A huge and necessary form of activism, that frankly is not being done at the scale it needs to be, is to campaign for Flock and Ring camera bans.

listening to john a. powell’s livestream earlier.. “hope is nostalgia for the future” had the honor today of submitting a proposal for a significant grant to advance racial equity in access to nature based outdoor early learning. so many things happening in so many places that are reason for hope

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility. This is beyond cruel. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

wizard frog is insane

OPINION: "Mississippi’s white leaders haven’t done nearly enough to reckon with our white supremacist past, nor its ongoing manifestations, to expect Black folks to live as if Jim Crow never was," MFP News Editor Ashton Pittman writes.

very excited for it to be that time of year when i contract a mysterious illness from my children.

Al Jazeera correspondent Hani Mahmoud describes his experience working as a journalist in Gaza amid Israel's genocide. “What you see on the screen is only a tiny bit of what we're able to show you. On the ground it's even worse.”

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos. It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

of course. of fucking course he is.

Never been happier to be on the autistic side of the universe.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

One last reminder, being white AND disabled do not cancel each other out. White disabled peeps are still white. You can't use your disability as a shield against looking inward to how the disabled global majority have it.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

I'm sorry but I will be saying "Autism is totally out of control" every day for the rest of my days

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

27% of the 1,491 cases of measles so far in 2025 were 4 and under.

Each of us really can decide to do a little something every day to lessen suffering (including our own).

A really good summary of #LongCOVID in children, from Julia Doubleday: www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid...

This isn't abstract. Ending vaccine mandates will kill children. Any one who is trying to do this should be removed from office immediately.

Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."

A lot of people call me a doomer but at heart I'm an optimist. I have an unshakable faith that things in the long term will work out for the better. Even the utopian Star Trek universe had a hellish few decades around this time. What I mourn is all the people we'll lose along the way.

More than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July, according to preliminary Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center.

please listen when disabled people tell you things. we have been saying this and saying this and saying this and it has been like screaming into a void.

It’s so fucking bleak

observations: 1. the gavin newsom fans on here follow a certain script 2. they are presenting newsoms candidacy as a done deal 3. they specifically bring up trans issues as irrelevant conclusion: this is a bot network astroTERFing support for newsom/transphobia

Disability isn’t just a body or health status—it’s a political relation produced by capitalism. Under capitalism, disability is a mechanism for managing surplus labor. It’s not marginal to class struggle. It is class struggle.

At this point, Gavin Newsom's constant anti-trans appearances on right wing podcasts is a policy statement. The fact that the party won't condemn him or reign him in is *also* a policy statement.

On Wednesday, ICE GOONS arrested a mother in the school drop-off line at Inzunza Camarina Elementary in Chula Vista, leaving her two children in the car.

The Trump administration effectively created a de facto bathroom ban at Brown University and none of the major media is covering it, and if they do, they character it as about sports. This is how the trans visa ban was enacted and characterized. www.advocate.com/news/transge...

This is what media sanewashing our insane president looks like, courtesy today of ABC, CNN and The NY Times:

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

When critical race theorists point out that “neutrality” and “objectivity” are often a thin veneer for white supremacy, they mean stuff like this.

The one this we have all learned - relentlessly, brutally, and without respite - is that there are no fucking adults left. And every time you people tuck your tail between your legs and make excuses for why you can’t save us you prove that point again. And again. And again. And again.

Zohran Mamdani’s win has inspired over 3400 young people to raise their hands to run for office just since Tuesday. It’s now @runforsomething.net’s biggest candidate recruitment moment since the election. A new generation of leaders is here.

Please #share and give any #help you can to Mohammed, he needs his goal amount just to survive!

These 75 Democrats joined Republicans to "express gratitude" to ICE agents and call for greater local and state collaboration with ICE. jonathancohn.medium.com/a-tale-of-tw...

The English invented rubber bullets to suppress the Irish. Keep that in mind when people try to defend their use.

ICE crossed a line in LA

The Israeli defense minister is openly threatening the life of GretaThunberg and other unarmed peace activists on an aid ship. Where the f**k are the world’s leaders? The world’s media?

From Ryan White @astroryan.bsky.social : Scientific papers are dense, often even too much for other scientists. Thankfully, your results can be shared even with non-experts by writing a stylised annotated paper! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/05/23/a...

This picture may haunt me to the end of my days. It is an ICE agent taking an axe to the car window of an immigrant in New Bedford, MA. Not far from where I sit now. An immigrant with no criminal record was abducted by this smiling man. An axe taken to a car window and to our democracy. 1/ #MomSky

corruption? liz, it’s eugenics

It's also the day for my favorite meme! If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.