Nicole Rizzuto
@fluentisona.bsky.social
I spend a lot of time talking, writing, and teaching about LGBTQ history, identities, and communities. Ask me about Dead Lesbian Syndrome.
It continues to be exactly who we think it'll be.
"Pittman, a white 19-year-old man from Madison, Mississippi...[was] arraigned on federal charges on Monday while declaring 'Jesus Christ is Lord' to a federal judge, he is expected to face preliminary court hearings next Tuesday, Jan. 20."
"Pittman, a white 19-year-old man from Madison, Mississippi...[was] arraigned on federal charges on Monday while declaring 'Jesus Christ is Lord' to a federal judge, he is expected to face preliminary court hearings next Tuesday, Jan. 20."
A Hinds County grand jury indictment alleges Stephen Spencer Pittman "did willfully and maliciously set fire" to the Beth Israel Synagogue and alleges "the offense ... was committed because of the actual or perceived religion of the victim."
Jackson Synagogue Burning Suspect Indicted on State Charges With Hate Crimes Enhancement
State prosecutors charged Stephen Spencer Pittman with first-degree arson of a place of worship for the alleged arson of Beth Israel Congregation.
buff.ly
January 14, 2026 at 2:30 PM
It continues to be exactly who we think it'll be.
"Pittman, a white 19-year-old man from Madison, Mississippi...[was] arraigned on federal charges on Monday while declaring 'Jesus Christ is Lord' to a federal judge, he is expected to face preliminary court hearings next Tuesday, Jan. 20."
"Pittman, a white 19-year-old man from Madison, Mississippi...[was] arraigned on federal charges on Monday while declaring 'Jesus Christ is Lord' to a federal judge, he is expected to face preliminary court hearings next Tuesday, Jan. 20."
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My whole life, fascism was defined as being stopped by armed, masked agents of the national government who demand your papers, on pain of arrest, injury, or death.
That’s now here, and the group of people who warned about that the most are either silent or in favor of it,
That’s now here, and the group of people who warned about that the most are either silent or in favor of it,
January 14, 2026 at 1:19 PM
My whole life, fascism was defined as being stopped by armed, masked agents of the national government who demand your papers, on pain of arrest, injury, or death.
That’s now here, and the group of people who warned about that the most are either silent or in favor of it,
That’s now here, and the group of people who warned about that the most are either silent or in favor of it,
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Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:
January 14, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:
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If ever there was something that demands faster action to shutter an agency, surely it's the routine abductions, abuse, murder, trauma, and Kavanaugh stops.
Absurd that the regime believes it has any moral authority to shame Iran as it regularly violates its own Constitution
Absurd that the regime believes it has any moral authority to shame Iran as it regularly violates its own Constitution
Oglala Sioux Tribe says three tribal members arrested in Minneapolis are in ICE detention
The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota said three of the four tribal members detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis last week have been transferred to an ICE facility and called for th...
apnews.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:01 PM
If ever there was something that demands faster action to shutter an agency, surely it's the routine abductions, abuse, murder, trauma, and Kavanaugh stops.
Absurd that the regime believes it has any moral authority to shame Iran as it regularly violates its own Constitution
Absurd that the regime believes it has any moral authority to shame Iran as it regularly violates its own Constitution
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"I could not move, because history had me glued to the seat. . . It felt like Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder & Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on another shoulder, & I could not move." — Claudette Colvin
Claudette Colvin ¡Presente! has died at age 86. 💔
Claudette Colvin ¡Presente! has died at age 86. 💔
March 2, 1955: Claudette Colvin Refuses to Give Up Her Bus Seat
At age 15, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Alabama.
