Brinkley Sharpe

Make psychopathology abnormal again?

I think I’ll stick with my woke mob boss advisors. 😂

Call me a raving radical but I literally do not care whether your imperialist massacre of children is “constitutional” or not.

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

Panels from a comic where Captain America decries the US invasion of Panama and the fabricated war on drugs, expressing frustration that the US is on the wrong side of every war.

Captain America in an August 1990 in issue, after the last time the US violated international law to invade a Latin American nation and kidnap a head of state to stand trial on drug charges

I don't know who needs to hear this but withholding medicine from groups of people out of animus for their class is a UN textbook definition of genocide.

I’ll add 1 to your n when I get home.

Three Democrats (Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis) joined the Republicans to pass Marjorie Taylor Greene's federal ban on gender affirming care through the House of Representatives.

It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.

For those keeping track, this makes two recent, draconian pieces of anti-trans legislation — the NDAA's sports ban and now the blanket trans youth care ban — that would not have passed the House without Democratic support.

Reading books on the train is the life upgrade I didn’t know I needed. I have greater wellbeing with a 40-60 min commute each way than working from home. 📚🚇

Yep. The "Dark Triad" remains stigmatizing, sensationalistic, imprecise, problematic, unscientific, and easily replaceable. It takes me back to the "good" old days of feeblemindness, moral imbecility, and hysterical women.

Outstanding work! Saving this one for review writing. @drlynam.bsky.social @jdmiller.bsky.social @vizecolin.bsky.social

UVA chooses yet again to make additional racism the newest attraction on its already horrifyingly racist Thomas Jefferson theme park “grounds.”

Handmade label sticker on street pole The scariest thing this Halloween is ice terrorizing our communities

Seen in Chicago

If you are a billionaire governor I don’t think posting ”damn that’s crazy” counts as doing everything in your power

ICYMI:

This morning, while @govpritzker.illinois.gov was preaching holy fire against federal immigration agents on social media, IL state police joined feds in arresting protestors at the Broadview ICE facility.

Also: agents set off tear gas a busy Chicago street, and handcuff a Chicago Alder.

We need clear communication with the people.

And if the government won’t meet people’s material needs during this shutdown, the party should.

It’s time to use our resources to help others, not just get candidates elected. More food banks, less fundraising.

Genuinely though, now is the time for Dems to put those funds to use like Kat Abughazaleh did. Not with ads and robocalls but using those funds to support affected workers and families, shoring up food pantries, and making sure their constituents have what they need to get through this.

this is true. it's also true that rolling over would hurt many, many, many more

Honestly I’m shocked they finally figured out that they’re allowed to vote “no” on things.

Too real to be defeated by horror damage tonight in Arkham Horror LCG.

Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown Workers call the partisan email "a vile slap in the face."

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.

My story:

help i keep seeing clips of pete hegseth against my will, get this man out of my phone

If you're an lgbtq news outlet, your job is not, contrary to what you might think, giving every queer person alive a heart attack every morning

The feds just arrested one of the best journalists in Chicago for reporting on them

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

the fact that a sitting US president is talking about antifascism being terrorism should tell you a lot about what he thinks his own government represents

Trans rights are human rights.

I'm not afraid of the fallout of last week's news because everything bad that might come out of it was already being planned. They've already been scapegoating trans people for everything bad in this country and are trying to criminalize our existence. They've already been talking about declaring "Antifa" a domestic terror organization. They're already funding a genocide (and were before the current administration) and they were already ramping up ICE infrastructure as fast as they possibly can. I don't know that there's any further acceleration available. The fascist pedal is already to the fascist metal. That's not to say that things aren't going to get worse: they are going to get worse. They're just, as far as I can tell, getting worse as fast as they already can. Our actions aren't going to someh convince the fascists to get even more fascist. There's an odd sort of freedom in that realization. We can—and should-collectively stop saying shit like "oh if you behave a certain way, it will just embolden the fascists." They're already as bold as they can get.

as usual, Margaret eloquently summarizes the thoughts that have been drifting around in my head this week. @margaret.bsky.social

This is political violence.

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence