it always surprises me when people react really viscerally to the idea of destroying systems and institutions that either no longer serve us (and can't be reformed), or never existed to serve humanity in general. putting the destruction of a system on the table shouldn't be a radical position
"On April 23, Citizens Bank will hold its annual meeting...We need your help to make sure that they are aware of the damage Citizens is doing to its brand by continuing to bankroll the for-profit ICE detention companies"
www.de-icecitizensbank.org/toolkit
I don’t even have words for this.
"No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions."
This is the way.
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
The Seattle Times, yesterday (no paywall)
web.archive.org/web/20260408...
everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability
Whenever someone says "there are no civilians in [country]," they are making an argument for genocide.
Necklace with multicoloured metal spikes and glass bead with a gold-coloured toggle clasp
A pair of fishhook earrings with fish skeleton charms
A pair of fishhook earrings with a spiked ball attached to a chain
A pair of fishhook earrings with a four-pointed metal star charm and an iridescent glass star charm
Really need to get meds, gas and groceries today but I'm pretty broke so if yall wanna do me a solid and share my slightly creepy jewelry, have a look and maybe use my 20% off code MEDFUNDS to get a thing or two I'd be SUPER grateful 🖤
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#art #jewelry
Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.
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Gouache and pencil on aqua board!
every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy
corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor
that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft
There’s been a hell of a lot more hand-wringing over lefty politicians associating with Hasan Piker than there was over Gavin Newsom welcoming (and agreeing with) Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro on his podcast.
I wonder if that says anything about our politics.
On the 58th anniversary of Dr. King's assassination, it's time to reckon with the media's troubling role in the civil rights struggle. (I pitched this to @nytimes.com who found it "fascinating..[but] the news is making deeper & certainly more historical pieces very hard." But they're the news.) A 🧵
tbh watching cis people get arrested on trans people's behalf is more heartening than I would have realized. It often feels like it's just us, when the going gets tough.
If private businesses risk themselves to continue to allow trans people use of the correct restroom, it'll mean a lot too.
Rich people will eternally propose a public benefit which is unilaterally good, then peddle means testing to grant it, then invent people who are somehow cheating the means testing poor people never asked for, then insist that the system is broken and so maybe it's better not to have it at all.
It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes
The anti-trans side has spent years building up propaganda claiming this doesn't happen and I need you all to know they are lying.
Wilhoit’s law remains undefeated.
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Today is the last day to get this sick ICEBREAKER merch, and the last day to help us raise money for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota!
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You live long enough as a trans person, and you begin to learn when people are talking about you without talking about you. Family members discuss your "situation" in hushed tones. People try to figure out what your whole deal is while you're standing right in front of them. You become no longer a person, but a "controversial topic" to be litigated. This is how Texas A&M talks about real people and real students. I'm now faced with the dilemma of holding a degree from an institution of learning that may discipline professors for teaching that people like me exist.
something i wrote earlier this month but this sort of applies to just being trans in general it feels: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you.
If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can.
Everyone give this a share after.
“What’s notable is Hegseth’s suggestion that God actively approves of as much killing as possible, and his enlistment of God in making it “overwhelming”—supremely violent and brutal.” @gregsargent.bsky.social with a fantastic exploration of Hegseth’s faith and obsession with religious violence
Some folks don’t seem to understand the magnitude and immediacy of the threats that trans people are facing right now.
Idaho just made it a crime to use a bathroom other than the one designated for sex assigned at birth … the second offense is a felony with a 5 year prison term.
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I feel genuinely flabbergasted by the defiantly anti-journalistic approach of NYT Comms here.
They're saying the NYT's reporting on the stance of the American Medical Association is correct, despite the American Medical Association saying their stance is different from what NYT reported.
Here is my pride flag everybody! I hung one up yesterday in my office at Boston University, as they seek to enforce and defend a policy of removing them (along with other banners in public view, they say).
This is a small act of love for my corner of the world, in a dark time. This flag goes deep.
