Remember, WE HAVE NOT WON YET!

ICE is still kidnapping and terrorizing people in the Twin Cities and all around the country!

Trump has built ICE to be the shock troops with which to establish autocracy, but thanks to popular resistance, he is losing control of the narrative. Yet Democrats are already scheming to squander the advantage that Renee Good and Alex Pretti paid for with their lives. What ordinary people gain in the streets, politicians will sell away behind closed doors for their own personal gain.

No one is coming to save us! We have to win this for ourselves through grassroots direct action!

All out to the Twin Cities!

Keep fighting! 🏴

https://crimethinc.com/responserevolution

Cool thing for fellow Virginians: An otherwise conservative county (Hanover) rejected the building of an ICE facility after large-scale protests.

It's worth mentioning that this technically doesn't mean it *can't* be built b/c the federal government can more or less override local objections, but it does introduce obstacles, and is a great show of solidarity.

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

^^ this, but also addressing the misogynistic angle of the first post:

Smut is more scandalous when it's women consuming it, due to the moral standards of purity that want women as sexual objects but disdain them as sexual subject, they mustn't desire but be desirable.
This, paired with the fact that content aimed at women (and especially teenagers or young adults) is always seen as lesser both in quality and value, and the increasingly blurred distinction between fiction and reality make booktok, especially the part talking about "dark romance", a big target for misogyny.

Related note: The perspective that there's absolutely nothing wrong with reading things that are low quality, even things that are "trashy," and the perspective that it's really, REALLY in your best interest to read things that challenge you absolutely can co-exist as well.

Don't forget to mask up.
No face? No case.

report from a librarian

There's a research study out there called AYAGDOS, lead, amongst others, by Lisa Littman, who wants to study rapid onset gender dysphoria via social failure, and is trying to make data fit that fucked up theory by purposefully misrepresenting the people who partake in her studies.

Lisa is also on the advisory board on Genspect, a fully serious anti-trans org that operates within the EU and works closely with the medical systems wherever they're let in to push anti trans science.

They're actively recruiting for their study on sites like Reddit, targeting demographics who frequent trans subs.

whatever you do, do not participate in trans social studies without doing your research on the people leading the study, they're incredibly good at covering their tracks and will misuse your input to further a false narrative against trans people.
If you want to see just how bad it is, look up Genspect, you'll find ties to Turning Point, trans social rejection propaganda, gender ideology broadly being painted as deliberately inciting violence, detrans agenda pushing

happy tenth anniversary of "Please clap" to those who celebrate