The time has come to disobey. 🔴⚪🔵
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Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.
Meanwhile journalistic due diligence should've compelled anyone in that presser to ask him why he looks that hellish.
Thank you for saying the ghastly thing that people forget. Prosperity and stability has made everyone forget the ghastly stuff.
I thought the fear was he was a winner? Anyway, except Obama the 2nd time I've never been delighted with the available choice, and I've never voted wrong except for Fetterman. We live in a fucking society
Yes, I knew you couldn't understand.
poised to make jk rowling tons of money and further normalize terfdom. You don't realize this yet, but that is more harmful than letting a slick politician have his 15 minutes.
That shit is 3 or infinity years away. No one should be choosing their candidate now. The people or bots trying to ensure a kibosh on this guy now are putting energy and effort into something that can only hurt democracy in general right now. Meanwhile a whole new production of Harry Potter is
In 3 years?
Yop. Gets unfunnier by the year
This only makes sense as chatbot stuff. I don't understand why, though. Create an asshole argument and then counter the argument via some random commenter who didn't even weigh in on the argument/counter-argument? Is it just to flood bluesky (keyword trans/Newsom) with a volume of useless chatter?
Color me silly if you want but I don't understand where I was "shaming" and "insulting" anyone. Do you mean because I said criticism that's not constructive is only whining? If I've shamed and insulted people who do this, then that's quite ok. Let them sit and think about using criticism for good.
I don't think he has the admiration or growing support that the left fear. He's just doing things right now that SERVE us pro-democracy types. Cutting him down does not serve us. And we give all this oxygen to him and his anti-trans nonsense, while leaving our weakling reps in congress alone.
Cancel, essentially banish from the public sphere, from general approval anyway. In the case of a politician, end their political future. Of course opposing Newsom is not about purity testing, bc there's not even a pretense of him being with the left, or being a nonslithery politician.
Who are you even talking to?
So you think people aren't tolerating criticism of Newsom, and it seems you're aware of people not tolerating defending Newsom. Do you see you've got a problem here? If you don't use criticism constructively then you're just whining and poisoning the well.
But what's your evidence people think he's it? People praising him for mocking trmp and calling out that he's trying to rig the next election? And for doing redistricting i CA, of course. Can he continue his term as governor and keep taking helpful steps and just be ”not it"?
"we have three years" but "this is the time"? Do you not hear the contradiction in this??
Exactly. If you don't use ctiticism *constructively* you're just whining and, in the case of our great national nightmare, poisoning the well.
He's not even 50% pure, no one is purity testing him. Instead they're canceling him preemptively for fear he'd be the '28 pres candidate. Problem with that is he's the current gov of our largest [blue] state AND he's showing up the maga cultness like no one else. Why kill him off while he's useful?
What if we get to know when it happens because he covfefes again?
Nature gives us the false impression we can achieve perfection too.
And it turns out you can become a miserable bastard just by actually being in misery. Who knew?
Who will get through to them, when reality is this implausible? Someone could, but I don't see the will to do it yet.
But they *don't It's a callout, right? Or do you want to make it prophecy?
I knew I wouldn't enjoy edging.
I mean those wires are probably fios or xfinity.
(yes Moyamensing, like you already said)
There's a metaphor here somewhere, or maybe it's just a cruel irony. Lovingly installed brick sidewalk, and the house now blighted.
Hope the neighbors aren't too reliant on internet service. Moyamensing?
Tamarind!
NO!! Tamarind only.
I want to know what the pied piper people on silicon valley saw
Shutty.
She was not meant to be found
But there's a whole other dimension to it that's not just money. We let them stop a Democratic president from appointing a supreme court justice. It happened in slow motion, we knew they were doing it, we were outraged, and we did nothing.
You're a celebrity, can you disseminate among the illuminati that henceforth it's to be called "AI graphix"? (I put the x to make it sexy)
You make the USA a third-world country, and the world is truly your oyster
I have the optimism that accompanies a decent sense of doubt. They cannot succeed, they will never get this fully insane thing that they want. But (a) "working" toward it is enjoyable to them, and (b) they could kill so many people and institutions before they fail. That's where my hope is weak. 😔
The thing that never occurred to me before about so-called developing nations is, they're kind of wonderful for the ones at the top. Only sociopathic, fascist scum could ever even bring that thought into focus. It's probably part of why people don't see what's going on. Literally can't *see* it.
You need to click "Details" on the event page
I don't understand why the pharma companies are tolerating this. Covid vax has been a blue-chip seller that they have counted on for years now. And they were still spending a lot to develop and trial combo vaccines. (To actually *increase* vax uptake.)
Oh to be 40 again and be able to get all the references!
The end of summer is nearly a month away
But they're politicians. They at least avoid what is unpopular. Or lie to prevent people knowing about what they did. Any ideas why she'd do this?
I should've been more creeped out by this than I was back then.
Marvine? 11th? It looks so familiar.
All yellow flowers are exempted, that's just a rule.
And I don't know why I feel the need to say this but I already resisted temptation twice: begonias, what are they good for? They're creepy, all pale and stuff. I don't get why people go out of their way for them.
You mean you found some begonias today? Also, it doesn't seem like low variety(??) at all lately.
Fuck.
Oh, they're humiliating them. Interesting. I guess bc they don't have parent companies who can turn the screws on them and force them to pay up and signal submission a different way? Equal parts fascinating and stomach flipping.
All the booky types are showing their secret fanship today. And I love it.
good game
😑 It was right there, and I missed it.
You're pointing out their financial backers are corp interests. Just like most Dems and all Republicans. I doubt they're any more sketch than those usual suspects, and they do bill themselves as centrists and including repubs. Regardless, it does not mean their argument is not in good faith. Sorry.
Quiet, man!!
Your English teacher and your gym teacher!
One of the all-time-best lines about an artist's real-life love
An @afm-union.bsky.social and @sagaftra.org gal. An NFLPA guy. We love a union love story. Congrats Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce!
From your travels abroad
Also even if a magic wand gets waved, the one thing I don't see ever being undone is the fare increase. Though I'd be fine with it staying as long as they expand income-based subsidized fares for those who need it. Come to think of it, seniors ride Septa for free, no matter their income. 🤔
I thought that had to be a line from this song, but nope! Still, it's a remarkable one. m.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ04...
I do like "rfk the lesser" but I wish everyone would just call him "Robert Kennedy". And call doge "doggie". And the president an irredeemable sexual abuser of children.
I don't need to read any more of this. It's not constructive to be locked into these odd views and see even more persecution than actually exists, which is already plenty. I hope there aren't many people who actually think this way. Good luck with processing this stuff.
I'll accept "wrong", that's just difference of opinion. I happen to think she's right. But people are calling her a traitor, and that one is hateful and I see no evidence for it.
You think Sarah is conceding that a trans person shouldn't get to live freely, including in school, with their healthcare, etc bc bigots aren't ready? I believe what she's conceding is some things that trans people need have to be explicitly protected in law and we can't pass those all on our own.
"allowing bans on medical transition" Who is "allowing* them? Embodying defiance in your speech and actions does not automatically translate into the result you want.
it's proven to be not the right PR. We can say we don't care if they like it, but look at the consequences of them not liking it. I don't think changing the approach means anyone having to mute themselves in any way. It's simply acknowledging we can't make/ expect people to agree with us.
I've always loved "we're here, we're [queer/trans], get used to it" bc of how it feels to be the ones who profess it and how it feels to be the ones who support it, and also how it feels satisfyingly defiant when bigots have to hear it. Sarah is saying given that our society/electorate is x% bigot,
Of course she has motivations, like anyone but a maga zombie does. She has expressed what motivates her, and very eloquently and movingly. So I believe her.
It would be better if you read it again and summarized each of her comments briefly, without editorializing, catastrophizing. You can still disagree and not like it, but you need to be able to understand what she's actually saying.
I mean you deciding what is motivating her is something you think you can do because you don't view her as a person.
You don't understand what she's saying.
I've seen zero liberals doing that. Newsom is an extreme of slick politician and people know it. Contrast him with Buttigieg, who's also on the outs over trans issues. People trust him and could be swayed by him. Newsom doesn't sway, only gives permission. To the kind of people waiting for that.
Correct, she did not.
Her motivation must be what you say it is. That's what you can figure when you don't consider someone a person.
No one else in power is doing anything to oppose maga forces. I have no need to feel warm and fuzzy about him just bc I'm glad he's shaking things up. Hopefully it spurs others on and he can then recede. Even before his little podcasting stint he was not going to be accepted by the left.
We should not really give a fuck what he says. Including about homeless issues and enabling white supremacism. He's not dangerous as a thought leader and prob not as an eventual candidate for the democratic pres nomination. He will not be cemented for that 3 years out just bc we tolerate him now.
I'm not defending Third Way, they are centrists. I'm defending the concept of reconsidering how we interact with centrists about trans issues. I do defend Sarah bc she's person and a fellow Delaware native and I know she is not saying or being what her supposed trans siblings say she is.
I didn't do any of that. I told this person or bot they're bad at understanding motivations, based on how they've intepreted some people's. They asked about me to decide if I'm a self-hating trans person or a trans-hating cis person, and I'm neither so I'm helping them to avoid misinterpretation.
We can't surrender rights. Why do you say I think we should?
General strike, or general outdoor dance party. I'm dead serious, it could work!
You can say it, he's a cutie!
Beep boop
Now it's called the 4!
I'm just here to collect data
Then I guess you just chant in unison on here for sport.
Then I'm glad the only fire left for them to put out is some account who nobody follows and is either trans or cis, or human or bot, and who has nothing but berserk things to say.
It is a terrifically easy question, yes. I don't understand why all the glomming on to a commenter who's got basically no followers. I know keywords are meant to activate this stuff, and Sarah I guess was a keyword. But how many *people* could even be seeing this thread? Isn't it kind of a waste?
I'm not talking about me, so how could it be relevant whether I personally am trans or cis? What could they possibly be noodling on that would hinge on knowing about my identity?
Does trans people still include Sarah McBride?
Wasn't replying to you
Because you are so good at figuring out people's motivations?
No, I hope we get a vote in 3 years and I hope Newsom won't be our only choice.
Seems more likely than my being ok with trans people dying, as you say.
Starting with Sarah, right?
Straight up
What's stroke? What's 911? Clifford, do you hear that? I don't understand what's going on!
And you said tough shit, grow a pair, and be what I expect of you, or I will shit on your reputation and join others in shitting on it so we can make it impossible for you to be reelected, thus removing any need for that fucker's bathroom ban of 1. It's clever but it's evil. Fucking quisling.
Well she had the same enemy all trans people have, and now she has self-centered trans or trans-allied people as an enemy. She was a young person on a nerve-racking first day of an important job and she was reminded by her coworkers that the genitalia she was born with matters more than who she is.