Elizabeth Tate

The Pope living just long enough to have JD Vance visit the Vatican so his Secretary of State could tell Vance to his face that he doesn’t understand Catholicism is a level of hating I could only aspire to in my wildest dreams.

All of this! Plus, address climate change aggressively. I'm a 30 year old contemplating kids and the biggest barrier is that I don't want them to die in climate disasters.

the only way out of this is if people who don't consider themselves politically active to start taking action. and we *all* need to kick it up a notch, whether it's more letters, more phone banking, protests, showing up at town halls, etc.

‘I am a political prisoner’: Mahmoud Khalil says he’s being targeted for political beliefs Exclusive: Palestinian activist and green card holder speaks out from Louisiana detention for first time

EXCLUSIVE: In his first public remarks since being detained by federal immigration authorities, Mahmoud Khalil criticizes the conditions in US detention and says he is being targeted by the Trump administration for his political beliefs.

Read here:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

man people dismiss or ignore or talk shit about south carolina as they do with so many places in the south, it's one of those places liberals say "move away!" about but that's nonsense talk and this is a beautiful expression of righteous anger

The fact congressional Democrats have not hired three dozen D&D rules lawyers with oppositional defiant disorder and turned them loose on parliamentary procedure with the goal of maximum obstruction is such a fucking missed opportunity

Mahmoud's wife recounts ICE following them into their building as they returned from an Iftar dinner.
She refused to leave Mahmoud. Officers threatened to arrest her too.
The officers barricaded Mahmoud from her. They didn't show a warrant. They hung up the phone on their lawyer.

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’ A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

Once again I am suggesting that you break some rules for practice. Get comfortable with breaking rules. When the rules are hurting other people, the right thing to do is break them. We need people who follow their moral code over the rules of their society, university, employer, and government.

Listen…

If you got elders in your life who depend on that Social Security check and not much else?

Best start figuring out now, how you are going to pool financial resources, move them to affordable housing etc

Gaza truce hangs by a thread as Israel sets new conditions. Here’s what to know | CNN A delicate truce between Israel and Hamas hangs by a thread after Israel blocked humanitarian aid into Gaza, in response to Hamas rejecting a new Israeli proposal to extend the ceasefire without any c...

I'm not sure people understand what's happening. Israel stopped all aid trucks from entering Gaza until Hamas agrees to sign a rewrite of the original ceasefire agreement, which will allow Israel to continue the war indefinitely...and the whole world is quiet about it www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/m...

All this business I am reading about social security is nonsense. My mom died on 2/18. My dad got a letter yesterday informing him her benefits were ending and he had to repay the February payment because they don’t give a payment in the month someone dies. They know where every dollar is.

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Printing RFK Jr's lies about infectious disease kills children. Every journalist who has a conscience - and as hard as it to believe there are some of them even at Fox News - should think really hard about how they report on this subject because misinformation here has direct deadly consequences.

I just reread Song of the Lioness after I first encountered it 20 years ago, and wow, does it hold up!

The Story Behind The Most Powerful Speech At The Oscars, From Palestinian and Israeli Filmmakers “No Other Land reflects the harsh reality we have been enduring for decades and still resist.”

In their speech, the Palestinian-Israeli group of activists and filmmakers condemned “ethnic cleansing” in Palestine.

a series of threaded replies: - my post: who up waning they gibbous - Papa Nurgle's favorite daughter's post: It's a waxing cresent tonight, JERRY - my post: who up waxing they crescent

i'm on bluesky for the scientific community

I saw like two movies last year so I have no Oscars predictions but I will take this opportunity to say Nosferatu ruled.

I think if you don't want to buy things from major retailers today or any day that is great, and I would also love for everyone to remember that successful movements usually need to involve labor, and to start thinking of yourself as a worker first and a consumer second

We are a collective of Black feminists who have been meeting together since 1974. [1] During that time we have been involved in the process of defining and clarifying our politics, while at the same time doing political work within our own group and in coalition with other progressive organizations and movements. The most general statement of our politics at the present time would be that we are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression, and see as our particular task the development of integrated analysis and practice based upon the fact that the major systems of oppression are interlocking. The synthesis of these oppressions creates the conditions of our lives. As Black women we see Black feminism as the logical political movement to combat the manifold and simultaneous oppressions that all women of color face.

it drives me bananas when people say ignore identity politics to focus on class.

CLASS IS A PART OF IDENTITY POLITICS. the women who came up with identity politics are literally socialists!

class oppression is mentioned in the THIRD SENTENCE of the statement! www.blackpast.org/african-amer...

With another set of news headlines about political elites using “””Roman salutes””” I just want to note that the Nazi salute means “I want to murder your family” and the n-word means “I want to lynch you.” That’s what they mean, they make me righteously angry, and I won’t let anybody minimize them.

In the style of Dark Souls text, the image reads “Burrito Acquired.”

Highlight of the in office days, tbh.

Please understand me when I say that you cannot talk yourself out of criminal charges. You can, however, talk yourself into them.

"I invoke my rights to silence and counsel and will not answer questions without my attorney present" is the ONLY thing you should EVER say to a police officer, EVER.

Given that Bezos just did a full takeover of @washingtonpost.com and now it can only report that America and money are great--today is a great day to cancel if you have it, you check to make sure you aren't paying for a forgotten subscription.

It is important to expose the ableism at the center of right wing ideology, and all its gross inhumanity and unacceptable implications. Eugenics assumes that certain people are "less" - less worthy, less important, less deserving of life or health or success. It is a garbage ideology.

I got to see her speak in college and I could not get over that I was listening to someone who’s been IN SPACE.