Notices by Kit Malone (thekitmalone@hoosier.social)

I too find it a bit rich that people in the moveable middle seem more animated by the destruction of a building than by the litany of cruelties but you also don't get to choose which symbolic moments animate people, you just need to take full advantage of them when you get the chance.

I ran an event recently where an attendee, a Republican opposed to Trump, burst into tears because she couldn't recognize so many of her friends and family anymore. She could truly feel her world crumbling.

At the same event was another woman who needed me to help shield her from cameras because she was afraid of her MAGA husband.

I think about those women an awful lot.

So much about current politics can be explained by Republicans not making peace with being the entrenched establishment now and Democrats not making peace with being the opposition.

You know who has been useful to me in killing bathroom bills, fighting anti-immigrant legis, beating ID change bans, mobilizing against pro-life weirdos and anything else I've done that's worth a damn?

1. A small core of committed leftists who know how to organize real coalitions and understand that solidarity sometimes means you don't indulge in cheap shots.

2. Ordinary imperfect liberals (lots) willing to stand with us.

3. Always a handful of conservatives unable to ignore their conscience.

Don't like that math? Get used to losing.

You know who hasn't ever been helpful to me in doing anything real? Namecalling sideliners who are more focused on identifying in-groups and out-groups than on accomplishing anything real.

@stefan good news tbh

The GOP's shutdown could force many #Indiana babies to go hungry.

https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/government-shutdown-puts-vital-food-program-for-moms-and-babies-in-limbo

#HoosierMast

Jane Goodall represented an early realization for me that a scientist could also have a good heart and a kind spirit. There were few like her.

i'm sure JD and the prez will really try pretty hard unite us when they speak at the stadium today

"a grieving nation lashes out at the nearest easy target"

The overwhelming problem with public education in the US is simply that nobody these days can agree on how to pay for it at a level where it would work properly and nobody really wants to solve that problem.

"We have to find out how so many promising young white men with good grades end up doing a mass shooting."

"Well, Jane, I imagine a lot of them start with a trip to the gun store."

@jstatepost @gvwilson

man i'd be so down with a Family Ties reboot lol

Hey evergreen reminder that anyone posting about their desire to commit violence or do illegal things on federated social media like Mastodon is putting lots of other people who they don't even necessarily know in danger due to the way these platforms work.

Also, they are probably cops.

My dog smashed my cute tinylaptop last week so today I get to do the old debian install routine on another ebay special lol.

Honestly, I just can't imagine giving more than like two-fitty for a new general purpose laptop these days.

Of all the end-of-the-world AI sci-fi scenarios, none of them predicted everything and everyone just getting kinda stupider because of it

"We've got this new technology! It can make all kind of stuff as long as you don't mind that it's all kinda vapid and dumb. Oh and also using it a lot will make you kinda vapid and dumb too."

Here we go.

https://apnews.com/article/texas-governor-redistricting-trump-33bfdc8790cdf8201d80c8c89258df3d

This thing is just going to spread now and who knows where it ends. Madness.

Trans equality has always been politically inconvenient and that's why we're never going to just play ball.

There'll never be a time when it's expedient to stand up for us. We're unpopular, a bit insular, and there aren't many of us. We'll always provoke conspiratorial mythmaking.

We have to rely on allies with moral clarity. Liberal exasperation about our inability to shut up right now is just pissing in the wind. We didn't stop before you noticed our existence and we aren't stopping now.