always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

the skiers in the Olympics wear this brand and I remember being a kid and thinking the logo was a sex thing & it made me feel deeply scandalized

This is gender.

saw someone call the halftime performance gay and it’s like well there was a heterosexual marriage in it

openly weeping

Amber Glenn, a queer Texan who started ice skating at the stonebriar mall in frisco at age 5, who plays magic the gathering, is an olympic gold medalist

ohhh this is so funny

a good rundown of all the Talarico smearing afoot

I sincerely hope that JD Vance gets this reaction every single place he goes.

The front page of the Hachette Book Group's website urges visitors to "join the fight against censorship" by buying banned children's books that feature LGBTQ characters. This fall, Hachette will publish a book by Sam Alito, who just wrote a Supreme Court opinion making it easier to ban these books.

Fuck Donald trump

Anti-woke messaging is a net negative among Democrats

it seems illegal that I should have a little cold yet here we are

co-signing as a Christian 🤷‍♀️

A single piece can't cover everything, but it seems like adjunct/non-TT instructors are usually left out of these stories.

I spoke with Aliya Rahman, the autistic woman whom ICE ripped out of her car, about her experience of being in a viral video, what she experienced in detention and why she thinks we might be in bigger trouble in the future. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

this is so stupid lmao. there are logistical reasons to defend borders but they are morally neutral at best

This story has only continued to get dumber. Talarico denied ever saying the words "mediocre black man," but people are taking his statement as somehow confirming that he said that? Come on. Jesus.

man if i got beaten up by a bunch of random emo teens in Buda, Texas I think I'd never leave my house again

“writing is a muscle,” man i don’t know about that. it actually never gets any easier and it’s extremely painful every time. i think maybe it’s more like passing kidney stones. except the kidney stones are kind of nice to look at in the end, i guess, instead of being gross little piss rocks.

If anyone who doesn’t live here says shit to me about the senate race again I’ll kms

As a country music enthusiast I can confirm that this is absolute bottom of the barrel shit. None of these people have had a hit in five years, and you have to go back to 2011-12 for when Brice and Gilbert were really relevant. This is the lineup you get when you get hundreds of no thank yous first.

Sure libs can win in commie places like Fort Worth but what does real America think

TARRANT COUNTY LETS GO

I sometimes feel like the strongest solidarity in the world is misogyny.

X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications

Trump’s DOJ is arresting Black journalists

ICE is terrorizing our country. It’s time to stand up and fight back. Join us this Saturday in Austin: tinyurl.com/stopICErally

I love thursdays because I get to teach poetry class and then go home and watch traitors & the Pitt. this, along with good wages, free health/childcare, & revenge for fascists, is all We want

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

When this crash happened, Trump and Vance et al immediately came out to blame the crash on affirmative action. Not so different from calling Alex Pretti an assassin and Renee Good a domestic terrorist. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

the thing about this is that it’s only sustainable if you have a domestic servant (marry early)

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

hearing this is so fucking sickening after sandy hook & uvalde.

“The two were held for almost a week in a hotel 80 miles from their home, without access to a lawyer or a hearing before a judge, before being deported.” We’ve been following the story of Génesis at @thebarbedwire.com — glad @theguardian.com reported this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

New from @alexbirnel.bsky.social: Texas and the State of Texas are not exactly one—this sprawling place we call home contains five of the 15 most-populous cities in the country. All lean to the left, all see their power currently suppressed.

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Years from now, it'll be difficult to explain the things people in media were wailing about before all this. Sophomores writing underconsidered op-eds about cultural appropriation. Protests against demagogues on campus. YA drama. "Mobs" on Twitter. These were the threats to free society.

i hate living in the second act of CABARET. i miss living in the first act of CABARET

Portrait of Alex Pretti defending his city

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

Authoritarian fluffer and Free Press author Rod Dreher

I HATE THIS

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

watch for yourself (does not include the murder)

Barricades have now appeared in Minneapolis after the latest shooting.