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This. Every time you see a "successful" trans person, know we are just one transphobe away from losing everything. This is one reason why it is important for allies to actually ally when we're not around -- transphobes should know their views aren't acceptable to anyone.

US Abstract Expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler
The Other Side of the Moon, 1995

#HelenFrankenthaler #AbstractExpressioism

I can’t remember: did Texas even hold a vote to amend their constitution to add their five Republican seats?

An illustration of Sean Connery's character from Zardoz done in the style of a Judy Blume novel cover. The title is "Are You There God? It's Us, An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog" In the upper left corner is "A Hugo Voter Pack" done in the style of a book publisher imprint. There is a catch phrase up top "Irreverent, incoherent opinions about SFF."

Now we get to work on our Hugo Voter packet submission for @thehugoawards.bsky.social ...

(Cover by our friend, the incredible and talented @dntlz.bsky.social)

They really expected Dems to allow them to fuck around in TX and do nothing in response.

It if was up to Dems in Congress they would have been right. Congressional Dems are completely corrupted.

But this was up to state level Dems like the incomparable Louise Lucas of VA.

And boy did the GOP

And we're simultaneously killing our credibility and ensuring that no one will ever help us again.

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

Testing finds toxic metals where Tesla discharges wastewater The drainage district that commissioned the testing has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company, which says it is in compliance with all requirements for its state wastewater discharge permit.

I’m shocked. www.texastribune.org/2026/04/21/t...

The Trump EPA Official in Charge of Methane Regulations Helped Write an Oil Industry Argument Against Those Rules Before becoming a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry. Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA ob...

Before becoming a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry.

Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA objecting to controls on methane emissions.

By @alexcuadros.bsky.social

It’s kind of astonishing how many news outlets have published versions of a “Tucker Carlson apologized for telling people to support Trump” story by writers who very clearly did not listen to the podcast.

Pro-Palestine legal aid requests stay high in 2025 amid US campus pressure Legal aid group says the rate of requests shows pro-Palestine advocacy persists despite Trump administration's tactics.

Legal aid group says the rate of requests shows pro-Palestine advocacy persists despite Trump administration's tactics.

That's right, and the rule of Fairfax County will be benevolent and just as it drags rural whites into the 20th century.

Take it from those of us who’ve learned from hard personal experience, twisting into knots to predict what will appease (or distract or deter) doesn’t work. You only end up at the mercy of the dominator—who WILL keep grinding you into
dust

Tweet from L Louise Lucas in 2023 All of Glenn Youngkin's bills to limit abortion rights come to my committee. I put them straight into my trash can. Picture is of an 80 year old Black woman throwing papers into a trash can

Another one of my favorites

Iran war live: Trump says ceasefire extended as talks with Tehran in limbo

Iran war live: Trump says ceasefire extended as talks with Tehran in limbo https://aje.news/9hxh4e

California man arrested for allegedly swapping in pasta for Lego pieces then returning them Irvine police department announces bust in pun-filled social media post about alleged $34,000 Lego looting

Even Moriarty was foiled eventually.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

LEAKED MEMOS show how Chief Justice Roberts pressured other justices to lean heavily in favor of the oil and gas industry to kneecap a major EPA climate-change regulation—even as the court’s liberal justices warned it was an unprecedented, unjustified expansion of the court’s powers. trib.al/RQMIP47

#NationalLibraryWeek
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @mayor.nyc.gov please restore funding for our NYC public libraries!

just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down

You’re most likely the one called to build the community you crave and can’t find.

It's due to Capitalism we don't use standardised plug sockets, largely because each individual country tried to protect their home production of electronic goods.

Of course now it is all made in China anyway, but we still have a dozen pointlessly different plug sockets.

a close up of a man 's face with the words same as it ever was below it Alt: a close up of a man 's face with the words same as it ever was below it

Always remember : it's not that we can't have nice things.

It's that certain people who have nice things fervently believe that other people also aspiring to, or having, nice things somehow lessens their own quality of life.

I don't think this is correct. The 2026 Rs are in full blown panic already.

as it becomes clear that Yes has won in VA and gerrymandering will pass, a message to Republican voters:

you brought this on yourselves

you convinced the most fairness-obsessed, That Wouldn’t Be Fair-minded voters in the country to affirmatively vote to put you in the dumpster

you earned this

The history of warfare is full of warriors who died of disease. Far more than in combat.

IF YOU’RE IN LINE TO GET CONTROL OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ, STAY IN LINE

Ben Franklin left his wife in charge of his kids and his business affairs when he peaced out to England. Didn’t come back when she was sick.
The women left behind enabled these men to be these men

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus

This is so cathartic, because this is how I want to talk to that weirdo.