jordan

queer (he/him) | theatre educator | actor | singer | ttrpg dork | blm ✊🏿 1312 | trans rights

[jordan @discodanlives]

me: so does anyone have any other questions or anything? any tech issues?

random, webcam-less student: *unmutes* *the maw of hell unfurls it’s lip-tendrils and spews angry shrieking ghosts into the material plane* *mutes*

me: okay cool well have a good weekend everyone

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Beating fascism in the long term will require moving past liberalism.

[Luke Savage @LukewSavage]

The Dems tried to force an unpopular octogenarian president on the electorate. Having finally replaced him at the last minute, they ran a right leaning campaign that doubled down on the worst instincts of Obamaism and Clintonism. And here we are.

[austin walker @austin_walker]

America is only coherent as an empire built on pillaging the ever shifting periphery, internal and external, which has slowly reduced the breadth of viable ideological positions to various visions of individualism. Trump is just an extremely expressive cultivar of the staple crop

[austin walker @austin_walker]

Some real deeply embarrassing behavior in the last few days from folks who think history is just a nightmare you wake up from.

[austin walker @austin_walker]

Regardless of the outcome at this point, I really hope this outcome ends the idea that Trump's first term was some sort of fluke, that we as a country are 'better than that.' Naive, see-no-evil ass position that self-sabotages the work of building an holsitic alternative vision.

[Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa]

i think one reason people now talk about art like they’re armchair executives (“how much did it make? who’s the audience? who is this for?”) is we’ve so impoverished arts education that business is the only language we’ve left them

[Ashok Kumar @comrade_kumar_]

The full excerpt of the 2018 interview with Sinwar:

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Thanks to the IV fluid monopoly (3 companies control 85% of the market), hospitals are conserving IV fluid post-Hurricane Helene.

One factory about 35 miles east of Asheville supplied 60% of the nation's IV fluids to health facilities.

Hospitals could soon face shortages.

[jordan @discodanlives]

sowing, reaping…

(Spann has been a climate change denier for a long time.)

[AL.com @aldotcom]

A PSA from James Spann:

[austin walker @austin_walker]

Really appreciate the point Ewing underscores towards the end here: Oppression like this is part of a global network, so liiberation there may in fact require liberation here. From arms trades to cop cities to oil pipelines, the overlap is not only theoretical, it is material.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Leading article in NYT this morning: why can’t the US do anything to stop Israel’s aggression? They’re powerless, bumbling around in the dark looking for their dicks. Oh well

8 paragraphs in: Well, Biden can stop Israel but just doesn’t want to? Anyway moving on.

[Hbomberguy @Hbomberguy]

If it's not valuable, why are you stealing it?

[Chris Units @ChrisUnits]

A hill I'll die on:

Private school vouchers should be completely eliminated.

It's just wealthy people looting public education. Shameful.

[Will @SilentDawnLB]

Talk your shit king

[austin walker @austin_walker]

Simple and undeniable. Malicious.

1. US law requires us to stop sending arms to any nation that blocks or interferes with US aid shipments.

2. Multiple US agencies advised Blinken that Israel was doing exactly this.

3. They were ignored so that arms shipments could continue.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

This is a huge scandal.
USAID & State Department refugee bureau both said Israel blocked aid to Gaza. But Blinken told Congress the opposite, so they wouldn't have to heed US law that'd force cutting off weapons to Israel.
As in, the Biden-Harris admin is complicit in war crimes.

[Matthew Cole @mattbencole]

I’m sure everyone enraged by that Chappell Roan quote is already aware that she said it two months ago and it was reported two weeks ago and that in the original source she elaborates on her intentions to vote? Because I know y’all would not fall for some low-effort rage bait…