I'm outta here sayonara you weeaboo shits

I often recommend Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching novels to kids in the 6-12 range &/or their families--they're fun to read aloud. Tiffany is a witch, & one key skill for a witch is First Sight, which means perceiving what is there, & not pretending you don't know about it. I think about this a lot

The Social Security Administration hemorrhaged jobs in 2025, creating what advocates have described as a crisis of customer service. Since, it’s been taking weeks or months before some people can even get an appointment to receive their benefits. https://bit.ly/4rCLvBZ

In most Arab countries, Mother’s Day is celebrated on March 21. But since Oct. 7, 2023, Mother’s Day in Gaza has been stripped of its meaning. How can these children celebrate when there are no mothers to embrace them, hold them, receive their gifts, or smile at their small gestures of love?

Philadelphia, geographically located as far as it is possible to be from the remote vicinity of fucking around.

Libraries are spaces where people can gather without spending money, learn together, and build the kind of shared intellectual life that authoritarianism seeks to destroy.

This story by @sheinvestigates.bsky.social is so so good and so so upsetting. Get ready to have your head explode www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...

COMMENTARY: "In almost every state, Democrats and Republicans have advantages over other parties or independents. But in the Northeast it is easier for independents and candidates from other parties to get on the ballot." Via @theconversation.com rhodeislandcurrent.com/2026/03/19/w...

NEW: North Oaks, Minnesota is the only city in the US that is not on Google Maps Street View. "“It’s known by Minnesotans as a place where executives and CEOs live,” Parr told 404 Media. “Famously Walter Mondale is from North Oaks, but also like United Healthcare executives and Target executives.”

My friend Caroline knows what's up againstthestars.substack.com/p/how-do-we-...

New favorite line I've gotten to write: The members of Congress looked considerably less glamorous than the Housewives.

following updates about the iran war is trump lying about everything and then real war updates side by side

Let's catch up on the hilarious Afroman defamation trial: defector.com/lets-catch-u...

People are asking a lot of questions about my Bloomberg headline already answered by my Bloomberg headline

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lmfao get wrecked

just a thought: no movement should ever depend so completely on the reputation of its chosen figurehead that one of its founders is forced to make a calculation like this on behalf of its survival

🚨 New from me @therealnews.com I speak w/ Diane Wilson—a fourth-generation fisherwoman who became a global folk hero for taking on a multibillion $ corporation polluting the bays along her beloved Texas Gulf Coast. Diane is now on a hunger strike against Dow Chemical therealnews.com/fisherwoman-...

Since last April, at least 4,700 immigrants already charged with entering the country illegally have faced additional charges for trespassing on military property. In about 60% of the resolved cases, the trespass charges were dropped or dismissed.

"Direct action, insurrection, and communal land use were already core principles in Irish culture. In the meantime, remember: if we wanted to celebrate Ireland properly, we’d fly Palestinian flags today, not wear green."

Ordinarily, I would not put them into your feed. But I think it's valuable to see who is defending Chavez right now and to realize that many of your spaces might not be safe. Because men.

movements aren't separate from society. they are part of society. every social problem in society will be found in movements.

Really glad this is coming out. Unfortunately seems to have whiffs of Jimmy Savile to it. There were people who knew, who saw what Chavez was doing and tried to shut anyone else up from revealing the truth.

One, movements don't need monsters. They succeed in spite of them because the principles are just and good. Two, no one should have to "wait their turn" for justice. Justice for everyone. Now. Today. Three, the New York Times is still a compromised outlet that capitulates to fascists.

The NYT presents this as an either-or situation and it is not. We can protect women and girls from predators and have justice for the common worker. We can protect women and girls while providing the civil rights to ALL. Rights that many shed blood and lost their lives for us to have.

Protests planned in #Utah against ICE mega-prison. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

I am so sorry, Dolores.

Has a lot of stuff about the hideous cult shit he was doing and also how his people ran their own border patrol that would attack immigrants on the border Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I guess my last thought is how much of the world could we already have won if every man wasn't deputized as a sheriff of patriarchy with all of the capacity for violence being a cop entails? Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Mamdani's promised $65m for gender affirming care doesn't appear to be in his preliminary budget. In my first for @prismreports.org, I explored why that might be, and what trans advocates and activists have to say about it. prismreports.org/2026/03/18/m...

363 pregnant, postpartum and nursing immigrants were deported b/w Jan 2025 and Feb 16, DHS confirms. 16 miscarried in detention. 121 actively detained as of last month. These are the first numbers we have on how many pregnant, postpartum and nursing people have been detained under Trump.

I wrote about this. The TLDR is: the Left has a decades-long abuse problem and without pushing for and achieving a true intersectional movement, this type of shit is going to continue. Let's figure this shit out, for Pete's sake

The Providence City Council considers amendments to the rent stabilization ordinance "Many of those speaking in opposition don’t live in Providence. They don’t live or vote here, but they own our homes, and they are building wealth off our backs..." steveahlquist.substack.com/p/the-provid...

They're scared of Ms. Rachel

Cw rape Oh dear god this is horrible Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

no heroes but the movement

Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

At its core, Trumpism is fundamentally about normalizing the resolution of political differences with violence, whether threatened or applied. In this sense, the caning of Charles Sumner is both origin story and logical conclusion. As aberrant as this exchange is, it's central to what's happening.

an often forgotten part of far-right history nowadays is how the "race realist" movement is linked to other forms of bigoted pseudoscience - e.g. misogyny, transphobia, xenophobia, among others. these are not, and have never been, serious academics. they're explicitly racist frauds

after Charlie Kirk died pundits like Ezra Klein praised his "hard conversations" with students. under the higher ed backlash he helped start, the real hard-to-have conversations are about gender, race, sexuality, protest. the feminists touring colleges with academic bans: @us.theguardian.com

when bigots say shit like "mass transition regret is inevitable" what they mean is that their goal is to make society so hostile to trans people that trans people decide to go back into the closet. thats why a bunch of terfs got all depressed when trans didn't go away after that supreme court ruling

Ahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahaahaha hell yeah Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

"It’s true that the Irish weren’t quite white for most of American history, but we never had it half as bad as Black or indigenous people here, and we’ve been white for a hundred years now because we met the devil at the crossroads and sold him our soul." Loved this essay by @margaret.bsky.social

this week's post is about the embarrassing legacy of the Irish-Americans, whiteness, why I don't particularly care about St. Patrick's Day, and why it was cool when Irish Americans used to get drunk, crossdress, and kill landlords. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/fenian-bas...

Kat ran a great campaign in a crowded district and nearly pulled it off. I know she's going to continue doing great things, for Illinois and the rest of the country.

Leqaa Kordia has finally been released from ICE detention after a year in jail, but the Trump administration may continue to target her. AP reported that “an attorney for the DHS said the government opposed the release of Kordia, regardless of the bond.”

I'm glad to see this being covered - because, frankly, this is a death-blow to collaborative science - however, the assumption of good faith in any of these decisions by reporters is mind-boggling. This is happening for one reason - to assure top-down control of what gets funded and what does not.

People care about a lot of things but are only able to prioritize a very few. Once you internalize this, it becomes easier to organize.

A federal judge has blocked a law in Arkansas that requires the display of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom and library, ruling that the statute violates Supreme Court precedent and the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.