An original Nashville sit-in member, along with Diane Nash, James Bevel, and John Lewis. Trained in non-violence by James Lawson. At age 21, he signed a will before the Freedom Rides, knowing he could die.
May his soul be at peace, and may we all have such courage in the face of oppression.
Literally covering up a killing, which always implies wrong-doing. What will it take to get Americans to care as much about real life as they about, say, deflated NFL footballs?
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The list of ICE and Customs and Border Protection sex offenders and sex pests is now up to 62.
‘We Couldn’t Say the Title’: @littlebadger.bsky.social on the Words Banned at a Utah University pen.org/darcie-littl...
Your reminder that Joss Whedon wasn’t allowed to be alone with 14 year old Michelle Trachtenberg.
Just if you’re getting excited about his career re-launch and don’t care about his revolting behaviour toward Charisma Carpenter.
I had a conversation once with someone who didn't think Asian women were oppressed because they (we?) were desired so much, and I was so taken aback. The same has been happening for trans folks -- fetishization is another form of objectification, a desire for control and ownership.
This is one of those things that is less sexy to talk about but is unequivocally a war crime
It would be nice if some of these white pundit Platner defenders would acknowledge that if they're wrong, the bulk of the harm will fall on the rest of us. They're risking our safety more than their own.
It seems that instead of bombing Iranian jets & helicopters, the US & Israel have been bombing 'drawings'.
Iran is using anamorphic ground paintings to deceive enemy attacks. Look at this video released by the IDF — the ‘destroyed Mi-17 helicopter’ is just a painting on the asphalt.
That’s a weird way to spell “Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., broke the arm of a Marine veteran exercising his first amendment rights.”
Live your life so that children don’t celebrate you being fired.
kid running/dancing down the sidewalk, yelling to the world, "KRISTI NOEM GOT FIRED!!!"
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Jamal's parents are desperate for help, & donations are v slow. Jamal has asthma and diabetes, & is in critical condition. He desperately needs treatment, & his family can't afford it. They need your help, & are being blocked by both the admin & users of the site. Please help them survive genocide:
We need universal basic income as a floor no one is allowed to fall beneath and also as a dividend to make sure everyone benefits as a shareholder from national productivity growth. UBI would also likely further grow GDP by consumers spending it into our 70% consumer-driven economy.
Y'all. Read this book. A beautiful, Borgesian jewel of a novella on identity, belonging, and the nature of self. In Das's typically top shelf prose.
From long experience in N.C., I like to remind folks of the following lessons from fighting our enemies: be relentless, be uncompromising, attack their money and put not your faith in politicians.
When it comes to the South, national queer/trans media tends to veer between doomerism and exultation.
By now you've probably heard that several prominent anti-trans Democrats lost primaries on Tuesday. This is, of course, good. But it ain't the whole story.
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That brings us to the last warning sign. One reason I wrote the article linked above last year and re-emphasized the history of HB2 recently.
When the chips are down, NC Dems — including ones who run as vocal allies — have a long, long history of treating queer and trans rights as expendable.
Again, the removal of three awful bigots is a good thing. But we've got a bad history of natl media declaring victory in NC, then turning elsewhere. It's cost us badly.
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Baraa has lost two little daughters to Israel's genocide. Please help her keep her remaining son Ibrahim alive. Bluesky keeps deleting & suspending her so she's been unable to post for herself. Gaza is completely cut off again, & they urgently need help:
We need it to not exist.
You know what would also be great? An eviction moratorium and rent support.
Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.
But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
i know people on here don't rly care about culture coverage but sharing because I'm proud I did it: reviewed Mitski's new residency at NYC's The Shed @us.theguardian.com
seeing her perform for the ninth time in 9 years (!), I feel confident saying that Mitski is in her triumphant era.
Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.
This is great.
As I wrote in the Globe a few weeks ago, all public officials -- and municipalities, too -- should leave X.
i cannot stress enough that if you know anything about how kristi noem found out she was fired you must tell me
