The Week Between Christmas and New Years

'Tis the season to terrify your capitalists into being generous and kind. 😌

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WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment open.substack.com/pub/muellers...

🎯 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER @oliverma2026.bsky.social: “The detention centers are run by private prison companies (like @CoreCivic) — they make millions PER PERSON… that’s why they’re looking for anybody brown, so they can keep stealing from taxpayers.” *THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks in what Repro Uncensored call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.

404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it: www.404media.co/404-media-is...

Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire". www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

Please do not forget about Gaza. Direct mutual aid has been crucial to the survival of so many attempting to rebuild their lives there - but since the alleged “ceasefire” donations have fallen greatly. The least we can do is donate when we can.

Not even rebuilding, just surviving day to day. In the past month, mutual aid through the giving circle: - Saved a woman’s life - Got kids a tent - their only shelter (in the rain!) had been a plastic sheet - Helped with ongoing care for a woman with degenerating lupus - more; I’m out of characters

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

Speaking of Read Palestine Week, you might find this reading list of Palestinian speculative fiction up your alley! soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...

Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family

my god this is hilarious. "Yes, thank you for taking my question. What do you think is currently the best way to show our loyalty to Maximum Leader Donald Trump?"

"What are the Zero Units?" Afghanis as young as 15 years old recruited by the US CIA to kill civillians in Afghanistan during Bush's war. youtu.be/wgJnTntEEfs?...

Spent the night in the bomb shelter cause the peace negotiations were exploding over Kyiv just so damn loud

Did you know?

Me, being totally normal about a new series I just finished in two days and bringing it up in a totally chill way: hey you guys read any good queer botanical body horror lately hahaha

bro biologists won't even agree on the definition of "alive" you think you can get them to back you on "two genders" lmao

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

Imagine thinking you're the Hobbits when you're the Nazgul and Uruk Hai.

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Wonder how @ryanbergara.bsky.social is handling the dodgers jays game right now.

The Woggle of Witches, Adrienne Adams, 1971.

This poster was in my highschool science classroom and I always thought that chicken look so fucking cool. I never did smoke, but I feel like animals looking cool while smoking doesn't have the same impact as intented.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

I saw her when she came to speak at my Canadian city. I was so excited, but I was also so tired and her voice was so lovely that I ended up falling asleep in the church pew I was sitting on. A wonderful person who understood the human complexities to wildlife conservation efforts.

For today's reflection.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Join us Canadians who have stopped all travel to the states, including Disney parks. They're seeing a hit already; if you collectively stop going as well it could hurt them badly. 🤘

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

When you write a piece noting that a guy promoted racism and violence, his followers immediately prove you right

it really is astonishing how quickly it goes from “civil war” and “blood in the streets” to “wow guys it’s just a sad tragedy” when it becomes inconvenient

Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽‍♀️

just a part of liberty I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My thoughts go out to students everywhere who are subjected to acts of domestic terror because their politicians and right-wing pundits have routinely placed them on the altar of "second amendment rights."

I love facing a physical limitation to the job I do and having a full meltdown because it's the first job I was hired for in over a year of active searching and know I can't find anything else.

Books by a biologist and an anthropologist agree: “received wisdom concerning biological sex, sexuality and gender, that it is all a binary (male/female, gay/straight, masculine/feminine) is wrong… sex, sexuality and gender are fluid concepts, affected equally by the biological and the cultural.”

I've just been reminded of the time the wonderful @tkingfisher.com said lovely things about Peter S. Beagle and The Last Unicorn so this is a day when I have to remind you that that book is ice and fairy wings and lilacs and the death of everything and if you have not read it you absolutely should.

Los Angeles music festival 2025 Throwback edition ✊

It’s science.

well and truly one of the best. what a loss, man.

Newsom is proof that if Trump was more clean cut and well spoken liberals wouldn’t have a problem with Trump