Italo Calvino:

The Abrego Garcia fiasco keeps getting worse. The way Trump and the WH are bringing the full weight of their propaganda and legal machines to destroying this one day laborer is an extraordinary abuse of power. I try to take stock of that larger story here: newrepublic.com/article/1977...

I just listened as well, here is the audio - you can hear Kalief recount in his own voice what solidarity confinement feels like for a teen. I feel we owe it to him to listen since he should still be here and the system that killed him, which we can fight, heaps these evils on others everyday...

How many Wannsee conferences does the nexus of contemporary imperialist capitalism entail every year, just part of business as usual.

it's not NSC 68 (which is a much more self-flattering document, originally classified or not) but something along those lines, possibly even out of the same office. i'll have to see if i can find it again

You joke but this is literally what Amazon is going to do (already doing?) with ai trained on all of the books it sells

Hello! I would be happy to help. You can email me lollardfish at gmail with a draft of a piece and a pitch and I will help you refine it to improve your chances of being published. I mean this. I've helped a few dozen people these last six months.

Here's a cheat sheet for whenever you read an old sci-fi author

Many people are asking me this. The answer is no, they're not spam. I've spoken with people in Gaza. I've become friends with @mamafriend.bsky.social, for example. So why do they need money? A few days back I posted a thread about it with sources below.

all love and respect to Logan Rozos, a Black trans artist, revolutionary voice and truth-teller who used NYU’s platform to indict genocide.

Wow.. inject this directly into my veins... Powerful stuff

Things are happening that cannot be undone. That's why they're so frightened.

Hey, I know we're all completely overwhelmed with people's needs ATM. I know that we've had to stretch our mutual aid networks way past breaking point. But this is a doable goal. Helping Dee stay housed and fed while she recovers is something we can do. Please share and donate if you can.

Fucking THANK YOU. Like, for real, I need a lot of you to dispense with the fantasies of objective, impartial tech. You are watching the intended purpose of this shit on display as we speak as Grok is hammered into compliance behind the scenes.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

There was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park"

The european citizens' initiative to ban conversion therapies in the EU only has 250k signatures and needs to amass 1 million in the next 7 days... If you live in the EU, please sign it (you can't otherwise); if you don't, please share it around.

A holocaust is happening right before our eyes and the world is silent. 290,000 children are starving in Gaza. We must raise our voices for the voiceless in Gaza.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”

Her: This is doing nothing for me Him: grok is this true

Have you read "Power" by Audre Lorde? Written June 1973, also in NYC (Queens). 5yrs & 2 days before Miller's murder by police, undercover cop Thomas Shea was acquitted by a jury of 11 whites + 1 Black woman who said “They convinced me,” after they absolved Shea of 10yr old Clifford Glover's murder.

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

It has come to my attention that some Palestinians in Gaza have no money whatsoever because they haven't been able to raise funds due to lack of internet. So I am focusing on raising funds for esims right now through the wonderful Crips for eSims itch.io/b/2965/crips...

So many of us feel the way this taxi driver feels

Have you gotten a notice that your federal student loans are at risk of being garnished? Share it with us. We want to check it out — and help you.

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

"I asked chatgpt" well I asked Celeborn and he said "I do not know, Eldest

kinda wild that there was an 18th century french trans woman diplomat and spy who lived openly as a woman and had almost celebrity status and we never talk about that

Nobody grieves the Tiananmen Square massacre like American politicians, but hey, guess who's currently using cops to crush campus protests. America is one weird country, bruh.

In light of recent news, it’s time to revisit a classic defense of foreign film and diversity writ large. “When the world is fragmenting into groups of intolerance, ignorance and hatred, film is a powerful tool to knowledge and understanding.” www.nytimes.com/1993/11/25/o...

guy who works for an ultra-secretive organization that uses teleporters to send agents back to the dorms after missions, but every single time the teleporters automatic detection systems send him to the women’s dorms

every day there are new horrors for gender-marginalized people and women--trump going after the equal credit opportunity act, loss of body autonomy, exterminationist anti-trans attacks ramping up--and every single day we have to talk about "male loneliness" and "it's a brutal time to be a young man"

And just like that...people around the world are grateful that their pro-genocide, anti-trans lesser evil parties have won. Imagine if they taught "controlled opposition" in schools

any premise of a future where humans will be inclined to change their body less in favour of less self-mouldable agency or abstract naturalism rather than having a much wider possibility of changing their bodies free of the narrowing of social stratification is a conservative perspective tbh

The week after Harvard filed a lawsuit against Trump they: gutted their DEI office, stopped affinity graduations, centralized their disciplinary process over protests, and handed over student records of international students to DHS. These were all demands by Trump. They're complying with all of it