For the fifty billionth time: I don't want society to shut down. I want you to mask at the fucking hospital, bus, airport, school, and grocery store, if you can.
If you cannot, I want everyone else to, to protect you.
Yep. We’re fools if we think the greatest radicalization machine ever rigged isn’t radicalizing people (men) beyond comprehension. Inflicting more damage in years than Rush and Fox did in decades.
White, orange and black calico cat on her back, fluffy belly out on a black blanket with rainbow gradient star on a gray chair. one paw is up by her head, the other over her chest with her toes curled on her back paws.
CW: Pet Death. June 2013 to Oct 2025, Miss Cookie Dough Ice Cream, Cookie for short. A mighty huntress who landed like she was twice her weight and yet was a petite seven pounds. She was a former feral who was endlessly spoiled as an indoor princess. It was cancer.
"That's why your kids don't like you and your wife is fucking on you" is so good
AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
They’re scared of protest, they’re scared of humor, they’re scared of ridicule. They’re just plain scared.
They’re not doing this because they’re strong. They’re doing it because they’re weak.
He remains a horrible human with an above average social media manager.
Today is the release day for Queen Demon! I’ll be here at Politics and Prose in Washington DC tonight!
Uh, Dollywood isn't the one closed. Two places in GA are closing.
There is nothing under international law that prevents people attempting to break an illegal siege of an illegally-occupied territory by a country committing genocide.
It is the other way around.
These governments are breaking their own public commitments to stop a genocide.
And Poland could only lie here because
1- citizens in international waters are not in the places where travel is not advisable
2- if they’re in Palestinian waters - Poland recognises Gaza as part of Palestine - then Poland would have to support Israeli troops abducting citizens in another country
An electrician is coming to the house in the morning to fix it, so that'll be my entertainment for the day. Hopefully it's not too difficult to find an appropriate replacement bc my mom will be so anxious without her shows.
The main breaker at my mom's house has decided to retire after 42 years of service. At least it's October and it's not nearly as hot as it was a month ago. Plus i saved the groceries in the fridge.
With The Possession of Alba Díaz's study of demonic hauntings and old mining families, Isabel Cañas once again proves she's leading the Gothic literary renaissance:
reactormag.com/book-review-...
In the '80s and '90s, CJ Cherryh questioned and critiqued our assumptions about how gender is expressed and understood, creating science fiction narratives that reflect trans identity and experience. It's time for a retrospective.
reactormag.com/exploring-ge...
The fact Republicans want you to pray for the shooter’s soul to be saved, but also want to kill ever trans person if there’s even a possibility that one trans person might commit a crime, really does bring into sharp focus just how much they think being transgender is worse than being a murderer
The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
Fascists do not believe in free speech as a universal principle. Free speech is a tool they'll happily use, but they don't think everyone should have it. They don't believe in universal moral principles at all. Rights and privileges are for the in-group, obligations are for everyone else.
“Klein’s interest here isn’t honesty but flattery. It shows Klein isn’t writing about Kirk at all. He’s writing about himself and saying, ‘I’m doing politics the right way because I’m lauding someone who disagrees with me.’”
This is also just a straight up lie! Kirk did NOT support free speech or persuasion, his entire political project was based around using organized harassment and threats of violence against people who spoke in ways he disagreed with!
if they maintain this claim, they will absolutely turn me into a conspiracy theorist in that I 100% don’t put it past Patel’s intensely MAGA, increasingly humiliated FBI to forge something like that.
In a long list of extraordinary things that have happened today, this strength of this statement by Andy Burnham's new movement is something else. A proper shot across the bows.
You can "honor" Kirk's memory by doing the thing he'd hate and donating to an organization that wants to help low-income trans adults receive gender affirming care:
www.transincomeproject.org/donate
(also read my interview with TIPs executive director in the original post)
This + increasingly, I think it's important to note who doesn't want these spaces (public schools, universities, parades, etc) to exist and who benefits from them feeling unsafe.
Congress plans a vote Thurs on HR3486, a dangerously overbroad bill that may subject #immigrantsurvivors of gender-based violence to harsh new penalties even if they're eligible for survivor-based immigration status. Tell your Reps TODAY to vote no! 🚨 www.immigrantsurvivors.org/take-action%...
I wrote this short piece on mainstream efforts to hide the relationship of white conservatism to state & vigilante violence in the U.S. & why—esp in these moments—we have to push back against that impulse to whitewash & preserve the systems of violence we claim to oppose.
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators.
Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!
A pika sits on a mossy rock.
Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.
An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.
An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Got a new phone today, the Pixel 10 Pro (in GREEN, she's so pretty) & it was SO EASY to swap SIMs. I did have to make sure simlock was off, but it took like less than a minute to swap. Everything copied over, or had backups, so I'm just logging into everything again. All in all the easiest upgrade
