"We should keep in our consciousness the fact that survival is not a one-time decision...It's something that goes on and on and on and you make a commitment the same way I make a commitment for myself. I make a commitment to my working, I make a commitment to my survival." Audre Lorde.

[Trailer] The Muppet Show is returning! It’s a one-time event, hosted by Sabrina Carpenter, to celebrate the show’s 50th anniversary. “It’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights…” [youtube.com]

Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?

January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.

I found this quote in a cassette recording of a Lorde speech/reading at University of Maryland in College Park in 1987. Legendary lesbian photographer JEB recorded it and the Smith College archive digitized it for me. Hug your local archivist next time you see them (or at least buy them a coffee)

It’s so fucking funny the pro trans musical artist (Sabrina Carpenter) is getting more of a spotlight by Fortnite leakers / news accounts than that shit ass Hitler Potter collab

Definitely don't paste song lyrics or the script from To Wong Foo or anything.

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

This is the sort of contract that if you were entertaining signing it, your friends should smash through a window, do roll on the floor, leap up in a feral pounce and slap it out of your hands

not that it would convince any AI turds but this is the best way to explain it They want the tip of the triangle with nothing under it

How can you have a review of foreign interference in elections without, you know, reviewing past elections? Who wants a review of a film you haven’t seen yet??

“What disturbs us is less what happened years ago, hurtful as it was, but rather your refusal to acknowledge your past behaviour or apologise for it” If Farage was made to acknowledge his past behaviour or apologise for it, his career would have ended years ago. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

That academic hiring grievance article doing the rounds: look, there are simply very few jobs and lots of people, relatively speaking, who could be hired. I was precarious for nine (!) years. And now Britain, at least, is trying to solve the issue by having most universities go bankrupt.

A mini-story to cheer you up this morning. The other day my teenage son returned to his locked bike to find the back wheel nicked. We went back yesterday to rescue it - and found this note taped to the frame. We have the wheel again. A very happy Xmas to Ollie and his note-writing other half.

About bloody time. Though surely this is going to make it obvious to UK students that they pay a lot in tuition compared to other countries. Surprised this lot are willing to let extra people with funny accents into the country.

Think Phil is right here. The Labour right are obviously utter gits but I don't think they're deliberately trying to destroy the Labour party for a generation or lose the next election. I think they're just genuinely that stupid and egotistical that they'll keep on with the same shit.

Paul Doyle’s X account follows 11 others. Three are Nigel Farage, Andrew Tate & Elon Musk. So, a back story to the rage that entitled him to ram 100 victims with his large car. “Family man” or far right nutter? At his trial, evidence mounted for the latter www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

‘Radical leftist cult leader executed’.

Oh, FFS.

How many times has Donald Trump slandered the UK? If he is suing the BBC for £10bn. Then London and Sadiq Khan should be trillionaires.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...

I just want to live long enough to hear democrats stop praising Reagan

Just asking for the class, was that *before* or *after* he condemned an entire generation to die horribly from AIDS while he obliterated all the union protections that kept the rich from exploiting everyone? I’ll hang up and listen.

This tracks with my experience. DHS made up stories like this in Chicago, too. Every story ICE told about being attacked by community members was debunked in court. To assume anything they say is even potentially credible is irresponsible and out of touch with reality.

7 Dems joined House Republicans in voting for a bill that would enable ICE agents to strip search 12-year-olds. Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Don Davis (NC-01) Laura Gillen (NY-04) Jared Golden (ME-02) Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) Adam Gray (CA-13) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)

Incredibly funny to say you aren’t doing war crimes because George W Bush did something

It used to be the core of our identity. But the placement of Trory stooges on its board and in key political programmes (Laura K, Fiona B) had meant those days have passed. I don't trust BBC News to be factual anymore. It dodges the facts in Gaza, for example.

The BBC is not just any other institution. It's a core part of this country's identity. It's ours to criticise, ours to get cross with, ours to love and ours to the end. By attacking it Trump may actually be doing us all a favour as we are obliged to remember that. www.politico.eu/article/brit...

Wrong question.

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

This guy over on Mastodon nailed it, IMO:

We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.

"In an email to Novara Media, Cunningham said: 'It is not my habit to comment to the media on cases in which I am instructed as counsel.'" Is she having a laugh? She did an BBC entire podcast. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

The purpose of blaming any and every tragedy on trans people is convincing each other "wouldn't life be so much better if we just got rid of all the trans people"

Unsurprising indeed.

Yesterday I was given a commendation (& a certificate) for my EDI work with the Disabled Researchers project. It’s really lovely to have this work recognised by those that nominated me/us. It really wouldn’t be possible with the wonderful @riacheyne.bsky.social! Your name should also be here.

At Alice's inquest a coroner ruled that delays in accessing gender affirming care (GAC) contributed to Alice's preventable death. A CAMHS nurse said CAMHS couldn't help because what Alice needed was GAC. The Tavi said they weren't responsible for her MH whilst she sat on their decades long waitlist.

This is horrendous.

Stop asking what victims did or did not do A Harrods survivor’s challenge to us all: Start asking why the British establishment did nothing then and continues to do nothing @sussexbylines.co.uk

Never forget the time in 2020 Charlie Kirk (dead now) pretended to be a black guy on Twitter but forgot to switch accounts when giving himself a nice compliment.

One of the most morally reprehensible people of our lifetime

I've made a complaint to the BBC about its bald misstatement of the truth about what the Supreme Court decided in the For (Some) Women Scotland decision.

I completely missed this elementary point because I was overcomplicating it by focusing on any increase in wages being far outstripped by increased cost of rent and utilities but OF COURSE the minimum wage will always be highest now than it was previously! bsky.app/profile/benb...

HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering* ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin DETECTIVE: ME: are you getting apricot notes

My sincere hope is that every politician who thought they could fuck over trans people because nobody gives a shit spends the rest of their lives knowing it was trans people who ended their political career.

Guys I'm getting the impression Trump’s lawyers are struggling