Republicans will kick you in the teeth and then laugh in your face. Democrats will kick you in the teeth, but they’ll feel really bad about it and then do land acknowledgment.
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Get mad, stay mad, die mad. I’ll still be here.
My kids have measles, I can't afford gas, my country has been humiliated by Iran, and our senile rapist president is going to allow unregulated AI to destroy our civilization. But a lesbian bar in a town I've never heard of still has a mask mandate. I have never felt more politically homeless.
“Gavin Newsom is the only one fighting Trump”
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2d agoNewsom has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited future governors from handing over abortion providers, helpers, and patients to red states for criminal prosecution. The bill also barred extraditions involving transgender care.
A post that’s so eye-opening because this is exactly what liberals will say is GOP distraction tactics, almost as a parody— and here it really is what Gaetz is saying unironically as his GOP message.
So ICE agents are getting fired before their probationary periods are up and are having to repay the $50,000 signing bonus. I love this for them.
the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't
Anti-trans bigotry will be tolerated in the name of “the marketplace of ideas,” but calling out that bigotry will be labeled “toxic suppression of free speech.”
cyber professional@permadeath.com · last wk.the people crave bluesky social credit scores
a reminder that more hillary clinton voters voted for john mccain than bernie voters voted for trump either time. just like how more democrats in florida in 2000 straight up voted for bush than voted for nader. the left are never the actual problem.
Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 2w ago"why are liberals so on edge about voting abstention?" because bernie-or-bust was a real thing & it cost us 2016
blues: we are going to move right on trans issues because we have judged the votes of trans voters to be worthless some trans ppl: because our votes are worthless, we will not vote blues: what the fuck? you better provide your worthless votes or we all get screwed
jenny tightpants@jtp.bsky.social · last wk.this shit does not work on me. go try it on the centrists who call trans women "biological men."
Every time one of these stories comes out, it's shown that the parents were actually abusive. There is an asymmetry where the parents are given a platform by Christian nationalist orgs and Fox News while the state cannot discuss any details due to privacy. So the narrative is set by the parents.
The vitriol directed at me and other members of the trans community for having the audacity to declare our votes are not to be taken for granted. By cisgender people who otherwise have called themselves allies. I wish it weren’t so utterly predictable.
NEW: @talkingpointsmemo.com can reveal GOP nominee for Florida legislature: -marched at deadly Charlottesville Nazi rally w/ white supremacist group's flag -has *many* white supremacist donors -appears to advocate lynching He is expected to win Nov. election talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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The Republican position is to take all rights away from trans people. This is not something you can "compromise" with. The compromise is to take some rights away from trans people. Do not ask why trans people will not vote for any Dem who is talking about this "compromise".
Weijia Jiang & Trump chatting it up at the White House Correspondents dinner. That’s it. That’s my entire post.
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
He should’ve leaned his lesson after he posted the dumb barbecue picture and they still called him a vegen sissy every day. All he did was piss off potential blue voters. Nobody considering voting for him was like “hold on, let’s see what he has to say about sports and trans surgeries for minors.”
Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 2w agoRepublicans went up today with a major ad run saying "Talarico is for they/them"
andrew what do you think about trans kids playing high school sports? “i actually dont think about childrens genitals, what a bizarre question”
lol. It turns out people have thought of this before and that's why it's now illegal
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoRachel Campos-Duffy on Trump's $5k offer to voters if they vote Republican: "This just shows how creative and rule-breaking and out of the box President Trump is. I'm surprised nobody has thought of this before."
Anyone calling the refusal to compromise on trans rights a "purity test" can get into the bin as far as I'm concerned
Having watched S1, I think Caped Crusader a poor man’s BTAS, but on the plus side it really makes you appreciate how BTAS was able to maintain such a high level of quality with fewer resources, a much more demanding production schedule, and more network constraints.
My brain has finally broken because I can’t decide if this is brilliant or repugnant.
"No one has been arrested at a church." To be clear: DHS agents have, in fact, arrested people on church property. One of the incidents involved a pastor confronting DHS agents directly and filming them. In fact, DHS has *publicly acknowledged that this happens.* religionnews.com/2025/08/04/w...
'This is domestic terror': Shaken by ICE raids, pastors rethink ministries
(RNS) — The fear of raids has pushed some congregations back to pandemic-era worship strategies.
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoHOMAN: You can't give me one example of someone arrested at a school REPORTER: I gave you an example of someone arrested at a school bus stop HOMAN: Is that a school?
If his neck had moved like that, he might still be here.
This is ADL's solitary statement after Nazis won state elections in Germany for the first time since the Holocaust:
We remember Botham Jean. It’s been 6 years to this day when he was killed while sitting on his couch eating ice cream.
Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.
ProPublica@propublica.org · 3w agoProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
Gloria Steinem, who made anticommunist propaganda for the CIA, sought to achieve power for women primarily in the context of elite access to the levers of Empire, who espoused racist and transphobic beliefs many times, and exemplified much of what is sick and evil about feminism, is dead.
banning undefined things is probably fine for a site with an awful history of disproportionate action against trans and POC users
Bluesky Safety@safety.bsky.app · 3w agoDogpiling or harassing users is unacceptable. We have taken recent action against accounts for this behavior, and we will be increasing our efforts, consistent with our Community Guidelines.