“Mercy deaths.” “Special wards.” Nazi medicine cloaked mass murder in euphemisms. The first gas chambers weren’t built at Auschwitz — they were built in hospitals.

think of it as a government-funded pipeline for turning troubled young people into harmless wandering wizard-like figures. everyone wins here

immune to self-reflection, immune to empathy, everything that isn't exactly what you want is a trick or an op. nobody else is a good actor. nobody is noble. nobody believes anything that isn't what you believe.

It just takes *so little* to make people fall. Every bribery scandal is over embarrassingly small amounts; love bombing is pathetically crude; the dark patterns that manipulate human psychology are downright simple. Oh, but not you, right? You're special. You *want to be* special, hah.

“I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime…. It was above all the crime of seeking to convince my people that NONCOOPERATION WITH EVIL IS JUST AS MUCH A MORAL DUTY AS COOPERATION WITH GOOD.” -Dr. King, on his conviction for violating Alabama boycott law *emphasis added

THERE ARE NO ACTIONS OF THE MIND WHICH DO NOT CHANGE THE MIND. IF YOU IGNORE YOUR CONSCIENCE YOU REINFORCE IGNORANCE OF YOUR CONSCIENCE. IF YOU RATIONALIZE COEXISTENCE WITH ABUSERS, COEXISTENCE WITH ABUSERS BECOMES RATIONAL. THERE IS NO DEFERRAL OF MORALITY. THEY ARE CLICKER TRAINED BY CHILD RAPISTS

Seeing people make assumptions about the identity of the trans people involved. The SLIPC is an “all-female ICE detention facility” The case is a cis woman, two trans men and one non-binary person being repeatedly assaulted physically and/or sexually.

The political discourse in the West today, especially here, is people who derive their status and prosperity from their cooperation with abusive people lecturing the people who are abused, on how to receive abused in a way that will achieve a just society without impacting their status or prosperity

YOU - “The people who built this world intended it to be better for you, but they failed. It is easier to live in their failure with this by your side.” (Tap on the tape recorder.)

but if you shut up your soul in the body, and abuse it, and say, i understand nothing, i can do nothing, i am afraid of the sea, i cannot climb up to heaven, i know not who i am, i cannot tell what i shall be: what have you to do with god?

The first mistake the girl makes is to fall in love. The second is to rid the house of its infestation of thresholds.

While this seems implausible (and I believe this law is), it shouldn't be a surprise: it was literally in the first few pages of Project 2025, which called for everyone from websites to comcast to school teachers to be prosecuted for distributing "transgender ideology."

Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.

I cannot believe I have liberals in my mentions saying that it is a moral imperative for non-violent protestors to get themselves shot by the Trump regime so that it loses legitimacy. Ngmi. Go read "This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed"

When Democrats and strategists say "stop talking about trans rights" they mean that they're okay with people suggesting shit like this without any push back. If that's the kind of person you want to vote for, you are my enemy.

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

1) Signing up for a protest or an org is likely more dangerous than it ever was in recent memory 2) Signing up nevertheless, if you are willing to adopt the risk is nonetheless an expression of civic virtue and should be done

chrysanthemums capitulate to cries of crisis. creepers crystalize on crooning corners. “when did you last sleep? when did you last eat?” chronic catalyst. cretins, all of them. concerned cacophony. cracked center. comatose. keep away. this place is best left shunned and uninhabited.

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“What shocked me, when I was kidnapped [by US immigration], was just how reminiscent that was to cases I witnessed in Syria. You would have plainclothed officers without any warrant come and take you just because of your political speech.” @oliverlaughland.bsky.social interviews Mahmoud Khalil

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just spitballing here, but "ICE Agent's Family Quietly Relieved That He Won't Be Home For Dinner" "Local Girl Tries Not To Think About Where Mom Is Right Now" "ICE Agent Struggles With Masculinity In A Way That None Of Us Will Ever Forgive" "ICE Agent Praised As Hero After Taking His Own Life"

they love the story so much that they say the kid chose it even when she didn't nice clean narrative waterslide into the wood chipper never mind the bloodstains but if you do make sure you appreciate the vivid colors and bold shapes she did this for you doesn't it make you feel important

The house will remain, despite having its heart cut out. Its legend will vanish like a soap bubble. And everything will change.

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When so much time has passed that she has forgotten almost everything else, at sundown, the girl will be seized with baseless terror for the heir, who ruined her family.

There's already a draft policy to create a category of "transgender domestic terrorism" within the Trump administration. They could potentially classify all trans people as domestic extremists and terrorists just as Russia did.

The crime the girl commits is to avert her eyes.

The girl was within human memory among friends, but unable to see them, but she will become fire-footed.

YOU - That's sad. LIMBIC SYSTEM - Yes, it is. And you drowned in that sadness a long time ago. YOU - What do you mean, “drowned”? LIMBIC SYSTEM - You lost.

Everyone asking how this could be consitutional and part of the answer is that SCOTUS in Skrmetti basically made discrimination against trans people legal so long as the pretext is based on diagnosis. So they'll target diagnosis and say it's not based on trans status or sex in court like Skrmetti.

This is in Ann Arbor, y'all. Just in case y'all want to pretend this can't happen in "sanctuary" cities or that the nice business liberals in charge will fix this silly lil misunderstanding in time for brunch.

i didn't want to win alone

the paths forward to trans liberation illuminate themselves better when you accept for yourself that we are at war

You need to look around and find compassion for those who are stuck in cycles and taking shortcuts. Things only go one way. No one really has options. You may not ever get an opportunity to become a free person. Preemptively forgive yourself in the case that you die before you find your way.

Love, also known as "That Which Is Irreplaceable"

carl phillips

Little breezes obey the person very like herself.

ephemeral city

Well, I'll be damned. It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up. newatlas.com/infectious-d...

Tanella Boni, tr. Todd Fredson

The crime the girl commits is not to be true to what she believes.

Learning to shut the fuck up is praxis.