Nobody wins the Oppression Olympics, which is why you're better off boycotting.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Things are not okay.

Very cool that @klobuchar.senate.gov is teaming up with anti-LGBTQ hate group NCOSE (formerly Morality in Media) in her crusade to gut Section 230 and let Trump censor the internet just so she can go on tv and say “look, we’ve gotta protect the kids”

I keep seeing posts going "when ICE comes to MY city, we'll be out in the streets even harder" and man, I get that sentiment but I need everyone to understand that the work in Minneapolis is partly confrontational but MORE IMPORTANTLY aaallll the stuff organized in the background to help neighbors

when it's so bad the NYT is refusing to both-sides it, you really done fucked up

Does everyone have a warm bed?
Does everyone have enough to eat?
Does everyone have a place to be safe?
Whose getting snatched in the night?

- Junauda Petrus, "Ritual on How to Love Minneapolis Again"

I attempted to go to an ICE patrol training here in LA this morning and they had to turn most of us away because of capacity issues and even as I was leaving I saw a ton more folks showing up

so that’s how well their attempts to scare everyone away are going, even in the face of murder

Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

Incredibly important story that everyone should read.

These are not disorganized lone actors, but well-funded and powerful networks to be treated as serious threats.

They are using our work to push a eugenicist and racist agenda that is scientifically invalid and morally reprehensible.

If the US can abolish USAID, we can sure as shit abolish ICE.

"Oh my gosh, it was so nice to see you! Have a lovely day, fuck ICE!"
"Oh you too hon! Stay safe in that traffic, fuck ICE!'

- two older Minnesota ladies, bidding farewell after the protest

aside from work stuff, i mostly use social media to look at funny videos of dogs and subreddits about nail polish. you would not BELIEVE what the lacqueristas are getting up to over there, the anti-ICE nail art is flooding the feed.

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This has to be the most reckless thing Disney has ever done with their IP and I cannot wait for them to figure out what a bad idea this is.

It's heartening (and too rare) to see a university leader who will stand up for democracy and academic freedom when there is real risk involved.

MAGA gets mad at me when I criticize Trump for using the r-word. Bluesky gets mad when I criticize Crockett for calling Greg Abbott "Hot Wheels." Maybe, ableism is just bad?

Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry

Much more important than whether this particular mediocre young person succeeds, and considerably more worrying, is how easy it all is, and how smooth and efficient the process is through which all this noise and damage is manufactured—how simple the culture has made it for someone with nothing but themselves on their mind to hurt someone they think they might benefit from hurting, and how eagerly and unquestioningly this daisy chain of apparatchiks and opportunists and independent operators and actual elected officials will apply themselves to that work. It doesn't much matter whether Samantha Fulnecky was volunteering to join the movement to remove trans people from public life because she thought this oafish provocation might someday pay her bills, or is just a spoiled kid seizing an opportunity to walk to the front of the classroom and try her luck, Marine Todd-style. What matters is that it all ends up in the same place, and that this choice is so easily and cheaply made, and that there is a machine—well-funded, well-insulated, and much clearer about the terrible things it wants than anyone charged with describing it can quite bring themselves to acknowledge—that exists to send anyone desperate, cruel, or careless enough to enlist off to war.

Yes.
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Excellent read!

Imagine being a goy and standing up and telling Jewish people they don’t know or understand their own fucking history. That Jews are ignorant and too uneducated to have correct opinions about the Jewish issue of our time that has broken families and communities. You absolute piece of trash.

America’s most basic HIV protections are in danger as a decade of progress unravels Health experts are alarmed as Republicans degrade the country’s pivotal HIV programs — and break promises made during Trump’s first term.

For the first time since 1988, the U.S. did not officially commemorate World AIDS Day.

At the same time, the Trump admin is degrading America’s most basic HIV protections and unraveling decades of progress. The consequences will be grave if things are not turned around. Read more from my story here

I named my fists John and Cage because you're not going to be doing anything for the next four minutes and thirty three seconds

Going to send this to an editor friend who is opposed to nearly every use of the semicolon.

I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”

Wait wait wait, this was a response paper to something ELSE???

Fuck fuck fuck.

Ahahahaha have fun with that.

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why is this mayoral election different than all other mayoral elections?

in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.