Yep. This is why when places end cash bail, the conviction rate goes down. Because a lot of those convictions were just innocent Black folk taking plea deals for crimes that they 100% did not do, to avoid a life destroying year in jail. Like this.

YUP. Just learned about all this just recently. States use “preemption laws” a lot to usurp city autonomy, like blocking minimum wage floors, gun safety rules, fracking ordinances. They’re used a lot in the south to target local ordinances that would benefit minorities, women, and working people.

We really need to normalize loudly saying that these people want to bring back chattel slavery and very specifically the slavery of Black people. Which will sound weird and extreme to the vast majority of less clued-in people but it’s just plainly true at this point

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Vegans don't call it sex, we call it...

I fucking hate capitalism.

Every time someone shits on Memphis, they should be legally required to donate $10 to OUTMemphis, which provides life-affirming and life-saving services and community for LGBTQ+ people across the mid-South www.outmemphis.org/donate

Boss: Why are we doing this step? Me: It prevents X issue. Boss: We don't have that issue, let's leave that step out to save time. Me: ... This is kind of what it's like living in 2026, when you really think about it.

Comp battery is refusing to charge and is stuck on 4% so it keeps auto hibernating. Yes, while plugged in. So that’s great. The true death spiral may have begun. Anyway, it’d be cool if I could keep making art so I am dropping this link without shame.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

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Hi, spider expert here! Kyle Rittenhouse was bitten by a Brown Recluse (loxosceles reclusa). Unlike widow bites, recluse bites don't affect the nervous system. Instead, they are a cytotoxic venom, destroying local tissues at the site of the bite.. So how bad could this get? Well...

The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, warning residents of 12 towns and villages, including some north of the Litani River — beyond its current zone of occupation — to leave their homes. Those warnings were followed by reports of airstrikes in the south.

"It actually invisibilizes the way that the so-called ‘developed North’ profits from the theft of lands of Indigenous peoples within their own territories. To demand that those flows only go to the South is a continuation of those same colonial policies.”

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.

In a time of growing wealth inequality, when the ultra-wealthy are warping the nation's politics in extremely harmful ways (the other discourse on my timeline is Musk dismantling USAID and how many children that killed) then OF COURSE some reactions to a spectacle of wealth are going to be hostile.

What he and others are missing about what people are reacting to in the clothes at the Met Gala is the aspect of clothing as a socioeconomic signifier. The fantastical outfits at the MG, like the ones at the Capitol in the Hunger Games, signify people who don't have to worry about being able to move

I genuinely respect Mr. Guy, who in the early days of my transition taught me pretty much everything I now blithely ignore about menswear because also he taught me to put clothes on and wear them like I own them. & this is a good thread from the perspective of fashion as a cultural study... But.

They spent at least $50 BILLION over 2 months to bomb people in Iran. I don't want to hear a single thing about what can and cannot be funded in this country. Ever. The End.

Remember, when he was harassing me and other Natives he quite literally whined and cried about us not wanting him to "get credit for anti-ICE stuff"

There's still a few hours before post, there's still time for bad weather

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”

AOC: “If Republicans are going to redraw NC, if they’re going to redraw and gerrymander every one of their states, then unfortunately, we have to provide balance to that until we get to the day when we can all finally agree to put this behind us and pass nonpartisan gerrymandering federally.”

Condolences to all those impacted EXCEPT FOR Clarence and Ginni Thomas

Someone dig up Sherman, he's got a job to finish.

Adding another tally mark to "The Civil War Never Ended" column.

"Now, write a list of what a married couple can offer this baby.” Because these babies were then placed for adoption with married couples. And it was all a very intentional system meant to reinforce marriage and the nuclear family, and specifically the white nuclear family." 🥚

This is still #adoption today "there was this pretty universal experience, which was that these adoptions were pressured, coerced, that they were sometimes forced. These women were oftentimes sat down and given a piece of paper. And they were told: “Write a list of what you can offer this baby" 1/2

Black babies in Kentucky are more than twice as likely to die as white babies, according to a new report that shows health outcomes and access are, in general, worse in the commonwealth than the nation. From @sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social: kentuckylantern.com/2026/04/29/r...

Sixty-eight people killed by abortion bans after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade.

Gosh, and here I thought they'd stop with abortion.

PYE YOU HATE MEN I hate misogyny, capitalism and people who fail to see the patriarchal structures that link them, darling 💅

I feel so sad for all the people who like licking boots for regular sex reasons. Y'all don't deserve to be lumped in with sickos like this

At home. At home is the best place to sit.

Luigi Mangione, Tyler Robinson, and Cole Allen were not radicals. They had no party, no theory of history. They were “normies” who reached a breaking point and acted. They could no longer tolerate the intolerable. Radicalism didn’t produce them. Normalcy did.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

throwback to when i managed to get screencapped by will stancil within two days of making this account because i called him out for trying to harass @sapphic-film-nerd.bsky.social off the site

I don’t think I can take another news cycle of Democrats solemnly tutting about how violence is never the answer while Republicans promise to put their political enemies and whatever immigrants they can find in a wood chipper

Using a pregnant woman as a human shield AND copping a feel at the same time. This man is going to turbo hell

"Obama's chief of staff mansplained intersectionality to Kimberlé fucking Crenshaw" is just. What is a satirist to do here? Nothing more needs to be said.

A Flock of Seagulls were invited to entertain the troops at the Strait of Hormuz but refused because Iran so far away

It's important to remember that, yes, sometimes good things still happen. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

So I'm seeing that I'm NOT supposed to steal from Whole Foods and I'm NOT supposed to burn down warehouses and goddamn some of you are just fuckin killjoys, huh?

Literally just saying "originalism is Calvinball, it means whatever we want it to mean"

Its interesting that regular people can be charged for "standing by" during a shooting, but cops can't (thinking of Uvalde) www.wzzm13.com/article/news...

So this Earth Day we'd love to encourage everyone to try adding more plant-based meals to their diet. Designating one day a week is a great way to start! www.earthday.org/actions/plan...

how is this literally happening in real life

One of my faves 😂

“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.” ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower