I'm rebranding without changing my url, shhhh. She/her. Anonymous secondary blog. I discuss social justice, intersectional feminism, LGBTQIA issues and media, racism, and life. Asian American, cis, bi woman. I used to blog about Christian queer stuff but now it'd be more from an ex perspective.
Yellowjackets, Hunting Wives, The Boyfriend, and Heated Rivalry, are my current shows.
Since we live in stupid times, “Know Your Meme” might be doing better reporting than most - apparently a remixed version of the anti-fascist Bella Ciao song appears on a Spotify playlist titled “Groyper War (American First).”
The other “anti fascist” engraving is apparently a reference to the satirical videogame Helldivers 2.
This guy is looking more and more like a Nick Fuentes fan, aka a Groyper. This is a terminally online white supremacist subculture that makes Taking Points USA look moderate.
The DoJ, meanwhile, in response to yet another example of rightwing extremist violence, has taken its own report that 84% percent of all domestic extremist violence is committed by rightwingers, offline. Because of course they did.
If Trump can disappear green card holders for protesting war, he can disappear you.
If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you.
If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you.
We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.
[Image ID: Bluesky post from Robert Reich (@/ rbReich.bsky.social) reading: The Trump regime will would you up off the street and arrest you because you spoke your mind.
And federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars who refuse to identify themselves will be the ones to do it.
[Image ID: Tweet from verified user Khaled Beydoun (@/ KhaledBeydoun) reading: Myth: racism declines with time
Reality: racism fluidly adjust to modern norms and interests
Reply from we have nothing to lose but our… reading: People saying they’re waiting for old people to die so that racism does with them is a dangerous, dangerous thing. /End ID]
Hitler doing a Volkswagen car advertisement for the owner and one of his biggest donors in 1938
Trump doing a Tesla sales pitch on the White House Lawn for shadow President Elon Musk and largest donor in 2025
[ID: The first photo is a black and white picture of Adolf Hitler and the owner of VW smiling in a car with many N*zis behind them. The second photo is color picture of Donald Trump and Elon Musk in a red Tesla. Musk is smiling while Trump is looking forward with his mouth open. End ID]
[image id: three tweets from G. Willow Wilson, posted on the 30th of January, 2018
It’s a mistake to think a dictatorship feels intrinsically different on a day-to-day basis than a democracy does. I’ve lived in one dictatorship and visited several others– there are still movies and work and school and shopping and memes and holidays.
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The difference is the steady disappearance of dissent from the public sphere. Anti-regime bloggers disappear. Dissident political parties are declared “illegal”. Certain books vanish from libraries.
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So if you’re waiting for the grand moment when the scales tip and we are no longer a functioning democracy, you needn’t bother. It’ll be much more subtle than that. It’ll be more of the president ignoring laws passed by congress. It’ll be more demonizing of the press.
Keep a close eye on biases in yourself and others that might differentiate between folks with low and high support needs or over emphasize contributions by low support needs disabled folks to academia and/or production.
People with high support needs are just as deserving of life and respect. And no one should have their right to life determined by their “productivity” or “contributions to society” (both in quotes because of the emphasis by society on capitalism-serving contributions only)
If you’re worried about this and care about combatting eugenics, you should be wearing a high-quality mask in public. A recent statistical analysis found that covid and long covid affect all the aforementioned groups at 2-6 times the average. Don’t just reblog this post and move on: find a KN95 or better and wear it. Keep yourself and others safe from viral eugenics.
The ‘dire threat’ first listed is insufficient bodies for the military. Second is the economy.
This isn’t about making America healthy. This is about having enough fodder for the oligarchical machines.
As someone with multiple of the conditions on this list, this makes my blood run cold.
Adding to what @simpledontmeanpeachy said, the sections that allude to transparency in research and to utilizing all studies, not being unduly influenced, etc., etc… would be acceptable… if there were not a list of words the current Republican administration is banning that would make application for study grants and the continuation of current studies related to health skewed in a very narrow direction. And that the man currently in charge of health has a questionable (understatement of the decade) understanding of health.
Though it’s true that EOs and other changes take time and are subject to legal challenges, please don’t tell us we don’t have anything to worry about yet.
Such actions from the WH embolden his supporters. They encourage anti-democratic behaviors. They make fascists feel safe.
It’s not that I’m worried about the WH.
I’m worried about queer kids getting beaten up.
I’m worried about queer people being forced back into the closet.
I’m worried about being beaten to death on the side of the road at night.
i really hate when ppl say “how can israelis carry out ethnic cleansing when their parents and grandparents fled the holocaust” – partially bc it shows zero understanding of the militarized israeli psyche and how the holocaust plays a major role in state propaganda to garner support for endless occupation and apartheid, partially because there is no sociological research that shows that a group that has suffered genocide won’t do the same thing to others
what i get much more caught up asking myself is: we are a people who deeply understands the yearning and the pain of diaspora. 3,000 years of psalms and prayers and songs and holidays and stories that remind generation after generation of where the jewish people came from – not voluntarily, but through ethnic cleansing and forcible transfer and expulsion
and yet we chose to inflict the unspeakable pain of exile upon the palestinian people
It didn’t feel right to let this sit in the tags. If you aren’t comfortable with what I’m doing, please say so.
