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Thank you. Wtf is a "trans-identified male?" So many people just don't have any idea what a trans woman (or trans man for that matter) *is.* This weird made-up terminology just makes it worse. Ignorant people making stupid comments about shit they don't understand. And doing actual damage.
/3 Also, it should be obvious, but in case not: this illustrates that the aims of the anti-trans movement are legitimizing violence against trans people as well as against anyone who doesnāt present like Bobby and Cindy Brady.
The UKās approach to prosecutions for social media content is quite different than ours in ways I have criticized. This one is within shouting distance of prosecutable in the U.S. The relevant question is whether itās sufficiently imminent to meet our incitement standard./1
No one, and I mean no one is going to prefer living in Alafreakingbama over Colorado. I shall resume praying for tornadoes.
That's what the fucking Nazis said. Didn't save them, either.
Kid3 went to her first frat party and pronounced it the most disgusting thing she had ever seen. Sheās got a good head on her shoulders.
Robert is Correct......
i wish brands would include more technical information in their product descriptions. i don't need to know this was inspired by timeless italian men summering in nantucket who could dress up or down. i want to know the fabric weight, leather tanning method, seam construction, etc.
I heard theyāre still struggling to get the president to master the line āputting on the ritz!ā
LOL this is SO EMBARRASSING.
Democratic officials of a certain age: Follow Rep. Nadlerās example. He is a legend. And now heās doing whatās right for the nation and the party, leaving at the top of his game, letting younger members lead.
B O O K S
Its always a white person hollering "This isnt a race issue"
The Soothingly Blue Ridge Mountains
So we're just going to invade Venezuela with no public debate and carry on with our lives like normal? Is that the idea?
We nonhuman animals have heard that you claim superiority & dominance because you have a highly developed capacity for critical thinking, empathy & moral reasoning. Weāre just wondering when you might start using these faculties? We are #OneBillionScreams We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
I'm giving a talk in one exactly week's time. QR for Zoom info. It's 15:00 NZ time, that's like a west coast tip off for EST people.
Produce the bodies, be they alive or dead.
Canadian COVID Forecast Aug 30 - Sep 12 2025 CANADA High [No change] About 1 in 65 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected. Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~7.2 higher -Long COVID ~7.7 higher -Hospitalizations ~10.7 higher -Deaths ~10.9 higher
This brings joy!
Chile is one of the safest places for LGBTQ+ to reside. They have some of the worlds strongest anti discrimination laws. Green Day plays Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen right before they hit the stage. Here are 50,000 Chileans losing their shit this past weekend. #HumanRights #Chile #MusicSky
And yet, the police seem to ve doing fine.
the largest city in the wealthiest nation in human history canāt pay their paramedics enough to keep them from killing themselves.
I used to read books like Lord of the Rings or watch movies like Star Wars and think the villains were unbelievable. And of course, now watching the tech oligarchs (who could not spend all their money if they tried) destroy civilization for power, Iām like, guess I was wrong. People are that awful.
I donāt care if heās alive or not. We need to treat him like heās dead and move onto the scandal that JD clearly poisoned him.
"That is why I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it." Yes, there is a difference.
āRather than defending civil liberties and civil protections, youāre turned inward to potentially hinder [them].ā In June, we sat down with a veteran and military law expert to discuss ābeing used against your neighborā as a soldier.
As Congress returns this week, so does the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein as well as President Donald Trumpās inevitable pushback. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Whatās nobody talking about? That the path weāre accelerating along will see us reach 2C well before 2050 which - according to professional risk assessors - will kill more than 2 BILLION people.
Unfortunately, much like Dune, Frankenstein is one of those books that people claim they have read because they think watching one of the adaptations counts as reading the book. It doesn't. There is so much nuance in those books that are glossed over in the adaptations that NEEDS to be experienced
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: ā¢admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states ā¢abolish ICE ā¢grant citizenship to any immigrant ā¢disband the 5th Circuit ā¢expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
Just an observation here, but I couldn't help but notice that, even though we've all seen that orange shitstain sundowning for a long-ass time, the speed of his decline really picked up after Camille Zapata began her campaign of absolute deadass bangers.
Epstein Survivors Press Conference Sept 3rd, 10:30 a.m. ET Tune in to support them.
The US military will conduct a flyover of the White House and wider DC at 11am tomorrow (Wednesday). Epsteinās victims will be holding a press conference on Capitol Hill around the same time.
Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...
šØBREAKING: Federal court STRIKES DOWN down new South Dakota law imposing a nine-month deadline to file ballot measures declaring it unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Congrats to Dakotans for Health and their legal team! www.democracydocket.com/cases/south-...
Alabama townās first Black mayor, Patrick Braxton, who had been locked out of office, wins election!! The first Black mayor of a tiny Alabama town has overwhelmingly won an election, four years after residents locked him out of the town hall & refused to let him serve. www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/u...
Save this one for when the news break out ;)
R E S I S T A N C E
As we begin September, Democracy Docket is tracking 139 voting and election cases is 40 states. 13 in Georgia 13 in North Carolina 10 in Texas 9 in Arizona 8 in Pennsylvania 8 in Wisconsin Democracy is on the docket! www.democracydocket.com
SPOTTED: Mobile billboards driving around D.C. demanding federal agents take their masks off ā because public servants should face the public. Go follow @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social!
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie has filed a discharge petition to force the disclosure of Justice Department investigative files related to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
When Susan Collins was sworn in for the job she still has as U.S. Senator, the World Wide Web was less than five and a half years old. Netflix hadnāt been founded yet. And Maxwell Frost, the youngest Member of Congress, wouldnāt be born for another two weeks.
A Democratic super PAC is launching a $700,000 digital ad blitz slamming Susan Collins for opposing a bipartisan bill that would ban members of Congress from trading stocks. This ad accuses Collins of āthe worst kind of greedā¦ using insider information to trade stocks.ā Please WATCH and SHARE. š
Is this the largest transfer of wealth they keep talking about?
Another protest in Washington, D.C.!!! Women dressed in red lined the street for almost a block!! What a strong statement by women who took time off to protest on a Tuesday!! Thank you so much!! š
I re read this. It is "up to" 600 meaning more than 600 exist.
Pentagon Space Command Joni Ernst
Pentagon Space Command
The military has 600 lawyers??
Things that make you go hmmmm.
A federal judge has declared President Donald Trumpās use of military troops in Los Angeles illegal, barring the Pentagon from using National Guard members and Marines from performing police functions, like arrests and crowd control.
š±BEWARE. More at play here. These "lawyers" will be put in play in 26 and 28 elections. apnews.com/article/pent... Pentagon authorizes to 600 military lawyers to serve as temp immigration judges š #TuesdayThoughts š³ļøāš #FBR #FBPE #Resistance #StrongerTogether #KindnessMatters #Motivation #Bluecrew
It's being reported that the Pentagon is authorizing military lawyers to serve as immigration judges. This is a threat to the Constitution. Don't say we didn't warn you. From the archives:
Let us be clear: there is no emergency in Chicago that warrants the President of the United States deploying the military. I joined Senators Duckworth and Durbin and 10 Members of Congress from IL to demand that Trump & the Pentagon suspend plans for the deployment of military personnel to Chicago.
Mulch crimes are the worst...
So @wajali.bsky.social and I will watch this address so you don't have to, then we'll go live on Substack right after it's over to discuss it. If it ever starts.
As long as they are making changes now and striving to be better, most folks are redeemable. But if someone is alarmed by your behavior and they come to me and I defend you, even the gods canāt help protect you from my wrath when I find out I was wrong about you.
I donāt think LLM therapists are the answer either and Iām certainly skeptical of this one. Whatās relevant here is that weāre already seeing this widespread harmful usage of chatbots and there are mental health experts thinking about how to reduce the specific risks associated with it
You should try sitting with the stars and the moon about it
Being kind boosts mental health more than seeking joy. Evidence: Doing 3 random acts of kindness a week is enough to reduce depression, anxiety & loneliness. It's more beneficial than doing nice things for yourself. Self-care feels good, but generosity builds lasting bonds.
this is your sign to foster or adopt your own senior babushka today š
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Are they propping up Donald Trump and giving him all the serums to keep him alive for this press conference that hasn't started?
And any and ALL nominees for ANY position should be annulled as well. 3 SCOTUS seats will immediately be available for the next Dem president to fill. And impeach the other 3 MAGA justices. That leaves 6 open seats for the Dem president to fill.
