Things are not okay.

Very cool that @klobuchar.senate.gov is teaming up with anti-LGBTQ hate group NCOSE (formerly Morality in Media) in her crusade to gut Section 230 and let Trump censor the internet just so she can go on tv and say “look, we’ve gotta protect the kids”

I keep seeing posts going "when ICE comes to MY city, we'll be out in the streets even harder" and man, I get that sentiment but I need everyone to understand that the work in Minneapolis is partly confrontational but MORE IMPORTANTLY aaallll the stuff organized in the background to help neighbors

when it's so bad the NYT is refusing to both-sides it, you really done fucked up

Does everyone have a warm bed? Does everyone have enough to eat? Does everyone have a place to be safe? Whose getting snatched in the night? - Junauda Petrus, "Ritual on How to Love Minneapolis Again"

I attempted to go to an ICE patrol training here in LA this morning and they had to turn most of us away because of capacity issues and even as I was leaving I saw a ton more folks showing up so that’s how well their attempts to scare everyone away are going, even in the face of murder

Incredibly important story that everyone should read. These are not disorganized lone actors, but well-funded and powerful networks to be treated as serious threats. They are using our work to push a eugenicist and racist agenda that is scientifically invalid and morally reprehensible.

If the US can abolish USAID, we can sure as shit abolish ICE.

"Oh my gosh, it was so nice to see you! Have a lovely day, fuck ICE!" "Oh you too hon! Stay safe in that traffic, fuck ICE!' - two older Minnesota ladies, bidding farewell after the protest

aside from work stuff, i mostly use social media to look at funny videos of dogs and subreddits about nail polish. you would not BELIEVE what the lacqueristas are getting up to over there, the anti-ICE nail art is flooding the feed.

A friend's aunt was run over by a car in Caracas. She's recovering but the medical bills are enormous. Any help would be appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/we-need-yo...

This has to be the most reckless thing Disney has ever done with their IP and I cannot wait for them to figure out what a bad idea this is.

It's heartening (and too rare) to see a university leader who will stand up for democracy and academic freedom when there is real risk involved.

MAGA gets mad at me when I criticize Trump for using the r-word. Bluesky gets mad when I criticize Crockett for calling Greg Abbott "Hot Wheels." Maybe, ableism is just bad?

Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry

Yes. defector.com/the-conserva...

Excellent read!

Imagine being a goy and standing up and telling Jewish people they don’t know or understand their own fucking history. That Jews are ignorant and too uneducated to have correct opinions about the Jewish issue of our time that has broken families and communities. You absolute piece of trash.

For the first time since 1988, the U.S. did not officially commemorate World AIDS Day. At the same time, the Trump admin is degrading America’s most basic HIV protections and unraveling decades of progress. The consequences will be grave if things are not turned around. Read more from my story here

I named my fists John and Cage because you're not going to be doing anything for the next four minutes and thirty three seconds

Going to send this to an editor friend who is opposed to nearly every use of the semicolon.

I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”

Fuck fuck fuck.

Becca is a lovely human whose family needs your help. Image description: an adorable bulldog with the saddest of sad puppy eyes, posed in profile in front of a bookshelf www.gofundme.com/f/donate-for...

why is this mayoral election different than all other mayoral elections? in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.

We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:

They fired every Black woman at Teen Vogue and every trans staffer. It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.

Rosyna is good people. Please help if you can. Image description: photo of an empty room www.gofundme.com/f/support-ne...

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Here's a very helpful flowchart I nabbed from a recent book of essays, "Judeophobia and the New Testament." I hope it helps.

Today is also an excellent day to make a cash donation to your local food bank. As great as giving food items is, cash donations go further. And the need is about to become great.

NEW: White House announces it's going to pause, and potentially cancel, $11 billion in infrastructure funding (via the Army Corps of Engineers), specifically citing cities, like New York, represented or led by Democrats. More to come.

And everyone else?

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

The endless uncritical stanning of Gavin Newsome and calling anyone who critiques him as a problem is such a damn microcosm of my problems with institutional politics.

A friend's trans mentee is in urgent need of help to move from their home state to Massachusetts to study. Please consider giving if you can. They're on a very tight timeline. gofundme.com/f/support-ke...

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My message to liberals and lefties on education fascism is that the fascists don't just want to control what your child learns, they also want to control who your child's classmates are. So not just no "CRT" but also (de facto) segregated classrooms.

As a number of cowardly providers abandon trans youth, not only should we target them for protests, petitions, statements, and anger—but we should also show support and appreciation for the institutions that are refusing to comply and have reaffirmed their commitment to providing care.

honestly don't know what's dumber: 1) polling ppl on how they think fictional characters would have voted in the 2024 US election, 2) the fact ppl in that poll thought Indiana Jones (who we all saw repeatedly punch Nazis) would have voted for Trump, 3) the fact that I bothered to pen this response

The New York Times goes both-sides with El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, raising doubts about whether he’s really an autocrat even though Bukele has described himself as the world’s “coolest dictator.” I think it’s clear that NYT is neutral on the question of democracy vs. dictatorship, even in the U.S.

MAJOR breaking news: The District of New Jersey is moving forward with the challenge to Alina Habba’s appointment. The judge has ordered supplemental briefing on the so called “merits issue” - whether Habba’s status as “acting” United States attorney contravenes statutory and/or constitutional law.

Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor statisti s. This is the end of being able to trust the data from the federal government on employment, GDP, or any other critical information. They will only want to produce information that pleases Trump, not the truth. This is how you get a failed state.

🚨 Breaking: A group of state attorneys general, led by New York, has filed a lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of mounting an unconstitutional pressure campaign against gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

The media is completely ignoring that Brown University just agreed to a full bathroom ban and defining trans people out of existence. Even worse, when they mention it, they're describing it as a sports ban. This is not just a sports ban. The media is hiding what's happening here.