I haven’t verified that fact. But targeting slim minorities is definitely the playbook. Because they have less power to fight back
Brian Young@brianyoungan.bsky.social · 2d agoA striking thing I realized touring the Jewish Museum Berlin last year: the percentage of Jewish people in the population of Germany in 1930 was almost exactly the same as the percentage of trans people in the United States in 2025
the actual election scandal is the fact that the president of the united states is waging a whole of government effort against free and fair elections.
the president: accused of rape a few days ago the media:
NPR@npr.org · 2d agoHint: He likes them big (and he cannot lie). n.pr/4jOMEq0
The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.
New in PN: We’ve blown past mere “transphobia” "Hitler used hatred of Jewish people to try to build power, and then he used that power to eliminate Jewish people. The Republican Party has a similar relationship to trans hate."
We’ve blown past mere “transphobia”
Republicans are peddling genocidal hate.
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The president of the United States is using the Department of Justice, filled with the defense lawyers who helped him get away with a coup, to try to steal an election. Any other comment about the "fairness" of our elections should focus entirely on that and that alone.
If the Democrats don't win supermajorities in Congress and all governorships, national media will talk about what a disappointing night it was for them. (Please feel free to review this post Nov. 4)
Trump has been undermining faith in our elections for over a decade and it has yet to be covered by @nytimes.com with the hair-on-fire fervor and (dis)proportion of Hillary's email server, but they'll serve this right before the election as if to validate his conspiracies. Handing him a bludgeon.
Our democracy is, and has been, in grave danger. Since the day the guy won a presidential election and still claimed it was rigged. Since he attempted a coup, and cowardly senators refused to convict. Since he was re-elected
Adam Klasfeld@klasfeldreports.com · 3d ago"If the Executive can discount votes and threaten an ongoing election due to unproven allegations, then our democracy is in danger." — Judge David O. Carter, the first federal judge to observe that Trump likely committed crimes in his assault on the 2020 election. buff.ly/hSDF7SA
Not that there was any doubt, but they're going after elections. "We don't like the candidates, so only our guy should be on the ballot."
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 4d agoThere it is. We are finally here. Trump has formally announced his desire to cancel a U.S. election. We said he would do this, and now he has. It doesn't matter that he probably can't. Or that he'll lose in court. The point is that we've crossed a line with respect to American democracy.
“As I write this, the Washington Post has published at least 4 articles about Obama’s Cheesecake Factory line, and 0 articles about a new allegation of rape against Donald Trump, who has already been found liable for sexual assault.” — @jamisonfoser.bsky.social www.findinggravity.net/more-women-h...
More women have accused Donald Trump of rape than have seen him in a Cheesecake Factory
By now you are probably painfully aware of the week’s dumbest media freakout: In Cleveland on Saturday, Barack Obama took a shot at Donald Trump’s well-known fondness for dictator-chic decor: “He’s go...
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This guy has always believed that anything that gets attention is good. So he’s leaving into a bit.
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4d ago"Because he's got a GREAT ASS!!!"
There's a weird overlap between people who say they want limited government, but also vote for loud, aggressive, bullies who want everything their way and will punish anyone who disagrees.
I'm kinda curious what they thought was going to happen...
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6d agoCatholic bishops accuse Trump White House of turning prayer into campaign photo op
We can, and should, oppose bigotry as a matter of principle. For Jews, it’s also a matter of self-protection. Bigots will always come after Jews, too.
🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social · 6d agoI wrote it. Feel free to reprint it. Mike Rogers' Religious Bigotry Threatens All of Michigan’s Jews An urgent plea to Jewish Michiganders against the hand-picked suit who runs on hateful smears and away from Trump’s record.
This is just pure racism. Republicans objectively are campaigning on little more than bigotry.
Anti-democratic language has been a hallmark of Trumpism from the start. Is he alleging a crime or something that disqualifies a candidate? Nope. Just saying because the candidate opposes Trump, he's ineligible.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d agoTrump says El-Sayed is a jihadist and shouldn’t be allowed to serve in the Senate
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving his construction crew to work when an ICE officer shot and killed him in Houston. He wasn’t even the person ICE was looking for. Now Texas voters are leaving their “I Voted” stickers at his memorial. #BlueWaveIn10Days
I don't think all trans people are saints because fuck that. But they are some of the bravest people on earth and they're being targeted out of malice of convienance. If you aren't on the right side of this now, you can't be trusted with much.
Can I point out that in any other context the President having to repeatedly go and ask someone to restore access to an ally would be interpreted as a sign of incredible weakness.
The modern GOP: defend child sex abusers, attack survivors.
All these so-called “independent” Republicans will go right back to voting for Johnson as speaker, confirm every Trump nominee, vote with Trump on everything, and continue doing zero oversight on his corrupt regime. A vote for any one of them is a vote to continue all of that.
Important framing. But really, it boils down to this: they will always side with abusers. Gee, I wonder why.
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last wk.The same people who insist on policing public bathrooms in order to protect girls from sexual predators are now calling a child rape victim, whose mother lost custody due to that abuse, a liar. loathsome
Vivek Ramaswamy seeks to take political advantage of the fact that his opponent was raped as a child. But to his credit, unlike many other Republican politicians, he was not personally the rapist in question.
Was it bad to put a wannabe mob boss into the presidency?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago😳 Trump loses it and SNAPS at a string of reporters, says Ilhan Omar might "go to jail," calls Somalia "a shit house," and boasts that thanks to a new program he announced today Americans "will make millions of dollars by turning others in" during absolutely deranged Oval Office event Supercut:
