The arguments she made read very much like the arguments of the “white moderates” in King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail and very much NOT like the ways the civil rights movement “won hearts and minds.”

As he said, “Wait” has almost always meant “Never.”

She was just so relatable for completely cis reasons 😂

We need to resurrect Blogger and Movable Type

Took me eight months but same

And the list is very millennial coded, which to be fair is when indie had its big moment. But for me indie will
always mean Creation, SubPop, and even 4AD (and other similar labels) music from the late 1980s/early 1990s.

my fellow Californians of good moral character…

trans people need you, *i* need you, to tell Newsom exactly what you think of him saying trans Californians (in a trans! sanctuary! state!) aren’t worth protecting

PLEASE DO NOT LET THIS SLIDE

As the expected Christian Nationalism EO came in, I’m seeing a bunch of “this isn’t real Christianity” noise in my mentions.

Nope.

Christian friends. 1/x 🧵

This is 💯 part of the history of Christianity, dating to Constantine, to the Holy Roman Empire, forced conversions, Inquisitions, +

i don't know what to say that someone smarter won't say better. but i was a trans kid when there wasn't care for trans kids & i can tell a short story since that's allegedly my deal.

i survived. but you know the survivorship diagram? i'm that fringe dot. i survived by accident.🧵

cw: self-harm ⬇️

I actually think it’s the other way around. In the first episode of this dystopia, they frequently used things that obviously would get swatted down in the courts to allow the truly evil shit to slide through.

I was fine on Day One. Days Two through Five have been an absolute shitshow in my head.

Unfollowing accounts that are overtly political today and expanding my muted keyword list to see if I can keep this account moving forward. I get more than enough trauma from the ambient environment I don’t need to mainline it into my veins.

Right? I’ve had four stress dreams already, have woken up about every hour, and am wide awake at 4:30 AM. 😔

Album cover to the Dead Kennedy’s 1986 album Bedtime for Democracy.

Well, we all know what time it is. It’s…

Like the only way to read this is that a guy who is not the President said “you may break the law for a while and I won’t punish you when I become President” and everyone said, sure, good enough

As predicted, Trump and TikTok agreed in advance to have a brief outage after which Trump would say a few magic words and TikTok would come back in line cheering Trump despite being in the identical legal position. I

So everyone thought for 35 years that the US won the Cold War when in reality apparently China won the Cold War.

Wishing everyone a 🫣 Apocalypse Eve, for all who celebrate