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January 13, 2026 at 10:40 PM
"I could not move, because history had me glued to the seat. . . It felt like Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder & Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on another shoulder, & I could not move." — Claudette Colvin
Claudette Colvin ¡Presente! has died at age 86. 💔
Claudette Colvin ¡Presente! has died at age 86. 💔
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There are lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to Nazi Germany and there are also lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to the post-1850 Fugitive Slave Act U.S. and it's *weird* how people respond with interest to the former but total confusion to the latter
January 13, 2026 at 2:30 PM
There are lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to Nazi Germany and there are also lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to the post-1850 Fugitive Slave Act U.S. and it's *weird* how people respond with interest to the former but total confusion to the latter
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We are posted up outside LC High School here in Spokane, where hundreds of students have walked out of their class in protest of ICE. LC is one of six schools across the Spokane participating in the walkout, which was organized at a lunch table last Thursday.
January 13, 2026 at 7:14 PM
We are posted up outside LC High School here in Spokane, where hundreds of students have walked out of their class in protest of ICE. LC is one of six schools across the Spokane participating in the walkout, which was organized at a lunch table last Thursday.
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🔥 @markruffalo.bsky.social : “I gotta be honest, I’m not feeling so great. Renee Good was murdered... stormtroopers running around terrorizing. As much as I love all this, I can’t pretend all this crazy stuff isn’t happening. We have a president who says laws don’t apply to him- this is crazy.”
January 12, 2026 at 2:00 PM
🔥 @markruffalo.bsky.social : “I gotta be honest, I’m not feeling so great. Renee Good was murdered... stormtroopers running around terrorizing. As much as I love all this, I can’t pretend all this crazy stuff isn’t happening. We have a president who says laws don’t apply to him- this is crazy.”
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THAT’S RIGHT
Go Bears.
Fuck the Packers.
Abolish ICE.
Fuck the Packers.
Abolish ICE.
January 11, 2026 at 4:36 AM
THAT’S RIGHT
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Chicago has the mandate of heaven
January 11, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Chicago has the mandate of heaven
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New research confirms what many of us see: there's a large internal migration of LGBTQ people in the US, especially trans people, to friendlier states & cities.
Since 11/2024, 9% of all trans people have moved to another state, 43% have considered moving.
www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...
Since 11/2024, 9% of all trans people have moved to another state, 43% have considered moving.
www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...
January 10, 2026 at 7:17 PM
New research confirms what many of us see: there's a large internal migration of LGBTQ people in the US, especially trans people, to friendlier states & cities.
Since 11/2024, 9% of all trans people have moved to another state, 43% have considered moving.
www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...
Since 11/2024, 9% of all trans people have moved to another state, 43% have considered moving.
www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...
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Mutual aid, community care, and boycotting is what’s going to make this happen. Not everyone can or should be on the front lines, but there is space for everyone in the resistance.
January 10, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Mutual aid, community care, and boycotting is what’s going to make this happen. Not everyone can or should be on the front lines, but there is space for everyone in the resistance.
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they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
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"Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI is set to spend $20 billion to build an industrial non-consensual pornography and child sexual abuse material factory in Southaven, Mississippi, Gov. Tate Reeves announced Thursday, calling it the largest private investment in the state’s history."
January 9, 2026 at 2:15 AM
"Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI is set to spend $20 billion to build an industrial non-consensual pornography and child sexual abuse material factory in Southaven, Mississippi, Gov. Tate Reeves announced Thursday, calling it the largest private investment in the state’s history."
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Fact-Checking The Trump Administration On Venezuela https://theonion.com/fact-checking-the-trump-administration-on-venezuela/
January 8, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Fact-Checking The Trump Administration On Venezuela https://theonion.com/fact-checking-the-trump-administration-on-venezuela/
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The resident dean who was fired was given only ten days to vacate his housing. @harvard.edu is putting a Black family — with a newborn baby — out on the street because of comments opposing white supremacy.
Please donate to their gofundme:
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Please donate to their gofundme:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
January 8, 2026 at 2:59 PM
The resident dean who was fired was given only ten days to vacate his housing. @harvard.edu is putting a Black family — with a newborn baby — out on the street because of comments opposing white supremacy.
