Julia Moon Child

@trimdog.bsky.social

chill dude who’s not too complicated (aspirational)

HUGE: Under Mayor Mamdani, New York City just recorded its safest first 7 months of a year in history—and its safest July ever. In July: Major crime dropped 13% Murder dropped 32% Robberies dropped 15% Vehicle thefts dropped 25% Democratic mayors are putting public safety first.

I need a special kind of woman, a woman who is like my completely insane mother in ways that I haven’t consciously articulated yet so that I can try to resolve my deep seated psychological trauma and fail

On this day in 1970, Rep. Martha Griffiths collected enough signatures (218 out of 435 House members) for a discharge petition that freed the Equal Rights Amendment from the House Judiciary Committee. Committee Chair Emanuel Celler had kept the ERA trapped for decades without a hearing. #WeTheMen

Martha Griffiths

Let’s talk about city privilege You’re born in the city, you have family there, your family has real estate (or rental equivalent), you’re culturally acclimated If someone moves to your city, are you going to babysit their kids? Give them your house? Adopt their manners? No.

This is Joan Sebastian Guerrero, the 26-year-old Colombian father and husband murdered by ICE fascists in broad daylight in front of his 3-year-old daughter. He was NOT the target of the ICE warrant. He was documented. He did everything right. ICE murdered him anyway. And yet… 1/2

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Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

IMO the male gaze is about status, and how to quantify attractiveness in women and increasingly men in order to bolster status What attributes are unambiguously hot? How many of those attributes can we cram onto one person? Who cares if it makes you feel dead inside at the end of it

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4w ago

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “A straight man’s appearance seems to be an increasingly important expression of his masculinity,” Kate Manne writes in a guest essay. “I suggest the male gaze, long trained on women, is turning on straight men too.”

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Andrea Grimes@andreagrimes.com · last mo.

This @msnowreports.bsky.social piece from @susanrinkunas.com is a must-read if you follow abortion politics. I've followed the anti-abortion "abolitionist" movement for 12+ years, and the fact that these dudes (it's 99% dudes) are forcing this conversation into the mainstream is urgently horrifying