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Lincoln Heights Does Not F*ck Around
Last Friday Hate Club decided to do a banner drop in a historic Black suburb of Cincinnati. Residents were not having it. A team of 30 or so locals got wind of it, showed up en masse, took their flag, and lit it on fire. (I won't be
A Groyper Boy Band Has Hijacked the US Government
A Fork in the Road
A New Day
How's everybody doing? Did you sleep? Eat? Drink water? Go do that. Move your body, breathe. I'm not going to tell you that you need to focus on self-care, because frankly, nobody that needs it has time or money for that. You need to focus on
Once more, into the mouth of madness
New Year, New Focus
So, some stuff happened over the holidays that you may have heard about. Today is also the anniversary of that time people tried to overthrow the US government. And, we're two weeks away from inaugurating the doom Cheeto. Again. So we figured the most useful thing we could
But seriously, call your reps about HR 9495 right now
What Happens Now?
So Trump won. And the GOP took both the House and the Senate. What does that mean, realistically? Are you a minority, a woman, queer, an immigrant, a drug user, a person with a criminal record, outspoken about your political beliefs, or a member of a religion other than some
Meet (the latest) White Nationalist Maternity Home, Schatzkind Services
A few things about being inside Trump's MSG rally that people haven't talked about.
I tested the limits of my patience, sanity, and very likely respiratory system by going to yesterday's Trump rally at Madison Square Garden. This is going to sound weird. But the event security, concessions, and general climate control use all classic EST techniques for brainwashing people to authoritarian
Beware the grief pimps
As we are in the brief calm before yet another literal storm, there is a tremendous amount of misinformation going around about Hurricane Helene, the FEMA response, claims of land grabs from affected residents. And the influx of disaster tourism from fascist groups trying to push their own agenda has
When Any Help Offered Is Taken
This week, we've seen catastrophic destruction in the wake of Hurricane Helene, in areas that most thought of as immune to hurricane damage. And while there is so much to say about climate denial, disaster preparedness, or the privilege of being able to evacuate, I want to talk
NPR, Merch, and Lookbooks
The last week has seen the Springfield situation keep mutating with new lies (like "Haitian militias" - nope, just Black Israelites), and lists being floated of other small towns and cities for people to target (Charleroi, PA! Lockland, OH! Sykacauga, AL!). I spoke with Odette Yousef at NPR
Nobody in Ohio is Eating Your Cat.
The town of Springfield, Ohio has had an influx of Haitian immigrants, which has kicked off a truly absurd amount of panic. A few weeks ago, neo-Nazi boy band Blood Tribe marched in Springfield Ohio. The next week, their preppy counterparts Patriot Front did the same. That same week, Drake
DNC in Chicago, what could go wrong?
Would a militia make you feel safer? Too bad, you get them anyways.
Everybody is feeling great about the future.
How y'all feeling about having an emperor? Cool. It's a totally normal one when Supreme Court Justices pen dissents detailing all the violent ways the presidency can now go unchecked. Right after telling people that they weren't going to be held accountable for trying
It is wayyy too early to unclench.
June's going to be a hot one.
Get to know your local civil rights attorney
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Like it or not, everybody is allowed to protest. For now.
A quick rundown of facts about the campus protests themselves: * As of 5/2, in the last month, there have been over 100 protest encampments or staged sit ins at colleges across the country, in 39 states + DC * These are separate from any of the marches that have been going
pEaCeFuL pR0-LiFe pRoTesTers
Last week, the remaining four defendants in the Mt. Juliet abortion clinic blockade trial were found guilty. The dominant media narrative around this conviction is focusing on how Christians were arrested for "simply praying," and the eldest blockader, 87 year old Eva Edl, who often is referred to
