If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

I would rather stand in the ranks of an army of fuckups than desperately try to keep my place in a dwindling clique of angels.

If you gave up masking long ago, you can start anytime. “But none of my friends do.” Think back: did some of your friends “just disappear” in 2021 and stop planning hang outs with you?

a short story about blood

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'

The train grandpas married collectible grandmas and here we are...

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

Nancy BY Ernie Bushmiller September 20,1955

Writer and comedian Ryan Ken turning looks while accepting their fourth Emmy last night 😷🧡

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

Better Off Ted.

if i get killed, you can quote stuff i wrote. that's why i wrote it

COVID-19 spread remains high across the U.S. as our summer surge continues into early fall. As a new school year gets underway, young children remain vulnerable: emergency department visits for COVID-19 were higher for children under 12 than any other age group in late August. bit.ly/41y1HdG

"The fascists want us depleted, numb, and cynical." - I keep this top of mind daily and I actively refuse.

It bamboozles my brain when unmasked people panic and move away from me with wild terrified eyes because I’m masked. Like somebody with a gun backing away from a person in a bullet-proof vest, like “Whoa hey, you expecting some violence?” I don’t know, man, you tell me. You’ve got the fucking gun.

Hope the confederates brought their official flag with them

Attorney James Hollis says that over 80% of people in Alligator Alcatraz are sick, many with Covid symptoms. This is eugenics. People have already died in ICE custody. Many will be disabled. The inhumane conditions are ripe for the spread of disease.

Friendly reminder: Be a lesbian, if possible. :)

I don't get it. Some of you accuse abolitionists of pipe dreams. The biggest pipe dreams are the ones that insist on prosecutions of the powerful. THIS IS NOT WHAT THE CURRENT CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT SYSTEM EXISTS TO DO. THE PURPOSE OF A SYSTEM IS WHAT IT DOES.

if Facebook hadn't lied about their statistics and conned everyone into Pivot to Video, the entire internet would be a radically different place today.

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

I’ve always thought it weird when ableds express shock that someone who might need a wheelchair from an airport entrance to the gate might be able to walk a few feet at the end. Like, maybe you similarly can do 5 pull ups but probably not 10,000?

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller 2nd version November 24, 1972

Release the Epstein Files.

If anyone responds to any proposals with "that can't happen," you basically know to ignore them immediately. Everything can happen. You need enough power to impose your will.

still being on twitter has the same energy as still being a harry potter fan

We keep going for three reasons: Because life is beautiful and people are worth it, because descending into despair is what they want, and out of pure, unbridled spite for their ghoulishness. Live to see their obituaries, upset them with your joy, protect each other, Stay strong.

I'm not in the school of "there's nothing to be done." There's always something to be done even if I'm not well-informed enough to know what that is. Someone who knows something about "The Law" will have ideas.

I was imagining today what the world would be like if there were no borders at all. If hoarding wealth was so looked down upon that no one even thought of it. If those who were able took care of those who were not. If all the good things we imagine we want for ourselves, we made sure everyone had.

Feeling overwhelmed at the lawlessness? Get involved locally. Concrete, real-world resistance to fascism in your own community is better for you than doomscrolling.

Right before I saw the message from Trump I got a very different one from a friend in Tehran, so deeply surrounded by bombing that he was asking me to help communicate his last wishes. This is what my own taxes fund, so much pain upon my loved ones. We are complicit in so, so, so much violence.

I'm gutted and furious that the Iranian people will be injured, harmed and killed as a result of this absolutely depraved act of violence. What a complete travesty on every single level.

anyway, the country didn't take the white supremacist underground seriously after oklahoma city and now a bunch of tim mcveigh's run the country

The violence reported is that two people drove their cars into protesters.

the cops are not in fact 'out of control.' this is US policing.

Be on the side of protesters. Period.

“Defund the police” was in fact a great slogan.

People will resist ICE in various ways and i promise you nothing scares the state more than when the people who aren't out there throwing rocks at ICE trucks support the people who do.

People trying to protect their neighbors are not the problem. The fact that some of you are thinking that way reflects a level of psychological capture & submission to fascism that you should interrogate. If they want an "excuse" to do something, they'll create one. The good guys aren't the problem.

Can’t be overstated how the Biden admin’s disastrous handling of the covid response directly fed the profiles of the exact figures who are now dismantling the entirety of our health systems. The space liberals made for these people to occupy is damage that must be undone

One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search. In this op-ed, politics editor @leximcmenamin.com addresses the environmental costs of AI that not many seem to be talking about ⤵️

beautiful that the righteous gemstones ended with a gay wedding, given that my wife surprised me with a "misbehaving" reference during our vows 😭

Excellent paper on the elevated risks of motor vehicle accidents as a result of cognitive dysfunction due to Covid-19. This, of course, applies to other skilled activities that require a fast Observe-Orient-Decide-Act (OODA) loop. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

they want you sick and preferably dead www.reuters.com/business/hea...

What if Elon is the first autistic person RFK has ever actually met and that’s why he assumes we don’t pay taxes or go on dates