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This is the best piece I've read on Trump's trans military ban. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

"Separating the art from the artist" is for people like Picasso, who was a total bastard a very long time ago but also an artistic genius whose work is actually important to human culture It is not for a mid tier kids' author that is actively trying to eliminate a whole group of people right now

submitted 21 days ago • 54 comments

BREAKING: Labour will formally recognise trans women as ‘men’ tomorrow. It means trans women will be banned from all women shortlists and all Labour women’s groups. Revolting. The party’s relationship with LGBT+ is over.

submitted 30 days ago • 17 comments

RFK seems to have lied to Congress a lot

submitted 35 days ago • 187 comments

“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration

submitted 42 days ago • 7 comments

I know, norms and all that, but the default Dem position should be: We think this is illegal but if the courts say you can do this then we are going to rip the guts out of the entire conservative movement. No more Heritage, FedSoc, etc. All of them lose their tax exempt status.

submitted 48 days ago • 219 comments

Being trans is beautiful, being trans is magical, but also, if I can be real… a lot of the time being trans fuckin sucks man

submitted 56 days ago • 14 comments

1. Have you heard that "900 medals have been stolen from girls" by trans women? This stat is EXTREMELY wrong. It includes hot dog eating, jeopardy, and acting, and tripple counts some winners. S. Baum fact checks this extensively in our latest. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 56 days ago • 33 comments

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

submitted 59 days ago • 194 comments

Entire podcasts were dedicated to the question of what JK Rowling has ever done that’s transphobic. She has openly been working toward this outcome for years.

submitted 62 days ago • 56 comments

this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness

submitted 62 days ago • 291 comments

Hi, I’m autistic and I’m the mayor of my city.

submitted 63 days ago • 639 comments

This has been more widely circulated than any edited comments on television in quite some time Perhaps it should be circulated further still ?

submitted 63 days ago • 18 comments

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

submitted 65 days ago • 987 comments

Someone reminded me of this today but when you see an institution (university, law firm, etc) "capitulates" to Trump's demands it's worth asking whether the elites within that institution always wanted to do what Trump is demanding and are now just using Trump as an excuse

submitted 65 days ago • 15 comments

Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."

submitted 66 days ago • 1181 comments

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

submitted 66 days ago • 686 comments

trumps active efforts to undermine due process and free speech are the most consequential for theoretical american democracy and yet, many americans are oblivious since its being done under immigration enforcement, & those who are aware are championing it. fascism is here.

submitted 66 days ago • 2 comments

This is exactly what Democrats should be doing!! You’ve got power and status so leverage it. More of this!!!!

submitted 66 days ago • 142 comments

One thing from this article that should set off some alarms is that there are companies that think the government will go after them for sponsoring pride events. Interesting

submitted 66 days ago • 27 comments

if Ritchie fucking Torres can do this and Chris Van Hollen can fly to El Salvador the rest of the Dem caucus can show up too hell, everyone should go on the El Salvador trip now’s the time, folks, this road ends with you in the foreign prison

submitted 66 days ago • 59 comments

Me trying to explain fascism to students: "A lot has to do with fear of supposedly stable gendered boundaries blurring, and how that maps onto racial and national hierarchies. But can I really say transphobia is the lodestone to fascism?" Aleksandr Dugin: "Ukrainians are collective transgenders."

submitted 69 days ago • 49 comments

This story gets so much worse. The trans woman who she refused to fence only finished in 24th place. Stephanie, the forfeiter, also beat multiple cis men in a regional match just one week earlier! And conservatives just paid her $5k for her kneel. Why is nobody talking about this?

submitted 71 days ago • 50 comments

market manipulation is now legal policy and totally fine to do in the united states

submitted 71 days ago • 99 comments

Do Dems need to throw gays, lesbians, and trans people overboard to win elections? No. What Dems need is to look towards our community, particularly the trans community, for the sort of courage and moral leadership and American values that can get them winning again.

submitted 78 days ago • 13 comments

there are those in this world with only evil in their soul

submitted 80 days ago • 421 comments

I realise that to cis people, when trans people lose access to gender-affirming care, it seems like we're bitching about not getting our little treats. I have more than one friend whose body is currently falling apart because it no longer makes its own hormones and the government banned their HRT.

submitted 89 days ago • 45 comments

A thread. It's intensifying. Quickly. A Brown professor from Brown university:

submitted 94 days ago • 14 comments

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

submitted 97 days ago • 5141 comments

this keeps replaying in my head bc it's literally this easy to support trans people. the majority of these freaks have never actually experienced pushback and will straight up collapse when confronted. cis people get your heads right. this is your job

submitted 99 days ago • 24 comments

@schumer.senate.gov LET THE REPUBLICANS SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT. LET THEM DESTROY EVERYTHING. SHOW THE COUNTRY HOW INEPT THESE PEOPLE ARE. YOUR BASE WOULD 100% SUPPORT THIS

submitted 99 days ago • 77 comments

Get in loser, we're tanking the economy

submitted 99 days ago • 1361 comments

So Steak 'n' Shake is a Nazi bar now

submitted 103 days ago • 146 comments

The problem with Dems chasing public opinion is that THE PUBLIC'S VIEW OF THINGS IS JUST MOVING IN RESPONSE TO WHAT POLITICAL FIGURES SAY AND IT'S VERY OBVIOUS IN THE DATA MY GOD

submitted 104 days ago • 219 comments

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

submitted 118 days ago • 78 comments

The NBA pulled the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte because of North Carolina’s bathroom bill. Michael Jordan spoke out against the bill, as did Charles Barkley. This was less than a decade ago, and, come to think of it, same president in office.

submitted 108 days ago • 6 comments

Also important to note that the estimates that place trans people at 1.3 million are rather old, from the Williams Institute, which did good work at the time mind you. Latest Gallup poll shows 1.3% of people now identify as trans, which would be over 4 million people!

submitted 108 days ago • 45 comments

BABE WAKE UP ANOTHER CEO SHOOTING HAPPENED did y’all know there was another CEO shooting 10 FUCKING DAYS AGO??? because i sure as fuck didn’t (unfortunately he is fine)

submitted 108 days ago • 17 comments

we may be one of the few pubs that got this headline right Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...

submitted 110 days ago • 343 comments

i hope more than anything what people learn from this 2nd trump term is that the capitalist class are aligned and they want you to have less rights and only want you to exist to generate profit for them

submitted 111 days ago • 108 comments

The FAA is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to overhaul the communications system that serves as the backbone of the nation’s air traffic control and is awarding the work to Musk’s Starlink. Follow the money and see where it goes.

submitted 112 days ago • 605 comments

I honestly don’t know why they frame it as if these companies are reluctantly giving up DEI- these companies are disinvesting in DEI because they don’t think the courts or the political system will punish them for discrimination anymore. DEI existed for most as a lawsuit barrier.

submitted 112 days ago • 44 comments

Fuck the American Nazis.

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The New York Times: "We need more data on trans healthcare, it shouldn't be allowed" Trump: "Fuck the very concept of data" NYT: crickets www.statnews.com/2025/02/25/c...

submitted 112 days ago • 52 comments

do you ever think about how conservatives were sending bomb threats to childrens hospitals and the media and the dems just ignored it

submitted 113 days ago • 38 comments

On the one hand, from a narrative perspective, Padmé Amidala saying "This is how democracy dies" and then even 20 years later other characters are reacting to democracy dying even further seems like a poorly-planned storyline. When in reality it's like, no yeah that's exactly what it feels like.

submitted 113 days ago • 3 comments