By my count, there are 9 Senate races within 4 points in polling averages. That means there’s a very small distance between an amazing night for Democrats and a crushing disappointment for them. Calibrate your expectations accordingly.

A friend who was in the trenches during this era put it like this: "Never forget conservatives want to kill you and liberals want you to die quietly."

David Forbes@davidforbes.bsky.social · 2w ago

Relevant bit of history today. ACT UP poster against anti-queer bigotry from both parties. 1992.

All credit to Progress Action Fund

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 2w ago

Finally we're fighting back! This ad goes so fucking hard youtu.be/Gt_IZoM9KuQ?...

All credit to Progress Action Fund

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 2w ago

Finally we're fighting back! This ad goes so fucking hard youtu.be/Gt_IZoM9KuQ?...

Finally we're fighting back! This ad goes so fucking hard youtu.be/Gt_IZoM9KuQ?...

Republicans In Your Bathroom

YouTube video by Progress Action Fund

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As we all know, the goal of science is going into anything with a predetermined conclusion and trying to justify it through experimentation. Not having a hypothesis and conducting experiments to see if it's right or wrong, but to say it's right and conduct experiments to try and prove it.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2w ago

The DOJ is funding pseudoscience to build the new justification to go after trans people even more. www.science.org/content/arti...

Looking at lessons from history: "The threat of the Communists put the SPD in a difficult position. The party had a choice between becoming more radical (which could weaken the Communists but lose its base among the middle class) or stay moderate, which would damage its base among the working class"

But why didn't the KPD unite with the SPD against the rise of fascism? "Under Defense Minister of Germany Gustav Noske, the party aided in putting down the Communist and left wing Spartacist uprising throughout Germany in early 1919 with the use of the extreme right wing Freikorps"

"They were ostensibly mustered to fight on behalf of the Weimar government against the KPD during the Spartacist uprising. However, many Freikorps also largely despised the Republic and were involved in assassinations of its supporters, later aiding the Nazis in their rise to power" Oh.

Any time I see a truly disgusting anti-Talarico ad that talks about his support for trans people, I think about how they were going to do this no matter what and he could’ve just stood by his prior support, but noooooooooooooooo

Anyway, what was that you were saying about Tom Morello leaving his ballot blank in a safe blue state?

Either your candidate's "abandon trans people" is electorally sound, and thus you have no reason to worry about trans people and their allies not voting for them, or it's not sound, in which case they're the ones who made the mistake, not trans people.

Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social · 2mo ago

...Assumption #4 has been driving me batshit, yet no one seems to realize it: if you're worried trans ppl might potentially harm your Dem candidate's chances, then YOUR CANDIDATE MADE A BAD DECISION! so why not join us in trying to get them to reverse position? juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...

so in three days i will be gender-affirming breast augmentation. This will be 195 days after the surgical date was set. That in turn was around 5 months after i requested the appt. I had to see a psychologist for a letter of support. My insurance denied the first preauth. I will end up paying $3000.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Trump: "They have the transgender mutilization of your child. Timmy goes out, goes to school, comes back four days later as Sarah. It's true! I think we have five or six states where they can actually just do that, and they do it. They're sick people."

And the spectrum continues from there. Some people pass 99 percent of the time. Some pass 90 percent. Some pass 60 percent. And ofc some cis people are mistakenly clocked as trans people. The more passing is policed, the more cis people get clocked mistakenly. It's a spectrum, and you're on it too.

labour mp clarifies: yes, trans people must be banned from hospitals

let's take it a step further. Democrats will not win if they concede on trans rights. we live in an era where Republicans can and will use AI to make them say things they never did and there's no laws against it. you cannot "compromise" your way out of this. just stand up for your base already.

