Arthur_Again
@arthuragain.bsky.social
White / male / cis / Episcopalian / born citizen; about as privileged as they get; lawyer. He/him.
Make Aslan trans? Jesus became a fucking lion - how much more trans could he be? Thinking about it, Jesus made a pretty radical transition before that, from God to human. And folks all freaked about a li'l gender shifting
madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 19h agoI mean. Make Aslan trans though, I’m here for it
Everyone is mad. There’s a literal genocide going on. Women are being attacked. Trans people are being attacked, Black women are being economically destroyed. Immigrants are being rounded up. But until white people especially work on their desires to dominate and abuse, we won’t get anywhere.
Far as I know, Congress has never before ceded its powers to the executive, nor given the president a free pass to brazen corruption, rampant abuse of power, destruction of public property and undermining... pretty much everything that made the US great. Unmatched, and let's learn from it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 19h agoMike Johnson claims that the current Congress is "probably in the top three or four of all time" and is "almost unmatched in history" 🙃
Now it’s “assimilation/culture” or whatever argument it takes to get to it the bottom line is always “we need this to be overwhelmingly White or else something is terribly, horribly wrong” and now that it’s been exposed for the 8,000,000th time let’s just put this to bed, ok?
After a closer look at the IG report, here are the clues I found indicating an "Alligator Alcatraz" cover-up. FWIW, I don't think the DHS OIG was in the conspiracy, I think they were in way over their heads. prospect.org/2026/09/17/a...
Alligator Alcatraz’s Tiny Cages Were Likely Even Tinier - The American Prospect
Appalling as photos showing phone booth–sized cages at the Florida camp are, the truth is likely much worse.
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Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 6d agoGlad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.
Dems should do everything in their power to loudly oppose Republicans in every way possible. They will not do this. But they should. We're building concentration camps and arresting everyone who isn't white, ffs.
Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW@johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 3d agoTL;DR, Durbin thinks that if Dems win in the midterms that they shouldn't refuse to vote on future Trump SCOTUS/judicial nominees.
This is who they are. This is what they believe in. It's not, "Never punch right", it's that these are the values they want to drag the rest of the nation to. These aren't tolerated extremists. These are what mainstream GOP wish they could be with their whole chest if it didn't cost them votes.
Christopher Mathias@letsgomathias.bsky.social · 3d agoNew for @talkingpointsmemo.com: Marshall Rawson, GOP nominee for Florida legislature, marched w/ Nazis in Charlottesville, condoned slavery, & called for execution of gay people. Does GOP even care? Is there a limit to MAGA's "never punch right" ethos? talkingpointsmemo.com?p=1558029&pr...
"It's just sports and it's a red state." "It's just medical care for trans youth." "It's just banning trans people from schools." We are here. Stop rationalizing Dems throwing trans people under the bus. Do not vote for anti trans Dems.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 3d agoHoly shit. Marcy Kaptur becomes the latest Dem to release an anti-trans ad, and its worse than all the rest combined. "I voted WITH Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of schools, and let me be clear, boys should NOT play in girls sports." This is getting out of control.
This is awful. This could turn the Democrats into UKs labour party - worse than just letting Republicans hold power. What's worse than Nazis is making Naziism bipartisan. Kaptur should be zealously opposed by every decent Democrat. Don't let this become a norm.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 3d agoHoly shit. Marcy Kaptur becomes the latest Dem to release an anti-trans ad, and its worse than all the rest combined. "I voted WITH Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of schools, and let me be clear, boys should NOT play in girls sports." This is getting out of control.
Politics is not a spectator sport. You play by being heard. The place to be heard is the ballot box. The time to be heard is early.
Nice to see a little gloves off from a Dem. We need more. Much more.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 4d agoOssoff: Blanche is a joke and a hack. These folks are not just corrupt, they're clowns. Here you have a Kremlin connected Russian oligarch giving massive cash gifts to the president's son…
“Listen to Black Women” was never supposed to be about elevating us as a class to moral paragon with no ability to check us It was supposed ( TO ME) to be about making real effort to identify how systemic levers and systems moved around us and by us. we are human and will act like humans do
at a professional level I am kinda fascinated by how storytelling and pop culture have deeply ingrained the idea of the devious supervillain but not the one about the town coming together to save the day
Sunny Moraine@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 4d agoEven a lot of people on the left are still way too stuck on the idea that wealthy powerful people got that way by being smart and making plans and forming accurate reads on the world and it’s really just not like that, sorry, the truth is so much stupider
But did they recycle all the precious metals in it?
