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if you didn’t hear dc pulled gretchen felker-martin’s red hood book for posting about charlie kirk on bluesky and silencing of a politically outspoken trans woman aside it’s really unbelievably sad we aren’t gonna get to read a jason todd book written by a woman who posts like this:

“big two comics can be a medium for radical politics” my ass. Grow a spine and stand up for this woman

tf2heritageposts

did u go protest today

good evening officer

tf2heritageposts

don’t tell social media if you went to protests or not(especially if you didn’t), don’t give cops an easy way to track down protesters. punk life advice

ao3cassandraic

Just reblogging this. No reason.

liberalsarecool

If any normal citizen does this to anyone it’s felony aggravated assault.

If a law enforcement officer did this, they would have to write up a report detailing the justification for pulling a weapon or any “use of force” against any defendant for any reason.

But lawless Trump/Bondi agents taunt innocent Americans with lethal force and extreme prejudice.

Release the files. Impeach the rapist. Indict the Cabinet.

batmanisagatewaydrug

white lady hr rep at work is advising us to always call the police if anything "gives you the ick" which I gotta say is a crazy flippant way to talk about something that regularly gets people brutalized or worse

batmanisagatewaydrug

but that's also like. that really is it isn't it. americans (or at least Some americans, you know which ones) really are encouraged to use the police as a tool to get rid of things that make us* uncomfortable. hey there's a guy who doesn't have a house sleeping in the park and he's not bothering anyone but it makes me feel weird, better call the cops. that peaceful demonstration is getting a little too loud, better call the cops. saw a black guy existing and got nervous, better call the cops. heard somebody speaking spanish and that freaks me out for some reason, better call the cops. got the ick, better call the cops!!!

*"us" used deliberately; as a white american and as a white cisgender woman especially, systemic police violence is absolutely set up to benefit me as much as my hr rep. my being queer does not negate that.

marskiiii

recent batch of flash commissions! thank u all who contacted me!

flash headshots are still open btw!

#my children are in here ....#✨✨✨✨

marskiiii

#marskiiiiii your art is amazing and tasty #obsessed w the cheer in the pink-eyed commission ☝️

anarchistmemedistro

Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity.

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lastoneout

The reason you shouldn't be an asshole to ex-Trump supporters who are genuinely making an effort to change is the same reason why we all felt like shit when our parents went "look who decided to join us!" when we built up the energy to leave our rooms and overall it made us even more reluctant to join family activities.

You don't punish behavior you want to see.

justinspoliticalcorner

My name is Jess and I was a high school Literature teacher for 16 years until I decided to run as a Democrat in a rural, red district in Mis

Jess Piper at The View from Rural Missouri:

I will turn 50 this September. I was born in 1975, and I represent the only generation of American women born with full rights that have been lost in the same lifetime. My generation has witnessed anti-progress. A cultivated backpedal. In the grand scheme of things, American women did not enjoy rights for very long. All of my childhood pictures are in color — not black and white. The movie “Jaws” was released a few months before my birth. President Ford announced the end of the Vietnam War and Microsoft was founded in 1975. Women were officially allowed to join the Coast Guard and Wheel of Fortune and Saturday Night Live both debuted the year I was born.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show opened in 1975. The biggest song of the year was “Love Will Keep Us Together” by Captain & Tennille and the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. You are likely familiar with all of the trivia and events I just listed from 1975, because it wasn’t that long ago. I was born 50 years ago with the rights that my daughters and granddaughters are losing or have already lost. I was born six years after the right to a no-fault divorce was first established. This law allowed women to divorce based on "irreconcilable differences" without needing to prove fault on the part of either spouse.

