@spiraldragonfly.bsky.social
Living in a small house in the woods. Interested in many things, including renewable energy, healthcare for all, basic income for all, freedom from discrimination for all, including trans folks.
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪
If you never had any intention on getting a passport, but are in the process of trying to obtain a passport just so you could safely vote in future elections...
that is a poll tax.
Something that should be illegal due to the 24th amendment
By contrast, they are *surrounded* by young liberals, intimately familiar with their habits & predilections, filled with the contempt bred by familiarity. Even to the purportedly center-left journos, liberals are just much more *present & annoying*.
This thread -- & the thread it links to, & @jamellebouie.net's original insight -- are super-important to understand. To the average Ivy-educated, DC-centric journalist, the MAGA base is almost entirely theoretical. They don't know any genuine MAGAts, they just construct a Noble Savage imaginary.
The dark corner of your flat where you curl up and hide in the evening is once again looking forward to sheltering you from the bright and terrible complexities of the world, it has been reported.
Brendan Carr so loves being America's top censor.
A new solar co‑op program launched in north‑central Minnesota to help households and small businesses transition to solar energy more affordably.
Currently listening to this memoir and can confirm that it’s in fact horrifying—the crimes committed against Gisèle as well as the way the patriarchal system tried to grind her in its gears. Her strength is epic. Shame has to change sides.
I had assumed the headline was a joke. But no.
people.com/new-dime-coi...
And a good morning to you!
Western yellowjacket, Vespula pensylvanica, having a rest on the geraniums in the front yard on Wednesday.
trans people: "I finally know what joy feels like. This is the best I've felt."
Various Govs: "Neat. Also: fuck you. Fuck your meds. Also die."
Cis people: "Why're trans people so hostile to the government?"
Golly gee willikers, Steve from accounting, it's a real fucking head scratcher, isn't it?
Jews are targeted in shuls & online.
Brown & Black people are abducted and sent to concentration camps.
Muslims are openly targeted by politicians.
Activists & journalists are targeted by the FBI.
Trans & queer people are being outlawed.
We are in this together. This is why solidarity matters.
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
Murdering random Jews in response to Israeli state violence is violent antisemitism. It shouldn't be necessary to state that. And yet
We spoke to Black women who started the Target boycott & who sustained it for a yr+. They'll likely never go back.
Teacher Laverne Mickens put it like this: “[Black women] will say if & when it’s over. And I can tell you right now: That will be the 15th of never ever.”
19thnews.org/2026/03/targ...
The design of this c5th Pictish plaque from Norrie’s Law goes pretty hard @currentarchaeology.bsky.social
Our friend the Huila Stubfoot Toad lives in Columbia but has seen a huge decline in the wild. They were once believed to be extinct, but in 2006 a population was found in a remote area! (photo by Mark B. Robbins)
Boss, it's the fascism.
do you care about trans people?
cool!
cancel your new york times subscription!
oh, but you just play the games? thats the worst argument you could've made!
go fuck yourself!
And FOR FUCK'S SAKE, Kansas has lawyers and they deliberately chose to do this in a way that violates the 14th Amendment. Whether we go to the DMV, there's a message in that.
THIS LAW IS ALSO A THREAT:
I have literally no patience for anyone saying that trans Kansans "just" have to go to the DMV and get a new license. There was no time given for that. There was no process in place for that. There were letters sent out to some people whose licenses were invalidated, but not all.
Being nice to trans people really did turn out to be a load bearing part of liberal democracy ey
NEW: They're an extremist anti-trans group. They're supported by right-wing stalwarts like FIRE and the National Review. And they claim to be Democrats.
Who are they really? @billiejsweeney.bsky.social investgates Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
"Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States."
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
"The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police."
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. CBP’s misconduct scandal is so long-running that today it would be old enough to drink."
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
Jewish people are not responsible for the war. Israel, contrariwise, is partially responsible for the war. These are two different things, much as both Greenblatt and antisemites wish they weren't.
My focus group of angry swing voters made one thing clear: The clock is ticking for Donald Trump to either end the war in Iran or come up with a new batch of anti-trans ads.