Just thinking about how republicans are going after normie sex shit like “internet porn” and “dildos” now
we fucking told y'all
to be clear: the right views any sex that isn’t purely procreative as deviant. it’s not just kink, or queer sex they find abhorrent. And they genuinely believe that the better educated you are about sex in general, including about gender shit, the more deviant you are. they’re legitimately trying to claw everyone down to hell with them.
Now? Before 2003 it was legit technically illegal in some states for even straight couples to have oral or anal sex, and there are still laws in some states restricting how many dildos you can own etc.
I don’t really know what the goal is with putting a numerical limit on dildos, but with republicans the answer is usually “There isn’t one. Die.”
This is your periodic reminder that it is currently right now illegal in the united states to own porn that the average person in your community would be offended by. That’s the legal definition of obscenity (a piece of media that 1. Exists to turn people on 2. has no other “redeeming” purpose and 3. would be offensive to most people in your jurisdiction) and you can theoretically be arrested and go to jail for owning “obscene” media or giving it to other people.
“But that’s ridiculous,” you say, “porn that the average taxpayer would think was ~offensive~ is absolutely fuckin’ everywhere, on the internet and in real life, and nobody gets in trouble for it.” And you’d be right about that. Realistically, this is a law that cannot be enforced: it is way too easy to break, way too hard to track, and way too many people are interested in breaking it.
Same with the pre-Lawrence v. Texas laws against “sodomy” that headspace-hotel is talking about. Yeah, it was illegal to give a blowjob in the privacy of your own home. But of course most people who like blowjobs never even thought twice about those laws, because it’s usually pretty easy to Not tell a cop what you do in the privacy of your bedroom with your spouse.
“So if laws like this don’t actually stop people from doing whatever sexual things they want to do, why are you concerned about it? You just said these laws don’t hurt anybody, right?” Here’s the thing. The purpose of laws like this is to create an atmosphere where you can get away with doing “"deviant”“ things… if you hide it from polite society, if you keep it secret, if you know your place.
What you can’t do is go out in public and say that actually gay people can have happy relationships, or that masturbating sometimes doesn’t make you a depraved sex addict, or that it’s okay to want to enjoy having sex and not just do it as your Duty To Your Husband.
You can get away with doing what you want in private if you never challenge the dominant cultural message that what you’re doing is gross and immoral and people who do it are disgusting freaks. If you dare to speak up and point out that your ”“shameful secret”“ is actually normal, off you go to jail.
That’s the purpose of laws like this. To make it impossible to challenge the rhetorical stranglehold of conservative christianity on society. To shift the Overton window once and for all to the right. And that’s why we need to fight laws like this with all our strength, every time the right tries to push them forward, even when the specifics are stuff like "you can’t own more than five dildoes” that might seem like a silly thing to go to war over. It’s not about the specifics. It’s about limiting everyone’s speech to things a conservative preacher would say from the pulpit.
The other thing laws like this are good for is giving the police excuses
Younger Americans NEED to understand why Lawrence vs Texas went to the Supreme Court.
In 2003, police raided the private home of two gay men and charged them with sodomy. I cannot emphasize enough that THEY WERE NOT CURRENTLY HAVING SEX AT ALL when the police raided them. But the cops had “probable cause” to believe that they had, at some point, had non-procreative sex, which was illegal under Texas’s sodomy law, so they were charged with a crime.
Ultimately, the SCOTUS ruled that sodomy laws are unconstitutional because US citizens have a right to privacy: what consenting adults do in their own homes is their own business.
What you need to know is that in four states, including Texas and. Missouri, sodomy laws are still on the books. That means that if SCOTUS strikes down Lawrence vs Texas, these laws immediately go back into effect, and more states can add their own.
What would that look like?
If you’re on Tinder and your profile says you’re gay or bi, the police can subpoena your profile and use it to arrest you.
If you’re on Scruff or Grindr, the police can subpoena your location data and messages and use them to track down and arrest you and all your hookups.
If you’re in a same-sex marriage, the police can subpoena a list of same-sex marriage certificates and arrest every single couple—even if they’re widowed or divorced.
If your school has an LGBTQ club, the police can subpoena a list of members and arrest kids & college students.
They could subpoena data from FetLife and Facebook and Twitter and, yes, if they thought to do so, Tumblr. Rainbow flag in your profile? They’re drawing up charges.
And all of these people getting arrested and charged with sodomy, when convicted, will not only have their lives ruined by jail time, but will also likely be labeled sex offenders for the rest of their lives.
This is not ancient history. This was not “back in the day.” I WAS IN COLLEGE WHEN THIS HAPPENED.
And the Republicans are frothing at the fucking mouth to bring these horrors back.
all of the above is so so important.
but one more important thing to add is that republicans want you to only have procreative sex because they need you to procreate.
it’s the same reason that they want abortion to be illegal. it’s the same reason that the for-profit prison complex exists. because the church, capitalism, and fascism are all parts of the same system that needs to continually generate human lives to oppress so the rich can get richer.
I just have to say that it’s so weird reading how transphobes think of trans bodies as mutilated and gross when they never would have thought my body pre-transition was worthy. The “argument” of mutilated beauty that transphobes have tossed around is just a fear mongering tactic, because they don’t tend to actually love or appreciate and see value in bodies that don’t “neatly” fit into male and female, with no overlap and no nuances.
The idea that bodies have to be “pure” and “unmutilated” and “free of sin” or whatever else is a deeply fascist mindset, and I do not say that lightly and I do not say this as a joke of any kind. It is inherently fascist.
