And talking about it can make people angry at you. I think that some of this stuff is causing "how bad it is" to break that containment. It's […]

This wouldn't fix the overall lack of doctors but might go a long way to retaining the ones we have and slowing the number going private "As an employee, we want you to be a doctor 100 per cent of the time. No more administration, we'll look after this. We'll look after hiring your medical […]

It is extremely disturbing to me that I have only seen coverage of this in smaller media outlets, none of the major ones. I know, there is a lot of shit going on in this country and around the world, but "Lynching is Back, Maybe?" is surely a big goddamn story […]

From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/21/fascism-women-homemaker-trad-wife?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other #fascism #feminism #trad

Ooooh, okay, it's a bribery scheme. #uspol #uspolitics #Corruption #trump #h1b #visa #bribery #fucktrump #fuckmaga

#uk joins #australia & #canada in recognizing #palestinianstate despite opposition from #us & #israel British PM #keirstarmer confirmed Sunday that the UK is formally recognizing a #palestinian state despite vociferous opposition from the US & Israel. His announcement follows those from Canada […]

adding to the #antifa trend, this is a reminder that #PuertoRicans go hard when we bash the fash: it’s estimated 72,000 boricuas ―from La Isla and the states― joined the effort during #WWII. sources: The Puerto Rican Philly Experience · 1940-45: 72,000 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Breaking my social media silence to look for a #transgender #Japanese-to-English #translator who would be interested in #translating a rather famous #manga featuring transgender characters. I will help, but N1 or an equivalent level in #japanese#translator#translating#manga a must. Writing experience is a big plus. Prefe […]

The White House Peace Vigil, after standing for decades, is dismantled https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/sep/19/the-white-house-peace-vigil-after-standing-for-dec/ #uspol #peace

Trump regime now requires press to sign a document agreeing not to obtain or possess "unauthorized" information. https://archive.ph/3GGyU Anyone who agrees to this is not qualified to call himself or herself a journalist. But I'm betting most Big Journalism orgs will go ahead and sign.

#bookchallenge #bookstodon here, have all my 20 women writers in one post cos I'm lazy 😁 no order! 1. Kate Atkinson 2. Maggie Stiefvater 3. Nina Allan 4. Becky Chambers 5. Daisy Johnson 6. Elizabeth Jane Howard 7. Natasha Pulley 8. Martha Wells 9. Emily St John Mandel 10. Carmen Maria Machado […]

“This is a direct assault on independent journalism at the very place where independent scrutiny matters most: the U.S. military.” - National Press Club President Mike Balsamo https://www.press.org/newsroom/national-press-club-statement-pentagon-restrictions-threaten-independent-reporting

#doctorwho #uspol #futurehistory

WaPo - Trump administration unveils a new crackdown on Pentagon journalists, requiring them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke press credentials of those who don’t obey […]

Keep it going! #jimmykimmel https://www.newsweek.com/disney-plus-subscribers-quit-jimmy-kimmel-axe-2132535

So, my take away from this is that media is controlled by the few people still watching local nightly news? #uspol #newsmedia

Fediverse! I need some help! I have a fellowship to go to Aotearoa New Zealand for a few weeks, and also an offer of an additional fellowship to give lectures around NZ. This is INCREDIBLY EXCITING!! ...but I have a lot of animals! And it's going to be […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Everyone reading this needs to understand that if this goes into effect you - yes, you, individually, the person reading this right now - could be deemed a "narcoterrorist" by Trump and subjected to summary execution.

The republicans spent 4 years planning a full authoritarian government takeover, and in just 8 months, they’ve implemented nearly half of it. Didn't Trump deny he knew anything about it? #uspol https://www.project2025.observer/en

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Montreal Golden Hour stroll #montreal #walking

Christine Hitt: Hawaiians unite to buy back land from billionaire in a move never seen before. #molokai residents want to return Hawaiian lands to Hawaiian hands. #hawaii #Indigenous #restoration https://www.sfgate.com/hawaii/article/hawaiians-organize-buy-land-back-from-billionaire-21039366.php

Oooh, I like this feature: you can create an ad hoc category and then use it to banish a post e.g. a reply you dont want to see any more when you go to notifications.

Well, that sucks. "Quebec to stop offering free COVID-19 vaccines to the general population A dose will cost between $150 and $180 at a pharmacy" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-covid-19-vaccines-1.7636666 #quebec #healthcare #covid

Over the last week I’ve become aware that lots of infrastructure depends on local government, school board, etc, meetings being posted on YouTube. That’s quite a scary dependency & a potential vector for harm. We need to get to a world where these meetings are stored & shared in a more aligned way.

It would be disturbing enough if Kimmel's show had been pulled (at the FCC's behest, no less) for speaking ill of Charlie Kirk. But the monologue wasn't even about Kirk. It was about the hypocrisy and opportunism of those using Kirk's murder to advance a right-wing narrative. Comedy can be a […]

On the toboggan of authoritarian consolidation in the U.S., we've just whizzed past the "regime pressure forces major broadcast figure off the air" marker.