Every cis man should have to wear a period simulator at least once for so many reasons, but definitely because it’s so fucking hilarious how low their pain tolerance is

Colombian President Gustavo Petro gave one of the most chilling speeches in recent history before the United Nations, and it has been totally ignored by US news media.

tl;dr: Fascism, in a very literal sense, is for dead-end losers.

and anyway, fascism really gets its strength and mass appeal from the petit bourgeoisie. theres a real argument to be made that the US class divisions are so severe they become almost a caste system. the proletariat are nonwhites and the PB are whites.

Periodic reminder: Hate takes effort to maintain. If it weren't for constant effort by fashy people to lie about Black folk, Brown folk, women, immigrants, trans folk, etc, that most people would choose *not* to support fashy people. Fascism requires an ongoing cost. Kindness is free!

Bertrand Russell once received letters from Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, inviting him to a debate. Russell not only declined but replied quite generally that “nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

I always thought when it was time for a mid career change of profession there would be professions left.

Morning walk

this is a very good story in a very good newspaper about a hateful war crime committed for no reason other than ambient bigotry and apparently forgotten immediately because somebody killed a racist podcaster a week later

Recent reporting alleges that civilian men are impersonating ICE agents to kidnap and sexually assault immigrant women, with cases in North Carolina and New York. Unmasking ICE agents is important, but it’s a Band-Aid on a broader, systemic crisis. Read @kylietcheung.bsky.social's full Op-Ed ⤵️

The United States will impose a 100 per cent tariff on imports of branded or patented pharmaceutical products from October 1, unless a pharmaceutical company is building a manufacturing plant in the US.

Deeply traumatizing history getting rewritten as a ‘battle’ that US soldiers get medals for—there are no words for it. bsky.app/profile/karl...

Since "defund the police is a bad slogan" is back, I'd remind yall this is who you're giving money & qualified immunity to 'it has to do with kids that are actively being smuggled, chained to walls, being raped," said Shawn Taylor, the conspiracy theorist who was hired as assistant police chief'

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Is this like garden gnomes for Mormons?

Federal law restoring Pell Grants is changing lives of incarcerated individuals in Michigan. “It's still surreal to me, to be honest with you,” Roden said. “I've only been out of prison two years and eight months. And I went back in yesterday as a coordinator for the first year seminar.”

“There are people who have real benefits [from this care]. To deny it to people, to make people suffer unnecessarily, that’s another type of harm.” Trans health care “skeptics” lost a key ally—now they’re having a meltdown.

Paraphrasing but the article goes on to state that officers with multiple charges that resorted in payouts are not tracked, and thus were not disciplined, retrained or offered counseling. I will continue to scream that every dollar from misconduct lawsuits should come out of police pensions.

imagine looking at this info graphic and thinking the person who posted it was talking about world war i.

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

Simultaneously there actually is an evil master plan - today's bullshit serves a bunch of ends: misogyny, patriarchy, eugenics, ableism, classism, erosion of science - and the mouthpieces are dullards with no thoughts in their heads whatsoever, just casual violence. Extremely irritating dystopia.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

Why are you in everybody’s business, Atlantic writer? There’s no one way to live - let people decide their own life! If it doesn’t hurt others or put/keep them down, you _can_ just be quiet about your opinion.

I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

"With the help of our neighbors, we managed to put out the fire and fled quickly into the night. ... [W]arplanes roared overhead, the smell of gunpowder filled the air, and the streets were swallowed by terrifying darkness."

The funniest future would be one where Roko was half-right about the future, but it wasn’t a malevolent AI just a C-suite douche with the same name and he only punished those who didn’t bring about his Ray-Ban stalkerware.

Oh god I briefly lived there (apartments behind a strip mall? There were many!). A desolation, a wasteland, concrete and traffic and chain stores.

Disband all sheriffs’ departments. They are relics of slave-catchers and king’s men. Many are corrupt beyond measure and have little to no oversight or accountability.

How's everyone handle bad faith actors irl? I freely block here, but that seems untenable in life, with coworkers, family, neighbors. We can avoid talking politics, but their beliefs hurt others in the community. I point out hypocrisy but is there more? Does severing just reinforce their othering?

Which is worse. the cross on wheels or the skinny pants with oversized, untailored jacket he is accessorizing?

wait, what did she even mean “you’re not the minority anymore”? It doesn’t really matter - those ladies and cops are racist. They just don’t seem to know why or how or what.

"[I]n August [2024], there were the notorious 'right to rape' protests in Israel. It had come to light that Israeli prison guards were systematically raping and sexually abusing Palestinian prisoners. ... [An Israeli lawmaker] even argued that 'everything is legitimate' for alleged Hamas members."

Global opinion used to be all-in behind children working long days in horrible conditions from a very young age. And there are way too many people who think of their children as extensions of themselves or...dolls/toys, essentially, and any opinion or individuality is to be squashed.

There's a doctoral dissertation waiting to be written about the political semiotics of this outfit. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...

My weekly must-reads list and my thoughts on witnessing care and courage amid clouds of tear gas Friday night. "Almost 550 people across Chicagoland have been arrested by ICE during Operation Midway Blitz. It is a campaign of terror focused on a city that our president feels profound contempt for."

Looks like some Dem voters woke up to the fact that the party has long betraying Americans and enabling Trump. Here are some articles on why: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/ten-articl...

ACAB/All Countries Are Bad. And It's not worth glorifying them.

I am proud to be born a Muslim. I am proud to be born in Somalia. I am proud to have become an American. None of you can change that no matter how much you rage tweet. Drink some water and touch grass.

there's no way to accurately describe what has been done to this person, one of SO MANY, without breaking your brain at the unthinkable, depthless cruelty of it.

Thank you @baldwin.senate.gov!

And credit it to @staceywescott.bsky.social for the @chicagotribune.com

Again, I'm just describing the situation. If we want to transform it, there's pretty much only one thing for converts to do: shut the fuck up and listen. But even that might be too much to ask.

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

So I spent time working through what systemic white supremacy is here: sundaymorningeasy.com?p=776

Smash two movies together: Boss Baby Driver

Smash two movies together: Kiss, kiss, chitty bang, bang

smash two movies together: The Unbearable Lighthouse of Being

What a weirdo. Bizarre man, really. Not normal at all. Definitely not great. More like grating. An old man who never satisfied his father and had to rely on others for his fortune and fame. Pathetic; a clown. Potus the orange-faced clown.

Why yes, that is a washed and sterilized chicken bone in our bag of fresh towels. Why do you ask?