"They weren't always like this"

25 years ago, Republicans were joking about killing gay people, torturing Muslims and Arabs, and deporting Latinos, only obviously that wasn't what they called them

You want to tell me that the folks buying Liberal Hunting Permits at gun shows weren't like this?

And we appreciate that

"Tear the party apart" is editorializing. It's also a tenor that suggests it's bad to primary a sitting senator. Remember how i say the media is biased to the status quo?

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

My artist father idolized him when I was growing up; often using clipped images from movie magazines to break down and explain just how complicated layouts worked so effectively and seemingly-so-effortlessly.

10 Comic characters to know me by …

Catwoman (esp 1988-1999)

Storm
Rachel Summers (esp 1984-2000)
Magik
Madelyne Pryor
Chamber
Iceman
Skin

Tim Hunter (esp 1994-2003)
Dream (Morpheus)

For the honor of Grayskull.
She-ra and Swiftwind by Gerald Parel.

Storm is the only X-Men character who can carry her own movie.

Literally!
A blip of post-Onslaught through Operation Zero Tolerance in X-Men vol 2 in (winter 1996-summer 1997) gave us a moment of them. A mere moment. Then The Twelve (summer of 1999) in a messy story. Ughhhhhhhhh

Your tax dollars paid for that kind of unvarnished sociopathy. You okay with that?

. “Our first advice to people is to don't do this alone,” he said. “The feds seem to be more cautious when we are in groups, which makes perfect sense because they're bullies.”

I truly believe a big reason why Democrats are failing to appropriately respond to the moment is a pathological refusal to admit that there were aspects of the American status quo pre trump that were extremely fucked up and unjust

Every day it becomes more and more clear that Sylvia Rivera was right, we never should have settled for Pride when we could have had Power.

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

42 is a wonderful thing to be - happy birthday, m’dear

Happy Birthday, m’dear - your wit, your kindness, your charm, your talents and your overall freaking amazingness have only gotten better with 51! 🫶💜💜💜💜

"Ignorance isn’t always innocent. A lot of the time, it’s strategic. ... White ignorance doesn’t persist bc there’s a lack of information—it persists bc there’s a refusal to engage... once you admit you knew & did nothing... you’d have to admit you were fine with it. You have to admit complicity."

It used to be understood that real estate developers were evil in movies, we gotta get back to that. Not just a politics thing it’s just a good plot device.

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Kristi Noem is facing down an “army of Antifa” protestors in “war-ravaged” Portland, starting off by disapproving of a person in a chicken suit.

EXACTLY

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

I miss more fast food restaurants providing those little paper cups - healthier for the planet and nostalgically faaaaaar cuter.