If you're not clapping your hands, you *want* those fairies to die. You monster.
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If you're not clapping your hands, you *want* those fairies to die. You monster.
And it's funny that that's his take, when the Classic is full of people riding slowly. I haven't done it in a few years, but dodging slow riders was definitely part of the experience
Huh. TIL: www.twincities.com/2023/05/22/s...
Today is also the St. Paul Classic so I would hope these routes are open 🤞🚴♀️
People are learning for the first time how authoritarian blue city governments are. Why TF do they think folks were in the streets?!
My manifesto has the same title, but I bet we diverge widely within the first paragraph and never meet again.
This is trans rights, too. There is no viable position for the Democrats other than “trans rights are human rights.” Trying to triangulate a position where you throw trans people under the bus “just a little” to woo swing voters only feeds the right’s argument that trans people are a threat 1/x
Simultaneous reactions: "Hey, that's my alma mater you're talking about" "...haha yeah, truuuue"
What else is in the Teaches of Peaches? Huh? What?
yes Yes YES 👏👏👏👏👏🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
the minneapolis DFL is appealing the MN DFL’s decision to strip omar fateh of his endorsement. you can read the full appeal here - minneapolisdfl.org/updates/minn...
Pay very close attention. On the campaign trail, Trump promised to release the Epstein files. Now that survivors are naming him as Epstein’s close friend, he’s calling it a “hoax.” Miss me with that bullshit.
Still slaps 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
“well this is certainly a bold departure from political norms!” as they are marched to the gulag
You can listen to trans people or you can make your own shit up and every single transphobe has opted for the latter.
The United States killed American Indians and drove them from their homes in order to steal their land. Could it work in Gaza?
I was at Costco and had the same experience 🤣
Arsenal have many big physical players. They hit the ground every time they are touched #LFC #YNWA
Dear FA there's obviously a missing rule book that applies to #LFC matches, as none of us have seen a copy, but we can clearly see it exists in your referees' minds. Please release the master copy just to clarify for everyone what we're up against. Ta
Sounds like you should talk to this guy.
Saw a skeet that said “I’m an atheist but last night I prayed for one very particular thing” and do you know how much you gotta hate a mfer to pray for their death to a god you don’t believe in?
Let’s say this again. Read this carefully, line-by-line, so you don’t forget. Gender affirming care is not harmful to patients. In fact, it’s actually shown to REDUCE rates of suicide in transgender people by up to 70%.
Did I mishear the end of her speech, or did she advocate for freedom from gun safety? (I'm certain she meant "freedom from gun violence", but what a slip)
Fuck these trauma porn slingers at @msnbc.com. Leave these kids be to grieve and receive counseling, don't shove a fuckin mic in their faces for a soundbite. Start shoving mics in elected reps' faces and ask them what they're going to do to prevent the next mass shooting!
BTW. Identities and motives of shooters don't matter. They serve two purposes. 1. To distract from action on gun violence. 2. To spread the shooter's messages, increase notoriety, and encourage copycat shooters. Do not fall into the identity conversation trap. This is about guns, nothing else.
If you see trans or queer people at the vigil tonight and you believe like I do that they deserve to be there, put your body near them and your head on a swivel. Protect each other.
The shooter (8/27 Annunciation) has been identified with a specific detail of her past singled out. Do not fall for the trap. We need to understand as a community that this detail being published in this manner is going to create an increased risk environment for our trans femme/ queer neighbors.
Slightly diminish a band: Carter the Stoppable Sex Machine
Which is more important to you? Winning, or telling other people you think their red lines are wrong?
part of the reason i beat up so hard on democratic weakness is we need people who are tough on the monsters that continue to allow childrens brains to be splattered on the walls by gunshots. i dont want to make nice with these people. they're not "good friends" and "colleagues" on the other side.
Keep in mind, All of Mpls & Thrive Mpls PAC staff have been targeting Reverend DeWayne Davis for weeks because he would rather campaign for Mayor on his own merits than overturn the will of delegates at Convention - from botched MLK quotes to saying Davis likes the attention 🙄
“The howls of Frey representatives in the final hour of deliberations, without waiting to be recognized by the chair, screaming from the convention floor in clear violation of the DFL Code of Conduct, still echoes in my mind. It seems the state DFL has listened to them.” - in today’s Strib
“Jacob Frey has Mamdani’s charisma” my god man there’s not a single person in this city, jacob frey included, who believes anything even close to that
Fucking Jacob Frey is going to drive me to door knocking and phone banking now, to drum up enough support to get rid of him. Ugh I hate him 😒
I mean Jacob gatekeeps who is allowed to count as a DFLer, so it tracks that his wife gatekeeps where people can protest.
