Arden Mercury (Retrograde)

This is extra naive in 2025 because they came for the "hard" sciences *first*

This moment is *not* about the question "do you think things have gotten too woke in the last ten years?"

It's about the questions "do you believe in independent research under conditions of academic freedom? Do you believe in civil society and intermediate associations free of political control?

There is no bipartisanship in the project of truth and reconciliation that we desperately need, because truth has become a subject of partisan divide, and without agreement on the truth, there is no reconciliation. They'll never let go of the lie, so they'll have to be dragged.

The multiple SS symbols next to the Trump, Fuck Biden, and Punisher skull stickers really drive the point home. As with bars, tolerating one Nazi in your kitchen means you have a Nazi kitchen now.

Clearly they've never loaned a bra to a t-girl who doesn't know it yet for a college costume party and watched the wheels start turning, then found out over a decade later and realized how important that actually was.

I need to get my hands on this, nevermind that I'm still working my way through three other books...

I knew his vote was related to the sheer amount of AIPAC money involved. Discouraging, and people need to pay attention when primary time comes around.

FREE HIMB

Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender~

cory booker constantly grandstanding and then repeatedly voting the exact opposite of his grandstanding is really a special kind of despicable and vile depravity

Why do people continue to complain about the firemen who won’t fight fires when the whole building is on fire?

To the Israelis who have been questioning this all along, sometimes at great personal cost, we see you too. Don't give up.

Meanwhile, these very same “queer people are pornographic” Project 2025 degenerates oppose releasing the Epstein files bc doing so would reveal their *actual* “sexualization of children” & endanger their fascist project.

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These are the stories that get erased when people assume Israeli state policy represents all Israelis.
It doesn't.
The battle lines are not where many people think they are.

Then they should stop posting AI memes, which are fundamentally anti-worker because they normalize not paying arts workers and destroy the environment, especially for working class communities near the biggest data centers.

Personally, I will absolutely sigh with relief when the obnoxious, unwanted AI features get paywalled and delight in closing every ad that tries to get me to pay (or pay extra) for them.

speech is at its freest in a society where your speech may make people dislike you and decline to associate with you, but even if it makes you lose your job it never makes you lose your healthcare or your access to the food supply and never gives the government permission to incarcerate you

man aiming gun while crying

when the nice indie software begins telling you to "supercharge your productivity" and a sparkle icon appears

More LGBTQ and Black people live in the South than anywhere else in the country. The South is also the most hideously redistricted, voter-suppressed part of the country. Yet Blue MAGA ghouls will say we all deserve to die for the sin of living where our votes are disenfranchised.

Donald Trump gives people permission to be their worst selves. His politics are not just representative, they are generative. His words seep into people’s souls and slowly corrode whatever potential for human decency ever resided there.

I think what's really freaking people out is that most Americans under 40 already have

I'm in this picture.

I'm often asked what Democratic politicians can do to learn from pro wrestling and combat Republican neokayfabe

The simplest answer to that question is just, "Practice doing Dusty Rhodes's 1985 'Hard Times' promo in front of the mirror every morning until you really MEAN it" 🗣️

#wrestlesky #polisky

The LL is for Labor Loves Cool J

Mamdani’s answer to this NYTimes piece going to be making him even more relatable to immigrants on color in the US. Many of us do not fit US racial categories very well, and find the box-ticking a very frustrating exercise as a result.

This is what it looks like when institutions start caving to authoritarian regimes. If you went to Penn, you should make sure the president’s office hears from you: 215-898-7221. Then, send an email: president@upenn.edu.

There needs to be repercussions for university administrators who capitulate to fascists

Got home from a week of larp staffing and this is the first thing that pops up in my feed.

I want to go back to the dragon lands.