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the last decade has really helped me understand in a more visceral sense what it meant when God hardened the pharoah’s heart

submitted 6 hours ago • 488 comments

Last night’s article in the Washington Post about D.C. police responding to a 911 call by illegally letting DOGE onto private property is unlike any news story I have ever read. Every single person should read this article and think about where our society is going.

submitted 1 day ago • 98 comments

I've contended for a long time the "love the sinner hate the sin" crowd wants to kill LGBTQ+ people and they are not wasting any time under this administration making that clear

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes blocks Trump’s anti-trans military ban EO and the orders implementing it. She stays her order until 10a March 21 to allow the government to seek a stay from the DC Circuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Our Secretary of Defense almost certainly has more threatening/extremist tattoos and has more credibly been accused of sexual assault than almost all of the people being sent to El Salvador. No exaggeration.

submitted 2 days ago • 259 comments

Call it anecdotal, but my Canadian friends who are cancelling their US travel are not doing it because of tariff worries at all; they’re doing it because the US government is currently actively threatening Canada’s sovereignty and economy and they’re all justifiably furious

submitted 4 days ago • 410 comments

Literally talked to a friend in Canada who said this yesterday. And like yeah, I also wouldn't want to travel to a country whose president was talking about annexing mine

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

submitted 8 days ago • 1220 comments

There are no words in the English language sufficient to describe how heartburstingly angry I am at the 8 traitors who just sold us all down the river. It is our job as Americans to make sure they can NEVER appear in public life EVER again. Die wretched and alone, unloved by your country.

submitted 5 days ago • 554 comments

You should call but FWIW I did like half an hour ago and the staffer I talked to confirmed he's a no on cloture

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

There were some nice folks handing out buttons in support of Federal workers outside the metro today and things are bleak but that brought a smile to my face

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

We simply do not have to sacrifice the rights of trans people to save rights elsewhere and anybody that tells you otherwise is a fascist

submitted 13 days ago • 24 comments

Every time some elected democrat sucks off Reagan, I think about Duane.

submitted 14 days ago • 101 comments

bathroom bills were considered a hugely bigoted overreach a decade ago and the backsliding on trans rights is the result of a sustained propaganda campaign by elites the pendulum can swing back the other way if you try, and anyone who is not willing to do so is showcasing their own bigotry

submitted 17 days ago • 42 comments

Nobody's asking elected Dems to legislate right now. Constituents want them to act like politicians who are as alarmed by what's happening as they are, which is especially rich after an election season that spent a lot of time painting the opposition as threats to democracy (which they are!).

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

It's more than a little bizarre that the press was more vocal and judgmental about Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal than the current unscheduled rapid disassembly of our entire democracy and civil service.

submitted 20 days ago • 108 comments

Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.

submitted 20 days ago • 491 comments

The point of excluding categories of people from the military like this is to send the message that they are unworthy of citizenship, it is pure bigotry and the assumptions behind it are disproven by the honorable service of the people being targeted in the first place bsky.app/profile/bran...

submitted 21 days ago • 75 comments

I think about how this was happening and how everyone thinks the "just leave trans people alone" position is considered the extreme one now

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Didn't you vote to confirm Trump's nominee for SecArmy literally days ago

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

There is no meaning to that salute beyond "I want to murder millions of people." I see it as a direct threat and an unforgivable depravity. No scrim of purported irony is gonna lessen that. It is a gesture solely for sick, murderous fucks

submitted 22 days ago • 30 comments

I still don’t understand why Democrats would negotiate a budget when the Trump administration claims unilateral authority to cancel any spending it dislikes. As long as congressional Republicans endorse that position, they are not legitimate negotiation partners! An agreement with them has no value!

submitted 22 days ago • 59 comments

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

submitted 25 days ago • 244 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 26 days ago • 255 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 26 days ago • 211 comments

yes, yes! fantasy has a huge monarchy problem. when i set out to write my first fantasy book i set it in a democracy; we don't need more stories about the "good" princes saving the day or whatever - it's definitionally impossible (i.e. all monarchs are necessarily bad)

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

there were a lot of folks in masks which was nice and protest signs covered a wide gamut of issues (an interesting visual reminder of how much is currently going wrong)

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Clarity. We must awaken to the reality before us

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

start hrt. get a couple extra tattoos. go to grad school, why the fuck not

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

You can here my ramblings on all things maritime and the Civil Wars here

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Republicans are doing this because they want gay men and transgender women to contract HIV. They believe that dying of AIDS is a deserved punishment for having gay sex, just as they think that forced childbirth is a deserved punishment for sexually active women. This is not especially complicated.

submitted 33 days ago • 41 comments

📌I was the managing editor at Stars and Stripes and can tell you that Pete Hegseth is the first SecDef I am aware of to be openly booed by military families on a military base. 📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.

submitted 35 days ago • 460 comments

it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

submitted 36 days ago • 2298 comments

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

submitted 36 days ago • 416 comments

“put down the red pill and pick up some poppers” JDNDKDN

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

I think what's being done to trans people in this country is a FUCKING SCANDAL. It's absolutely an attempt at eradicating trans people from public life and ALL OF US must refuse this. Everyone. Stop being a loser mealy mouth person. This is bullshit. You should say so in all the places you inhabit.

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submitted 44 days ago • 59 comments

at least we have weird lady gaga back

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

This is an SS Andrea Doria appreciation post

submitted 45 days ago • 10 comments

I'd like to think that the party that controls 49% of the Congress would be doing more to protect American democracy than a bunch of professors on Blue Sky and the prime minister of Canada

submitted 46 days ago • 56 comments

Played some games with queer friends today, including another civil servant, and it was nice. But it's so hard to escape the idea that straight people are just not going to stand up for us

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

The definition of a political regime that I teach first-year college students is “the rules and norms that determine how to obtain and exercise sovereign authority.” Those rules and norms have fundamentally changed this week. We have no precedent: the rules and norms are no longer in place.

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 48 days ago • 2301 comments

if you cared about morale and recruitment you would not alienate a group that disproportionately enlists into the military, but if you are a white nationalist…

submitted 49 days ago • 378 comments