madels 🏳️‍⚧️ 💦 🥩

it feels like my country is an assembly line for producing crimes against humanity which no one will ever punish, or even bother to pretend caring about, and it's making me crazy

ICE is STILL in Minnesota and STILL terrorizing communities. Reporters that say otherwise are either uninformed (which....) or lazy (which... ) or just repeating regime lies (which... is also extremely bad).

People are still missing, people are and will be traumatized, businesses demolished...

LORE ACCURATE PITTSBURGH.

Great to know their CEO doesn't even understand how AI works. It's not anxious because it's conscious, dumbass. It's anxious because you've been scraping the social media of users living and posting through fucking unstable times.

Hot take: in an ideal world, having terminal degrees — or any college degree for that matter — shouldn’t be a prerequisite for holding **public** office. And I say this as someone who is two months away from having a terminal degree.

Ohtani cranks a grand slam in team Japan’s first game of the 2026 WBC.

In Tokyo.

Blessed to be alive to see this. Sound UP.

Hey that’s about the cost of the SSI Restoration Act, which would cut recipient poverty by 60%, eliminate marriage penalties, and modernize draconian asset limits.

Sure seems like it would buy a whole lot of everything without killing a whole bunch of everyone if we defunded the military.

We went from making up reasons like "weapons of mass destruction" to you know what, fuck it we don't need to even lie, the president "had a feeling" that they pose a threat so we just bomb them so we can. A country doing this can't expect peace inside.

Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.

I have no plans to die.

it ought to be interesting to see how the midterms shake out. lots of candidates out there. make sure you read up on them between now and november or else you’ll be looking pretty silly in the voting booth

Kipling, after the death of his son, speaking in the voice of the Kaiser, his doctor, & an observer

I’m embarrassed as a sports fan that the US is hosting the World Cup and Olympics in the next two years. We deserve neither, give them to the runners-up.

I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children.

From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.

Here’s the thing: a President openly contemptuous of Congress & willing, unilaterally, to recklessly and illegally commit the US to wars of aggression is an existential threat to the Republic, *regardless* of whether he can ultimately explain his acts to Congress.

The demand must be impeachment.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

To be clear, Kansas Republicans rushed through a confusing and disastrous bill, created a panic, and wasted untold number of tax dollars all to target 300 out of the nearly 3 million people in the state.

Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.

thanks for cutting off the funny line, bluesky

An excerpt from madels’ MFA thesis about the 2013 adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella that discusses its cultural impacts; the unfortunate phrase “when Ella’s first two visits to Prince Topher’s palatial balls” is highlighted.

thesis writing is going well.

The Democrats will not have a functional opposition leadership until both Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries have been removed.

appreciate that @swin24.bsky.social doesn’t mince words at zeteo: “This was the most openly racist State of the Union in modern history”

IMHO, it is important that Woke 2 be deemed "excessive" by historians, "sweeping too broadly" with "punishments too severe." It cannot be merely a course correction, it must be an overcorrection. Nothing less will serve as an adequate deterrent against the fascists and their collaborators.

We perversely had a system during the pandemic where it was effectively illegal to show footage of someone dying of Covid but legal to upload a video of yourself faking vaccine side effects. Antivaxers exploited this warped information environment