White Americans colonizing Puerto Rico: hi, everything you have belongs to us now
White Americans hearing Spanish at the Superbowl: no not like that!!!!!!!
Get them used to the automated customer service runaround early. "I'm sorry. I'm not able to help you with your question about the sun's nuclear fusion at this time. Would you like to hear about Gay?"
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
today's report:
our "adopt a rent" venmo campaign paid 43 families rents who were at risk of evictions, including several moms of 4+ children
this is the way to get rent paid fast. like. 1000x better than any other way.
pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor:
"Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."
Need less ‘the call to heroism has inspired me to be who i was always meant to be!” narratives and more “this fucking sucks and I don’t want to be here but someone has to do it and goddamnit it looks like that’s me” narratives imo.
Not only was I not born for this and not prepared for this, I spent most of my life not even really imagining this could ever happen, and I'm not even really sure what to do about it, and I have other dumb hobbies I'd like to attend to but like I got kids, we can't be doing all this jfc IF I HAVE TO
Need less ‘the call to heroism has inspired me to be who i was always meant to be!” narratives and more “this fucking sucks and I don’t want to be here but someone has to do it and goddamnit it looks like that’s me” narratives imo.
Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration.
Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction
It can be done.
ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.
Our Democratic elected officials are not rising to this moment so most of them must go.
Any elected official who isn’t willing to organize a Project 2029 around punishing everyone in the Trump administration in order to save democracy must go.
Similarly ‘Will Stancil’ (possibly based on ‘Will stand, still’) is believed to be a composite of several different polticians, activists, and commentators.
Historians believe the ‘Mini-polis’ or ‘small-city’ to be an allegorical or metaphorical place, possibly an agglomeration of several different cities, given the unlikelihood of so many significant events occurring rapidly in such a small place.
I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.
the extent to which this administration is out of control is really summed up by the fact that they immediately went with “this was an armed terrorist there to kill law enforcement” knowing that video from multiple angles completely disproving them was out there and would be seen by everyone
@kirstimiller30.bsky.social
Hey, girl -- this is your friend from Texas. I just want to tell you how much you inspire me, not just as a woman, but as an adult human. I want to be you when I grow up! 💗
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
ATX pop up protest at 38th and Lamar this afternoon; about five dozen folks in 29 degrees (cold for us Texans!) having a big holler. Can't feel my face. Can feel my heart. 💜
A number of gender-independent factors contribute to the regulation of adult muscle mass, including genetics, race, adiposity, training, diet, and birth order.
No drug cheat not even @lancearmstrong has ever been found guilty of a doping violation for taking either estrogen (increases fat mass) or T-reducing medication (reduces, hemoglobin, muscle mass, strength, speed & endurance & physical performance levels).
www.transresearch.org.au/post/trans-w...
Sex is changeable in both physiological & performance terms.
Sex hormone levels & NOT ‘chromosomes or puberty’ dictate an athletes muscle & fat mass, bone mineral density, cardiac & cardiovascular outputs, speed, strength, endurance & recovery levels.
www.transresearch.org.au/post/trans-w...
It's really important to note that ICE is absolutely in Texas right now. They have the cooperation of local cops and state troopers, as well as the cooperation of state and local governments. Texans are being terrorized by law enforcement every single day. And we are also resisting hard.
Males have an advantage over women on ave as they have 15% more hemoglobin and more muscle mass and less fat mass.
Hemoglobin, fat and muscle mass are controlled by hormone levels and not puberty. A trans woman on HRT has the same hemoglobin, fat & muscle mass as XX women.