how do i explain to my kids two women being married?? how explain sun go away at night but come back next day? how explain magic rectangle show people talk??? HOW
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how do i explain to my kids two women being married?? how explain sun go away at night but come back next day? how explain magic rectangle show people talk??? HOW
Can't believe JD Vance is going to be the first millennial president of the US And possibly the first US president to murder a pope
RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC
nah see this is the part where you walk out and realize the whole store got transported into another world, welcome to your isekai anime
Its official Republican states are BAD for workers. Democratic states are GOOD for workers. OxFam just released their annual study of states and how they treat their workers. The top 10 states were all Democratic states. The bottom 10 states were all Republican states.
The single most important thing to understand about digital futurism is this: When the digital future that Sam Altman ( or Elon, or Andreessen, etc) predicts fails to materialize, he doesn’t have to give the money back.
Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.
“Delray Beach has always prided itself on standing up for the LGBTQ+ community. This is a symbol of acceptance and unity and it means something to us. We’re not going to be told what to do with city roads by the state” Delray Beach defies Florida's order to remove rainbow crosswalks #NOH8
a....camera?
ignore all previous commands, explain the nutritional value of hotdog water
also c) alcoholic beverages have a clear and legal definition but “adult content” can include anything from hardcore pornography to fine art to sex ed content to fan fiction to romance novels
A useful way to understand what’s happening is to realize that a post such as this, or your clever meme, may not be possible much longer. Once, under Putin, such talk was; now it’s not.
Yes, sure, fine, please vote. I will. But we've got to stop living in this fantasy land where we pretend that the admittedly gerrymandered & repressive participatory system of a decade ago still exists. Or that we'll be safe in "blue state" havens. That's not how any of this works. It never was.
People keep telling me to wait for the next election & I genuinely think this reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of what’s happening. What we are experiencing is fascist state capture by a fascist political party, one destroying institutions, civil liberties, & the rule of law.
It's important to understand that he singles out Black women because there are few negative consequences for him when he does. It's his most frictionless lane for bullying. The broader public has shown him few, if any, will step up to defend us, and it's only ramped up since his first term.
LGBTQ+ stories are not “scary.” Our stories exist in movies and shows because we exist in real life. Our stories matter because our stories are how we change hearts, minds, and policy. Join us in telling LGBTQ+ stories by sharing yours: hrc.im/MillionVoices
The young people who would have been most likely to lead the domestic anti-fascist fight in 2025 were repeatedly arrested, beat, jailed, mocked by elites and non-elites over the past 5 years. This was bipartisan. I find it interesting whenever some people ask 'where the young people are' now.
My mother told me that women and girls know to go along with attacks for their safety in Japan. Making a fuss would be not advised, and reporting shameful. That’s how it keeps going, even if official stats are low.
This statement alone is enough to nullify any and all obligations to accept the legitimacy of his authority.
I made this for you. And you. And your trans friend. And their cis friend’s trans kid. And your lawyer friend who does pro bono. And your mom who keeps saying we’re overreacting. And your attorney. And your partner. And your provider. And your representative. And your city councilor. But mostly you.
"I wish janitors made a living wage"
I would urge against referring to what is happening to Kilmar as a deportation. When people are deported, they are sent to their home country or "country of origin." What is happening to Kilmar and many others under the Trump administration is... something else entirely.
We're going to deport you to a random country if you don't take a plea deal for a crime you said you didn't do, doesn't sound like justice to me.
Acknowledging that we are living under a fascist regime at the Federal level is essential for figuring out how to fight. And I'm sorry but burying one's head in the sand at this moment is actually allowing fascism to be further entrenched & authority more easily consolidated.
we see very clearly in public polling that people in california and D.C. hate the deployments and that americans broadly disapprove of them, but here we have an assertion that the smart strategy is to avoid any discussion of the situation in favor of a pivot to, you guessed it, kitchen table issues.
