…and if you want to learn more I highly recommend The Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn. It’s very well-researched & is a dense/long read vs quick sensationalist true crime fluff. That’s all on that. 🤷🏻♂️
…and there’s no way in the world Polyphonic Spree didn’t base their original sound off that Will You? track. I get this kind of Christian praise record was popular in the 70s but it’s far too similar sounding to have not been an influence.
Spotify edition of this adding the unhinged howling Jim Jones “Love is the only weapon? BULLSHIT!” rant after the upbeat, shining original last track “Will You?” is a dang whiplash move but also really succeeds in showing the tone shift & sheer terror followers must’ve felt once trapped in Guyana. 😬
1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit.
An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans.
It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling.
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My local lunch spot scolds me for tipping & demands I take a Thai iced tea even if they see a coffee already in my hand.
if you think the greatest threat to effeminate gay boys is the trans movement and not the cis straight men who overwhelmingly exclude and brutalize them then you should walk into the ocean immediately
😣 Even California’s not immune from this shit…
What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.
Remember when Trump said he was trying to go to heaven?
He goofed.
i was once too broke to move from one apartment in a building down the hall to another post-breakup. moving isn’t cheap or particularly fun &, by and large, trans people aren’t doing great economically. 401,000 trans people fleeing their governments should be considered a fucking national emergency.
Sincerely never got this - so we don’t fast or follow out Lenten givin’ up stuff on Sundays?
Norms and traditions are dead. Civility theater is dead. Dead dead dead. We may not like that, but it’s indisputable. Norms mean nothing except surrender if only one side honors them! And it makes YOUR voters rightly wonder: are you oblivious? Cowardly? Complicit? Some combination of all three?
Good morning. You came from dust and, someday you'll be dust again!
But before that, you'll be bones!
watergate was anti-autistic ableism towards an asexual autistic man whose special interest was wiretapping his political opponents
why you add? WHAT you add! 😣 Anyway, spoke against Lent becoming a Christian weight loss glow up challenge & urged folks use that drive & energy to help others in need. Episcopal church in L.A. with a long progressive activism history. ✌🏼
Rector at my old church ranted against Lenten fasting - akin to “We’re all very aware that we’re going to die these days & I truly care less about what you abstain from than why you add to your season - do you remember joy? What brings you JOY? I dare you to find some joy each day - to laugh even!”
She didn’t end sounding like that! 😅 :::coughing::: “Air - ASTHMA! You’re cursing the air I’m trying to breathe here. Get me off of this bus - I don’t like the city of Los Angeles! LOSS Angeles! LOST SOULS!!! 👋🏼🚌
Public transit commutes really help wake you up some mornings. Certainly never boring!
Lady on this bus is talking/sounding like Roxy in the Frank’s Pretty Woman episode of IASIP. “Let me ride driver! I got money - I got BITcoin, baby! You gotta pay to play these days - it’s all money. Donald Trump - is there a Wells Fargo around here???”
Got to go see these in person yesterday & it was a real treat.
If the average American believes that their choice is between being shot in the street by ICE or maybe a trans child plays a sport and they choose the former because of the latter, the country deserves its fate.
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I wrote a blog post instead of a long thread. It's about the way that politicians (and regular people, even) use the notion of an average American against us and get suckered into reifying conflicting beliefs.
Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position
The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
There is a new autistic barbie out, but no one is talking about her mother, undiagnosed computer engineer barbie about to get the surprise of her life when she starts to argue with the evaluator that these are all normal childhood behaviours that she had when she was the same age.
I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time
