I honestly cannot recall a time where I felt like I fit the definition of "normal" everyone around me seemed to use...

This, writ big.

Ken Paxton has caught the 'confusion sickness' from Susan Collins. The terms for a debate between him and Talarico are as obvious as the sun on a clear day.

The difference between the Paxton scandals vs. the Talarico scandals is that the Paxton scandals are a) demonstrably worse, and b) demonstrably real.

I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.

A fellow 3D artist made the enterior (and parts of the exterior) of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D. It's an impressive work. It was modelled in 3ds max (one of the classical rendersuits, which I also learned my craft on) and runs it in Unreal Engine 4. CBS, the IP owners of Star Trek, shut

Has to be said that the reason we've seen such a slow response to two years of this stuff has been precisely because of who he's been targeting.

“Trump is a coward who is weaponizing his DOJ to fuel hate and intimidate his opponents with baseless attacks like these, just like he’s doing with Rep. McIver, Lisa Cook, and Tish James,” said Pressley, who is also Black. “We stand with you, Congresswoman Omar.”

We play different roles. Electeds working within a harmful system - who succeed insofar as they make it less harmful. activists who push electeds based on movement values. If you expect electeds to behave like activists or activists to applaud all an elected does, you’re going to be dissapointed.

The Waco torture and lynching of Jesse Washington in 1916 has stuck with me for years after reading the details. 10,000 people came to watch him be torn to pieces, and burned alive over the course of hours. Exactly 100 years ago.

1000%

if you don’t keep up with the youth i want you to know they’ve renamed “tramp stamps” to “cake toppers” which feels like the first advancement for feminism in a long time

Emphasizing: people I am speaking to are strong and have tremendous spirit. But they have been devastated. They mostly entered the U.S. legally, worked for several years, were detained (frequently illegally), arbitrarily deprived or denied status, treated brutally, and dropped here with nothing.

Main thing I’ve gotten from this trip to Europe is that a lot of leftwing discourse — “content” — on social media is not a good use of people’s time A lot of “call out” and not enough of “being in community”

There are long standing allegations BECAUSE she is a visibly Muslim minority woman and they have hated her since the beginning. If there was any there there do you really think she'd not be in jail right now, with how much they all hate her? Be serious.

American exception is another good one for unlearning what our biased history classes and media teach us.

Dear Islamophobic media : every Muslim Egyptian has a relative who identifies with the Muslim brotherhood. They were literally in office pre Sisi reclassifying them, in an act of authoritarianism, as a “terorist” group after jailing the literal president who was … you guessed it… Muslim brotherhood.