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Oof. The Dems need to stop pretending, based on some imaginary focus group, that there’s some common ground with Trump. The key is to fight everywhere. You should go study Neville Chamberlain’s attempt at “common ground.” It didn’t end well for his historical reputation. Or the world.
Yay! 🥺
*cracks knuckles* okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public? now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.
Printing + packaging my print “cryptids” with one hand while recording with the other 👀 #darkartist #independentartist #artprogress
Kakistocracy.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
You cannot reason with insanity.
Coal miners pushed for years for a silica dust rule to reduce black lung disease. The Trump administration has delayed its enforcement until at least October, while claiming to love coal miners. @kimkelly.bsky.social reports
I will die on this hill: it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
Historical look at anti- & pro- LGBTQ legislation numbers from 2009 through the present? The positive stuff is not as complete as I'd like from 2019-2022 but I'm working on it: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Pritzker should mobilize the Illinois National Guard to oppose them. Extreme? Maybe. But I don’t see why he should just let another state effectively invade his.
Smarter people than me have written on this and it's not my area of specialization, so this is just an observation based on frustration: capitalism realized early that people will do jobs that need doing because they need doing and chose to underpay those jobs precisely because they are needed.
Been thinking a lot about Fort Sheridan, north of Chicago. It was built on land donated by Chicago's wealthy elite to have a nearby army base so troops would be around to break strikes and respond to labor unrest. Sheridan Road existed in large part to transport troops to Chicago's south side.
The discussions on the right are getting so openly genocidal.
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
You have to be just an unparalleled dipshit to think you’re going to convince trans people to vote for transphobes
It also betrays a view of trans rights as a "nice to have" issue in the way that it portrays those demanding trans rights as spoiled children who won't play if they don't get their way rather than a population desperately trying to survive in a world increasingly hostile to them from all sides
So many checked out non-voters out there, and then you have a group who says "our reliable vote is there for you, you just need to reinforce that our continued existence is non-negotiable" and the response from some people is "wow, so you like Trump I guess" 🤔🤔🤔
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Remember Damien's weak ethics and David's appearance in transphobic Ice Nine Kill's music video. There are calls for boycotts of Terrifier!
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
Impossible for Heritage to say if it's bad or not
ive said this before but even well-intentioned cis people see transition as a luxury that is painful to revoke the rights for but not existential. i bet these hospitals would file lawsuits about this if it was about literally any other evidence-supported medical procedure
Enact one more transphobic policy, just one more and maybe things will turn around.
Soooo there’s literal military in the streets of US cities and we got centrists still lecturing about ‘you shouldn’t have tried to defund the police.’ Mmkay.
And fucking with gender. So did Elmer Fudd
people complaining about how "woke" has taken over the film industry, meanwhile bugs bunny has been kissing men since 1940
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BREAKING: Trump’s use of the National Guard during immigration protests in Los Angeles is illegal, a judge rules. Follow AP's live updates.
BREAKING: Pentagon authorizes up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by the AP.
Nearly 70% of Americans now believe the American dream doesn't hold true or never did, the highest in 15 years of polling on this topic. www.wsj.com/economy/wsj-...
Buried 35 paragraphs in: "Violent crime in Chicago has dropped significantly in the first half of the year, according to official data released by the city. Shootings are down 37% and homicides have dropped by 32% compared to the first half of 2024, while total violent crime dropped by over 22%..."
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...
“They are in violation of my rights to medical treatment, and I feel as if I am being discriminated against because of who I am. At the moment it’s very depressing to see my rights being violated for no apparent reason." ~Dionne, who lost access to hormone therapy in recent weeks.
Can't give an inch on trans rights otherwise you end up with the kind of shitshow the UK has going on right now.
See? This shit is why I'm not going to let up on Newsom or other transphobic Democrats: they might otherwise go the Labour route and plunge the country into full on transphobia as policy.
Really great that the world's richest man with his own social media platform continually pumps out anti-trans propaganda to incite violence against us.
Vivian Wilson was featured on another magazine cover so naturally, Elon has spent the last few hours binge posting heinous anti-trans screeds. www.thecut.com/article/vivi...
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 wasn’t just a tragedy. It still provides a compass for us to fight against fascism today:
“what do you mean hyde amdt for trans care” read the thing i wrote about this
👀 quite a line to trot out before republicans possibly put a hyde amdt on trans care into a funding deal
Deleted it, tired of the apathy for trans people
Never understood his 180, from being the guy breaking Snowden to becoming a far right terf
Another artist by the name of James C. Mulligan at Dragon Con has sadly started using AI in his work and got away with selling people images he didn’t even fully produce himself. IG @ mulliganjimmy — he ended up selling the whole weekend. Not all genAI tells are even circled in this piece.
you don’t need ai. grab a crayon Bitch
A great right is getting trans people's healthcare back in the hospitals in your state that stopped it. Addressing that means you're doing everything
Oh... that's JK Rowling joking about murdering people that turned on her
More gender affirming care clinics for trans youth close in Washington State - for those who were confused as to why I upped the risk to moderate in that state for youth. www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/a...
Fucking hate this app sometimes
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
If we let AI take over filmmaking, then we come to a wall. The AI cannot make something new. It cannot advance the art. It can only manipulate what is already created. Film as art is little more than a century old. We are no where near an understanding of the form. We are still learning.
