Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:

can’t they just do it in Fortnite?

remember in Watchmen on HBO when masked cops seemed so out there and provocative? that was 6 years ago.

The dilemma of being one of Kim Kardashian’s psychics and knowing she’s paying you to say “you’re going to pass the bar exam!” meanwhile all the ghosts and spirits in the room are hollering “SHE DOESNT EVEN KNOW WHAT TORTS ARE”

updated my journal

On half an hour's notice, @bkindivisible.bsky.social showed up across the street from @schumer.senate.gov's apartment to tell him NOT to CAVE. The final chant: "WE'LL BE BACK."

I was already in my pajamas but changed back into real pants to yell at this guy

@schumer.senate.gov we will back and back and back until you fight for us or step down. @indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social

LET'S DO THIS BROOKLYN! 9 Prospect Park West, 8:30 pm!

BROOKLYN WE ARE GOING TO CHUCKS! Join us across from 9 PPW at 8:30 *tonight* Bring pots and pans, let’s make some noise about Chuck folding (again). Not another #SchumerSurrender @indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social

Find your senators at reps.fyi or call 202-224-3121

Hate to sound like a broken record, but I'm not sure people outside Chicago are really getting their minds around what's happening here. Every decent human needs to watch this. substack.com/@danielbiss/...

“Roem…says targeting trans children is a losing proposition. “’The Republican Party is simply wrong about this. People don’t want their politicians signaling out and stigmatizing the very people they’re elected to serve.’” @nbcwashington.com #Virginia #vagov www.nbcwashington.com/news/politic...

also I’m part of the problem! due to a million intervening issues I’ve had to skip all but one day of the con. it’s hard to imagine the time where I got four days to myself / my community

“OUR FAMILIAR STAY FACTORS” WTF

I’m running a playtest of a sequel to a ten year old larp at a convention this weekend where there are like mmmaybe five other larps running and it all feels very… over?

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

Cuomo, the man who resigned in disgrace after a state attorney general’s report found that he had sexually harassed nearly a dozen women, was asked if he had any regrets. He said he regretted not being better at social media.

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

He should have died in The Hague.

halloween parade and marathon in the same week has really sealed the deal in terms of I❤️NY

Oh Bari Weiss is just Ms Rachel’s Wario

Pajama Pants Guy turns out to be a former prosecutor and gave an interview to the Trib He really, really gets it You have to envision yourself resisting so you're ready to resist when the time comes archive.is/651BA

It's so telling that the Jewish person the "Washington Post" found for this article about how terrified New York City Jews are of Mamdani is someone who has already left NYC for the suburbs and can't vote there anyway.

finally my experience covering up my shitty teenager tattoos is relevant

Oh man this is good analysis. Everyone is saying protect the dolls and I wonder when we'll say protect the bricks

the massive scale of the No Kings protests, from the organizers’ perspectives, was ALWAYS about making it easy for people to people to go and meet organizers and organizations and mutual aid: “Let this be a springboard, not the end of your journey.” if you went, how are you doing so?

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

I don’t post a lot of kid stuff on here but this was too good not to share

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

facing unprecedented uncertainty re: employment due to the shutdown/trump cuts 😕 if you have leads on open Emergency Management or COOP/Biz Continuity roles at state/local gov't agencies, I would love to hear about it! especially interested in highly regulated and complex environments, dm's open

Oh my god I only just noticed the misspelled name in the headline...

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

I don't remember either Dylan OR Springsteen being a murderer on Columbo, so I'd slow down with rating artists on the Cool Scale

anyway, TLDR, Taylor Swift is Paul Thomas Anderson for people who read too much Encyclopedia Brown

Assata Shakur's story, Marian Jones writes in @teenvogue.com, is "also a reminder of the impact of COINTELPRO, and how it continues to impact activists today through technological surveillance, the criminalization of protest, and the targeting of dissidents." Shakur passed in Cuba on Friday.

You can tell a lot about a society by its folk devils so it's interesting that ours seem to be migrants, trans folks and students: very different groups but the common denominator seems to be... self-improvement? You can kinda see why they would elicit resentment in an aging, sclerotic society...

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Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

so: what do we need you to do? two things. 1.call your D/I senators. find contact info here: reps.fyi what do we need you to say? try the call script below. adapt it; make it your own! there are bailout points written in, in case you get nervous. but please *call.* 🧵

Is that effective campaign messaging? I don’t know & I don’t care. It’s true. It’s my job to discover and say things that are true. The radicalization of the American right is *the* political story of my lifetime and the public should know about it. Politicians can do what they like with that.

I have so many shadowrun opinions

I want to thank some of you for taking up our call to meet with your City Council member about funding NYC public libraries. We have over half of the districts covered by at least one person. We still have 25 districts that need a constituent to sign up. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

LOL

so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):

I used to be very “don’t tell me how my character feels” then I played Monsterhearts once

This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them