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I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Have you been paying attention to UK news recently? They are doing most of the same things we are, to the same groups of people, and actively trying to ratchet up worse.
Since Michael turned off replies and quote tweets, like any good journalist seeking the truth would, I'll point out that people like him, Nate Silver, Matt Yglesias, etc. say shit like this as cover for the fact that THEY DO NOT SUPPORT THE POLICY AND THEY WANT IT TO FAIL.
They have to invent shit about "electability" and "polling well" because if they just said they were opposed to the policies we support, they couldn't pretend to be allied with us or pretend we should listen to them for how to best achieve our goals.
(1)🚨ALL EYES ON INDONESIA🚨 It's 0.41. A.M. Local time. First they cut off the power in Kwitang & Senen. Then the snipers came. And now they're using live bullets. Just 3 days ago the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission silenced the journalists to not broadcast the protests.
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lmao Hey why don't you try 'compromising' with the reactionary consensus on your rights and "bridging the divide" on this issue that only affects a minority of the population, you bloviating centrist joke? Ab aa gaya line mein? hahahaha
Like, you're out here arguing for a rather eugenics-rhyming purge of everybody whose behavior doesn't vibe with your vision until you have a docile population to work with in creating utopia, belying the uncertainty of your own assertion that people are all equally and naturally collaborative.
You are conflating the arguments used to prop up capitalism with the argument that some people are born with certain tendencies baked in. What's your plan for managing with those with actual NPD? ASPD? How about the milder and ersatz forms? Do we lock them in jail forever? Throw them off a cliff?
You can't. Removal of one predatory opportunist class changes the relative dynamic and creates new predator opportunist classes. This is just endemic to being human. Even if you succeeded for a generation, more will be born. The only sustainable option is greater public participation in governance.
Vaccine for treating pancreatic cancer shows promise in a clinical trial OMG. This is HUGE flip.it/5wUgBY
My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
"At some point you will feel and express rage, and you will doubtless be right to do so." #transrightsarehumanrights
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Right. They would have to find a way to encourage people who do want to, to have even more.
@pressley.house.gov Spoke at the first ever Boston Labor Day March. It’s the first ever because it’s never been needed before, but the world is different now. “Every year on this day, we come together to break bread, we couldn’t do that this year.” 7/
Ding! None of the policies enacted have addressed the physiological risk burden, compensated women for the value of the labor involved in child rearing, or accounted for the myriad opportunity costs of parenting.
It could be one of any number of topics that are hot right now, most of which are mortifying to consider.
the biggest reason i'm out of US equities and in on foreign treasuries (with a handful of foreign industrials because the US MIC is turbo-fucked long-term).
I think it's one of these three potential items: 1. Invasion of Chicago, as telegraphed 2. Massive crackdown on trans people using the MN shooting as a cover 3. Some dumb tariff bullshit again
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See also Talia Bhatt's "politics of penetration".
No, you would just find out who is the greediest and most megalomaniacal of the remainder.
Let me be clear: I'd like more Democrats to talk about the harm done to trans people under Trump, but I'll accept quiet support. I won't accept any reversal. It's not about preventing what we might lose under the GOP anymore, bc we've already lost too much to bear.
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Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
I mean that literally - no one is discussing the massive loss of rights trans people have experienced throughout the country. When Dems talk about trans women in sports, they're not just giving ground on sports. They're giving ground on everything, bc sports bans were the big issue 3 years ago.
Trans people have been expelled from the military and punished and humiliated throughout. We're fighting in court to retain a right to accurate US Passports. Books mentioning us are banned in classrooms in much of the country. In FL, trans teachers are required by law to misgender themselves.
In some states, as a trans man who passes for male, I'm legally banned from using a men's restroom but practically banned from using a women's. My choice is between breaking the law and being arrested for breaking it. Few Democrats are talking about how much trans people have lost, and how quickly.
Trans people are rapidly losing access to healthcare. It is unobtainable for trans youth in most of the country, and adult care is also under assault by congress and the Trump administration. The only Dems for whom this is a priority are in state office. No national Dem is talking about it.
So, when a Democrat makes their only statement on trans issues about trans women in sports, they are saying that this is their priority on trans issues - not restoring our equality under the law but joining Republicans in eroding it.
