On Indigenous Peoples Day I always recommend checking out this website/interactive map to understand the non-colonial history of the land you occupy

I live my life as hard as I can, and try to do good with it, because I expect to go out “under the bus”… this video definitely touches so many emotions for the attention and testimony it gives to the truth of that.

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

live your life in such a way that if the massively rich power elite of a society put their whole propaganda arm into making you the next st francis after you’re assassinated, people want to hold your memory at least as long as the fuckable green m&m or that time a transsexual sipped a light beer.

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

get a drum kit

Today is apparently suicide prevention day and I want to remind people: UBI is suicide prevention. Universal health care is suicide prevention. Mental health care is suicide prevention. Patient advocacy and adequate disability resources are suicide prevention. Gun control is suicide prevention.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

yet yall wanna say trans people are the violent ones.

this, too, is political violence

"Apparently middle grounds only run through people’s bodies." - Poor and marginalized people's bodies, specifically.

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade speaking of the homeless last week: "just kill them" www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

I am NOT a doomer by any measure, but I really think folks need to be clear that they have the means (legal and, theoretically illegal) to cause incredible damage. People who don't understand organizing infrastructure, funding, and legal peril REALLY need to listen to those that do

It's like they're trying to start their Reichstag Fire with wet matches

Nothing terrifies me but forgetting what I’ve become

ICE claimed the father tried to hit them with his car or that he "dragged" one of the agents. Then bystander video was released showing this was completely false. ICE executed a man on the street in broad daylight.

Judith Butler on being named to a list of UC Berkeley faculty & students provided to the Department of Education to be investigated for anti-semitism, w/ zero transparency about what they're being accused of or by whom. Pure McCarthyism & totally indefensible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

my heart goes out to trans people actually. that’s where it always goes

Respectfully: They'll do this anyway (they already are) and you can't tone-police the whole internet. I would advise, on an individual basis, clarity, consistency with your own morality, and sticking to the facts. It won't help with the unreasonable but it will keep your own soul intact.

here’s a powerful reminder from Kwame Ture.

If this sort of language is included in the senate version of this, Democrats have an obligation to filibuster it. This provision would be absolutely massive and hurt trans people of all ages.

Marion Brown was born in Atlanta, Georgia on this day in 1931 📸 Larry Fink, 1966

Time is a flat circle

it rocks how abundance guys are like "we're just little birthday boys we just want to build stuff 🥺" and you ask what stuff and they're like oh you know... haha...

"T Shirt Money" is a new song about being trans in a passive aggressive, exploitative music industry, and it is very much a true story. I'm very proud of this one. Enjoy. horsecomplexrecords.bandcamp.com/album/t-shir...

‘Her husband had expressed to her that he wanted his archive to be available to “people from all walks of life,” rather than hidden away in a private collection. It had been a priority for him that, after he was gone, “people would truly be able to dive into his universe.”’

Strongly agreeing with this. Losing 2A rights would be bad enough on its own, but all of us being declared criminally mentally ill would be a crystal clear sign of even worse to come. That they are even entertaining it is spine-tingling.

cool cool cool cool www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...

ah yes, "celebrated" with unemployment, homelessness, discrimination, violence, no health care, and no place to piss in public.

at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.

I bring flowers to our knifefight and you are disarmed by the poetry of the gesture. we do not kiss, but we both want to. I never see you again. I think of you often

This shit sucks man. Medically proven and effective treatment that would save trans youth a lifetime of pain and discomfort in their own bodies thrown in the trash because our country enables the most evil people imaginable.

They're doing more to prevent another rainbow crosswalk than they are to prevent another mass shooting like the one that inspired the rainbow crosswalk.

Attention Oregonians: CVS has new COVID shots and is taking appointments on their website for dates starting in September. Just booked mine.

Her name is now Taylor Swurt. It's canon now.

Proper. Lunchtime. Music.

The entire alt-right movement proliferated on 'plausible' deniability, performative irony and whitewashing extremist views as 'mainstream' and 'common sense'. This is just another attempt to normalize fascist and imperialist views as the new political center. Stop running cover for fascists.

Fun fact did you know that if we seized all billionaire assets, implemented UBI, and ensured that everyone had human rights, food, and healthcare, we'd literally end climate colapse, dramatically reduce crime, drastically improve mental health, *and* eradicate fascism!

1800 block of South Western Avenue in Chicago

RIP Jim Kimball, drummer on one of my absolute favorite rock albums www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiUb...

you don't have to be online if you're trans, consider logging off for a few days 💜

please call your state electeds and tell them to stand with trans people. learning about transness as a kid would have spared me over a decade of misery. this is an act of genocide, and not a particularly early-stage one.

Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.

No matter how normal or pleasant my day is, I can't scroll this website for more than five minutes without being mentally transformed into Clive Owen's character in "Children of Men"

this why i’m in the “primary everyone” camp. jeffries and schumer have been bad, but they’re more a symptom than the underlying disease. the controlling faction(s) of the party are committed to an untenable, elitist, and undemocratic vision of politics, and we need to change that