I have always lived under legislation that allowed me to divorce. I was born two years after Roe. The case established a woman’s right to an abortion and medical privacy under the law. I have had reproductive rights for most of my adult life. The Equal Credit Opportunity Act became law one year before I was born. This legislation made it illegal for banks to discriminate against loan and credit applicants based on sex. Before the ECOA, banks could legally refuse to grant women credit or they could require a husband's co-signature. I have had the right to control my finances all my life. I have had certain rights even if they were constantly under siege in my red state. The rights that women have enjoyed for a full generation are being rolled back by Christian nationalists to support authoritarianism. A cultish form of Christianity to pave the way for the oligarchs to form an authoritarian government with Trump as the figurehead. Everything from no-fault divorce to abortion to women having a bank account runs afoul of Christian nationalism and Evangelicalism. Their religion subjugates women and is antithetical to feminism and equal rights.

The patriarchy in general, and the Christian patriarchy in particular, subsists on the submission of women — either with a woman’s consent, or by force. Women must bend to the will of laws and regulations meant to keep them under the boot and without certain rights that would make them balk at forced compliance. [...]

Throughout my life, I’ve heard the argument that young men have been “falling behind” for decades and that women’s rights must be pulled back to let the men catch back up. That women’s rights have limited men’s rights. That’s a lie. Men can progress just like women have. Men can and should be able to get educated and find a job and get a bank account and get married and start a family (if and when they want) just like women have been able to do for an entire generation. And if they can’t? Well, that’s their problem to figure out and it has nothing to do with women having equal rights. Human rights aren’t pie. Giving rights to others doesn’t mean you get less. Equal rights are guaranteed under the Constitution…even if Republicans hate the Constitution. I have lived my life with the rights my daughters have already lost. Many more rights are on the chopping block, but I am telling you, I will not go quietly and neither will the folks around me.

Jess Piper recounts the experiences of how the Gen-X generation being the only generation to enjoy their rights in full before it became a gradual erosion.

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parkchanwoohoo

Every macho dipshit talks abt how many people they'd kill to protect their family as though I'm supposed to be impressed. I can hear the glee in your voice dude you're ACHING for a chance to do this, you're giving up nothing in this situation. Tell me how many loads you'd take to protect your family

parkchanwoohoo

"I don't care what's going on you mess with my wife and kids I'm putting a bullet in you" Yeah yeah yeah when was the last time you did the dishes without being asked. Can you picture your wife happily working at a job that makes more than yours without punching a hole in the drywall. Make her lunch

redstonedust

to be honest even if vaccines did cause autism i would rather live in a world where everyone is vaccinated and some of those people have autism than an unvaccinated autismless world. like ok whatever. would you rather have autism or polio. autism or measels. idk about yall but im choosing autism every time. its not even a hard choice.

busket

sometimes I think about how rattlesnakes are starting to adapt to bite immediately instead of using their rattle as a warning, because this defense mechanism that says "im here! im frightened! don't come close or ill bite you" has instead ilicited a reaction of "oh fuck a rattlesnake, i should kill it"

so of course every snake that has the instinct to warn humans of its presence gets killed, and only the snakes that bite first and dont make themselves known get to survive. a human who's been bitten is too worried about his swelling ankle to decapitate a snake with a shovel.

it's a good example of how humans make the world more dangerous for ourselves by believing that we have mastery and ownership of it. we think we have the power and importance to control the life around us down to the snakes and insects, but every animal fights for life. and no animal thinks that any human is more important than it's own life.

what-even-is-thiss

Don’t join the army to get free college. First two years of community college is free. Peace corps and Americorps have scholarships and student loan forgiveness programs for their volunteers. If you’re not rich you probably qualify for Pell grants. Go to a state college. They teach you the same things they do at fancy colleges. Sometimes there’s scholarships for people of a certain background. Ethnicity. Sexuality. Gender. Religion. Go to a grad school that’ll give you free tuition for working there as a teacher or assistant. Become a stripper or something. Just don’t join the army.

elwenyere

-- Ted Chiang, from "Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art"

oldshrewsburyian

I'm so glad they got Ted Chiang -- a wonderful writer of science fiction and thinker about technology, in my opinion -- to write this essay. My favorite line was this:

Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium.