doing what must be done to defeat american fascism requires neoliberals like jeffries to lose power and he doesn't want to give it up. thats it
doing what must be done to defeat american fascism requires neoliberals like jeffries to lose power and he doesn't want to give it up. thats it
isnt this exactly what they said about gay people in the 80s. like, to a tee
when i keep hearing people say that we have to organize and fight for another 50 years so the generation after i die can live in a postcapitalist society
my dream job is working night shift alone in a small warm basement office monitoring a security system while machinery gently hums and clanks nearby
the reality of fascism never being uprooted until after millions are killed genuinely makes me sick and i wish i didn't have to know what the world will look like a year from now
i feel like he'd target specific countries if he pulled a nixon. he's buddied up with bukele after all
must have been the wind
hypothetically who would be prime minister
i know. i'm just terrified of the prospect of it happening again. if you aren't able to access treatment its a death sentence and considering what rfk jr thinks about aids victims its sending my brain into overdrive
i remember seeing footage of mass graves and body piles being lit on fire during covid. going through that was traumatizing. if i have to ever go through that again i have no idea what will happen
my biggest fear as a trans person is something like this happening again that enables the administration to let hundreds of thousands of queer people waste away like that without directly doing anything. its what reagan did in the 80s and he got away with it
i think people need to understand thar newsom isnt doing this out of the goodness of his heart but because he is an opportunist
at some point you gotta wonder if she likes letting the leopards eat her face
i'm so goddamn frustrated. it really does just feel like if our luck was a little bit better we wouldn't be stuck in this hell, and for who knows how long either
i genuinely think that the HHS is going to try and go after not just hormones but pep/prep as well. they yearn for the days of queer people dropping like flies. they want it to happen again
my head has been spinning all day. its been one of my worst days in a while. i don't want to say that there's no stopping where we're headed but i can't think anything else
We need communism
im pretty sure it was SSRIs actually. which is still really fucking bad!
I need my cis friends to read, understand, and share this thread. This is what we woke up to today. The talking heads are now calling for the immediate detainment of trans people. We need you. I need you. Now. To stand up. Or we start dying. 🧵
feels like if the administration itself isnt thinking about doing something the far-right press will try to goad them into it
would it be a stretch to say this is why so many conservatives interpret the 2nd amendment far beyond what it actually meant
this morning was not a good morning to have forgotten my anxiety meds the night before
"violate a law that is unquestionably constitutional to lock minorities in insane asylums" is certainly a position!
honestly i want to know what pritzker has up his sleeve. he's very clearly been planning for this exact scenario
and that was *4 years* into the pandemic. he mightve said something but did he do anything of substance? nope! people were still dropping like flies 10 years later with no recourse! eazy e died in 1995!
i refuse to believe it was anything but genocide
no wonder they appointed rfk jr of all people to head HHS. they want it to keep going
sometimes i think about why the reason there isnt a substantial amount of older gay people is because the american government chose not to do anything about aids so it would kill all of them
Genuinely have no idea how much longer I can take literally every trans person around me being on the edge of falling apart - and every now and again losing someone I can't help keep together - while the cis people just kinda nod and assume we're all being hysterical.
i hate living like this
at this point there's no way anyone can make a single logical conclusion to all this that isnt "the republican party is pro-violence"
how is australia on here but not peru? wasn't fujimori backed by the US?
i'm so tired of seeing people die
the most heartbreaking thing about seeing trans people die every day is knowing most of them never got to live as themselves in the first place
both
theonion.com/it-only-tues...
imagine if a hurricane hits and instead of being deployed for disaster relief the national guard is at the capital instead because the government thinks terrorizing the homeless is more important
People are rightfully horrified about Adam being encouraged to complete suicide by chatgpt. I just wish there had been this level of outrage when all of social media a few months ago was celebrating the suicide of Charlotte Fosgate, a 17 year old trans teen.
Begone puritan
i think that such a large amount of absolute chaos being condensed into a single year collectively traumatized billions of people. like the vibe of the entire planet just completely shifted
i think thats fair. if anything zohran's upset in the nyc primary is a clear example of how big money isnt required and victory is still possible against them
wasn't the tea party astroturfed by the koch brothers?
motherfucker, dude
thats it. nominate him
if i hear the word "distraction" come out of a democrat's mouth one more time i am going to rip my hair out
things like the scavenger hunt aren't even based around policy but just make you like them and want to vote for them. so many politicians in america are just assholes and everyone is sick of it. above all else, zohran is just a genuinely good person and that's why he's so popular
considering how zohran is just having fun fucking with adams and cuomo at this point he's gonna throw a rave or something by november
rise and shine!!!
fake redwood tree with a big ass rocket in it
everyone is about to figure out what it was like when j edgar hoover led the fbi real fucking quick
this broadcast needs to be preserved in the library of congress youtu.be/xNH43Xf24nQ?...