Pretty sure someone on the Republican payroll would tell Democrats they’ve been doing super and not to change a single thing so they’ll lose again
To me it was obvious that an overwhelming number of those pro-Stein posts weren't made by real people. Did that not seem to be the case to y'all? Are those the leftists you're screaming at now!? So I'm saying. Take a moment to talk to actual people. Maybe do it in person and not online. 😅
So hey, back to that line. I mean, I've previously joked about how Jill Stein would have won if the Instagram comment sections were any indicator. But look at what's happened in the wake of that.
If you want to win, that can no longer involve punching to your left and trying to force us in line. We want to help but goddamn do y'all make it difficult.
We can't keep doing the same things: listening to the same consultants, accepting Republican framing of issues, sliding farther to the right to capture a nonexistant middle, alienating voters who don't hear anything that will help them, who then stay home.
What is more productive in this moment--parroting an inaccurate rehashing of the past? Maybe that feels good, but is it truly helpful? Maybe find an actual leftist and ask them, sincerely, what they want. Listen. Don't butbut them about what polls well--that is how Democrats got us here.
If you recognize yourself in this thread and you don't like it, before you attack me (and I block you 😘), take a deep breath and think.
Literally all of these things should have been on the lips of every Democrat (at least, "we've done this much and here's what's next") and yet somehow they were too much to ask. Even now instead of introspection and course corrections, all we get is this blame-shifting onto the left.
And yes also civil rights for our trans friends and neighbors, because their rights are OUR rights. And stop funneling our tax dollars into an ongoing genocide.
...Start pushing for those vaunted kitchen table issues too many Democrats continue to lose grasp of even now. Higher wages. Better education for our country's kids. Affordable health care. Higher taxes on the obscenely wealthy to pay for it all.
I promise you, no leftist truly wanted Trump to win, and that's why we were all screaming at Harris to change course, stop tacking right, stop inviting Republicans to speak while leaving fellow Democrats out on the sidewalk...
To take advantage of people's pain over Harris losing, and the completely legit pants-shitting terror of what Trump has already done, and fear about the future moves he is telegraphing.
Y'all, where did this "but he was a child rapist and YOU LET HIM WIN, leftists" thing come from all of a sudden? This feels like an effort to put us directly into emotional self-defense mode and stop thinking and communicating with each other.
No. I held my nose and voted for her for all the good it did. We desperately did NOT want Trump, AND tried to tell you why Harris was going to lose. Now we have him and that's on her tack-to-the-right, status quo campaign, not us.
Fuck allllllll the way off. Blocked. I told yall.
You can go ahead and blame the campaign consultants who told Walz to stop calling his opponents weird and who pushed a message of "status quo" at a point when people are having trouble making ends meet. We're not your scapegoats and you can take that line to hell with you.
THANK YOU. Trans rights are civil rights and nobody who believes we can sacrifice theirs to save ours belongs in elected office.
There certainly are more leftists at the local level across the country--I've been more involved locally. But look at how the national party absolutely dumps on its own left on the regular. We're always expected to compromise. When does the conservative end of the party ever compromise for us?
And hey, to be clear y'all, from here out I'm blocking every respondent who blames me for Harris losing. I held my nose and voted for her, and look where that got us. So fuck off.
Then put up some candidates who are working with Democrats to their left more than Republicans? It's maddening to watch us lose elections repeatedly yet have party leaders never even consider changing the playbook. Stfg they want to lose at this point.
One thing that would help a little is for organizations ostensibly trying to help Democrats getting elected to stop mindlessly repeating false or misleading Republican talking points about Democrats being effete snobs to get media attention
No. Democrats happily throw away wins with the dumbest self-owns, like"vote blue no matter who" but then running a candidate with the same Republican lite views that lost last time. It's not a purity test, it's the LOW bar.
You see this all the time when people who are very much coastal elites get together to chin-stroke about how to appeal to "rural voters." What rural voters? Montana? Georgia? Vermont? Arizona? These are all vastly different places with unique histories and concerns and political cultures.
"Minneapolis is *our* playground, we suburbanites come here only to spend our time in downtown stadiums & restaurants- and these arrogant residents deign to breathe in our vicinity. They condescend us by simply existing, a repulsive reminder that the rabble live close to *OUR* toys"
There is not one marginalized, racialized, or oppressed group whose oppression or destruction is an acceptable cost for saving "democracy." Not one. If saving democracy requires leaving marginalized people behind, that's not a democracy worth saving. Either we all get saved or none of us do.
Ok but how did Scubble get so jacked eating crackers? New diet fad unlocked!?
Making this even more absurd, someone analyzed hundreds of thousands of official e-newsletters over the past 15 years and...Dems aren't even using these words! Here's an example that made me laugh bsky.app/profile/dcin...
