As someone on the spectrum I am aghast at these fascists crediting my mom’s use of Tylenol rather than my own ingenuity and dedication.

Did you know the rapture mythos is rooted in antisemitic Christian Zionist propaganda?

“What happens in Lamar, will not stay in Lamar. The same people, organizations, & groups successfully lobbied the Texas legislature for laws they believe will make it easier to criminalize educators & librarians, & for them to remove books”

Texas Freedom to Read Project@txfreedomread.bsky.social · 11mo ago

No - this is not the latest satirical headline at @theonion.com This is reality for the 49,000+ students who attend Lamar Consolidated ISD schools. www.txftrp.org/pinkalicious...

Sauron emerged from the primordial Middle Earth-devouring darkness of the venue’s green room with a deep sigh. After a rousing performance of his first song of the night, his eye filled with blood. You could hear a pin drop. Voice quaking, he said, “He died too young. This one’s for Charlie.”

At this point I can’t help but wonder if legacy media corporations are giving a glow-up to the fascist to win over the nebulous “middle” with a show of performative civility…or because they’re owned by frikkin billionaires who are in fact benefited by fascist policies. Never mind, it’s both.

Performative civility is off the charts.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

You know the world is chill and definitely not facing a global rise of fascism when newly elected popes are saying stuff like “Evil will not prevail.”

An Augustinian in the Vatican? All I can say is: Watch your pears, cardinals…they’ll steal your pears.

Eliminating funding for the research of diseases such as Ebola seems to suggest that we're all very comfortable with people contracting, and spreading, Ebola without any access to treatment or cures.

RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research

NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s departm...

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State terror

☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · last yr.

god this shit is blood boiling

I filmed this yesterday on my way to Lousiana where my constituent Rümeysa Öztürk is being wrongfully held by ICE. I’m there now demanding her release. More to come.

If you thought changing LCSH was bad, wait til we get a full-throated crony as the new head of the LOC.

jennie rose halperin@littlewow.online · last yr.

Trump is going to appoint the new Librarian of Congress next year, who will oversee the Copyright Office. The position used to be a lifetime appointment but was changed to 10 years shortly before a Black woman took office because a white man refused to retire.

Birds of Prey

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · last yr.

Not fave, but The Pillow Book is one of those movies that will randomly pop back into my brain and completely derail my whole afternoon.

you'll never be rid of him

They think “great, more shit to blame on minorities.”

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · last yr.

WHAT DO THESE GENIUSES THINK WILL HAPPEN TO MANUFACTURING JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY IF THERE IS A RECESSION !?!?!?!?!?!!?

DING DING DING

Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · last yr.

Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.

This is the "stock prices can be manipulated" part.

Kelsey Hightower@kelseyhightower.com · last yr.

I think it's a mistake to focus on stock prices in this moment. As we've seen, stock prices can be manipulated, and don't represent the real economy. If the stock market were to reverse course are we going to start singing this administration praises?

A new report reveals the vast majority of those demanding book bans are organizations or officials — not individual parents. It’s NOT a parent’s rights movement at all. It’s an astroturf campaign that these orgs are using to gain power over Americans. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Report shows it’s largely officials and orgs demanding book bans - not parents

Only 16 percent of book challenges came from parents themselves

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Elon’s sharing his ketamine.

Scott Galloway@profgalloway.com · last yr.

“I feel much better now.” —nobody

Reminder: The Department of Government Efficiency is not a Department, no matter how much the media names it as such.

I have to assume the next step in genetic modification after creating a larger grey wolf, if China hasn’t already done it, is creating a hornier panda.

Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness. I am very, very weak, but they are two different things.

The constitution is deeply flawed, and ignoring its messiness gets us nowhere. Also, you’d be better off prepping for this scenario by getting your PR messaging sorted out rather than hoping the court will save us.

Imani Gandy@angryblacklady.blacksky.app · last yr.

the people getting mad at mark for this take are sending me. he's just doing his job, people. and what he's saying is absolutely correct. and given all the fuckery afoot, i find it more astonishing that people are mad at the lawyer man explaining what the law says because TRUMP CAN'T DO THAT.

So in other countries, you can DO that?

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last yr.

*gazes wistfully out a window*

Here is a sitting Democratic Congressmember pointing out that the US bombing Yemen is a war crime. This is possible! It is a thing you can do, if you're an elected official.

One thing that is fairly clear at this point is that the entire point of whisking people out of the country with no due process in defiance of a judge's orders to put them into a foreign gulag *was so they could produce fascist content*.

Two things: 1) We should not do war crimes. 2) When this administration breaks the law, we should use it against them, including their national security crimes while doing war crimes.

I prefer my war crimes when they're classified secrets. What is even going on here!