I don't know who else needs to hear this, but today is Wednesday.
Mari 🏳️⚧️
@mariposaeldridge.bsky.social
T4T, hippie chick, leftist, Pop tart, 🔃🔀 ☮️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 Pronouns: she/her HRT: Nov '24, injections Jan '26 Name & gender order: Aug '25 SS: Sep '25 DL: Oct '25 Orchi: May '26 Vaginoplasty: xxx '27 MDNI 🔞
I didn't transition until age 62. If you aren't dead yet, it isn't too late to be yourself, whoever that is.
If you have transitioned later in life, please know how deeply you are needed here. Your story is the exact proof someone else needs to finally take their first step.
I am in this picture and I... I... I guess I don't mind
Further exploration of a more sketch and traditional style An old goat
That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
35/x But as a narrow anti-marriage bill, it succeeded, showing how even in California that consensus against talking about gay men and lesbians as second class citizens didn't stop people from voting in 2nd class status one issue at a time. The crudity and not the content seemed determinative.
The administration is like cringe comedy, but without any comedy.
The State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
The State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
"Fluffer and reindeer are two very different jobs." --Shrinking
Me: You sure I can't convince you to come with me to the Sarah McLachlan concert? Her: I simply do not have enough estrogen to do that.
Hold my beer. I was born closer to 1898 than to today.
ooooof, i was born closer to 1935 than to today
"Potato Surprise" by Angel Martinez. This series has it alllll, and the prequel is a great place to start it.
Name your fav prequel story.
Just as a hypothetical, changing it to mean "anti-fascist". Or "transgender".
Sunday Taquitos #30: Flock This! Art by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social
Goes right along with the advice given to *everyone*: Do not talk to the cops. Ever.
Rand Paul spent the weekend leaking a private diary. Today he burned a Senate hearing trying to trap the man who wrote it. Fauci called the obsession exactly what it is. Unhinged. Then he pled the Fifth and left crazy Rand with nothing on the record to twist. Manhunt: zero. Fauci: one.🔥
Seriously? Threatening me with "Oh no, what would we do if the three branches didn't keep each other in check"? In THIS administration??
“The DSA Platform Would Destroy American Democracy” My @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social look the group’s plan to end the Constitution’s system of checks and balances washingtonmonthly.com/2026/07/28/t...
This what Harris's handlers thought, too. Just run on "I'm not Trump" and... well, you saw what happened.
I think that’s the only platform you need. As long as you’re not someone who scares the normies
It isn't enough. That's what HRC ran on, but it turns a large percentage of voters want a platform better than "Trump is obviously evil, so vote for me". Dems will win in the midterms. The party not holding the presidency normally does well in the midterms. No bets on 2028.
It's possible that disgust with Trump will propel even shaky Dem candidates to wins in 2026. But counting on Trump to carry Dems is risky - as you all should have learned by now. "We're better than Trump" is true, and might be enough, but that's taking a lot of chances (esp when 2028 comes).
I really wish everyone would stop ignoring capable, intelligent women and people of color. Shifting from “rich white men” to “rugged white men” does not bring us the change and representation that we need.
Meet the ‘Anti-Platners’: Real Blue-Collar Democrats
A mechanic, a smoke jumper, and an ordinary firefighter may offer Democrats their best hope of winning back working-class voters, reports River Page.
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