Badge of honor.

i think of this whenever someone has some shit to say about abstract art

As a Black liberal woman in Texas:

If you’ve never taught, fundraised, organized, or tried to turn the tide in a substantial way in a red state: shut up and take notes from the people who have. A lot of you wouldn’t survive with your souls intact if you lived and worked here.

Long Covid doctors: GLP-1 inhibitors also seem to support Long Covid recovery! (Covid fucks within insulin and turns most people pre-/diabetic overnight.)

Society: "Losers say what?"

It’s never been clearer that US aid for the Israeli military is morally indefensible, and there’s never going to be a better time than right now to stop defending it.

I will never not welcome the rain.

ABC: “At least 153 people killed -- including 7 recovered from rubble --and 459 injured in the past 24 hours as (Israel’s) operations intensify across the Gaza Strip…” abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

If your own member of Congress is a Democrat and hasn't made this demand, ask them why.

If your member is a Republican, ask them anyway. Don't let them off the hook. Let them know you're watching all this.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Trying to tie autism as a cause of being trans and vaccines as a cause of autism and trying to eradicate all of them is a through line of Trump and rfk Jr's policies.
They don't view autistics or trans people as people and they think if they can "cure " or stop them from happening, its better off.

Seems to me what we’re seeing across the federal government are the dividends being paid from years of adopting market language to talk about public goods. Run government like a business? Businesses exist to make profit. Government exists to serve the people. We’re about to see the difference now.

Musk added another $2 million—he's now up to $10.2 million in spending to put his bought-and-paid-for MAGA candidate, Brad Schimel, into the decisive seat on Wisconsin's Supreme Court.

There's a reason his names aren't on the ads. Voters *loathe* Musk. Help us get the word out: peoplevmusk.org

transphobes laser focus on the sports thing because through trial and error they found that’s the one area where they can win over the public. refocus on fundamentals like “should people have bodily autonomy” or “should there be genital inspectors in bathrooms” and they don’t

It should be very clear to every Senate Democrat that any vote for Cloture will also be considered a vote for the bill.

People aren’t going to be tricked with procedural games.

They know exactly what is going on.

Defend Medicaid.
Vote NO on Cloture.
NO on bill.

On substance, this is really dumb. Mainstream actors and institutions should not platform or “debate” far-right politicians and activists who are never arguing in good faith and only seek to establish an aura of “respectability” for their extremist ideas. It can only ever help the extremists.

I must say I’m dismayed at the number of people who still think hosting extremists for a conversation is fine as long as you ask “tough questions” and “push back forcefully.”

This idea betrays such a profound misunderstanding of the political conflict and of how these people operate.

During the McCarthy era, professors at Yale lost positions thanks to anonymous accusations. Today advances in technology allow us to dispense with costly human informants and destroy the lives of scholars far more efficiently.

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.

Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.

Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.

TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

one important thing about the trans sports canard is it’s a trial balloon to see how chickenshit the opposition is. if we cave on that they’ll attack a less vulnerable group (already happening actually) and the whole coalition will get carved up one by one

I just finished season one of The Terror and all I can think is that I want Tobias Menzies to catch a break.

Every single trans person is referred to as an "activist" just for existing, because prominent bigots in our society have deemed trans life a political issue -- so this logic suggests that trans people simply cannot be journalists. And major news organizations agree, which makes the issue worse.

saying "authoritarianism is bad" or "monopolies are bad" or "genocide is bad"= journalistic activism

But parroting libertarian free market deregulatory economics, or openly parroting corporate press releases or CEO statements largely unskeptically? no problem!

The FAA is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to overhaul the communications system that serves as the backbone of the nation’s air traffic control and is awarding the work to Musk’s Starlink. Follow the money and see where it goes.

A new document undercuts Trump admin's denials about $400 million Tesla deal The State Department claimed a plan to buy thousands of armored Teslas was left over from the Biden administration. A document obtained by NPR shows the Biden plan was far smaller.

The Trump administration blamed Biden for a $400 million federal government contract with Elon Musk's Tesla to build armored electric vehicles. But NPR obtained documents showing the Biden administration only approved $483,000, not the $400 million that the Trump-Musk administration wanted.

If you support my books by requesting them in libraries, just know I think you’re the bees absolute knees. I’m pretty sure Werewolf is now in a lot more libraries than when it started out because of this and I am forever grateful.

This cannot be overstated like people used to be legitimately afraid of getting their asses kicked for wearing the wrong kind of shoelaces

Go follow Jupiterbaal on tik tok. Go follow him right now. Go listen to him. I have the seen the take he’s railing against here so many times over the last month, and he nails it to the wall in a way I never could.

vm.tiktok.com/ZNd1omXo7/

Know Your Rights trainings work. Don’t even open the door. Really, to anyone. If it’s someone important and they know you, they have a cellphone, they’ll call.

Knowledge is never knowing the answer. It’s knowing the territory.