For peeps from fb: you do not need to tell me who you are, and there is adult stuff on here. love youuuu. demisexual, biromantic, TheyThem Black as fuck.
Some things are... things that make me tired. I am weary from some emotions, and also things I had gathered for comfort previously are no longer mine after my sudden move 2023.
So I am sharing, my Amazon wishlist, my pay tags, and my in-kind fundraiser. if you'd rather donate anomymously use the inkind fundraiser.
The most important are the weighted blankets- one heated and one cooled- and the mattress. the mattress I had gotten is thin enough that my hips press into the bed base. Other stuff is helpful for my comfort during this transition of wintertime until I buy my home.
it's actually UNREAL to me that they still wear those stupid fucking wigs in british courts ill forget about it and then remember all of a sudden and black out like howwwww can you still be doing that!
love reading late 90s/early 2000s scholarship on the potential of the internet. "hey we shouldn't let venture capitalists get in on this" And Then They Did
every single discussion about the fucking signal groupchat makes me feel so insane. "what a display of incompetence! what a failure! let's all make accidental groupchat mistake jokes now" what the fuck are you talking about. it worked. the fact that THIS is the conversation now is literally the point. jeffrey goldberg literally did it again. selling the bombing of the middle east to the public is the entire purpose of his career as a "journalist"
former iof prison guard who spent the past year fully deepthroating the genocidal boot and famously sold the invasion of iraq as something that "will be remembered as an act of profound morality"? "journalist" who literally built his career on manufacturing consent for bombing arabs "accidentally" invited to a top secret group chat about bombing arabs oh no how could this happen? what are you TALKING about. fork found in kitchen! likely place for him to be! my god
As someone who launders pro-Israel, pro-US government talking points for a living, Goldberg being on Trump officials’ speed dial makes perfe
Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, has been at the center of a national story after he was “inadvertently” included in a group Signal chat with administration officials as they planned a deadly bombing in Yemen. Much of the coverage has focused on the mishandling of military secrets, rather than the impact of the bombings themselves, targeting the poorest country in the Middle East, which the United States has helped bomb and blockade for over a decade. Goldberg is not just an observer: He is contributing to this disregard for Yemeni lives, and his dismissiveness sheds light on why he was an administration media contact to begin with.
In an interview that aired on March 26, Deepa Fernandes, one of the hosts of NPR's “Here and Now,” interviewed Goldberg about the “group chat heard 'round the world” that included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, and Vice President JD Vance. During one portion of the interview, Fernandes did something few other journalists are doing. She asked Goldberg about the Yemeni people who were killed in the bombing, which took place on March 15.
Deepa Fernandes: There's little talk of the fact that this attack killed 53 people, as we mentioned, including women and children. The civilian toll of these American strikes. Are we burying the lede here?
Jeffrey Goldberg: Well, those, unfortunately, those aren't confirmed numbers. Those are provided by the Houthis and the Houthi health ministry, I guess. So we don't know that for sure. Yeah, I mean, obviously we're, well, I don't know if we're burying the lede, because obviously huge breaches in national security and safety of information, that's a very, very important story, obviously. And one of the reasons, you know, it's a very important story is that the Republicans themselves consider that to be an important story, when it's Hillary Clinton doing the deed, right? So that's obviously hugely important.
But yeah, I think that covering what's going on in Yemen, the Arab and Iran backed terrorist organization, the Houthis, that are that are firing missiles at Israel and disrupting global shipping and occupy half of Yemen, and all kinds of other things in the US, you know, and the Trump administration criticizing the Biden's response and Europe wants Trump to do more. I mean, yeah, there's, there's a huge story in Yemen. But Yemen is, as you know, is one of the more inaccessible places for Western journalists. So maybe this becomes like a substitute for a discussion of Yemen. I don't know.
Goldberg not only seems unconcerned about the death toll and eager to cast doubt on its veracity, but he also appears unprepared for the question. It’s as though it didn’t occur to him that the substance of the Signal exchange itself—the bombing—might be a legitimate topic of conversation, and he seems eager to move on.
This is despite the fact that there is evidence in the exchange itself that the United States hit a civilian site in the bombing. Waltz wrote in the Signal chat that the US military had bombed a residential building. “The first target—their top missile guy—we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it’s now collapsed,” Waltz wrote in the chat, to which JD Vance replied: “Excellent.”
Yet, as Nick Turse noted for The Intercept, “So far, however, there has been little focus on the specifics of the attack, much less discussion of the fact that one of the targets of the March 15 strike was a civilian residence.”
The story of US belligerence in Yemen should be a huge one. Since 2015, the US-Saudi coalition has used American manufactured bombs to hit wedding parties, factories, a school bus, and a center for the blind. It’s difficult to know the exact death toll, but around three years ago, the death toll from direct and indirect consequence of war surpassed 377,000. Direct bombings by both the Biden and Trump administrations threaten a wider war, and have occurred in lockstep with US support for Israel as it has ruthlessly bombed and attacked Gaza since October 7.
