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In competitive authoritarianism (US right now) there's often a "loyal opposition" that's essential to the regime. They are so wedded to "decorum," they go along with rites & rituals that help regime prop up veneer of normalcy, undermining clear view of regimes actions & aims.

Cries in Chicago

Critical support to comrade Pizzaballa

journalism not dead yet

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

NYU Langone ending trans youth care feels like the end is neigh for trans youth care in the US & I’m in a rage that it’s not Trump or Republicans forcing the end of this care, it’s private “liberal” universities in blue cities/blue states voluntarily doing this (also Northwestern Lurie in Chicago).

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

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screenshot of a Bluesky post that says "absolutely shocked shocked shocked that a movie made by a woman being consumed by mostly women is a being gleefully and publicly eviscerated! that's so weird" above a link to a story titled "Powered by women, Withering Heights digs up $34.8 million at the box office for a number 1 debut"

how many jewelry empires does one mid filmmaker have to inherit before people are allowed to criticize her movies :/

Wow.

The 2026 Primary Edition of ##GirlIGuess is now live!! You can find the Guide and other election-related resources at girliguess.com. I don't want to even THINK about Congress again until November. Happy voting!!

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40.

Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store

There’s a dude trying to get ChatGPT to count to 100 without skipping and it’s failed 3 days in a row

there is an employment crisis among trans women and there always has been, but good luck getting people to see it

These are the LGBTQ athletes on Team USA in Milan - Outsports Team USA features at least 8 out LGBTQ athletes competing at the 2026 Milan Winter Olympics, representing five sports.

Lesbian Heated Rivalry wouldn’t work because they’d all be out and married by the end of the first season/book. www.outsports.com/2026/2/5/241...

danny's original tweet which reads, Today, students at my high school in Chicago held an Anti-ICE protest. I was the only one that decided to hold a sign that said ‘I Love ICE’. Instead of allowing me to express my opinion, I was assaulted — Just for standing up for law enforcement. What is happening to America? there is a 47 second video that sees multiple other kids talk smack to him and one of them just lays into him physically

a quote tweet that has transcription from the punch. the tweet reads:“You’re gonna punch me?” “Yeah” “Then you’re gonna in trouble for that” “Okay” Followed by this frame is one of the hardest things I’ve seen on the internet this week. the frame in question is the kid winding up for a punch. it looks exactly like the pepe punching meme

over on x the everything app some Chicago high school kid named Danny Spud tried to disrupt his school's anti-ICE protest by yelling about how much he loves ICE and then filmed himself getting walloped by a fellow student lmao

the quote tweet making fun of him has 3x the likes

OH HELL YEAH!!!!!

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.

My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!

go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Please check on the trans people in your life today.

The anti trans rhetoric is everywhere.

Those on the right are purposefully stoking fear and division in an attempt to destroy an entire marginalized group.

We can’t let them get away with it.

Trans rights are human rights.

It’s Kent Nishimura. He’s one of the best photojournalists of this era. Please use his name.

In my life, every time Democrats have been given power through election victories they have used that power to enact GOP policies while enshrining whatever awful evil shit the GOP was doing that lost them the election, then Dems lose the next election and act like they powerless for the next decade.

Cool. Stay out.

Amber Glenn, a queer Texan who started ice skating at the stonebriar mall in frisco at age 5, who plays magic the gathering, is an olympic gold medalist

If you're a business owner who fires someone you have assigned to an overseas job and you don't buy them a plane ticket home you should actually go to prison

From the Epstein files, here is an insane slide from an actual DOJ child sex crimes task force PowerPoint presentation, apparently given sometime last summer after the Maxwell interview www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Mongolian 2026 winter olympics uniforms

Haitian 2026 Winter Olympics uniforms

Mongolia and Haiti correctly identified that the Winter Olympics are primarily a chance to design baller cold weather uniforms

"So it turns out Trump was involved with a pedophile human trafficking ring masquerading as a modeling agency where the perpetrator died under mysterious circumstances in prison"

"Oh yeah, Jeffrey Epstein right?"

"No, I mean the OTHER time that happened" bsky.app/profile/meid...

Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.

Self-crit time: last night I reported on this rally in Chicago, and like I was worried would happen, big liberal accounts have spread its aesthetics but ignored its context. But that's my fault as well

I should have made a few things clearer from the start:

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