Patricia Williams

Sarah Schulman, The Art of Nonfiction No. 14 “I like to have my say, obviously. And if people would have just let me talk, some of these books wouldn’t have had to be written.”

"From the beginning, covering AIDS has been about the fight to tell the truth. Every single paradigm that has been thrown at us about it is untrue."

Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.

As millions of Americans were losing their SNAP benefits the Pentagon spent:

🔹️$6.9 million worth of lobster tails🦞
🔹️$15.1 million for ribeye steak 🥩
🔹️$2 million for Alaskan king crab 🦀
🔹️ and even $98,329 on a Steinway & Sons grand piano

✏️ by @newrepublic.com

It's about protecting women and girls in sports, y'know

Get your shit together Alberta or demand Carney do something.
#abpoli #cdnpoli

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Pete Docter Says Pixar Cut ‘Elio’ LGBTQ Themes Because “We’re Making a Movie, Not Hundreds of Millions of Dollars of Therapy” The animation company's chief creative officer said they did not want their film to force parents to have conversations they weren't ready to discuss with their children.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Cubans are in the dark, literally. Trump’s fuel blockade has left thousands without electricity, and people are taking to the streets in protest. His response? He called it Cuba’s “last moments of life.” These are 11 million human beings, not a takeover target. 🕯️

El pueblo cubano no está solo. 🇨🇺

Absolutely chilling story

Strength, love and solidarity to all women all around the world ❤️✊️
#InternationalWomensDay2026

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!!

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh

Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Also, disgraced and disgraceful Texas Rep. Tony Gonzalez said this: "I've asked God to forgive me, which he has."

God could not be reached for comment.

WE LOST A MID SIZED CITY OF SCIENTISTS?!?

Iran school and nearby military base struck multiple times, satellite image reveals Iranian authorities say the attack, which took place on Saturday, killed 168 people.

Again the cost of the war the US & Israel are wagging isn’t autocracy or oppression, but the lives of children.

Satellite imagery analysis reveals multiple strikes & burn marks around a primary school in Iran, suggesting it was hit more than once: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Don’t ignore it, don’t accept atrocity, ever.

In psychology there is a concept called Bandura’s mechanism which explains how constant exposure to atrocity like government’s are putting us through now turns good people into people who tolerate atrocity. They’re making us microdose atrocity hourly, to get us to ignore it.

2022: We worry that substantive due process lets judges impose their policy preferences under the guise of “fundamental rights” that don’t appear in the Constitution

2026: Surprise! The due process clause requires schools to out trans students to their parents. We found it hidden there all along!

Connor Storrie Created Injured Stripper ‘SNL’ Character During Years as a Clown “Clown is all about making offers to the audience.”

Connor Storrie Created Injured Stripper SNL Character During Years as a Clown

Same!

Connor Storrie for Vogue Adria on sudden fame, (un)seriousness, and the role of art today Teodora Jeremić spoke with Connor Storrie about what it feels like to become famous overnight and why you shouldn’t take yourself too seriously

"We often forget—especially because of social media—that just because everyone has a public platform for their opinion doesn’t mean it is really important. It comes and goes. Someone being loud doesn’t make them right."
-- Connor Storrie

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Your 'Heated Rivalry' hub: All the news about the hit Crave show The hit Canadian TV show starring Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie has become a cultural phenomenon. Here's everything to know.

"Heated Rivalry" is the phenomenon that just can't quit you.

So, the Toronto Star created a news hub for the latest newsworthy developments on Hudson Williams, Connor Storrie, Jacob Tierney and everything else tied to the Crave TV series.

Check it out:
www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close!
New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

Every anti-vaxxer I encounter seems to love weird unregulated supplements. They hate Big Pharma but they love Little Pharma, Big Pharma’s younger sibling who grew up without any adult supervision.

30 years.

This video should be on every network.

How Brothel Workers in Nevada Just Made Labor History The courtesans at Sheri’s Ranch were staring down a horrifying new contract. So they did what workers everywhere do: They got organized.

When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast.

They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.

They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

I live in a house over one hundred years old which is fill of weird sounds! And the sound change with the season!

Two Black Boys in Paradise: The queer film you might not know just won a BAFTA Sunday’s BAFTA ceremony was glaringly light on LGBTQ+ stories. But in the British Short Animation category, Two Black Boys in Paradise won.

Two Black Boys in Paradise: The queer film you probably don’t know that just won a BAFTA
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/23/two-black-boys-in-paradise-baftas-2026-queer-film/?utm_content=1771850400&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

"If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money."

— Anat Shenker-Osorio

Chromosome Testing Will Take Sports Back To The Dark Ages | Defector In the late 1990s, Olympics officials were suddenly eager to exit the business of testing women’s DNA. After three decades of requiring all women athletes to sit for chromosome tests in order to compe...

Delirious Cold War panic has been swapped out for noxious trans panic, but the result will be the same: athletes will be punished for no good reason.
@michaelwaters.bsky.social on chromosome testing at the Olympics is a must-read
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