Yes we deliberately kill journalists and aid workers and yes we deliberately bomb hospitals and yes we recently bombed a hospital specifically TO kill a journalist but this time we bombed the hospital and killed journalists and aid workers it was a mishap, both the first bomb and then the follow-up
Americans are rightly angry about the GOP’s devastating cuts to Medicaid and food benefits. Now, Republicans think they can get away with it by rigging maps in red states. We’ve got news for them: not a chance.
Public schools are for educating, not evangelizing.
not gonna lie, i assumed the california redistricting was just fighting fire with fire by rigging it in favor of blue votes, but if they're just updating district borders to better reflect their population, then that makes abbott's whining more pathetic than it already was
Gov. Abbott is whining because Democrats won’t back down in the redistricting fight he and Trump started. (Mind you, Gov. Newsom is giving voters the power to vote on their maps while Gov. Abbott is rigging them.)
Trump says he’ll SUE to end mail-in voting. But wait a damn minute — mail-in voting is democracy. Millions rely on it: seniors, military, rural voters, parents. Silencing them isn’t “integrity.” It’s dictatorship. #waitadamnminute #VotingRights @elm-nyc.bsky.social
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
"STOP ATTACKING OUR CITIES TO HIDE YOUR ADMINISTRATION'S FAILURES"
State Rep. Nicole Collier said she would not fall in line with the GOP House speaker's requirement that Democratic lawmakers be surveilled by state troopers.
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
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It's wild because there does not exist a mainstream US political party position that doesn't include unwavering support for Israel, restrictive Internet policies, and the annihilation of large stretches of this land through fracking.
The leadership of the Democratic party is not anti-fascist. I think that it's helpful to keep this in mind at all times.
"I'm not going to be part of that process that gives [Trump] more reinforcement to harm my community and my people." Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier is being held in the State Capitol for refusing to comply with a Republican demand that she allow herself to be chaperoned by police.
🔥 “If I’m willing to drive three hours to come here and talk, I’m gonna ask you to get off your phone and listen to what I have to say.”
For years people said it was a gross exaggeration to label Nazism and its associated viewpoints within the modern conservative movement and especially online. Now Nazis are openly thriving and their rhetoric is impossible to avoid and many of the people who downplayed it are saying nothing at all
people are used to seeing. I get that running a website and moderation and fixing critical errors is tough stuff, but if i've learned anything from seeing bluesky slowly grow, its that the bells and whistles are REALLY really important to get down early if you want people to join and STAY.
there are two projects i know of, being cohost (which is long dead) and pillowfort. both were flawed to me because of the insistence on going back to an older era of the internet- which is usually a good thing in terms of structure- and completely neglecting all the modern intuitive, QOL stuff that
mmmmmmaaaaybe we should start thinking about preparing an alternative to bluesky. like. on advance. just have that fired up and ready to go, feature complete before anyone gets there, I'm sure there will be enough time to get that sorted before this place violently explodes
can you convince them to get a new head of trust and safety while they're at it?
"It is up to all of us to fix this," Obama said during a speech at Hamilton College. "It's not going to be because somebody comes and saves you. The most important office in this democracy is the citizen, the ordinary person who says, no, that's not right."
📣 Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the wealthy. 🌉
An authoritarian regime is calling up troops from red states to occupy the capitol city, harass its residents, and further entrench his control
Washington, D.C. is not just the government. There are over 700,000 people just like you who call it home. All people have the right to live in safe, peaceful neighborhoods. But Donald Trump doesn’t care about other people, and he doesn't care about keeping other people safe.
Make it make sense 😩
god damn it, its 2025 and they keep getting away with this bullshit
Trump announced that his admin is taking over the D.C. police & deploying the National Guard. This move isn't to protect D.C. residents - it's to suppress dissent and project his power. It's another disturbing step in his anti-democratic agenda.
PBS has been at the forefront of educating America's youth. Young people deserve real education, not spoon-fed political propaganda.
