Rebecca Kling
@rebeccarkling.bsky.social
Transing it up. I'm running for office! www.dc20alliance.com Co-founder of Better World Collaborative - www.bwcollab.com
Queer kids can't use nicknames at the queer club in school because JK Rowling hates trans people so much.
EMERGENCY FUNDRAISER in pinned@pavlovforgoths.com · 2d agoIf you need to give people a reason not to support Harry Potter anymore, JK Rowling is actively stripping queer spaces away from vulnerable students who need them. All of the money from her books goes to this.
PSA: Clear gummy bears are considered part of a clear liquid diet. I’m now petitioning Haribo and Albanese to release clear packs to promote screening.
Shematologist, MD@shematologist.medsky.social · 14h agoColonoscopy prep time.
i know people complain about Bluesky being obsessed about NY Times/ Atlantic and their reactionary bullshit, but let me be clear -- my dean, my provost, my president, my elected officials all do 100% read this stuff and take it as authoritative, so it does 100% shape policy
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h agoHey everyone, the New York Times has an AEI fellow interviewing a left-wing professor of media studies about the election, let's all pull up a chair and listen!
"New generation"? Rahm is currently eligible for Medicare. He was Mayor of Chicago 15 years ago, White House chief of staff 17 years ago, chair of the DCCC 21 years ago, and senior advisor to the president 33 years ago. He has probably been in Edsall's rolodex for at minimum 35 years.
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 13h agoThomas Edsall wrote that Rahm Emanuel was part of a “new generation“ of Democratic politicians. And the editors at the NY Times actually printed it. Amazing.
my personal view is that some people think that black religious life is a persona, not a belief system.
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 18h agogenuinely crazy-making to watch pundits talk about “new religious democrats” as if raphael warnock has not been in the senate for half a decade.
That big shift from did not vote to vote Democratic ought to be the goal every cycle and you achieve it by organizing and actively addressing needs.
Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 2d agoThis is interesting. Voters under 30 who backed Trump in 2024 were three times as likely to sit out 2026 as to switch to a Democrat. Most Harris voters came back. By my estimate from the NORC data, ~70% of the youth swing came from turnout.
firmly believe that the millennial/gen z divide can be healed by bonding over both our formative political experiences being a godawful republican president who ruined our lives
Daniel Donner@donnermaps.bsky.social · 16h agoComparing two high-water mark midterms for Democrats 20 years apart, there's little change in vote share in specific generations. But the elders of 2006 have moved on, replaced by younger voters, some of whom weren't even born yet in 2006. And this year, at least, they were *very* Democratic.
Whitegeist (n.) = when something is identified as a cultural trend the moment white people do it, even though black people have been doing it for ages.
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 6d agoThe victories of James Talarico and Adam Hamilton stood out in the midterms because they are both committed, outspoken Christians—a departure from the recent Democratic Party, Peter Wehner writes. theatln.tc/fz6HjiQe
It is often said that the Senate cannot be gerrymandered. But the history of U.S. statehood has very often been about gerrymandering the Senate.
David Froomkin@dfroomkin.bsky.social · 17h ago
"What's our organizational contingency plan if Microsoft services are down again tomorrow"
There is a collective hallucination about the past 15 years about how Democrats as a political party "went too woke" when what actually happened was major US retailers and corporations saw a competitive benefit to marketing directly to LGBTQ and non-white people and the right wing went insane
there is literally zero chance the New York Times would be turning to a tenured English professor at UC Irvine for analysis of anything - much less a historic election powered by a huge swing in Black and Latino voting and turnout - unless she was saying *exactly* what they wanted to hear
Andy Elrick@andyelrick.bsky.social · 21h agoJust won the Kentucky Derby by 12 lengths. There was only one other horse in the race and it sh*t itself and ran head first into a wood chipper. An autopsy is immediately performed on the winning horse.
I will say again: if you charge people a fee for the privilege of tearing this thing down, you will be able to fund all of the Democratic priorities. I’d pay $100 and wait in line to hit that thing with a sledgehammer until my arms got tired. And I am not alone.