Joshua B. Hoe@joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 3w ago

I will say it again, they will fit you for the same suit regardless...what can change minds is STANDING UP FOR OPPRESSED PEOPLE and AUTHENTICALLY and PASSIONATELY DEFENDING THEM People respond to principles

I will say it again, they will fit you for the same suit regardless...what can change minds is STANDING UP FOR OPPRESSED PEOPLE and AUTHENTICALLY and PASSIONATELY DEFENDING THEM People respond to principles

Jesspooka Kant 🎃@jessdkant.bsky.social · 3w ago

YouTube ad served just now. The people these will win do not care what she said last week. It appeased no one. Dems: the thing that hasn’t worked for years isn’t going to now, because nothing you can give up will ever be enough. Concession isn’t a strategy, but theirs relies on you doing it anyway.

Two months ago I reported on Amy Acton’s anti-trans turn and fears Dems would go the way of Labour. Some mocked me for it. Now that list is up to 28 major dem elected officials and entire state governments.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 3w ago

Rather than cover the cost of gender affirming care for trans youth under medicaid, Colorado is voluntarily enacting the republican "taper and detransition" policy for youth on medicaid and dropping coverage. WTF.

Rather than cover the cost of gender affirming care for trans youth under medicaid, Colorado is voluntarily enacting the republican "taper and detransition" policy for youth on medicaid and dropping coverage. WTF.

Aleksandra Vaca@transiticsnews.com · 3w ago

Colorado & Michigan have become the latest blue states to end Medicaid coverage for trans youth. Solidly blue Colorado will also be IMMEDIATELY shutting off care for all trans kids receiving puberty blockers—despite Trump's rule allowing a 6 month ‘tapering’ period. This is a complete betrayal.

Bluesky is really reinventing the police state lol

Aida@aidap.bsky.social · 3w ago

Bluesky's Head of Trust and Safety handed his block list to a bot. 1,271 people blocked in eleven days. He says it never looks at who you are. Blocks are public, so I checked. Trans people were blocked at 2.5× the odds of everyone else, for posts of the same harshness. 🧵

Moms for Liberty has already been doing this in person for books containing queer (esp. trans) people, so expanding the scope of their efforts to any books by any group they don’t like (powered by LLMs, of course!) is hardly a shocker but still immensely disgusting

I Travel Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4w ago

They’re deploying a national snitch network to keep Black books out of libraries

we need to stop comparing things that are not csam to csam, words have meaning and shit like this destroys meaning

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 3w ago

It is absolutely bananas that one of the most prominent anti-AI experts in America is talking like this. Talking to ChatGPT isn’t like doing heroin or downloading child porn. It will not hurt you and has no ethical valence. It will help you understand the nature of something that is now endemic.

I have called my representatives and demanded that they stand up for Ilhan Omar. It's not just the proximity to an election. If Trump is able to weaponize DHS/DOJ to take out sitting members of Congress without backlash, that's it, that's the whole game.

adhd is such a bitch. every day i'm like "today i need to draw more. i need to submit applications. i need to translate die verwandlung to improve my german. i need to get groceries. i need to clean my apartment. i need to send emails." and then i rot and die instead

love knowing i have to get things done & having my executive dysfunction worsen because of that 🙃

A good reason to see Jeffries as weak that is orthogonal to immediate political affinities is that now would be the moment, for an opposition leader fueled by self interest, to unleash fire from his belly against what is a clear and obvious authoritarian attack by a massively unpopular loser.

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 4w ago

jeffries has released a statement on the omar raid

Years ago I wrote this essay, and the clamor for compromise and one-sided pandering marches on, and of course David Brooks is a standard-bearer in the parade. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what if they are Nazis?

Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway

When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …

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driftglass@driftglass.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this

That's because Republicans could give two shits what Democrats think, while Democrats' undying mission since the '70s has been to find common ground with Republicans.

Dan O’Sullivan@osullyville.bsky.social · 4w ago

Something I will never understand as long as I live is phony intellectual Republicans giving free advice to Democrats. The only advice I have for Republican politicians I'd care to share with them can't be posted on here

The type of guideline change YouTube if it were in the 60s would've made and proceed to ask why lynchings were increasing. The Overton Window of acceptable discourse has swung to accept the most hateful people in society as having "legitimate beliefs."

Misty K Snow@mistyksnow.bsky.social · 4w ago

YouTube just made an update to it's community guidelines... Having to carve out an exception to it's hate speech rules for congressional proceedings is pretty bleak.