There is currently a lot of debate about whether Vance Boelter was an outlier for Christian extremism, and whether anti-abortion extremism is an outlier for Christianity. The reality is, the anti-abortion movement is inextricably linked to Replacement Theory and anyone who believes in it.

Abortion providers would like a word. Did you know that harassment and violence outside of clinics (and of providers and volunteers online) is not considered a hate crime? 1/3

How can you mention the TheoBros and Charles Haywood and not acknowledge that they are Nazis? Not an exaggeration, like full on Pinochet enthusiast, Hitler defending Nazis. @motherjones.com @reproaction.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

So while they are stopping and/or pardoning all the prosecution for crimes against abortion clinics, they're also pushing to up the sentences for targeting fake clinics. www.thebatavian.com/press-releas...

We're disappointed, but not surprised, by today's news about the pardons for anti-abortion clinic blockaders. Just remember that this is how they behaved when they had federal charges hanging over their heads. Imagine how they will behave tomorrow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GP-...

When you think about religion as a broad category, two things should be top of mind in my view: diversity and power dynamics. On diversity: There are huge differences both within and among religions. You don’t know what you don’t know; pretending you do makes you look like an ass. 1/2

I don’t know. Maybe you don’t have to platform an unabashedly antidemocratic, authoritarian creep in your paper and allow him the opportunity to sell your readers on raising up an American Caesar. And maybe you don’t do a photo shoot where this loser asshole gets to pretend he’s cool.

While I am delighted that there is a spike in people taking their digital security seriously, I also want to remind folks to help the people who are most immediately in danger - immigrants, journalists, sex workers, the houseless, trans folks, people of color, and medical providers.

Really useful info for everybody trying to navigate boundaries with Meta.

Going to try to keep this in the center of my heart the next four years

Hundreds of incarcerated firefighters are fighting the wildfires raging across southern California for $5.80-$10.24 per day When responding to disasters, they may earn $26.90 over a 24-hour shift

Florida officials ordered transgender women in the state’s prisons to submit to breast exams. Prison staff ranked the women’s breast size using a scale designed for adolescents. Those whose breasts were deemed big enough were allowed to keep their bras. www.themarshallproject.org/2024/12/10/n...

Here is an ongoing list of LA restaurants that are offering shelter, food, and support to first responders and evacuees: bit.ly/LAaid

My new year's resolution is to be sand in the gears every fucking chance I get.

Good morning

A reminder, especially given how high the fear levels are right now, that fascists are *a lot* weaker than they look when people fight back.

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." Arthur C. Clarke

You'll be visited by three spirits.

we all have an emotional support dead famous guy and who he is says a lot about you

I genuinely think we should start calling businesses and schools falling to the anti-DEI movement “segregationists” because they are re-segregating. And earlier rounds of segregationists *also* explained their preferred policy in race-neutral terms (“state’s rights” and “freedom of association”).

Worth mentioning that one of the people behind this bill is Matt Brock, a TheoBro that manages up by keeping a foot in multiple orgs, including Operation Save America, Love Life, and Equal Protection SC. On bsky.app/profile/prog...

This might be the most dystopian thing I’ve seen all week. And that’s saying something. gizmodo.com/arizona-scho...

Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT. @distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting. Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...

we as a nation need the return of the 24 hour diner in order to heal. run a proper one with the right vibes and even the rowdiest recognize it as a sacred space. the place you inevitably end up at after an adventure

It's rare you get such a clear illustration of whose lives have value in America and whose don't

She was also David Daleiden's lawyer. So many reasons no.

There seem to be a number of Americans who don’t know what to do if they find a book they don’t like at the library. For them, we wrote this handy step-by-step guide. action.everylibrary.org/what_do_i_do...

This is what abortion, LGBTQ+, and especially sex work advocates have been trying to tell people from the beginning

A lot of men are gonna be mad that their US history classes were too busy to cover The Hatpin Panic. The Hatpin Panic was a period in the early 1900's where we had to pass laws limiting women's hatpins to <9" because men started to get too fucking free with touching and were getting shanked for it.

Roughly, 16,666 minor kids get married a year vs 3,681 trans kids on HRT annually in average, with that second number being even smaller now due to the number of statewide healthcare bans that have been enacted over the last 3 years It's a huge huge HUGE difference

This is your recurring reminder that you shouldn’t say stuff on public social media that would look really bad if security forces printed it out and knocked on your door to discuss it at midnight. If you believe, as I do, that we are entering very dangerous times, please start acting accordingly.

pretty grim when health insurance company executives have to try to hide their identities online like they're public school history teachers, government employees or doctors who care for transgender people

It really can't be stated enough how the AI craze is rooted deeply in utter vitriolic disrespect for the working class. Like I've seen multiple cases of this tech being marketed directly on sticking it to us filthy poors who want things like "benefits" and "fair pay for our labor"

NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy. www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...

Michael L. Reid claimed his goal was to destroy the #AryanNations www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hul1.... It appears Reid has switched teams or was lying. He just just posted this video on his YT Channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbb6... He's now with a hate group that is based in AZ. @splcenter.bsky.social

Strippers keep telling y’all that they aren’t making as much money as they used to and y’all are pretending it’s because nobody cares about stripping anymore. When in reality, the last time they were saying this was in 2007, right before the stock market crashed.

The Supreme Court case tomorrow is fundamentally not about gender affirming care, it's about whether or not trans people have any protections under the 14th amendment. A loss in this case would greenlight a torrent of explicitly discriminatory legislation without much, if any judicial recourse.

I feel like all the both-sides-ing over how Biden's pardon of Hunter could *set a bad precedent* fails to account for how the MAGA Republican party is ALREADY full of terrorists, Nazis, rapists, child molesters, fascists and Christian extremists, and the Democratic Party, you know, isn't.

If you're keeping score at home, Kash Patel as FBI director should settle the argument between the "It'll be bad but settle down this is still America" and "People will disappear in the night" camps.

Ken Paxton accused the Sunrise Homeless Navigation Center in South Austin of being a “common nuisance” and wants it shut down for a year. Its executive director promises that they’ll keep helping poor folks out. #txlege

Chris Rufo, architect of the conservative takeover at New College Florida, will present President-elect Trump with a plan to strip colleges of federal funding if they do not pull back campus diversity initiatives, the WSJ is reporting. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

For anybody looking to improve their digital security, this tool is a great starting point. securityplanner.consumerreports.org

But separately the ability to take complex concepts and explain them to somebody who knows nothing and doesn’t really desire to know more than a baseline level is A Skill Sorely Needed in political communication. Get your pencils and start drawing kindergarten diagrams. I know I do!

"The conversation no one wants to have is that it’s still impossible to calculate how many resources infrastructure of AI needs to run at scale—including water, a resource Spain is rapidly running out of with 78% of its landmass threatened by desertification." www.techpolicy.press/why-we-dont-...

Really, what I am taking away from this chart is that Kendrick Lamar is the most powerful man in media. Somebody please get the fuck on that.

I'm delighted to announce that we will be continuing our work under a new fiscal sponsor, Aspiration Tech. Send donations or your favorite funders our way so we can continue helping targeted communities at a time when they need our help the most. us.commitchange.com/ca/san-franc...

Show me a pic on your phone that has your energy but isn’t a selfie

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

Two fake gun club accounts, both are following fascist accounts (and each other), both new accounts promote vioIence. BIock: @philadelphiagc.bsky.social @newefjbgc.bsky.social Fake antifa: @cvantifascist.bsky.social I’ve also added them to this bIock list here. bsky.app/profile/did:...

I'm real glad we're finally ditching Twitter, even if if took the fall of American democracy to do it.