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And even if gay marriage wasn't going to be the next domino to fall, standing up for trans people would still be the right thing to do. You're either for human rights whether it affects you personally, or you're not.

submitted 15 hours ago • 13 comments

My high school age son has a classmate just seized by ICE and she is now in a cell in Louisiana, her phone seized. This is High School in the USA in 2025. More Au Revoir Les Enfants than Ferris Bueller. School and community response already in motion.

submitted 16 hours ago • 129 comments

I’ll say this as many times as I have to. No tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself. Not a one.

submitted 16 hours ago • 167 comments

Yeah. It’s like “how do we talk to Joe Rogan fans” have you considered activating new and lapsed democratic voters who care about universal healthcare and trans issues and maybe even Palestine instead of ice skating uphill to convert a handful of unreliable flat earthers

submitted 13 hours ago • 10 comments

Also, the ability to levy tariffs is expressly granted to CONGRESS by the Constitution! The only reason Trump has even a figleaf of legal authority to impose tariffs in the first place is that his lawyers are claiming a law passed by CONGRESS gives him that authority.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

The CDC will continue to recommend the Covid vaccines for children. Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

I will say again that while I believe America has a misogyny problem, I do not think it can be worse than all of Mexico, Britain, Pakistan, India, Israel, Burundi, Ukraine, Norway, Panama, Senegal, South Korea, Latvia, Nepal, Poland, Argentina, Indonesia, Turkey, Lithuania, et al

submitted 14 hours ago • 9 comments

There is no public health so long as we leave Trump et al in power.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Reader, we will not

submitted 14 hours ago • 119 comments

🎶 Got a letter from the government the other other day, I opened and read it, it said they were the local code enforcement office responding to a complaint about trees on my property having branches that hang too low over the public sidewalk 🎶

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

How can Elon do that many drugs without getting any better at doing drugs

submitted 16 hours ago • 44 comments

This is much more likely to me than the idea he’s not aware we had former Nazis help build rockets. I’d say in general a lot of pretty horrific rhetoric conservatives put out gets excused under “lol they’re not smart.”

submitted 16 hours ago • 12 comments

A lot of people know about the Germans in the space program, but the more relevant engineer might be Qian Xuesen, the MIT/CalTech aerospace professor who co-founded JPL and was sent to recruit the Germans. We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.

submitted 18 hours ago • 69 comments

not to be histrionic but I kind of feel like the confluence of Trumpism, algorithmic social media, and LLMs have placed language and the fundamental proposition that words have meaning under unprecedented strain and it’s freaking me out more than a bit

submitted 19 hours ago • 37 comments

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 16 hours ago • 1135 comments

Though it's missing in this post, the actual article notes right up front that DOGE is most certainly not "popular" with most polls showing Americans disapproving of its work by 2-to-1 margins. But keep on drinking the Kool Aid to the midterms, Republicans.

submitted 16 hours ago • 18 comments

i have said this before but this is why it was and is important not to ignore the “NPC” language. these people really believe that other human beings are not real, with all the consequences that flow from this

submitted 20 hours ago • 101 comments

currency of the realm in republican politics is a blithe contempt for life and indifference to suffering

submitted 18 hours ago • 236 comments

That she said this and wasn't immediately struck by lightning weighs heavily against the existence of a righteous God.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

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submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

It's a small comfort that Musk finds being in his own brain as unpleasant as I find constantly reading headlines about him, but instead of trying to calibrate a high that will make people like him, he could just stop actively making the lives of people worse.

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

Nothing is ever this dumb orange motherfucker's fault. "I was just a naive president under the spell of the evil Federalist Society" is some low-rent bullshit.

submitted 20 hours ago • 11 comments

In normal times, DOJ wins most of its cases because it has the resources to ensure that presidential actions are lawful. But under Trump, the Department is run by a sycophantic election denying enabler. The result is DOJ's credibility with judges is in tatters and it is losing case after case.

submitted 1 day ago • 120 comments

there are STILL cis people who believe this is about legally re-assigning bathrooms. wise the fuck up.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Not linking to that Third Way garbage take on throwing trans people under the bus because they're just looking for clicks. I'll just say that any Democrat who's willing to throw trans people under the bus is: 1. Trash 2. Gonna throw ANY and ALL of us under the bus the minute it's convenient

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Trump just nominated Paul Ingrassia to run the Office of Special Counsel. Ingrassia is a former far-right podcast host and election denier who once shared an article calling for “martial law” to keep Donald Trump in office following his loss in the 2020 election. He's 29.

submitted 1 day ago • 110 comments

You “gave up everything?” does that mean you were kidnapped by masked goons and sent to an offshore slave camp without due process, or

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Post a problematic "would": horror edition

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I’ve told the story many times. Now @katemasur.bsky.social and I have filed it in federal court: Free Black Americans were first to recognize BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP in the US. When denied it, they fought to secure it. They show us what the 14th Amendment meant and what it meant to live without it.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

You can say democrats lost because of trans people all day long but that doesn’t make it true

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

oh look it’s the thing everyone said wouldn’t happen and hadn’t happened, happening

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

I have been sick for a week and I just read about "something going around" in a subreddit, which I guess is how I get my information now that the CDC is officially spending the next four years determining when and how microscopes became gay.

submitted 2 days ago • 462 comments

As others have said, I'm not voting for any politician who moves to the right on trans issues.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments