@smutek
AuDHD Gen Xer, dad & husband, web developer & electronic musician, bleeping & blooping in Baltimore. I mostly boost leftish & news stuff. Occasional posts about mental health or whatever. Antifascist because fascism is wrong and bad.
Having a child with a disability means suiting up for a lifetime of battles to ensure their basic rights and dignity, even in blue Maryland, where our Dem. governor @govwesmoore.bsky.social proposed a budget with $150 million in cuts to the DDA. I am so, so tired of fighting.
The removal of the Mines is very complete, in fact many People are saying the Most Complete they’ve ever seen
An image of the pyramid of the capitalist economy, with this text: Capitalism is a Pyramid Scheme The labor of those lower on the pyramid enriches the ones towards the top. To stay stable, the economy has to draw in more and more resources—colonizing new continents, workforces, and aspects of daily life. The resulting inequalities can only be maintained by ever-escalating force. We’re encouraged to compete against each other to improve our positions on an individual basis. But there’s not enough space at the top for all of us, no matter how hard we work—and no pyramid scheme can go on expanding forever. Sooner or later it’s bound to crash: global warming and recession are just the warning signs. Instead of going down with the Pharaohs, let’s join forces to establish another way of life.
The problem is capitalism itself—a social order that systematically rewards the pursuit of profit at all costs, concentrating power in fewer and fewer hands and cultivating selfishness and rapacity as if they were civic virtues.
The Trump presidency is the logical conclusion.
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Glad to hear Jello is ok. He’s a real one. Will never forget when he gave me a ride across SF in his clunker of a car. The back seat was full of random stuff he had trash picked. I know singers of bands who couldn’t sell out my living room with more hubris. Good dude www.punknews.org/article/8775...
Alleged Legionella outbreak at Baltimore ICE facility prompts concerns from Maryland leaders
We can bail out the rich and big corporations, but not small businesses or the poor. We can forgive debts and loans to the rich and corporations, but not for small businesses or the poor. That's the America way, at least in my lifetime.
This week, in the Prairieland case, Texas prosecutors are attempting to equate anarchism with terrorism.
While masked thugs in plainclothes assault and abduct people around the country.
While bombs destroy hospitals and elementary schools in Iran.
crimethinc.com/Prairieland
Money Tip #3906 What if you just stop being poor and be rich instead?
Steve-O was on Joe Rogan's show trying to defend trans people and Rogan went off, he called trans people "fucking perverts" and "mass shooters" who have done the majority of school shootings.
Completely unhinged bigotry paid for by your Spotify subscriptions.
MARYLAND — If you see ICE or CBP activity in your area, report it here. We're getting reports now of ICE staging in Timonium and Owings Mills, but it's more useful if the information is consolidated and accessible to all and not reliant on us passing it along!
I am pretty afraid of what the other detention facilities look like after hearing that.
Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”
Even Ken Jennings is dunking on Jesse Singal.
I noticed he wrote “many of whom have a professional stake in it” as if he himself doesn’t have a “professional stake” in tearing down trans people.
Meanwhile Kennedy is on a nationwide BBQ tour…
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War pig.
War pig
⚫🟡MARYLANDERS🔴⚪
ICE wants to convert a package warehouse into a facility holding 1,500 people and calls it an "in-kind" change. We disagree.
The public comment window to share open comments closes Thursday 3/5.
Tell ICE what you think — we've made it easy.
Read more over at Project Salt Box.
Israel, immediately after vaporizing a bunch of little girls:
An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.
Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.
This is pure cruelty.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
But this isn’t just a regular account. Johnny MAGA appears to actually be a White House staffer named Garrett Wade who works for the Trump administration as a rapid response manager, helping to run the very same White House account his anonymous MAGA account amplifies. A phone number associated with Wade is linked to Johnny MAGA, according to a WIRED review of publicly available records, and the connection was confirmed by a source close to the White House. Wade and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.
The Johnny MAGA account was created in September 2021, according to its X profile. (It originally used a different handle, which referenced Wade’s birth year, according to records reviewed by WIRED.) While the account’s earliest available posts focused on NFTs, it has been a consistent pro-Trump presence since at least 2022. The operator of the Johnny MAGA account has not disclosed an official relationship with the White House while operating the Johnny MAGA X account. Multiple media outlets, including Mother Jones, TownHall, and the New York Post, have all linked out to posts on the Johnny MAGA account seemingly as organic reflections of public sentiment on political issues.
This is very good reporting that sheds light on just how small the extremely pro-Trump online right really is. The online right is totally astroturfed. The White House's own staffers are running meme accounts to make them look more popular than they are. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...
Autism Spectrum Disorder, it’s literally in the name.
1. Major news on trans youth care. The American Psychological Association has reaffirmed its full support for its 2024 guidelines supporting trans youth car.e
It provided documentation showing Jesse Singal mischaracterized their position in the NYT.
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Newsom's idea of normal is white supremacy?
www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...
These dogs are having the time of their lives following this week's historic blizzard in the Northeast. Please enjoy. 14/10 for all
Academy Award nominated The Voice of Hind Rajab is now streaming.
A powerful and deeply moving film that brings truth, memory, and humanity to the forefront, honoring a story that cannot and should not be forgotten.
Available to watch now on: Amazon, Apple TV and Fandango at Home.
In the last few months, I've gotten lots of new followers, so I figure it's time for me to do one of those introductory threads.
I'm Emma Best, and I'm an activist, historian, and journalist. Less impressively, I'm also a huge geek and fan of speculative fiction (esp. Doctor Who). /1
Ha! Reminds me of Trump talking about his “silent supporters” in the wake of his dismal polling!