I strongly encourage moderate organizations to primarily focus on language policing. I will be busy organizing all of your people, who are radiantly furious with Democrats and ready to clean house
Return of the baby shield! Only this time the "baby" is just Lisa Goodman's $5000 checks to the DFL
My biggest fear is that the backlash against Trump will be strong enough that democrats will win, and will think they won because of this messaging rather than in spite of it (like they did in 2020). And they'll keep listening to the same idiot consultants
Steve Cramer gets the vapors hearing Aisha Chughtai say “fuck”; meanwhile Frey apparatchiks (including Chughtai colleague Linea Palmisano) lie about cheating in a way that Trump Republicans all too eagerly pick up. I know which is the biggest danger. (See 🧵 below)
Nothing. They want us to just stop existing 🤷♂️
I pointed out what a Pyrrhic victory this was for Frey and that's when he dropped those two choice descriptors. I was like, say no less and disconnected. On LinkedIn and Strava, too, because get out of my business lol
I feel you on that! I'm on there primarily for the groups I can't find elsewhere. I also mostly stopped getting into arguments because it's pointless and a waste of time (and half the time, it's probably a shitposting bot anyway?).
So yeah, that guy also called Fateh "useless" and "trash". There's a Facebook connection I don't need anymore 👋😃
New party leaders when
No matter what the DFL tries to say, remember that this happened. Multiple progressive campaigns spent months organizing and beat Frey so bad he staged a failed walk out and subsequently had to manipulate the state party into overturning the clear result. This can happen again in November.
Frey showed his WHOLE ASS when he pulled out of this convention in a snit. This is outrageous, and I can't wait to help him lose in November.
I just saw a Facebook post crowing about the state DFL "having more sense than the Minneapolis DFL", and now I'm reconsidering who my friends are 😂
The thing is, this simply isn’t true. GOP influencers and politicians didn’t suddenly respond to a grassroots uprising of “trans concern.” They *made it a signature issue* in the same way that they made other culture war issues central pillars of their campaigns.
Maybe also those award-winning local TV journos.
big $$ flows to AOM, which runs polls on negative messaging, then stories are planted based on poll results with the media, who apparently just run with what they’re given this makes media like axios and the reformer another propaganda arm of the all of mpls machine trying to re-elect jacob frey
i prefer democrats who prefer democrats, but gavin newsom is a democrat who prefers republicans. if he preferred democrats, he would spend more time working with democrats instead. the thing is — most voters who like republicans more than democrats will simply vote for republicans.
Omg that is exactly the vibe he gives off. Thank you for giving it a name.
Gavin Newsom is a transphobe "show me the evidence" thread, for all those Vote Blue No Matter Who posters in your replies. this isn't the guy. push back on everyone who is trying to convince you the primary has been decided years in advance with a guy that loses in the general.
She said what we are all thinking 🤬😂
“Fuck-Gate” if you want to call it something funny proves my evergreen point that we are generally not tough enough as a people to do Politics. Jacob has been gunning for Aisha from day one. Recruiting opposition, lying on her name, on and on. She’s allowed to cuss him at a porch party.
The Too Close for Comfort update we need right now ✏️🐮
CBC had a story the other day about the massive inconvenience for air passengers. Glad to see that kind of pro-corporate narrative busted for once.
This is such a nothing story too, it's basically just a push poll in media form. It even has to admit that there's not actually evidence this backlash is somehow electoral gold, it's just pushing the idea it is!
Today we wouldn't cast a cisgender actor as a trans character (or we shouldn't) but Stamp, to his credit, really understood not only the lived experience of Bernadette but how important it was to trans people to see her on the screen. He portrayed her with such compassion and understanding.
Man I keep starting and then canceling replies to some of these messages. I think the safest thing I will allow myself here is: I wish Forsyth all of the energy he's giving here to return to him, multiplied.
I'd like to join the other people quoting this skeet and say fuck Erlandson. Fuckin ghoul.
Set some goals that are easy to achieve, to gift yourself the inertia to accomplish bigger goals 🙌
Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
Worth your time to read through the post for not only the beautiful attention to detail but also the comparisons against poorly fitted people.
The next Democratic President needs to burn ICE to the ground and re-imagine immigration enforcement to be humane and apolitical. ICE has repeatedly shown that it seems itself as a vehicle for MAGA’s policies, they need to be abolished. Saying this shouldn’t be controversial after all this.
My tea leaves say "promote more leftist policies and win, Democrats"
look, if my posts criticizing the democratic party are as detrimental to their electoral chances as some of you seem to think, then dem leadership should simply start doing things i like so that i stop criticizing them
I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven
Finding the most tenuous Minnesota-related connection to events with a national or international scope
Living to see this day would be a blessing