One of the worst things the current era has done is to make progressive people act like two wrongs make a right when a Democrat politician is caught in a scandal. “But Trump gets away with it” is not the flex you think it is.

Grief as a state of mind, an opening, a sinkhole, a flailing, a window into history, a caress, a crash, a sudden shift in the air, a deepening of emotion, a block, a refusal, a gap, a brokenness, a sense of place, an overwhelm, a friendship, a devotion, a screen, a scream

If in 2026, you are STILL saying 'why didn't X survivor/victim of sexual assault go to the cops or prosecutors?' then you cannot be trusted to drive a car or live by yourself because you are ignorant.

Helen DeWitt, boundary queen.

Any writer who wants to create texts using Edward Tufte's information design deserves a no strings attached gift to get it done.

I wanna see IG & meta crash & burn in my lifetime

I wrote this as a call to care and a call to arms. 💚 lataco.com/survivor-sup...

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. I encourage you to become more aware of the children in your community who need your awareness, your help, and your support.

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Holy sh— #NoKings

Despite the stew of lies and cruelty we are currently swimming in I continue to believe in the power of art to transform investigate and inform the spirit. An old recipe for hope in a sick world.

Jesus god almighty you’d think people would get tired of spending ten years saying the fascists can’t do this or do that and then watching them do exactly what they claimed they couldn’t.

YES

Sending love to survivors of abuse perpetrated by Cesar Chavez. Patriarchy has no place in our movements

This is beautiful and as an Irishman it nearly made me cry. That the Mayor of New York understands more about the history, soul and experience of Ireland and the Irish than anyone I’ve ever met from England tells us everything we need to know about the history of these islands. Thank you, Zohran

open.substack.com/pub/chrisjri... I’m writing about recycling a lifetime of creative work.

I used to hate International Women's Day until I spent the day in Tijuana where it was a riot against the patriarchy. Where race and imperialism was at its core. Happy International Women's Day to the women who fight.

That separation of church and state thing? It’s truly the only idea which held this democracy together.

Everybody gets hit with Body Stuff, but white women and the thinness thing is just diabolical. Like…they want y’all to look you’ve been surviving off cotton balls soaked in milk and roach carcasses.

Now is the time to study the ruins that our “civilizations” are built on.

"There is something very wrong with the way Americans trust criminal elites to be more reliable sources than the people they hurt." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/epstein-an...

The U.S. is the most evil and dangerous country on earth.

the war is not "aimless." It is corrupt, unjust and immoral.

Man, we are led by some of the most evil and corrupt and sadistic and stupid motherfuckers.

*protecting your personal peace* is not the important thing when your country is murdering people across the world. please be serious.

This

“Why don’t victims tell someone about the abuse?” “Why I Didn’t Tell” from Excavation: A Memoir (Northwestern University Press, 2025; [1st edition Future Tense Books, 2014])

Read all of this woman’s books.

Read all of this woman’s books.

Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.

I have this on my wall, with thanks to the artist

The earth is really fucking pissed at humanity…her rage is, well, palpable…

sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/shipwreck-... They want voyeurism, not accountability. If they wanted justice, they would have believed the trafficked child rape victims the first time.

Great Aunt Stella Sixkiller born in Indian Territory in what is now called Oklahoma Her grandmother Charlotte Adair walked the trail of tears from what is now called Georgia. The US called those they displaced “immigrants” and stole everything they had. But not their memories. Not their wisdom.

“Unless the sacred places are discovered and protected and used as religious places, there is no possibility of a nation ever coming to grips with the land itself. Without this basic relationship, national psychic stability is impossible.” -Vine Deloria Jr.

If ppl want to talk about machine learning and/or the specialized applications of AI that have been successful, I’m glad to discuss. I’m not talking about garbage chatbots that have been sold to us as pocket gods and are actually wildly irresponsible and inaccurate stochastic parrots

Her words were prettified. But nothing will undo the power of her testimony.

This

WIP

Classism is the unseen, yet strangely seldom mentioned dynamic in Epstein’s trafficking of young girls to rich men. “Throwaway girls” is the way his partner in crime, Maxwell described them. Girls. Now women. That this system still does not support. Make sure you are not a part of that system.

This

We have to keep showing up for humanity in ourselves and in others.

True story

THIS

"They're jackhammering into the sewer and the whole house is shaking." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/jackhammer...

Billie Eilish used her acceptance speech to say: “No one is illegal on stolen land.” And CBS censored her when she said “Fuck ICE.”

The public library is an essential component of a 21st-century left political project as an example of both what is already available to us and what can be improved upon in the future. The library is a public good, and it is free as a public service. I want more people to make the connections.

“We now live in a world where counter-intuitive bullshitting is valorized, where the pose of argument is more important than the actual pursuit of truth, where clever answers take precedence over profound questions.” ― Ta-Nahisi Coates