Goldberg, of course, was included in that group chat because he was a contact of someone on the administration’s thread, and his history of laundering the US military’s mass atrocities is a good indicator of why. In the lead-up to the US-led war on Iraq, Goldberg was central to peddling the disproven conspiracy theory that Iraq had ties to al-Qaeda, a key lie of the George W. Bush administration, used to justify the invasion. One month before the US started the war, he went on NPR to discuss “Possible Links Between Iraq and al Qaeda and Evidence That the Iraqis May be Trying to Evade Weapons Inspectors.”
Goldberg has a long career of uplifting the media narratives of the United States and its allies, including a big piece in 2010 where he floated justifications for a possible Israeli war on Iran. Like many of the Iraq War pushers, Goldberg’s lies about Iraq did not harm his career, but marked its ascent. Under his tenure, the Atlantic has shut out Palestinian voices and stories, as the US has helped Israel wage genocide in Gaza.
Goldberg’s dismissal of Yemeni deaths is not a small detail of this blockbuster story, but a central component. One way to get on the speed dials of high-level officials is to have a proven career of doing their bidding.
As we see wall-to-wall coverage of the Signal leaks on supposed liberal networks like MSNBC, it’s important to remember that the primary scandal is the bombing of Yemen, a reality that the network has long obscured. As The Column’s Adam Johnson noted in July 2018, at that point it had been a year since MSNBC had mentioned the US backed destruction of Yemen. Yet during that same period, MSNBC had done 455 segments on the Trump-Stormy Daniels affair. As media reports and House Intelligence Committee hearings ignore the human toll of US military attacks, we continue to see the ascent of those who have built their careers on directing public attention away from the people the United States kills.
last night one of my belts broke so i half-jokingly put it on as a collar/leash before they fucked me and it was actually so much hotter than the fancy collar we have
"The first pride was a riot" well in Russia the first pride, if you could call it that, was a festival organized by college students on both sides of the iron curtain who were very excited about the possibilities of a new, post-communist world.
Roman Kalinin was a 22 year old Moscow engineering student who worked in the liberal dissident press during the final years of the USSR, when glasnost made such activities legal. He wished to push the envelope farther, and to that end recruited some older gay allies. Vladislav Ortanov, a 36 year old scientist, and Evgenia Debrianskaia, a 38 year old bohemian layabout and dissident figure, became the first advocates for gay liberation in Russia.
Kalinin and Debrianskaia traveled to the US to gather support and funding from NGOs, recruiting as their translater a young Russian-American named Masha Gessen, whose parents were Jewish emigrants from the USSR. Gessen reached out to their America friends in the San Francisco Bay area, and soon they formed their own org: the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC). IGLHRC sponsored the first major gay-themed festivities in the USSR.
The festival in Moscow attracted 20000 attendees. That being said, the amount who identified as queer or participated in the queer-themed evens is likely much lower. According to people who were there, most came for the free screenings of American movies, including the 1985 drama Desert Hearts.
To my ancestors—those who walked before me, who endured, resisted, fought, and rose—know that I feel your presence with every breath I take. You are not gone; you live within me. Your blood runs through my veins, your courage fuels my steps, and your dreams echo in my soul.
I am forever grateful for your sacrifices—known and unknown. The chains you broke, the lands you tilled, the knowledge you passed, and the dignity you upheld in the face of oppression have paved the road I now walk. I promise you: your struggle will not be in vain.
As a Garveyite, I move with purpose, pride, and clarity. I honour your legacy by striving for Black liberation, self-determination, and nationhood. I will uplift our people, reclaim what was taken, and build what was once only dreamed.
I hope this reacha those of you who needed it most
If you haven’t had that moment yet—the one where you get to shed the weight of the world, even for just a little while—I promise, it’s coming. There are people out there who will hold you the way you deserve to be held. You are not alone. You never were. Better days are ahead, love. You’ll see.
It's that sapphic, trans girl urge to curl up like a small, fluffy creature against the warm body of someone who truly sees you—to press yourself into their touch, let out the softest little mewls, sighs, and whimpers as they stroke your hair and murmur sweet words of praise. Telling you how proud they are. How strong you are. How beautifully, undeniably you you’ve always been.
Because gods, you’ve tried so hard to be yourself—to fit into something that never quite fit you back. But in these moments, you don’t have to try. You can just be. Wrapped up in the arms of someone who understands, who knows the weight you carry, who shares it with you without hesitation.
This is so important. Also pay attention to local elections. Now more than ever it's important to have staunch anti Trump democrats at every level of government - from school boards to senate seats. Apathy and not voting helped Trump win. Now is the time to wake up and get serious and hold on to the freedoms we have left. We have got to fight for every inch of territory. Do not give up. Do not give him any more power than he already has.
Hello putting platonic relationships on a pedestal is exactly the same as putting romantic relationships on a pedestal. A certain kind of relationship might be more important to you but it is not that important to others. We are all different we are all gonna value different things okay. Let's stop judging people for their relationships or lack thereof okay.
Someone might value their relationship with a pet above every other relationship and that's okay.
Someone may value their relationship with their family over every other relationship and that's okay.
Someone may value their relationship with their partner over every other relationship and that's okay.
Someone may value their friendships over every other relationship and that's okay.
Someone might value their relationship with themselves over every other relationship and that's okay.
Literally do what you want your connection to the world around you is beautiful and different and should be celebrated not questioned and attacked
That was my tedtalk tjank you
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