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I asked a trans person his name for a work thing today, and he asked if I meant his legal name. No. I will never mean your legal name. I mean the name you will scream in the face of God.

submitted 643 days ago • 4 comments

Being angry may feel like a luxury, or like a flash of immaturity escaping from a political pose of unsurprise. But telling our representatives to demand accountability before the law is the least we can do, and asking them to be angry too is at this point just asking them to be identifiably human.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

BREAKING: The USDA has dropped their lawsuit against Maine over its transgender student athletic policies. “I told him I’d see him in court. Well we did see him in court, and we won,” Gov. Janet Mills said. www.pressherald.com/2025/05/02/m...

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“There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.” This is the energy I am trying to encourage people to cultivate instead of “they’ll arrest you next.”

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

seems kind of weird that the vice president of the united states is openly supportive of german neo-nazis!

submitted 1 day ago • 272 comments

Hell yeah! Put this on loop—this wise man speaks for me. 🔥

submitted 1 day ago • 1026 comments

At minimum Democrats should come out and say that any country that collaborates with Trump's foreign kidnapping schemes will have diplomatic relations cut off under the next president

submitted 22 hours ago • 46 comments

watching other anglosphere nations elect uninspiring technocrats

submitted 20 hours ago • 24 comments

Apart from everything else about this, an "anti-boycott law" is such a conceptually insane idea. Making it illegal to not buy things

submitted 22 hours ago • 43 comments

This is literally the Big Pharma conspiracy theory of my lifetime!! That they were suppressing cures because the treatment is more lucrative! Mr. Anti-Big Pharma conspiracy theorist RFK Jr. is literally helping them turn the made-up nefarious scheme real!

submitted 18 hours ago • 6 comments

I want presidential candidates running against trump to say on day 1 they will cancel EVERYTHING he did by executive order.

submitted 19 hours ago • 7 comments

for the people in the driver's seat of the right wing cultural movement, an end to "DEI" always meant doing things like sending free money to a white lady who called a child the n word. sorry if you thought it was about a slightly annoying HR webinar you once had to watch or whatever.

submitted 16 hours ago • 21 comments

If like three years ago the pundit class and democratic politicians had held to this line we wouldn't be where we are today "I don't know what the big deal is."

submitted 2 days ago • 84 comments

As they drag you from your home, beat you, and hurl you into an unmarked van destined for an all expenses paid trip to the death camps, just remember not to get worked up over nothing.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Somehow not @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

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I keep coming back to this pithy 1854 statement by Abraham Lincoln about “the legitimate object of government,” which the Trump administration is undermining by offloading to individuals tasks, including life or death matters, that are more effectively, efficiently and fairly done collectively.

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

any news outlet that treats the HHS “review” on trans care like anything other than a politically motivated document is manipulating anti trans sentiment for clicks they aren’t even making the authors of their “review” public and it was ordered up by fiat, definitionally a political document

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

“Children will be taught not to bully me. Children will be taught that I have a completely normal size and shape of head. Children will be taught not to say I look like if Pinocchio was made by Heinrich Himmler.”

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

Any dem who thinks well-directed ambition is a vice should find a different hobby

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

I don't know what angry noises to make but I'm making them as angrily as I can. Fuck everything about everything about this

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Unions are so important — if they weren’t, the rich wouldn’t constantly be trying to keep you from joining one!

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...

submitted 2 days ago • 571 comments

this thing zack is quoting here is completely deranged

submitted 3 days ago • 365 comments

A couple weeks ago, I wrote that the MAHA movement does not want to eliminate chronic illness- it wants to eliminate the chronically ill. Since then, RFK Jr’s actions and statements have only reinforced my belief that his HHS will target disabled and sick ppl. www.thegauntlet.news/p/rfk-jrs-ma...

submitted 5 days ago • 85 comments

Thank you Greyhound!

submitted 4 days ago • 758 comments

Attending a conference where researchers in my field (studying online misinformation and manipulation) are commiserating over all of our canceled grants, all in service of this: so this man and his regime of propagandists and conspiracy theorists can dictate (un)reality without challenge.

submitted 4 days ago • 70 comments

you know, we research whether the baby stroller has all the features and amenities we like, not whether it will kill the baby

submitted 4 days ago • 163 comments

yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone

submitted 4 days ago • 1170 comments

really can’t be said enough how none of these republicans know a gotdamned thing about anything

submitted 4 days ago • 72 comments

This, from a woman in Oklahoma talking to her local news station, is better than the vast majority of political speeches you'll hear today.

submitted 4 days ago • 107 comments

This is like advertising a lemonade stand and stopping short of saying that offering lemonade will be a priority.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

This is 100% wrong. The point of impeachment is to help the 35% of Americans who don’t know about all the awful stuff happening under Trump to find out. It’s TV. This isn’t complicated or legal or even political. It’s straight out campaign media.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

- He hasn’t accepted that he’s a lame duck - The process, whatever its outcome, is an extended news event that will inform and influence American voters - It would give the Senate Democrats another chance to try making it a real trial of the facts -It’s the only remedy the Constitution affords us

submitted 6 days ago • 161 comments

The default Dem position should be that nothing under Trump is valid. Trump didn't honor his predecessors' agreements. He didn't even honor his own trade agreements. He didn't honor Congressional appropriations. He doesn't follow laws. Clean slate. If you rely on him, your loss.

submitted 7 days ago • 94 comments

If some Republican fascist pig deported my 2-year old, I’m pretty sure I’d become a dangerous person.

submitted 8 days ago • 32 comments

It’s really wild how there is no reason to deport anyone, let alone children and US citizens and LPRs and students and people undergoing cancer treatment etc. it’s all a fake solution to a made up problem enacted by violent racists who are stealing from you

submitted 8 days ago • 39 comments

It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, — to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves. Samuel Adams

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

I'm so used to bar bathrooms with cutesy signs that I had to stop here and ask myself if I was a Mario or a Wario

submitted 21 days ago • 367 comments

Fascism is a lot of things, but at heart it's the political application of being a dumb asshole

submitted 7 days ago • 33 comments

Are we still pretending this is about free speech?

submitted 7 days ago • 300 comments