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I said this in replies elsewhere, but I want to say it loudly here. Anything other than a fullthroated affirmation of birthright citizenship in this country by SCOTUS is an act of treason. It is grounds for immediate impeachment. It is a violation of every oath they have made.

Canada has been repeatedly insulted by the US for over a year, so please understand why the country is not jumping to assist in a war anyone with a brain would have indicated was a bad idea

there are so many things to be angry about but at the moment I really fucking hate the fact that I’m expected to be able to recognize AI generated slop text

It's so disheartening to me that a writer would do this. If you don't want to write, don't be a writer! Seriously. There are many other options.

ANTHROPIC IS USING AI TO FUCK UP OUR CLAIMS ABOUT THE USE OF AI???? okay I feel like we should sue again for this

maternal mortality rates? increasing in states that ban abortion infant mortality rates? increasing in states that ban abortion pre-term birth rates? increasing in states that ban abortion food aid rates? increasing in states that ban abortion Dobbs did this ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Remember that day that the WH and all of the government agencies tried to come on here all at once as a way to troll and folks blocked them en masse and they gave up, lol

Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only dissenter in the conversion therapy case 😞 It's so upsetting, and I just want to remind folks that Trans Lifeline is a resource you should take advantage of right now if you need it. Your life is precious. +1-877-565-8860 translifeline.org

Hey all, we still have a limited number of these charming stickers left over from our last Romancing the Vote. In honor of SCOTUS fuckery on today, the Trans Day of Visibility, we'd like to offer you the chance to get one. (Thread continues.)

attention Hollywood: bring back real fight choreography

I consider the Supreme Court illegitimate. Whatever decisions come from this court are illegitimate whether they go in the direction of something you think is legitimate.

On this Trans Day of Visibility, I would just like to say that trans rights are human rights and that celebrating the trans community as a part of all communities enriches every one of us.

Amy Coney Barrett is an insane cultist and this is of course the kind of shit insane cults do

Everything in the US must eventually be broken down into a casual fast experience for bored suburbanites on their weekly date and corporate retreats.

happy trans day of revenge to all who celebrate, I love trans people and fuck you if you don’t girlslivingoutsidesocietysshit.bandcamp.com/album/trans-...

I know that there are a lot of different ways to be in the world, but I actually cannot comprehend how anyone who uses GenAI to do some of their research and/or writing thinks of themselves as a thinker and writer. The thing that makes me a writer is that I do my writing. I also do my prep for it.

this is burnout. a lot of people I know need a lot of sleep and doing very little. and it takes more than a week, unfortunately.

One would think that an opposition party that says it has no formal power would make use of its informal power to say every single day that this immoral war on Iran NEEDS TO END. Maybe they could even come back EARLY to Washington to do daily actions about the war since the GOP is home chilling.

When someone says something positive or even just neutral about their life, you really don't need to jump in with the Must Be Nice energy. People on here have Must Be Niced me on here for having friends, having a therapist, and considering buying better sheets. We're all having a bad time, people.

personally I think "Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn" is a bad thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

We desperately need nourishment and creativity in these times. I will be back tomorrow with some of both. Good night everyone. Take care.

It's always worth watching what he does as the American right imitates it and trains under him, effectively, which is why CPAC Hungary exists.

Excited for this to have so much heresy that he gets excommunicated.

I should do another photoshoot with this toy again, now that @darthbluesky.bsky.social is back from his hibernation

Pope Leo should review this

Ketanji Brown-Jackson gets a lot of shit for being “impractical” etc but she’s the only person there who understands the assignment and even her “allies” resent her for it.

"ICE agents will be staking out Marine Corps graduation events to find undocumented immigrants in the recruits’ families." another feather in the cap of the "career incentives give the best ultimate explanation of right wing goon squads' behavior" school of thought newrepublic.com/post/208407/...

Tiger Woods somehow spending the entirety of both his professional and then his personal life with everyone talking about his driving is some crazy work

I am so jealous he can't read

Imagine being paid to furnish an opinion and not having one of your own readily available. Something that for better or worse I have never experienced myself lol

trying to decide what dollar amount we would have to raise for trans rights in order to force me to read JD Vance’s undoubtedly nightmare-ass book about converting to Catholicism and I think my floor is fifty thousand dollars

"Chapter 11: Strengthening My Faith By Killing The Pope"

Explicitly working to cordon off treatment to those in need because the exclusive access for the rich is the point.

