Anti-ICE protesters in California have shut down the 101 freeway in Los Angeles marching towards City Hall.

The partheon

The colosseum

Chichen Itza

Whitehouse

"The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal." Camille Paglia

Costco to raise hourly pay for most US store workers to over $30 Retailer Costco Wholesale will increase pay for most of its hourly U.S. store workers to more than $30, according to a memo sent to employees this week.

Costco - the only company to publicly come out in support of Diversity initiatives despite pressure from the GOP and they just raised the pay for their workers. Stop shopping at Target.

Costco to raise hourly pay for most US store workers to over $30 www.reuters.com/business/ret...

JUST IN: Several federal websites tracking health care issues like HIV prevention and transgender care are now offline, per Axios.

It is being reported that most U.S. federal government websites are expected "to go dark" for "a pause" at 5 p.m today, per CBS

Headline from reductress.com that reads “'Joy Is an Act of Resistance!' Says White Woman Who Engages in No Other Acts of Resistance”, above a photo of a blonde woman wearing a denim dress and a wide brimmed hat, sitting on a stoop and smiling at the camera

#ClassConsciousness 101

Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

Here it is. This is abominable.

If you are a straight, cis person and you feel that fucking knot in your stomach about what the administration is doing right now to trans people and trans children, you have to at the very fucking least say out loud in front of your friends and peers in real life "this is fucked up."

If you're feeling despair it's because you have a moral compass. It means you're not empty on the inside - that you nurse hope and a sense of justice in a cage next to your heart. You're one of my people and I'll stand with you. There are more of us than they want you to believe. Hold fast.

Bodily autonomy means bodily autonomy. Full stop. Your body belongs to you and nobody else gets to decide what you do to it.

Have an abortion. Take HRT. Have sex for money. Have sex for free. Have no sex at all. Gain weight. Lose weight. Get a tattoo. What's right for you is your right.

Acceptable: I don't want to read this

Acceptable: This is disgusting

Acceptable: I don't want to read this because it is disgusting

Authoritarian: I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because (in my opinion) it is disgusting

Censorship is authoritarian

#Booksky thoughts

If you're trans, don't k*ll yourself. Make art. Make art that's angry, violent, & upsetting.

You deserve to exist. You deserve life. You deserve love. Your voice deserves to be heard, even if all you can manage to conjur with it right now is a gutteral cry.

We don't owe anyone absence or silence.

i know despair is letting them win or whatever but sometimes you need to process feelings to move past them. it's ok if you're despairing right now. but please don't make any permanent decisions right now. we are all facing a survival situation now and surviving today is defeating them

Do not, I repeat, DO NOT CRASH OUT.
Folks are relying on you to be overstimulated, overwhelmed, & overcome so you won't resist.
Take breaks,
Take a breath,
Be intentional with how you spend your time.
Be effective with how you spend your energy.
Support each other
Rest, live, & fight another day.

It's a bad time for trans people now, and it's a bad time for trans literature

Buy trans books, leave reviews
Support trans authors
If you can't afford a book right now, then follow them on social media and amplify their voices

Here's a starter pack to start you off

Trans authors ask to be added

Please stop telling trans people we're overreacting

If you're feeling overwhelmed, it's intentional. They're calling it "flooding the zone." The intent is to overwhelm and exhaust us so we can not effectively resist. Something simple you can do right now now is to make sure to take breaks and rest.

Read.
Read books.
Reading books is resistance.

Buy.
Buy books.
Buying books is resistance.

Share.
Share books.
Sharing books is resistance.

Celebrate
Celebrate books.
Celebrating books is resistance.

US throws out policies limiting arrests of migrants at sensitive locations like schools, churches The move reverses guidance that for over a decade has restricted two key federal immigration agencies from carrying out immigration enforcement in sensitive locations.

NEW: Officers enforcing immigration laws will now be able to arrest migrants at sensitive locations like schools and churches after the Trump administration threw out policies limiting where those arrests could happen.

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

Call it what it is. Of all days to do so, do it today., otherwise MLK’s message is lost on us. Don’t turn your gaze away.

Honesty is courage. Honesty is love for the most vulnerable. How many times did our ancestors say “Never Again”?

Courage, friends.

No room for hatred.

My FB is just a stream of people posting screenshots of the TT message, OR, saying they never had TT. Someone posted that she was glad it was gone because of China taking our data. Which she posted. On FB. 🫠

I despair at whether or not folks will make the connections re: oligarchy and controlling

Ah man i forgot the name but it was one of the first choices

Fuck Meta 🫶🏻✨🏳️‍⚧️