not teaching people to question authority at a young age makes it all the harder to realize the myriad ways in which you are your own authority and need to question yourself. america—esp white middle/upper class—is simultaneously riddled with anxiety, inferiority, naiveté, and ego.

I'm the spouse of an air traffic controller and I could not be more livid at the news that Dems might cave. I called and left voicemails for my Dem senators. If my family can hold the fucking line, so can they.

We got some squishy MF’ers in AZ so: Gallego: 202-224-4521 Kelly: 202-224-2235

NOT ONE SECOND OF PEACE FOR THESE MOTHERFUCKERS

“Resistance to motherhood—or mothering responsibilities—poses a problem for the engineers [of our DIY society] because trapping girls and women in motherhood is the quickest way to conscript them into doing the work of the social safety net.” —Jessica Calarco, Holding It Together

This framing that it was Jackson doing it is not how they normally put stuff like this. They’re trying to lie to you with the truth. It was a legal maneuver designed to minimize the delay and held until as late as possible to give time for states to irreversibly process the payments.

'Unlearn the language of “good,” “innocent,” or “wrongfully.” This is not just a rhetorical shift, but a shift in values. Let go of any preconceived notions you had about “criminals.”' -- @mskellymhayes.bsky.social truthout.org/articles/whe...

This morning, in Broadview, 14 suburban women were arrested during an act of civil disobedience calling for an end to ICE/CBP’s kidnappings throughout the Chicago area. “We want to encourage other people who feel strongly about ICE’s actions to step off the sidelines and take our cities back.”

This is so beautiful 🥹

People who are leaving NYC, please post pix of your U-Hauls!

a guy i matched with on a dating app when i was in the azores but never actually met IRL is in my Instagram DMs right now saying “HE FUCKING DID IT”

Congrats to NYC, the capital of Real America

I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

begging with my entire heart for election results across the map which force the Dems to finally begin internalizing the lesson that throwing trans people under the bus is going to fuck them repeatedly

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

I see people say things like "will *they* let us have x, y, z" as it relates to the fascists and their enablers and I am here to say THEY WON'T *LET* YOU HAVE ANYTHING AT ALL. You have to band with others to TAKE what you want. That's really it.

For the love of God stop calling capitalism “Technofeudalism.” This is not a mutant regression off the track of benign capitalism’s progress to utopia. This is capitalism doing capitalism.

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“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten

The U.S. spends over $180 billion on cops and incarceration every year. The annual SNAP budget is $100 billion.

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)

NGL pretty fucking tired of having to convince the white men of the Democratic Party that my body, life and civil rights are not a “purity test.”

The way to understand a lot of discourse about positions’ popularity is the assume they mean among big donors. A lot of sentences suddenly make sense.

Hoarding aunties>Hoarding wealth

ICYMI, rePROs Fight Back is in the running for an Anthem Community Voice Award! If you enjoy the podcast, you can vote through October 30: celebrate.anthemawards.com/PublicVoting... 💜🌟

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Last night we got to see Saturn in a big fancy telescope! Grateful to be living in a dark sky community right now. Feels like our bodies really need it.

Lord I hope not

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn’t allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that’s gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed. THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!

On her birthday, Mariame Kaba @prisonculture.bsky.social is raising money for EVLovesNYC. I was able to donate 100 dollars. Please join me. evloves.networkforgood.com/projects/224...

STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND READ THIS

As a 43yo theatre kid….. WELCOME

“We can’t allow you to have an abortion, opt for sterilization or access gender affirming care because what if you regret it later?” Literally who gives a fuck? REGRET IS A NORMAL PART OF LIFE. JFC LET US LIVE.

One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends. #NoKings #Manhattan

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

Tomorrow, SCOTUS will hear arguments in Louisiana v. Callais, a major threat to (what remains of) the 1965 Voting Rights Act. But this isn't the first time the VRA has faced dire threats; in 2013 and 2021, SCOTUS weakened other provisions. We can learn from those why Callais could be so dangerous 🧵

Something this book really drilled home (scuse the pun) is that we're not stalled out on climate because scientists didn't model hard enough or campaigners didn't come up with the perfect message, but because the world's most powerful spent gazillions to sabotage action. cssn.org/wp-content/u...

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

Honestly I want to throw my phone into a large body of water.

Knowing who to be mad at truly is praxis.

The Queen of reading a room. She KNEW we needed this!! 😭