No Kings attendance last weekend: Philly: 15,000 DC: "more than 200,000" Boston: 125,000 Austin: 20,000 Houston: 15,000

Can't overstate how radicalized rank-and-file suburban Dems are becoming watching all of this happen - I know septuagenarians going to their first protest since the Vietnam War, and the line of abolishing ICE and prosecuting regime collaborators is pretty standard now

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

Exciting results from blood test for 50 cancers. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

cops tackling and marching off with a giant penis, Kristi Noem menacing a chicken she swears is antifa, feds pepper-spraying a frog ridicule is an extremely effective protest tactic and foil for authoritarianism

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

not only does Gary Larson still have the juice, it seems to have only gotten stronger

This is how Andrew Cuomo thinks we should respond to authoritarianism.

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

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glad to see this "study" is being debunked, but I want to point out the double bind at work behind the scenes here: for years, anti-trans activists pointed to any increases as signs of "social contagion" (read: these kids aren't "really trans"). but then, if or when the numbers ever go down...

It's so funny how long companies have been trying to sell the '.... control computers... but with your voice' thing, which mostly seems to be a fantasy that seems to exist because it was the easiest way to present computers in sci-fi stories.

wii fit 🌴

I get that some Dem politician joked about killing a GOP politician, and I generally don't think people should do that, but I also think genocide is a greater level of wrong than shooting one specific guy, jokes or not. Like they're both bad but 0,000,001 ppl < 7,500,000 ppl (US Jewish population)

protesting genocide: we need to purge antisemitism from college campuses praising hitler and gas chambers: boys will be boys, cancel culture is out of control

Spoiler alert- it was a Catholic hospital. I’ve been reading stories about people being denied miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy care at Catholic hospitals for well over a decade now, and people have definitely died because of these policies, but maternal mortality data is imperfect.

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.* You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

THAT'S RIGHT

People think I'm being hyperbolic when I say "Yeah the GOP is just pro-slavery at this point." If their actual farm labor policy wasn't enough, there's always this.

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you." - Miss Major, 2023 💔

Still looking for someone, haven't found a single person so far (that I can contact). I have a 46-episode script that I need translated. This would be a paid job!

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

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I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

Oops! Consequences!

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I just saw Much Ado About Nothing in person and you better believe they pulled out the "Bene-DICK" 😂

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system. I am not fearful — I am fearless. We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

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I just feel that basing your entire worldview and policy around other people's penises might not be a good idea

Today's Bus Guy kept mumbling questions to me (including while a siren was going off) and I told him I couldn't tell what he was saying. He then asked if I spoke English. ...yeah, man, how do you think I answered you?

Don’t let this go @housedemocrats.bsky.social

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...