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A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

“That would totally blow the midterms for them” ~Dems

Eight Books About Fascism That You Should Know These books changed the way I understood what is happening to us.

Did a newsletter today about books I think everyone should read if they are serious about understanding how 2024 happened and why.

"Perhaps the most influential text for me in understanding the American political moment was Vaughn Rasberry’s Race and the Totalitarian Century" #BookSky

Escalation  In the days and weeks since the Immigration and Customs Enforcement killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and as ICE agents continue forcefully targeting and detaining immigrants, tensions have r…

Protests at the downtown Eugene Federal Building have been heating up. On Tuesday, Jan. 27 and throughout the following weekend federal agents violently arrested peaceful protesters, fired pepper balls and tear gas into and across East 7th Avenue and even desecrated a Mexican national flag.

How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.

“While democracy faces an existential threat, pundits and strategists remain stuck in the past.”

Now online, @adambonica.bsky.social & @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social lead a forum on Democrats’ timidity in the face of authoritarianism, with @coribush.bsky.social @amandalitman.bsky.social + many others:

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

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We do not accept payment for whistles, and will ship anywhere between 100 and 1000. If you know someone with an org that needs even more than that, they can reach out and we can work with them!

Do not be afraid to ask for 100 whistles if you just want to radicalize your PTA group. WE WANT THAT! 💓

How to Legally Protect People in Your Home from ICE | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland Get more from Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland on Patreon

ICE agents love to wave around paper that looks official. Most of it is a scam — administrative forms signed by ICE supervisors, not real judicial warrants signed by judges. Let's go through what that scam paper looks like versus a real judicial warrant.

In a moment where RFK Jr is taking away life-saving vaccines and spreading health misinformation on an unprecedented scale, making comments that stigmatize other important layers of public health protections like mask wearing is not the play.

Text reads: USE AI? No thanks. I'd rather get my misinformation from the local swamp hag.

anti ai, pro hag

Dates and locations of trainings:

Friday, Dec. 5: Clackamas Community College in Oregon City from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 6: University of Oregon in Eugene from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Sunday, December 7: Central Oregon Community College in Bend from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

A post by Rebecca Johnson: “I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.” A tumblr respond from mightymur: “The final, brilliant word on passive voice. "She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive "Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

started reading jordan s carroll's speculative whiteness and it is making me feel like everyone needs to be writing more sci-fi right now. like especially marginalized writers but also white writers committed to inclusive work. everyone just pivot towards inclusive, antifascist futurism please

The lettering is done in simulated sidewalk chalk. Next time you think art doesn't matter, consider how scared the fascist are of sidewalk chalk.

Next they'll outlaw playing hopscotch. 🏳️‍🌈

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Everyone can contribute something to the fight, but because certain actions tend to get all the coverage, it can be easy to feel shut out. So here's a thread of ways to help that do NOT include:
Going anywhere
Calling anyone
Writing anything
If you want to help, we want your help. Let's go....

Eugene Police Debuts Own Press DSM, concerned by the EPD’s cosplay as members of the press, spoke to journalism experts who all agreed that this is bad.

NEW from DSM: A video published on YouTube showed a documentary filmmaker ordered to back away while filming the Eugene Police and subsequently learned that the department has its own "press."

We've spoken to experts who agree this is very bad.

Read about it ⤵️

A decorative illustration of flowers with the caption “I don’t use ai I’m not a fucking loser” with a severed hand with too many fingers

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

Journalists, teachers, scientists, artists, creatives, programmers: we’re all being moved out of the way because we ask why, and even if the answers bring progress, simply wanting to know is a threat to power

We can’t afford homes for our veterans. But we can afford a $200 Million ballroom at the Whitehouse. And I bet it goes over budget.

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They/Them BY DANEZ SMITH said short: i feel more like a stud. said with some nuance: as if i came to masculinity through the women’s gate, as if a daughter who grew into her father but not like trans, but like trans or a transformation without catalyst or smoke. or more like born in the right body too early or born at the wrong time, in the wrong language. i remember Tommy said he (is he a they now?) lived for how i put it in that one poem “more tomboy than boy” and i think that’s what language does—builds a room made for living. and who have i followed further into myself? Cam, Paula, Tommy, Fati, Andrea, Auntie George or anyone who saved me from a body of silence by just living their lives in the sun? and if the soul is a table on which the body sits crowded with the meat and the marrow and the red, red wine, around me sit too many ghosts to ever rest in isolation. of course you should address me in the plural. said short: i am everyone. i am everything. said shorter: i am.

Heard it was some kind of nonbinary day 🫡 www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

btw I've been told in non-explicit terms by my publisher that the only way this book will happen is if hello sunshine does well, so, you know. tell your friends and stuff. better yet: tell your library 🫡🙏❤️‍🔥

South Georgia library manager fired for trans-inclusive display The branch manager at the Pierce County Library was fired after displaying a trans-inclusive children's book in a public display.

Lavonnia Moore, the librarian fired for including one of my books on a display after a child requested it, sounds incredible and what happened to her should be a crime. roughdraftatlanta.com/2025/07/05/l...

Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them!

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I SAW IT IN MY DREAMS