squandered the inheritance of your saints, and have wandered far in a land that is waste

(no) thoughts, only soft desk bunny 📖: LOGiN, July 1987

🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW: A shocking @USCIS memo seems to declare that hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in this country and applying for green cards must instead apply for visas abroad; which could MASSIVELY disrupt lives. 🧵 on what we know, and what we don’t.

People get green cards two ways: 1. Apply for an immigrant visa at a U.S. consulate abroad. 2. Apply for a green card while already in the USA. The new USCIS memo seems to say that most people in group 2 should generally be denied a green card and forced to apply abroad.

This is incredibly dumb: cross-national collaborations are part of what makes science great. No country has a monopoly on good ideas.

The Guardian profited off stigmatising us and is now perhaps eager to profit off lamenting the tragedies wrought by that profiteering. Still, making such a statement now is better than continuing to vilify us when such vilification has grown to outlandish, unbelievable proportions. One cookie.

This is a good thread about a dangerous bill that looks to defund schools that basically do any degree of education around sex, abuse, and consent. Ignore the PinkNews slop link, it's not the point.

I do not say this lightly. This dude is breaking the admin. He's literally living rent free in Miller's brain.

hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

Pynk, Make Me Feel, Screwed? All insane bangers. He collabs? So stellar, at the time, and so *of the time* (what’s good, Grimes?) Americans? The hope of the Obama era confronting the challenges of the Trump 1.0 era. Seminal, SEMINAL album of the 2010’s.

Dirty Computer is the full manifestation of Cindy Mayweather. So yeah, it’s the best album and the defining queer womanist album of the 2010’s

Dirty Computer was a substantive jump from her first two LPs in that she abandoned concept & metaphor for raw realism. It was a manifesto. But with Janelle the answer will always be that her latest album is her best. Because she grows. DC was a declaration of war. AoP was a celebration of love.

this is what I mean when I say "don't let orgs and managers see discriminating against trans folk as the path of last resistance". transphobes are persistent and annoying. be just as annoying. show them compliance is going to be a legal nightmare

dnc autopsy: in conclusion, america is a land of contrasts

"There are literally two options left remaining," Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA) Division Chief Craig Covey said. "One, the tank fails and spills a total of about 6,000 to 7,000 gallons of very bad chemicals into the parking lot in that area,

At the request of the Orange County Fire Authority, buses from the Orange County Transit Authority helped evacuate residents from an assisted living facility on Beach Boulevard.

40,000+ bring evacuated in north Orange County. Toxic chemicals used for plastics manufacturing; toxic waste from fossil fuels - gas and oil.

"In Orange County" is like 3 million people what the shit CNN Oh it's just Garden Grove that's only a few miles from...Disneyland oh good... why the fuck are these kinds of plants in the middle of such densely populated areas fucks sake. Sorry that was a weird and angry stream of conscious(ness).

Orange County is a hub of aerospace industry. The Saturn V was assembled a few miles to the SW in Seal Beach. Aircraft paints are made there. Boeing has a plant on Bolsa Chica and Skylab Rd. In the '20s, HB along PCH was bristling with oil derricks, some even on the beach.

An estimated 40,000 people in Orange County, California, have been ordered to evacuate the area over fears that a tank containing a toxic chemical may explode, officials said Friday. It contains methyl methacrylate, a chemical used in the manufacture of Plexiglass. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

It's full on rewriting of history. Soon, they will push for changes to textbooks like right-wingers did circa 2010, seeking to replace the civil rights movement with Phyllis Schlafly and Newt Gingrich.

They killed the man, but they could not kill his dream.

It’s worth noting that when Jan. 6 happened, the pro-Trump right used dozens of conspiracy theories to try and offload blame from themselves—e.g., claiming it was “antifa,” “feds.” Now, they seem keen to just admit they did it—all of it—and it was good.

we gotta abolish DHS man

Losing your shit at a meme by...the Lincoln Project

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15 years ago today, Lady Gaga released ‘Born This Way.’

GARDEN GROVE, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: “There's 7,000 gallons of methyl methacrylate, an industrial chemical used in plastic and manufacturing, currently inside the tank.” ktla.com/news/orange-... - @ktla.com #California #GardenGrove #OrangeCounty

Approximately 40,000 residents in Orange County, California, are under evacuation orders as authorities are concerned a tank filled with a toxic chemical will either leak or explode.

Big evacuations for a brewing chemical accident are happening in Orange County right now. ktla.com/news/orange-...

Things That Will Erupt From Compromised Tanks And Kill You: Boston: Molasses Orange County: Toxic Chemicals Shanghai: Sharks

must be tough to self soothe when you are quantitatively the most hated figure during your lifetime in the entire history of humanity

i'm a transfemme who's not making a living wage right now so if anyone wanted to kick me a few bucks for my incredible restraint that'd be cool and good www.paypal.com/paypalme/sah... venmo: sah32 cashapp: $sah032

New piece: Minnesota lawmakers are acting - in collaboration with local organizers and government officials - to defend disability rights against the federal government. It’s good law. It’s a shitty situation. (Gift link)

one thing that pisses me off most about the 21st century is that, especially now, is that the system could easily be set up to where most of us just have all the taxes we owe taken out automatically, and everyone else just gets a letter telling them what they owe. this matters more than you'd think

The Arlington National Cemetery Memorial apparently has deleted references and information on everyone interred there who wasn’t a white straight man from their database - attempting to sweep their existence under the rug. My thoughts on this obscenity cannot legally be shared on this platform.

logging on to bluesky

Amazing

Before clicking on this, I knew that you were talking about trans women specifically, as opposed to Sikhs, Pakistanis, North Koreans, Somalians, Unangans, Sephardic Jews, Cossacks, Hawaiians, Gazans, Latinos, Latinas, American Descendants of Slavery, or the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.

Do you think we should let a small group of people who happen to hold marginalized identities effectively participate in the discussion about this gap or would you rather we just ban them when you feel disrespected?

This, but unironically; it is extremely important to always question whether the data are accurately representing reality, and god knows there are enough pejorative epithets for people who do it.

We should have more cool pejorative epithets for people who think they're extracting objective meaning from data without questioning its context & assumptions & reductions. I like chartcel because it evokes the kind of unexamined arrogance of the "nice guy"

babe wake up the president is anti-christ posting again

worth remembering once again that a number of Democrats and their pet pundits who feel very entitled to run this party going forward advocated leaving this innocentnman to rot in CECOT

Senior officials in the Food and Drug Administration's tobacco center were blindsided by a recent decision that opens the door to allowing more unauthorized electronic cigarettes and nicotine pouches onto the U.S. market, The Associated Press has learned. https://to.pbs.org/49iKYin

Nooooooooooo!!!! 😭

How are you bringing in the weekend? The president of the United States is posting about building a messianic golden defensive force field around the White House and annexing Greenland

Nothing is inevitable