I donβt think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
βNow is not the time for organized labor to sit in conference rooms with their lawyers going βErmm, well, this is certainly a rather radical interpretation of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978!β My brothers and sisters, this is war.β www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-g...
I really hate when, the moment a controversy breaks about someone, people rush to say, βI always knew!β or βI always hated their work.β Itβs this weird performance of purity, like they need to prove they were never tainted by liking the wrong person. Itβs likeβ¦ people can have liked terrible people.
I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
The Hanging In There Star Post this star to let your buddies know you're hanging in there but you could lose it at any moment
They are going to ignore court orders.
If they ignore court orders, the social contract is dead and buried, the constitution is no longer in effect.
It's a rubicon that cannot be uncrossed.
I'm really frightened for my Arab and Muslim friends, especially my Palestinian friends. For months they've been watching their loved ones be murdered with our weapons as we all told them to shut up because of the election. Now we're telling them they deserve their pain.
None of that is okay.
One of my favorite things to be accused of is doing stuff βfor attentionβ
Bro, Iβve got a naturally 85 decibel speaking voice, and huge naturals. Iβve never had to beg for attention.
Remember, calories donβt count during Super Bowl weekend or during a steady and inevitable descent into madness so
It really is extraordinary when you think about it that the wealthiest most privileged humans who have ever existed are in full revenge mode against the planet and its inhabitants because racism isnβt as popular as theyβd like
Donβt forget that the R stands for Reactionary
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america's most coddled and pampered demographic (old white conservatives) will be exposed to like 20% of the bad stuff but will receive 80% of the sympathetic press inquiry
I don't know how to say this beyond standing up to authority is a muscle and some of you have never exercised it
MAGA forces have begun what they believe to be their final offensive against everything on the Left. ο»ΏOne way to fight back is for organized labor to become a conscious anti-fascist movement.
What's happening in America is that, in the most literal sense, internet trolls have taken over the government.
![The serious concerns over how the Order will detrimentally impact transgender
youth cannot be overstated. One Washingtonian, as her parents describe her, was a bright and
gentle soul who loved playing musical instruments, trying new things, and playing Magic the
Gathering. She was excited to learn Japanese and the impact of gender-affirming care was
immediately clear to her family. Her parents described that βher joy was clear with every new
milestone in her transition. She was so happy to get to the next step, to get closer to presenting
in a way that was true to herself.β But the day before the presidential election, she shared,
β[t]omorrow I get to find out if Iβm illegal.β After the election, she asked her parents if they
could move to Canada because she was fearful of new restrictions on transgender youth and
worried about losing access to gender-affirming care. In January 2025, she took her life. After
the Order issued, her parents expressed that the outlook for transgender futures looks scary and
shared fears of what ending gender-affirming care would have meant for their daughterβs access
to therapy, puberty-delaying medication, hormones, and hope of surgery. Her parents have
expressed fear for the many lives who depend on gender-affirming care and that what happened
to their daughter does not happen to any other children.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mlmouohgzbjofidukcp4pxf2/bafkreich7jyv3lnkmd5r234itpdhtvavgblc46ai6d47tb4i7oxgfga2ym)
The serious concerns over how the Order will detrimentally impact transgender youth cannot be overstated. One Washingtonian, as her parents describe her, was a bright and gentle soul who loved playing musical instruments, trying new things, and playing Magic the Gathering. She was excited to learn Japanese and the impact of gender-affirming care was immediately clear to her family. Her parents described that βher joy was clear with every new milestone in her transition. She was so happy to get to the next step, to get closer to presenting in a way that was true to herself.β But the day before the presidential election, she shared, β[t]omorrow I get to find out if Iβm illegal.β After the election, she asked her parents if they could move to Canada because she was fearful of new restrictions on transgender youth and worried about losing access to gender-affirming care. In January 2025, she took her life. After the Order issued, her parents expressed that the outlook for transgender futures looks scary and shared fears of what ending gender-affirming care would have meant for their daughterβs access to therapy, puberty-delaying medication, hormones, and hope of surgery. Her parents have expressed fear for the many lives who depend on gender-affirming care and that what happened to their daughter does not happen to any other children.
In a new lawsuit filed against Trump by state AGs, a family with a trans kid shares she died by suicide last month citing fears Trump would deny her access to gender-affirming care. "Her parents have expressed fear...that what happened to their daughter does not happen to other children."
My Wife (Tolkien Nerd): Do you know about the Fall of Gondolin?β
Me: βGondola? Isnβt that the Italian boat with the little man who sings steering it, and some people get really excited when you play with him?β
I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it. Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.
Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."
She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
cool how Judith Butler said the gender critical movement is ideologically incapable of offering resistance to the coming fascism and got pilloried for using big words, and now official GC organisations are releasing statements of support for Trump's first acts as returning president
They killed Jim Henson because he was on the verge of building a muppet that had a soul
attention deficit tired all the time disorder
I'm glad they banned TikTok so I can share my data exclusively with American tech perverts
literally the first thing this guy says is a bald faced lie www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m...
ME: letβs get out of here
HUSBAND: of January?
ME: yes
