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"The first guest on Gavin Newsom's podcast was Charlie Kirk" is more than enough for me to say "absolutely not" to any suggestion Newsom play any role in the future of the Democratic Party. People like him are the past, the failures, the ones who got us here.

submitted 11 hours ago • 398 comments

The Parent Company is Brown-Forman Corporation, they make Jack Daniel's, Old Forester, Woodford Reserve, GlenDronach, BenRiach, Glenglassaugh, Gerradura, Korbel, and Chambord.

submitted 13 hours ago • 5 comments

Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used transgenic (genetically modified) mice.

submitted 15 hours ago • 672 comments

Every time you see what sounds like a wild claim about woke research, you can assume a) it will fall apart under the most basic of inspection, b) the person making the claim will never be held accountable for lying, and c) it is a cover to gut useful research that we benefit from.

submitted 14 hours ago • 71 comments

Every time a career lawyer is pushed out, you can assume they were told to do something illegal.

submitted 19 hours ago • 64 comments

Hang this in the Louvre

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

If you're wondering why you haven't seen more organized disruptive action from Democrats at the speech tonight, I've heard from multiple people on Capitol Hill that House Dem leadership actively organized against any strong actions tonight. They are leading, but in the wrong direction.

submitted 1 day ago • 473 comments

the good thing about being an American ought to be NOT respecting anyone who tries to rule you refer to the Virginia state flag for more information on this topic

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Sitting there with your little paddles and not leaving or interrupting this bullshit only grants it the veneer of normalcy. This isn’t normal. And if you value decorum over the lives of trans people, over the destruction of democracy, go find another job. We don’t need you.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."

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Reuters: USG "workers with top security clearances fired in mass layoffs overseen by Elon Musk ... were not given standard exit briefings and advised on what to do if approached by foreign adversaries" CNN: "US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees"

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Also, money received through the app is witheld from the creator for 75 DAYS. So not only are you as a member being charged extra, the creator has to wait 2.5 months to get it. It's bad for everyone. Sub through the mobile site or desktop!

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

A Spanish city has honoured two Senegalese migrants for their heroism in trying to save a gay man beaten to death by a homophobic mob. The men were the only ones to intervene in July 2021, when Samuel Luiz was set upon by a group of men and kicked and punched outside a nightclub in A Coruña.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Meanwhile in West Hollywood, a trans woman was attacked by a transphobic Amazon driver today. She filmed it. West Hollywood sheriffs arrived and arrested her. She is being held on $30,000 bail for a misdemeanor.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

📣 The case to support Annie Jump Vicente (she/her) of West Hollywood, CA. A lead organizer for @transrescueaction.bsky.social, a non profit that relocates trans refugees from Red states to SoCal, was arrested after being hate crimed outside her home in West Hollywood, CA three days ago.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Special place in Hell (where all transphobes go) for people who are such pussies they can’t be transphobes with their whole chest and instead go “no, it’s Those People who hate t-slurs”

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

just wanna remind people that the person who snitched on luigi got none of the promised reward because of random technicalities. you have nothing to gain by being a rat.

submitted 2 days ago • 102 comments

I actually think the dems should attend the SOTU, wait till the 2nd sentence, and then walk out en masse, that'll do it, there'll be no address, he'll just have a meltdown on national Tv

submitted 2 days ago • 849 comments

For years the right dismissed the claim that Trump does Putin’s bidding as conspiratorial derangement. Zelensky didn’t disrespect the U.S. He didn’t disrespect Trump. He’s losing his aid for disrespecting Putin, the man slaughtering his people, which Trump and Vance took as a personal affront.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

They're so mad that they couldn't pass a trans sports ban through congress y'all.

submitted 2 days ago • 97 comments

There's a lot of nonsense here, but I'll just comment on the claim that education should focus on "patriotism in American history" feels pretty dictator-y.

submitted 2 days ago • 64 comments

Oh yeah that happened. I think it was a bot that autosuspended me too.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

If you want to support someone on Patreon, make sure Apple doesn't steal your money! Subscribe on the website, not on the app.

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

ONTARIO'S FORD DETAILS PLAN TO RETALIATE TO US TARIFFS ONTARIO WILL STOP NICKEL SHIPMENTS GOING INTO US: PREMIER FORD

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Trump must have decided that he hasn’t done enough to help the Canadian Liberal Party…

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ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

submitted 3 days ago • 221 comments

Right, so, let’s be clear what’s going on here. A handful of shameless hacks are hoping to cozy up to power by putting an academic gloss on Trump’s crackpot notions. This allows political actors to pretend the plain meaning of the Birthright Citizenship Clause is fiercely contested by legal scholars

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

Even if you're a raging TERF, even if you don't care about Trans people, even if you don't think Trans ppl should be allowed to play in leagues appropriate to their gender, S9 should concern you. Do you really want Cis kids being subjected to a genital check because they don't "look" Cis enough?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I will go to my deathbed reminding people there is a Museum of Slavery in England, it's just in Liverpool so no one left wing media spaces has ever been

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

it would be great if we had a democratic party willing to go out and say “this is an insane lie to get you to irrationally hate a minority group trying to just exist peacefully” rather than start throwing us under the bus and twiddling their thumbs

submitted 2 days ago • 131 comments

Their capacity to just flat out lie is matched only by the capacity of dupes to accept it.

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

we've reached the point that the WSJ opinion section is publishing pieces with headlines like this, just saying

submitted 2 days ago • 129 comments

1. The far right is falsely spreading that a new study shows that surgery "doubles depression" for transgender people. This is an egregious misreading of the study, which does not look at transgender people before and after surgery. Subscribe to support my journalism. Lets dig in.

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1. Happening now, the United States Senate is considering S9, a bill that would ban transgender people from playing sports of their gender identity from chess to darts and everything in between. It could result in genital exams and more. I'm covering live. Watch: www.senate.gov/legislative/...

submitted 2 days ago • 286 comments

Oh ffs. Yo! THIS PERSON IS NOT A FED EMPLOYEE! They may luv Nat’l Parks & selling their related merch, & that’s fine. What’s not fucking fine is blatantly misrep’ing oneself as a NPS employee FOR YEARS (during Trump terms) to hock stickers & t-shirts by exploiting the plight of other people…

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

I mean I'm not surprised this happened, but really sucks we can't trust the CDC now.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Unconfirmed but federal sources telling me that everyone at 18F, the digital services agency in GSA singled out by Musk and right wing activists for having openly inclusive policies and employing LGBTQ workers and people of color, has been given an RIF layoff notice as of midnight EST. Awful.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." - Hannah Arendt

submitted 5 days ago • 97 comments

THIS is why Democratic leaders must be replaced sooner rather than later. 9:42 AM: Amy Klobuchar posts a photo with Lindsey Graham bragging about her "bipartisan meeting" and how they "stand with Ukraine" 1:40 PM: Lindsey Graham is on Fox News "trashing Zelenskyy and praising Trump and Vance"

submitted 5 days ago • 278 comments

When John Bolton thinks you’ve fucked up foreign relations, you’ve really hit a new low that nobody has ever experienced before.

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This is a First Amendment question combined with a practical question. The answer is as follows. First, the First Amendment protects advocating the moral and practical necessity of breaking the law in the abstract. /1

submitted 5 days ago • 66 comments