There always comes a moment when The Sensibles pivot from complaining about protests and tone policing every sign to despairing that people aren't in the streets
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There always comes a moment when The Sensibles pivot from complaining about protests and tone policing every sign to despairing that people aren't in the streets
what happens when we, as a people that have been thrown together, never get the opportunity to transcend the rage portion of grief?
I think we’re finding out.
I tend to use dashes a lot whenever I write anything, and it's getting increasingly annoying having to minimize that in order for ppl to not think that it was written by some fucking clanker
Imagine if the Democratic Party actually helped Zohran instead of trying to kneecap him at every step. A better party is immediately possible if they stop shoving money into the anti-trans combination Racism Dial/Money Toilet and instead get behind candidates people actually want.
Be prepared for your liberal friends to start parroting anti-trans “concerns” borrowed from the NYT.
Best I can do is share that multiple people have commented that all AI company logos look like buttholes
velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...
Dear Democrats in the Senate,
Please get ready amendments ready for reconciliation bill that will at least:
- defund Starlink
- defund all maters related Space X
- defund DOGE (calling it a Deep State)
And that's just the start. There can be lot lot more.
Thanks.
Robert Prevost and JB Pritzker
THE AMERICAN CENTURY IS OVER
THE ILLINOIS CENTURY IS JUST BEGINNING
A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje
April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.
THAT’S MY GOVERNOR 😤
seen a sentiment from a few people now expressing or implying a desire to transition but feeling unable due to the current political climate. while fear of the future is completely reasonable, waiting for a "good time to transition" will waste your life. it will never not feel scary at first
It's Don't Argue Inside Your Head With Other People Friday! Today, if you like, when you catch yourself arguing inside your head with someone who's not present, quietly & firmly move your mind away. You can do this as many times as you need.
It's not just that they want to be rich, they want the rest of us to be so destitute we won't fight back. But that isn't how this works. Yeah some people will focus on naked survival but there's always a subset that's like, "well fuck it, now I have nothing to lose"
Good morning to the best planet to ever do it
I have my problems with any Pope, by definition
But you gotta hand it to Papa Francisco for coining the phrase "theirs is the construction site of hell" in a description of American fascism and then dying almost immediately afterward
Also: I feel like the people asking “when should we panic” are actually asking for permission to stop acting like everything is normal.
You don’t need permission. This is not normal, hasn’t been for a long time, and it’s ok to act accordingly.
No, joy is not resistance. But joy can fuel you up for resistance, so I hope you're managing to find it amid the darkness.
fucking M O O D
The thing I miss most about NY (right now) is the deeply embedded knowledge you get for a particular neighborhood, where you and a friend can walk from place to place spontaneously on a Tuesday night, having a wonderful time and never being more than 10 min from home.
Seems like a lot of folks might need to hear this today. Some fortitude for the weekend and days ahead 🧡
year of the snake (plant)! 🌸
You can cross the aisle
YOU CAN QUIT YOUR JOB
You can lose the paperwork
You can block the door
You can corrupt the code
You can turn down the offer
You can ignore the emails
You can reject the premise
You can refuse the order
You weren’t “high-functioning.”
You were masking.
You weren’t “coping.”
You were dissociating.
You weren’t “fine.”
You were in burnout.
They praised your performance.
But never saw the cost.
You deserved care.
Not applause.
When debates arise around language, we must also understand the extent to which the language of dissent and liberation has shifted over time. The terms and jargon we use today do not represent an “arrival” at the “correct” words that were always out there, waiting to be found, while our predecessors flailed about in search of them. The language we uplift in movements today represents an unending process of grappling—a search for words that embody the experiences of oppressed people in relation to their history, their current conditions, and the culture they are presently experiencing. Policing language, as though our phrasing is written in law, misunderstands that pursuit and the purpose it serves. If these words merely exist to divide us into categories—those who can properly discuss ideas and those who cannot—what is their value in the pursuit of liberation?
Apropos of discourse here's @prisonculture.bsky.social @mskellymhayes.bsky.social in 2023
Tapping the sign.
A tweet by "rohit" discusses the application of AI in geopolitics, specifically focusing on tariffs, and includes a table comparing tariff rates between China and the US.
Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?
This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
something to be said about cory booker seizing senate proceedings to explicitly implore americans to rise up against fascist authoritarianism because the political class is insufficient in combatting it and for everyone’s response to that to treat his filibustering like a must-watch long podcast.
April fools Day but the prank is that we all treat each other like we know that none of us are free until all of us are and then we keep doing it every day