i literally just wanted to own a two bedroom home in a walkable neighborhood where i can have three cats and a dog and wear nice outfits to go feed pigeons and now society is about to collapse

And, as some people have been at pains to make clear lately, in the most embarrassing ways possible (see: Klippenstein, Ken), this is, yes, all about gender. A cargo cult politics built around the idea that if *we* just got a flagrantly irresponsible macho failson to run, we'd never lose.

Age yourself with a childhood crush

There is a certain irony in cattle people throwing all of their weight behind an administration that promised to be friendly to rancher politics, only for that administration to allow a hideous cattle parasite to make it into Texas because cooperating with Mexico is woke and gay

COPEG is a magical place that really straddles the line between Horrifying [it's a flesh-eating maggot farm] and Majestic [one of the great public health interventions of the last century]. Haven't been there (yet) but I have it on good authority that the Aroma is Memorable.

Y'all. Please remember the artists that drew these things when sending around memes. I feel for these artists who NEVER get credited for these (and some, nowadays, are even being accused of being AI!) Here's a few common ones I see (feel free to add others, I want this to be a living thread): 🧵

There should be ads featuring a different one of those 97 played on repeat through the NBA and NHL playoffs and the MLB season, like a Liberty Mutual campaign for fascist brown shirt Willie Hortons

A new op-ed in the Washington Times finally says the quiet part out loud: Fascism demands sexual repression. "Pornography corrodes the exact social foundation that supports national strength... A society marked by loneliness, weakened families and diminished social trust becomes brittle."

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

Neither the Detroit Red Wings nor their affiliates (Grand Rapids Griffins, Toledo Walleye) have posted about Pride Given the lack of a Pride Night game for the Wings this season, well. not surprised, just disappointed

That's Network State shorthand for parallel strategy: Do to (institution) what Elon did to Twitter. Buy it, gut it, purge it, and create a twisted version that serves tech fascist oligarchy. We will see this over and over again, so it's crucial to know it's a strategy with a name.

the little joys of picturing @askamanager.org pointedly explaining to Bari that that's not what a hostile work environment means

ESPN SHOW THE FUCKING SHOTS ON GOAL ON THE FUCKING SCOREBUG ALL THE FUCKING TIME NOT THE GAMBLING ODDS NOT NEXT GAME TIME THE FUCKING SHOTS AAAAAAHHHH #StanleyCupFinals

in my experience as a Detroiter, it just means Swedes want to talk to you about hockey

Imagine how many faculty they could’ve hired. The administrators who argued for this have consistently argued against paying their faculty a living wage.

1/x I know I'm kind of a mouthy embryonic sugar glider about this, but while this story is important and if you care about trans ppl I encourage you to read it, I want more such stories to come with the reminder that *naturalized gender is a project of fascism*. This isn't *just* about hatred.

I try to find a next-morning Olivia Miles highlight montage from any Lynx game I'm not able to watch live. I'm almost always giggling and shaking my head within 30 seconds.

It is important for all Americans to reflect on this official statement. An agency that seizes people off the street at gunpoint, into overseas prisons, refers here to a *US citizen* as "this illegal alien". The rule of law protects all of us. It protects you. That was the genius of our Framers.

I love this gay ass gryphon from this old Jell-O ad

You know who isn't getting radicalized? Guys who do ships in a bottle. Embrace model-building and avoid the pitfalls of right-wing extremism

me: I simply already own enough graphic tees that can only be worn in limited circumstances the Internet: sure sure that's great hey look over here

BREAKING: UAW Local 2093 members at American Axle (Dauch) in Three Rivers, Michigan, are officially ON STRIKE! Solidarity!

The Fire Brigades Union has made a statement on the proposed EHRC Code of Practice on Services. Our message is clear. Equality matters, solidarity is essential, and we will continue to fight for both.

sports teams and businesses that put up Pride posts should then block every person who reacts to said posts with the laugh or angry emoji it will improve the comments section on every other post, consider it a trash taking itself out sort of opportunity

we don't have a masculinity crisis. we have a patriarchy crisis. patriarchy creates and sustains male unhappiness with its dogmatic, toxic, rigid definition of masculinity which says the worst and most undesirable thing a human can be is female which is how we get insults like "Low-T Talarico"

It’s no big surprise that Trump’s DOJ is deleting all of the January 6th press releases from its website. Here’s the thing: I downloaded all of them in Feb. 2025 (that’s right, more than a year ago) suspecting that they’d do just that. And we’re working to post them all online, as are others.