āLIKE A BROKEN RECORDā Now that the @nytimes is reporting Modi and Trump had a falling out over Trumpās lie that he deserves credit for the India-Pakistan ceasefire, we re-submit to you this clip of an Indian anchor calling him out months ago ā even as šŗšø media wouldnāt.
Or itās just the cudgel that they know youāll accept being beaten with to adopt their view.
and a stark contrast to Pritzker in IL, who has spoken eloquently on trans issues, and has passed important pro trans legislation.
caving on trans sports is bad; the really frightening thing is that Newsom seems to think that Charlie Kirk is a reasonable and trusted voice on trans policy, and that he should be one of the people making that policy or weighing in on it.
Yes.
I think in general it's probably better to just say, "I won't vote for this person in the primary" and talk about who you think would do better (Pritzker!)
Newsom could talk to lots of LGBT orgs. instead he turned to a raving homophobe and transphobe.
My guess is that the kids have tried to get their parents to hear them.
š§µSaying it again, this time re: the Nazi at DOJ (bsky.app/profile/emil...) White supremacy depends on male supremacy. In the white supremacist construct, other races are weak AND brutish, wily AND stupid. Someone has to be endangered by that set of characteristicsābut it sure can't be white men!
If you've ever worked in a nation without a functioning public health system, it's unforgettable. In 2001, I spent some time working at the HĆ“pital Albert Schweitzer in Deschapelles, a small town tucked into a rural corner of Haiti, where the public health infrastructure was virtually nonexistent
Florida and Texas made a quiet move that could have huge implications nationwide: They asked to join a lawsuit against the FDA seeking to drastically roll back access to the abortion drug mifepristone. But unlike the states before them, they seek to rescind the drug's approval. Me in @slate.com:
History often rhymes, but sometimesā¦ it just repeats. You can watch the full video about the Haymarket Massacre, the Pullman Strike, and Trumpās attacks on our unions and cities here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EYC...
Last weekend, I retraced the steps of two of the most important moments in American (and Chicago) labor history, starting with the Haymarket Massacre. But the Haymarket Massacre wasnāt just a tragedy. It still provides a compass for us to fight against fascism today:
kind of funny addenda to the āshould libs leave/stay on Xā wars is that no right winger seems to care that the two largest figures of the Republican party, Donald Trump & Elon Musk, run competing social media platforms and each mostly refuse to post on the otherās platform
I'll keep saying it: RFK Jr. is a deadly threat to our public health and safety. He is razing CDC, NIH, and other health agencies to the groundāputting politics and deranged conspiracy theories over science. We need bipartisan oversight immediately, and he must be FIRED.
I'm a 57 year old college educated man. I learned about the Tulsa race massacre from a TV show 6 years ago. Schools have been very selective about the history that is taught. That's just one of the reasons why this matters.
bluesky hasnāt become massive but itās not because weāre an echo chamber, itās because weāre annoying in a ton of other ways and i think thatās beautiful
BRO. THATāS THE BOOK. THATāS LITERALLY THE BOOK. WHAT THE FUCK.
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i like to dress my problems up fancy if theyre going to be with me forever at least they can be pretty
šØRedistricting is back in Missouri ā and politicians are gearing up for a power grab. Join us today at 8 PM CT for Shaping Missouri: A Redistricting Training where weāll cover: ā Whatās happening right now ā Whatās at stake ā How YOU can take action www.mobilize.us/allontheline...
Things feel uncertain right now, Illinois. I want you all to know weāre doing everything we can to protect your rights. Make sure you know how to stand up for yourself and others at illinoisimmigrationinfo.org.
Someone will deface the sign.
The backstory on why/how Cubans first arrived here & how the US rolled out the red carpet is an important one. They're classist and colorist as hell. White/light presenting Cubans despise darker ones & they are angry w/poorer [illegal] immigrant class of Cubans for not coming here "the right way."š
Not sure if they love him or hate Democrats more. Many Cuban-Americans were raised to never trust a Democrat after JFK betrayed them during the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
Man, I feel this. šš½š
occupydemocrats Trump put the National Guard on 29 day orders?! Why does this matter: They don't pay full housing allowance and no health insurance until 30 DAYS. What an abusive Commander in Chief. So Trump.
Yāall, I hit the jackpot on Gavin memes.
Today's my birthday and I'm hoping @realDonaldTrump will send me one of his amazing handcrafted cards with a beautiful Sharpie-drawn woman on it
