I wonder what was going on then that the antifascist movement was responding to. So weird I can't figure it out

Gentles, ladyfolk, and those who flourish beyond binaries, I have official confirmation that I need more and better sleep. I just loaded up my toothbrush with A&D ointment.

“Have you heard the new album from —“ Let me stop you right there. I am perfectly content not thinking about that sentient pile of sequins and grift any more than I absolutely have to.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

#SCOTUS Thoughts: Conversion “therapy” is malpractice. Licensing boards and professional associations have a right to establish rules and standards that prevent malpractice. Banning malpractice is not “viewpoint discrimination.” It is fulfilling an ethical duty to ensure ethical standard of care.

Greyscale photos of Matthew Shepard are always a little misleading. He and I were the same age at the time of his death, which helped scare me back into the closet for a very long time. We should both be 48 now, which is still way too young to be gone.

“Abandon yer shoes, all ye who enter here!”

Sunday Morning Thought: Sexual orientation is based on an inherent capacity, but even if it was purely a choice, none of the possible options are wrong, sinful, or bad.

What Mike Johnson is saying here is 100% repackaged James Dobson child abuse rhetoric.

Welp, this certainly is a thing to be reading at 4:03 AM.

Yukon Gold potatoes, squash, zucchini, and turkey sausage tossed in olive oil and seasonings. Spread out in a single layer on a large baking sheet and bake at 400°F for 30 minutes. (Cookie Monster omnomnom noises commence)

Are the immigrants at the ER because they ate too many fictional cats and dogs? Lying is a sin, JD, in the Catholic Bible as well as the KJV.

“Spell my name, spell my name It’s right there in the email, It’s not a hidden detail, The spelling doesn’t change.” 🎶

Setting aside how far the Overton Window has been yanked toward the right, “the middle” has never been hallowed ground, or even a desirable position. The only things fence-sitting gets you is a bellyfull of complicity and splinters in your ass.

The “warrior ethos” motivating me today is knowing that although I can no longer do a full overhand pull up with correct form, neither can Pete Hegseth.

Giving a speech in front of a huge American flag doesn’t make you General Patton, but paraphrasing Hitler in that speech does show that you’re a fascist.

And that silence is very much complicity.

Trump opens with a threat to the generals: "I've never walked into a room so silent … Have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud ... If you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future. but you just feel nice and loose."

For anyone wondering how Charlie Kirk fans can ignore a mass shooting at a church during services, it’s not just because he spoke against expressing empathy. It’s also because Evangelicals do not view Mormons (or Catholics) as legitimate Christians.

Good… morning?

Nobody should ever be forced to leave their homes, families, jobs, and lives behind and flee their shitty government, no matter how anyone assumes they voted based on where they’re from. Many people who do want to leave can’t, for complex reasons that judgmental smuggery does nothing to help.

Spouse and I got married in 2002, on the Tuesday after Valentine’s Day, in the law library of the county courthouse, while wearing a blue pantsuit. Our reception was dinner at our favorite local restaurant. 10/10, would recommend again.

So, do Charlie Kirk’s fans have any condolences at all for the folks killed in mass shootings in North Carolina and Michigan this weekend, or did they all wear themselves out elevating a racist podcaster to Reichstag Messiah status and getting people fired for refusing to pay tribute to him?

Trump & Co. are not bothering to make a merit-based argument about the CR. Instead, they’re saying very plainly, “Give me everything I want exactly how I asked for it, right now, or I will hurt you, the people you love, and the things you care about. This is not a budget. It’s a ransom demand.

Angry, unstable, cisgender white men with a history of violence and trauma account for the vast majority of mass shootings. /1

When folks are getting shot at church, I think it’s safe to say the Thoughts and Prayers approach isn’t working. apnews.com/article/morm...

“Look what you made me do” is a thing abusers say to their victims instead of taking responsibility for the avoidable harm they deliberately chose to inflict. When politicians say a version of this, it still means the same thing.

We really gotta stop letting Grandpa watch too much Star Trek before bed.

Chat, we need his Venmo immediately.

Even without gerrymandering and voter suppression, states are not voting monoliths. Memphis is a majority Black, majority “blue” city in a state with a Republican trifecta government. That’s why this is happening, not because anyone “deserves” authoritarianism.

Making Congressional powers and Constitutional rights superfluous, one ruling at a time.

I think if I were teaching U.S. or European history this semester, I’d have the terms “purge” and “loyalty oath” bolded and underlined in my lesson plans for next week.

Who, me? I’m just a queer Southern Appalachian who would genuinely love to go a single day without somebody assuming an entire 14-state region is monolithic and then shitting all over it in an effort to criticize a hated politician who isn’t even a legitimate member of that region or its culture.

“American ingenuity” means bypassing Congress and getting our generation’s version of The Enabling Act by a wannabe dictator’s Sharpie-scribbled fiat.

I won’t, actually. Vance is not a hillbilly, not Appalachian, and not Southern. He’s a soulless, power-sucking grifter who would, and did, sell out his own family for manufactured clout. I’m all for calling a spade a spade, but he’s not even a plastic beach shovel.

Whatever kind of day y’all had today, at least you didn’t get the tip of your tail caught in the fork of a bird feeder pole.

It’s been so disappointing to see PPWI repeatedly choose to comply in advance with this administration’s nonsense. We’re gonna need a lot more “fuck you, make me” out of a lot more people to get through the coming days.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Since the Rapture is not a real thing, the only divine bodies that will be visible today are us bisexuals. You’re welcome.

“As a bisexual, the hardest challenge is showing that your bisexuality is a constant part of your identity, when so many just think it switches on and off.” – Irene-Elizabeth Ellis #BiVisibilityDay www.gaytimes.com/life/bisexua....

Autism was first recognized as a distinct condition in 1943. The term was first used in 1911 to describe a set of behaviors that had been observed and documented since the late 1700s. Tylenol was invented in 1955. The combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine was introduced in 1971.

The Rapture isn’t real and won’t be happening tomorrow, but scheduling the alleged coming of the Messianic Kingdom on Rosh Hashanah is *deeply* antisemitic. No matter how devout you are, the Lord will not be calling you home from the two point line.

He’s not the Messiah, he was a very racist boy.

The Rapture isn’t real, but if all the people who believe it is just harmlessly vanished this week, fixing what they broke sure would become a lot easier.

No particular reason

The thing about appeasement and assimilation is that you’ll end up sacrificing the best parts of yourself and becoming complicit in things that go completely against your ethics, morals, and purpose.

You heard it here first, folks. Duke Cannon is a size queen.

Come what may, a Porch Papaw is gonna wave at the folks passing by.

Y’all. It is mid-September. It is still technically summer. Calendar autumn doesn’t even start for another three days. What in the glittering, tinsel-draped, French-fried frickety frack are we doing in this here Menards?

I did not just agree with Ted Cruz. The light of reason briefly glinted off Ted Cruz, like sunshine on a dog’s ass.