James E. Clyburn@repjamesclyburn.bsky.social · yesterdayI hope everyone takes a good hard look at this picture. Trump’s under-construction ballroom is now bigger than the rest of the White House. Much bigger. The contrast says everything you need to know about this President and his priorities.
Thirty-five years ago, when my eighth-grade class took a three-day trip to D.C., we visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Teachers repeatedly drilled into us, starting long before the trip, the necessity of silence there. You'd think a visitor with the Secretary of Defense would know how to act.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agowow -- CNN broadcast footage of an Arlington guard yelling at a group with Pete Hegseth to "MAINTAIN SILENCE ... PAY RESPECT!" after someone in his entourage started laughing at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Woke 2 is back and The WaPo hopes you forgot that they fired all the reporters and everyone on the op ed page and the entire sports desk in service of Donald Pedophile Trump and his buddy Jeff Bezos
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2d agoNearly 97 percent of transgender people who received hormone therapy as teenagers did not regret it five years later, a study found. Though some patients did regret medically transitioning, those rates are relatively low compared to other medical interventions.
“the data shows this isn’t happening. do you have an anecdote that allows us to pretend otherwise? we want to hear from you”
Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · yesterdayThis is not journalism. This is begging to write pro-rich propaganda puff pieces.
This is not journalism. This is begging to write pro-rich propaganda puff pieces.
A pretty obvious take that I haven't seen anyone make yet about last week is that the GOP is having trouble with young voters because the leader and face of the Republican party, the President of the United States, is a doddering, senile 80 year old.
Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 2d agoWow. Look at these youth vote margins. Mississippi was D+53, tied with MN at the top. In NC, TX, SC and OH, all flips, young voters were more Democratic than in OR. Young voters look crucial to the unexpected Senate wins. (Estimates from CIRCLE at Tufts.)
11 year olds vindicated everywhere for saying ‘well why don’t they put put solar panels on every roof?’ the second they learn about the technology
Andrew@athomashemlock.bsky.social · 2d agoThat's about the best goddamn thing I've seen in a while.
i've just been running the numbers and putting a model together and it's terrifying news
tef@tef.bsky.social · yesterdayjensen huang has tripled the amount of partners he has in just under two weeks. if these trends continue, i think we need to have a serious conversation about the possibility of jensen huang dating every women on earth even in moderate scenarios he may send up with 82% of all leather jackets
Are we finally realizing how dumb it was to comply with all this?
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2y agoWe got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.
Does anyone happen to know the name of the smallest bar in Mississippi?
Steve Lafleur@stevelafleur.bsky.social · 3w agoIf Mississippi elects a Democratic Senator, I am going to fly down there, walk into a bar, and buy everyone a beer.
One thing that the last few years has made abundantly clear is if you're the CEO of a trillion dollar company you've got a surprising amount of time on your hands.
My most strongly held position on AI is that the companies should be held to reasonable legal/ethical standards. Intellectual property theft? Illegal, punishable by law. Environmental regulations should apply; no polluting without accountability. They should be liable when their "agents" break laws.
I remember, back when the video game came out, I asked on Twitter if it was okay to play it, since it looked cool. And a bunch of people who followed me were like "DUDE could you just NOT DO this ONE THING and just play Ragnorok or some shit?" And... I could. And I did. And my life was totally fine.
Yeah... I'm not going to watch the new Harry Potter show, just like I didn't buy the Harry Potter video game. Because those things benefit a bigot. And, yes, there are A LOT of purchases I make that benefit bigots. But THIS purchase benefits a person who has made bigotry her whole personality.
Mo Ryan@moryan.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is the most important thing I've written in a long time. I hope you'll read and I really hope you'll share it. What do we do about the new HBO Harry Potter show? Some thoughts & context for anyone thinking about watching it, covering it or assigning coverage. www.moryan.com/what-do-we-d...
I am proud to announce that I have been elected as a Whip for the Montana House Democrats! We have an incredible leadership team, and are ready to get to work for Montana! Additionally, we are blessed to have Rep. SJ Howell as minority leader—the first trans/nonbinary party leader in the nation!
