@eapalmisano
designer, political organizer, crafter, lifter, talker Avatar: Erica smiles at the camera on a beach. She is a white woman with pale skin, short brown/gray hair and she wears a mustard summer sweater she knit with sunglasses on her head.
This is just astonishingly great reporting.
All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.
And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.
The resistance the regime has encountered on the ground matters not only because it exposed the MAGA government’s struggles to consolidate authoritarian rule. It matters because it refutes the core premise of MAGA’s worldview: That a multiracial, pluralistic society cannot – it must not! – work.
Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...
NEW: After Indiana passed its draconian abortion ban, an interfaith group of women in 2022 sued the state, arguing the ban violated their religious liberty rights. A trial court just granted a permanent injunction against the ban. Thread 🧵:
Gonna double down with a reminder that if you post a screenshot of text from an article you should alt text it & link to the fucking article!!!! If you found it on the internet you should share the link!!! Do not force me to Nancy Drew my way back to the source by triangulating fonts w/news outlets.
NO NO NO YOU DON’T
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
One of the most depressing things about the war in Iran is how a bunch of grown ass men are acting like this is a fucking video game.
screenshot of text::"The United Nations instituted International Women’s Day (IWD) in 1975—or so the official story runs. Few remember not only that the origins of March 8 lie in the history of the international workers’ movement, but that it was the socialist movement in the United States that first launched the idea of a day devoted to women’s rights centered on working-class women. In fact, the Socialist Party USA first established a day of education and action around women’s rights called “Woman’s Day” in 1908, and the following year U.S. socialists held demonstrations in several cities to demand women’s suffrage. In 1910, German socialist Clara Zetkin proposed the transformation of the U.S. Woman’s Day into an international day of action—International Working Women’s Day—which, in 1914, started being celebrated on March 8. Three years later, on March 8, 1917, Russian women workers took to the streets in St. Petersburg, organizing a strike to demand bread and peace. It was the beginning of the Russian Revolution."
a useful explainer of International Women's Day by Cinzia Arruzza
As this was happening you were told shoplifting and home invasions were grave threats you needed to abandon any pretense of sympathy to address.
Let's be clear about what the "SAVE Act" is all about, another phase of the "rigged election" strategy. Trump is exploiting the voter fraud myth he created to pass laws and enact policies that will make it harder to vote, suppress votes, cause confusion, & sow distrust democracy. Rinse. Repeat.
I wish more of us would realize that until Trans Women are free, cis Women will never be free fr, ESPECIALLY those of us who are BLACK. All this shit is connected. Don’t pmo.
As the United States marks 250 years, an older Indigenous system of women-led governance offers a radically different blueprint for power and responsibility.
From our #Feminist250 series:
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
Vibe coding broke people's brains because they had a bad understanding of the software design process.
The pop culture model goes something like this: start out with a sketch and then render that same idea in progressively finer detail.
So when tools could "skip" to high detail, people went WOW.
This is another good point that bears repeating; go read the Agile Manifesto and behold the absolute lack of problem framing.
The developers wait for "customers" to give them "requirements" that can change unpredictably, without wondering why customer needs (which are usually STABLE) change.
a black and white edit that reads "the future includes trans people". around the text is a floral pattern. the image is grainy
the future is for trans people
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
The painting "Night in the Steppe" shows a vast plain under a bright full moon, the light being distributed over the landscape and the water in an almost magical way.
This work is made by the renowned Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk, who invented the unique painting style called "plyontanism" (from the Ukrainian word plyontaty, meaning "to braid"). This technique consists of hundreds of fine, intertwined lines that create depth and an almost textile-like texture.
just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war
Thank you for this fascinating link. Can't wait to dig in!
Big popular accounts add alt text to you screenshots challenge (impossible).
“Bombing a country isn’t war”
“Rising prices aren’t inflation”
“Suppressing speech isn’t a 1A violation”
“Forceable penetration isn’t rape”
“Calling black people apes isn’t racism”
“Abducting people because of their skin color isn’t racial profiling”
Aren’t you sick of this shit?
That would be a really helpful term. It happens all the time!
I wish I had an offering but the only one I thought of — Mandela — is already associated with a social science phenomenon (Mandela Effect). 😣
Wow! I did a similar thing with a sweater once and it took me months to muster the emotional capacity to tear all my work down.
I remade the yarn into another garment I love, but I applaud your band-aid ripping approach. 🙌🏻 In the scheme of things, you'll be glad you did it!
“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”
Wilson, in her years as a city hall advocate and, later, as a candidate for mayor, has pushed for more “progressive” taxation that targets the rich and corporations to help solve the city’s budget woes while expanding programming.
Progressive is a word with a definition. Not sure why the Seattle Times (in a news article, not on the editorial page) decided it required scare quotes?
This stunt where ICE releases people far from home with no proper clothing and no way home should be treated as attempted homicide. In this case, actual homicide. These cases are not accidental or based on misunderstandings. They are deliberate attempts to inflict bodily harm.
@governorwalz.mn.gov what are you doing? Folks in MN are days away from rent being due but 10s of thousands of people are being impacted by ICE and the Federal government. You need to push to pass a rent moratorium until ICE IS OUT of MN. Please move on this fast.
Same.