That affects people's mental models about women, y'know? It gets referenced in future talks. "Remember that guy who got kicked out" becomes shorthand that speaks to how real groups of people are thought of. Also it comes from a guy who calls men men but women feeeeeemales. That speaks to motivation

I wouldn't spend any amount of time on this at all if it was Just a fake story. Fake stories go viral all the time (UberEats, Jamaican Masterpiece), whatev. But this one was also leading people to specific conclusions about what women in fandom are like, based on something that didn't happen

The curiosity was killing me. The guy said he found the ad on Instagram and that, as of today, the post is still up. So I spent an hour or so on a spreadsheet of every single bar, pub, or club I could find in Salt Lake City, almost 100. None of them posted it docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Jazz Solo babe!

I am at a vigil for Renee Good at St Mark's in the Bowery. They handed out cards bearing the names of people killed by ICE in this second Trump era. There are a lot of cards.

What’s this old thing

Like... under this framing, Iranians *did* accept the authoritarian slide for *decades*. Iran does not have a democracy. It is very weird to elide that and act like Iran and America are generally identical in this moment and only Iranians care about preserving democracy.

Okay again 1) Americans are protesting and 2) holy hell this is apples to oranges; Iranians and Americans are not in comparable situations and it is extremely dismissive of Iranians to pretend that that is the case

I don’t trust a story of bad fujoshis IRL by someone who uses “HR” like a slur, just saying.

Look, it’s just an elaborate Oscar Micheaux tribute. You need to get on this movie’s level.

One day the antisemitism squirrel will get doxxed and arrested and I will not shed one iota of a tear.

I genuinely don’t know what she means by this.

For those of you waking up to news that someone burned the synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, here's a link to donate to fire recovery efforts.

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune offers an expert, frame-by-frame analysis of the events leading to the death of Renee Nicole Good and immediately thereafter. (1) There is no ambiguity or doubt about what happened. (2) The claims made by Trump, Vance and Noem are categorically false in every detail.

lmao Mad Magazine has still got it

I’m sitting here wondering if Camille Paglia would have said anything this wack and I am genuinely puzzled.

Thank you for sharing this Tolkien fact.

NOW in Minneapolis: thousands march through the south side. “Ice out!” “Renee Good!” “Dinosaurs against ice!!”

These dancers are a common sight at Minneapolis protests and cultural events. Protesters are gathered around as they wait for the protest against ICE to start in south Minneapolis.

[watching a video essay] “[In Israel] Jewish Zionists are trying to do a Liebensraum and Christian Zionists are trying to do an END OF EVANGELION.” [looks up Liebensraum] “Oh c’mon man Manifest Destiny was right there.”

Apologies to the kids, but this is at least a fascinating look at the long process behind designing and producing toys. Like, Mattel has to be moving Heaven and earth for that KPDH money, and these dolls (which aren’t even a play line) are shipping in OCTOBER?

A woman is too timid, too weak, they say, for war—would faint at the sight of battle-steel—but when she is injured in love, when her bed has been defiled, she’ll have your blood. (Euripides, Medea, Robin Robertson transl.)

Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.

Ok as a mom who keeps getting invited to kids parties Sony/Netflix needs to step it the fuck up on K-POP DEMON HUNTERS toys. This is ridiculous.

I’m awake I’m OK.

The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old mother fatally shot by ICE, shows that ICE can’t be reformed and must be abolished. I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act as a step toward justice, accountability, and humanity in our immigration policy. Time to melt ICE.

liberal and leftist American women in 2026 are not beaten dogs and I do not think they will act like beaten dogs

I mean congrats, fuckers, you just made the wine moms even angrier now that you’ve directly and specifically threatened their lives

I loooooove this!

At this point I think ideological MAGA considers white liberal women (and white liberal men to a lesser extent) to be almost a distinct ethnic group

Happy Friday.

抱きしめてあげて〜、、、

Tomorrow’s going to be another day where I wake up in tears, huh?

I'm going to be real with you JD Vance, I don't think a video where the secret police murder someone and call them a bitch makes them look good

We've reached the point where the world's wealthiest person is just openly promoting the John Birch Society.

Minnesota authorities will pursue an independent investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross after being frozen out by the FBI.

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.

Seeing a lot of false postings out there. Despite the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's recent closure, PBS and NPR are still VERY MUCH ALIVE and active. They're just more dependent than ever upon the generosity of Viewers Like You! Please support your local station! pbs.org/donate

Remember when absolutely every work of literary fiction was titled "The [Random Profession]'s Wife" or "The [Random Profession]'s Daughter"

The scale of the protests in Iran are absolutely unbelievable. Hard to quantify, but I've seen some speculation that this uprising is more significant than the 2023 protests (themselves the largest challenge to the regime since it came into power in '79.) (Video from @AmirMiresmaeili on Twitter)

An award-winning poem from 2020 by Renee Nicole Good, murdered by Trump's ICE paramilitary today. poets.org/2020-on-lear...

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

The president went on his social media site and said Renee Good ran over an officer to the point that he was hospitalized and lucky to be alive. It shouldn't be a revelation that none of this is true, and he is a demented liar. What is a revelation is that his own supporters still believe him.

They’ve, brutally, killed a mother who was doing her civic duty, acting as an observer, documenting illegal actions being committed by ICE and partnered federal agencies. #SayHerName

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist