Emotionally and financially difficult day. Anything helps ko-fi.com/weredawgz

If there’s anything chronic illness has taught me it’s how to keep going when everything is bleak. And by “keep going” I mean keep making art because that’s what proves to me I’m alive. ✌️

There were many others using these two as shields and cover. That also needs to be made clear.

Great to see the dystopia I imagined in my story “Prelude” is getting started. www.businessinsider.com/familiar-mac...

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Can’t really be emphasized enough: It is absolutely true that this will have devastating consequences and do enormous damage, it has been such a long-running project on the right, and they will try to do worse—and also they are doing this because they see a future without them and are terrified

Like I said: the civil rights era never ended. You are still in it. The most important form of free speech, is the right to vote. Racists don't want Black people to vote. So they wrote down a plan to stack the Supreme Court with people that would make it harder for Black people to vote. It worked

beliving "it's only racist if racists admit it" requires such a lack of understanding of human nature that it drives me up a wall

Headlines saying this Supreme Court decision "curtails the use of race" in voting are going to make me have a stroke. It empowers white supremacy. It does not curtail the use of race.

instead of punching down on KIDS

workman over at my house liked the anti-ICE signs. is generally libertarian but likes the constitution. I didn't think Joe and I especially shared political values and have never talked politics with him, but it turns out that murdering people in the streets of minneapolis does in fact upset folks.

"Why should I have to provide modern teens with the social safety nets I benefited from?" I just know I can hear the ocean from your ears. Be quiet if you can't find basic decency or critical thinking skills

“He’s unwell,” “he doesn’t belong near power” are as beside the point as “he shouldn’t be allowed to do this.” They’re callbacks to an order that’s been broken. We know fascism is wrong. We must after 10 years move past the part where we keep rediscovering it daily with new shock.

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No real problem with ordinary folks asking about the 25th, but every time a congressman asks for the cabinet to remove a president you should read that as them abdicating their own duty to pursue impeachment through congress

People on here rightly are pissed by the way Democratic politicians post as if they are witnesses to what's happening instead of ACTORS in what's happening. It's absolutely pathetic and weak.

keep showing up for trans people, especially trans kids. they're watching and taking note. we are here to make sure trans folks can survive and thrive now and in the future.

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Mainstream America: We are obsessed with Heated Rivalry and Drag Race. We love them and can't get enough. American Democrat politicians: LGBT people are not culturally normal. We will not speak of them.

On the record as profoundly and violently sick of this shit

The day before starting a war with Iran, the Secretary of Defense was focused on removing trans scouters from the Boy Scouts.

so many of the very first photos my parents took of me are taken in Iran. I was born in India, but lived in Iran, before during and after the Revolution. My father worked in a remote rural hospital for 8 years. These are real people, not the bogeymen of silly Hollywood films. Its always real people.

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

You go in. You quicken.

btw for trans women to offer this kind of practical warning and sympathy is a serious mitzvah and we cis women really owe it to them (and to ourselves!) to step up our solidarity in kind

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

The concept here is to get well-heeled travelers to pressure the government to restore secret police funding

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

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“We are at a point where everyone’s news river looks different.” Thanks, I hate it.

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“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” ― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

The idea that the British Raj respected the rule of law is legitimately one of the funniest things I've ever read in my entire life

ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.

You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...

Co-signed by a daughter of an immigrant

A script to call your representatives to demand they defund and dismantle 🧊 via Mr Williams PreK Pause on Insta

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.

“Outside agitators” is older than Putin; I am begging white people to crack open a history book about Black Americans for once

Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win

Got mine! Looking forward to reading it!

Good luck to everyone trying to compartmentalize today. One thing at a time.

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

Good morning. I'd like to invite anyone who is interested to make a small gesture of kindness today. It's up to you to decide what that can be. The key is for you to act on the idea. With so much out of our control, we can choose how to be with each other today and every day.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life