wedge issues aren't DISTRACTIONS, they're industries of consent the goal isn't for you to hate trans women instead of your boss or the landlord — they're meant for you to hate trans women so a landlord, a boss, and cops everywhere are a small price to pay to keep your family safe from these freaks

Organ Pipe Cactus commissioned me to design this poster to celebrate their new dark sky status. www.spacearttravelbureau.com #art #spaceart #astronomy

the internet has the magical radicalizing potential to reveal to people that Sex Stuff is actually Normal Stuff and that it isn't actually weird for it to share a space with Other Stuff. rich freaks have been scrambling to retube this toothpaste for decades and must not be allowed to succeed

Outsourcing harm ... "Trump administration deported 21,000 to places US calls too dangerous to visit. The overwhelming majority of those deported had no criminal convictions, and at least 600 were children." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

But the people who believe that schools are providing litter boxes to kids who identify as cats and that liberals want everyone to have sexual reassignment surgery are very rarely accused (by the Chaits, Mahers, and Yglesiasi) of being in a bubble, if ever. It's fucking insane.

We're "in a bubble" because we think conservatives are fucked up and don't like them. But it's not because we don't know about them, it's because we do. We think that because we *observed them*, not because some goofy-ass cable host or podcaster told us to hate them.

The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office said ICE agent Christian Castro — charged in the January shooting of a Venezuelan man in north Minneapolis — was arrested Friday morning in Texas.

MAHA doctors had a robust support network in medicine, the media, and academia that legitimized their COVID disinformation and promised they would restore trust at the NIH and FDA. I disagreed. Time for an update. My latest.

aw come on man, North America gets pick up trucks and Japan gets electric kei cars? I hate it here give me my tiny ugly electric Nissan-Mitsubishi chimera kei car and now please

(*me trying to force someone to put on the One Ring*) Oh my God, it's just a TOOL. It only goes bad for people who don't know what they're doing! Oh, you think Sauron destroying the land is bad? Digging up hobbit holes is way worse for the environment. It's actually classist you won't put it on.

After a Wisconsin town did this, the mayor said: “The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product. They were never really selling to us in the first place. They're selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.” (via boltsmag.org/verona-wisco...)

This is the destruction of federal funding for scientific research & universities as we know it. A total, comprehensive politicization of the process & an end run around Congress.

as a Detroiter: I have NEVER enjoyed a coney dog and I don't care which of the neighboring downtown coney places has your loyalty because they are both nasty as hell

yeah you gotta willie horton ken paxton. have the party committees and super pacs run ads explicitly accusing paxton of covering up for a child abuser. “you love your children and would do anything to protect them. so why would you vote for a man who lets child abusers run free”

actually i kinda *do* think using genAI should be such a social faux pas that the user is marked as a pariah and no longer feels welcome in the community. "AI is bad" is no longer an abstract (it never was), my city has been under a boil water advisory for a week because of AI data centers

It’s wild how crackdowns on kids being on their damn phones is driven by the groups who were most demonstrably been driven insane by social media: old people blasted with hate by far right billionaires, and our crackpot political/media class, who have mostly radicalised themselves and each other.

This is North Korea level bullshit, and a total fucking disaster for science and for the United States alike. It doesn't matter whether it fails to pass; this kind of thinking is already penetrating NIH, NSF, NASA, etc and causing severe harm. NASEM, AAAS, AAUP, etc must condemn unequivocally.

call it "gender critical" or "radical feminism" or whatever, transphobia was always going to cash out with the exact same conservative misogyny we've seen for centuries: women are not full people like men, all that matters about them is their reproductive capacity, which must be strictly controlled

"paxton wants to go to dc and help trump build his pedo-fund while they examine the underwear of texas kids. i think thats sick, weird stuff and im fighting for texas families against corrupt weirdos like them"

This is the most recent letter from hunger/labor striking prisoners at Delaney Hall ICE facility in Newark, NJ. "We appreciate the support of everyone who is protesting outside the facility. We want you to know that you give us the strength and determination to keep going. Please, DON’T GIVE UP!"

I'm just getting the sense the winding gyre is getting to where the center cannot hold you feel me

wonder how the IOC is feeling these days

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

I’d argue governors being denied access to federal law enforcement facilities in their state is part of what I call slow civil war.