To his followers, this has always been the promise of Trump. Whatever bitterness you harbor in the recesses of your heart, you can hold it forward and be embraced. But these days it’s more than just social acceptance. You can enact vengeance on your chosen enemies in the real world. There’s an audience for your fearmongering and a protectorate for your prejudice.

Oregon state Rep. Ricki Ruiz said three people were detained in his district after ICE agents posed as utility workers.

Actually cooked.

These stories come in the aftermath of allegations that a small but mighty cabal of “LGBT reporters” had somehow seized control of the BBC and “censored” right-wing views.

Absurd.

via: https://www.tumblr.com/ot3/801700640730611712

The deaths came as the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement, detaining a record number of people

Say their motherfucking names.

So much for Black Lives Matter.

I satisfy half of these bullets LMAO.

Bro speedran the coup d’etat any%.

What. OK. Uh, fuck you, too, then.

Why do men find it so hard to connect with other people, and their own emotions?

A modern review of a misunderstood and kinda strange book. Man, once you’ve consumed one or two good pieces of “masculinity crisis” media, you kinda realize the rest of them don’t have much of anything novel to say.

see: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29434.Self_Made_Man

Wow, a JREG video I can relate to LOL.

The great irony of this is that people like Merrick Garland think that they’re eschewing politics. The reality is the opposite: the careful avoidance of anything that appears political is itself a political act. It is a performance, intended to convey to your audience that you are neutral and unbiased. It’s an effort in institutional PR.

Sharyn Alfonsi’s Inside CECOT for 60 Minutes, which was censored by Bari Weiss, as it appeared on Canada’s Global TV app.

Wow. And they pulled this shit off the air. Terrifying.

But this is a useful window into Bari’s mind. To her, what’s courageous is standing up to the left, no matter the circumstance. To a dedicated reactionary, the left is an indefatigable social, cultural, and political force. It must be confronted at every turn, and every confrontation is a noble cause. The median Senator taking the median position becomes brave. Mediocrity transforms into heroism.

The Family Red Apple boycott, also known as the “Red Apple boycott”, “Church Avenue boycott” or “Flatbush boycott”, was the starting point of an eighteen-month series of boycotts targeting Korean-owned stores. It began in January 1990 with a Korean-American-owned shop called Family Red Apple at 1823 Church Avenue in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn and extended to other stores, both within and beyond the original neighborhood.

Racial turmoil set up by the white man in my own neighborhood. Harrowing indeed.

via: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0032329299027001005

An excellent piece making clear how Asian Americans fit into the tapestry of race in America, and how they’re used as pawns by whites to to further the disenfranchisement of blacks.

via: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRTUJoMinuU`

People take what they need and change what they don’t; they read, interrogate, contextualize; in this way, history moves forward. The question is not what the books say. The question is always you, the reader; what you take, what you leave, and how you change the world.

Here is the counterbalance to all that writer’s block and self-protective silence, the reason to keep swinging and missing: If you don’t speak, someone will speak for you. Trans people may rip ourselves apart or drive ourselves mad trying to communicate our existence in some well-reasoned and responsible way, but cis people have no such compunctions. Cis people never stop talking about trans people, because they never have to; cis people can just make shit up, and someone will pay to publish it, pretty much every time. That’s what unconditional privilege in patriarchy looks like. It is the freedom to define someone else’s reality on your own terms.

Gotta keep fighting for the right for all marginalized peoples to be heard.