They’re not against academic freedom, you see, but what you do isn’t real scholarship. They’re not trampling freedom of the press, you just happen not to be a real journalist. They believe in the democratic process. You just happen not to be a real party, interest group, citizen, human being… (2/2)

Columbus Day (page 1/40) 🧵

When you are pure of heart no amount of earnestness is Cringe. When you are a malevolent little freak no amount of sarcasm is enough to make you cool

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

It's the peak of the fall migration season. This is when bird deaths from window collisions tend to spike, even though simple solutions can prevent this.

Kathy Hochul died November 8, 2024 and was replaced surreptitiously by her doppelgänger Kathy Wokel

👻 ハロウィンイラスト再掲🎃 #Δ帽子 #とんがり帽子のアトリエ #witchhatatelier #atelierofwitchhat #happyhalloween

Make art with your friends. Organize an underground show. Buy tapes and zines from friends and strangers. Support each other. Culture is made by regular people living their lives and finding ways to connect, and capitalists can never own that.

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

bsky vs twitter: a not fully accurate and rambling thread but trying to explain how this works to people 🧵

tbh the stark reality is that for nonbinary gender existence to gain much stronger mass traction among the public, it's basically imperative that people also 'allow the body to be nonbinary' i.e. question sexing of the body itself. there's basically no way binary sex & nonbinary gender can coexist

Fifty years ago, on Sept. 26, 1975, The Rocky Horror Picture Show flopped at the U.S. box office — then became the longest-running theatrical release in history.

i think it's important to remember that while we do not create the context in which we exist and are moulded by it we are always already in an active mode of processing it and struggling with/through it. otherwise, we are dead

I knew we were cooked but the response to this really reinforces it. I get personal faith occasionally informing a progressive worldview but nobody is gonna fix religion by convincing the zealots they’re interpreting things wrong

Morning Spew for Night Owls—Will New York approve a gas pipeline to power AI data centers because Trump held its wind power hostage? Looks like it! What a world.

the logic here is that charlie kirk must be nationally eulogized in the name of freedom of speech but everyone who supported palestinians against genocide must be permanently excommunicated from public life and also it is leftists' fault for both

Hecate & Melinoe 💜💚 (a repost to celebrate Hades 2 final release)

there is something more gutwrenching and depressing than any boss in silksong act 1 and its the very first area you visit past the citadel gates and you realize with horror that you need hornet to become some kind of pharloom reddit atheist immediately

studying feminist history has left me with this weird thing where i treat the women involved in women's liberation as like actual complex human beings who are almost never wholly villains or heroes, who you can learn from no matter their flaws and failures

my favourite thing about witch hat atelier's story is that it is about a magic system that draws upon a constructive language of how to "communicate" the conjuring of magic but the entire plot is about a conflict regarding "rules over what is allowed with magic"

If you’re a feminist you can spend your whole life grappling with the inadequacy of narrative to convey reality or summon enough political will to enact change. But if you’re a fascist you can just use narrative as a hammer to claim ownership of reality and beat material conditions into conformity.

basically the only way to have any hope for putting the breaks on accelerating fascist cataclysm is to take seriously the prospect of abolishing the suburbs and breaking the regime of car dealerships 🤷🏽‍♀️

Now this is passed, it's so funny to me that not a peep of it was mentioned by the fake @AltNPS account lmao. It was a nationwide day of protest at national parks (including former JA incarceration sites) and they apparently didn't know about it. If you're still following them, they're frauds btw

news: Katie Brennan, Democratic nominee for New Jersey Assembly in the 32nd Legislative District, endorses DSA's Jake Ephros to represent Ward D (The Heights+northern Downtown) on the Jersey City Council www.instagram.com/reel/DNnsj3X...

But I was told by the New York Times that marriage equality was a stunning success that succeeded because of its modest political goals. Almost like the last two decades of progress were hollow assimilationism into a collapsing neoliberal order rather than actual liberation.

"feminine cis men dont have to be trans and yet they are being pushed to be by a Shadowy Force" is just the latest 2020s iteration of the psychoanalytical castration anxiety that drives all crises of masculinity in modernity (now in response to transness gaining public presence)

NYC Is Having a Clownaissance A new generation of clowns wants you to embrace the liberatory possibilities of acting very stupid.

This day in history, an abuser resigned in disgrace. He will never hold such power again. We won’t let him.

Not only is this game’s impeccable exploration of disgust vs justice and individual vs systemic violence incredibly timely, but it’s also an absolute visual and audio joy! Can’t recommend it enough

Kind of a crime against bell hooks, a really smart writer on the psychic depravations imposed by patriarchy, that she has been warped in memory since her death to a mere cheerleader for men’s interests.

I think turning covid consciousness into this “mask forever, vaccines are useless” bugbear is sad. Its unfortunate that the common courtesy (done in much of the world!) of using a face covering in public places, especially when sick, has been rejected so roundly

we are so close but so far. the whole planet's ruling strata have mobilized to destroy as much of it as possible. cisness and heterosexualism are bourgeois, really,

This is going to sound crazy but what if we build a politics that understands women as constituents and ends into themselves rather than instruments or resources for men’s gratification

and really, if you have a semblance of a conscience left, who wouldn't?

crying, begging, yelling at americans to know what words mean, their own fucking history and the forces moving their world so that maybe they can understand what's hurting them.

Anti-LGBTQ orgs have explicitly stated they USE sports as a "gateway drug" to undermine trans people's rights. They've also said this is how they eventually roll back all progress on LGBTQ rights. Newsom falls for it hook, line, and sinker.

the fact that the US has managed to have any sort of home solar boom at all is impressive considering home solar is one of the single most predatory and fraudulent industries in America

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Art by Peter Elson from Science Fiction Monthly, Nov 1975.

violent misogyny is a prerequisite belief for fascism and I just am begging anyone who doesn't study feminism, gender, child and domestic abuse, etc, to please just believe us when we say domestic and sexual violence is how they learn to dodge accountability to enact institutional violence later

it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.

Will the media give even a fraction of the attention to what Donald Trump did say that they gave to what Zohran Mamdani didn’t?

Per this lawyer, the mother of 3 US citizens, among others, has been abducted by “bounty hunters” at gunpoint, brought to CBP, where they demanded she sign deportation papers without seeing a judge. When she refused, she was literally disappeared by the armed “bounty hunters” at the behest of CBP.

Zohran Mamdani: Some New Yorkers Say They Can Imagine Him With A Big Cape And Devil Horns

A Ugandan Indian Muslim man, son of a Columbia professor and a filmmaker, married to a Syrian illustrator and animator, who's lived in the city since he was seven. A guy who went to a public school*, who started out protecting people from evictions. A guy who released a rap EP as "Young Cardamom."

The ideological narrative here is that only property taxes are “real” taxes because only property owners are “real” people

it is genuinely incredible that zohran's campaign completely annihilated the democratic commentariat and party cadre mainstreaming of the idea that you need to concede palestine and trans rights to the zionists and republicans to 'gather votes'. lmfaoooo

in the first results (early+mail) ZOHRAN MAMDANI 43.1% Andrew Cuomo 34.0% Brad Lander 13.3% everybody else <5%

yes, the establishment will respond very harshly to the threat. should Mamdani prevail everybody needs to double down on ranked choice and all the other things we actually want and like