My take on the Lindy West situation is that I will never write a memoir and could never be in a relationship with someone who might. People are not ready for the messy reality of each other's lives pretty much ever.

literally all the arguments Trump is making in the birthright citizenship case are arguments that Congress and the Supreme Court already rejected over a century ago we've been here before as a nation and decided we didn't wanna be here, so get out my face ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...

theintercept.com/2026/03/28/i...

I am not a day of season, For thou mayst see a sunshine and a hail In me at once.

To the person who gave me Canadian Cheetos on the cruise and told me I would be ruined for regular Cheetos and would not be able to stop thinking about them: How dare you. Also thank you I GUESS.

I'm just confused* that they reacted like that for this pic rather than the lip filler photo *(I do have a theory: This photo is Bad because you can see some Fat, which is both Bad and Not Feminine. The lip filler photo is Fine bc it shows she is properly Performing Femininity and Loyalty to Trump)

(trying to write a romance novel while eating lunch) They started off as enemies like...salad dressing and the front of pants.

okay finally there is good news (please don't let this be an early April Fools joke)

This month’s fun little bonus episode covers 80s celebrity diet books: Sophia Loren’s “Women & Beauty,” Victoria Principal’s “the Diet Principal,” and “Cher: Forever Fit.” Not since Ed McMahon’s “Slimming Down” have we made such a timely episode. www.patreon.com/posts/153859...

Every morning I cannot believe this real-life cartoon character lives in my home and a lady gave him away to me for free

"Ms. Noem is devastated" is my happy thought of the day.

I love all you last minute people. If this is you, DO NOT FORGET. Yes, you have very little time. But yes, you still have time. GO GET YOUR DOLLARS.

there's a historical term that often gets used for a landlocked state with no standing military or independent communications network and the word is "occupied"

The thing about Colorado's conversion therapy ban is that it did not make it illegal for someone to tell their kid they should not be gay, or that they could not be gay, or any other number of horrific things that are still legal.

Hey, if you work in food (media, restaurants, cooking, bev, broadcast, science, academia, biz, nearly anything), & you're an immigrant to the US, & you're under 38 years old—you REALLY ought to apply for the Vilcek Foundation’s Creative Promise in Culinary Arts prize! vilcek.org/prizes/vilce...

speaking of those maternal mortality rates, I have a new piece out today on how the Supreme Court's decision rescinding the constitutional right to abortion didn't actually end abortion: It just made pregnancy more dangerous, both for pregnant people & their kids ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Shout out to all my fellow agenders! Being agender people is just as natural as being a gendered person. (yes, you're allowed to chuckle, we need some levity today)

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.

oh where are my earbuds oh where are my earbuds oh where oh where oh where oh where oh where oh where oh where are my earbuds

This last weekend, I was at the Colorado Democratic Assembly. Part of that process was adopting a Democratic party platform for the state.

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Writers-- scrutinize all incoming requests, offers, etc. People are even getting bogus PEN festival appearance offers that seem legit. Someone is still sending emails pretending to be me and my agent offering editing services. This is the new normal.

Win for the haunted child!

Before the 14th Amendment, the Bill of Rights restrained only the federal govt, and "protected almost no one" By applying the Bill of Rights to the states, the 14th gave those amendments "the powerful role they play today. And we owe this monumental amendment to the self-assertion of Black people"

There is something so perverse about claiming to be interested enough in writing to REVIEW BOOKS and nevertheless think it’s fine to do this. As Woody would say: YOU ARE A TOYYYYEEEEEEE.

Gorsuch squealing about "viewpoint discrimination" in an 8-1 ruling is the really all you need to know about him or indeed the assbrained legal movement of which he is the dumbest and most pliable avatar

Precisely. Like, there is an AI note taking/meeting agenda keeping bot now at my team meetings at work. I don’t hate it. It does a job nobody else really wants to do and does it reasonably well. But the generative, “creative” stuff? Why would you want a machine to do that??

The most striking thing about this article to me — a peacenik — is how much space is given to Zionist Jews who openly or tacitly support violence against Palestinians. The same kind of generosity would never be shown in the NYer to Palestinians who support anti-zionist violence.

But where’s the money?

food served at restaurant

Maybe John Lithgow should just stop talking.

I don't think that you should leak non-public people's private life information because they are associated with a public official. That said the info leaked about Noem's husband was def leaked by the fascists.

