Piper's legacy will not be any of his books nor his local ministry but his tacit blessing of overt white nationalism The ICE field director being his acolyte is actually fitting

If we go full authoritarian, it's going to be the Russia/Zimbabwe/Turkey route, not straight to North Korea. Even authoritarian regimes in the current world need the appearance of legitimacy brought through the popular vote.

This tbh. It's nothing but eye-rollingly exhausting when a red state gov with no history of allyship does this. When it's @gavinnewsom.bsky.social , it's bafflingly dumb. Dude. Your most likable trait was proximity to us! Queer people come to your state for refuge! You had every opportunity!

we got ICE flash banging cars full of kids, trashing main street America and gunning down moms but don't worry, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social is laser focused on chatting to right wing influencers & charlatans about children's genitals and if entire demographics of people even exist🙄 fuck @democrats.org

So if a (para?)military immigration enforcement agency full of treasonist insurrectionists claims their tech overrides the authority of official citizenship and identity documents of a country... At what point is that invalidation of the previously established govt itself?

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

NYT ran 11 stories on trans athletes in 2 days including one about brett kavanaugh’s special POV as a girls’ basketball coach. they sent 6 people to scotus to write up their victory lap & meanwhile this is how far you needed to scroll yesterday to find coverage of ICE in MN. stop giving them money.

Flashbangs burn hotter then lava. They've caused serious burns, severed hands, and even killed. *That's* what ICE just tossed into a car full of kids. Here's our investigation from 2015, by @juliaangwin.com: www.propublica.org/article/flas...

"WHY AREN'T AMERICANS--" Friends, we are. Some of us have been doing this work for years, generations, centuries. Some of us have have ancestors, family, friends who were killed doing this work. I appreciate the folks coming in new, but we haven't all been complacent since 1776.

ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms

"i serve the Lord, not a draft-dodging coward" is the kind of phrase that would be slightly cringe online and is incredibly badass when being stated by a man surrounded by armed men threatening to murder him

The talking point of the day seems to be that we should use US history of racism instead of Nazi comparisons to discuss what is happening in the US now, but the point is being missed that the phrasing is intentional as rhetoric. Our cultural mythology and self-perceptions. Dig at their core identity

Important thread on the oral arguments taking place right this moment at the Supreme Court, in cases whose importance goes far beyond just sports:

Testing a new way of sharing the Rainbow Faith playlist to be the most inclusive of all music apps. Does this work for you and your preferred service? I need as many people on a variety of platforms as possible to help provide feedback. www.tunemymusic.com/share/rsDSk3...

Testing a new way of sharing the Rainbow Faith playlist to be the most inclusive of all music apps. Does this work for you and your preferred service? I need as many people on a variety of platforms as possible to help provide feedback. www.tunemymusic.com/share/rsDSk3...

Any Democratic votes to fund DHS later this month as Minneapolis is being terrorized by DHS is going to be a major slap in the face to Americans living here. Demand major reforms or shut the government down.

Neutrality favors the aggressor. Compliance does not save the marginalized. Benefit of the doubt enables the bigot. If not you, then who? Speak out, act out, get into good trouble.

App devs! It seems like from this (similar comments on Insta, btw!), music app Reddits and help forums, en masse browser switching, social media app feedback, and general OS/hardware customer sentiment, if you are trying to find the selling point for your tech, being anti-AI is a huge bonus.

It's one of those MAHA/anti-psychiatry talking points that has been recycled for years. Exercise is great for mood, whether you're depressed or not. And it can do a lot for depression, but that doesn't take anything away for antidepressants or make it a zero sum game like RFK wants us to think.

