Dave Toms

oh gawd... thank you.
I've been telling people about how exciting Bluesky is, both the prospects of the protocol and also just the app itself. Guess I'm done with that. Forget supporting this place. For f***'s sakes.
Can't we just have nice things??

I've been trying to find what happened but I'm just finding memes and inside jokes 😭 I left Twitter because of Elon Shitler, I left Meta because they repealed rules against transphobia, (and both supportedPresident Cheeto) ...any help finding what Bluesky's done?

Love to see it. But... when ICE inevitably ignores this (just another law they'll ignore) what will Chicagoans do? Actually do?

WAIT DID STUFF STILL HAPPEN?!
Gawd- and I cannot stress this enough -DAMNIT.

I went back to TikTok to catch the vibe of the U.S. and haven't seen talk of the ownership change. I've mostly seen an upswell of artists raging against the current rise of fascism. Artists who hold a mirror up to society and choose to create. Artists who give me hope for the future of humanity.

I heard that last line in Geddy Lee's voice. Thank you for that :)

Also, remember: The only time it's okay to deadname when we call X by its birth name, Twitter.

I support your decision while refusing to support X, myself. As a journalist, your observation of and participation on that platform serves an entirely different role than my participation would. I deleted my account in protest of, well... *gestures broadly at Twitter* but support you staying there.

You mean "ICE broke a man's leg during an abduction" and not "A man broke his leg".
He didn't do it.
They did.

The wealthiest Americans stole so much from the working class that even if they kept 92% of it and gave back the rest (only 8%) it would DOUBLE the wealth of the POOREST HALF OF AMERICANS.
This is why the people are suffering.
Wage theft. Wage suppression.
Mass corruption.

Look, I'm not saying Trump is a Russian agent sent to destroy American political, economic, and legal institutions, plus erode its relationships with its allies, plus plunge it into civil war to cause chaos and a rising death toll...
...but what exactly would be different if he WERE a Russian agent?

Prison for life for every single member of ICE.
EVERY.
FUCKING.
ONE.

If I were American, I would vote for any politician who ran on a platform of prison for every single goddamn member of ICE.
Mass arrest of every single one.
"I was just following orders..." wasn't an excuse for the Nazis. It's not an excuse for these Nazi wannabe thugs.
Enough.

A perfect metaphor for how he handles every single goddamn topic he's ever worked on.

YouTube video by Kat Abughazaleh Kat Speaks at Broadview ICE Facility Press Conference | Kat Abughazaleh for Illinois

Anyway watch the whole thing from Broadview. "Proud" isn't even the word, it's nowhere near how I feel about how strong she's been in the last month.

I am just so fucking proud of her.

Understood. But I think it's foolish to think some college student who got swept up with the wrong crowd and brainwashed by the manosphere is beyond redemption, deserving only death. Like you said: Words are used for reasonable people. Some self-proclaimed Nazis can be rehabilitated. And should be.

Personally, I don't condone kill-on-sight. They'd use that to justify (hypocritically) lethal crackdowns on the "radical left". Lethal force to protect a victim? Sure, if necessary. But intolerance of intolerance can mean elimination of the threat without violence, unless necessary.

Everyone has a role to play in society today,
this is not the time to sit on the sidelines.
And every role matters, truly🙏🏻

Nazis want the extermination of everyone who isn't a Nazi. Therefore, when faced with a Nazi, the only ethical stance is to eliminate their threat. Tolerance is not a passive exercise. It requires fierce protection of the innocent and oppressed. Inaction gets people killed.
Make Nazis Afraid Again.

That's the plot of the Tool song Ænema 🤘

Life in prison or worse for every single member of ICE.
Every.
Fucking.
One.

A - freaking - men

NO MORE BILLIONAIRES

I love my SECRET LAB gaming chair. As someone with chronic back pain from the 💫incident💫 it helped a ton. Before I got a standing desk it was my butt's and back's home from 9-to-5 every day.

Fun Fact!
Some researchers believed Stockholm Syndrome isn't real and only/mostly happens when the criminal/captors really have a sympathetic cause... meaning it's just healthy compassion, not a syndrome. But it would be unethical to test the hypothesis so they can't prove it either way.

I remember reading "A woman's place is in the revolution" and now reading your words "The kitchen is where the revolution is" brings me joy that you've combined these ideas so well.
Women deserve better from society,
wherever you spend your time.

Totally!
Progressives: "Housing is a human right!"
Conservatives: "No, it isn't! Throw the homeless in prison."
Progressives: "So, we agree that we should house the unhoused. But you want to do it in the most expensive way possible."
Conservatives: "😠"

(P.S. Meaning I completely agree with your post. I ran out of characters 😅)

Social justice initiatives are economic investments that have HUGE economic returns. We have a moral imperative to provide healthcare, housing, education, (etc.) to those who need them even if they weren't smart investments. But they are. Cutting them usually costs taxpayers more than funding them.