This is not okay. Everyone should be standing against the intense islamophobia and anti Somali hate we are seeing in our city. Please speak out and stand against the fomenting of hate. Thanks CP & Senator for taking action.

ARE Y’ALL GOING TO STOP USING AI NOW? www.wired.com/story/openai...

... they're absolutely revving up for making Muslims illegal

national press all like

Reminder that the cotton stretchy decorative spider web stuff is terrible for local wildlife (yes, even in the city).

i intentionally scratch the hell out of my phone every time i plug it in just to put two middle fingers up at john moffat

I think what truly makes me the saddest about the world we live in is that it simply doesn't have to be this way. There's enough food, water, shelter and resources that every person could live comfortably. But humans choose to live at the expense of others. We created this world.

An Update: I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly. (I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).

i'm LOSING my SHIT GOYAPALOOZA PROPS TO THIS MAN AND THIS MAN ALONE

i don’t think i’m autistic because my mom took tylenol while she was pregnant with me, i’m pretty sure it’s because she decided to reproduce with a guy who had an engineering degree, a ham radio hobby, and an inability to wear clothing not made from natural fibers

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. Trans people are people. Trans rights are human rights.

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. Gay people are people. Gay rights are human rights.

"I just don't want to see death camps" bet me neither that's why we have to abolish "troubled teens wilderness camps" and juvie and jail and prison and ICE camps and Gitmo

Everyone should've been boycotting Disney two years ago, if not earlier. If you boycott only once their hatred of human life affects YOU, it's time for some spiritual growth and introspection. boycott.thewitness.news/target/disney

Bad Bunny, one of the biggest musical artists in the world, said he avoided the US in his tour because he thought ICE would set up ouside his shows.

BREAKING: Canada, the U.K. and Australia officially recognize a Palestinian state.

We have state Senator @zaynabmmohamed.bsky.social and Rep. Esther Agbaje to thank for the passage of the Tenants’ Right to Organize, a new law that went into effect this year. We have the All of Mpls PAC contributors to blame for the for need for the law.

Gemini: Take a vacation from your problems. Your assassin isn’t in a rush.

anyway: religion is a tool the same way politics are a tool the same way spirituality is a tool the same way psychology is a tool the same way violence is a tool if someone wants to control others, the vehicle they choose to try and do it isn't important. their ACTIONS are.

If you’re not a litigator, you may not know how pure & high-grade your bullshit has to be to get a judge to throw out your complaint before the defendant even asks. The lawyers who agreed to file this should be shunned by the profession.

says the elder high priestess of the coven of the open mind, aka the white woman who's copying indigenous and specifically Ojibwe spiritual practice under the guise of pagan flavored misogyny and white supremacist standards of what counts as beauty, feminism, and free thought. get fucked 🖕🏻

Gotta keep being peaceful and avoid any political violence in the face of hundreds of people just being completely disappeared by the government.

A really important, difficult to read piece. Seeking forgiveness is never the point. Reducing and repairing harm is.

one of the clearest signs you're dealing with a strong and principled political movement is when they want to make it illegal to make fun of them

People are homeless because they can’t afford rent. Because capitalism wrings out every piece of productivity from people while just barely maintaining their survival so they can continue to work. Because suffering on the streets is a threat to make you go clock in. It’s not a personal failure.

so, uh, credentialism isn't everything but i might need to remind people that I have a degree in women's studies from Oxford, I was instrumental in the 21st century mainstreaming of the Christian feminist movement, and I've written multiple books on feminism.

As @bdavewalters.bsky.social said in his video, that’s what got Emmett Till killed & it’s still going on today. The vile & blatant misuse of the law against a man of color; especially in this country right now? Takes a special kind of evil & manipulation.

This text is buried in a larger bill. Don’t want Marco Rubio to be personally responsible for revoking people’s passports based on thought crimes? Call your reps about it!

I can’t speak on behalf of DesiQuest but I can speak on behalf of myself because I’m still mad about it: Bringing up the name of my production multiple times in a video meant to mislead people about a legal situation involving one of our cast members but not reaching out to anyone from our team/

Hi ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere If you have any national platform at all Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us

youtu.be/sITr6tm9JYY?... a) incredible work by @crispystavern.bsky.social b) as someone who is regularly in court helping people get restraining orders, white women weaponizing restraining orders to punish men of color is both disgusting and highly damaging to both the people the RO is filed--

Jewish people support food aid for people in Gaza and an immediate end to the Israeli government’s food aid blockade.

as the guy who organized a yom kippur service at occupy wall street that over a thousand people attended, i strongly agree

i want a girl with a short dirk and a looooooooong dagger *sick beat guitar riff*

@crispystavern.bsky.social thank you so much for your video on saige and just to add a legal perspective from someone who spends a lot of time dealing with restraining orders: retaliatory restraining orders (aka ROs filed by abusers to punish someone who hasn't done anything) happen ALL THE TIME.

like ok it's one of the most profoundly human hungers let's just excise it? it's "there's no sex in the USSR" levels of silliness. you can oppose religious practices that are unequal and cruel, but to insist the left must be secular is self defeating.

i think leftists who can't accomodate people of faith into their politics are really really making a profound mistake

knowing logically that every single m&m tastes the same and the colors don't matter doesn't make the blue m&m any less goated

Thank you to @crispystavern.bsky.social for posting this excellent summary of all this drama with Saige and the damage she (and Carlos) have done: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sITr...

a poster of this historic site, i cannot find it on the park store anymore tho

Final question is about @dexanderson.com’s complaint about the Feminist Caucus and party infighting. She says infighting wastes energy, and doesn’t like it, but that transphobia, and the caucus leader who did it, has no home in the party!

The evil that men do lives after them

Let's be clear what this image represents. Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders. THAT is the reference here.

So many people don’t clock that regulating porn online automatically gives permission to governments & surveillance capitalism to demand that literally everything else must prove it is NOT porn…ie, permission to probe and violate and regulate EVERYTHING

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

Heads up Boston!!!!!! Know your rights, record everything, use your white privilege if you got it, stay safe, and use the @iceblock.app and Waze apps to report ICE activity to help people avoid them if needed!!!!!! We keep us safe, remember that!!!!! RESIST ✊✊✊✊✊

Attn all ICE agents! Here’s an announcement from our front window: Chicago hates you, and you are not welcome here!