@thwartedone
Professional curmudgeon. Enjoyer of loud music, gymnastics, nail polish, and sleeping. Cat mom. Progressive Southerner. PhD, sociology - studies the production of inequality thru judicial decision-making. She/her. Opinions solely my own.
#SOUTHCAROLINA
It's been a bit since I talked about all our important folks here so I'm making a thread so y'all can keep up with them!
I hope to spread it around enough to reach all the SC folks on this app with a little help from my friends 🤗
1️⃣our candidates:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
This is what democracy looks like! 1600 people at Brittlebank Park this morning. #50501 #indivisible #charlestonresists
A sleeping orange and white cat
This cat claws fascists. When she's not sleeping, that is.
Was it a mistake, or was it the admin finding the person lowest on the org chart and throwing them under the bus once they figured out this wasn't going to go over how they would like?
As sad as it is, at this point I'll take victories where I can get them.
Shame on Planned Parenthood of Arizona for dropping their trans patients because of threats from Trump.
What happens when they make you stop providing abortions? Birth control? PReP? Gonna roll over then too?
These orgs complying are cowardly.
Spring - On college campuses the last day of classes.
A #StandUpWithUs #USProtest for academic freedom. @standupforscience.bsky.social
Register events at: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
#StandUpForScience #USProtests #Resist #FightBack
End of Resist Dates thread
#50501 #indivisible #summervillesc #indivisiblecharleston #handsoff
Protesters’ Rights by @aclu.org
Read even if you are not protesting. Pass the info along to whomever may need it.
#Resist where you can.
#MomSky says to look out for the agitators. Look out for one another.
Someone will come and get them.
@sammiestsam.bsky.social
The Columbus City School District just outed every trans kid whose parents allowed them to change their name in the school’s database. Without notice, CCS switched from preferred names to legal names in class rosters, Google Forms, emails & much more. Outed trans kids are being harassed.
Please add this to your activism list:
Submit a public comment from the link below to tell the HHS that gender affirming healthcare is evidence-based and lifesaving care.
This new policy will effectively BAN HRT as it will no longer be allowed to be an "Essential Health Benefit" 1/3
A stacked bar chart (oriented horizontally) labeled: Living with ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome) Each horizontal bar is a disease status: Pre-ME, Mild ME, Moderate ME, Severe ME, Very Severe ME. The width of each bar represents how much energy is available in each status (100, 50, 25, 12.5, and 6.25 respectively). Each bar is divided into sections for how one might allocate their energy: hygiene & nutrition (gray); caregiving, cleaning errands (red); work (orange); exercise (yellow); friends (green); hobbies (blue); fun (purple). With worsening ME, the hygiene & nutrition takes up a larger proportion of total available energy and the amount of energy available for all other parts of life shrinks. Mild ME has most things cut in half, with exercise cut smaller. Moderate ME removes exercise altogether, and everything else shrinks. Severe ME has only tiny slivers of red, orange, green, blue and purple. Very Severe ME has only a tiny sliver of green.
I've been thinking about how to explain the challenge of living with ME/CFS and created this cartoon visualization.
Imagine the life of someone without ME is a rainbow of activities that each take a certain amount of energy.
ME limits your energy, and thereby the vibrancy of your life.
This morning's front page.
I prefer to call them accomplices when I want them to know the contempt I hold for them; quisling works when one wants plausible deniability (since there's a non-zero chance they wouldn't know what that meant.) Appeaser implies that they have no other choice - bowing down to fascism is a choice.
Law Dork on Tuesday: “Trump is a salesman, as is Musk, and they are both trying to sell America on being an authoritarian state — but they can’t do it unless we allow them to do so.” www.lawdork.com/p/donald-tru...
On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Wait until somebody tells him you need to have a social security number to file for social security benefits - watch his brain explode. I would be willing to bet that SSA vets that the proffered number belongs to the person submitting the application as well.
Trump on Social Security: "We have people that shouldn't be on, and those people we have to weed out. Most of them, or many of them so far, have been illegal immigrants."
SC legislation being 🤡s as per usual
www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025...
Reminder for Elon:
The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) protects “concerted activity,” giving you the right to discuss working conditions, pay, and workplace concerns with others. This includes venting with co-workers about unfair treatment, pay, or safety issues, even on social media.
23 lawsuits and counting. Just Security, a project of the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law, is tracking lawsuits against the current administration for their gross abuses of power and malfeasance. Keep them coming!
www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...
Public Enemy. “Fight the Power.” 1990. The message is simple. 35 yrs old now. I mean, the whole album was called ‘Fear of a Black Planet’ ffs
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
Living Colour: Cult of Personality
This song spoke to me back in 2016, and again now.
Miss Caty
Some advice on How to Weather the Storm, including “create something lovely for yourself or others”, “moderate your exposure to the bullshit”, “find the people who are already doing the work, and follow their lead”, and “join something”. [kottke.org]
Trump's new executive orders aim to dismantle DEI programs and accessibility programs.
Companies, schools, and institutions must resist the fear and confusion of these orders by doubling down on our commitment to equal opportunity for everyone, regardless of their background.
As of this moment, the entire federal government is in violation of the Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment —not b/c the government has ended DEIA programs, but b/c the government is discriminating against employees and new hires based on the color of their skin.
My latest in @thenation.com
#MetalChurch. “Badlands.” 1989.
“As the world awakens me so hard, my values have been changed
I make a promise to myself: Never again
A dusty godforsaken path, endless to my dismay
I know these are the #badlands, somehow I'll find my way…”
A tribute to #Metalsky ⚔️
Boycott Day Banger #3, Scorpions, Wind of Change: ode to SU’s “glasnost” policy that ultimately freed millions from tyranny for the fall of oppressive regimes, and an inspiration for politically divided and downtrodden people everywhere to keep working for positive change.
youtu.be/n4RjJKxsamQ?...
