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It’s an older code, but it checks out...

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Welp. Looks like they want to haul my bipolar ass to the camps. White folks, when I tell you your whiteness won’t save you, I mean your whiteness won’t save you.

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I swear, I can’t even do the dishes around here...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Trans youth need the right to exist, the right to exist as trans, and the right to exist as trans in public. Lacking these things, we’re looking at a genocidal project aimed squarely at my son.

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If the point of last night’s “All Star Game” was to generate renewed support for the old East vs West format, congratulations, NBA! That was a success! If not...

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When they go low, we go high. Yeah. When they kick us in the nuts, we swing and miss. Or, rather, when they kick us in the nuts and there’s no refs and this is a street mugging, we appeal to the Queensbury Rules and hope they'll stop kicking us.

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Pro tip: When saying anything about them, always put Elon Musk’s name before Donald Trump’s. Then maybe Trump’s ego will get hurt and they’ll fight and kill each other and then we’ll just have to deal with… [checks notes]… JD Vance. Fuck.

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Elon Musk and Donald Trump have this song stuck on repeat in my head

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Better framing: As Trump causes constitutional crisis after constitutional crisis, he deflects blame like Pewee Herman, saying, “I know you are but what am I?" Except, you know, Peewee is wholesome and innocent, and Trump is, well, Trump. So I’m going to hell for comparing the two.

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Yeah… I’m going to need me to go ahead and stop doomscrolling...

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I’m sure she was “very concerned"...

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I wonder if the Supreme Court can find any “major questions” about DOGE...

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What’s weirder: That Elon Musk is taking questions from the press INSIDE THE OVAL OFFICE, that he’s doing so to defend a government agency that DOESN’T EXIST, or that he’s doing it in a hat? Because, honestly, we’ve reached the point in the news cycle where it was the hat that stood out for me.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

It was never about women’s sports. It was always about being able to define and police women’s bodies.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I have “We Built This City” stuck in my head on endless repeat, which, while a little slice of hell on earth, still beats having to see or hear just about any of the news coming out the past couple weeks. Odds of me posting a link to the video in the first reply...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

This. I’m all for gallows humor, but only when it’s you and not, you know, all of humanity on the gallows.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I mean, Anthony Kiedis has borrowed an awful lot from Black culture...

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I loved Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show. Then I saw how mad it made my fellow white people and I loved it even more.

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I see this so much with my son. We spend so fucking much time fighting against transphobia, it sometimes feels hard to just be a family, for him to just be a kid, for us to just do stuff like watching movies and playing Jenga instead of constantly fighting for the right to exist.

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I typed up some theological analysis of Elon Musk and theodicy, meritocracy, and the Prosperity Gospel, then I deleted it because I’ve wasted too much of my time and thought and energy on him. It was a decent rant, but he’s not worth it. No more theory-laden think pieces. Fuck him.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Yes, there’s a coup on. Yes, that’s terrifying. But it ISN’T inevitable. Musk/Trump isn’t Thanos snapping his fingers. And anyway, Thanos lost in the end.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

It’s getting mean out there. And I now know how, if not when, I’m going to die. I’ll be run over by some giant quad cab pickup truck going 90mph flying a Trump flag, driven by an angry middle aged white man wielding a gun.

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Looks like I picked the right time to stop eating eggs...

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As the parent of a trans youth, as defeats pile up, it is difficult maintain hope. It is difficult to be optimistic. It is easy to fall into despair. And that’s fine. There is no right or wrong way to feel.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely true. Which, alas, doesn’t make them any less dangerous.

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