@bski1221 @atrupar Smithsonian Institution: executive-order pressure targeting the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Smithsonian/National Museum of African American History and Culture: reported artifact rotations amid pressure, with causation disputed. 1/ @bski1221 @atrupar Department of Defense website: Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. trailblazing-career page deleted and labeled “DEI/black-history-month.”
Department of Defense integration history: 60th anniversary of U.S. troop integration page removed, then reinstated. 2/

@bski1221 @atrupar I know your reading comprehension is in short supply, genius, but let your lips move freely as you read the 6-page single-spaced list of Black erasure I gave you:
1/ @bski1221 @atrupar •Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park, Kansas: permanent exhibit flagged because it mentions “equity.” A permanent exhibit at the landmark school-desegregation site was reportedly flagged because of the word “equity." 2/

@CreepnCat Good God, are they still going on about pups and pup hoods? Pup Play "officially" began at IML 1986, 3 years before the first ConFurEnce, and they are not in conflict; they draw from and enrich and sustain each other, and each is now practiced by millions around the world. 1/ @CreepnCat Many of us participate in both practices and are fully invested in both communities. This natural unity and harmony is key to our affinity for the activity, and we're puzzled by the recurring hateful discourse, the calls for separation and worse - 2/

@DrNeilStone All these fetid slavering bottom-feeding AIDS Truthers in the replies obscure the lived reality of gay men from 1981-1996. AZT was credited with giving people with HIV a longer life - anecdotally, 6 to 24 months - but it didn't stop them from dying. 1/ @DrNeilStone At the very beginning of AZT, some - again, anecdotally - may have been adversely affected by toxicity caused by megadoses of the only drug we had for years. Quack remedies circulated among us on mimeograph - inject yourself with hydrogen peroxide! Kombucha tea! Echinacea! 2/

@whiplash3456 Ran across your account and was struck by your determination to open your mind and heart. As a lifelong saved Christian I hope that as you go forward the Spirit will deepen and enrich your understanding of God's grace. 1/ @whiplash3456 This fandom is filled with children of God who are deeply frightened - terrified, to be honest - by the actions of our government and the darkness in our culture that has trained its sights on us, has rolled back years of progress for our community in a matter of months - 2/

@PupBoreas @DartsDomain @SpacePupSilver After 38 years in leather on Folsom Street and across the country, 37 years as the 2nd-earliest Pup in Pup Play, "oldguardleatherdog" atop my socials, trained by legends &c &c, let me offer you this: 1/ @PupBoreas @DartsDomain @SpacePupSilver ANYONE who tells you that you're not good enough, your clothes/gear/look/body/race/gender/attitude isn't up to standard, you're ignorant or stupid, you're not conforming to our dress code, age range, class/wealth status, or any variation of "you're doing it wrong!" - 2/

@Stopworkplacebu This is what happened to me 14 years ago as a high-level IT engineer freshly hired full time at a defense contractor outside of DC on a massive project for a federal agency that brought in the top people from Microsoft and the US government. Worked in a "war room" where about 1/ @Stopworkplacebu two dozen of us were thrown together in a series of low-slung desks with minimal dividers, like an eighth grade cafeteria. First day I walked in there, the 23-year-old project lead from the government side saw me, first words out of his mouth "get out of here, we don't need 2/

Was just on Reddit, and in the San Francisco sub -always a fight to watch or join- I saw a post titled, "It was a pleasure, San Francisco." Every so often, someone who's visited for posts a thank you note with a promise to return soon, and I gotta tell ya, I damn near cried. 1/ I came here for a 2 week vacation 37 years ago and ever since, except for a break in service to do the New York thing (wise) and get gay married in Vermont and Mass. (unwise), this city has been my home and I love it with my whole heart. That reddit sub tor me id like a boxing 2/