Not That Artemis

A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

Just finished the Behind the Bastards episodes on the impact of Jeffrey Epstein. And like a takeway is that he started funding anti-trans research because he allegedly SA'd a trans girl (she was 16 at the time) who turned around and sued his ass for it and he was mad that she sued him.

As a fucking parent TALK TO YOUR FUCKING KIDS THEN. Worried they'll see porn? Talk to them about porn. Worried they'll see gore? Talk to them about gore. Worried they'll get groomed? Talk to them about red flags and cultivate trust with them so they won't feel they have to hide things from you.

Section 230 protects online platforms from being considered publishers. This protects them from constant lawsuits over user content, allowing user content to flourish. Repealing it would force platforms to aggressively censor users to avoid liability, devastating the Internet.

Love the community note that got added on to the Democrats' tweet about their deranged and harmful efforts to dismantle Section 230.

(1) Any picture, photograph, drawing, sculpture, motion picture film, video game, computer software game, or similar visual representation or image of a person or portion of the human body, that depicts nudity, sexual conduct, excess violence, or sado-masochistic abuse, and that is harmful to minors; or (2) Any book, pamphlet, magazine, printed matter, however reproduced, or sound recording, which contains any matter enumerated in subdivision (a)(1), or that contains explicit and detailed verbal descriptions or narrative accounts of sexual excitement, sexual conduct, excess violence, or sadomasochistic abuse, and that is harmful to minors.

TN is considering a new bill that allows parents to sue large platforms that allow "material harmful to minors"— including sculpture, drawings, photos, music or video games— that describe or depict nudity, sex or "excessive violence"

The censorship that started with "porn" is coming for everything.

I hear from people who are surprised I'm still talking about ICE, they thought they'd withdrawn from MN.

No, they have not. In some respects they've escalated.

Some asked why MN is a target. Are there are there a lot more illegals or criminals here?

No, it's not about that. It's about a grudge.

The fact that Bad Bunny's halftime show made white bigots angry and feel excluded is A GOOD THING. It's one of the best things about it. It's not a problem to solve. It's a solution to pursue. Bigots *should* feel excluded. We should find *more* ways to celebrate the reality of USian diversity.

I am glad everyone is remembering Surya Bonaly and the outrageous way she was mistreated. I was a big fan as a kid during her too-brief career and the obviously biased judging was a major reason why I lost all interest in figure skating.

Yeah, and the investigation into why I bought 4 boxes of girl scout cookies yesterday revealed I wasn't depressed with poor impulse control

Why can't I just support myself by being really hot and really goth so I can spend my time making stuff?

party pooper reporting for duty again to remind you that hate-views are still views so no one better watch that other halftime show (even after the fact!!) just to make fun of it ty

book i'm reading rn ('No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk') makes this point in the prolog- a brief period of no cost education and housing resulted in working class students studying art, enriching both themselves and their communities

A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all.

Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.

Victor Manuel Diaz died in ICE custody on January 14.

His fundraiser sits at $5,138 the cost to bring him home for burial is $4,750.

I imagine his family needs more breathing room to grieve.

I’ll match the first $200 in donations.

Leave receipts below 👇

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BTW, if Senate Dems want technical reforms, here's one: amend 8 USC 1357 so DHS agents do not have power to arrest without a judicial warrant unless they are GS-1811, grade of GS-13 or higher.

Real criminal investigations would be unaffected, but CBP & ICE goon squads would be severely limited.

Someday, you too will be disabled. Your life will be so much better then if you address your ableism now

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

HOWEVER I shall not be letting up on any elected Dems who are like "welp we took care of that guy, mission accomplished," and try to move on

you in it now motherfuckers

we are pulling out this tree down to the ROOTS

I'm not celebrating Bovino going under the bus because I think it means this is over.

I'm celebrating that we've entered the Shitheads Going Under the Bus era.

God I'm so pumped to trip more of them under it.

If your Representative or Senators start going "whew! I guess it's ok to give DHS funding now" be ready to get on their cases

Of course we miss out on the part with a cool dragon

Shoveling in Philly: guy went past me on skis in the middle of the street
Shortly after a car driving down the street got stuck. Ski guy and a bunch of other neighbors helped him get unstuck. I hope he made it wherever he was going.

We are calling our senators right now and demanding that they vote no on the omnibus with DHS funding

We are explicitly mentioning ICE’s murder in cold blood of a man on the streets of Minneapolis this morning

If you’re struggling, I’m copy pasting what a trauma therapist friend suggested here:

“Highly recommend dunking your face in a bowl of cold water, drinking some water to help your body flush the adrenaline and finding something to smell or touch for grounding and avoiding dissociation”

they murdered him. they wrestled him to the ground and then executed them. fuck ICE is not strong enough.

they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll empty a whole goddamn magazine into you while you’re lying on the ground if you don’t cheer them on while they’re fucking doing it.

"well what can these poor baby smol bean elected officials do 🥺" they should be in the streets getting tear gassed with their constituents and i'm not kidding

Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.

I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.