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My statement on today’s defacement of the Pink Triangle on Twin Peaks:

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An incredibly important story of 2016 → 2024 shifts among Hispanics that is not really discussed in electoral disk horse today is that Hispanics swung left >hard< in 2016, in large part because of fears of a national prop 187 moment that didn't come in Trump I

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

I cannot wait to see Madam Girlboss see what the ceiling is in Virginia

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

It looks like the Democratic ticket this fall in Virginia will be: Abigail Spanberger Ghazala Hashmi Jay Jones

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INBOX: DDHQ is projecting that Keisha Sean Waites and Peter Hubbard are advancing to the Georgia PSC District 3 Democratic primary runoff on July 15th, 2025, with barely over 100,000 cast. Meanwhile, Republican Tim Echols handily defeated a challenge from the right in District 2.

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

The summation of this administration is using IRS's criminal investigative agents to do immigration raids instead of going after wealthy tax cheats

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

[BILL ALERT] AB 1061, which will make it easier to build new homes—including duplexes—in single-family neighborhoods by allowing the California HOME Act (SB 9, 2021) to be used in historic districts, has passed the Senate Housing Committee! Learn more: cayimby.org/legislation/...

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

not the point but new york city's rightward drift has been strongest in some of the city's biggest immigrant neighborhoods www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

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submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Temporarily-embarrassed supercitizens

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Brad is the real deal and represents the best of New York. Tough as nails, kind as hell, and always stands on the correct side of the issue. The man shows up for everyone.

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

An incredible election result in the making:

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let's fucking goooooooooo

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

MASSIVE good news for trans people in the United States. A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports. This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.

submitted 14 hours ago • 52 comments

Main character of BlueSky for the day:

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Relatedly, I will be so fucking pissed if we end up trying to put the Pahlavis back in charge b/c the dumb reactionaries in charge here think absolute monarchy is cool.

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if Kathy fucking Hochul senses this is what the moment is like... that is certainly telling about where Democrats are going

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

this is the image to understand congress

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

17 of the 25 biggest cities in the country have no subways.

submitted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

Today, Charlottesville, VA voters are using #RankedChoiceVoting for the first time! This is a big milestone for better elections in Virginia. Kudos to Sally Hudson, @upvoteva.bsky.social, & many others. www.vpm.org/elections/20...

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Adriana Smith’s baby was delivered. We wish we could say she delivered her own child, but she didn’t get a say in the matter. The state of Georgia got what they wanted. Today, Adriana Smith will be taken off life support. buff.ly/MH9FY07

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

Writing about Adriana Smith with such callousness and disregard while ignoring the obvious connection to breeding slavery sounds about white.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Always funny who actually considered Liz Bruenig to be "left".

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

Between red counties and states getting rekt w/o FEMA, revisionist powers like Iran getting their shit kicked in, & arrogant idiots losing everything on crypto and sports gambling, it’s pretty clear the ppl most eager for a dog-eat-dog new world disorder are those least able to endure it. Oops!

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

I want to believe

submitted 18 hours ago • 19 comments

oh my god

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NEW Economist/YouGov Jun 13-16 % who approve | disapprove of Trump U.S. adult citizens 41% | 54% (-13) Last week 43% | 52% Start of term 49% | 43% Democrats 5% | 93% Independents 29% | 60% Republicans 87% | 11% Men 45% | 48% Women 37% | 59% d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

submitted 22 hours ago • 10 comments

the fact that armed, formally fascist party paramilitaries provide official security for the Oregon Republican Party has gone completely unremarked

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

Lander just got detained by federal agents as he tried to escort a man out of the courtroom. Lander was taken in an elevator with masked agents, along with one member of his NYPD security detail.

submitted 19 hours ago • 118 comments

1. Lander and Zohran friendly media need to get Cuomo on camera right now to comment. It will be incoherent, dismisssive, and extremely fascist. 2. I bet Lander’s donations go up.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Beyond devastating. The cruelty and idiocy of this ban is mind-numbing. So many brave men and women, serving their country honorably in uniform, purged from the ranks because of the president's vile, unvarnished bigotry. My heart breaks. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Great read if you’re unfamiliar with the story of the Korean victims of the A-bomb attacks on Japan in 1945 and the competing organizations among Zainichi Koreans in Japan. www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

Large parts of North America are forecast to have extremely high humidity over the next two weeks 😥 wapo.st/4lfEc0x

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No shelter, no excuse: A plea for Arab citizens’ safety blogs.timesofisrael.com/no-shelter-n...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Transphobia is never ok. Even against problematic transgender women. This goes for cis and trans people. I promise that pedaling transphobia will not make things better for the trans people in your life you care about.

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Oh... www.wired.com/story/cfpb-q...

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vietnam war syndrome

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Don't blame them

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New study of life expectancy shows certain states—eg. CA, HI, MA, NY, WA—massively increased life expectancy from 1900–2000. Others—eg. AL, AR, LA, KY, MS, OK, TN, WV—saw little or no improvement. Democratic-run states have been far more effective in extending lives scitechdaily.com/century-long...

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Reading the new American Bar Association lawsuit against the Trump administration and noticed this. It still boggles my mind that I was literally the only targeted lawyer willing to talk on camera.

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Today's #LGBT Newsletter has big updates from Mexico, UK, Philippines, and a surprising development in Colorado. Read and subscribe FREE: ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/lgbtmarr...

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How can the party brand itself when it is so thoroughly controlled by state laws in its operations? We need to free ourselves of the state.

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The same is true in how local elections work. —0 article in the New York Times this spring about the reelection of Philadelphia's reform DA (and arguably the most famous reform DA in the country), Larry Krasner. —Quite different last fall when LA's reform DA lost.

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I don't know why this paper is open in my tabs, or who sent it to me, but it's important! It's about the Democrats' faith that good policy will yield political support, which appears, with some examination, to be wrong.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments