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An intimate interview with The Morsel.

And I ask again: Where are my Harper’s letter writers at?

I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram...

Mayor Mamdani appoints trans woman to run first-ever NYC Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs Appointed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani to run the office, Taylor Brown becomes the first transgender person in history to lead a New York City office or agency.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani establishes first-ever Mayor's Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs and appoints attorney Taylor Brown as director, making her the first transgender person to ever lead NYC office or agency.

Continue to be astonished by how the NYT describes monstrous corruption as just, you know, this normal thing that’s happening.

Satellite analysis by Oregon State University shows widespread structural damage across Iran since the start of the U.S.–Israel war.

Major damage clusters in Tehran and Shiraz.

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Screenshot of an In These Times article headlined “Howard Zinn on How Karl Marx Predicted Our World Today,” with the subheading, “On the second centenary of his birth, Karl Marx remains as relevant as ever.” The byline reads Howard Zinn, dated May 4, 2019. Below the headline is a black-and-white portrait of Karl Marx with a full white beard and dark coat. The image caption reads, “Happy birthday, Karl Marx. (Wikimedia Commons)”

On the anniversary of Marx’s death, revisit this piece in which Howard Zinn wrote, “Marx predicted the world of today,” from extreme concentrations of wealth to capitalism’s global hunt for profit and the failure to distribute society’s abundance justly.

inthesetimes.com/article/karl...

Spring cleaning. 🧹

DHS Official Responsible for Election Security Previously Called to Ban Voting Machines “The security of our election infrastructure depends on leadership that is trusted,” a voting rights advocate said.

“The security of our election infrastructure depends on leadership that is trusted,” a voting rights advocate said.
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Cause we always have to look for racism in the hearts or bones, never in the way Black people are actually regarded or treated.

This DHS Official Oversees the Security of Federal Elections. He Wants to Ban Voting Machines. David Harvilicz, who co-founded a firm with a 2020 election denier, oversees voting machine security for the Department of Homeland Security while the Trump administration is relitigating the presiden...

EXCLUSIVE: Top Department of Homeland Security official David Harvilicz has repeatedly questioned the validity of Democratic victories at the ballot box and pushed for Republicans to overhaul electoral systems to their advantage.

www.propublica.org/article/davi...

I realize that to people outside the PNW this is just an interesting news item, but if you're in the PNW, where tracking orca pods is a local religion, this is basically like being visited by alien gods

Abortion pill crackdowns clear two legislatures; Hawley looks to revoke mifepristone’s US approval | Arkansas Advocate U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley filed legislation this week that would undo federal approval of mifepristone, a key abortion drug, nationwide. The move underscores the anti-abortion movement’s growing dissatisf...

Abortion pill crackdowns clear two legislatures; Hawley looks to revoke mifepristone’s US approval arkansasadvocate.com/2026/03/14/r...

They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth. Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a...

NEW: They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.

Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care.

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Good thread: read w/ Ali Breland, March 6 Atlantic essay, wh/ joins mine, f/c in April in Theory&Event, previewed here, and Quinta Jurecic from Nov 10 in the Atlantic, and others, to argue we are in a Third Red Scare.

AntiDemocracy by Design: a paranoid politics of purges, pedophilia, & pogroms.

Your daily Rumdangle (with Kate and Reverb back there, keeping an eye on things.)

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GOP Farm Bill Set to Unleash Pesticide Use and Strip Animal Welfare Protections The bill protects agrochemicals producers from lawsuits, and overturns food and pesticide safety laws and statutes.

The bill protects agrochemicals producers from lawsuits, and overturns food and pesticide safety laws and statutes.
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A draft for Trump's Iran war? White House says it's 'on the table.' A ground invasion of Iran and a possible military draft are controversial issues that remain “on the table” according to an interview with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt that aired ...

Nothing like possibly being drafted by a serial draft dodger!

www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

#오늘의정여름

So who's gonna pay for this "A.i." error?

No one?

No one, right?

All right then.

Burn it all down.

Another murder.

America Goddam.

Gus is on human’s chest in bed with his front paws and head almost to her face. He is looking away from human

Putting my face inches from your face is *not* and invitation for more stupid forehead smooches (i turned my head away in disgust when she tried 😹)

I would also like the Democrats to stop just ceding the Republican framing of everything that matters

we can't be the party of "nothing matters except tax cuts" when teachers have to buy school supplies with their own money and no one under 40 will ever be able to buy a house

What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...

To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines.

The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback.

Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.”

(Published Nov. 2025)

Not enough attention being paid to how fucking stupid it is to issue ultimatums to the Iranian leadership while simultaneously waging an existential war of extermination against the aforementioned leadership that is completely uncorrelated to whether or not they accept those terms.

Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination | MoMA Exhibition. Through Jul 25. Can a photographic portrait inspire political imagination? Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination examines how photographers and their sitters contributed t...

I have two organizing meetings this weekend. But in between them, I am hoping to go see "Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination" at the Museum of Modern Art, an exhibition that explores how photography shaped ideas of African identity during the era of decolonization.

hyper-individualism is really killing people.