Claire McKinney

War of choice is terrible framing. Illegal war of aggression is right there.

I read this whole thing and I have no idea what you mean in the original post. I guess you meant a hit dog will bite but apparently i need psychoanalysis to understand that? I apologize if that is unkind but the original post is a bit hard to follow even with the subsequent posts.

I know it is a personal pathology to seek the intellectual growth of others, but I would like ONE person who authored or signed that atrocious Harper letter to apologize in a full page NYT ad for legitimizing an obtuse and facile moral panic that furthered a real fascist movement.

God might have chosen Ethan to get a vaccine and his parents didn’t listen

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

You have to love the irony otherwise you collapse in uncontrollable sobs.

I asked Ari Berman—who has covered Voting Rights for more than a decade—to take on the concern that it's doomerism to take Trump's threats to steal the 2026 elections seriously.

He thinks we're having the wrong conversation.

I just watched begonia and honestly longing for the ending

No. It stays difficult but in new ways

This is a good prompt for all times:
Who as your sexual abuser and/or what did they do?.

Sure I ended my subscription for NYT because of the transphobia and trump apologia, but I really doubled down when the started saying ai in education is maybe good.

What ever made protest a sacred activity supposedly above the fray? At the same time, protesters are almost entirely motivated by non-monetary interests so it’s still infuriating.

The accusation of paid protesters is so weird. America is so neoliberal and so plagued by wealth inequality and inadequate social services, we seek to be paid for everything.

The trump administration abolished literally dozens of congressionally approved executive agencies in less than 100 days. There are no norms and the next democratic administration needs to abolish ICE and DHS

Also coffee is gross and business reporting is inaccurate.

Chat, I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.

If I ever start a book club, regardless the theme, the first book is The Guest Cat by Hiraide because it is perfect.

Honestly, there is only so much damage a species can create when they spend all their time properly heating themselves and cooking their food.

Honestly, the massive and inexplicable eternal blackout a la the boring TV dystopia Revolution cannot happen soon enough. Public use of AI is sapping my will to live.

What is the point of having a sprawling national security state if they can’t find out who did a mass shooting in broad daylight five days ago?

I have always said it is playing a slot machine: you may have a few more coins than another person, but be prepared for inscrutable randomness regardless.

Ai is bad. We need a simple assertion repeated endlessly that ai is bad.

There are many ways U.S. hegemony could end. This administration is the killingest way. I would have preferred the form where the military was defunded in favor of scientific investment and lifting everyone out of poverty.

having a good copy editor drives home what a poor choice it was not to get a degree in English. Also, how many of my modifiers dangle.

Honoring Alice Wong: Reprinting Bitch Magazine's Access Series Alice Wong, who reshaped the world of disability media, joined our ancestors on November 14, 2025. The Flytrap is proud to reprint her curated Access Series for Bitch Magazine.

In honor of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social's legacy as a disability activist and writer, today we are republishing Bitch Magazine's Access Series, which was originally curated by Alice Wong. Worker-owner and former Bitch editor-in-chief Evette Dionne updated the intro to the series here:

My child at 5:30: im so sleepy. My child at 7: this tyranny of bedtime will not stand.

Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid a federal immigration crackdown Across Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods, fear of a federal immigration crackdown has emptied the streets.

“Once, after the group bought out a tamale vendor’s cart, that man found them days later to say immigration agents were spotted on his block just hours after. ‘You saved my life,’ Rosales said the man told them.” apnews.com/article/chic...

People should be madder at pro sport ticket prices.