We post the chopping machine, skeet explodes. We post our items calling for the end of the trans genocide, maybe 2 likes. Someone explain please...
NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
trans girls listening to world governments describing us on the news
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
"I've been stripped of my identity." "The removal of hormones from prisons is a deliberate act of cruelty that strips trans people of medically necessary care and basic dignity." "What is tested in the carceral sphere reverberates across society." #Georgia #USA #Incarceration #Healthcare
Trump’s regime wants to put AI in charge of deciding which Medicare patients receive care — and they're giving AI companies a profit-incentive to deny coverage. Everything about this is sick and wrong, and Congress must take action. 👇
Violating the posse comitatus act is a felony by the way. Hegseth has criminal liability here. Trump doesn't thanks to the Supreme Court. Not like anyone will actually prosecute them anyways.
A sitting US congressmen is openly saying this about trans people.
When will people on the left wake up and realize they fell for a right wing moral panic about social media and cell phones that’s currently being used to strip us all of civil liberties? Jonathan Haidt, one of the primary architects of this moral panic, just brought his misinfo blog to Bari Weiss
Begging people to question why they’re aligned with groups like the Heritage Foundation and Bari Weiss’s whole cadre when it comes to tech policy. We need to fight back against this moral panic and fight these nonsense “child safety” (they are not actually about child safety) bills
I truly believe that electing a transphobic Dem could have the same effect that electing a transphobic Labour party in the U.K. had: the worst possible outcome where being anti-trans is a consensus view bsky.app/profile/park...
I'm not going to vote for a transphobe. This isn't a "strategy," this is just reality. If people so desperately want my vote for whatever reason, they need to nominate a good candidate.
"The law as it’s written has also caused problems for those providing sexual assault exams on young people under 18. Under the law, a health worker would need to get consent from a parent to do the exam, but in some cases the perpetrator of the assault may be that parent"
Last year, Idaho passed a strict law that forbids anyone from providing to a minor any service that could be construed as medical or psychological in nature without parental consent. Now, minors calling the state's suicide hotline are being forced to have a parent speak for them or hang up
Harvard is no longer committing to funding student affinity groups after closing the office space for the office of LGBTQ life and the Women's Center. This university is run by craven cowards. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Only thing I get from this is you can see how a group of privileged white men can turn society against a marginalized group
Trans Rights are Human Rights. Bodily Autonomy For All is Nonnegotiable.
A Chinese-owned mining company has been accused of covering up the extent of a disastrous toxic spill in Zambia that polluted a major river that millions rely on with cyanide and arsenic.
Child labor, labor exploitation, price gouging, deforestation, leasing unlimited public water during a drought for $2/year and more yet what gets him the boot is dipping the pen in the company ink 😐
RIP
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✏️ Happy Labor Day! 🖌️ Did you know that AI “art” is labor theft? Hi. I’m a professional traditional artist of over 15 years & I was able to make a decent living until 3 years ago. In May 2023, over 50 of my paintings had been scraped without my consent to fuel AI image generators like Midjourney.
I wish everyone who is working with AI a very Bad
1 Sep 25 --New analysis of 2024 PRRI polling shows support for white Christianist beliefs better predicts LGBTQ+ animus than church attendance. Those w/ WCN beliefs 47% more likely to oppose gay marriage 29% more likely to oppose LGBTQ+ job protections than other Christians @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Finger waggler there
this "passion tax" appears all over the place & should be talked about more. you see it in book stores and game stores all the time excitement for particular work is constantly weaponized to depress wages & pit workers against each other
Or you could have paid us properly.
PATRIOTS
We post the chopping machine, skeet explodes. We post our items calling for the end of the trans genocide, maybe 2 likes. Someone explain please...
Why wait?
Again, an outlet that has worked feverishly to make the world harder for trans people is worried about hurting a math equations feelings...
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
We warned legislators and regulators this would happen. We showed them data on consumer non-compliance and the surge in VPNs and pirate sites. They knew this would happen didn’t care.
1. On Saturday, a judge ordered Pulse pride crosswalk protester released from jail. Police arrested him after he chalked the bottom of his shoe in rainbow colors and walked across it. Sunday, police arrested 3 more under the same charges. Subscribe to support my journalism.
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The number of children expected to die from policies that have already been enacted is unimaginable in isolation, even before factoring in the other concurrent and compounding threats from this new epidemiological landscape.
The evisceration of CDC is happening at the same time global disease prevention funding like PEPFAR dries up after being line-item deleted by the WH and DOGE. If we can’t contain something we already eradicated and have no more global infrastructure, we have no defense left against another pandemic.
Even with the drastically reduced disease surveillance and deliberate undercount, official CDC sources are already reporting the highest number of measles cases in more than 30 years, after it was officially declared “eliminated” in the US in 2000. Also, school is about to start.
Happy labor day gang!
Reminder that Labor Day actually happens in May and the only reason American oligarchs let you celebrate today is to weaken globalized worker solidarity.
Keir Starmer just appointed Tim Allan, a board member of the anti trans hate group, Sex Matters, to be his new communications director.
Enjoy the day off (if you’re lucky enough to have one) but don’t forget: www.teenvogue.com/story/histor...
a thing that doesn’t make sense to me: why do we have to coddle ppl when they slip up & misgender us? if it’s a genuine accident, still getting used to a transition in terms, etc. it’s not a big deal to me. so why do we have to like apologize to the person that did it bc they’re making it a Thing??