People think that furloughing/shortchanging police and military personnel makes them disloyal, but in reality it makes them demand bribes from civilians during spurious enforcement actions

Before "local governments are powerless over police" spreads too much: no, they're not.

They may clash sometimes, and cops may arm-twist individual politicians, but local governments have *a lot* of sway over cops.

If they're not reining them in it's because they don't want to.

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

A must-read article that highlights how climate change, labour exploitation, health and the rise of the far right are all connected.

Being gay and watching Mad Men and pouting that I didn't have any queer makeouts today but also taking comfort in the queer makeups imma have this week

I don't feel like that's the issue tho?

I've never heard and leftist saying don't go to No Kings, just don't sign up.

Simultaneously, I've heard a lot of liberals misrepresent what No Kings is or should be.

One of the best phrases I've ever learned for working with kids is, "thank you for your no."

It gives me such happiness to see them make their own choices for their little bodies, and to be able to affirm that as a good thing

an experience I think about a lot: I was visiting a class in DC Jail shortly after Kim Kardashian visited and had brought in her camera team. I relayed critiques of her "performative", "virtue signalling" acts I had heard on the outside. the response was somewhere between a shrug and an eye roll

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

Yes! You can even go missing for a few days without a poster, tho more then a week is pushing it

You can, in fact, just do stuff. No permission needed. Have an idea? Execute it.

Startling story.

Since the 1980s in Iran, trans people have been forced into gender transition surgeries – have the surgery or risk the death penalty.

Now Iran is promoting its expertise globally hoping to attract transgender foreigners with the promise of inexpensive surgeries. Gift link!

What gives you courage? Please immerse yourself in that right now.

single member of those orgs were cool with this lawless agenda Don't wait for them to organize and consolidate before you organize with your community and make plans. Right now the ignorant and delusional people are an impediment, but eventually most of them will face reality The people have the # s

Are the straights ok??!?

Better flavor but messier experience. And now I'm full and tired 😌

Making another but even better this time. For science!

(adding sautéed onions & cherry tomatoes)

I made a quesadilla so good that I'm hungrier after eating it. 😭

It's happening again

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

hell yeah

baseball with a tech tree would make a lotta sense 🤔👀

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