The requirement that women–not men–have their sex monitored, tested &proven legitimizes the distorted fantasy that men are trying to pass as women to win women’s sports competitions(why would they when women athletes are paid much less?) @moiradonegan.bsky.social
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Workers harvesting strawberries today on a rainy day on California's Central Coast
It's raining on CAs Central Coast and "Raul" a strawberry worker, reminds us, "Rain or shine, we farm workers are out laboring in the fields. We work hard to plant, care for and harvest the crops that feed families across America." #WeFeedYou
These fishermen are lucky to be alive. We will probably never know how many of the ~180 people killed in similar US attacks were also just fishermen.
Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
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200,000 acres of Native Hawaiian land. 100 years of federal trust obligation.
Trump's move: reclassify them as a racial group, not a tribal nation. Same land. New legal category. Zero obligation.
That's not a budget cut. That's a legal erasure. #taxtherich
Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings
Option 1: Learn to speak multiple languages, perhaps as a family activity.
Option 2: Start a race war, kidnapping BIPOC who speak languages other than English, putting them into concentration camps, and sending them overseas where they will be stranded with no money, family, or connections.
A clip from The New York Times reads: "But only the entities that officially paid the tariffs are eligible to recover that money. That means that the fuller universe of people affected by Mr. Trump’s policies — including millions of Americans who paid higher prices for the products they bought — are not able to apply for direct relief. The extent to which consumers realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds, something that few have publicly committed to do. Some have started to band together in class-action lawsuits in the hopes of receiving a payout."
The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.
Remember this from last week?
South Carolina's Freedom to Read Group has an outstanding response worth replicating.
Libraries don't have to buy these books. They can actively push back against publishers who are not helping libraries–bedrocks of their survival!–weather censorship.
You should write your book now so you can write it without having to write it for the rest of your life after that
DOD: We're doing away with flu vaccine requirements
Every adversarial military's biological warfare planners: Okay, hear us out
Empire collapse
everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"
Tweet by Martina Navratilova. "Predator. That is how he should register. A sexual predator…" quote-tweeting a tweet by "Biology Rules OK" about Dr. Beth Upton, a trans woman
This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it.
It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.
Selfie of Matthew throwing a peace sign in front of a mug saying Libraries work because we dk
From a fellow librarian, trustee, and patron, sending solidarity to library workers across the world on National Library Workers Day
Libraries work because we do ✊️
A map of Lebanese territory being invaded by Israel
Israel now controls more of Lebanon than Russia does of Ukraine
BREAKING: The so called 'SAVE' Act has FAILED in the Senate and will not become law.
I wrote this piece on how in reality, this is the Voter Restriction Act to prevent women from voting. It is fascism and would have installed Trump as a permanent dictator. www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-save-a...
The Jerusalem Cross is a symbol of the Crusades. Disingenuous people argue it’s “just a representation of Christianity and not bigoted”
But we all fucking know the Crusades was about massacring anyone that wasn’t Christian.
Pete Hegseth has a HUGE one tattooed on his chest
It’s a symbol of hate.
I study racist politicians from the Jim Crow era and this is on par with anything that John Rankin, Theodore Bilbo, or Cotton Ed Smith ever said in public
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
Karoline Leavitt @PressSec Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump is Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness
we've noticed and i'm glad he's getting help
Aside from being a major hassle for me, personally, this is also going to (as the article notes) lead to the creation of vast new swathes of illicit activity
Trump is not the only politician who defunds public libraries... I think this is important for everyone to understand.
It’s #BetterInAUnion! ✊
Anyone?!
Reading a lot about direct action at the moment & this -- expressed w beautiful practical clarity -- resonates with much of the walking, talking, holding, presenting, gathering & performing described by Diana Taylor in ¡Presente! & Sarah Schulman in Let the Record Show
I would invite you to consider, based on your reading of the gospels, which would make Jesus more upset: destroying a statue of him, or killing a bunch of children.
Now think about which one has made evangelicals in America more upset.
Mutual Aid Request
Morning. I've largely given up on requesting rent help because it was excruciatingly slow. Send prayers I guess. Asking $200 for groceries and up to $200 for Uber. Amazon list has gift cards. 💕💸 V: Annaleigh-Watts CA: $annaleighmaria PP: AnaleeWatts www.amazon.com/registries/g...
