hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

I just called Chuck Schumer’s office and, for the first time EVER, a person answered, who then politely entered my complaints into their call log.

This tells me two things:

1) They’re not getting enough calls over there, and 2) If you want to yell at Schumer, today’s the day.

(212) 486-4430

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

This wouldn't just ban federal funds from directly funding gender-affirming care, it would be an effective ban on ANY facility that receives ANY federal funding for ANY reason from providing gender-affirming care.

It's a de-facto ban.

Call your congressmen.

everyone who'd been pointing this out, for years, as being one of the major talking pts of every fascist & fascism-enabling status quo has been trans, mainly trans women, & the gentler voices among us have been ignored & the rest talked down to or accused of being TERFs w/o even looking at us for it

Liberals are starting to say shit like, "trans people asked for too much too fast," and I'll remind your souless asses that we actually didn't ask for anything. we were minding our own business and quietly improving our healthcare and you (cis) decided to do a pogrom against us for no reason.

Really feels like a neat summary of the evolution of American foreign policy that the Pentagon is tweeting out the same kind of videos Chelsea Manning was tortured in prison for leaking

A lot of people think that because they don’t see much homophobia in their day-to-day life, it’s not an issue anymore.

What they tend to forget is that the bulk of homophobia only shows up when there’s queer people around.

As the soldiers line up in my backyard I just want to say, thank God yall are getting in some epic fuckin dunks, truly, when the world needed you most, you totally nailed those punchlines

It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

You know, shit like "Palantir" fetishizes power so you can "get it," the reasoning. They're all evil fucks anyway. So I guess this just fetishizes suffering? Which is on brand, but I suspect they were just looking for a term. To say it makes people who care about art mad is only a bonus to them.

This sure takes its time with the fact that he was specifically encouraging people to assault anyone they believe to be trans using the women's room

Is this game still deleting people's PS5 saves or what

very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games

trans women have been prime targets of fascism, and thus, at the forefront of anti-fascist resistance for as long as we have existed, folks

I am bothered when gamers call experiences that don't reward them extrinsically 'pointless'. There's a tendency to omitt activities a game presents as 'nothing', despite those activities clearly being 'something'. You only run to the right in Super Mario Bros if you ignore everything inbetween.

Because some people haven't heard it yet: PAYPAL IS NOT A BANK, DO NOT LEAVE MORE THAN A COUPLE HUNDRED DOLLARS SITTING IN YOUR ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME. MOVE IT TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IMMEDIATELY.

Paypal can and will close your account and steal all your money without warning. And have done MANY times.

A memorandum from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, dated August 26, 2025. It is addressed to a redacted recipient and issued by Joseph A. Scallan, Chief of Staff, Office of the Administrator, FEMA.

Page 2 of a FEMA memorandum on administrative leave. The document advises confidentiality and directs questions to FEMA’s employee relations email.

🚨BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has just unlawfully placed signatories to the Katrina Declaration on administrative leave.

See the letter below…🧵

given how little the company cares for actually making games xbox kinda just looks like a normalization cover for these guys, like costco hot dog but the store sells surveillance tech to a military doing an ethnic cleansing

Federal judges are really going to have to get over this thing with believing the feds will comply with their orders in good faith

Disability rights matter and they always have.

Disabled people deserve autonomy.

The eugenicists in charge are happy to weaponize untold generations of ableist bureaucratic institutions against YOU as well.

In the US, if they call you crazy, you have no rights.

There is no "due process" by which those accused of insanity can regain autonomy.

This WILL be weaponized against anyone the regime dislikes.

But it should never happen to anyone, including insane people.

MAHA announced reeducation camps but sane people love to pretend that won't apply to them.

Your ableism keeps you from seeing the truth - they will put those struggling with mental health in the same camps as political dissisents, and there will be no distinction inside or outside.

Nowhere is safe

Just saw something about a soldier who was put on involuntary psychiatric leave for speaking up for Palestine.

What sane people collectively fail to understand is that there is no due process to having your life destroyed and being imprisoned against your will, if they call you crazy.

The last 30 years of pop culture could be said to be singularly defined by Disney insisting they can capture boys, despite boys watching fuckin Lion King or whatever. Little boys watch Frozen, who cares? Disney does. They built an empire on princesses and they sold out all of art to get away from it

As an aside, hey, I think it's very acceptable to ask why AI platforms that are being sued left and right for copyright infringement, deepfake pornography, and wrongful death are not "high risk" like (checks notes) indie games and comics and obvious works of original fiction.

I called Stripe today to ask about, yes, their absurd adult content policy, but also to ask why Itch seemed to be facing restrictions when other policy violators like OpenAI, Twitter, and Anthropic were still being openly promoted by Stripe as partners (and I pointed out their violations).

Ironically one of the many reasons I quit XIV years ago was realizing that basically all duties amounted to running down a corridor and not interacting with anything - & if you didn't do it with a story-friendly group or your FC or whatever, you also had to do it at top speed while not even looking

Not sure if I can handle the finale of Deadwood anymore, where the America they built is so barbarous even capitalism blanches at the last second-even that feels too hopeful now. At least the movie, over kind & broke history, suggested that you could rub mud on them and they would still rule you

If Microsoft siccing the FBI on their own employees for daring to protest isn’t enough to make you stop covering Xbox and Xbox-published games, we don’t know what to say anymore