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There is nothing more metal than trans rights

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Tulsi Gabbard is firing trans federal employees for "sex chats" that never happened - LGBTQ Nation www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/02/tuls...

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So, USAID trying to stop Ebola outbreaks is an inexcusable waste of tax dollars; NSA employees bonding in forums made for employee bonding is a fireable lapse in judgement; and hey, let’s, as a party in power in all three branches of government, take a moment to Rick Roll the nation would be great.

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Making America Wrong Again. Creating spaces for employees to bond and then using that bonding to punish them is absolutely deplorable. #TheNewCruelty www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-new-mc...

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“It is about prioritizing far-right ideology — and at times celebrating lies and hate speech under the guise of preventing the criminalization of language — while simultaneously trying to silence independent thought, inconvenient truths and voices of dissent.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

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Can you imagine the meltdown if Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden or Kamala Harris were even 1/3rd this narcissistic and deranged?

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Iowans would be free to discriminate based on “gender identity”, marking the first time a state has removed protections from any group of people.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

The Iowa legislature just became the first in modern history to repeal a statutory civil rights law by removing protections for gender identity first passed in 2007. They have legalized discrimination against trans people in housing, healthcare, and employment. This is a campaign of eradication.

submitted 18 hours ago • 48 comments

i also absolutely see fucking red when people are like “obviously the fearmongering about CRT is out of control but i genuinely feel identity politics is wrong and bad” like hey what. hello? are you sure you know what you’re talking about? wanna go double check???

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

that's correct. there are more trans members of the US military than members of militia groups in the US.

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House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

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Pritzker: "We're talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that we've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders."

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The House budget reconciliation framework that cuts $1 trillion from Medicaid has just passed. They are literally taking from the sick and poor to give the rich tax cuts.

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A few points about the silly and unactionable EO that is the source of so many issues surrounding recent State Department moves. 1. At conception, nobody has organs. You are literally a single cell. You produce no gametes, period. 2. Until 6-8 weeks, you only develop undifferentiated gonads.

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Talia Lavin’s book “Culture Warlords” and Michael Kimmel’s book “Angry White Men” are both excellent backdrop to where we are now.

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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

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Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives. Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.

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Either Musk is a genius who understands who is kicking peoples’ lives for personal financial gain, or he is an idiot asshat who is kicking peoples’ lives for fun. The truth probably lies somewhere in between. But, that whole spectrum is undeniably criminal. #TheNewCruelty

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If you have ever wondered why our safety net is so inadequate and so full of cruelties and indignities, it is because of anti-Black racism.

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

Looking through footage of neo-nazi rallies that happened in MA, TX, NH, and IA today, it's clear by sheer volume that they're rapidly rebuilding. Between the pardons, Hegseth and Patel, ending domestic terrorism investigations, OCR targeting antifascists and gutting the FBI.. they feel untouchable.

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Today under the influence of the Trump Admin, the National Park Service has removed all reference to trans people in this essay I WROTE for their webpage in 2020. www.nps.gov/articles/000...

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

Rape apologism is the official stance of the US government. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

I'm begging people to remember that 'meritocracy' was coined for a work of satirical fiction. It is not a real thing, and, as the satire suggested, defining 'merit' as a standalone measurable individual quality is impossible.

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

Cis people love to design systems that break on contact with trans people and then get mad at trans people for existing about it.

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It's just a coincidence, right?

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I have been trying to explain to people for YEARS that America’s rich loved the 19th century boom-and-bust economy of constant crashes. When you’re rich enough, an increase in cost of living is negligible and you can buy up bankrupt property & businesses for pennies on the dollar.

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So fucking angry right now… #TheNewCruelty #StateSanctionedRape

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People with doctorates are the most liberal and progressive. The entire mission of destroying academia is to eliminate entire voting demographics. They explicitly spell this out. Shutting down PhD programs isn't an accident, it's the goal.

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I hope, hope, hope that when push comes to shove (and it really looks like it will) that the military sees their duty to country and people rather than to “King” and gentry. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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Happy Person Must Either Be Stupid Or Evil theonion.com/happy-p...

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Steve Bannon does Nazi Salute During CPAC Speech After Calling for a Third Trump Term. Crowd cheers wildly. MAGA is a FASCIST movement just like the Nazis and Mussolini. The options when confronted by FASCISTS are 1. Submit or 2. Destroy them. I pick option #2. www.mediaite.com/tv/steve-ban...

submitted 7 days ago • 58 comments

As always, Satan could never do anything worse than what humans already do to each other. Satan's just an implementer of what we've already innovated. He gives us what we've thought in our hearts for others.

submitted 6 days ago • 36 comments

Absolutely! There is no legitimate reason a border guard or a phone company or a credit agency needs to know someone’s sexual identity let alone their sex at birth.

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Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

submitted 7 days ago • 1494 comments

I’ve also heard is a feminist.

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They have lost whatever few brain cells they had...

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“You can feel the categories that you fail to inhabit.” — Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology The author was talking about how being born mixed-race is a queer way to begin life. I think it really nails how I think about queerness overall.

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DOGE is not about waste and fraud. This is about gutting government services without any evaluation of their need. Americans have decided to have and fund an effective National Park Service. Trump and Musk are trampling on democracy to do whatever the hell they want.

submitted 7 days ago • 75 comments

People need to understand this: Trump did not leave office willingly the first time. If his health holds up, he will not leave office willingly this time. He is not joking about serving more than two terms.

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