@heyacordeiro
HS teacher with AuDHD and a fondness for structuralism; disability advocate, student advocate, LGBTQIA+ ally. Worrying about the climate since 1978; fighting the patriarchy since 1980, annoying neurotypicals all my life 😁 She/Her
Judge now reciting the background. Renfer claimed the fabricated citations in this case were inadvertent and the result of accidentally filing an early draft. Upon review of Mr. Renfer's other filings, the court independently discovered other fabrications.
So, lying sack of shit - in his mediocre white male brain he knows DEI according to the EO is “lawful” discrimination against anyone who is better than a mediocre white man (which is pretty much everyone but other mediocre white men)
This dead-eyed cretin is effectively illiterate, but if anyone ever pressed Donald Trump or Elon Musk like this in an interview, they would sound exactly the same
4 frame comic. a street journalist is interviewing a tall light brown man with a pink scarf and a tshirt of the band Angine de Poitrine. off-frame, the journalist asks : sir! are you worried about homophobic parents who might want to trans their child rather than have an effeminate son? the man replies : wait wait wait wait wait. are you implying that some homophobes might not also be raging transphobes? Never heard of that. trans kids are currently being hunted down, outlawed, marginalized from social life, singled out in their own schools, and you're asking me about some hypothetical parent who might pressure a child into being trans so they might what? fit in better? transitioning as a child in- volves years of determination. every adult in their life is likely to cast doubt on who they are. if they are lucky and have supportive parents, their families are often ostracized by their community. the idea that someone sees the hardships a family with a trans child goes through and thinks "they must have forced it on them" makes me physically ill.
Wait wait wait wait wait
We've long been sloppy about this but it's worse that they've latched onto compulsively calling him "commander in chief" to describe functions, including conduct of foreign policy and decisions about war or peace, that are not part of president's role as the apex of the military chain of command.
This press conference gave me chills. And not the good kind.
It’s not the Save America Act, it’s the Stop Americans Voting Act.
QUESTION: What the hell does “no men in women’s sports” have to do with voting?
ANSWER: Absolutely nothing. Republicans are trying to force Dems into bad optics.
Wise words from Dr. Nawal El Saadawi:
"Good education means to create disobedience...
They be leaving my novel NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS out when they make their Black Southern Gothic lists. Yo it's right there being Black Southern Gothic through & through & that's critically recognized. It's distributed by Penguin. How do I stay so underground for y'all?! Get hip to this!
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
NEW: Iran has begun laying mines in the strait of Hormuz. Would Trump like to send Brain Kilmeade to "show some guts" and captain a tanker through there now? www.cnn.com/world/live-n...
New in PN: The worst cabinet in history
"Even having one or two cabinet members as disastrous as Noem, Hegseth, Kennedy, or Bondi would be a stain on any administration; putting them all in one govt has created a kind of Bizarro World 1927 Yankees, an all-star team of incompetence and malevolence."
It’s time for allies in the media industry to speak up for LGBTQIA+ people
www.wearequeeraf.com/its-time-for...
Great quotes in military history.
@atrupar.com
Negative social ties as risk factors for accelerated aging and inflammation
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Researchers have found evidence of what many of us always suspected: ‘hasslers’ shorten your lifespan
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Dealing with difficult people really does age you
The fact that Donald Trump is going to try to subvert the 2026 elections doesn't mean he will be successful. We have shown before that we can fight back in court and win. The key is that we must educate everyone about what is going to happen and what they can do as well to defend democracy.
Trump’s slanderous accusation that Iran and not his own government committed this horrific atrocity in Minab was obviously going to be untenable, and it’s already falling apart in a way that will tarnish America’s reputation around the world.
This is an escalation by DHS.
Six US Citizens and permanent residents are now home after being held over 30 hours at O’Hare, transferred to Broadview, and moved across state lines.
Community pressure got them home. So many more do not have that support.
So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion.
That's $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
Thousands of lives lost.
People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
Here's a thread featuring clips of key moments from the DC Metropolitan Police body camera footage of the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that I obtained as a result of my FOIA lawsuit:
Reporter: You promised the Iranian people you would help them.
Trump: Will I help them? I'd like to, if they can behave, but they've been very menacing,
Three Israeli-Americans, including two who were among the most prominent real estate brokers in the U.S., were convicted today of engaging in a years long conspiracy to sex traffic women and girls, some of whom were drugged before they were raped or sexually assaulted.
My mentions have folks calling Talarico a "fascist" and assuring me that black Texans would never ever vote for anyone who uses Christian language.
For the good of democracy, I'm begging some of you to take a long break from social media. It's not helping you and you're definitely not helping us.
They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175
Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...
Then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem doubled down, denouncing the incident as an act of “attempted murder” on law enforcement. Her agency published mugshots of all three men arrested in connection with the alleged assault, casting them as “violent criminals.”
None of it was true.
So we're all smarter than the Bank of America securities head of US Equity and Quantitative Strategy?
SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.
My report:
Wondering if anyone knows this Gorillaz song on SNL this weekend is actually 25 years old.
I think more than what was going on with Epstein with him raping kids , we need to know why the US was protecting him.
cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch
www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...
