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Kind of wild that the New York Times has more sympathy for an influencer who posted child porn than it does for trans children who want to be left alone.

insane

The speed with which the mainstream institutions and load bearing media orgs have folded is unbelievable. If there is a chance for libs to control them again in the future, they should be treated as what they are: dogs that have to know their place. This is the language they love and understand.

a good thing to ask yourself when pursuing a broad political strategy is “would this have prevented the civil rights movement?”

This post roars from the depths of my mind anytime I see bioshock infinite get mentioned

man

At the end of 4 years of republican austerity (if there are elections, if democrats win), the dems will maintain 100% of the republican austerity and propose more austerity in the face of the massive deficit the republicans leave behind. Everything will be worse forever

i shit you not, i just looked this up: Twitch Plays Pokemon got the second badge in about 50 hours

to really cap off all the pseudoscience and contradictions in the current administration i think department of agriculture needs to start promoting lysenkoism sometime soon

shame there's no lesson to be learned from this happening multiple times through multiple administrations but media protects them because they're afeared of losing "access"

i let my son punch me in the head and i tell him the day you can kill me in one blow is the day you officially become a Teen

Republican support for gay marriage has fallen to 41%. For those in the LGBTQ+ community who do not believe they are coming after gay marriage next after their draconian anti-trans restrictions, you're in for a surprise - we are all in this together.

If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade

The thing so wild about all these “The democrats need to adopt a more centrist position on trans rights” is that it’s what they’re already doing? Last election saw a bunch of leftist candidates run “haha I don’t actually support trans people in sports” publicity things and they ended up losing

The HHS is now telling medical centers to adhere to their latest sham report on transgender healthcare which literally says is not a treatment guideline. They’re sending this letter to hospitals in blue states and threatening them unless they stop trans care. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/05/...

How do famous right-wing influencers actually poll with young men in 2025? Rogan: 27% favorable, 35% unfavorable, 45% don't know/never heard of Theo Von: 21% fav, 16% unfav, 55% dk Andrew Tate: 12% fav, 47% unfav, 36% dk Source: iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/5...

i don't think we fully appreciate how funny the outcome of this is going to be

You hear so much garbage about how "oh they should respect the law and immigrate legally" www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

People are being disappeared regularly now and the likely truth is that far more people are being disappeared than we realize, with only a few cases being "lucky" enough to get any attention or noticed.

This is such an enormous fucking betrayal

it's a coup against the Constitution. A way you can tell that it's that is that the first things they seized were GSA, the treasury's payments system and the US Marshalls service (the door keys, paychecks and building security, respectively, for federal facilities)

I would rather err on the side of being occasionally ripped off for like $25 than assume that every refugee from a genocide my government is inflicting is lying

One of the most perplexing things for me is how politicians talk up AI without any potential public upside Like, even if it worked right, no jobs created, no public good is generated

Thinking about the children whose families were subject to police raids because they had pirated the wrong songs

I'm not a tulpa, I promise

Our message to London 👇🏻

the deportations are not final. the regime and security forces fuck up constantly. escape and survival are not just possible but probable. this nightmare engine can be fought and is being fought. don't forget.

I've never seen it so well put before.

sigh. you might want this

“they are *withheld* from us because we’re trans” is unfortunately succinct and correct.

An underrated horseshoe dynamic that shapes a lot of US political.cultural discourse is that seething, inchoate resentment aimed at this mental image unifies both the entire right-wing political-media infrastructure AND the heights of prestige left/liberal media and intelligentsia.

they are trying to outlaw being transgender in this country and this is just the first step. they were never going to stop at sports. they weren’t going to stop at bathrooms. they want a trans genocide. it is so important to spread awareness of this

if the democratic party wasn’t a gerontocracy this would have failed. gerry connelly staying in office til he died allowed this to pass. this is echoes of RBG not retiring. when will democrats fucking learn

there's going to be legislation introduced based on this shooting almost immediately

I have said for years that polite, ostensibly supportive liberals quietly think in private that transition is a lifestyle choice, not medicine - a nice to have, ultimately boutique luxury that must be shelved during hard times. and they're going to shrug sadly and tell us that these are hard times.

one of the strangest phenomenons in political commentary over the last decade is people treating trump purely as an epiphenomenon of liberal discourse norms they don't like foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/09/p...