don't you have anything better to do?
pritzker opened a legal hotline in illinois for immigrants and the queer community. that's one of the best things i've seen a governor do for their state not just in the trump era but literally ever
zohran gives me so much hope man. he stood up against the new york political machine and wiped the floor with it. there's nothing he couldn't do
hov might be a filthy billionaire but let's not act like funkmaster flex wasn't rewinding otis for 30 minutes straight on live radio
newsom is doing what he's doing because he's a power hungry opportunist not because he actually cares about people idk what everyone is thinking. we're acting like we don't have better options who aren't fighting just as hard
the purpose of a system is what it does
seeing mamdani keep on keeping on gives me a tiny bit of hope. him going from being a complete nobody to having massive popular support and uniting such a broad coalition of voters despite absolutely everything being against him is what makes me believe victory isn't impossible
i think people need to understand that's the way it has been and will continue to be. most if not all significant figures in protest movements were at the very least beaten within an inch of their life and thrown in the slammer dozens of times
always remember this did not start here. minorites, the poor, and the homeless have all been experiencing this exact thing for decades. the tools for this have been here the whole time. it is why we have to abolish the police
no one on earth has ever said "birthing person" or "chest feeding" completely seriously in their lifetimes. the right made them up while they were complaining about not being able to call people slurs anymore
Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
finally moved to university yesterday
reminder that the mayors of all the cities he's threatening with force are all black
solidarity to all of you. cook some fucking bacon
jb pritzker is one of the few democrats who have both been talking the big game and going by their word at the same time so i'm praying he does his thing
chicagoans need to do the exact same thing angelenos have been doing. i desperately hope they will
these people hated the push to not use derogatory terms for minorities and they are using trump's election as an excuse to attempt to reverse the progress made. we cannot let them
South Park just dropped the nuclear bomb on Trump. They drew him with poop on his head and called him a frickin poopy head. Sayonara, Donald
dc better be cooking some fucking bacon right now
jackson court when
considering the news about eric adams, it's been a big day for corrupt democratic mayors huh
this shit is so fucking scary man
im moving to university tomorrow and plan on starting my transition as soon as possible when i'm there so seeing this felt like god calling out to me
pritzker literally protected all of the texas dems who fled their state and called a GOP congresswoman a nazi to her face so i have literally no idea what this guy is talking about
yeah i've been freaking the fuck out for days. genuinely nothing i can do but just watch everything burn. it hurts
all of that progress just completely eliminated all at once. not even the george floyd protests were able to stop the decline and if they couldnt i don't know what will. i want to have hope but i'm just so bitter. i just want to live
every meaningful semblance of progress is being led to the chopping block. trans rights, abortion rights, conversion therapy bans, even the VRA is on the chopping block. part of me wonders, what was the point of it all? how would MLK feel? marsha p johnson? keith haring? thurgood marshall?
it just fucking pisses me off. ten years ago gay marriage was legalized while a black man held the presidency for the first time ever and when a bathroom ban was passed in north carolina it faced near universal condemnation. now look at us
i'm having the hardest time holding onto a single shred of hope right now. it's getting increasingly difficult to think of any possible way to get out of this without having to wait generations
i've seen comparisons to the years of lead in italy and it seems for the most part very similar
the most daunting part of all this is thinking about how to prepare for the possibility of the fascists succeeding
this shit screams jim crow
honestly scalia would have worked better for the joke i just didnt think of him
every opinion he writes has such a frothing ire for queer people you can't not notice it. if you read mahmoud v taylor you can tell he started with the fact that he thinks any semblance of gender equality is the devil and worked from there. i pray the deepest pit of hell swallows him whole
out of everyone currently on the bench he makes the absolute least effort to hide his burning contempt for gay people
oh no i meant alito. fuck scalia too though
wonder how theyre gonna explain this one in court
close enough welcome back samuel alito
thats one of the only things i think is unlikely to happen under trump's rule
ho isn't even trying to hide his blatant contempt for queer people anymore
i need it to happen so fucking bad
i pray it happens sooner rather than later
if republican minority rule actually does become permanently entrenched within the united states i'd be worried whether i were trans or not
as a trans woman living in the united states i'm worried about my human rights being stripped away
i'm not one to police anyone's choices on whether they want to start a family. i personally wouldn't want to
not even sure what kind of future i'm supposed to be hopeful for in my lifetime when every single time there's been an opportunity for one it's been squashed by capitalism
honestly not sure what it would look like now to uproot fascism and how we successfully get to that point. it's getting substantially more difficult to have hope this can stop without it taking decades before the steps to rebuild are able to even begin
hbo max reverted and they had to take their spot
oh wow... i need a minute to think about this...