And it becomes a way of enforcing gender conformity in all sorts of ways—it’s literally a Dykes to Watch Out For cartoon from 1995

I like these undefeatist attitudes. Thanks @karenattiah.bsky.social and @chadstanton.bsky.social

For what’s worth: As a liberal arts school graduate, folks were making fun of my education as useless long before Twitter took off. And they were, of course, always hilariously wrong: I use my education every dang day.

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” -Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr. And it’s on every cis person in this country to fiercely have trans people’s backs in every macro and micro way, now and always. In the bathroom & in the streets. When they’re present or not. Everywhere.

It's all tied together and don't let them trick you into thinking it's for safety

It is very important work to report on the news, and I am grateful to reporters still doing that. That said I would prefer to read it in private at my own pace and without group discussion that would be disturbed by my deep sighs and other sounds thank you

They should be required to start an independent nonprofit foundation like Mozilla.

FWIW at this point I am more convinced than ever that the Tim Walz "These people are weird and they are bad neighbors who won't mind their own damned business, now let's get back to how we can make things better" would have worked and I don't know why they didn't run with it.

Shame on the California Academy of Sciences for cutting the youth program because the kids passed out flyers supporting the Museum Workers' Union, who have been without a contract since unionizing last year.

This irks me to no end. Do NOT talk about my people if you will reduce us only to needing us to keep things cheap! That is NOT being an ally. That’s just willing to sacrifice us for capitalism.

This hit my weak point for massive damage

I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this: Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...

If you aren’t listening to the poor, the suffering, and the vulnerable, you will never hear the voice of Jesus.

Bad press is water. Small actions are water. Small drops do "nothing" but together they become a flood. Be drops. Be water.

every time a Nazi shows up with this slogan (or a NRA gun-fetishist), just remind them what Jesus said: "If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple."

Alabama is planning to execute another man, Carey Dale Grayson, with nitrogen gas today. In allowing the execution to go forward, the courts have largely relied on the accounts of state officials — accounts that stunningly contradict what I and other media witnesses saw during Miller's execution.

English is just three Germanic languages in a French coat

I think today's the last day of this offer so grab them while you can - and of course buy from the authors/donate to haymarket if you can, too. I'm a few chapters into Let This Radicalise You and it's already building up hope and strength for the better worlds we can build.

Friends don’t let friends compare Christian nationalism to Sharia Law or the Taliban. Christians already have a great comparison: the KKK and the 3rd Reich (among others)

*extremely Shania Twain voice* let's go girls actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...

It's a good advert for the product because we are all talking about it ofc. But the human-in-the-loop aspect of ai is very underappreciated. Would this be a good way of producing it if the usual methods were impossible? Maybe. Is cheaper or quicker, or can be done without human help? Maybe not.

The real trap here is that the Republicans have made defending civil rights seem like a frivolous thing and a whole lot of liberals are falling in line. Even if it was a culture war, so what? This would be a war worth fighting. What are we even doing here, people? Get it together.

Here's some useful info on being an upstander: www.apa.org/pi/health-eq...

Up until now, as clergy, if I have ever had to discuss a church bathroom it was either because something was broken, or something was a truly unholy mess. I never thought I would say this, but I dearly hope that streak continues.

important for researchers in AfAm and Amrel religion

@NBCNews: An analysis of precinct-level data by the @NBCNews Decision Desk shows the extent to which President-elect Trump’s wins in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania — and VP Harris’s losses — were driven by weak turnout in heavily Democratic cities.

I'm honestly a little disappointed that a new version of The Oregon Trail has been on Steam for 2 years now and none of you told me about it. (It's on sale.)

Of note: Speaker Johnson just said that his position here is “what scripture teaches.” I’d be curious to know his exact theology, but his broader point is NOT the universal Christian position. Case in point: Johnson isn’t ordained, but Rep.-elect McBride is — she’s an ordained Presbyterian elder.

bluesky request. do not follow or reward quote-doomers. people who quote an article and only add something like "you have no idea how bad this is" or "it's over" or "say goodbye to everything you love". they succeed from your stress. they're bringing you down with them. stay awake; not like this.

it’s pretty funny whenever people talk about needing to have a “wider tent” for a political party they always mean people who are transphobic and not trans people

Roxanne Gay spits the fire. Time to strap on our big girl pants and Hello Kitty Doc Martens.

You can tell Republicans actually see her as a woman because they want to control her body without her consent.

A lot of y'all don't speak up because you're afraid as a spiritual leader, you'll be expected to know and defend all the queer theology, hermeneutics, and terms immediately. But no need to reinvent the wheel; I've compiled the basics for you! Read and share: invisiblecakesociety.com/2021/06/05/q...

While Trump crows about his great COVID record, remember this, from the COVID Crisis Group (a bipartisan collection of scientists and public health experts), in a study published last year. Excerpt from The Death of Expertise, second edition.

If you’re ready to take action to support abortion seekers, this is for you: a self-paced training from All-Options about offering support when abortion may be out of reach all-options-selfpacedpow.thinkific.com/courses/offe...

One thing I hope we can do as Bluesky gets larger is be less tolerant of the resistance grifters who will try to hack the platform for engagement and growth without any interest in adding anything substantive or meaningful It’s a different kind of troll.

I have no idea what this is from but I love it:

To all the gun queers who are really excited about fighting a war:

How to teach small children methods of organizing, non violent resistance, and malicious compliance in an authentic and grassroots manner....

Your daily reminder: ChatGPT is not a search engine. It does not "know" anything: it smashes words together in plausible sounding way, but it does not have (and never will have) any ability to check whether something is true or false Using it for anything beyond "re-word this headline" = failure

In case anyone's wondering why bluesky DMs don't support images: I'm pretty sure this is why

Nope, don't know any undocumented people. You don't, either.

It’s the first and most important of the lessons @timothysnyder.bsky.social has imparted. Ignore it at your peril.

this has been going on for a long time. the first time I heard about it, I told the client he must have misread the document until I saw it myself.

This is some tripe, all right. :D

It's the holiday season and Pace is coming to you fresh with some Thanksgiving Horror recommendations. No holiday says horror quite like Thanksgiving, with its genocidal, colonialist legacy, so sit back, pop the popcorn, and throw one of these flicks on the tube.

There are two great lies in our society: that onions take 10 minutes to caramelize and that academia is a meritocracy.

Sarah McBride was elected as the first transgender representative and now Republicans trying to ban her from the bathroom.

Bethany Mandel, early pioneer of "the left made me vote for Trump", author of "maybe we should be friends with Nazis" and perhaps known to you as the "oh shit I forgot the definition of the term I wrote a whole book on during a live TV hit" person begins the sanewashing for RFK Jr. for the right.