404 Media@404media.co · 4d agoNEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.
Exactly where the past 40 years of attacks on regulation has led - the big guys do what they want, little guys have to just eat it. We need a reckoning.
Whitney Curry Wimbish@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 6d agoI'm sick of this shit. Why aren't lawmakers putting "breaks and bans" on AI that is dangerous now, right at this very moment, like the chatbots that have already led multiple adults and children to kill themselves, as numerous lawsuits claim?
ICE is absolutely responsible for this, and for every death at their hands. We need a reckoning.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 4d agoAhmed Soliman has been missing for six days. ICE says it is “not responsible” for this, even though they forcibly expelled him to an authoritarian country he’d never even been to. Please take the time today to follow this link to contact your lawmakers, especially Arizonans! findahmedsoliman.org
transphobia isn’t a moderate position. i wish liberals would grasp that. we are a primary target of modern fascism. if you’re throwing us to the wolves you might as well jus put on the nazi armband and be done with it. you aren’t fighting fascism. you aren’t a resistance fighter.
jenny tightpants@jtp.bsky.social · 5d agothis shit does not work on me. go try it on the centrists who call trans women "biological men."
Yes All of this Especially that last line It's a stupid, unprincipled, immoral thing to do. If you want to throw trans people under the bus, you're showing that you don't get it, and you're not the one who is going to lead us out of oppression.
รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ@sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 5d agoyes. we know this strategy doesn’t work. that’s why we’re so angry at @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social for doing it. transphobia gains a democratic candidate nothing. all it achieves is pisses off the base and losing votes. it’s a stupid, unprincipled, amoral thing to do.
Yeah, we've been right on the edge of an economic, an international relations, and a social crisis cliff. Since Trump has been elected, we've taken a huge step forward.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoMike Johnson: "We reminded voters of the disastrous effects of the years under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, what we inherited when we took this over last January. We had a country on the brink of ruin." 🙃
Confused Cat Math Aint Mathing Meme
Alt: Distraught looking cat doing the math - and it don't add up.
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoKash Patel: "Applicants who have engaged in beastiliaty means they were victims of beastility because they were forced to do so. At this FBI we are not going to criminalize and prevent victims from serving."
AI: “- Declares political inconcitional comnaladunt precedions hutsite avothev Uncostitutional: bleachmens on the divisience of the Barizon Precedent” EVERYBODY ON THE NEWS: “When this becomes AGI it’s going to wipe out humanity within five years!!!”
Waldo Jaquith@waldo.net · 5d agoPlease admire this slop-guide to the U.S. government that my kid received in his ninth grade government class. “Watergsstate Impreachment Imeachment bolity Precedent”
Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented... Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe. ― Elie Wiesel
ᴋɪɴɢᴘɪɴ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ɪɴᴋᴘᴇɴ@killlthehype.blacksky.app · 6d agoMacklemore just fried Ed Sheeran on IG 😬
I feel like a politician could go very far by telling the truth.
Folks just making stuff up... then acting on it... and getting blessed by the Supreme Court for it. No sense arguing with these jokers. There's no rational argument in their favor - why argue against? Nothing going to work but forcing them from power and confronting reality.
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 5d agoGenuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 5d agoGenuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Ukraine is very aware of what they're fighting for - survival. They have a lot of experience with the Russians, and it seems to me that they're unlikely to weaken themselves when they can see Russia stuck in Ukrainian mud.
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 7d agoI am aware when most modern wars end, both sides often have to give concessions that seem unfair or unjust because that’s just how it works, but the degree to which the trump-vance administration has leaned into “let’s start from a much lazier negotiating position, as Trump divvies up with Putin…
I think you'll find that that is exactly what they want to do. And what are you going to do about it?
This is horrific. The suffering that's clear, obvious and discussed is exceeded by the hidden suffering that nobody will talk about in an oppressive and racist nation.
JazzReads📚🏀@jazzreads.bsky.social · 7d ago700,000 Black women because this administration was mad at us.. the sadness I feel for my sisters… the rage