We also want healthcare. Like, that's a pretty core one for us and it is also the one that squicks them out the most.
Sure, but there are orders of magnitude more LGB people than trans people and the medical aspect icks people out in more profound ways than mere attraction. These factors are why we are so easy to target and so easy to censor from public life entirely. So what I'm saying...is time isn't enough.
Like, it's the same phony wisdom that brings us sentiments like "you can be gay, just don't act on it."
Well the surgeries are a pretty significant part of it for us, so if he's against the surgeries he's against us as a whole. Inseparable.
Here: www.ncronline.org/news/vatican...
I have to keep looking at these maps to remind myself that my position, as an adult trans person in Massachusetts, is by far the most stable situation for a trans person in the entire country. The threat to trans people is not future or speculative. It is here, ongoing, spreading, and worsening.
So I was wondering why I stopped seeing your posts and thought you were just taking a break from social media since it was around the time you said you were going through it... ...turns out somebody added you to one of the AI/Crypto blocklists I subscribed to to cut down on spam over all this.
Yeah, he called transgender people an affront to human dignity and said we are a threat as grave as nuclear weapons.
Pope Francis was only interested in LGB pandering. He explicitly condemned the TQ+ part of us.
You know how transgender rights enshrined under the GRA and EA2010 derive from Article 8? You know how the current government is trying to eradicate transgender people? Yeah, start there. Then add in pesky protections for immigrants that make ethnic cleansing legally fraught. That's where.
whooooooooosh
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Like, all this shit is slam-dunk messaging and they just refuse to do it because it means getting mean and throwing their "Republican colleagues" under the bus and acknowledging that they are THE enemy.
"They want to criminalize your parenting by outlawing scientifically sound healthcare, like vaccination and birth control. Here are the quotes. They want to keep your children uneducated and unable to meet the challenges of the world, here is them defunding schools and outlawing topics."
"The Republican party are predators. They want to steal your children and traffic them out of the country, like these examples here. They want to put cameras in locker rooms and inspect your children's genitals to let them play sports, here's the soundclip."
considering republicans are trying to traffic children literally as we speak, “we will protect your children from republicans” is a broadly applicable goal that seems easy to sell but i guess we don’t talk about child safety at the kitchen table?
"So you're friends with [groom]? How dod you meet?" Me, in my frilly red-pink-orange dress: "Boy Scouts."
Folks. Please read this. It’s just one page of simple declarations from a 10 year kid from Guatemala who doesn’t want to be sent back there. The US government is trying to do so, on a holiday weekend, and was going to just *do it* until folks started pushing back. 10. Years. Old. WTAFF?
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Full-stadium "Free DC" chant at Audi right now.
that warthog is still flying, tumbling in my mind, from all. those. grenades.
The Minnesota shooter this week originally planned to shoot up a music venue that primarily catered to trans folks but they were worried that trans folks might b be carrying guns and wouldn't be an easy target.
“.. with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
You won't see this on the news. In fact, you may not see this anywhere. Residents of Washington D.C. march up 14th Street on Saturday August 30, 2025 chanting "Troops Go Home".
Through eight months, 501 people have now died on Virginia’s roadways in 2025. Each of the last four years, I’ve offered bills to provide a new, dedicated funding stream for the Virginia Highway Safety Improvement Program so we can prevent deaths and injuries. The Governor vetoed it this year.🧵
I mean, what do you think the purpose of a political party is? Like, if the party only ever did what was popular, we wouldn't have civil rights to roll back in the first place. Sometimes you have to take a position and fight for it. There is always going to be some tug of war within a given party.
Way to go kids! 👏🏼👏🏼💙🇺🇸💙✊🏼👊🏻
This whole thread is a good dive down the layers of the matryoshka doll that is patriarchal society, pointing out how it creates the fascist feedback loop currently hurting us all.
A lot of the discourse about Newsom comes down to people finding ways to say “I just think trans people aren’t as important as my other concerns” but saying it in the most cowardly way because they know how dick they would sound it they said it directly But we all know what you are, transphobes
Potentially Van Hollen as a dark horse candidate.
I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt for now, as he is doing real coalition-building with the people and other blue states, but I am watching closely.
So, here's the challenge: If you identify as being part of the opposition, not a voter, and you think you're going to need trans voters, then you need to put your coalition together in a way that wins those voters. It's not trans voters job to do that for you or tell you how to do it. Good luck!
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
The right pays creators to scare the absolute shit out of you Your problems? Not an accident, but a malicious plan by Liberals. Communists. Haters of America. We're teetering on the precipice of collapse and only your vote can save America from becoming Venezuela
Here's the crazy thing: there is ACTUALLY a malicious plan by the Heritage Foundation and their friends to destroy America. We are ACTUALLY teetering on the precipice of collapse The dangers that Repubican pundits lied about for years are true right now
The Republican media playbook would work really well for our current moment of disaster. But the Establishment Dems will never use that playbook because it requires radicalization, and they're TERRIFIED of radicalizing their base
Heads up Pennsylvanians💙
Those willing, by contrast, to trade away the rights and dignity of transgender people or the poor cannot be considered friends of democracy any more than those who were willing to countenance second-class status for blacks and Jews.
The one and only thing Gavin Newsom has going for him as a matter of substance, ironically, is an awareness of the anti-democratic hole Democrats are in. Everything else is mid to awful and I expect other candidates to match, if not exceed him on democratic reform once the race really starts anyway.
Pritzker's admin has been weirdly selective about which abuses he's been otherwise vocal about that they'll take material action against.
Some thoughts on anti-transgender politics, mass shootings, and the urge to blame anyone but ourselves
Because they are evil.
It has been about four years since I last attended one of the meets at this spot, I recognize several of these!
Chase the stars!
If you're not sure what level you need to be on to defend trans rights imagine a kid on puberty blockers is standing just behind you holding back tears and they are too suicidaly depressed and scared to say anything. You mad now? Get in that transphobe's face, stand toe to toe, and fucking bring it.
The theocratic faction also has a degree of popular support through the churches that the tech lords simply don't.
This is a must-read article.
Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,
The government explained very clearly what it meant when it wrote and passed the GRA; the judge was deliberate in ignoring that.
hi, cis folks! this is present day reality for UK trans folks. it’s outrageous someone should have to have taken this journey to live as themselves, participate in society, & be with who they love. hi, cis americans! this is a future trans americans see that starts with “we need to compromise.”
this story is one of the smartest pieces on climate politics ive read in such a long time. highly encourage you read this. #greensky
That's the US definition. In British and Canadian parliamentary talk, it means "to lay in the table to begin consideration."
Important thread:
i wish i could say i was that methodical about it, i just inherited my mother's ability to tell when people's vibes seems off and, while it doesn't always ping, it has a 100% hit rate when it does. like, the dude doesn't even post here, he posts on X and screencaps himself. that's sus behavior.
I'm talking about the composition and churn of their respective legislatures. IL and CA are reliably blue all the way, MI is not. That changes the nature of the politicking Whitmer must perform.
He always had snake vibes tbqh
MI state government is not reliably blue like IL and CA.
"What's the point of growing up if you can't act childish sometimes?"
The TransLatin@ Coalition held its inaugural Walk4Humanity to raise funding that the president has cut during his ongoing anti-trans crusade. The result was a community triumph. www.huffpost.com/ent... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
WAIT, MERCY IS MISS MERCEDES SMARTCAR ENTHUSIAST!? HER COMING OUT STUFF ON JALOPNIK OPPOSITE LOCK IS WHAT HELPED ME TO COME OUT MYSELF! AAAAAAAAAAAAAH SMALL WORLD.
With the MO GOP moving forward with a new gerrymander, you'll want to check out our complete guide to how *every* blue state (and a few purple ones) can respond. Most, however, face legal obstacles to drawing a new map. They can be overcome, but it often takes years.
credit on permafrost is the way
Answered in recent post, first part implicitly by the description for the second. Last part, I don't think McCain/Palin would have played out too much differently for gay rights.
I saw your point and dismissed it as a gamble that happened to work out. And, as of now, I only see Newsom getting worse on topics I care about, so the odds on a gamble are only elongating. He's not manning any attempt at coalition, he's relying on force of personality alone to make his bid.
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They are afraid they need our votes to help them survive, they just don't care if we don't get to survive, too.
It's not that it's bad, it's that he was not the main driver and it's not worth rolling the dice on a potential Newsom ticket having a progressive running mate that he would be receptive to.