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Graphic on a white shirt with extremely queer-coded anarchist punks embracing lovingly within a leopard print heart shape with text that reads "Fall in love, not in line."

I got the most badass tanktop today at Coimbra BD! Design by Luoro.

You can eat all organic food, drink green juice every day, do yoga, get vitamin D and touch grass… and still become disabled.

Wellness culture can’t save you from disability. What’s worse, most wellness “gurus” will blame you when you become ill.

Wellness culture is toxic & eugenics adjacent.

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

-Jacob Riis

Trump Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Is Dead Wrong About New York City's Bike Lanes - Streetsblog New York City Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy says he hasn't seen enough data to believe in the benefits of bike lanes.

Sean Duffy says he hasn't seen enough data to believe in the benefits of bike lanes. So we put together this cheat sheet to help him out — mostly using information from his own department.

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Ultimately, Freeman’s column isn’t pitiful because it rubs salt in the wound—it’s pitiful because it lays bare the true aim of the anti-trans movement. This was never about policy or bathrooms or youth sports. It’s about a cohort of people who feel culture shifting beneath their feet, who were raised in a world where casual cruelty toward transgender people was normalized, and who now find themselves resentful that society has moved on. Rather than reflect or grow, they double down, demanding that their revulsion be seen as virtue—that their discomfort be not only accepted but celebrated. Freeman’s yearning for social validation, cloaked in the language of righteous indignation, reveals the movement’s hollow core. The title of her piece says it all: this isn’t about the law, it’s about the isolation that comes from being wrong. And no court decision—no matter how cruel—will win back the friendships lost to hate, or rescue those who chose the wrong side of history from the consequences of that choice.

From my latest piece.

The true motivating energy behind the anti-trans activists of today.

It is not a “DEI” rollback it is the resegregation of American universities. Headline writers could at least be honest about this.

Motherfucker.

A stormtrooper in full riot gear and a masked state mercenary with a baton look through the bars of a prison cell into a confinement area in which prisoners sit in bunks four levels high, very much reminiscent of the famous photographs from within the death camp Buchenwald during the Holocaust in which Nazis murdered millions of people.

"Abolish ICE" sounded like a radical demand to Democrats, though ICE itself only dates to 2003.

Today, it should be clear to even the most deluded liberals that if you establish institutions for the sole purpose of brutalizing people, authoritarians will inevitably use them to consolidate power.

OPINION | I Came to College Eager to Debate. I Found Self-Censorship Instead. The consequences for saying something outside the norm can be steep. I met Stephen Wiecek at our debate club. He's an outgoing, formidable first-year debater who often stays after meetings to help clean up. He's also conservative. At U.Va., where only 9 percent of students surveyed described themselves as a "strong Republican" or "weak Republican, that puts him in the minority. He told me that he has often "straight-up lied" about his beliefs to avoid conflict. Sometimes it's at a party, sometimes it's at an a cappella rehearsal, and sometimes it's in the classroom. When politics comes up, "I just kind of go into survival mode," he said. "I tense up a lot more, because I've got to think very carefully about how I word things. It's very anxiety inducing."

that op-ed featured chilling anecdotes like this one, which if you read closely you will note contain *not so much as a hint of any actual "consequences," steep or otherwise, this kid faced.* Just ... people disagreed with him, I guess?

anyway, now students are being kidnapped and disappeared.

three years ago the New York Times published an op-ed by a college student complaining about the chilling effect of feeling "disdain" from fellow students, because the New York Times wanted to convince America the real threat to free expression was something other than a looming right-wing autocracy

Mask bans kill disabled people. This is the point. You want to support the disabled community? Wear a mask!

17,000 Children’s Shoes Line Pennsylvania Avenue in Moving Gaza Memorial The pro-Palestine art installation in Washington, DC, coincided with anti-Trump marches across the country.

Tiny ballet flats, palm-sized flip flops, velcro-strap sneakers with movie character illustrations: Approximately 17,000 pairs of children’s shoes lined Pennsylvania Avenue in a memorial for Palestinian children killed by the Israeli military since October 2023.

Four of six Bhutanese refugees living legally in Pa. and taken into ICE custody have been deported, officials say The whereabouts of the two other men taken into ICE custody were not immediately known.

four residence of PA have been deported, two others disappeared into the system
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I just cried in my office after having another student in here talk about precautions they're taking about their status. I have received calls all week from people who need their names removed off publications or letters I was part of organizing. I feel sick and helpless and so so angry.

Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting A list adapted from & inspired by Frontline Medics. Here was their original list of 25 actions. I’ve added a lot of things and edited other things. [Not...

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Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting A list adapted from & inspired by Frontline Medics. Here was their original list of 25 actions. I’ve added a lot of things and edited other things. [Not...

MK has published a list of possible actions! Some of them are small enough to do today!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting A list adapted from & inspired by Frontline Medics. Here was their original list of 25 actions. I’ve added a lot of things and edited other things. [Not...

She even has a list of action items!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Much of America in the coming months is going to be:

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I can excuse racism and transphobia but I draw the line at my 401(k)

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You can excuse racism and transphobia?

Tesla Sitting On Thousands Of Unsold Cybertrucks As It Stops Accepting Its Own Cars As Trade-Ins - Jalopnik Tesla can't find buyers for the current backlog of nearly 2,400, or $200 million worth of Cybertrucks, despite claiming over a million orders were received.

www.jalopnik.com/1829010/tesl...

that is absolutely the goal. someone told me they heard a clip of Elon Musk saying something like “people are living too long” and we know which people he’s talking about (i’m disabled as well). thank you for your courage, i’m trying to muster it too. some days easier than others.

Dr. Oz Pushed for AI Health Care in First Medicare Agency Town Hall Dr. Oz, who now controls the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and its $1.5 trillion budget, promoted the idea that AI avatars could replace frontline health care workers.

SCOOP: In his first meeting with staff, Dr. Oz, who now controls the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and its $1.5 trillion budget, promoted the idea that AI avatars could replace frontline health care workers.

Students from Muslim-majority countries as well as Asia and Africa are having their visas revoked with little or no explanation.

“It’s a concerted effort to go after people who are from countries and religions that the Trump administration wants to get out of the country.”

This conversation becomes more relevant by the minute.

So grateful to @haymarketbooks.org for hosting, to the brilliant minds & seasoned organizers who agreed to join me, & to Democratizing Justice & Funders for Justice for sponsoring

Tomorrow! Don’t miss it!

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this is the logical extension of the bipartisan "tough on crime" politic

but who’s the opposing team member who DUCKED

I believe the term is “rendition”

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Yes & he's also dumber than a rock
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