Lisa Murkowski is so goddamn fucking stupid I cannot even

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · last yr.

Remember all of those hefty handouts Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski won in exchange for sealing the deal on Donald Trump’s behemoth budget bill? It looks like the president has found a way to get out of delivering. “I feel cheated." https://trib.al/3ymBhJU

Haven’t been on here for a bit. Partially from distractions elsewhere. But it’s been a rough couple of days.

For clarity: my moral allegiance in this moment of such enormous suffering is to the PEOPLE of Israel, Gaza, and Iran. The REGIMES of those places—Hamas militants, the Netanyahu administration and its IDF and “settler” agents; the Iranian regime—can go to hell, the lot of them.

Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.

Yet Luigi launched a thousand hand-wringing op-eds from the chattering class. Makes you think

Kumail Nanjiani@kumail.bsky.social · last yr.

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

Elon saying he’s going to reprogram his chatbot’s view of history is a perfect example of why these kinds of AI products aren’t the neutral “tools” people always defend them as. They’re little political projects reflecting the ideologies of their creators

The US has denied the visas of all 12 members of the Senegalese women’s basketball team who were scheduled to travel to the country as part of their preparation for the Afrobasket tournament that begins in August. Afrobasket is also the African qualifiers for the Olympics. #wnba

thinking about this one again

Robin Brooks@assumptionprime.bsky.social · 3y ago

"I just don't think that's going to happen."

Do you expect it to get magically better tomorrow? This is a Supreme Court decision on constitutional matters that will take decades to overturn. If you don't want to believe it, that's your problem.

Really fucking tired of people acting like refugees coming to this country is the biggest problem ever and everything else is secondary.

Sotomayor: "The majority subjects a law that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational-basis review. By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims. In sadness, I dissent."

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last yr.

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST CHALLENGE TO TENNESSEE LAW BANNING GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE FOR TRANSGENDER YOUTH

I can’t wait until all these murderous ghouls on the Supreme Court are fucking dead

RevMelanieNOLA@revmelanienola.bsky.social · last yr.

Supreme Court OKs Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for minors, big loss for transgender rights apnews.com/article/supr...

I love this girl ❤️

Seriously, the success rate of gender affirming care is so high that even comparing it to "how well aspirin cures a headache" isn't enough; it's closer to "how well delivering the baby cures being in labor."

The Compact Disc 1. Superior Sound Quality CDs offer lossless audio - Unlike compressed streaming formats. Hear the music as it was meant to be heard. 2. You Own It - For Real No subscriptions. No removals. No ads. A CD is yours forever.

A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

transphobes go to the shadow realm

Your worst enemy is not the person in opposition to you. It is the person occupying the spot you would be fighting from and doing nothing. ~Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos

Got To Get You Into My Life, but not the Beatles version. The version by Earth, Wind, and Fire is the best and definitive version of that song.

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · last yr.

Without saying Come Together, fav The Beatles song?

Hi Bluesky, could really use your help 🙏🙏 We just launched our latest game Starless Abyss - the exact week that Oblivion was shadow-dropped. Which has been *not fantastic* for our launch If anyone can spare a RT, that would be so, so helpful ❤️❤️ Find it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3167970/...

Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’ politi.co/42TgorF

Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’

The girl was deported Friday with her mother to Honduras, despite her father’s efforts to keep her in the United States.

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Let’s make Elon the next My Pillow guy.

Nothing specific happened. I didn't meet someone who's trans (though now I know many), I didn't read a story that endeared me to the plight of trans people (though I support them all). I was raised to care for everyone, and that everyone deserved to find joy and live as long a life as they can.

Sandy Ernest Allen@sandyernestallen.bsky.social · last yr.

cis folks, i'm curious for you to share answers, if you want: what made you start caring about trans rights? who'd you know/what happened? tell me the story.

Don’t y’all get tired of calling people ugly unprovoked? Summa y’all do it to yourselves; summa y’all do it to other people; but the key word here is *unprovoked* There are already entire industries committed to making us feel ugly without anyone else’s help Don’t feed the machines

So how exactly is DOJ going to say they can’t persuade Bukele of anything when a mere minority Senator can get in to see Kilmer?

🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.