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If anyone claims that the current anti-trans panic was caused in any part by trans people advocating for our human rights, that person is lying through their teeth. The religious right lost on marriage equality, and immediately started going after trans people instead. That's what happened.

submitted 22 days ago • 107 comments

I am nonbinary. The gender that no longer officially exists in the United States. I was offered the chance to change my gender designation to "X" on my passport and driver's license in 2023. I decided not to and here's why.

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

We have to acknowledge the truth about MAGA: “They do not care about fixing anything. They do not care about running the government. They want to set the Constitution on fire, destroy the federal government, and torture and murder their enemies…” [kottke.org]

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

Sarah McBride is cis people's favorite politician because she gives them permission to ignore attacks on trans people. McBride is a doofus.

submitted 31 days ago • 49 comments

THE ARISTOCRATS, but for real

submitted 34 days ago • 15 comments

As a Sociologist, I need to tell you the chaos cascade (200+ exec orders) isn't dysfunction — it's disaster capitalism's playbook. your confusion = their strategy.

submitted 37 days ago • 9 comments

When you want to play a terrible song on the guitar but it’s also really important to accompany it with a horrific wheezing noise.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

We have short memories.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Don't know who said it first but it bears repeating—if you really don't think what Musk repeatedly did was a Nazi salute, please record yourself doing that exact thing and post it across all social media, and make sure your employer sees it. Oh...is that awkward gesture too much now? Interesting.

submitted 38 days ago • 30 comments

www.popehat.com/p/and-yet-it...

submitted 114 days ago • 189 comments

I was told there would be punch and pie.

submitted 189 days ago • 0 comments

Walton Goggins standing over me with his boot firmly planted on my neck, slicing an apple with a switchblade. "Now it seems to me... someone needs to learn their times tables." Neither one of us has any idea what he means in this scenario.

submitted 299 days ago • 27 comments