Okay, new stage of the transition away from Spotify problem: I want a tool that doesn't just import my playlists from streaming to streaming but takes the playlists I created in a streaming platform and uses my own music files to re-create the playlist.

lots of political space to convert those “not sures” into somewhat supports and those “somewhat supports” into strongly supports on eliminating ICE. also, with a funding battle coming up, plenty of political space to say “no government funding unless we claw back last year’s new ICE funding”

We don't have those where I'm from

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

so like.... that's just pollution then

Y'all, delete Tiktok. I got a strike for saying Renee Good was murdered. Yesterday, I reported an account whose bio literally says trans people should all kill themselves, and they auto generated a reply saying that didn't violate their policy against hate or encouraging self harm and suicide.

On March 27, 1866, President Andrew Johnson vetoed the first Civil Right Act, which granted African Americans citizenship. Johnson opposed Black voting rights, pardoned Confederates, and allowed their reenslaving “Black codes” after the Civil War. 1/2

Turns out the actual evil behind Harry Potter wasn't witchcraft but transphobia!

I think one of my least favorite things about *vaguely gestures at everything* is it didn't have to be this way. So many awful things could have been avoided. So many more people would still be alive. Our present circumstances and traumas were optional

Jesus is humble and concerned with fulfilling righteousness, not hierarchy and religion. What makes you righteous is your moral behavior, your alignment with God, not your religion or scripture memory or attendance.

If your religion tells you to discriminate against people, you may be religious but you are not righteous. Jesus came to make the wounded whole. You can have any political position you want, but don't let your politics overtake your call to be prophetic in love that makes a difference.

🎯 From @dlmayfield.bsky.social.

It's actually a good thing that previously apolitical normies are finally getting angry and starting to speak out. We need the numbers in the streets and at the polls. If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.

Singers now processing through the neighborhood, aware that ICE has been active in the general area.

"It wasn't murder, and if you say it was murder we will kill you, which again will not be murder."

In a regime led by a death cult, your first and most vital call to resistance is to exist. If you do nothing else, you must live in defiance.

I've spent enough time around Episcopalians in the past 10 years to know that some of them are about that life. They're chill folks but they take no shit.

We need to stop saying “AI is coming for our jobs” AI doesn’t have a vendetta against the middle class. It’s not sentient, it can’t choose to harm us. It’s a tool for those who can. We need to identify the right party at fault. “Billionaires are coming for our jobs”

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I reshared why I oppose Side B (God/the Bible *requires* gay people to commit to celibacy or heterosexual marriage) despite being celibate myself. I also go into manufactured rules and the urgency of suffering we are called to extend compassion toward: invisiblecakesociety.com/2025/09/06/y...

So excited for this! If you have heard of Rachel Held Evans but only read her books, this one is essential reading. These essays are why we have all we do today. open.substack.com/pub/sarahbes...

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

This one is really sticking with me. My belief in religious freedom is deep, but the truth is that these deranged nationalist and non-affirming churches need to be eliminated, like it or not. I honestly think the courage that Jenna describes here will be the defining trait of 21st century theology.

It's never too late to start wearing a mask. It's never too late to stop using Chat GPT. It's never too late to start supporting your community. It's never too late to do better.

The most effective way to resist this modern brand of fascism isn't to completely immerse yourself in its propaganda. You're actually helping their message spread. Go and make art or read a book or spend time with offline people. You can't marinate in the horror and emerge unscathed.

This is the exact way they talk about colonizing in the past too. "Winner takes all" is how they justify genocide of Native Americans, enslavement, and patriarchy. "I'm more powerful, so it's mine. If you can't defend yourself, you deserve to be conquered and die."

So this piece of crap squatting in the White House has decided to engage us in war to gain oil. This is not about drugs. This is about control. This is about him not being held accountable for his crimes. How much does it take until we act against him?

all love and solidarity with the people of venezuela

the way you treat your kids when they’re grieving will affect how/whether they’ll grieve you later.

Now that my queer Christmas movie binge watch season is over, I reserved today for the Eras docuseries and final show. I've seen lots of praise and comments on the particulars from a fan perspective, but not nearly enough on how it's a masterclass in executive high-visibility leadership.