Molly T 🏳️‍⚧️

It's something I've come to recognize myself doing, and yet still struggle to avoid it. Unnecessary self-deprecation can be such a sticky habit

A coordinated campaign to drive trans people out of public life Parker Molloy on the latest Oklahoma anti-trans work

I've got a piece up today at @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome to Hell World. Check it out: www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...

As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good

Neither rain nor sleet nor ICE

Anna, you know that any readings they held were done strictly off the record

Absolutely! Don't make learning a thing more difficult by throwing up additional barriers

Locked in with @arimelber.bsky.social.

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

An open athletic field ringed by more distant trees in various states of fall foliage colors. The sky is mostly cloudy and lit with almost an eerie twilight lighting

Lowell had some of the best fall foliage I've seen so far 🍂

There's my funny-sad laugh for the day

Where do I enlist in your command

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

"what's the matter? it's just an estradiol injection, you're not a cop are you? let me see you do it."

time CultS -d 8 claire's NOTICE OF STORE CLOSURE To Our Valued Customers, This Claire's location has been permanently closed. The decision reflects both external pressures & internal restructuring. In recent months, repeated attacks of ridicule by radical left agitators have gone beyond mere criticism, escalating into a deliberate effort to destabilize our company - conduct we recognize as Domestic Economic Terrorism. At the same time, our transition under new private equity ownership required difficult financial choices. Protecting the stability of shareholders was prioritized, & this store - along with its local workforce - was deemed expendable in service of that obligation. Despite these challenges, Claire's remains committed to our identity as a traditional American company rooted in values of family & community. We will not be silenced by those who attempt to undermine that mission, & we continue to move forward with confidence in our future. Here at Claire's, we look forward to working with the current administration to reinvigorate our brand presence across the United States, ensuring that we remain a part of American life for generations to come. We invite you to continue supporting Claire's by shopping online at www.claires.com Thank you for your attention to this matter. Claire's Stores, Inc. 2400 West Central Road, Hoffman Estates, IL 60192 | Claire's Stores, Inc. | CBI Distributing Corp.

THE RADICAL LEFTISTS HAVE KILLED OUR BUSINESS
[also we got bought out by private equity who shuttered the store and fired everyone]
BUT IT WAS MOSTLY THE RADICAL LEFTISTS
also can we have a federal bailout 🥹

For all of us there should be some threshold where we put aside all our other projects and focus instead on resisting tyranny. It's just extremely difficult to see where that line is from the inside, when you're the frog being boiled.

This, so so much

youre damn straight youre recording my call for quality and training purposes im the guy youve all been warned about lets do this

The flames of the world lick ever closer to our heels on this sturdy wooden stake, but the woman sleeping beside me looks like a soft breeze and all the soothing waters of the world.

Think about all the contradictions a brain has to hold at once to claim both that corporations have created platforms of enlightened objectivity, and also that after dining on all of human knowledge they must be manually reprogrammed to support conservative values.

I'm reminded of the quote "science advances one funeral at a time"

headline: "democrats lost voters on transgender rights."
the article:

"BOZO. EAT DUST. THIS BAG TWO-THIRDS AIR."

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

120. Upon arrival at CECOT, the detainees were greeted by a prison official who stated, "Welcome to CECOT. Whoever enters here doesn't leave." Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was then forced to strip, issued prison clothing, and subjected to physical abuse including being kicked in the legs with boots and struck on his head and arms to make him change clothes faster. His head was shaved with a zero razor, and he was frog-marched to cell 15, being struck with wooden batons along the way. By the following day, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia had visible bruises and lumps all over his body. 121. In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself The detainees were confined to metal bunks with no mattresses in an overcrowded cell with no windows, bright lights that remained on 24 hours a day, and minimal access to sanitation. 122. After approximately one week at CECOT, prison director Osiris Luna and other officials separated the 21 Salvadorans who had arrived together. Twelve individuals with visible gang-related tattoos were moved to another cell, while Plaintiff Abrego Garcia remained with eight others who, like him, upon information and belief had no gang affiliations or tattoos. 123. As reflected by his segregation, the Salvadoran authorities recognized that Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was not affiliated with any gang and, at around this time, prison officials explicitly acknowledged that Plaintiff Abrego Garcia's tattoos were not gang-related, telling him "your

“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”

wokeness 2: whoops, all Nurembergs!

My “I am not a henchman” shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

OpenAI preps for models with higher bioweapons risk Preventing harm means both the company, and society at large, need to be prepared.

It's just astounding these AI companies are like "This next software update may end up allowing idiots to accidentally create unstoppable bioweapons that could destroy humanity, but we're under a lot of profit pressure, so we're going to release it anyway." www.axios.com/2025/06/18/o...