Also - I can't believe we let the worst comedians on the planet spend *years* defining Freedom of Speech as a moral obligation to laugh at their bad jokes, and not as a protection against government censorship. You've been crying wolf for a while now gang, and a real wolf just got here! SPEAK UP!

yesterday i sent my phd out for a mock viva

Yeah so throwing dildos at women athletes on the court is an actual example of gender-based violence against women in sports—one that transphobes and acquiescent Dems will surely make 1000% less noise about

Palestinians and trans people are not purity tests, man.

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

*Every* single time a politician uses the phrase "Jumping the queue" with respect to migrants as James Cleverly has just done they should immediately be asked "What queue?" and the journalist should insist on the details of how people can join this queue.

There is NO way of doing a meaningful conversion therapy ban in the UK in 2025. Conversion practices are fundamental to the NHS under 18s healthcare service. Criminal ban on medication + Transition denied + Search for alternative cause + Mandatory identity investigation = conversive practice.

Off we go into the wild pale yonder.

the brazenness astonishes me - the cognitive dissonance between the story i was indoctrinated with about the constitution and the bill of rights and what this court has chosen. i have known america to be false for at least 1/3 of my life, but this? this still has hit me like a wet fish to the face

The Supreme Court is about to go on an extended summer vacation, after having blown up the docket of every single lower court judge who has been working like a dog to deal with the firehose of illegal orders coming out of this administration.

all of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence about executive power - all of it - can be replaced with a simple flow chart. is the president a Republican? if so it’s ok. if not, it’s presumptively not ok.

Justice Jackson in dissent: "The Court's decision to permit the Executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is an existential threat to the rule of law."

I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.

The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

It cannot be stressed enough that the UK Parliament has responded to a planned mass lobby of MPs by trans people by instituting a bathroom ban on the day of the event. We are literally locked out of your state and your democracy.

ok I LOVE Kate Bush, but I think the relationship most gay ppl seem to have with her I have with PJ Harvey what does this say about me thanks in advance

Went into gory detail breaking down the potential impact of the reconciliation bill on student debtors and the field of higher education more broadly. Part of the larger war on working people that we (as ever and even more urgently) need to connect to wars abroad. newrepublic.com/article/1970...

What I really hate about literally everything with this administration and it's bullshit right now is that nothing, NONE OF IT, is for any real reason. Just dismantling shit and blowing up shit just cause. And that makes me furious at the people who thought letting this fool back in office was ok.

courage was not a sentiment; but a thing simply useful

Christ. Yes

honestly, it feels insane to see people treating the court order to resume processing passports correctly as a guaranteed thing. the administration has consistently defied the courts, so why would this be any different

it doesnt matter what the fucking language is, ffs

Hey quick question for the state, If you're not going to respect the laws and elected officials you keep telling people are the only way to make change, what's your plan for when people realize that 1) they're going to have to try something else and 2) there's more of them than there are of you?

big energy for before 9 am on a tuesday, however, i recently rediscovered a favorite no-skips album open.spotify.com/album/5wTuKj...

hi, cis folks! the senate budget bill is out & this version still contains a prohibition against lifesaving trans healthcare for medicaid/CHIP—that's 275,000 people! if you're willing to stand with trans folks, please call your senators—no matter who. follow the thread for context & scripts.🧵

Lizards by Franz Marc, 1912 #artbots #guggenheim https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137272

decided to listen to Turnstile’s Time & Space this morning and I’ve really got to say, the sonic leaps they’ve made in the last 7? years are UNPARALLELED. no one is doing it like them, and no one HAS been doing it like them

london should be a city of foxes in the same way that istanbul is a city of cats

worth my time: - weeds - walking - students - "how does a simile work?" - things written by dead people - things written by living people - death - life - cake sorry, vice chancellors of the narrow imagination, I won't spend my "one wild & precious life" on your newfangled, malfunctioning linotype

why would I ever spend any of my academic life taking "ai" seriously (as subject). why should I. why should it be the focus of my work, my thinking, my artistic production? what are we doing here? turning from the entire world to a narrowest slice of simulacrum? are we serious?

if Thunberg is brave enough to repeatedly put herself directly in harm’s way, then journalists can be brave enough to say that a civilian vessel was illegally seized in international waters, and its crew abducted

the cops are not in fact 'out of control.' this is US policing.

This is why we don’t call them non-lethal. Not in this case, but they can absolutely be lethal.

this is what the people of la are saying "no" to. this is what we're in the streets about.

most of the archive i am working with at the british library is under restriction which honestly is so cool but damn did i really wish i could have photographed the first printings of AMERICAN SPLENDOR i got to work with today

Absolutely nothing more pathetic in this world than serving a legal injunction to a group of 15 year olds.

you can tell that I’m getting close to the finish based on how chaotic my desk is

🚨 BREAKING UPDATE: We’re taking legal action against the UK’s equality watchdog, the EHRC www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...

Happy Birthday, Agnes Varda

You hate 2°C it

It's hard to put into words how significant this man is, but we will try

Everybody's talking about AI. In comics circles, the use of artificial intelligence remains controversial. #ComicsStudies can play a vital role in questioning the cultural, ethical, and labour implications of AI. We are calling you: comicsandai.org/call-for-pap...

i’m so glad the country that hasn’t built any water reservoirs in 30 years thinks it can solve decades of austerity with AI, a famously water-dependent thing

Trans Kids Deserve Better are protesting against the deeply transphobic and increasingly inappropriately named Equality & Human Rights Commission against their transphobic “guidance”.

most appalling beauty