Soleil David

I expect to see Schumer's resignation letter on my desk in the morning.

Another world is possible, if we fight for it

If it was a phase, he'd have gotten a cover-up.

If it was shameful to him, he'd have had it lasered off.

If it was the captured symbol of an enemy, it would be crossed out or altered.

He lacks the courage of a chastened Potterhead to admit that was a fucked-up thing to get.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/

fake yahoo news screenshot saying ""I'm a straight white man, and I feel like I'm constantly under attack," Baker says. "It feels like every time I get dinner at Chuck E. Cheese I hear another little girl sing girls go to college to get more knowledge, boys get to Jupiter to get more stupider,''' he pauses to wipe tears from his eyes. "I mean, l've never even been to Jupiter.""

This is what every ‘young men explain their right-ward turn' sounds like to me

Dionne Brand has the language for this moment. From Ossuaries (2010)

A CNN headline reads: "The latest fleeting TikTok beauty trend? Looking tired"

my moment has arrived

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Plus, Nov 5 at Sky Bar:

Come drink and dish with the Translators Organizing Committee, a division of the @nwu.org and the United States’ first ever literary translators’ union! Open to members, prospective members, and the solidarity-inclined.

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✨ PRESENTING the @nwu.org Translators Organizing Committee at #ALTA48

✊ Nov 6: Don’t Mourn, Organize! @nwu.org Solidarity Drop-in

✊ Nov 7&8: Rate-sharing Edit-a-thons

✊ Nov 8: Envisioning the Perfect Contract: What to Know & Where to Learn More

*better working conditions 4 literary translators*

screenshot of a Facebook post by Sam Brody: "What is happening in DC right now would not be happening if DC had been made a state any time Democrats held both the presidency and Congress in the last 30 years. Adding states to the union is much easier to do than amending the constitution. It requires nothing more than an act of Congress, and only needs a simple majority to pass. The Obama Senate could have easily done it when they had 59 senators. But the party leaders thought, I dunno, it wouldn’t be sporting or something. Not fair to the Republicans to use power to do things. The pundits might call it “overreach,” oh no, not that. Biden could have tried to do it - everyone was already saying it was necessary democracy reform after Trump I - but he pre-gave up because Manchin and Sinema said they just had to respect the ancient and immortal filibuster, so what can you do? Best not to try. So now we have millions of US citizens with no representation at all under naked authoritarian rule by an unchecked federal law enforcement apparatus. And the pundits have all forgotten the word “overreach,” which only applies to Democrats when they win by much greater margins than this and have much larger and more representative majorities than this."

Your “homeland” and your traditions

Von Trapp rips the Nazi flag

Happy July 4, 5, and every other day for the rest of our lives, inclusive.

fighting traditional media feels like a losing battle. i mean what the fuck is this.

How do I tell all these programs and apps that I never want to use AI ever.

The rise of people like Lander and Walz, whose ideologies don't exactly match mine but have the exact right combination of "love thy neighbor" and "fuck you, asshole" attitudes, is massive positive for people who care about left of center politics

Tell me about it. I’ve smoked 2 out of 3 of my emergency cigarette stash in the last two weeks.

An email stating the Taco Bell Quarterly has been added to the Library of Congress

Oh my God!? We've been added to the Library of Congress. A literary magazine that I make for fun in my basement as my midlife crisis has been added to the historical record, called the uh, ahem, Taco Bell Quarterly. We are the most prestigious literary magazine of all time.

Polling data from Harris & Associates 1966. Q: Do you approve of what Freedom Riders are Doing? 22% approve 61%disapprove18%no opinion.

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

In California's largest landback deal, the Yurok Tribe reclaims sacred land around Klamath River More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in northern California,have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history.

The “largest landback deal in California history” was just completed, and it could be a model for the future.

I’m quoted in this article re: “violence” & “peace” related to the Los Angeles protests.

This is LA! Politicians don’t dictate how people are going to act. 1965 Watts Rebellion. 92 riots. 2020 uprisings. The student intifada. This is LA! Either support or sit back & stfu.

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.

They are in charge.

ChatGPT is down yet, amazingly, I am somehow still able to write.

Both parties contribute to anti-immigration sentiments, and both have been pretty pro-police.

This is where that road leads, and I would really love to see Americans as a whole try taking a different path, one blazed by many activists and organizers over decades. Another world is possible.

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Capitalism's solutions are so ass.

People online will really be like “you believe in having principles? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, conceding every principle to build a winning coalition” and then not build a winning coalition