I mostly don't find it helpful to do relative comparisons of Islamophobia and antisemitism in the US but it is legitimately stunning to compare the wall-to-wall coverage of Jewish MI voters with the near-total lack of interest in how Muslim voters are processing a staggering wave of Islamophobia

🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social · 2w ago

Considering that there are more than twice as many Muslims as Jews in Michigan, it's pretty remarkable how little mainstream anguish there has been about the GOP running the most Islamophobic campaign in US history in a key swing state.

Betsey is done!

In retrospect, maybe it was a little bit ambitious to choose intarsia for my first big knitting project.

Another election cycle, another opportunity for liberals to be wildly Islamophobic and feign confusion when you call it out! At least Republicans don’t pretend.

I’m uncomfortable with so many people saying, “Well she signed a contract months ago saying she would terminate, so she shouldn’t be allowed to change her mind.” I realize she isn’t particularly sympathetic, but please think about the implications of that attitude toward bodily autonomy!

Now that Dr. Abdul El-Sayed has won the primary, i think he needs to begin addressing the concerns of people who are extremely racist against him

Let's not beat around the bush, here: they're trying to paint Abdul El-Sayed as a misogynist simply because he's Arab.

Hoping all moving company bosses, brokers, and any complicit employees have a terrible rest of their lives. ❤️

Last week I was in Arkansas when it was 95*. The “feels like” was 109*. As a native Arizonan, I feel qualified to tell you the “feels like” was a lie. A muggy 95 doesn’t feel anywhere near as bad as an actual 109*!

Yesteryear fell kind of flat for me. I would like to read a take on tradwives from a deconstructed member of one of these high-demand religious communities. Because, as someone raised on the inside, I haven’t read one yet that reads as authentic.

My latest sewing project has proven VERY CONTROVERSIAL. I’ve never gotten as many compliments from strangers, but also people coming up to me just to tell me they hate it (good-naturedly). Loosely inspired by the Schiaparelli ant suit, but without any of the artistry and much more kitsch.

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

Is it better to upcycle or donate clothing? I have a bunch of button up shirts in good condition. They don’t fit me anymore and the fit isn’t trendy. Is it better for me to cut them up and quilt them into something new or donate them?

There has to be someone better than Gavin Newsom. THERE HAS TO BE!!!

Once liberals realize that their elected representatives are supposed to help them, they’re going to become enraged

In a likely deadly move, the Israeli government told 37 foreign aid groups, including Doctors Without Borders, they could no longer operate in Palestine. Where is the outrage? Read the latest from @dianabuttu.bsky.social zeteo.com/p/israel-aid...

Israel Is Banning the 'Last Foreign Witnesses' to Its Genocide in Gaza

In a likely deadly move, the Israeli government told 37 foreign aid groups, including Doctors Without Borders, they could no longer operate in Palestine. Where is the outrage?

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A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

Remember when Tony Dokoupil told Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Morning News that his book that humanized and empathized with Palestinians belonged in a terrorist’s backpack? I do.

My First Amendment professor told us on the first day of class that pornographers and Jehovah’s Witnesses were the real heroes of the First Amendment.

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions

How do second generation hyphenated names work? Like if you were born into a family with a hyphenated surname, and then you got married and had children, and wanted to continue the tradition of hyphenating, which name(s) do you drop?

I recently went on a trip where I decided embroidering whales on a sweatshirt was the perfect thing to do on the plane. #embroidery

Just finished one of those books where you try and get anyone and everyone in your life to also read it, so you have someone to talk to about it.

The next X years are going to be so tedious and dumb and painful.

What crafty little hobbies are we all getting into to distract ourselves from the existential dread?

I’m actually surprised by how many people are pathetic cowardly worms.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

My first bead embroidery project is done! It was a lot of trial and error, picking out beads and trying again. The cow looks nothing like I initially wanted it to and the star was a last minute decision. But I still like it!