once again: asking for a candidate without a Nazi tattoo isn’t asking for a unicorn you sound genuinely insane when you claim that it is

Get bent w the phrase “purity test” ffs. Do people not get what they’re saying is “do not have standards”? “Do not change your mind when you learn new facts that are v troubling — & stfu when a person’s actions & explanations around those facts are shifty, hostile & display a lack of maturity?” 🤡

I have seen a lot of people downplaying the Platner stuff as "he wasn't even that appealing" or "he didn't even have a chance of winning" And I wish we wouldn't do that. I think that really undercuts the clear moral statement: Even if he was a guaranteed win, he should still be out. End of story.

PAY THEM DUST

Same, but it was the dept of transportation for me.

"No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people." Thomas Paine

"The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter." Hannah Arendt

"I’m gonna tell you fascists You may be surprised The people in this world Are getting organized You’re bound to lose You fascists bound to lose" Woody Guthrie

"You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill revolution...you can jail a liberator but you can't jail liberation." Fred Hampton

Speaking of needing consequences for prosecutors who fuck around with the evidence, we’ve got a live one in Denver County right now. Gift Link.

May we all strive to be an entirely new type of object in the universe today

These people are so unpopular, everything they're doing is unpopular, and any democrat who refuses to recognize that and go hard is about to become unpopular on a career-destroying level.

The fact that they can't get a random sampling of citizens from any city to indict people for interfering with ICE seems more informative than any political poll, tbh

oh shit! yay! I had such a great time with the first book in this series, Hench, and had no idea another one was in the works.

YOU CAN'T WISH HARM ON A MAN WHO IS DEAD 💀 YOU CAN'T THREATEN VIOLENCE ON A MAN WHO IS DEAD 💀 YOU CAN'T INCITE SELF HARM ON A MAN WHO IS DEAD 💀 YOU CANNOT DISRESPECT A MAN WHO IS 💀 DEAD 💀 IT IS NOT NOW AND HAS NEVER BEEN ILLEGAL TO POST A REACT MEME OF A MAN 💀 WHO IS 💀 DEAD

This isn't a "whoopsie, didn't change my residence" thing. Posobiec has been railing against fraudulent registrations in PA while doing it himself since 2017. He deserves the 5 year maximum for this crime, along with the $250,000 fine.

This, via @jayrosen.bsky.social, is a great matrix on how to deal with right wing trolling. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/harm-reducti...

There have been two hosts in the history of Reading Rainbow. The Legend of Literacy, LeVar Burton! And... me, Mychal Threets, a librarian 🥹🤯 I am a reader, a librarian because LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow made us believe and see we belong in books, we belong everywhere ✨ youtu.be/e7es7qdWVnU

This is exactly why disability activists keep speaking about about medically assisted death. The “safeguards” have come off. Coercion is baked into the system, and in some cases, family members are making the request. A patient’s life ended without them asking for it.

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

Oh, hey, happy Stanislav Petrov Day! Never doubt that every single person makes a difference.

"No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!" Absolutely massive crowd at the New Yorkers Against ICE march. Blocks long!

regardless of the details I think it’s important to spin the Kimmel thing as a win Trump is weak, he’s unpopular, he massively overreached and inspired enough of a revolt that Disney had to backtrack immediately he wants to paint himself as an all-powerful dictator, paint him as a loser who sucks

This will kill kids, their caregivers, and the community at large when we have epidemics of illnesses we eradicated decades ago. Like I really don’t know what else to say, this is straight up murderous.

Someone at my kitchen table is trans. If you view them as disposable sacrifices when it's politically convenient, you are not welcome at my table, in my house, or in my social circle. I sure as shit won't be voting for you.

“And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.”-Nemik, 5 BBY

Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.

Rich people are RIDICULOUS WEIRDOS and if you really want a bipartisan working class issue THAT IS IT. THEY ARE SO FUCKIN WEIRD. STOP TRYING TO APPEAL TO BIGOTS AND LAUGH AT THEM

During the Invasion of Los Angeles, one of the things they really, really, really wanted to do... was to catch us being violent so the GOP could justify the occupation and escalate. They failed. They've tried it in DC, and are failing. And they're gonna try it in Chicago.

Again, I do this for a living: If you're going to take action against RFK Jr, if you're going to spend your time and energy on opposing this fucking monster, the time is now.

Hey, the Unbound for Gaza fundraiser is here, starting September 25th. www.32auctions.com/unboundforga... The auction raises money for charities operating in Gaza. There are a LOT of super-cool items, many of which would be AMAZING holiday gifts for book nerds.

Every single one of them. We throw them IN THE BIN. None of us are confused about that. The fact that the other side continues to be is why they're the other side.

Hey so…one state invading another seems like something our congressional body should have a problem with

Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu

If the mayor of Baltimore suddenly announced a "crackdown on crime!" And started stopping and frisking every young Black man in the city, and formed a SCORPION unit of balaclava wearing cops that killed one Black boy a week, but the murder rate went *up* 20%, some would say "He's tough on crime!"🤡

AMAZINGLY ENOUGH, most crime and violence happen because people are desperate and feel backed into a corner, and if you give them actual support to FIX THOSE PROBLEMS instead of tear-gassing them, they don't commit crimes! What a wild new idea.

The kinds of people who say things like this don't actually know what half that shit bolted to the wall in a Cracker Barrel even IS. It's not a heritage. It's Grandma clothes and candles and a toy section full of shit people already broke.

If your heritage is a corporate logo, it deserves to be erased.

Happy Labor Day. Work didn't have to be a fight. It didn't have to be a conflict. But for as long as we have written history there have always been people who *unfairly* and *unjustly* profit off the production of others. As long as those motherfuckers take something for nothing, we fight.

CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.

me: i need to write me, 30 seconds later: what if i make a meme instead, this is productive and authentic bc it is self promotion but also depressing

Looks like @tkingfisher.com 's horror books The Twisted Ones and The Hollow Places are on sale for $2 at Amazon. Highly recommend if you want something spooky.

Hey Colorado! This is what I want to see!

Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.

we see very clearly in public polling that people in california and D.C. hate the deployments and that americans broadly disapprove of them, but here we have an assertion that the smart strategy is to avoid any discussion of the situation in favor of a pivot to, you guessed it, kitchen table issues.

I have been thinking a lot lately about this, because if you put Mamdani next to Jasmine Crockett next to that new Maine oyster fisherman... none of them sound the same. But they all sound like normal people from their communities. "Normal" is regional, you can't decree what it is federally.

Opera comes with a built in VPN. This fun fact of the day is brought to you by the state of Mississippi.

I wish as many people wanted to actually click on Teen Vogue stories as like a post about our work being good and important, because this post is almost at 20k likes and that would be pretty good traffic!

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

Did you see what I saw this morning? Denver lefty-liberationy Parish is going to war with the conservabonkers archbishop and his little priest who AFAICT is an Evangelical Neocalvinist cosplaying as a priest. And oh, there is a SNIT that the laity dare question the Great & Wonderful Arch.