Please read this reasonable interpretation of the major issue with Whipping Girl's formulation of "transmisogyny" and why it has led to the oppositional nonsense plaguing popular transfeminism. luckyladylily.tumblr.com/post/8241905...

KOSA in all its versions is also uniquely dangerous for queer and trans youth and they need you showing up against it the same as you hopefully would against other queer- and transphobic policy

Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · 2d ago

For years, Democrats have pushed legislation like the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) because they've claimed these compromises are the only way they can "get something done" on Big Tech with Republicans. Now they control all of Congress. No more excuses. Drop KOSA, regulate Big Tech for real.

I know nobody gaf but it's weird to phrase abortion rights as purely a "women's issue" while shouting trans rights in the same breath

it's already been done by the ban on T. shitty politicians and whatever don't want us in sports either, but they don't need to say it because the most common medication is already banned, and thus you don't need to think about excuses to ban transmascs. i'm repeating myself but just. Please Think.

i've been thinking about lrp quite a bit lately because i see so many people claim that sports only ban trans girls and women, that nobody cares to ban trans boys and men, and it's, like. testosterone is generally banned in most sports, you just don't need to specify that you're banning transmascs.

On the 109th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Palestinians in Gaza say the suffering that began with Britain's 1917 endorsement of a Jewish national home in Palestine continues through generations of displacement, occupation and war.

The Missippi police department who's officer murdered a 1 year old Black boy (RIP Konen Wiley) has been set on fire

Federal officials investigate arson at beleaguered police department in Mississippi

An arson Saturday morning damaged the building of a beleaguered police department in Mississippi that has drawn outrage from the community in recent months after an officer shot and killed a 1-year-ol...

abcnews.com

this part.

Susumoomf Yokota@pleatsplease.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Jeff Mills Juan Atkins tribute got me sobbing

On this day in 1775, Kumeyaay warriors attack and burn down the Spanish Mission San Diego. anticolonialhistory.com/event/449/

This Indigenous Peoples Month, explore films that honor Indigenous voices, cultures, and stories. Kanopy is proud to share with you a curated collection that recognizes and celebrates this month. So get exploring and stream the collection now: https://bit.ly/3hm7oqO

"The beefed-up presence, which will be in place through the end of the year, would see members of the National Guard driving vehicles typically used by U.S. troops on battlefields like Iraq and Afghanistan on city streets to support law enforcement officers ..." Making the subtext text like a mug.

Hegseth expands National Guard presence in DC

The move suggests President Donald Trump is doubling down on his claimed crime emergency in the nation’s capital after the election.

politico.com

Cop Cities were built as training grounds for violently squashing the next George Floyd type uprising

This is him, btw.

Los Angeles Police Protective League official and LAPD officer Jamie McBride told NBC today: “If Nithya Raman becomes the mayor, the city needs to prepare for Armageddon. She won’t have to defund the police. Police officers will just leave the department.”

People expect that Latino vote would magically resemble the Black vote but it’s actually resembling the white vote— this is lowkey the problem with conflating race and ethnicity in these metrics…

"With the Thanksgiving SNAP Bridge Fund, the organization’s GiveCard will deliver one-time $100 payments directly to families who have lost SNAP benefits. The cash comes with no strings attached, so families can spend the money on food, gasoline, travel expenses, or whatever they need most."

A Giving Campaign to Help People Who Have Lost SNAP Benefits

Overview: The data show that the effects of the Trump administration’s cuts are kicking in even faster than estimated. More than 5 million have lost food assistance since last year when Congress appro...

wordinblack.com

Weird why would he detach the post when I brought Black Americans into it

Yeah you don't need to go to Germany man, we had the KKK right here in the USA

The young core of the party which must rebuild itself is pot committed to the idea the failure of the Trump era was soft pedaling ethnic cleansing.

Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · yesterday

Dolchstoßlegende

Alot of political identity is just about expression of temporal distance about certain social oppressions... bsky.app/profile/xoda...

Xodanix3@xodanix3.bsky.social · 20h ago

This is pretty much the over arching theme of left vs right. Everyone caught up on specific "issues" or moral injury to make worse, bypass or remedy.

The injury of what the person harmed is actually experiencing. Asking them to face that they are the oppressor and contributor to that? A whole other moral injury they experience and immediately want to shut down.. "fix" (usually by bypassing it completely).

But really that strategy of "making up things" is just a description of how moral injury is leveraged in politics. (But if u understand the meaning of structural oppression u'll get that it's not oppressed just "exaggerating" or "making up" ) But actually groups with structural power downplaying.

They imagine that ppl "are just making up things to be mad about" (Again, dismisses the nature of how structural oppression operates)

It's telling when u look at how certain far right accounts talk about leftist and mutual aid and they're visualizations is often them just imagining this dynamic flipped with them as the victim of "sj virtue signaling" (to downplay the nature of structural oppression, false equivalency.)

Xodanix3@xodanix3.bsky.social · 20h ago

"why wouldn't we have just avoided the Overturn in the first place? Because ppl who lack righteous political platforms supplement for that by inventing moral injury "to fix".

"She said, ‘Maybe when I’m older I will look this beautiful,’ and I’m like — ‘Oh my God, she’s so proud of how *beautiful* the picture of the person is.’ At that point, it wasn’t about being a nurse or imagining herself in this empowered role, as a person in the world."

The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23h ago

“As part of the school project, which focused on ‘nouns, community helpers, and careers,’ a teacher had used a personal ChatGPT Plus account to generate images of students as adults in their selected careers…”

I'm learning that political parties (first the Republicans and then the Dems, depending on who was tasked with pretending to give a shit about Black folks) have been ignoring the needs of the south since Reconstruction

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 23h ago

what i can't get over, looking at louisiana and mississippi and even alabama, is that the votes are *there*. it is absolutely possible with long term investment to make them competitive states

This is what I keep saying; they're using dark pattern UI design to inflate the usage numbers. It's why the AI option becomes the first in any drop down list, the button ends up in the place that used to be a key function button in an app, opting out is 3 menus deep in 4 locations.

Dan Olson@foldablehuman.bsky.social · 21h ago

"Wiggle your cursor to activate Gemini" is so insane I stared at this ad for a solid minute. Like, there's no explanation for this beyond "we desperately need to pad activation stats", right? Wiggle the cursor to activate Gemini?! WIGGLE THE CURSOR?! THE THING I DO FIFTY TIMES A DAY?!

"He said the poll showed that if he ran, 70 percent of his voters would be disgruntled Republican supporters. Pinkins said his goal all along was to defeat the incumbent Sen. Hyde-Smith. He said he purposely did not campaign in majority Black areas."

himham@himham.bsky.social · 22h ago

I KNEW IT

Say it loud! I’M BLACK AND I’M PROUD!!!