Surviving With Your Values and Agency - Slow It Down open.substack.com/pub/darhawke...

Thank goodness! His classmates wrote letters to ICE. It was gutting. His class kept his desk, cubby, and all his items up in class. That’s believing. Don’t stop believing.

Hey, bsky! Watch out for meta. Don’t comply in advance. But y’all knew that. darhawkerself.substack.com/p/kicked-off...

How Do We Find Truth? With Each Other. / Stories of State Violence and Resistance substack.com/@darhawkerse...

Nick Shirley open.substack.com/pub/darhawke...

OMG I was finally able to log back in.

Due to unfortunate circumstances beyond my control, I'm awake

the "abolish ICE" people were right

JUST NOW AT THE UN…

Left: Wow. We need gun reform. Right: Wow. We need to put the left in concentration camps. Media: Ok. It's time for the the left to bring down the political temperature here. Enough is enough.

Blowing up boats in the Caribbean without any legal authority risks dragging the United States into another war, and provoking attacks against American citizens. I'm getting ready to force a vote with @kaine.senate.gov to ensure Congress' power to declare war is not so easily trampled.

I'm just stopping by to clear my notifications and drop this frigid take: Insisting that we need to make space for people to share dehumanizing opinions to enshrine and uphold equality is like insisting that we need to make space for people to commit assault if we want to enshrine and uphold peace.

Well, at least a few people spoke up for Kimmel.

I’m not trying to upset the apple cart, but “the south” did rise again and the call is coming from inside the house.

If they're not real, they'll say they're real to say Robinson killed him for a trans person. If they're real, they'll say Robinson killed him for a trans person. Either way, they'll say we're the problem.

The reality is that whether the texts between Robinson and his roommate are real is irrelevant in one sense: They're already blaming trans people for his death. They are going to blame trans people for his death. And they will continue to do so as an excuse to try and kill us.

He, and you know who I mean, was a boy, then man, lost to white supremacy.

Sorry about firings. It’s s hard to work for fascists and not be one yourself. We may just have an explosion of independent media. That will only help, until the fascists realize the free pen is mightier than the propagandist sword.

"Kirk was not just putting on a show. He was a dedicated proponent of ... an authoritarian politics that backed the repression of opponents and made light of violence against them." @jamellebouie.net again says it precisely and with receipts. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

Any news organization with a shred of decency would fire Brian Kilmeade immediately. There is no gray area about this.

The left is defending their right to be funny. We will die laughing before we concede.

You can’t spell Erika Kirk without 3Ks. That is all. That’s the poem.

There’s a whole different vibe when a leftist is sick of someone’s shit. And they’re *usually* not a loner when it comes time to hand out the “find outs”

It was a time traveler who traveled back and chose that little shit over all the other genocidal maniacs.

Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.

I’m super irritated with my liberal, cishet, white, well-paid siblings too. It’s not fair they have much more lane to play chicken than I do. Then they talk shit to me. I’m not accepting *some* leftist “critique” if it’s not founded in factual information. I’m spotting AI gen crap seeping in.

Fuck off, dicktater.

Pedro!! 👏👏👏

Baby the way everybody and they mama was trying to get my immunocompromised ass to watch their SICK children was absolutely wild to watch, baby those are YOUR kids.

Many Americans have decided to let their bigotry kill them. They voted for the people who will take away their healthcare and they’re going to die. White supremacy is the deadliest drug of all.

Then, inevitably, they call me a month later, after things have gone sideways, and it's too late to fix whatever went wrong. AI *seems* like it knows what it's doing. IT DOES NOT. Please don't use it for anything related to legal proceedings. There are sliding scale lawyers like me. Use us instead.

“The reason we can always be told to leave is that for many, citizenship, birthrights, and the U.S. are fundamentally white promises. Blackness has been rendered an anti-state threat despite endless efforts to assimilate, integrate, and be included.”

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

You wouldn’t say that someone was a gravity skeptic. You’d just say they were wrong. Vaccines work. Period. That is a verifiable fact.

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

Whew! Am I dealing with a lil cognitive dissonance right now.

Don’t be in rush. And remember: loose lips sink ships.

I’m at “is this a real-live direct observation of an elected official spoken truthfully, broadcast squarely, regarding questionable law enforcement practices in the U. S.?” Level of my confusion as I try to understand the current score.

Some grandma wisdom: Treat this spring and summer 2025 as the salad days. You won’t lose either way.

Bodily autonomy is a human right. Transness isn't a disease that needs to be cured. We're a normal part of the spectrum that is the human condition. And we deserve to have the final say over our own bodies - not just because of the harm if we don't, but because they belong to us and not the state.

On Juneteenth, we're honoring the legacy of Black resistance by - Defending a Louisiana map in court that fairly represents Black voters - Protecting diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility programs from the Trump administration - Fighting book bans that censor Black stories And more.

Happy Juneteenth

Don't let the bigots pathologize us. Yes dysphoria kills. It sucks. Believe me, I know. But we are NOT our dysphoria and we are owed more than simply being trauma porn. We deserve gender affirming care because we're human beings and bodily autonomy is a human right.

Transgender people deserve to dictate our own lives and futures. No court decision can change who we know we are.

Four Democratic members of Congress from Illinois, Jesús “Chuy” García, Danny Davis, Delia Ramirez, and Jonathan Jackson, were denied entry to an ICE facility in Broadview, just outside Chicago, despite federal policy allowing them access without prior notice.

I must have missed the part of the Letter from a Birmingham Jail where Martin Luther King Jr. explains that since white moderates aren't ready yet for integration and equality, the fight for civil rights is lost and we need to wait for them to catch up so as to spare their feelings.