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submitted 1 day ago • 531 comments

Fuck Chuck Schumer. This is a direct ripping away of rights from transgender people. Our lives are not a distraction.

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

hi, cis folks! the senate budget bill is out & this version still contains a prohibition against lifesaving trans healthcare for medicaid/CHIP—that's 275,000 people! if you're willing to stand with trans folks, please call your senators—no matter who. follow the thread for context & scripts.🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

if there’s one pleasure i wish i could convey to younger people it’s the feeling of leaving the house with this device knowing you’ll be listening to Garbage’s self-titled debut the entire day and won’t have the option of a different album

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

Thanks to NPR for explaining that due to the ancient, mysterious culture of Persia, Iranians "don't like to be attacked" npr.org/2025/06/16/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 193 comments

Giving off Nyx in its last two years vibes.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

NO KINGS IN PITTSBURGH 🚫👑

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

“If not gestapo, why gestapo shaped?”

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

“Mild auditory processing issues” turns out to be bad for actually hearing what the speaker is saying. 😅 (Still able to shout ACT UP, FIGHT BACK though)

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

The AP built a database of 1036 reported deaths (as well as many times that number of serious injuries) from 'less-than-lethal' police tactics, 2012-2021. Prone restraint, bean-bags, chemical weapons, rubber bullets, taser or stun-guns: all can be deadly, but are deployed as though they can't.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

taps the sign

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

“Defund the police” was in fact a great slogan.

submitted 11 days ago • 124 comments

Is she wearing artwork by Kurt Vonnegut?

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

is being terminally online bad for you? yes does it make you less happy than your offline friends? absolutely is there anything that matches the high of a poster's ragnarok? there is not, and that's why we can never log off

submitted 13 days ago • 44 comments

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 13 days ago • 644 comments

The thing is that at some point you’ve got to specify which norms they were, kind of like that “state’s rights to do, what, exactly?”

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I dunno, I think this is worth treating as a crisis for the left. After all, no one has ever said anything rude or extreme on a right-wing website.

submitted 14 days ago • 15 comments

I have yet to see a single report from this where the mention a policy decision or analysis or even a working group

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

When you realize they do this for fun and actually enjoy getting this reaction from transgender people, it will make it ever clearer that they know exactly what they are doing and it's not journalism.

submitted 15 days ago • 23 comments

Peyton Manning

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

'Actually it's just some guys' strikes again. www.ibtimes.co.uk/builderai-co...

submitted 16 days ago • 27 comments

Boy, we are super fucked arent we?

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

People made fun of my “quantitative feminism is the political science wave of the future” prediction, but the international political economy people are getting a real time experiment to see how many billions of dollars getting to grope your secretary is worth to the men who run the global economy.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Always great to two sides shouting at each other “you need to reason with the crazies on your side because it will only embolden the crazies in our side (whom we are incapable of reasoning with)”

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

the fact most reports are leaving out that he was killed protecting his husband during a homophobic hate crime where his dead dog's skull was placed in their mailbox as a threat is leaving some important details out i think

submitted 16 days ago • 131 comments

American political discourse surrounding Israel-Palestine is just throwing out phrases like Pokémon cards ("two state solution," "right to exist," "only democracy in the Middle East") without any consideration as to how accurately they describe the situation on the ground.

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

The UK is low key weirder than the USA because the USA is simply dumb and weird whereas the UK is a strait-laced country that thinks the USA is dumb and weird, then proceeds to slavishly ape it.

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

An important reminder.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

I know it doesn't stop them from being exhausting but please know the reason there's a relentless stream of thinkpieces from centrists or right-leaning dems going DITCH THE TRANSES is because the public opinion as a whole is "just leave them alone, jesus" and they fucking hate that

submitted 20 days ago • 12 comments

Trans people have not "weaponized" our rights--we are defending our rights against an effort to eradicate us from public life.

submitted 20 days ago • 17 comments

The thing is, they pay a lot of money for people to be this fucking stupid. Big bags of cash for some Elmer Fudd-level intelligence to write shit like, “Uh, um, uh, maybe if we give Republicans exactly what they want, they won’t make up other wedge issues anymore like they do in every election.”

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

i won’t link that politico article. i’m not a journalist; it’s the same consent manufacturing op they’ve been running for ages. but look at these two stories from today side by side. “third way” is afraid of being canceled—a thing they can’t even do to nazi kanye. my friends are at risk of dying.

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

watching what appears to be a white guy from new hampshire screaming into someone's mentions with copious "y'all" drops and, look, it's a great word, it's incredibly useful, but i'm beginning to think it may be time to take it back from the yankees

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

This is fantastic

submitted 33 days ago • 11 comments

“Now a popular wedding venue” says the embed yeah lmao let that fucker burn

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Hooting, hollering

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

my kingdom for anyone on the “dems should take culturally moderate positions” to explain what this actually means in practice? www.thebulwark.com/p/hard-calls...

submitted 36 days ago • 613 comments

new pope! crowd goes wild American pope! crowd boos woke for an American! crowd goes wild bad on protecting abusive priests! crowd boos hates JD Vance! crowd goes wild

submitted 41 days ago • 218 comments

Presenting a computer-fabricated piece of fake evidence in court is a nice parable of what victim-impact statements have always been about

submitted 44 days ago • 6 comments