"Despite Trump officially activating FEMA on Sunday, FEMA has just 86 total staff deployed at this point [to Texas], according to figures shared with staff Monday evening...In the past it would normally be in the several hundreds at this point in the disaster recovery process." My latest:

Blue Jay keeping an eye on things, as they do. Also being gorgeous. #birds 🌿

If you put googly eyes on the Pillars of Creation you get muppets 😄😄

I think Zohran is an early sign a big part of the reaction to Trump 1 was “we need to go back to normal, we gotta nominate the most conventional people imaginable” which is how we got Biden that comprehensively failed, and a lot more people are open to real alternatives this time around

BREAKING: as Thomas Gürber, Swiss Deputy State Secretary of Foreign Affairs, spoke, two actionists — one of whom is my colleague @crimew.gay — walked on stage with a sign that said "no tech for genocide." they chanted: "no tech for genocide / you are all complicit" and "free, free Palestine."

No tech for genocide protestors took the stage at the #AIForGood conference. “No Tech For Genocide: you are all complicit. Free, free, Palestine.” “The first AI powered genocide.” I don’t really think that the hosts of the event were prepared for this, (which does surprise me).

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/

again: regular people showing 10x more bravery than almost every single elected representative in congress

“not seen in generations” isn’t quite accurate. this is a level and scope of federal policing that has no precedent in american history

combine the operating budgets of america’s ten biggest city PDs (new york, chicago, los angeles, houston, philadelphia, DC, las vegas, dallas, phoenix, and detroit)… and then double it. that puts you at $30B

And just think how many more innocents they can kidnap and traffic with the budget the Republicans just handed them. TnT www.npr.org/2025/07/03/n...

This country now has concentration camps. Much like the regime has done and beta tested in places like Florida, they just don't use the verbiage 'concentration camp'. Then, they gaslight the shit out of anyone who calls it like it is, deny it, overtalk any media q's and move on. Know that.

Reports that a Canadian citizen who has resided in the US since age 10 was abducted at a green card interview. Her husband is begging ICE to let him fly her back to Canada and they refuse to release her.

Just sit with this for a moment. Israel perpetrated what is certainly the largest single mass killing of trans people in history. And it's basically a footnote in an article in the NYT covered weeks after it happened.

People need to realize trans misogyny isn’t just blatant bigotry like “trans women aren’t women.” It’s also the refusal to extend empathy toward or desire to understand trans women’s perspectives which builds & curdles into hostility. And I’m seeing that kind more and more in leftist spaces.

Iran arrests people purely for being LGBT. Israel bombed the prison as an act of "liberation", killing all trans inmates. What a grim world we live in

talking a lot about race-science shit, like IQ or “human biodiversity” or how bad affirmative action is, *should* be totally discrediting, a sign of lazy and shallow thinking that undermines anything else someone says but there’s so much internalized racism among American elites that it’s not

Without exaggeration, the last 50+ years of biological research completely discredits every race science claim. It is the single biggest indicator of being a malicious dullard and a reactionary ideologue. The fact I’ve had to dedicate a single minute of my career to addressing it is absurd

“still punk as fuck” i sob quietly as i chew a melatonin gummy and put an ice pack on my knee

Sorry to add to the current list of worries, but this is terrifying www.icm.csic.es/en/news/majo...

Just take it slow! If you are just getting started transitioning you are gonna be a whirlwind of emotions and maybe also hormones and it's very easy to get caught up in that and make a mess of things. Be honest, be kind, be yourself and be patient. With yourself as much as anyone.

Sylvia Rivera on the corporatization of the queer movement in 2001, through nonprofits. "This movement has become so capitalist... I see this movement becoming a straight gay movement that only believes in that almighty dollar... I have them their pride but they have not given me mine"

There was an elite consensus against transphobia so strong Texas’ Republican Speaker of the House Joe Straus refused to pass a transphobic law, the public broadly agreed, and then a few elite liberals took it upon themselves to make transphobia popular and more or less succeeded.

it is wild how many non-trans people seem to be taking an issue with this extremely correct thread: transphobia was an extreme minority position that was isolated to fringe reactionary christian conservatives, but through "liberal" publications laundering bigoted talking points it became accepted

Here’s a deep cut for y’all from one of my favorite edutainment games If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Dr. Who,” or “Transformers.”

yeah tbh if you do not have the political awareness to comprehend that Appalachia has been smeared and erased BECAUSE 100 years ago, a meaningfully multiracial movement of Appalachian workers successfully struck and fought to secure most worker protections in the US today... now you do propaganda

If you post regularly you will sometimes make bad posts! People who refuse to admit it are far more worrying to me than people who just apologize, delete and move on.

Since inauguration day I've really started noticing how one of the toxic byproducts of fascism is how the "all these people are unworthy of life" idea has become more accepted on the left- the same shit as on the right but merely the targets flipped- and we really have to push back at that.

Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me

Everyone in the administration is going to hell for what they have done

USAID was unambiguously good *and in the process of getting better* when it was killed off by a greedy, conspiracy-addled billionaire with conservatives' support. USAID was also one of the most cost-effective forms of power America has ever wielded, positively boosting status abroad for pennies.

IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE ME AT MY WORST THEN I'M SORRY THAT MY BEHAVIOR CAUSED YOU DISTRESS, I WILL REFLECT ON THE IMPACT MY ACTIONS HAVE ON OTHERS AND TRY TO IMPROVE MYSELF. THANK YOU FOR BEING MY FRIEND.

Getting slightly high at a music festival while lying in a hammock staring at leaves may be one of my peak experiences at this point

🎀pink train🎀 🩷Quote something pink🌸

happy death to america day to those who celebrate

Happy 4th of Whatever

putting the finishing touches on my server so I can finally fully cancel Netflix, so happy Independence Day I guess

Good morning happy 4th of July

Probably will be picking up the Pathfinder starter kit soon, any tips on running this for the first time?

On the House floor, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) speaks for a lot of us about the Big Beautiful Bill: “I say to my Republican colleagues, what’s wrong with you people?... Jesus Christ, what are you people thinking?”

Hm. A Black band and an Irish band. What could be the motivation to single out these acts?

It's not even just that they're banning trans healthcare, they're banning public funding for any therapy at all for trans people where they "affirm social transition", aka they use your name and pronouns and acknowledge the reality of how you move through the world. No support at all.

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