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CNN: Do you think Democrats over 80 in Congress should retire? MAMDANI: I think it's time for a new generation of leadership.

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Viktor Orban banned pride events in Hungary, the people took it as a challenge and just had the largest pride march in their country's history.

submitted 1 hour ago • 50 comments

the lander/mamdani partnership is fantastic because lander has that hater's spirit that zohran isn't allowed to bust out, every public-facing nice person needs a mean bud

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gillibrand needs to resign

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Can't get enough of these videos of Peter Thiel being asked by a friendly interviewer to "just say you're not the antichrist, out loud" followed by Thiel making various deep sea creature noises for 30 seconds before going "it's uh it's uh it's uh there are a lot of declensions here, interestingly,"

submitted 1 hour ago • 42 comments

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

submitted 1 hour ago • 45 comments

but what do you really think brad lander hellgatenyc.com/brad-lander-...

submitted 2 hours ago • 28 comments

Thanks to recent advancements, wind and solar families are becoming more feasible and sustainable.

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

Possibly my favorite summation of Pride

submitted 21 hours ago • 11 comments

it's wild just how dumb these rich guys always are, how little they know about absolutely anything, how their ideas never got past "stoned college freshman" and yet how they have the most power and influence in our society

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.

submitted 1 day ago • 96 comments

eleven years ago, after the seventeen-year-old leelah alcorn stepped in front of an oncoming trailer on ohio I-71, her state mobilized around and achieved some of america's first bans on anti-transgender conversion therapy. we have regressed very far.

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A very scary bill just passed in Ohio for transgender folks. No one but local LGBTQ+ orgs are talking about it. First, Ohio is only recognizing sex assigned at birth, male or female. You can get in trouble for stating otherwise on documents, I imagine. I may need to change my state ID back. 1/5

submitted 21 hours ago • 35 comments

Solidarity with the record-breaking number of people who will attend Budapest Pride today despite (or perhaps because of) Viktor Orbán's attempts to ban it and punish those who attend. The fascists cannot and will not erase queer people from existence. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

We should take it away from them, in my opinion.

submitted 6 hours ago • 37 comments

"I was hungry to read, hungry to know, hungry for what these old magazines had inside them—the art, the interviews, the poems, the stories, but also the sense of a literary magazine as a kind of cabaret on the page..." @alexanderchee.bsky.social querent.substack.com/p/how-do-you...

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As big as the Mamdani win is, Landers ascent is in some ways even more significant for the national Democratic Party. Most Dem electeds know that they don't have what Zohran has. But most can at least imagine themselves as a Lander.

submitted 6 hours ago • 85 comments

"We are also urging concerned community members to flood the SF ICE field office [1-415-365-8800] and Mesa Verde ICE detention center [1-888-351-4024] with calls"

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

people: mamdani is going to turn NYC into a theocracy!!!! SCOTUS: it's ok if ur religion thinks being gay is evil and don't want ur kids to read about it in school

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

Hi hello are we promoting our queer poly anticapitalist fantasy books on here?

submitted 45 days ago • 3 comments

basically everything american christians accuse muslims of is projection. it has nothing to do with any of the muslim people that exist or any religious teachings or principles they have at all. it is completely fucked that muslim people have to deal with it

submitted 23 hours ago • 7 comments

My used copy of Macho Sluts by Pat Califia was, I think, 50 dollars :/

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Yes, this is bad for porn. But porn famously has no clear legal definition. As such: This is a direct path to censoring anything the GOP wants to censor and can argue is “adult” - info on birth control, queer identity, anything about trans people or gender diversity or safe sex or HIV or drag or

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

What you have to understand is that book bans are a classic case of survivorship bias. Some survive, yes. But only if they're lucky OR prepared. If all of the copies of a book are destroyed, it. is. gone. And you won't know what you've lost. It'll be absent.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

"theocracy" his mother isn't even muslim the guy is literally from a more multifaith background than like 90% of Americans what are we even doing here anymore

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

As a queer author, thank you for buying our gay books in response to the challenges and bans and court decisions, but I implore you to go stand up for your public libraries and schools—they’re our greatest advocates, and they’re kind of the main target of this whole effort.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The difference between this and Nazi propaganda against Jews is that this is AI-generated.

submitted 1 day ago • 242 comments

she should resign straightforwardly, she did not "misspeak", she went on a racist rant about how a Muslim mayoral candidate is a terrorist, under an administration that is floating words like "denaturalization" and she's a Democrat? absolute dereliction of duty resign

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

if mamdani has to answer every conceivable question about everything ever said at a pro-palestine demonstration, journalists are obligated to ask every christian politician if they think jews and muslims are going to hell

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NEW VIDEO ALERT & GIVEAWAY! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about A NECESSARY CHAOS by @brentclambert.bsky.social. Guy on guy magical spy vs. spy, this novella is smart, sexy, powerful & political, an absolute fave this year. Our drink, Azul & Crown, is a highball for any night, out or in.

submitted 571 days ago • 1 comment

if constitutional rights only apply to individuals or states that have sued for relief, you don't actually have constitutional _rights_, you have _privileges_ that can sometimes (but not always) be secured for you by your lawyer

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Supremes say parents can opt out of letting their kids listen to LGBTQ stories. Can parents similarly opt out of kids listening to stories that DON'T have LGBTQ themes or incidents? 🤣

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There isn't an opposition party at the Federal level to address what needs to happen with the Fed and Supreme Courts. I think folks should be honest about that. But we have A LOT MORE SWAY at the state and local levels. That's where I am putting my emphasis.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Love to see a Pride sweepstakes without any MM books. Really makes me optimistic about selling books in SFF space. Love it.

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one of the projects of the court is to expand the ability of states to pursue reactionary ends and constrain the ability of the federal government to set minimum standards or of democratic-led states to expand upon existing rights

submitted 2 days ago • 178 comments

One weekend of Pride month left; the perfect time for a novella! Here's a stack of some of my faves from recent years, from sapphic mysteries on Jupiter, to wild wests of dragons and Devil hounds, from the hollers of Kentucky to the ends of time and space. The realm of the fantastic belongs to US!

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white woman who read EAT, PRAY, LOVE six times: we need stronger borders

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the way calling for the deportation of any visible non-white person is rapidly becoming normalized is a huge cause for concern.

submitted 1 day ago • 137 comments

let this sink in: the insider trading corpses, epstein flight log entries, and legally dead used car salesmen who “lead” the “democratic” “party” prefer the scandal ridden incumbent with 10% approval to the dynamic, handsome, coalition-building dynamo who mobilized and inspired and won THEIR primary

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A much better ten year retrospective on obergefell, with the man himself

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Best discovery of the last week: there’s finally, all these years later, an audiobook option for the much-beloved Doctrine of Labyrinths series

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