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So Steak 'n' Shake is a Nazi bar now

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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

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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 16 days ago • 74 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 6 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 6 days ago • 48 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 6 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 9 days ago • 358 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 9 days ago • 110 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 10 days ago • 633 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 10 days ago • 48 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 11 days ago • 55 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 11 days ago • 39 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 11 days ago • 3 comments

I would take this more seriously if we didn't elect the most extreme president in modern history a few months ago over a Dem that almost exclusively campaigned to centrists.

submitted 12 days ago • 73 comments

This is a stunning betrayal by Whitman Walker in DC. You CANNOT jettison the trans community to protect yourself. It’s shameful. I got my name changed at WWH. I have promoted their research. Now they are capitulating to save gay people at trans people’s expense by trying to erase us.

submitted 16 days ago • 123 comments

the BBC released a documentary about eden today and i urge you and everyone you know to watch it

submitted 26 days ago • 47 comments

I keep asking, "who is going to make him turn the money back on"... and the answer keeps being "no one."

submitted 26 days ago • 38 comments

If you wish to vote in New York City's mayoral Dem primary in JUNE (=the election that'll pretty much decide the next mayor), you must be registered as a Democrat BY FRIDAY. An insanely early deadline bound to leave people vote out. At least make sure you're not one of them if you're interested!

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

submitted 28 days ago • 254 comments

DO NOT MEMORY HOLE THE NAZI SALUTE! Elon Musk did it not once but twice, and with vigor! It’s been 3 weeks, and there’s been no accountability. Institutionalized Judaism has let him off the hook. It is up to us to remember, to never forget the ancestors who deserve better, and to make it stick.

submitted 27 days ago • 19 comments

They are going to ignore court orders. If they ignore court orders, the social contract is dead and buried, the constitution is no longer in effect. It's a rubicon that cannot be uncrossed.

submitted 28 days ago • 461 comments

OK trans friends. In the wake of the CDC erasing—digitally burning—so much of the science about trans-ness I am seeing a lot of us make the clear comparison to the N*zi attacks and book burning at the Institute for Sexual Science. That is a clear, relevant and important comparison to make. And 1/

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Hear me out — If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is. Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.

submitted 34 days ago • 77 comments

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

submitted 34 days ago • 924 comments

the full list doesn’t include “male” or “man” but saying “female” or “woman” gets you blacklisted lmfao. the patriarchy is more powerful than ever

submitted 34 days ago • 38 comments

Government employees: please download your performance reviews/personnel files. Word is that the system will be going offline tomorrow to possible amend those performance reviews for justification of firings. Source: American Federation of Govt Employees. Please share to protect fed workers

submitted 35 days ago • 40 comments

i'm sorry this may be controversial but i think it's a little gauche to be already extending the olive branch to Trump voters before any of them have even remotely expressed remorse. you don't need to pre-launder their reputations for them

submitted 34 days ago • 110 comments

NEW: The board president of a small WV nonprofit says they haven't received their HHS funding since the Trump/Musk budget freeze. They had to lay off 3 of 5 employees on Friday. An 86-yr-old woman is counting on them to take her dialysis tomorrow. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 35 days ago • 445 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 35 days ago • 1309 comments

random-ass people on Bluesky and a small handful of independent media outlets have been vastly better at informing me of what’s actually happening than the New York Times or any other legacy media

submitted 35 days ago • 19 comments

Big national media outlet still failing. Headlines suggest some dispute over data access at US AID. Not connecting the dots with other DOGE moves. Not conveying illegality. *Not communicating constitutional crisis.

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It’s official: Elon Musk’s staffers have now illegally obtained classified information from the USAID office. Here’s a recap of what’s happening:

submitted 35 days ago • 275 comments

1. Multiple hospital systems are complying with an unlawful executive order with dubious enforcement mechanisms and pulling their trans kids off care. While most have not, those that have are harming their trans patients. The latest from Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 35 days ago • 52 comments

Trans folks seeking passports: Here's something potentially useful, to a small group. If you are in: Michigan Minnesota New York Vermont Washington You have access to an "EDL". This is a drivers license that can be used for LAND AND SEA (not air) entry to Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean. (1/3)

submitted 35 days ago • 19 comments

chappell talking about trans rights at the #grammys 🫂🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 35 days ago • 46 comments

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

submitted 35 days ago • 731 comments

“does Elon Musk personally think you should get paid” is, apparently, how the entire federal budget works now we don’t really have a government anymore, the coup worked and the media is so broken that they can’t even tell us it’s happened

submitted 35 days ago • 15 comments

I have some bad news about solidarity in general: sometimes there's an amount of effort involved?? and it's maybe not always exciting??

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

submitted 35 days ago • 166 comments

ATTN FEDS: I'm working away today, looking into "Fork" memo implementation and any funding/disbursement changes being made (DOGE-related or not). If you have information about what's going on, please reach out. Contact me using a non-work phone or computer — my email and Signal are in my bio.

submitted 35 days ago • 12 comments

ah cool, an archive of all CDC data before they tampered with it

submitted 35 days ago • 39 comments

Lutheran Social Services is one of the largest employers in South Dakota, operating senior living facilities across the state. Republicans are shutting it down Perhaps more concerning is Mike Flynn, known foreign asset, having access to this data?

submitted 35 days ago • 604 comments

Massive protest at Children’s National in DC. A former patient is speaking who they used in promotional to show how much they care about trans kids. Now the hospital is one of a small few nationwide complying with trumps unlawful EO to end trans care.

submitted 35 days ago • 59 comments

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

submitted 36 days ago • 4930 comments

the CDC is apparently removing every page (+ references to studies) on LGBT people (mostly targeting trans people but also stuff like HIV prevention) from their websites, potentially putting people in danger (if this is true it smells like book burning) so, i will just put this info out there:

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

On May 10, 1933, Nazis burned the library of The Institute for Sexual Science. The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people. The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.

submitted 36 days ago • 43 comments