not gonna expand in blue states huh?

LMAO ok done for real now

hey, trans woman expert here, this is not okay! trans women only say "I want to be a hero who saves everyone" when they're extremely traumatized!

LGBTQ+ Ohioans and Allies turned out to vote overwhelmingly for Ohio Democrats and delivered a historic bluenami to wipe out the Republican supermajority in Ohio’s Statehouse, majority in Ohio’s congressional delegation, and nearly all statewide offices. 🌊🌊🌊 Lesson: Stop scapegoating Queer people.🍷

Lots of good coping and crying in this video. Credit: Twitter user DemNationalist

“They’ll still murder innocent civilians in the street while we continue to fund them, but now we’ll have *video* and we can chide them on CSPAN. Please clap.” - people with the power to stop funding ICE

House Judiciary Dems@democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 2d ago

It’s time for ICE to take the masks off, turn the body cameras on, and start answering to the American people who pay for their bloated budget.

guys this is so funny I ratio'd them so hard they hid my reply

hyperlexuality@baphomet.male.manipulat.org · 2d ago

bro thinks he's on the team

My top line takeaway from the election is up: NOBODY HAS TO BE LEFT BEHIND. It turns out we DON’T have to sacrifice trans kids to win. We DON’T have to deport our neighbors. We DON’T have to support abusers with Nazi tattoos. We can just *have principles* and win. My latest in @thenation.com

Actually, Democrats Don’t Have to Sacrifice Trans People or Immigrants to Win

For two years, leading Democratic factions have insisted the party must abandon key populations to win. Tuesday proved them wrong.

thenation.com

He's explicitly talking about the filibuster as anti-democratic. VAN HOLLEN FOR MAJORITY LEADER.

Van Hollen is currently saying that Dems will claw back money set aside for ICE, and use it to replace funds stolen from Medicaid and SNAP. Y'all. We're there.

how tf do we contact senators-elect for potential day 1 votes

While I think the culture of Bsky is definitely pro human rights, I am extremely skeptical of calling it “pro-trans” on an institutional level, as long As Aaron “Trust Nor Safety” Rodericks is still on the payroll

Eric Rauchway@rauchway.bsky.social · 2d ago

More: we will welcome journalists who want to get out of the X bubble any time.

The same people who were telling us to "enjoy the camps" yesterday are joking about "transgender for everyone" today, and I just need y'all to fucking stop being such tone-deaf assholes.

Corinne Green@ket.bsky.social · 3d ago

personally i would prefer if cis people did not post GET READY TO GET TRANSED memes while trans healthcare has been outlawed in half the country and fancy blue states are declining to enforce existing trans nondiscrimination protections and passing their own athlete bans

This thread is a superb breakdown and analysis of what's going on beneath the surfact of the trans rights bans that passed on Tuesday. TL;DR: the cis almost certainly have no clue what's truly being some to us. This is very winnable stuff if D's actually fight back on it.

iraylavent.bsky.social@iraylavent.bsky.social · 2d ago

Who wants to come stare into the abyss with me? I’ve compiled and sorted the exit polling data on Trans Rights from each state. It ain’t pretty. But it’s also not as bad as our adversaries have claimed and, I think, offers useful context to Tuesday’s highlights and lowlights. 🧵

Just because I've seen some confusion: the new Congress won't be sworn in until January 3rd, so being straight will remain legal until next year.

Gov.-elect Phil Weiser says the ballot measures targeting transgender rights, leading in the polls, need more scrutiny before being implemented: “I don’t believe it would be acceptable to Colorado to have every student-athlete have to go through full-body examinations or other invasions of privacy.”

Gov.-elect Weiser says fentanyl, trans-related ballot measures will need ‘a long, hard look’ before implementation

Ballot measures seeking to limit transgender acceptance and more heavily penalize people for fentanyl possession might be subject to more scrutiny from state officials, Gov.-elect Phil Weiser said.

denverpost.com

We run this place and that's why they hate us here.

get it out of your system before Jerry starts changing us

Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · 2d ago

okay everyone we've far exceeded the earnestposting quota for the remainder of the year. wrap it up

trans people get basic human rights and access to necessary medical care

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d ago

What's your most ridiculous, newly emboldened political demand? (Absurd answers only.)

everyone joking that they're doing it because of the election, but they literally flipped their position from 2 weeks ago 😭😭

skywatch@skywatch.bsky.social · 3d ago

New PR: Add pronouns to profiles (#12334)

hey if the fucking trannies end up NOT costing your shitlib party any seats, when can we expect a fucking apology?

if you're doing this, please spare 2 sentence to voice support for trans rights while you're at it

Richard Ferro, MD MSc@richferro.com · 3d ago

You want to know what you can do? Like right now? Pick up your phone, and call the two senators for your state. Tell them your name, your zip code, and say you want new leadership when the Dems take the senate majority next year. It will take MINUTES and could make a monumental difference.

Such a massive middle finger to the GOP that Trump isn't even bothering to yell rigged

bzzzt! wrong! we want nuremberg 2.0

Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social · 3d ago

Tonight, the American people sent a clear message — they want a politics that brings people together rather than divides them, and leaders who offer concrete solutions to the challenges they face.

voters across the country voted for several ballot measures that amount to "torture trans children", absolute shame on the democratic party leadership for abandoning our community and allowing this

Yeah, so, sorry if I'm being a downer on Blue Orgasm Night, but shit still sucks for some of us, and some of the folks you're currently parading around on our shoulders actively campaigned on this.

Elly@ellyzoe.bsky.social · 3d ago

Biggest bummer of the night for me is it looks like WA voters will ban trans girls (specifically!!) from sports and require gender tests for all girls in school sports. Horrible!!!

Well, in Orange County we are still getting pronouns, in the most slept on race here in Florida.

Mississippi with "every fucking vote counts"