Scholar, writer, single mother.
I want people to go to jail for this shit
Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!
gdi I filed an essay on this two weeks ago ... :) good piece.
Will BunchBad news. There's a war that Trump's winning...on higher ed in America Now they want to end student loans if they don't think you'll earn enough money. Americans are anxious our kids aren't learning, so why don't Dems make an issue out of college? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
There's just something gut wrenching about a man who comes from the first Republic founded by ex-enslaved people to end up fucking shackled in 2026.
Yael SchacherSo many immigrants I've interviewed break down about this. "Monsanto Maler was one of several Haitian immigrants who traveled from Springfield for a check in...after an ankle monitor was attached to him, Maler was seen collapsing to the ground and crying." www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/hundre...
The wickedness of this is obscene. Never vote for a Republican for any office. It's the party of bigotry, xenophobia, and racism.
Yael SchacherSo many immigrants I've interviewed break down about this. "Monsanto Maler was one of several Haitian immigrants who traveled from Springfield for a check in...after an ankle monitor was attached to him, Maler was seen collapsing to the ground and crying." www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/hundre...
Opening the beaches on the Fourth of July is like ringing the dinner bell.
Reposting because apparently today is the anniversary of his resignation.
Joe MasonSpeaking of Nixon, I had a HS social studies teacher--one of the best I had all through K-12--who was angry when Nixon resigned, because he wanted to see him convicted and barred from office to set an example for future presidents.
Leaked video from an ICE camp details people suffering from tuberculosis, a never ending “flu” & conjunctivitis. ICE enforcement is a mass disabling event. These are concentration camps. They’re a breeding ground for disease which will lead to preventable suffering, disability and death.
A great response to people who claim kids need to learn "A.i." to be job-ready: "But the tech of today looks nothing like it will in five or even two years’ time: it’s the equivalent of selling your child’s intellectual liberty in exchange for a penny-farthing bicycle."
'sex matters' -> 'ethnicity matters' you just know they aren't far off from 'race matters'.
Marcus 🏳️🌈🇧🇧The media seems to have swallowed the “protecting women” from asylum seekers rhetoric when >90% of sexual assault perpetrators are known to the victim and about 95% of white British women have a white British partner. Again, they don’t care about facts
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports.
I know this is AOC. But it is curious that we NEVER see any self-reflection within the GOP as to why they lost young women. Do you ever recall a single article where GOPers are doing self-reflection about why young women are abandoning the GOP? I can’t. Apparently only young men count.
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This week I sat down with Bernie Wagenblast, the voice of the NYC subway system - a sound that any New Yorker can recognize almost instantly. We discussed how she got the job, her experience as a trans woman in New York City, and so much more. Watch the full stream below: youtu.be/XuAqiaCvxT8?...
Transphobes will embrace and ally themselves with every pedophile, rapist, and domestic abuser because they fundamentally agree completely with them about bodily autonomy and consent Transphobes are unable to *not* see a huge obviously abusive piece of shit and immediately support them.
anniempetersonA note on Royce White, the former NBA player who says he's entering the WNBA draft, a judge ruled he abused his wife and teenage son in an April court order and determined he could not have contact with either of them for 50 years. Great way to "protect women's sports" transphobes.
The insane thing about this take is that we're plagued by the opposite problem: too many people listening to shit on their phones *without* headphones. I do not want to hear your TikTok or your phonecall. Grow up, buy headphones and leave us the hell alone.
The GuardianThe hill I will die on: Remove those earphones – you’re blocking out the music of humanity | Stefan Stern
“Five years later, the most troubling question is how the world learned to live with the Taliban’s policies toward women and girls.” thediplomat.com/2026/08/how-...
How the World Learned to Live with the Exclusion of Afghan WomenThe world has to do more than admire Afghan women’s resilience. It must stand with them by taking concrete actions.thediplomat.com
I call this the Atia of the Julii approach. If you don't understand it, go watch HBO's Rome until you do. Then bring that energy to crushing the MAGA class
Faine GreenwoodWe need the instincts of a filthy-minded showman when it comes to breaking and destroying our corrupt MAGA class. give em a little razzle-dazzle as we lead a weeping and pants-shitting Elon Musk by a chain around his neck into the little piss-scented cell where he has been sentenced to die alone
HRC files class action over federal ban on gender-affirming care coverage The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the nonprofit sister organization to the largest LGBTQ human rights lobbying and advocacy organization in… https://roughdraftatlanta.com/2026/08/08/hrc-files-federal-healthcare-lawsuit/
HRC files class action over federal ban on gender-affirming care coverageThe Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the nonprofit sister organization to the largest LGBTQ human rights lobbying and advocacy organization in the U.S., along with law firms Correia & Puth and Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, filed a class action lawsuit against the government as it attempts to restrict gender-affirming healthcare for federal employees. The suit, filed on Monday, alleges that the Office of Personnel Management, run by Trump appointee Scott Kupor, is discriminating against LGBTQ federal employees (and their families and retired employees) by prohibiting health insurance coverage for gender-affirming care under the Federal Employees Health Benefits and Postal Service Health Benefits plans.roughdraftatlanta.com
My friends are all like "what's the obsession with fountain pens, dude?" My brothers and sisters in Christ you just pick them up and start writing without 2FA or *anything*!
The Narrative™️, though. It cannot fail. It can only be failed.
Dan SilvermanNew study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching