None of Your Beeswax

"During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for. It didn't look like we were going to win then and we did. It doesn't feel like we're going to win now but we could. Keep fighting, keep dancing. --Dan Savage Picture of Dan Savage sitting on concrete steps smiling, wearing a ringer tee.

As a disabled and marginal person, I burned out badly because I lost all access to the dance. Maybe if I regain that I'll heal enough to return to the fight. That is the first spark of hope I've felt in a long time.

(pulling up the ladder behind me) This is an opportunity for you to succeed through hard work and determination

A certain healthcare corporation who needs a new chief executive today once laid my dad off at 39.5 years of service so he wouldn’t be entitled to the 40 year pension. His team raised money themselves to give him a watch with “39.5 Years” engraved on it. I think about that watch A LOT.

In the real-world trolley problem, Track One has thousands of people tied to it, and Track Two has billions of dollars in corporate profits. The trolley departs every day on a regular schedule, always taking Track One, and nobody does a thing about it.

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That's why there's an aggressive effort now to blame "identity politics," it's a retcon because Harris ran exactly the campaign centrists wanted, catering to conservatives, never criticizing Netanyahu, never blaming billionaires or big corporations, the works—just to lose to Old Man Yells at Cloud.

"Democrat propaganda": Marjorie Taylor Greene plans to team up with Musk to defund NPR She accused the public radio network of doing "nothing for the American people."

NPR has spent the last few years softening its coverage to appease Republicans and here's their reward

The right wing never gives up, never admits defeat. They just regroup and find a new wedge to hammer on. Bathrooms didn't work out the gate, so they aimed at sports, which got traction. So now they're back at bathrooms.

This needs to be said, loud, and often.

This is the only bathroom I would feel safe in

"social contract"
I was wondering when I might see that
here's another "social" something to ruminate over

discussing? those fucking things should be printed up and ready to sign tomorrow.

His lead poisoning was a pre-existing condition.

The only thing we need to know about the "alleged gunman" is absolutely nothing. As far as I'm concerned, the man shot himself.

We finally found the fabled "good guy with a gun" and conservatives are freaking out about it.

Also notice that they did this right after open enrollment has closed

Thompson, a 50-year-old Minnesota resident , was due to speak at an investor meeting when he was gunned down at point-blank range around 6:46 a.m. Wednesady outside the New York Hilton Midtown on Manhattan’s 6th Avenue. Police are calling the crime a “targeted attack.” Almost two hours earlier, the suspect, a white man dressed entirely in black, was recorded walking outside the Frederick Douglass Houses, a public housing project on the Upper West Side, as early as 5 a.m., according to ABC.

He was next spotted on a Starbucks security camera at West 56th Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan approximately 30 minutes before Thompson’s death . The shooter was then sighted walking alone to the New York Hilton Midtown – where Thomson was scheduled to speak at a conference – about five minutes before the victim arrived, police said. The suspect then stepped out from behind a car and gunned Thompson down, hitting him in the back and right calf, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.

After fleeing the scene, the suspected rode into Central Park on an e-bike at 6:48 a.m., before being recorded cycling out of the park on West 85th Street just before 7 a.m, according to video footage reviewed by CBS. As the NYPD scrambled to find the killer, police deployed a swathe of investigators – uniformed and plain clothed – dogs, drones and helicopters in the hunt for the assailant, according to The Times . Investigators were also said to be using facial recognition technology to try to identify the suspect from surveillance images.

According to a report by CNN, police tracked the assailant down to a hostel on 103rd and Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan. It was there were police obtained one image where the suspect isn’t wearing a mask in his hostel, a law enforcement officer told the outlet.

I think I know the answer to this, but does the NYPD go all Enemy of the State like this when the victim is, say, a 17-year-old Bed-Stuy resident rather than a 50-year-old Minnesota resident who happens to run an evil organization?

The other day I was pitching our Gilded Age course to undergrads:

“Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a nation where the wealthy had insane power and ordinary people were reoeatedly crushed by them until they lashed out in anger?”

I'm sure that more screen time will solve the problem

who up being an insomniac

Can Trump’s team of billionaires become a team of rivals?

Violence is part of our history.

Violence is incumbent in exploitive systems, and exploitation provokes backlash.

We are in a period of great wealth inequality, worker oppression, and social and cultural change.

Violence will likely be part of our future, unless people’s needs are addressed.

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Here’s another song from TikTok about the CEO’s assassination.

This creator’s introductory comment is “And medical violence is always wrong, but only when it flows one way.”

One million views, 182k likes so far.

(Direct link: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYfshson/)

h/t @kimlacapria.bsky.social

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Joe Scarborough, who I do not support, and Mika Brzezinski, who I also do not support, were bound by the ethics of journalism to go to Mar-a-Lago and kiss the ass of Donald Trump, who I also do not support.

by Glenn Greenwald

If you're more upset with Biden being forced to consider the extraordinary step of peremptorily pardoning his own officials then you are about Trump appointing someone who’s promised to use the federal govt to exact personal retribution for Trump, then you need to think a little more critically.

I do not need rent-seekers protecting me from "unnecessary care." The necessity of care is something I'd prefer to discuss with my physician, not the bean counters.

Thoughts on Hunter pardon:

- I don’t love it, but I completely understand why he did it

- with everything the incoming administration is telling us they’re going to do, we probably need to stop handcuffing ourselves with standards they won’t follow

- I wish it wasn’t this way