The layers of what the fuck here But also this is instructive for students because it’s basically just a plagiarism case www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

I would add that this is even true of very online people because the internet/online communities are siloed and so is information. People talk about so many different things/people who I have no clue about and just don't want to know.

“According to BlackRock, the $3.2bn equity fund, which carries the ticker IDEF, pursues “growth opportunities by investing in companies that may benefit from increased government spending on defense and security amid geopolitical fragmentation and economic competition”.”

The burning ship drove on, as if remorselessly commissioned to some vengeful deed.

it's sad to scream into the void all the time about conservative evangelicalism and the way its evolution in the 1990s gave birth to the contemporary right including its supposedly secularized parts. I'm sure I just sound like some damaged weirdo, which, fair enough, but also I am entirely correct

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. I can see all of you.

men who have the wherewithal to catcall strange women at this ungodly hour are truly god’s strongest perverts

Well, we did it, everybody, we closed a vital international shipping lane and ensured that a resource-rich region will remain dominated by competing racist dictatorships for generations to come. Cigars all around

Weird that he hasn’t gotten bored of this like he did with the war he just started

Personally this is exactly how I want it to happen.

did you know the Times had a trust editor? neither did I (nor did I find much to trust here)

The best monument to Donald Trump is to build a high-ass tower in Miami a few meters from the shore in the year of our lord 2028. I'm sure there won't be any foundation issues involved in *checks notes* rapidly increasing king tides and storm surges.

For Trans Day of Visibility I am again going to hope my trans friends and loved ones can get a little less visibility and a lot more peace

the pain of buying an expensive hardcover book only to stumble upon a much cheaper paperback copy shortly thereafter

Good and helpful context here as well.

it's always roblox man

We need creativity and nourishment more than ever. I invite you to join us for both at the 3rd annual Black Zine Fair on May 9. Neta, Tash and I are excited to share space with over 100 exhibitors, dozens of volunteers, and all of you who join us. RSVP → withfriends.events/event/WFzHwJ...

A federal judge has blocked Trump's executive order cutting funds for NPR and PBS, ruling "It is difficult to conceive of clearer evidence that a government action is targeted at viewpoints that the President does not like and seeks to squelch." READ: loom.ly/lWDBASI

Chat is it a good idea strategically to do this while also starting a ground war

I contributed my voice to this story because it is an important issue: the Atlantic and NYT are regular vehicles for empowering a white supremacist, heterosexist and transphobic ruling class, and it's important to understand the mechanics of how that works.

www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/31/o... [gift link]

watching an American I trained giving shit to another American for incorrectly explaining the LBW law in cricket to a third American

had to fight this guy at least 80 times on NG+

When I was a teenager making anonymous zines, I didn’t know that I had a dream of organizing a space for Black independent publishers to gather. But perhaps I had a glimmer of such a dream & I am so happy that I reached a point in my life when I could collaborate with others to make this a reality.

Someone in my mentions suggested that Noem is probably the one who hung her husband out to dry and I think that this is actually plausible. people.com/kristi-noem-...

I still run into white Boomer men who have been disagreed with publicly for the first time ever and are v indignant about it and it's wild

oh hell I was already in a birthright citizenship headspace and didn't realize the Court just dropped Chiles v. Salazar, holding that conversion therapy (when talk therapy) is speech under the First Amendment, so laws regulating it are subject to strict scrutiny www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Shout out to Venice Beach in Arlington TX where we’d go and buy candy and sugary drinks while a DJ played some jams and you could go outside and shoot some hoops.

"This war would not be happening were it not for the revolution, and most importantly, the success of the non-violent, civilian movement that overthrew the authoritarian dictatorship of Omar Al-Bashir." on the ongoing counterrevolution in Sudan

I have watched all of Paradise Season 2 while pounding my fists on the table and chanting: "Par-a-dise! Par-a-dise!"

this is also very much the fault of a small faction of rich idle goofballs who deep-fried their brains in conservative media. not even all rich people! the ones who are like actually we decided we don’t want to share anything with anyone, poor people can get fucked and we’re going to roll the dice

Let Israel’s crimes radicalize you towards an unconditional and unapologetic resolve for justice.

Last election, we saw AIPAC, cryptocurrency PACs, and other outside money groups spend millions to try and stop our movement. This year, our campaign is mobilizing a grassroots movement to fight to resist Trump’s fascism, end his illegal wars overseas, and abolish ICE.