Where @kashana.blacksky.app absolutely obliterates a certain kind of media profile...

So um. This is what's been up with me for the last year. I hate hate hate asking but very much appreciate your support. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-me-if...

I am coming around to the view that at least some of the work at this point is to find ways to create (however imperfectly) a microcosm of our vision for the future in our everyday lives. Which is a big transition for me as someone who long held contempt for what I saw as lifestyle activism

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!

grantwriting-with-claire-willett.ghost.io/summer-book-... 8th House's summer book club is back tomorrow for LET THIS RADICALIZE YOU! please come hang out with us even if you read the book a long time ago, or did not get a chance to read it yet at all but just want to listen in

Adding some promotion, too. Please pre-order The Payback! I got the chance to read it and was savoring every page. Loved it and can't wait to listen to the audiobook! 🥳

These people need to be imprisoned for war crimes.

Job Garcia’s kidnapping by the Trump administration is the top story on the LA Times website right now. www.latimes.com/california/s...

This is who runs this account

A woman is hospitalized and receives staples in her head after LAPD trampled her with their horses. LAPD also impeded her receiving medical attention.

it’s not an important point at all, but I just can’t get over the fact that these people apparently believe they’d do well in a “meritocracy” after failing upwards their entire lives

It's very interesting to watch people with (perceived) power start hating their potential clients. It takes a very special a*hole to decide to turn that hatred into publicly shaming them, though.

Very excited for this year's RiotFest aka Geriatric Millennial Live Aid.

Has anyone ever said "My rights are a distraction?" It's always someone else's rights, right?

With JKR's absolutely hateful picture last week, we're having the "separate the art from the artist" discourse again. Since this question directly impacts my work as a bookseller, it's something I've thought a lot about. Here's a thread of where I've landed...

pretty crazy watching the american president on live tv in the oval office planning the construction of concentration camps in a foreign country to house americans

I'm not going to stop saying this. We need to stop calling it "deporting." It may not always be fair or humane, but deportation has a process. And it means you're sent back to where you came from. These people are being trafficked and sold to slave prisons. Not deported.

So happy to receive this gem in the mail today! Thanks to Gina @thelynxbooks.bsky.social for sending it all the way to Germany and thanks to @kristenarnett.bsky.social for the cats and laughs. I read the first chapter to my wife after having finished it and we were crying laughing. 🤡😂

who wouldn't want to pay $70k to send their kids to a place where some useless bandicoot of an admin trying to cling to a job they suck at will allow their pet goon squad to ragdoll them for practice

Tough times ahead for people who buy goods or services or food.

The road to fascism is paved with bitches telling you “it’s not that serious”

CBC science show Quirks and Quarks just had another great episode talking about the long term damage caused by each COVID infection. If you're starting to wonder why so many hard-core scientists are so contemptuous of our public health institutions, listen to this. www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

Did he vote to deport you? Did he vote for your death by uterine sepsis? Did he vote for you to be trapped when they revoke no-fault divorce? Did he vote for you to be fired ("DEI hire") &/or lose workplace protections? Leaving aside "empathy for others" (ha!)--it's always been abusive. +

Posting tonight ti shine a light on what the Alien Enemies Act looks like IRL. Our @immdef.bsky.social client fled Venezuela last year & came to US to seek asylum. He has a strong claim. He was detained upon entry because ICE alleged his tattoos are gang related. They are absolutely not. 🧵

Every word of this is a lie.

Bernie Sanders: "I think this is a prelude not only to cutting benefits, but to privatizing Social Security ... why do you lie so much about Social Security? Why do you make it look like it's a broken system? The reason is to get people to lose faith in the system so you can give it over to Wall St"

Back in the mid-20th century, the FBI could place an individual under surveillance solely for being LGBTQ. This is what enabled the anti-queer witch hunts of the McCarthy era. Now, DHS permits surveillance of LGBTQ people again. Just being queer makes you a suspect. www.advocate.com/politics/dhs...

I've seen three different articles on this, because the guy who owns the company that makes this stuff reached out to the press. He's got 400,000 boxes of life-saving goo sitting in a warehouse, and if USAID won't accept it, he's going to have to throw it out.

Brexit has never looked quite so daft

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

This is a bigger scandal than people realize. It really makes it look as though this entire meeting was a setup by Trump that was planned in advance. If you watch the video it is clear that they are deliberately and almost derangedly blindsiding Zelenskyy. Now we know who the audience was. Putin.

are you fucking kidding me? the Space Nazi wore a tee shirt and baseball cap to a cabinet meeting

Obama and Biden may think they are honoring the office of the presidency by keeping quiet at a moment like this — if so that’s just preening vanity — they owe it to the office and to the Republic that until last month it served to speak up loudly and clearly and without relent.

This is an enormous scandal on par and maybe worse than the Eric Adams scandal.

A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.

Legitimately the stupidest man alive I cannot fucking STAND this shit

Please read and share. But especially share with folks that might not realize how critical Section 504 is to so many people. I tried to write a simple clear explanation at the break. I hope it reaches some people who aren't already on our side. Gift link: www.startribune.com/why-are-repu...

If you think the way the most powerful men treat their partners and families isn’t important, you’ve already fallen for their manipulation. The violence at home is part and parcel of their abuse of power

The thing about federal bureaucracy is that all the institutional knowledge that makes them work invisibly in such as making sure your milk doesn't contain formaldehyde, is stored inside people who would make twice as much money in another job.

One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.

When engaged in unlawful viewpoint discrimination it's important to say so as publicly and stupidly as possible

oh cool I’ve been meaning to learn anxiety

He's absolutely right. He's the only Dem telling it like it is

Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives. Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.

Hey here’s a free sentence if anyone wanted to use it in a book: “She had the sort of eyes that look at things.” I didn’t say it was a good sentence but maybe you can use it if you have a character that looks at things with her eyes