Please donate to their gofundme:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Please donate to their gofundme:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
"Incarcerated people and their families now pay even more than what it costs for these products on the outside...a 4.25-ounce bag of Chex Cheesy Pizza Snack Mix costs $8.75 to order from USG’s quarterly food packages, even as Walmart sells an 11-ounce bag of the same product for less than $4."
“North Carolina has long expected imprisoned people to shoulder part of the cost of their incarceration,” says a law professor who studies prison labor and revenue.
North Carolina Prison Officials Raise Prices for Those Who Can Least Afford It
An increased markup on canteen goods adds to the financial burden on incarcerated people and their families, highlighting how prison systems squeeze them for revenue.
boltsmag.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:06 PM
"Incarcerated people and their families now pay even more than what it costs for these products on the outside...a 4.25-ounce bag of Chex Cheesy Pizza Snack Mix costs $8.75 to order from USG’s quarterly food packages, even as Walmart sells an 11-ounce bag of the same product for less than $4."
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Dear reporters, etc.
I wrote my Masters thesis on genocide litigation at the ICJ from Trinity College Dublin, for which I received a First Class Honours. If you need commentary for the upcoming Gambia v Myanmar case next week, you can contact me.
I wrote my Masters thesis on genocide litigation at the ICJ from Trinity College Dublin, for which I received a First Class Honours. If you need commentary for the upcoming Gambia v Myanmar case next week, you can contact me.
January 8, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Dear reporters, etc.
I wrote my Masters thesis on genocide litigation at the ICJ from Trinity College Dublin, for which I received a First Class Honours. If you need commentary for the upcoming Gambia v Myanmar case next week, you can contact me.
I wrote my Masters thesis on genocide litigation at the ICJ from Trinity College Dublin, for which I received a First Class Honours. If you need commentary for the upcoming Gambia v Myanmar case next week, you can contact me.
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A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve.
Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body.
This is not new but it is expanding.
Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body.
This is not new but it is expanding.
Your reminder that what happened to Renee Nicole Good is something that happens regularly in America. This is not new, but it is an expanded version of militarized people targeting Black people in particular.
From ICE detention to murder with impunity, we've been doing it. Now it's broadened.
From ICE detention to murder with impunity, we've been doing it. Now it's broadened.
January 8, 2026 at 12:21 AM
A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve.
Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body.
This is not new but it is expanding.
Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body.
This is not new but it is expanding.
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Tear Gas, Censorship, and Medical Neglect At The GEO Owned Adelanto ICE Processing Center
These are some of the horror stories detainees risk telling visitors in fear of guard retaliation.
My latest for @lataco.bsky.social
lataco.com/neglect-geo-...
These are some of the horror stories detainees risk telling visitors in fear of guard retaliation.
My latest for @lataco.bsky.social
lataco.com/neglect-geo-...
Tear Gas, Censorship, and Medical Neglect At The GEO Owned Adelanto ICE Processing Center ~ L.A. TACO
These are some of the horror stories detainees risk telling visitors in fear of guard retaliation.
lataco.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Tear Gas, Censorship, and Medical Neglect At The GEO Owned Adelanto ICE Processing Center
These are some of the horror stories detainees risk telling visitors in fear of guard retaliation.
My latest for @lataco.bsky.social
lataco.com/neglect-geo-...
These are some of the horror stories detainees risk telling visitors in fear of guard retaliation.
My latest for @lataco.bsky.social
lataco.com/neglect-geo-...
Super proud of my congresswoman.
I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
January 8, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Super proud of my congresswoman.
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Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
January 8, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
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The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.
(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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January 8, 2026 at 12:13 AM
The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.
(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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“Do you have no decency? Do you have no decency? We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever... Enough. Enough is enough.” —Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz
January 7, 2026 at 9:07 PM
“Do you have no decency? Do you have no decency? We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever... Enough. Enough is enough.” —Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz
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Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
January 7, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"