there's no shortage of trans women artists drawing trans women in beautiful and dynamic ways. once again failing to represent trans women with love and care in your heart is a skill issue

pretty clear that people truly believe patriarchy need not be seen as intrinsically reactionary and shouldn't be criticized if it's a gentle, "progressive" patriarchy

writing is hard 😓

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

“Will anyone in the Epstein files be held accountable?” What you have to understand is that while sexual violence is technically illegal and frowned upon in the abstract, in practice it is accepted, ubiquitous, de rigeur, and a primary vehicle for male bonding.

Aw, he's doing homeless sweeps the socialist way! Trashing all the belongings those who have the least own & uprooting them to force them to struggle to find shelter elsewhere in a woke way. My radical king!

🚨🚨 Nothing but FACTS here, please read this thread ⬇️ I think the keyword wrt to men is DISEMPOWERMENT, and that starts with the epistemic decentering/deprioritization of our voices/interests/feelings/etc Thanks again Lee ❤️🔥

❝ [Cis men] are encouraged to have and express emotions by patriarchy, but only in ways that refer to that system of power. ❞ A very clarifying meditation on miscasting men’s feelings as special.

"The price (and gift) of authenticity is closer proximity to queerness. Cis men can take the risks inherent in rejecting the system that gives them their power, or continue to conform to its hegemony, but they cannot do both." 🥹

Men’s Feelings have all the Special Attention they need due to the social system responsible for the commodification, violation, and murder of women and children over thousands of years. One that every man today collaborates to maintain and extract value from: Patriarchy.

Reminded of the tweet from a guy who ran a support group for men who complained about men poisoning it by turning everything to misogyny. Men in the replies attacked him, presumed him a woman, & demanded men be allowed to turn their spaces into incel retreats.

I’ve had dreams about flying all my life but in every one I can only fly by running fast and then throwing myself forward with my body parallel to the ground superman-style. and i can only do it right 1/3 of the time so most of my ‘flying’ dreams are about crashing face first into pavement lol

Yeah yeah yeah sure let’s “jump ahead” of the complaints about the lack of explanatory power of our core argument. A one-sentence sneering aside in parentheses should do it. Once you remind people that men are isolated and lonely they don’t read much more anyway because they’re too busy crying.

Follow @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social for live updates from the trial, which started today!

there is no way we can grapple with the ethics of our relations with people diagnosed with personality disorders until we address the rampant child abuse and violence found at the core of our society—from Epstein to Gaza, our world sustains itself on subjugating and depersonalizing children.

hands doing a little better again today and this was the first time i’ve had a new injury/flare and felt more annoyed than scared. is this what the crip “acceptance” I’ve heard so much about feels like?

In the uk giving your child a haircut they want not approved by the government is considered child abuse. Also calling them what they want to be called, you need a license for that

idk if “sprain” is even accurate. maybe in-part? my right hand, particularly thumb and forefinger and the muscle between them, got really swollen and quite painful. flared by all the moving tasks no doubt. a new kind of flare/injury. always demoralizing!

badly sprained my dominant hand doing a task that would have been simple for me just a few years ago. very frustrating to have a body like this :/

"At least one member of the U.S. Marshals Service shot and killed a person in Northeast D.C.’s Mayfair neighborhood Wednesday afternoon, a law enforcement source told WTOP." wtop.com/dc/2026/02/u...

Honestly, I think this is in large part why the rhetoric from the misogynist, patriarchal rhetoric from the fascists is intensifying. Majority of the folks in that photo are people they would categorize as women

// CW: CSA Look, I'm just going to say that it seems meaningful to me that pretty much all literature asserting the existence of "paedophilia," in the sense of "an immutable sexual attraction to children," was written starting in the 1970s by the same couple of dozen guys who now work for Genspect

And here’s the absurdity of calling the police on ICE. You’re calling their backup.

Collecting data & interpreting data are different things with vastly different labor requirements. Regime is obviously desperate for AI to make the former as rapid & vast as the latter but so far they have yet to escape the necessity of human labor to make data meaningful in political suppression.

It hurts my heart to see how many people think (demonstrated in their use of generative AI) the only value in writing is producing an end product. I write foremost because the process of writing teaches me a great deal, much of which is never represented in a single word of the final piece.

The number of people who died in ICE custody in 2025–32 people, the highest number since their first year—has been shared around a bit but I’ve seen very little about the 21 deaths in CBP custody in the same year. I can’t find the victim’s names anywhere, does someone know where I might?

