Next up: the new VE Schwab. This library copy advertises itself as a signed copy, but I cannot locate any signatures.

Abortion Arcade: Good world building and storytelling. Like all good genre fic, it’ll make you feel things. Intense body horror and gore. It’s 3 novellas on the theme of abortion written by a man—your tolerance for that sort of thing may vary.

God damn, this one got me. "I cannot make peace with the world such as it is, and so I cannot anesthetize myself into acceptance—and I am okay with that."

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I understand why people *want* the police to intervene--normies are like, 'I thought cops are supposed to arrest people doing crimes, ICE is right there doing crimes, go do your thing'

but police organizations take nearly every opportunity to be like, 'oh you misunderstood what our thing is'

michael?
peter.

Defund the police

"If [Israel] is treating Greta Thunberg this way, imagine how they are treating [Palestinian] women and children."

It cost me less to see the Cavs in the playoffs during the LeBron years than it does to see *any* live sport in Buffalo. This is part of the reason that I simply cannot embrace Buffalo teams. (Except the Bandits ofc). The Bills and Sabres are straws the Pegulas use to suck money out of WNY.

I was exposed to George Floyd's murder played over and over on social media AND network TV.

that made the brutality plain and many folks—including liberals—*increased* their support of police.

I am still healing from the last time a law enforcement officer brutalized me—I will be for a while. It happened last week. This was nowhere near the first time. It will not be the last. It's part of the struggle. But don't fucking romanticize this shit or talk about it like it's an end in itself.

I support nonviolent action. It's literally what I do. But telling people that allowing themselves to be harmed to demonstrate the character of their enemy will be politically transformative denies the desensitized reality of the present.

How many videos have you seen of protesters being brutalized? Pretending this imagery still changes the math the way you wish it would is an insult to the people whose bodies you would treat as props. Ghandi's era was more complex than many of you make out. This is not the 60s either. Things change.

See also: academic libraries and AI

I always get annoyed when writers say the sky is the color of a bruise, but that is in fact the best way to describe the color of the sky in my neighborhood this morning.

💻WEBINAR 10/7: From El Salvador to the US: Resisting mass detention and right-wing authoritarianism. The transfers of immigrants to offshore detention in El Salvador brought increased awareness of the torture and abuse in El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison. Now what? 🔗REGISTER: bit.ly/cncoct7

Police violence is part of our national fabric. You will not find us diminishing that. It's hard to believe any cops could be worse than a department who ran a torture black site. But DHS is entirely unleashed and unaccountable. They will kill more people by the end of this month if not stopped.

Despite all the attempts to paint American fascism as some sort of grassroots phenomenon, so much of it is fueled by gentry at the same dinner parties hating the rest of us.

the thing about the big tent is we can debate its merits and successes as an electoral strategy, but it has been an abject failure as a governance strategy, and frankly what you do with power is more important than how often you win it. we are living through precisely why that’s so

Do you ever wonder where the goalposts for a “constitutional crisis” will be in a couple of years? Pluto, maybe

Seems like every community I'm a part of is in deep leadership crisis mode, and I can't help but feel that the broader political environment is putting earth core-degree pressure on every organizational fault line right now

Do not post dearrest videos, fam.

I Knocked Up Satan’s Daughter is genuinely charming and fun, would recommend to anyone who can tolerate a bit of gore. It’s a formulaic rom com with some delightfully surreal action scenes thrown in. It also punches evangelical culture a few times, if you’re into that.

Liberals and Democrats will call for "funding local police" as a way to solve the problem of DHS/ ICE and no one will think about the fact that this is how we got here.