The older I get the more I understand why cats just walk away mid conversation.

Rich text alert for the religion nerds.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a religious liberty case examining home worship & zoning laws. Although centered on an Orthodox Jewish prayer group, the ruling could shape legal protections for Wiccan covens & other minority faith communities that gather in private ... wildhunt.org/2026/07/supr...

Also, for the sake of transparency, I thought Platner should've dropped out back when the Totenkopf came to light & felt that made him unfit to run for federal office. I've seen enough guys like Platner in Pagan & political spaces that I know what comes from someone who lies about their Nazi ink.

It’s a start, so thank you for saying this. I’m still disappointed that this org somehow looked past all the big red flags & took a stance that was sure to anger & alienate many members in the first place. But it’s a start.

Oopsie? Seriously, this made me question everything about an org I was once deeply involved in (locally). So, in the spirit of SURJ’s stated values, consider yourselves “called in” to come correct now.

Never forget: when Platner’s Nazi tattoo surfaced, Democrats had time to rally behind another progressive in Maine. Instead, they doubled down on a candidate with a trail of red flags. Now they’re dealing with a sexual assault allegation. 1/2

The most terrifying thing to me about Graham Platner is how smoothly and surgically he weaponizes therapy-speak

This looks fantastic & teachable.

Once upon a time when I lived in San Francisco, it was always sunny on Pride & always cold & foggy on the 4th. The City made Her choice.

If the left even thought about blocking traffic to this extent the entire town would smell like tear gas and the NYT would already have written two op-eds about this Not Being The Right Way Instead, ambulances are creeping through at like 2mph, sirens blaring, as everyone gets soaked

Zeus has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.

Empire collapse under the weight of metaphors.

america 250 immersive fyre festival experience

Yikes.

I’m also relieved that there hasn’t been an ubiquitous vomit of red, white & blue this year. That would be even more nauseating.

It's hard to convey to someone who didn't experience it how culturally ubiquitous the bicentennial was at the time. Kids had red-white-and-blue SHEETS on their beds. Like many, many, many kids.

I've remembered this ever since reading it in a free weekly 35 years ago. I feel it even more now.

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

Everyone’s enjoying the excommunication drama but there are also lessons for pro-democracy political actors. Decades of accommodating and appeasing this sect did not work and only emboldened them. You have to go whole hog. When you have power, break the back of the reactionaries. Shut them out

MORE OF THIS PLEASE

"Sadly, many Americans remain trapped in the former dimension of understanding; that dim-witted first stage of constitutional awareness where one looks at the document, finds the relevant words, and believes the words mean something."

I don’t know about others, but this will definitely be helpful to *me* so I’m sharing it so I’ll remember to go read it later.

Wrong take. Pack. the. Court.

Today you should send love to your trans friends. Tomorrow, too. Maybe every day for a while.

People, for the love of God, please stop treating birthright as some kind of sweeping victory. It was 5-4 on the constitutional issue. The dissent laid out a fucking ROADMAP for what Trump should do next. The court always gives Trump multiple bites at the apple WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT?

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

Take heart! The astonishing badness of the Great American State Fair and the reflecting pool is evidence that Trump has so inadequately consolidated power that underlings don’t fear him enough to do an even passable job. Stalin would have sent them to Siberia.

Four years after the Dobbs decision, pregnant people in states with total abortion bans are now nearly twice as likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth, or the postpartum period.

I see people characterize the student protests against Israel as failures, and I really don’t think that’s true. They may not have toppled the U.S.-Israel alliance or ended the genocide, but they have helped usher in a generational turning point in attitudes toward Israel and Palestine

I will just say, from Oregon, that to me a big part of why Mamdani and Lander blew up on a national level was that their shared values, mutual respect and solidarity across faith traditions (even while running against each other!) was like everything beautiful about both New York and America

This ⬇️

Greetings from Washington DC

This is the vibe. The only thing I can think of is that we must help people remember & reconnect with their own precious humanity & integrity.

The Department of Defense just removed "Native American Religion" as a distinct category. Native spiritual practices are grouped as "other. ictnews.org/news/departm...

Imagine being a kid and learning both your parents were arrested by ICE. You’ll have to pay rent and survive on your own. I shadowed four siblings—US citizens near Mar-a-Lago—as they try to do that. I'll be thinking about their story for a long time 1/x www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I’m pretty sure that at least some of those folks are already on it.

Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.

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OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

And *that* is why I actually watch basketball once in a while.

When I was a new Pagan in the 90s USA other Pagans were very concerned with being a Legitimate Religion and wanted very much to be at the same table with Christian leaders. Now that it’s blatantly clear that those Christian leaders are frauds maybe we can stop hunting respectability.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell, 1984

The widespread refusal to take a stand by people in a position to do so is what's killing us by inches.

The last time the Knicks won the championship was the year DOJ sued Fred & Donald Trump for racial housing descrimination.

When I had students ask me why they should take US history in college when they took it in high school—“I got a 5 on the AP!”—I would tell them it was because now I could teach them things that they wouldn’t have been allowed to learn in high school because someone’s parents would’ve been mad.