rich merwarth

It’s Saturday morning, and this is your important feel good thread for the day. Read it. Then go visit a bookstore.

Americans are in denial about the implications here because they wish it wasn't happening. But this is the behavior of a dictator. It's the sort of thing that warrants secession or revolution. The Republic is over the second federal funding is withheld pending a governor's personal apology.

On Tyranny: Graphic Edition.
by Timothy Snyder, illustrated by Nora Krug
Order it through your locally-owned bookshop, post haste!
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/653012/on-tyranny-graphic-edition-by-timothy-snyder-illustrated-by-nora-krug/

‘Eostre’ - 2023
Here’s to the return of the light and the overcoming of darkness.

Thanks!

BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.”

The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.

Oh man, that FP A-frame… memory unlocked!

Azalea pink shirt with Bikini Kill written in turquoise and white alternating letters.

It's Bandcamp Friday! Today we are raising funds for the @southernequality.bsky.social's Trans Youth Emergency Fund. We have a very special, limited edition shirt that will ONLY be available today: bikinikill.bandcamp.com

Two paintings side by side, one depicts a clear glass bottle containing a rolled note, bobbing in the ocean. The other depicts a clear glass bottle filled with gasoline and stuffed with a flaming rag.

Sending Out an SOS / Message in a Bottle
2024, Acrylic on Birch Panels.

Feckless Dems at the SOTU, raising auction paddles.

Nothing says “I understand the plight of working people” like the raising of an auction paddle. See y’all at Sotheby’s!

Life is too short to not draw that weird shit that your heart desires

At the protests in Vermont yesterday

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Painting of a stylized skull in a palette of yellow, orange, and red. The skull is frowning and has glassy eyes.

Painting of a stylized skull in a palette of yellow, orange, and red. The skull is frowning and has glassy eyes.

Laid Bare, 2024
Spray paint and acrylic on MDF

hi! are you cis? did you see this?

the senate wants to move the president’s anti-trans sports ban closer to being a law monday.

democratic senators need to know fucking NYT opinion writers don’t speak for you & you think trans people’s civil rights *matter.*

tap the quoted thread. please call.

1. Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.

Literally the first rule from On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder.

So many of our institutions didn’t even make it past this first step.

Really? What does that even mean?

A graphic, stylized painting of a skeleton with two faces stands with wavy rays in blue yellow and red radiate from behind it. A while, floral halo circles its skull.

We Contain Multitudes
2024, spray paint and acrylic on wood

Your outie punches Nazis

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S was there with a group of friends!

jourdain searles @judysquirrels I'll vote for whoever will come at the republicans like kendrick went for drake. i'm not joking either. give me that energy or shut up. don't email me. don't text me. don't ask me for anything.

This is it. This is the take.

Right now we need stories of the powerful taking it fully and cleanly in the nuts, so an A+ night start to finish.

thank you to Kendrick and the Eagles for making terrible people angry tonight

This thread is amazing.

a pile of patches, orange with black type that reads 'trying'

sign of the times that I just had to reup an order for TRYING patches. shop.dansinker.com/products/…

A drawing of an anthropomorphic goat and sheep, the goat is saying “THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THE FORCE OPPOSING HOPE IS DESPAIR. THE DESPAIR WE FEEL IS MANUFACTURED. AND WHAT HAS BEEN MANUFACTURED CAN BE TAKEN APART.”

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last.

Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.