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saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

Well, this is super fucking dangerous. Hello, I am a person with long COVID who improved after trialing a lot of medications and therapies. Let me tell you how much “retraining your brain” so you can pretend not to be sick anymore works. It doesn’t. I was forced to do graded exercise. Got worse.

Cuba's minister of energy confirmed reserves are gone — with just enough diesel left to keep hospitals online. The UN has classified Washington's blockade a humanitarian crisis.

You can't decry the modern Jim Crow south, acknowledge that our voters (mainly Black) are being disenfranchised, AND say "well fuck Louisiana, it's a lost cause." You are not anti-racist if you writing off the south. You are in fact participating in the system that is disenfranchising my neighbors.

An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.

Here is the recurring protest tomorrow, 5/22, on the bridge in Montrose. We need to show up over & over. Showing up is going to be important in the challenging days ahead.

hard to exaggerate how heroic these men were. they likely saved dozens of children's lives. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades.

It isn't "racial pride." The manifesto, which I'm reading right now, is a total slop-bucket of neo-Nazi accelerationism with misogynistic rants and multiple sections that are completely unfinished. It lionizes Brenton Tarrant, who murdered 51 people in a NZ mosque in 2019. nymag.com/intelligence...

He died doing what he loved - undermining the rights of trans people.

Whatever scraps of goodwill Spanberger had amongst her base have now been lit on fire. What an astounding and unforced collapse of leadership by her. Instead of a year of historic accomplishments, she’s creating a long list of historic failures.

Purported livestream footage from San Diego killers shows patches, symbols + slogans that reference neo-Nazi organizations and white supremacist groups. This mass killings is seemingly part of a lexicon of similar attacks that have escalated in the US and across the world over the past 10 years.

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

all month, @akpress.org is donating $2 from every item sold to help Marius Mason re-enter society after almost 20 years in prison for his work trying to defend the earth. This includes both both books they publish and also books they distribute. I'll link some of my own and others that I like:

#OtD 10 May 1933 German Nazis held their first book-burning. In Berlin they burned the library of the Sexology Institute, founded by Magnus Hirschfeld, which supported LGBT+ rights. Joseph Goebbels declared: "No to decadence and moral corruption!" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1131...

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

The people who acted as if cops would protect communities from ICE are delusional. ACAB and especially fuck APD and Travis County.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

sʎɐpᴉloH ʎddɐH

we've moved from "shooting yourself in the dick" to "pouring lemon juice into the hole you shot in your dick"

Let it be known that the students at West Texas A&M who sued the TAMU system to challenge a ban on drag are braver than every tenured professor in a blue state tweeting that it’s unethical to work at a university in the second most populous US state. www.texastribune.org/2026/01/20/w...

Blockbuster was so bad that Netflix was the good guy. I theorize that the Blockbuster nostalgia is being led by people who were about 8 or 9 circa 2005 and their mom paid the late fees and had to deal with movies she wanted to see (after the kids were in bed) being censored.

I want cis Americans to sit uncomfortably with the fact that most of these restrictions were ushered in through the liberal act of "just asking questions" about trans people.

a lot of people are saying this is tone-deaf and unnecessary as a statement but that’s just because Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez’s is well-known to supporting violent efforts that permanently “take care of” things that drive up food prices

Hot Young Priests Soaked In Holy Water During Vatican’s Annual Wet Vestment Contest https://theonion.com/hot-young-priests-soaked-in-holy-water-during-vaticans-annual-wet-vestment-contest/

I hated serial killers until I got that first rush of my hands squeezing tighter and tighter around a helpless delicate neck

the fact that legislators are trying to say that computers are devices that require id verification and tracking to use should put fear into EVERYONE. FIGHT AGAINST THIS.

Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty

“I’ve been using ChatGPT to help with cooking for a while now, so I didn’t think too much of it when the ingredients list included a bottle filled with gasoline and a cloth wick,” said the alleged attacker

We didn't deserve this day.

Many well-meaning people don't know that Autism Speaks does very little to help existing autistic children or adults. We are grateful to @autisticadvocacy.org for going over Autism Speaks's financial record—so you can see exactly why you shouldn't donate to AS. #autism #neurodiversity

"Free them all! Solidarity with the Prarieland 9!" Graff in Sydney painted for the day of solidarity with the 9 anti-ICE activists who were recently convicted of various charges in relation to a noise demo outside of an ICE detention center in Texas on July 4 2025 in which a police officer was shot.

Someone recently asked me what I thought of the Prairieland case, where defendents were convicted on terrorism charges for possessing leftist literature. It reminds me very much of the ways the state historically criminalized knowledge of abolition. @awkword.bsky.social

There is no way to watch the new 'Harry Potter' show subversively. If you're watching, you are buying in.