a) "Multiply marginalized" or "overlapping discrimination" often seem to be used as synonyms.

b) I like "freeing" or "empowering."

It's true! I feel similarly about Ween's "12 Golden Country Greats"--which is a lot more juvenile than the FBB but also legit to my Texan ears.

Genuinely the only thing keeping me going—but it really is keeping me going—is how good it is to see people link arms and push for this to end.

I cannot stop thinking about how much love people can have for their neighbors, and how much work and money is poured into breaking that love apart.

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.

The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

This.

The challenge is that people were taught *that* the nazis were bad, but not *why* the Nazis were bad.

Studying Black History, Indian History, and African History, would have revealed why Hitler didn't see himself or the Nazis as bad, and the danger and rot lurking in our societies.

It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.

If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

Uncannily like domestic violence perpetrator logic.

They were a queer couple who moved to Minnesota to find safe harbor.

Journalists need to stop writing that “Grok is spreading child pornography” or “Grok is spreading antisemitic messages.” Grok is a human creation with algorithms created by humans working for X. The technology is not responsible. The people running the company are.

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”

Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

Cheesy Mashed White Beans With Kale, Parmesan, and a Fried Egg Recipe A hearty breakfast of cheesy white beans served with sautéed kale and a runny fried egg.

Also, recipes that combine white beans, kale, and cheese are hearty and delicious, like this one that throws an egg on top: www.seriouseats.com/cheesy-mashe...

Madhur Jaffrey’s Easy Vegetarian Mulligatawny Soup This soup always amazes me. I have been making it for about 7 years and it is consistently good. I am not amazed that it consistently tastes good, but rather that it tastes amazing and is extremely…

Mulligatawny soup! Madhur Jaffrey's easy version is chock full o' red lentils and garbanzos, plus garlic, ginger, curry, cayenne, herbs, etc.--a flavor rainbow and good for what ails you in winter. More involved recipes (incl. hers) have apples, carrots, potatoes, coconut milk, other spices...

You will be visited by 3 spirits

It's not hypocrisy, it's power.

I was so excited to learn how many Spanish words are derived from Arabic. Did you know azúcar comes from as-sukkar? Other cool ones: algodón/al-quton, álgebra/al-jabr, hasta/hatta, tarea/tariha. And for Palestinian liberation: sandía/sindiyyah. It makes me want to learn Arabic even more.

Last year, I tried dating men briefly. Was horrified to learn that many of them will go on talking for ages without ever asking a single question in return, and they'll think the date is going great? And this is something they're known for/people have written about extensively??

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

Nobody puts Charlie Brown in a corner.

This moment, like every moment before, is time for unrelenting, unwavering truth and democratic principles.

We must not allow authoritarian forces to break our own commitment to representative democracy.

The working class of all backgrounds must organize for the good.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

David Lynch being a total fucking coffee freak is so funny, he's characterizing people with it in such effective shorthand. The Northwestern Hotel has bootleg La Pavoni machines, Colonel Briggs has an electric percolator while Pete has a stovetop model, and Harry has the most insane carafe ever

Top five film genres:

Normie dude visits place where locals reject patriarchy, throws massive tantrum

People talk/listen to each other thoughtfully, often w/food

Mundane thing (car, book, 2D shape) haunted as metaphor for traumas of empire

End of the world as Rorschach test

Everyone is queer

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

One thing I learned many years ago on the fringes of Film Twitter is that people who get granular about the age of consent are bad news. (Ditto irl men who can quote from memory Humbert Humbert lines from Lolita.)

Every billionaire is a policy failure.