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

I am a disabled autistic person with a permanent brain injury, so I feel especially acute terror hearing Rahman's testimony. I need everyone to watch this. Make it stop. Shut it down. Let them all free. NOW.

Horrifically reminiscent of the earliest concentration camps created by Nazis as soon as they came to power. Approximately 70 camps were established in any structure they could acquire for the task: old factories, estates, schools, prisons, workhouses.

Watch Aliya Rahman’s testimony, a disabled woman who was assaulted and kidnapped by ICE agents: “I am extremely distressed that violence from law enforcement has been happening to Black and indigenous communities for centuries, and to DHS survivors for over 20 years.” youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

hi i’m not in a totally desperate spot atm (tho money is always tight for me) but my partner and i just finished moving out of the house our landlord sold two weeks ago. i’m reposting my tip-jar page in case anyone wants and has the means to help us cover odd expenses or the cost of a cheap meal 🩵

This is the Lee Cicuta Library.

Please watch this interview with Marimar Martinez, the woman CBP agent Charles Exum attempted to execute in Chicago on October 4, 2025. She survived the attempt and has been pushing to get details about her case made public. youtu.be/mCO4vI_KH1w?...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

phew a man gets even a little bossy with me and i’m immediately ready to escalate to fire

Stop Cop City gave us a lot of tactics on how to get in the way of fascist infrastructure being built. Those tactics need to be utilized and expanded in the way that ICE Watch has used and greatly developed the tactics of Cop Watch.

Here's his gofundme gofund.me/28925aa7f

Throughout the ICE raids, local and state police who answer to Democrat politicians have consistently done the dirty work to enable ICE to continue its campaign of ethnic cleansing. Politicians who talk about "maintaining order" are complicit in this campaign of terror. It's up to us. Just us.

Hard to overstate the extent to which Leon Botstein’s personal scorn for feminist anti-rape politics permeated Bard College’s culture while I was there. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

One of central strategies of anti-feminism is the effort to depict feminism as a vanity movement, a grab for more privilege, instead of a real human concern that addresses a a serious need in the world. This always paints gender oppression as a secondary problem at best.

Paul McHugh, who used his directorship of the Johns Hopkins gender clinic to sabotage it into shutting down, was also a major force behind the domain of “false memory” pseudoscience, which he collaborated on to discredit CSA allegations against the Catholic Church

Kenneth Zucker also has allegations. J. Michael Bailey had at least one infamous instance of a relationship which, while not illegal, involved a very young woman over whom he had authority. James Cantor was heavily involved with Prostasia and believes paedophilia is a sexual orientation

everyone is always choosing between two equally reactionary ideas--"elite pedophile cabal" vs "CSA is an overblown hysteria that causes witch hunts any time it's even mentioned"--because they are equally anti-feminist answers to a question that only feminists can answer. and no one wants that answer

NEW: A masked federal agent in a convenience store parking lot in the northern Twin Cities suburb of Coon Rapids told legal observers that Minnesota’s status as a blue state is linked with the removal of residents [VIDEO below] MORE: unicornriot.ninja/2026/federal...

if the regime claims that their tech is unbelievably strong and effective? it's unbelievable because its bullshit meant to scare you into compliance

It’s been like this with all the facial recognition software I’ve heard of used in policing so far which is why I harp on how important it is to learn how this tech *actually* works instead of trusting fascists when they declare they have a magic tool that renders resistance futile.

Oop I’ve been really activated about this all morning. Was like “ah wow I get SO mad over the devaluation of feminism. I can barely breath rn” and my partner responded “yes you certainly do.. but you being a victim of CSA is probably also a part of it” and I was like “oh… yeah” and burst into tears.

I've seen and heard statements each to the effect of "we should look above the victims and at the politicking going on, especially at Bannon". Which in reifying Bannon's political project above the patriarchal violence, seen as 'bourgeois degeneracy', fails to recognize the continuity between them.

If a take about the Epstein files doesn’t explicitly acknowledge the role of patriarchy and gendered violence I throw it in the garbage.

The ICE killings in Minneapolis evoke Selma but the day-to-day tactics in Minneapolis remind me of the Birmingham Bus Boycott: a grinding, continuous, citywide and logistically demanding effort of non-cooperation over months to break an unjust status quo.