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“This renewed incarnation of ACT UP [Chicago] focuses on three advocacy and protest tentpoles: attacks on HIV/AIDS funding, the domestic trans genocide and the ongoing and unmitigated COVID pandemic.” We do so love to see it 🫡

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your dereliction of duty is not my emergency

Can't really assassinate someone based on an address where they do not live.

"Buying food to eat at home has gotten 33% more expensive in U.S. cities since the beginning of 2019, according to government figures. In the 7.5 years before that, prices rose 6.4%." (via @apnews.com) apnews.com/article/groc...

KDE Settings -> Window Management -> Desktop Effects -> ✅ Wobbly Windows

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

Here's the thing - the issues don't matter, the problem is you're fixating on a section of the electorate that is more susceptible to right wing propaganda than the general population. If you appease them on the issue the right wing propaganda machine will pick a new issue. It's whack-a-mole.

Yep. Chicago is doing forced bag checks to access the lakefront and lakefront trail in any place where black youth might be. I hope someone sues.

These cops at the 57th Street underpass were still there nearly six hours later when I passed through, and I was forced to open my bag full of groceries for an inspection before I could bike home.

The range of the anodyne to what used to be considered extreme is so much more striking when considered as a whole. This is speed-running the overthrow of gay rights as a whole, and there will still be people swearing up and down that sacrificing us is necessary. www.metroweekly.com/2026/07/hous...

It’s truly awful. If the goal was to destroy public participation in democracy it couldn’t have been more successful.

THIRTY-EIGHT US STATES have anti-BDS laws! Some of them create literal blacklists and force people and businesses to sign fucking LOYALTY PLEDGES! It's outright McCarthyism!

Rather, they are a loyalty test: if you call out the obvious bullshit, you aren't loyal to the cause. If you don't, you're either a rube or a cooperator

Now that's a safety sign.

But Sky, who would voluntarily reactivate a policy so catastrophically stupid it propelled the New Deal into action, it's simply not conceivable

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

matthew always brings the receipts