Back for good because I am in a blue state now. So, what did I miss? Has everyone come around on my boy Abdul in Michigan or has he milkshake ducked without me knowing it when my Bluesky was blocked?
BeJohnSay 🖤🤎✡️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Solidarity alliance, mutual aid, supporting Black women. “Stupidest person on this site!” Ben Dreyer (retracted) “😂” Erin Biba, 260319 “FUNNY” Anil Dash, 250418. “😂” -Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom, 251004 “Thank you!” Kathy Griffin, 251004
My favorite thing at a new job is when people introduce themselves by welcoming me and NOT MENTIONING THEIR NAME AS IF THEY ARE BEYONCÉ AND THEIR EXISTENCE IS UNIVERSALLY IDENTIFIABLE.
I had to do an emergency MSA for the first time in decades in less than four hours and AI did a competent job. If I didn’t have AI I would have crashed out because I needed to get this done in my first month at a new job but it’s like asking an American to write a newspaper article in Italian.
If people on the left are squeamish about inclusion and social justice they're not actually on the left.
"hmm maybe this whole Arday affair shows that we need to have a Serious Conversation about whether Woke 1.0 overreached in manner X, Y, of Z" motherfucker you are generally in Fascism 487.0, as is this particular affair you're talking about. worry about *that*. /Final
The resegregation of American life in the corporate sphere is the biggest failure of American media to do its job, imho.
I may be invisible, but you're transparent.@invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnd how little thought they put into our resegregation.
And how little thought they put into our resegregation.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2mo agoI will never write (because mixed audience) but the heartbreak so many Black people feel isn’t just about neoconfederates and Trump. It’s about how many of our whites friends and colleagues showed how they thought of their Black colleagues.
Its always about keeping non-cishet white men out of prestige positions. Nothing else
Gregory Kohn@kohngregory.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.
I will never write (because mixed audience) but the heartbreak so many Black people feel isn’t just about neoconfederates and Trump. It’s about how many of our whites friends and colleagues showed how they thought of their Black colleagues.
Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · 2mo agoAcademic gossip fed the media monster and killed Jason Arday in a terrible, preventable, forseeable tragedy katemanne.substack.com/p/gossipy-ac...
The cyclospora outbreak has reached 13,895 cases across 47 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,500 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”
Oh hello. I took a Deputy General Counsel job at a tech unicorn and so I’m back in California where the internet doesn’t ban BlueSky and it’s verification records for the Texas government. What did I miss? Am I voting for Talarico before I move permanently or nah?
ICE has fatally shot 11 people since Donald Trump's second term began. These are not isolated incidents. They are the predictable result of a cruel, violent system. Abolish ICE.
ICE is beyond repairing. We can't reform our way out of this. Strip it down to the studs and start over.
AOC: I said this a couple of weeks ago: I would not be surprised if, when ICE funding started up again, we would start to see more civilian deaths at the hands of ICE. And that’s exactly what has happened. We didn’t see things like this happening with the same degree when we froze ICE funding.
W U T.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3mo agoA yearslong effort to groom Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Iranian president, as an intelligence asset culminated in a dramatic effort to take him to an Israeli safe house in the early days of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Here's how the plan fell apart. nyti.ms/4pjgqE0
If I WERE to blackmail someone, it would involve threatening to release the kompomat of their beloved brother that would destroy his legacy.
Politico@politico.com · 3mo agoBREAKING: Trump says he wants Lindsey Graham’s sister, Darline Graham Nordone, to serve the remainder of the late senator’s term.
Anyways, I’m not saying queer people after to get married, but to die alone at 71 bc you disregarded staffers advice to go to the hospital or have someone to unlock the door for emts as you die of suffocation is a sobering lesson and a reflection of judgment.
He was already dead of aortic dissection. They tried CPR but it was too late. If Lindsey had lived life openly, maybe he would have been in a relationship. He never married or even dated. Instead, he chose to live in a closet alone & died inside that home with no one to open the door. #LGBT
HOW THE CLOSET KILLED SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM. Graham called 911 from his DC home at 8 pm. He said the door would be unlocked. When EMTs arrived, the door was still locked and there was no response. 911 had to send Capitol police to break down the door. EMTS got in 23 minutes later.
HOW THE CLOSET KILLED SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM. Graham called 911 from his DC home at 8 pm. He said the door would be unlocked. When EMTs arrived, the door was still locked and there was no response. 911 had to send Capitol police to break down the door. EMTS got in 23 minutes later.
1 in 3 Americans skip getting care because they can't afford it. Not because they aren't sick. Not because they don't want care. But because the system chose to put profits over people. That ends with the Primary and Behavioral Health Care Access Act.
Randomly remembered how Lindsey Graham said Rene Goodman deserved to die.
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
BlueSky demands age verification for my state, even though Twitter does not. The point of this burner account is not to sync it to verifications. I’m in a first world state for work but I think this is the end of my BlueSky experiment. I love you all and am rooting for you always! 🖤🤎✡️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💙
ICE shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on his way to work, a proud father doing his best to provide for his family for 35 years. This cannot keep happening. We need a full and independent investigation.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3mo agoRonaldo Salgado relayed his panicked search for his father, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, as he joined local legislators and activists in calling for a full and transparent investigation into the killing on Tuesday in Houston. https://wapo.st/4vUxMt9
19. But if there's so much at stake, why did Warren risk her reputation in the face of mounting evidence of Platner's dirtbagism? www.liberalcurrents.com/the-dirtbags...
The Dirtbags Won’t Save Us
There is no path out of our present crisis offered by the exaltation of callousness.
liberalcurrents.com
15. Yet by June, Warren was apparently worried. A week before the primary, she and other supporters in the Senate, in a private meeting, demanded assurances that no other scandals would come out to humiliate them. Warren seemed to know something and addressed it specifically.
