James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD)

We refuse to be ruled and lorded over. No Kings protest, Dallas

Guys call women in gyms "whores" for what they wear, but you wouldn't know an escort walking by you bc sex work isn't being advertised in the street in the 21st century. So the imagination of what someone of that profession even looks like is misinformed and targets any woman wearing anything.

Even Fox News suspended coverage in solidarity with CNN, MSNow and Politico. “Effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the President,” Bryan Boughton, the Washington bureau chief at Fox News said. When you lose Fox...😅 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...

Graham Platner needs to get gone ASAP. The more stuff comes out about him, the more he sounds exactly like the kind of guy who would have a nazi tattoo. Hopefully he ends his campaign before the July 13th deadline.

I had a dream last night that Nigel Farage took over the Tories in the next election and was up against a Neo-Nazi party inspired by Nigel Farage.

Trump canceled a 2nd wave of strikes after only 9 people's release. The Penal Forum says that, as of Dec. 29, 2025, there were 863 political prisoners. This isn't the government acting in good faith. This is two authoritarian regimes playing footsie with the Venezuelan people on the line.

New dietary guidelines: Cut the sugar, up the cholesterol.

My take on the Venezuelan intervention is different from a lot of people on the left. But having a loved one in Venezuela, I just wish they could actually celebrate the end of a dictator's rule instead of deals for oil being made above their heads with the same regime intact.

Some people on the left are getting it twisted. Just because Trump is against Maduro doesn't make Maduro a good guy. The Venezuelan people are pinned between two authoritarians.

Because the administration stopped processing immigration cases for 19 countries including Venezuela, I'll probably have to move to another country if I want to live with my fiance because she's Venezuelan.

One of the major steps I took leave reactionism was realizing that the more opinions I had, the more I could be wrong. And that was something that resonated with me even back when I was more self-righteous.

It's funny that Trump saw a sinking ship, in Cuomo, and came up with the idea of putting his name on it. He fought to take that L.

I hope that, even if my voice is not heard in gerrymandered Texas, it will be heard in the new seats in California. When people of color in the South are denied voice, we need you to be louder for us.

It means a lot that he isn't selling out. The mayor called for them to reconsider, but the police chief and the sheriff are holding fast.

I wish my melting point was the same as rhodium. Then I could walk around Dallas in the summer.

Looking back at my childhood as an evangelical, it's unbelievable that adults convinced us that sex ed was immoral. They convinced adolescents that teenage pregnancy & disease were god's judgement. They made adolescents wallow in the dark with no insights into what was going on with their bodies.

Fetterman says... the shutdown is really hard for him 😂 thehill.com/homenews/sen...

The Dallas man who killed migrants while targeting ICE agents is one of those examples of there not really being a good killer. "Causes" become a violent person's excuse for their own violence. When violence is excused, it puts the already disenfranchised in the line of fire.

When I was Christian & conservative, I ran into a paradox concerning race and religion. If slavery was the reason I was born Christian, did I owe slavery for my "salvation"? Religion was used to sever people from their other identities. Present-day, it can lay the foundation for racist apologism.

When I hear people talk of a war, it's not a war on gun violence or political violence. It's a war on minorities - on the LGBTQ community and people of color. But minorities have nothing to do with a Mormon from a conservative family in Utah. The problem is gun violence and political violence.

As much as people wanted to blame the guy's death on people of color or transgender people or faithless people, he turned out to be a similar profile to all the other shooters. This isn't a war. There is no other coming after you. This is you, hitting yourself over and & and saying that we did it.

Bolsonaro has finally been defeated ✊🏽

Bolsonaro has finally been defeated ✊🏽

So, the Supreme Court ok'd racial profiling.

👀 The redesign was bland, but they're giving away what they think their current logo is about.

People claim bad outcomes for teens and young adults mean the child is bad, while good outcomes mean the parents are good. Youth are granted “agency” only when it shifts blame away from adults, never to respect their autonomy. This isn’t raising kids into adults—it’s about control and domination.

Leaving evangelicalism is realizing conservative sexuality never protected anyone. Evangelical leaders saw teen pregnancies & refused to teach contraception. They saw abuse & refused to teach consent. My abstinence came from undiagnosed anxiety & a deep fear of attachment—not from purity culture.

I never knew racists were so mediocre. Growing up, I accommodated them, imagining they were rational people who had a misunderstanding. But they fail to understand because failing in thought is part of what they do. That's how they became racists. It was so obvious, and I never saw it.

This is why after leaving MAGA and leaving the right, I left my religion. The religion leads people to extremism. It turns people against their own interests with the allure of a heavenly reward for the denial of humanity.

The dictator did dictator things: "The party of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele approved constitutional changes in the country's National Assembly on Thursday that will allow indefinite presidential reelection and extend presidential terms to six years."

You know, I don't know how someone is supposed to have "good genes". Define "good genes." What makes "good genes" and bad genes? If "good genes" exist, how do you promote "good genes" and discourage bad genes? There's no positive way to market "good genes."

Macron said in a post on X that he will formalize the decision at the United Nations General Assembly in September. “The urgent thing today is that the war in Gaza stops and the civilian population is saved,’' he wrote.

When you think about the prisoner swap -- neither of the sets of prisoners were supposed to be imprisoned. Authoritarians use wrongfully imprisoned people as bargaining chips because they're not sophisticated enough for legitimate diplomacy.

The Venezuela-US prisoner swap is bad. This isn't Maduro trying to free Venezuelans from El Salvador. This is Maduro trying to get back people who fled Venezuela. These are 2 authoritarians abusing people to their own ends and making deals with each other over whether the people live or die.

The matriarch of our family has passed on. We were lucky to have such a courageous woman lead us. Our family started in the Delta farmlands and rose up into professionals in the towering cities. She taught us the value of education, hard work, and moral character. She was well-lived at 102 years

I really like this piece from DW on the history of immigration in the U.S. Also, I didn't know that before things like the 14th Amendment, the Naturalization Act of 1790 restricted citizenship to "free white persons of good character."