“Someone’s got to be oppressed!”

isn’t it heartening to realize all these towering figures simply dissolve into smoke the minute they die because MAGA people aren’t attached enough to either their principles or each other to sustain the kind of terrifying martyr movement we were all absolutely expecting something to think about 😊

Making events into public memory is a cultural technology you have to do on purpose and repeat over and over. The fight to keep hold of the truth never ends it's generational and idk, maybe we're bound to lose in the end. But I have to believe we can do better than we did in the last six years.

boy this is incredibly not it

This. And also: 5???!!! 🤣 wtf

Fresh off his trip to Hungary where he begged Hungarians to back Viktor Orban, J.D. Vance has decided world leaders shouldn't meddle in other countries' politics.

It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.

yeah yeah we know we know we’ve noticed

what they've actually done here quite deftly is shine a 3000 watt Fresnel lamp on the central problem for which Pope Francis wanted an American Pope in the first place: namely, that the American right wing believes they are invincible, they are destroying the world, and they have to be stopped

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

Political theatre changes minds. So much politics ARE theatre. Use it. Do it. Put on a show! Flood the news cycles. Make it all anyone talks about, and it will make a difference.

If only a dozen Republicans in Congress found the will, they could impeach and remove him today.

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” Carl Sagan, Contact

I don't think I could make a joke better than this

my kingdom for schools to realize that religious literacy is a critical skill given, well, all the things. but that would require schools to care about teaching and learning, not only about turning their students into good neoliberal cogs for industry.

what if running the global economy on the liquefacted corpses of ancient beings somehow cursed us?

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

I've said it before and will say it again, human beings' ability to compartmentalize is incredible. This pathetic racist very old man in cognitive decline has access to the nukes that can destroy us all.

Norman Wong, retired carpenter, great grandson of Wong Kim Ark, and now activist to protect #birthrightcitizenship.

It was nice to see a rocket launch that’s owned by us instead of an asshole billionaire.

Downtown Eugene.

What the fuck are we doing here

“I asked ChatGPT”- ok well I asked the mycelium and it said to plant more trees and to tell you to return to the forest

patiently explaining to national political reporters that the people who organize No Kings are also doing the daily advocacy, voter registration, mutual aid, and immigrant defense, and that just because the cameras show up for the big crowd does not mean that work did not exist before and after

if Anita Bryant was still alive and promoting Florida orange juice, you couldn't pay me enough to drink it. how is Harry Potter any different? here is a timeline of JK Rowling's transphobia: web.archive.org/web/20241225... & here is where her HP money is going: www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...

The IOC has announced a trans and intersex athlete ban requiring an invasive SRY genetic test for female athletes. In the 20+ years trans women were eligible, only one ever competed and none ever medaled. This is solving for a problem that doesn't exist. www.nbcnews.com/sports/olymp...

this is also important, let's be clear, because it's coming from a white man Talarico's kind of Christianity has been the spine of the Black Church since before abolition

Oh no.

Solidarity with Dolores. Solidarity with all survivors. Solidarity with everyone who has felt that they have been forced to stay silent. Solidarity with everyone feeling especially impacted by all of this news. We can build a better world. We can. It begins with telling every truth.

Holy shit. These people must be stopped. "By the end of 2025, an estimated 39% of the gas power capacity being developed in the US was designed to serve data centers...up from 5% at the end of 2024."

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

God, I wish the New York Times had this level of courageous reporting in regards to white men.

Jesus when he comes back to Earth:

Gentile Americans, please know this. The far-right government in Israel doesn’t give one single shit about American Jews, but they fucking love evangelical Christians.

"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

"We're waste deep in the big muddy and the big fool said push on." www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxg5...

Scholars of religion and programs in the study of religion have to step up and speak out about the prevalence of religious bigotry in the US.

the largest state university in ohio quite literally banned sidewalk chalk while one of epstein's biggest supporters still has his name all over half the buildings on campus

LLMs will not do what he imagines. But he just made that case that if they do, we should take them away from him to make them into democratically accountable public utilities.

This is a huge unforced error that shows extremely questionable judgment by the national SURJ leadership. WTH?

I am gobsmacked by all my fellow college teachers who think they can Neville Chamberlain AI. Find some kind of compromise. They think it's just about cheating. They don't get it's about our *jobs.* They tell themselves they can't be replaced. Yes, that's why colleges are investing in teaching bots.

The Democratic party is as unpopular as it is because its own voters find the party feckless and weak.

So, uh. In disability studies we call this a "disability dongle" or a techno-utopian solution to a problem that appeals to the able-bodied imagination rather than the actuality of disabled life itself. Deploying a LLM to translate a legal notice for an asylum seeker functions similarly.

"Operation Lethally Fragile Masculinity"

new from now that’s what I call music, it’s the greatest hits of post-9/11 discourse remastered for today!

1. Major news out of San Jose State University. The University has REJECTED Trump's demands to ban trans people from bathrooms, dorms, and other facilities. This comes after Trump threatened them for once having a trans student athlete. Subscribe to support our journalism.

War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, very complete is the beginning