Anya

if you pour a thimble full of water on a house fire and it doesn't go out, are you going to reject the fire department turning the hose on because "we tried water already"?

oh is this just a distraction? is that it? a distraction? for rubes? are you the smartest little birthday boy in the whole applebees? is that it? are you three steps ahead? with your mind chess? in your little birthday boy suit? do you have it all figured out? are you mommy’s special buddy?

US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts

US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts reut.rs/42C4h1Z

one, a human life is not a "distraction."
two, would be nice to have an opposition party whose stance on these things was "be it for one person or an entire community, we are going to fight. every fight with this government is a fight worth picking. we won't give a centimeter to these ghouls."

UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010 The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people: This is what it means for Trans+ rights in the country

My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment.

The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010

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Every person with a spectrum disorder has a more valuable life than RFK Jr, and every trans/nb person has a more valuable life than JK Rowling. You are a human with dignity and they are sunken demons

oh good they’re doing Lavender Scare II

an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

What I fear is going to happen is that Trump will be unpopular, we’ll get some sort of weird capital controlled stasis, and what we have lost in the past month plus will never get rebuilt. Just like a new normal of austerity and hollowed state capacity. It’s imperative to deliver a real defeat.

question: exactly how many current or prospective members of the trump administration believe in biological race hierarchy?

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

Genuinely, why do people go into journalism just to write little cowardly “the history of arm gestures is actually quite fascinating” articles?

It’s like if I went into nursing and then was like “ooh but none of the icky stuff. Maybe I could just pass out the jellos? I could be on jello patrol?”

Art Spiegelman Won’t Shrink Back From Controversy The artist has illustrated more than one contentious New Yorker cover in his career, chronicled in a new film, and his next project will be no less gutsy.

Maus author Art Spiegelman’s next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He thinks he will struggle to find a publisher in the United States.

“I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”

in your dying moments you see a Jackie Chan style closing credits blooper reel of all the times you hurt yourself

Why are they acting like he’s Magneto, this is so stupid

Where's the Disney duty of care to a trans teenager? I bet she weighed up the cons of being so publicly out as a trans girl with the benefits of bringing representation & hope to trans kids. Now Disney pulls the representation while doubling the publicity & hate she will receive. Cowards

the 4 tiers of Stuff to Buy

temu tier: cheaply made factory surplus from brands like Somny or Yaweetch

boomer brand recognition tier: same things labeled Whirlpool or LL Bean

contemporary corporate: a $55 spanish wine decanter that Empowers Women

$$$$ tier: made by an actual human craftsman

if this t shirt offends you the bitch fell off

5yo me fuming because I would have been way better for her than him

oh!

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/05/politics/campaign/some-democrats-blame-one-of-their-own.html

Dianne Feinstein three days after the 2004 election: "[Gay marriage] has been too much, too fast, too soon"

what an amazing piece. excellently written, walking a careful line between how batshit the actual situation is and what it reveals about the current techno-legal landscape

Congressman Maxwell Frost (@maxwellfrost.bsky.social) on Nancy Mace.

"[She's a] huge attention getter, so this is part of her attention-getting fetish... I just don't understand why bathrooms are top of mind for her, why she's thinking about where future members are going to piss and sh*t"

Breaking: Transgender Democrat congresswoman accidentally kicks the ladder down on herself

the fact that the first openly trans member of congress is a zionist who immediately capitulated to fascists on the issue of her basic rights like this really sums up the current state of american politics incredibly well i think. just endlessly depressing stuff

Your homework. inthesetimes.com/article/toni...

Photo of smiling and frowning faces.

Today is National Have A Bad Day Day.