UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

refusing to accept this isn’t just about “purity” or whatever, it’s about effective politics. someone who thinks it’s practical to cave on trans rights misunderstands how politics works, they don’t recognize that public opinion is forged by perseverance

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

I cried so much during James Gunn’s sincere, topical, and deeply moving revival of #Superman — and then I cried again reading @mangiotto.bsky.social’s magnificent review. “Up up and away, motherfuckers, time to fly.” filmfreakcentral.net/2025/07/supe...

You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country

We spent years being manipulated by conservatives with the ear of establishment centrists and liberals into addressing a fake free speech crisis, precisely so people could be punished for speaking out against perhaps the most contemporaneously well-documented genocide in history

This last week is a real demonstration of how capacious, yet flattened the word "violent" is in our political discourse. Political assassinations are obviously, clearly violent. But the same word has been used all week to describe protestors damaging objects--not people, objects.

this dude is consistently putting up christopher nolan numbers and he's still very clearly at the *start* of his career. the studios should be THROWING THEMSELVES at him

if coogler looked like damien chazelle no one would question the studio deal given his record of hits.

fruitvale station: $17 million on a budget of $900K
creed: $173 million on a budget of $35 mil
black panther: $1.35 BILLION on a budget of $200 mil
bp2 2: $859 million on a budget of $250 mil

roberts et al have divined the Actual Intent of the constitution, which is to allow the government to exercise nearly unaccountable power to strip people of their rights. it is why we fought the revolution!

The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing.

i think shutting the government down is preferably to nullifying article i of the constitution

conservative evangelicals spent a quarter century explicitly tying their religious identity to the most extreme and jingoistic forms of american nationalism up to and including embracing one of the worst degenerates this country has ever produced and they refuse to take responsibility for it