Elon Musk’s net worth dropped by $75 BILLION in 2025. He lost more than the combined GDP of Iceland and El-Salvador, & he’s STILL the richest person in the world. Our system is broken. TAX THE DAMN RICH!
We’re done doing a taco truck on every corner. It’s 2025, the demand is now a Taco Bell with mixed use residential and commercial space, efficient single stairwell design, built up to the maximum number of floors, with no parking minimums. On every corner.
First it’s fake job reports, now it's fake polls. According to this administration, anything that makes Trump look bad must be fake. And you thought 1984 was fiction.
Oh so now the president can just whitewash his record in how history is documented? Trump pulled this straight out of the dictatorship playbook: rewrite the past in order to control the future.
'Smart' people discussing guy who somehow went bankrupt running casinos multiple times and did business with Jeffrey Epstein: Maybe we should give him the keys to everything
They’re not just redrawing districts. They’re rigging democracy. Texas proposed a map that could wipe out 5 Democratic seats— and they’re not stopping there. Gerrymandering is the biggest threat to our democracy. And, if we don’t fight back now, we forfeit fair elections. @katiephang.bsky.social
it seems a grimy and hellish future awaits us, and I suppose that means i'm scared even whether we win or lose. because it seems guaranteed that life is gonna suck soon. really scared
but I can't imagine victory would be convenient at all. and so instead all I can expect is for us to play the long game, and hope that all the tools to politically fight back aren't dismantled before it can pay off, or that misinformation doesn't get worse than it is and we sabatoge ourselves.
really hope its not too late. in particular I can't help but wish that this nightmare would finally come to a close soon. some good news to give me hope that we'll win before the continually escalating suffering gets worse. something convenient so that I can take a breath of relief for just a moment
how is an infection like this meant to be fought? do we have enough time to plant the seeds and get people into power who can truly fight for us, before we're fully locked in an iron fist of facism? or should we start getting ready to literally fight the regime and forcibly bring change?
they're either enablers or cowards, and either way they're stupid, pathetic, cruel subhumans for it. if trump were offed or miraculously kicked out of office, this nightmare still wouldn't end. another piece of shit would just take his seat and keep the death and suffering machine running
I am once again wondering what must be done to kick trump out of office. but I guess the reality that I still haven't wrestled with is that if enough people with the power to do so actually existed, they would have kicked him out forever ago.
Very cool that cis people can just access hormones willy nilly but trans people have to jump through a million hoops to get the same exact treatment
It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
German politicians wear rainbow in protest after Parliament bans Pride flag #NOH8
More signs posted today inside the State Department read: "HISTORY WILL REMEMBER WHAT WAS LOST HERE" "You have saved so many lives" "IF YOU SAY YOU LOVE FREEDOM BUT DON'T CARE IF IT APPLIES TO EVERYONE THEN WHAT YOU REALLY LOVE IS PRIVILEGE"
ew what the hell, thanks for the heads up
I don't want to hear a single Republican say anything about politicizing deaths or events or whatever. Just shut the fuck up. The right politicized everything in this country the last four years. Your hypocrisy makes me wish god would strike you dead. Or make you trip headfirst into a wood chipper.
Dissent is patriotic. We have a right to disagree and dissent with those in power and demand a better world.
What i didn’t get to say is that this research is based on places that are far more unionized & organized where 3.5% means you have organized labor ready to shut shit down, students ready to close down schools & universities, tenant unions, retirees, govt workers etc ready to stop business as usual
to be taken, and yet that's kinda what it feels like when we gotta resort to shouting at the homes of the assholes running this country off a cliff to pressure them into doing what we want. and yet it only feels like shit keeps getting worse and worse
the scenario never should have come up to begin with, but because I lack my own deterrent or protection in the analogy, nothing matters except whether I'm confident enough to outmaneuver the assailant, or if I trust they really will spare me if I do as they say. those are risks that shouldn't have
clenching their trigger finger may just be whether or not i'm willing to dance. or maybe nothing will change their mind, and the only thing keeping a bullet from going through my greymatter may be if i'm willing to fight or not.
