look at my allies dawgggg I'm goin to jail 😫🤯🤣

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Talarico says he would vote in favor of a national ban for transgender surgeries for minors

Broke: Refusing to give the Greeks back their treasure. Woke: Giving the French back a corpse they don't want.

Sam Wilson@samwilson.bsky.social · last wk.

Damning silence from Labour on their Napoleon III exhumation policy

Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops

finally getting around to reading the hobsbawm trilogy

if anthropic's claims/suspicions are true they're monsters and if they're not they're hucksters. enough

I may never stop feeling bitter about this. We tried to speak out in 2018 and it led to months of harassment from DSA members, even national. They tried to expel us after pointing out this abuser’s work with his abusive friends. People even showed up at our jobs. Talked shit to our coworkers.

C.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️@thehousered.bsky.social · 2mo ago

it once again bears repeating: that platner is even a candidate is because this guy, who was run out of Pittsburgh for recruiting/managing multiple candidates accused of DV/SA, who himself has allegations against him, recruited platner he should be blacklisted until the end of time

As another pride month ends, I must insist on queer rights forever. Happy pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

There are three things I think could truly break the country. War with another Western democracy, declaring citizenship can be arbitrarily stripped, and Boston Massacre 2. The fact the first two were narrowly avoided has caused a lot of people to think It Can Only Good Happen. I'm not convinced.

personally I think we should immediately impeach supreme court justices who are willing to lie about the plain meaning of the 14th amendment

I genuinely think that in the future we’re going to look back at this current era of “the internet is obviously deeply broken for everyone, and in response, we’re going to dismantle internet privacy while pretending it’s for the good of children” with deep embarrassment. Rather like Prohibition.

i have absolutely fucking had it with 100% of all of this shit. gambling websites, lies, cryptocurrency, rampant corruption, lies, deep fakes, lies, plagiarism, devaluation of expertise, lies, bile, abuse, violence, bombs, genocides, lies, plutocrats, oligarchs, and lies. fucking enough. rules time

Thor Benson@thorbenson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Yeah, I just looked, and it says "paid partnership" at the bottom of that post. If Democrats take the House and/or Senate, they should subpoena these people immediately

TADC 9 is good (genuinely can't believe they all but confirmed it)

SIGHING DEEPLY? Doctors don’t get enough shit for denying people care. She didn’t know how to travel? Did you give her the resources that exist? Is your license more important than her life? Does the hospital not have creative and crafty lawyers?

Charles Ornstein@charlesornstein.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is just crushing. Emily Waldorf was denied care for a risky miscarriage due to Arkansas’ abortion ban, even after she met the hospital’s CEO, called the governor’s office and got a lawyer. www.propublica.org/article/arka...

not to call anyone out specifically: many cises responding they didn't know and imo that speaks to how most ppl have done no work interrogating the transphobia they've spent their lives absorbing. would you say that i am a whitewoman or a jewishwoman? i bet you wouldn't, even by accident!

mattie lubchansky@mattielubchansky.com · 4mo ago

seeing "transwoman" creep back into the non-TERF vernacular is some crazy work

ooooh, sorry, no. the answer we were looking for was “d. arthur kelsey has made his decision, now let him enforce it!”

🌪️ Carly Rae Jeppson's Malört 🔥@charltonlack.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Welp

I, uhhh, I dunno, I really think there's a social contract theory problem with overruling a popular referendum after it happens because of a slight technical deficiency in the process whereby it was placed before the People

I really wonder what the fallout is going to be because the sanitized version of history they’ve sold for a long time is “Jim Crow was a shameful moment in history but we defeated it and came out the other side a better country” and now it’s just… back it’s the end of a myth in the starkest terms

Ari Berman@ariberman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

this is catastrophically untrue, and the fact that it's even come close to picking up currency on the left is a complete disaster for leftist governance. if you expropriated the entire wealth of every billionaire in the country, you could pay for the federal government for one year. that's it.

Squeaquy@squeaquy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

None of us would need to pay taxes AT ALL if we taxed the billionaires as much as we should. Your simping for them doesn’t change that.

I also cannot stress enough, or enough times, that *a lot* of the anti-gerrymandering work we've been relying on the VRA to do these last six decades would be unnecessary if not for the Uniform Congressional District Act, an even younger federal law that can be repealed and replaced.

politiburb@politiburb.bsky.social · 5mo ago

3 separate D+10 generic congressional ballot polls were released *just* within the last 24 hours but go ahead and tell me more about how you think our democracy is irretrievably lost because of John Roberts

Remember this every time a Reasonable Democrat says we should be onboard with legal/technical measures to stop minors from accessing adult content Once you create a category of Bannable Speech, you've created a tool for the powerful to ban any speech they want; just put it in the Bannable category.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 5mo ago

1. Trump has weaponized the FCC to control the media under his autocratic rule. Now, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is turning the agency towards his next target: transgender characters in TV shows. He seeks to change the rating system to penalize trans characters. Subscribe to support our journalism.

If the real-world treatment of trans women by the healthcare system was invented for a work of fiction, it would instantly read as an absurdist satire of all the issues with cis women's healthcare. yeah you can get a vagina but only if the doctor thinks he'd want to fuck it afterwards.

feel like there should be more hype around the fact that there is a moonshot tonight

SLS, NASA's Moon rocket 🌙🚀

what the fuck like, yeah, I know things are horrific in reproductive health"care" but still, what the absolute fuck

ProPublica@propublica.org · 6mo ago

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says

At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

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And that was where our most advanced bombsight was like, "We can land roughly on a...city, I guess" Today, we can drop a missile through a specific window yet, somehow, keep hitting schoolkids, for wars that serve no existential aim save for the aggrandizement of bloodthirsty old men.

On bluesky, we often have discourse about the strategic bombing of WW2, and like, the large historical consensus is still not entirely sure if strat bombing was a valid wartime tactic - and that was against the most evil empire on the earth that planned to conquer the entire planet and kill everyone

the US once again sending the message loud and clear: never negotiate, just get nukes. Never compromise, just get nukes. Never give in to sanctions, just get nukes. what could go wrong