I've seen a lot of people misunderstanding what this does and does not mean and Melissa does a great job explaining it's first and foremost a media strategy. Importantly, none of this is new and has been used against other groups and activists (Muslims/Palestinians, BLM, immigrants)

People act like there are only two outcomes to this moment in history: Trump-style neo-confederate fascism wins, or we do. But there's a third, more bleak, more likely option, and it's what we saw after Reagan-Bush: a realignment where this simply becomes the new normal long term.

I'm going to leave this here because I even see a lot of leftists regularly speaking about 'what the country wants' when in fact NO. MOST PEOPLE DID NOT VOTE FOR THIS MAN and LESS THAN 50% of people who voted actually voted for him.

Research conducted by @transjournalists.org “identified 43 outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and The Daily Beast running with the disproven stories of a ‘trans shooter’ and ‘trans bullets.’”

G found a shoe on the way back from grabbing groceries so we both painted it. Here’s mine. Watercolor on tinted paper. #watercolor

I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Chronic illness means always going to work sick and wishing there were a clearer delineation between days that are just going to be difficult and days I should give up and go back to bed. Fuck capitalism and not having UBI.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is calling for an investigation after a group of whistleblowers from the Department of Housing and Urban Development alleged that the agency is abdicating its duty to enforce federal civil rights and fair housing laws.

Who’s surprised? san.com/cc/app-for-o...

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To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

No particular reason

I have this fun pastel set of watercolors that I really enjoy, so I’m trying to find more things that I want to do with this palette. Teacup in watercolor on watercolor paper. #watercolor

Why this anti-MAGA liberal is now pro-Trump: "The new and improved version of me has to learn how to type while clapping at the always-correct things Trump is doing and saying." www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

If I can’t rely on you to put on a mask, how can I rely on you to fight fascism in any larger way?

Pa.'s 2 senators, including alleged Dem Fetterman, picked the wrong week to tell Americans not to talk about fascism, Hitler The shredding of the 1st Amendment that led to gov't coercion to silence Jimmy Kimmel is fast becoming our own Reichstag fire My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/jimm...

In addition to calling for the deaths of unhoused people, Trump is making sure they cannot be housed.

Just after conservatives called for the deaths of unhoused people, what a coincidence abcnews.go.com/amp/US/peopl...

Fuck the institutionally-transphobic Vichy New York Times. You do not get to wash the blood of innocent trans people off your hands like this. here's a commie link: archive.ph/aiwh6

Prickly pear cactus in watercolor, watercolor pencils, pen, and gel pen on what I think is hot press paper, it’s stuff I got from my grandma and it’s not marked. #watercolor

waking up in a country where you can go on tv and call for the murder of homeless people, but you can’t criticize republicans’ performative grief

Here’s what a Ball State University employee said that led to their termination:

Shout out to @mcsweeneys.net for letting me treat a certain kind of article with the level of respect it deserves. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

Apparently telling the truth about the deceased is contrary to the values of Ole Miss.

It’s quite remarkable just how fucking stupid Kash Patel is. Throughout these hearings he continually made the Trump regime look guilty and it’s all because the Trump regime needed sycophants and not qualified people to hold those positions bc they’d inevitably push back against Trump.

Washington state will backfill lost Medicaid dollars for Planned Parenthood after a court ruling last week. via @washingtonstatestandard.com

This would make it illegal for any site that has trans content--not just porn, but everything from trans people posting selfies to essays to comics and stories featuring trans characters--illegal in the state. You've seen how fast the Age Restriction shit spread. Don't pretend this isn't possible

A Senate working group on gun violence prevention met Wednesday morning and quickly revealed that Republicans still oppose new gun control laws. minnesotareformer.com/2025/09/17/t...

Anyone who thought they’d stop with trans people was always wrong. www.kpbs.org/news/local/2...

Huntington Beach, California. latenfour.com/2025/09/14/n...

Kashyap Patel has now admitted he has not read all the #EpsteinFiles We'll be happy to read them for you, Kashyap.

EU vice president refuses to hold a moment of silence for nazi activist Charlie Kirk, it’s refreshing to see someone in power act rationally. youtu.be/4Uh14q5yO1A?...

This is such a compelling counter-narrative to the far right—watching it you get totally swept up a different world where every person deserves compassion from society and the purpose of government is to help.

Free Luigi.

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

"I don't care that he's dead." "He's not a hero." "He's a scumbag." "He shouldn't be celebrated." No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd. Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

This is a THREAD of people NOT FIRED. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Fucking horrific to watch the governor, who is not an investigator, emerging every six hours to give live updates on whether or not the shooter was trans enough to murder your neighbors in revenge

Right winger demands genocide "Oh that's just politics" Left winger makes joke "We must suspend the constitution and put them in camps"

When Charlie Kirk advocated for us to be killed they called it free speech. Politely, we can exercise our free speech by politely and decently celebrating this decent, polite family man's violent death.

My weekly must-reads list and some thoughts about who's being punished for speech this week.

Call your reps, Ohio people The sickness is spreading

last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper" anyways, great news! (1/X)

Wow the standards of decorum are so much stricter for queer people than they are for gun-toting bigots huh

it really is astonishing how quickly it goes from “civil war” and “blood in the streets” to “wow guys it’s just a sad tragedy” when it becomes inconvenient

It is pretty amazing to see people go from “the left is the enemy of democracy and must be purged” to “who can really know why good kids do bad things?”