Even if it did work it would be wrong, but the idea that there's some share of the population that's open to voting for progressive policies - but only if little girls have to undergo genital examinations to play school sports - is insane. That voter does not exist.

Said it before and I'll say it again: There are no votes, none, to be gained by left or centrist candidates throwing trans people under the bus. 100% of the anti-trans vote is going to the most conservative party no matter what you say.

My grandfather (WWII hero) always told me that his favorite Nazi was one dead in a ditch with a lead brain implant. I want a world where everyone thinks this too.

Numerous people in Saxony-Anhalt and other areas of eastern Germany that I’ve spoken to over the last month have explicitly identified the pandemic as a moment that “accelerated” the far-right Many people have a story of a family member who went down a rabbit hole and ended up aligning with the AfD

Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 4w ago

COVID helped fuel the rise of the far right globally. The uncertainty, grief, anger, and fear made for fertile ground for conspiracist thinking and right-wing indoctrination. Is it one of many drivers? Yes. But it’s an important factor nonetheless—and one that is too often overlooked and unexamined

Carney to rename rest of Great Lakes as "Lake Legal Adult" so Trump will never want to touch them

Carney to rename rest of Great Lakes as "Lake Legal Adult" so Trump will never want to touch them

OTTAWA - After Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America,” Prime Minister Mark Carney announced he would preemptively rename the rest of the Great Lakes as “Lake Legal...

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This is almost it. We may love individual Americans but we will never trust America, the nation, again. And any Americans who support or even blithely ignore Trump are dead to me.

Alexander Ross@hardpolitics.bsky.social · last mo.

I understand the political realities regarding impeachment in general, but in all seriousness, if I were a Canadian watching the US adamently refuse to impeach Donald Trump for repeatedly threatening a treaty ally with imperial conquest, I wouldn't trust Americans ever again.

It ain’t about trans people. It’s about middle aged men’s egos.

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · last mo.

Much as I hate to give Kanter the time, nobody here will support him anyway. Sky players kept Tasha away from him

Heads high, Canada.

Basically the lack of scoring in the first half when they had like 7 corners early is why we couldn't hang. Still overall a good World Cup showing.

Canada's 4 best players were supposed to be Davies, David, Kone & Bombito. Three of them were injured to varying degrees throughout this tournament, and the 4th was just wildly disappointing. And yet they still comfortably made the Round of 16 and put Morocco in hell. Huge accomplishment.

These are the 30 women killed since 2020 in Northern Ireland, all by white men 21 killed in their homes by men they knew. The youngest 20, the oldest 82 21 were mothers, 4 were killed with their children in the home. Two were pregnant Nobody rioted over their murders www.bbc.com/news/article...

A picture of violence: The 30 women killed in more than four years

In at least 21 of the 30 deaths, the killers - or the suspects in their killings - were well-known to the women.

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The Western Hemisphere should never be allowed to host the World Cup. The whole point is to be able to get to work and watch soccer all day until I need to pick up my kids from summer camp. I should be watching Ghana-Uzbekistan at 9am.

The right wing mind is capable of getting literally everything they've ever wanted and never being held accountable for any of their actions, and still declaring that they are the world's greatest victims.

Ever notice how many men see a woman doing something they think is risky (like traveling alone) and immediately assume she’s naive and stupid - instead of assuming she’s intentionally taking a calculated risk? They can’t imagine a woman might do something even mildly dangerous on purpose.

Holy shit this is cool!

Natasha Constantinidou@nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A mummy containing a rare papyrus fragment which included text from Book II of Homer’s Iliad, the famous “Catalog of Ships” which lists the Greek forces that sailed to Troy #classicalreception arkeonews.net/archaeologis...

periodic reminder that there were literally no trans women competing at either the 2024 or 2026 Olympics, it's an issue that takes up 90% of some peoples' brains and literally 0% of the last two actual Olympic competitions

Toronto Star@thestar.com · 6mo ago

Transgender women athletes banned from Olympics by new IOC policy on female eligibility

And by the way, just because he seems ‘like a nice guy’ or ‘has never been horrible to me’ don’t assume he hasn’t hurt others. I cannot stress enough how rare it is for women to make false allegations of violence or abuse. Believe 👏 women 👏.

Lucy Betteridge-Dyson@lmbd1418.bsky.social · 7mo ago

For people who don’t take allegations of violence against women seriously:

Oh and just to be clear, the combined wealth of the billionaire class in the US increased by 21% in the last 12 months. So if they had to fork over 5%, they would only be pocketing a 16% jump in wealth. *RUINOUS*!!!

Steve Burtch@stephenburtch.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Since this is 5% of their combined $8.2 Trillion in wealth, they will have to make do with only... $7.79 Trillion. How will they ever survive?

It's funny how the women's team get to hang out with beloved individuals like Stanley Tucci and Flavour Flav and the men got to hang out with the world's most prominent pedophile and a brown guy cospalying as a nazi

Brooke Foster@lonesometoast.bsky.social · 7mo ago

crying in the club* (*at my desk) bc stanley tucci took the USA women's hockey team out for a meal at his favorite restaurant and they gave him his own jersey

This rocks lol

I don’t think we do a great job of teaching young boys that helping others, and resisting hate/discrimination in all its forms, is actually what a man does. I think social media and weird nazi edgelord maga propaganda happily fills the void and forms a vacuum.

This is a 100% elite manufactured craze.

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 8mo ago

a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏 The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes. www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

What's that you say! It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds

Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time

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Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

"Less patriotic than a literal separatist party" is certainly a look for Canada's Conservatives.

Polling Canada@canadianpolling.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Among Those Who Say To Defend Our Nation: All: 59% New Democrats: 78% Liberals: 73% Bloc Quebecois: 46% Conservatives: 38%

Lotta people get mad at me when I criticize Democratic messaging but THIS IS HOW DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE TALKING. Like normal people using normal language to communicate normal human emotions about the fucked up situation. THIS.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo ago

Q: After you told ICE to get the F out, Republicans are criticizing you for escalating tensions FREY: I'm sorry if I offered their Disney princess ears, but if we're talking about what's inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an F bomb & on other you have someone who killed someone