@drmayhem
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈(They/them) Eternally liminal. Theatre artist / scholar / activist trying to build beautiful worlds on stage & in life. In despair but hiding a hopeful heart. I was born in a small town and will probably die in a small town
That's the truth. I don't know if I'm roughly your age. I'm likely older. But I was in my first tenure-track position and the future felt remarkably full of possibility. The whiplash is profoundly disorienting...and I wasn't naive to all of the work we still had left either.
I really cannot stress enough how a decade ago private business rallied to prevent this from happening in North Carolina and now a well funded campaign against that situation means the federal government will now bar trans people from using bathrooms consistent with their identity.
Nurul Amin Shah Alam should still be alive. He committed no crime, and our federal government's cruel immigration policies put him in a dangerous situation that ultimately cost him his life. Nobody should die lost and in the cold in America, and we deserve answers on how this happened.
The year is 2137. Earth's three remaining creatures fight over a scrap of ragweed in what was, before The Event, a Best Buy parking lot. Realizing the he will lose, Creature 3 turns to his diary. "The Atlantic: President Trump, softer tone?" he writes. These are the last word's written on Earth 1.
When Gavin Newsom says "the Democrats need to be more culturally normal" with "less focus on pronouns" what he's actually saying is "the trannies aren't normal and don't normalize them."
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Dear god, please no. "Uncontroversial" i.e. status quo is always presented as de facto more electable but there's not actually any reason to believe that to be true. What we do know is that if it is true, we get the status quo. And we simply can't afford that another minute longer.
No better way to prove you have power than to do blatantly hypocritical things, use the language of ethics to abuse others all while enacting the actual cruelty you claim to abhor...and then to have it go unchallenged.
Remember her name: Aliya Rahman
Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.
It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.
ICE MUST GO‼️
NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
Currently, Indigenous people are housed in the ICE facility in Minnesota. We want to make it clear that this isn’t isolated to Minnesota, nationwide indigenous people are being harassed if not outright targeted by ICE operations. We need to be more vocal about these issues!
Thank you!
Not because they are funny, but because they are pathetic. And thrive on feeling feared. (And let's be clear, fear is a legitimate response to people who are murdering and attacking and kidnapping people just out here trying to live their lives.)
Is there a list I can follow of videos of ICE falling on its face or otherwise getting humiliated? Because right now that is sustaining me. Relatedly, I wonder what would happen if crowds of protesters just laughed loudly and prolonged in response to everything ICE did.
Totally. I've been trying to get the willpower to call and leave a message about abolishing ICE again, but when you have a representative who is this callous, evil, and clearly disinterested in listening to her constituents (all the way down to closing offices), it's hard to feel it's worth my time.
Ah, bummer. I hoped it was a little later - trying to plan a trip to catch a few things after my semester is over, but I suspect I will miss this one. Sending you love and solidarity.
She is a disgrace. I'd say she's a joke, but the consequences of her bootlicking and self-indulgence are very very serious.
I could look it up but I miss you, so I'd rather ask you - when is it running?
hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison
What a relief! How else would I be able to hear what the people I'm surrounded by everyday think about things?
Sure am relieved that CBS News is going to replace specialists with everyday people. How else would we hear what the people we spend our lives with think about things?
It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic.
It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today.
Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.
It’s the year 2025 and Americans have to watch a bootlegged international version of a news program because it was censored here in our country to protect a criminal president.
Thank you so much for fighting for trans kids' rights to live their truth. Thank you so much for all you do to fight the horrors of this regime. At times when everything feels bleak, you provide some hope and it truly helps me get through another day.
💯I'm a 30 year Cubs fan and livid. I don't see how the Cubs can have a cohesive team when one of them is out shilling for TPUSA. He can claim Christianity and love but the legacy is one of serious harm to the most vulnerable. I wouldn't feel comfortable in a locker room with him.
a sequel:
cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by the trump-kennedy center than the fact that congress said a second time in 2 days, “no, really this kind of child’s healthcare should be banned & criminalized” & 46/47 non-GOP senators won’t commit to “i will oppose this.”
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
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I've seen many faculty/staff/admin in higher education act like what's happening just requires some tweaks or pivots and that everything will eventually return to normal. It won't.
You can't pivot from extortion, hostile takeovers, fascism, spineless leadership, lack of fight, or lack of integrity.
