Shocking that white, male unpaid interns in Donor Relations are all planning on working for Republicans. Shocking.

I am shocked.

(Reader, she was not, in fact, shocked)

Ooof, right in the feels.

As an adult with ND children & consistently letting them know they don’t have to apologize for *feeling too much* means having to relive my own experiences of being intimidated, manipulated, or ostracized by my birth family as a kid for simply being autistic on the reg.

I thought I was the only one who remembered these…

“For conflict with your kids or partner, find ways to resolve it.”
Whoever published that advice should be publicly shamed for eternity by having to wear rotten potatoes as jewelry.

This is me.
Eat “healthy” and be active as an autistic person with chronic illnesses? Reduce stress as a divorced mom fighting to raise good humans in a capitalist hellscape?
Let’s just agree that CPTSD has damaged my pancreas & get to work instead of judging what I chose at the food pantry.

Wouldn’t it be great if the Pope eventually admitted that if transubstantiation has been real this whole time… then trans people are completely sacred & will be celebrated?

My brother, if this wine can look like wine, taste like wine, and yet *be* the blood of god… you see where I’m going?

I am seeing so many cars driving around with major body damage. From missing bumpers to majorly dented doors to mismatched paint jobs on replacement parts.

Alice Wong, an Asian-American woman in her early 50s, wears a black t-shirt that says “keep masks in health care”. She rocks a rich plum lipstick and cool multicolor sunglasses. She has a tracheostomy attached to a ventilator. The text reads, “The Sick Times. Alice Wong showed us Disability Justice makes our advocacy stronger. By Charlie McCone.”

Alice showed me I can lead a meaningful life — and be cool doing it — while sitting with my pain and limitations. And while we, sick and disabled, channel our rage back at those trying to ignore and erase us.

In the wake of her passing and her recent celebration of life, @loscharlos.bsky.social shares how Alice Wong taught him the power of Disability Justice and how she wielded it to bridge the hesitancy between disability, Long Covid, and COVID-cautious communities. bit.ly/4mohc12

Good guys rape. Friendly guys rape. Guys everyone likes rape. Democrats rape & so do socialists & anarchists. Get them out of your fold.

This is why my birth family is cut off from contact with me - they are responsible for this.

Me: “I just feel like hiding under my desk while simultaneously torturing my brain with all the reasons why this isn’t supposed to be how we are living.”

Supervisor: “Great! Anyone else have anything to check in about?”

(Coworkers shuffle)

This 😤

Wanna remind folx, the most dangerous time to be with an abuser is when you are planning/attempting to leave them.
Solid Blue areas have supports built up and experience handling Republican bullies, but these Red areas are extremely vulnerable to threats and manipulation. Loss of stability matters.

Polling Data Spells Potential Disaster for Republicans in the Midterms Much of the poor polling for Trump is due in large part to the joint U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.

Seven months before the midterms, Trump's approval rating is below 50% in 135 Republican-held districts, meaning many of those seats could be in deep trouble.

As someone who has escaped this sort of personal abuse — it shortens your life. You may be murdered or you may just have early organ failure due to chronic stress and adrenaline. You are forever physically changed and traumatized.

This will impact generations of the global population.

Viral photo from some years back of a man nonchalantly mowing his yard with a tornado on the horizon .

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

"Why don't Americans-" The ruling class of America has intentionally disempowered its citizens spread across 3,000+ miles of land and then funded the police force as an occupying army that happily murders anyone who opposes them and imprisons whoever is left as slave laborers. So phone calls it is

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Let This Radicalize You Doing Justice: The Revolution of Rescue and Reciprocal Care is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.

I was going to write today, but until we know more, I don't have any new words for this moment. What I will say is that if you are reeling, and you know you want to be part of making things better, Mariame Kaba and I wrote a book for you. I hope it helps.

Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.

Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide The Erie County Medical Examiner's Office didn't reach any conclusions about responsibility for Nurul Amin Shah Alam's death.

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz

When adults teach children to address their own behavior *instead of investigating the causes of that behavior* it conditions us towards victim blaming and unconsciously supporting systemic oppression. In autistic children it can cause extreme disassociation around emotion for life.

A black sheep with a trans flag wool in blue pink and white stands among a bunch of pale white sheep. “I’m the trans sheep of the family. And I’m Visible because I’m PROUD — not because “you could tell””

Happy Trans Day of Visibility!
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Kids can be subjected to harmful 'conversion therapy,’ U.S. Supreme Court rules It's a stunning setback for LGBTQ+ young people who are put at significant risk for harm by this decision.

NEWS: The Supreme Court waited until Transgender Day of Visibility to release its opinion that says that therapists can tell trans kids that they don’t exist. www.advocate.com/news/scotus-...

Crowd sourcing information:

Is there a supercut video of SheRa Princesses of Power (formerly of Netflix) set to “Princess of Power” by MARINA?

The people who claim to dislike Trump but still voted for him and support him.

The people who tell you they love you despite your queerness/disability/moral compass/propensity to challenge them.

Same people, same lies.

What is it with their brains that their words and actions don’t match?

:)

“By midlife, you’ve been interrupted, corrected, patronized, or flat‑out disbelieved thousands of times. It eats away at your sense that your own mind and body can be trusted.”

Being autistic and having this experience left me vulnerable to abusive relationships and manipulation.

Iowa just declared that local governments cannot protect human rights in any way that conflicts with the state’s idea of who should be have human rights… so you can’t treat people any better than state reps think they should be treated? Can’t give them *more* safety than those men think appropriate?

I saw this a couple of weeks ago and I nearly threw up.

You can be guilty without facing repercussions for criminal acts and wow, this is it.