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

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

“For the large majority [of the Harper’s Letter signatories,] Trump’s reign of terror has apparently been less objectionable than the irritating undergraduate and entry-level scolds of the 2010s.”

Some smart publication should reach out to every single person who signed the Harper’s letter and get their comment / explicit no-comment

The outpouring of support from readers & colleagues is overwhelming. I can't imagine them coming together like this for a "problematic" trans woman even five years ago. If you want to help me make up the lost income from comics work, you can subscribe to my Patreon. www.patreon.com/c/scumbeliev...

Who’s coming over to watch Sneakers tonight

jokes about the confederacy are always funny, but you gotta think about it in terms of "Supernatural lasted 5x longer than the Confederacy", which is absolutely hysterical

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The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

this case was devised in a lab to reveal the hypocrisy of both the “free speech on campus” and the “cancel culture” grifters simultaneously

The process of moving to NY and getting our kids enrolled and started in schools here has been the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Harder than law school, bar exam, month-long trial, career change, twin newborns during lockdown, ANYTHING

“a legal profession that venerates the Supreme Court” way ahead of you pal

All of the things that Klein says have changed since March -- SCOTUS not imposing checks on Trump, DOGE burning out, the markets making peace with Trump, Trump entering the "authoritarian consolidation stage of his presidency" -- were predictable *and predicted* in March by the folks urging a fight.

It’s a book I wish I had infinite copies of to hand out every time someone asked “why do you like horror so much” like a reverse Chick tract

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every day @bernardharcourt.bsky.social ‘s decision to rip apart a student’s copy of Tipping Point looks better and better

I have some sympathy for the “this thing was ubiquitous while my brain was still solidifying” phenomenon but grow up. Read one other book I’m begging you.

she molon on my labe until I come and take it

Then stop asking me to vote for you

"The US comics market doesn’t even want to make a new Batman." Of course not. The US comics market clearly wants to make a queer trans alien superheroine with talking dog sidekick.

I’m in parent groups who are (understandably) hand-wringing right now about leaving the country and I wish I could clip and sent the @aywarhiannon.bsky.social bit from this episode to send to them. Where are you running to? Who are you leaving behind? If you can’t fight now when will you?

shoutout to @amandamull.bsky.social for making this grocery haul possible

Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?

you misspelled "I will be holding public hearings immediately on RFK Jr.'s mismanagement of HHS, and even though we do not have the power of the majority, these hearings will be televised live and Republicans are welcome to join if they care about Americans' health even a tiny bit"

and then he came for the brutalists and there was no one left to speak out for me

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

If you enjoyed @mattielubchansky.com's Simplicity, you'll love The Quiet Year (and vice versa)

call us old fashioned but, this account finds newsom's "check out my rock-hard AI nipples. they're absolutely glistening" platform less inspirational than pritz's "you fascists bring that shit here and I will personally fuck your asses up."

any halfway decent journalist should ask Newsom "why is 19 too young to receive lifesaving medical treatment but not too young to date you"

the ferocity with which my kids have dove into lanternfly murder is a bit unnerving

i think we should reboot the court in much the same way hasbro rebooted the transformers in the hit 1984 film transformers: the movie

MCA: when I rock the mic it's such a Beastie Boys: THRILL Ad-Rock: we hate J K Rowling and Beastie Boys: WISH HER ILL

All I’m saying is if you really need to stan a white guy politician, maybe support the guy who wants to actually protect LGBT rights.

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Information relating to the M&S complaint, reportedly from the trans woman whom the complaint was about. Almost everything claimed in recent articles is extremely inaccurate. 1/

a thunderstorm a rainbow a poetry reading good first day back in NYC

we’re in NY! now for the time-honored tradition of having a cocktail on the floor of the hotel room bathroom while my kids crash out across both beds