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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

The Right Wants to Exterminate Trans People. Liberals Are Helping. After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the conservative movement has accelerated its war against trans people. And too many centrist Democrats have kept up their trans bashing.

Democrats seem to believe that they can turn a big dial that says "transphobia" up and down with no consequences. But all they're doing is bolstering a fascist drive to wipe trans people off the face of the earth. It's disgusting and shameful and it needs to end www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I've betrayed no one for being me.

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

Out of all the awful bullshit policies, I'm actually least upset about renaming it the Department of War

Let's do that, actually. Let's get real uncomfortable with it. Let's talk about how much more we spend on the War Budget instead of health and education

Liberals are starting to say shit like, "trans people asked for too much too fast," and I'll remind your souless asses that we actually didn't ask for anything. we were minding our own business and quietly improving our healthcare and you (cis) decided to do a pogrom against us for no reason.

Omg I hope there's enough material about this for a whole episode one day! 🤞

one of the most consistent things I find in history is that if someone is really famous for something other than being an anarchist, their anarchism will be stripped out of basically every reference to them.

if i had a Molotov for every time someone on the Left told me anarchism is impractical and not good for the "revolution" well, empire would be on fire!
#loveeachothernotthestate

The thing about accepting Newsom's depravity against trans people or the homeless on the grounds of "Yeah, that's bad, but we have to beat Trump or it'll be worse." is that by accepting it, you mark it as acceptable, both within your mind and in the larger world around you.

Perhaps you are unmoved by Gov Gav’s shittiness toward trans people? Well, fear not! There are so many other ways he’s terrible!

Florida Department of Transportation sure is giving off Home Owners Association energy lately.

The real "cancel culture" is when one person backs out of plans and one by one everyone else is like "oh thank fuck" and drops out as well until the whole plan is cancelled.

Gavin Newsom is anti-trans and I will never, ever vote for him.

Bedtime bump. Thank you, friends.

Just went to the Girl Scout website and hit “accept all cookies” … and now we wait.

listen

the world is a mess

but a judge ordered the Florida migrant prison closed, California passed their "fuck around, find out" redistricting, and James Dobson is dead

this is the best net good news day in awhile, I really do think

James Dobson dedicated his life to actively harming queer folks, children, dogs, women, education, and the environment.

Celebration ideas:
- Gay sex
- Donate to an animal shelter
- Give a kid ice cream
- Volunteer to clean a local park
- Support a local woman-owned business
- Utilize the library

Charity is unidirectional, the charitable give to the needy.

Exchange is bidirectional, I gave this to you and now you give that to me.

Mutual aid is polydirectional, it is a web of acts, and a web of relationships, that negates the need for charity and exchange.

The number of Shakers in the U.S. rises to 3 A new person has joined the last active Shaker community in the U.S, bringing the Christian, communal, and celibate group to a total of three. They once numbered in the thousands.

new Shaker

New Shaker

NEW SHAKER

www.npr.org/2025/08/19/n...

The license plates are probably fake, so remember that the VIN number is not. Always get a photo of that too.

In Middleton, NY.

This guy probably saved his neighbors from Trump's masked thugs.

This is how you firmly assert your rights and stand up for our communities.

I mean, I guess Bluesky is the quintessential liberal app: they say all the right things and then harm marginalized people anyway.

it finally happened

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.

How about that? A victory for people who actually read.

Companies Profiting from the Gaza Genocide

The Quakers are very involved in weapons boycotts including through maintaining this great resource:

afsc.org/gaza-genocid...

While I appreciate @iwriteok.bsky.social's work on Pete Hegseth, I desperately need him to do a series on Doug Wilson, the fucker whose church Hegseth attends. This man is a white supremacist misogynist who is in large part behind the normalization of Christian nationalism in this country.

a man with a necklace on his neck is making a funny face and saying yes . Alt: David from Schitt's Creek nodding "yes" with pursed lips. He's wearing all black and a silver chain necklace.

Finally started watching Schitt's Creek and omg this show is hilarious. I'm going to rip through these 6 seasons, I can already tell. 😆

Very easy slam dunk issue for Dems that will be ignored because their consultants are scared of trans athlete polling.