eli shroom's altered ego

"bets made among the staff over which detainee would be next to die by suicide." apnews.com/article/suic...

this is like

the thesis statement of our times

On the plus side, with all this evidence the war crimes trials should be short.

There is a legal provision in immigration law that someone married to a US citizen can stay in the US while there visa is pending. Immigration officials have long recognized it to allow residency during the wait time. The DHS has just stopped following this part of the law.

yeah so it sure sounds like the u.s. government is disappearing people including us citizens from o’hare

“Greater contact with law enforcement does not protect children — it increases the risk of sexual violence, especially for Black and Brown kids.”

It's hilarious that "working class" now applies exclusively to the racist failsons of regional car dealership owners but every unemployed trans person is an "elite".

a soft, small rug with a rainbow geometric worm design on it made from recycled yarn.

wormlet . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁
this was a little follow-up to my big worm rug, but only 3x1’ hehe.

#punchrug #rugmaking #rug #illustration

Judge Blocks State from Enforcing Abortion Ban Against Religious Objectors A judge has handed down a ruling that prevents Indiana from enforcing its near-total abortion ban against women who say the procedure is a requirement of their religious faith.

A narrow but important win in Indiana. Cracks in abortion bans start small, then they grow.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

"Water consumption fears are false and overblown."

Turns out...

You better wake the fuck up now. If we don't make their lives ABSOLUTELY FUCKING MISERABLE, we're going be the ones who get shafted. And HARD.

You best believe that everything about the Internet we know is going to die and everything we know and love with it.

I've made my calls today. You need to.

I think the biggest damage to the art community was the obsolescence of gallery sites (y!, deviantart, etc) and the rise of scroll-by social media, like twitter and even tumblr. Art is not ''content'', you shouldnt need to post art every day (or every month!) to be relevant. This mindset sucks.

These are war crimes, violations of the Geneva Conventions.

Increasingly I think we should turn the whole Trump cabinet over to the ICC to be tried at The Hague.

In the 1997 dystopian scifi film Gattaca, rapid DNA testing is used to determine social class and job eligibility. In 2026 UK, women wanting to participate in athletics must pay a £185 gender tax to take part in a genetic lottery where some will be ineligble due to previously unknown chromosones.

a public utility does not need to turn a profit. this is intentional.

"British female track and field athletes are being asked to cover the cost of their own £185 sex tests if they want to compete internationally"

A tax on women courtesy of the Gender Critical.

You know feminism /s 🙄

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we made it safely to a friend's place in the US, but need some further help affording the cost to update our IDs at the DMV so we can get back on meds and hormones

Why We Must Fight to Stop HR 7661 Before It Destroys the Lives of American Children Lately I’ve been calling my House rep and screaming about one zillion things, and maybe you have too. But today I want to talk about one thing in particular you should add to your list: H.R. 7661 i…

I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...

Missouri Advances Three Anti-Trans Bathroom Ban Bills In One Night “This is a make-or-break moment with what just happened in Kansas.”

1. Missouri appears to be forging ahead with 3 bathroom bans in public buildings across the state.

They heard 3 bills in a single night on the topic.

Lawmakers are worried that we could see what happened to Kansas happen there too.

The latest from our writer S. Baum.

i cannot stress enough that if you know anything about how kristi noem found out she was fired you must tell me

A long table covered in open brown paper bags being filled with HRT harm reduction kits. 2 people stand at the far end of the table, looking over the bags.

A man wearing jeans and a pink tshirt sits on a table holding a small bag of supplies. Next to him are an assortment of small boxes containing different supplies for the kits.

A line of filled HRT harm reduction kits - sealed brown paper bags with customised labels

Another 200 HRT harm reduction kits ready to be distributed to trans people in Asheville, NC 🏳️‍⚧️

Each pack contains syringes, injection needles, alcohol wipes, bandaids, and a sharps disposal container, ensuring that people have safe and reliable access to gender affirming healthcare.

ah, to live in such a world......

i keep coming back to a line from this piece when martha, part of the team that took over for their local tamale vendors as feds ravaged chicago, offers some advice:

"start little,” she says. “if you’re able to collaborate with people, literally do what you can. there are no rules.”

yeah it feels like people are not willing to consider that some areas just don't offer good community. 🤦‍♂️

it's typically treated as my fault for lacking local community, but after a while, it gets tiring performing my AGAB for people who I'm supposed to pretend are my friends.

Hey that’s about the cost of the SSI Restoration Act, which would cut recipient poverty by 60%, eliminate marriage penalties, and modernize draconian asset limits.

Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"