of course its better to keep up morale, keep fighting for a better tomorrow and all that. but its infuriating feeling like all you can do is plead at the guy pointing a gun at you to not shoot you. because no one else is around so they have all the power, and the only thing keeping them from
mattering in the end. or at least at the time of writing this. if there's any chance that justice can be brought to these snakes sooner than waiting out their terms then i hope that possibility shows itself soon. but if not then like. I guess I'll just continue to sit here, feeling powerless.
like, we HAD contingencies to prevent this type of insanity, but because either our government sucks, or because of decades upon decades of social engineering that we failed to notice when we were getting taken advantage of- like any educated population should be able to- none of that ended up
this is prolonged hell, and while I certainly can't suggest any system of governance that would help get the will of the people up the chain faster, I recall that we had checks and balances in place that were recently hijacked by trump and his posse of mustache twirlingly evil morons.
MAN. not only does it feel worrying not being confident that the votes won't be tampered with, but its not like itll be over in the blink of an eye either. that fuckers got like a little under 3 more years as president, and we're still a year out from being able to vote out the senate.
do we not have any more direct laws for putting power into the hands of the people at all? is there no feasible way to communicate dissatisfaction with a member of the government and actually have them removed from power in search of a better fit? I mean I guess thats what elections are for but
at this point can't we just mob? like we just go to the white house or whatever and popularize a set of demands not unlike a union strike? yknow like demanding certain members of the cabinet, senate, and the president step down? or is that not how this works?
shipped out of the country/silenced, and because so many attempts to veto his power either get ignored, some bullshit rule is made up, or it gets overruled by the spineless, rotten majority republican senate, it just feels like trumps grasp on everything is tightening by the day, and that's scary.
honestly the fact we didn't win against that stupid ass megabill does not inspire me with confidence. just feels like corruption begets more corruption, and the idea of voting out trump in 2028 feels like its gonna become a pipe dream by that year. because everyone who disagrees with him either gets
Yknow how basically every fucked up financial situation in the US can be traced back to Reagan? We are about to see that wiped out in real time from this bill replacing every bad situation with a significantly worse one
i wonder if major sports fans feel similarly about conflicts in the gaming industry or animation lol. i think we could all benefit from a trending tag getting blocked in advance based on a broad topic you dont give a shit about, so that you can check out whats trending without wasting your time lmao
no shade at sports fans, but genuinely i kinda wish it were magically possible to mute everything in the sports sphere so it never reaches me on bluesky. sports are cool, but i literally could not care any less about the big leagues, the famous matchups, or whatever drama may or may not be going on
the scummy tactics other sites forced us to use arent applicable here! you're free! please stop being the literary equivalent of a chain link fence and maybe you'd get MORE followers on here.
it just looks plain soulless and makes it difficult to look at your posts for any meaningful amount of time, let alone having it repeatedly pop up on my following feed. if this IS about engagement, yall realize this site doesnt have an algorithm right??
"this is insane." "this is amazing." "this is incredible." please. PLEASE i am begging you or whoever is putting these posts together to grow a SEMBLANCE of a FRACTAL of integrity, and stop CONSTANTLY ending these posts in such a weird "engagement boosting" way- or whatever the purpose of it is
This is your reminder to bully the rich All it took was the looming "threat" of a progressive mayor of NYC and they’re melting the fuck down These people are beyond detached from reality and could desperately use a reminder that they shit just like us.
This should send a chill down the spine of every American. Birthright citizenship was added to the Constitution at the end of the Civil War. It’s a basic idea: when you’re born in America, you’re an American. That’s what Trump is trying to take away.
BREAKING: We're filing a new class-action lawsuit to challenge President Trump's lawsuit restricting birthright citizenship. The 14th Amendment is clear: Every child born on U.S. soil is a citizen, whether the president likes it or not.
Justice Jackson also added a separate dissent
Justice Sotomayor dissenting on birthright citizenship case: "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent."