California-based transfem lawyer of color (she/they). Legal Fellow at @facoalition.bsky.social. Everything is gender. Opinions are exclusively my own, reposts are not endorsement. 🇺🇸🇧🇷🇭🇰🇦🇺 (EN)
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im literally shaking. just got back from the store, where a masked man in a big coat grabbed me by the arm. he said: "listen here suit man. you didn't clock nuttin on the boss' sleeves, see? button that yap or you’ll get yourself fitted for cement shoes, capisce?” then he disappeared into the fog.
FORTY PERCENT
this part is important he frequently says "this is a failure of media framing / coverage" when he explains the problem and everyone else is too scared of the NYT op-edligarchy to do that
A lot of people watching The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox on Hulu asking me "Was it really that bad?" It was worse. For example, in ep 3, the police lied to me that I had HIV. But I didn't find out so soon it was a lie. They made me wait 2 weeks thinking I was going to die.
if doing funny bits could stop fascism then John Kerry would’ve won in 04
shouldn’t the people still on big twitter be happy that the people they hate are all over here on tiny blue sky instead what are they complaining about
so there aren’t going to be enough votes for it, is what you’re saying
Bill Maher is so unhinged in this ep that at one point, Woody Allen has to defend the Me Too movement
it's cool that the future of politics is this
we killed good paying journalism jobs because of media markets
some crimes can never be forgiven
the senate’s final official act will be to informally grant unanimous consent to its own dissolution
didn’t she keep yelling about how she was going to piss herself in public the entire time
The country is being informally ruled by a woman who once handcuffed herself to the door of Twitter HQ in a way that allowed everyone to walk right past her through the other door.
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me when I’m fucking wrong
I tracked down source of a TikTok i saw about horrific car pick up lane in a Tennessee school district. And it is true. Parents arriving by noon to wait in line for hours, doordashing food as they wait, etc. www.wbir.com/article/traf...
Venezuela is
Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
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.
BREAKING: On a 2-1 vote, D.C. Circuit denies the Trump administration's request to let Trump fire a Federal Trade commissioner during appeals. Citing Humphrey's Executor, about the FTC: "To grant a stay would be to defy the Supreme Court's decisions that bind our judgments. That we will not do."
"sexual harassment doesn't exist" is one of the wildest outgrowths of the left this decade, but I guess it makes sense for a decade that began with "we are going to organize against the idea of a female president and mock the concept of women being bosses"
"I have never walked by a construction site while visibly not a dude"
Anyway when the Trump administration tells you they are concerned about antisemitism, just remember they haven’t told federal agencies that scheduling major events on Jewish High Holy Days is off limits but they do want to deport brown people who oppose genocide You can do the math
Jews: please don’t schedule events on these three days Antisemites: those three days are suddenly the most important days ever to schedule events on
PUT 👏🏻 JEWISH 👏🏻 HOLIDAYS 👏🏻 IN 👏🏻 YOUR 👏🏻 CALENDARS The head of my org is Jewish. I have the Jewish holidays calendar on my work calendar so I don't schedule meetings during important holidays! I don't want him to have to do that calculus!
kind of funny addenda to the “should libs leave/stay on X” wars is that no right winger seems to care that the two largest figures of the Republican party, Donald Trump & Elon Musk, run competing social media platforms and each mostly refuse to post on the other’s platform
the fact that the trans community actively denies the existence of class gradations between "struggling, bottom rung, proletarian" and "literally Caitlin Jenner" actively puts newly out trans people at risk while ostracizing trans people who've gained any stability at all as basically billionaires
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...
Episcopalianism will clear
seeing large swathes of this website tell trans people to shut up and stop complaining about having their rights taken away has genuinely given me a lot of insight into how the Compromise of 1877 happened
wait when did people start getting mad at me??? what? aaaaaaa
With love to other trans people, you all are madder at a hypothetical trans person whose only traits we know are “lawyer” and “ordered a latte” than an actual political betrayal in the real world.
Reminder that someone who trolled Stancil from the left later tried to set Jews on fire at a Holocaust memorial, so “how dare you say we’re as bad as twitter” to him is going to hit differently
it’s quite frankly insane that we’ve managed to turn having a child into a financial transaction akin to purchasing a car within the space of a single human lifetime but nobody has even really noticed that it happened
I think the best framing for this issue is just to say that we shouldn’t punish people financially for the choice to have children - maybe that framing is not 100% accurate but it’s mostly there and it also keeps the focus on freedom instead of technocratic control.
JD Vance Rushed To Walter Reed After Inner Hillbilly Returns
in fact I think the fact that we’re discussing this issue using the technocratic framing of “not enough humans are being produced” instead of the human-first framing of “people are being unjustly robbed of love and happiness” exists downstream of the nuclear family’s destruction of community
I mean it’s also way worse for humanity in most other ways and is perhaps one of the biggest factors which created the low trust/high anxiety social environment we’re currently being forced to live in, but because the topic was about birthrate I focused on how it’s bad for that
I personally think that birth rates are low because the nuclear family is a less than one century old social construct that was manufactured and exported to replace the traditional community-based method of childrearing and it’s actually way worse at the goal of “producing more humans”
that shit jumpscared me I didn’t know he was on here
Seriously, I’ve given up understanding how this place works. I get cancelled for saying Gary Gygax’s invention of Dungeons and Dragons was not as bad as Belgian atrocities in the Congo but not for making a sympathetic D&D character that is the mailed fist of a bloated and decaying colonial empire.
it’s like I always say: Israel is at its core a time and geography displaced post-WW1 Central/Eastern European republic
Zionism is a logical result of throwing into the boiling pot of 19th century Central European ethnic nationalism 2000 years of violent antisemitism in Europe and abstract Jewish cultural longing for Eretz Yisrael. That's how the soup was made. America helped scald people with it but it didnt make it
or, put another way: evidence indicates that birthrates are mostly determined by women's preferences for kids. excessively patriarchal bullshit--aka making women choose between full social participation and momhood--makes childbearing a worse deal for women.
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look. i was a 4chan person. for a lot of years. there were good things. there were. and they helped give me the exposure to ideas and ways of being that helped me survive, ultimately. but. there was a cost and i chose to finally leave for a reason. it corrodes you.
I was just saying random shit and now 2.3k people listen to me??? I’m scared
sometimes we are done eating dinner and want to talk about something else
incredible screenshot because: yeah, this is what makes bluesky great. only some out of touch dipshit thinks normal people say "I want to talk about kitchen table issues" all the time. we are making fun of your stupid circle jerk David! rightfully so! you stink!
i love seeing twitter users with a haughty attitude towards bluesky as "lesser twitter" despite twitter being a nazi shell of itself. there's something to be said about people who insist on resting on their laurels even as they crumble and erode beneath them. their arrogance is pitiful and amusing.
I hope when Kevin Costner dies his obituary identifies him as “American Actor Who Portrayed White Characters”
in a sane world most of the American public would know what “Bronze Age Pervert” is but only in the context of “why JD Vance isn’t a Senator”
there has been no articles on the fact that the Vice President follows a guy who reads SS memoirs
looking forward to Labour quietly changing the UK’s sentencing guidelines for incitement or some shit like that
transphobia is a spiritual disease that rots your soul and drives you insane. it can happens on the individual level, as shown by Graham here, and on the societal level, as shown by the country he lives in. if we allow it to enter our governing coalition it’ll destroy us too.
this man is absolutely delusional. no. im not being ableist. im accurately describing his state. just a paranoid mess of a man.
transphobia is a spiritual disease that rots your soul and drives you insane. it can happens on the individual level, as shown by Graham here, and on the societal level, as shown by the country he lives in. if we allow it to enter our governing coalition it’ll destroy us too.
Graham Lineham is a living example of what transphobia does to you. believing in a secret conspiracy of “men in dresses” who are marionetting the police to personally ruin your life, even as the politicians of your country begin to more and more enthusiastically restrict the rights of trans people.
like for every centrist pundit that says, "oh, you learn to live with this in your replies": what do you think this does to your soul
*a lot of former Twitter users, I ran out of characters
it’s less a sudden shift and more that a specific subculture gradually become ascendant after Musk’s purchase of Twitter, which is why its remaining users don’t realize how bad it is - those factors mean that you could, easily, misread it as part of a wider cultural shift that happened post-Trump
another part of it - one that even many Twitter users will refuse to confront - was that “neofascist Twitter” was an extant community on the site starting in 2014 that simply kept to themselves and operated quietly after moderation crackdowns in the wake of GG. they ran a *lot* of “meme accounts”
I honestly think a huge part of it is the frog boil effect. like if you plopped the 2019 versions of these people onto 2025 twitter they’d likely be highly disturbed and stop using it immediately.
no you don’t get it i HAVE to use super/pol/ it’s for my JOB as a JOURNALIST AND PUNDIT it’s how i keep my finger on the pulse of REAL AMERICA
i don't think being on a site that gives anti-Black racism 20k likes is good for the soul
I understand what you’re saying, but also: Richard Spencer
It's quite funny how "The Argument" was presented as a left/liberal publication and they were incapable of holding that pretense for a nanosecond, the whole thing has been "you should post on X," "you should be nice to your MAGA family members," and "JD Vance isn't so bad."
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The UK’s approach to prosecutions for social media content is quite different than ours in ways I have criticized. This one is within shouting distance of prosecutable in the U.S. The relevant question is whether it’s sufficiently imminent to meet our incitement standard./1
It's funny that Vance's own law school roommate has publicly called him "dangerous" and his classmates launched a special fundraiser to defeat him, but the American elites who *don't* personally know him are still like "hm, Yale Law, how bad could he be?"
insane things to say about a certified Bronze Age Mindset enjoyer
i think the genuine issue for centrist Dem pundits is that they are trying to fight yesterday's wars today they think they can Sister Souljah woke and trans issues and basically treat 2026/2028 as normal thermostatic elections
BREAKING: Judge Charles Breyer finds that the Trump administration violated the Posse Comitatus Act by using the military for domestic law enforcement purpose in Los Angeles. He enjoins further violations of the Posse Comitatus Act ⬇️ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Voting EO or Venezuela
you kinda suck too man
it's not like I felt any kind of gender euphoria form that situation, it fucking sucks. but it is funny to live the life of a woman and then being told that no one sees me that way. okay tell that to the incels constantly trying to hurt me to deal with their own loneliness and insecurity!
I've had a recruiter tell me I was passed over because they thought a "woman would not be interested in an 80% technical role" I have 19 years experience doing that
buck angel distributed AI deep fake revenge porn of a trans woman youtuber he was having an online fight with. fuck this dickhead youtu.be/mBjlPIwflug?...
Please talk to some Black people before dismissing the psychological impact of having Feds running around the neighborhood hemming people up en masse.
Of course they mean cis girls, but this tracks pretty easily. Research has also shown that feminine and GNC AMAB trans people are the most vulnerable group of queer kids to polyvictimization in child and teen years.
I want to stress this—the research I’m talking about didn’t just show that the feminine boys were reacted to more negatively than masculine boys, but more than girls, too. Feminine and masculine girls.
My sister in christ, the First Amendment lets the NPS grift account put the word "official" in their bio; it does not and cannot actually make them official, kindly learn how constitutions work.
Hey maybe this site would fare better if anyone in charge showed even the slightest interest in banning off the small but vicious community of socially maladjusted, nominally leftist freaks who rightfully understand it's a place they can go to endlessly insult everyone else and be rewarded for it
People are confused when you tell them how often transphobes are attracted to trans women. Because too few of them realize how many straight men sleep with women *because* they despise them and see them as lesser.
14 million Africans are going to starve to death you heartless ghoul. Way to not care about lives in the third world unless it serves your political goals you fucking racist piece of shit
Going to have to rewatch Rock & Rule in their honor. I'm not even going to get high this time any more than is necessary.
Every six months they find a new way to say the problem is that any politics not entirely keyed to the cultural and social prerogatives of white men
ANYWAYS IT'S SURE LUCKY THAT A BELOVED AND CRUCIAL POLITICAL COMMENTATOR WITH WHOM WE ALL STRAIGHTFORWARDLY AND COMFORTABLY AGREE HAS BEEN MAKING THIS ARGUMENT FOR YEARS ALREADY AND HIS NAME IS WILLIAM STANCIL [falls into an overstuffed armchair, sobbing]
*stares into the distance for several minutes*
I’m on a list for following conservative accounts despite not following any of the accounts the list monitors
Fascinating that this guy couldn't finish the first sentence without antisemitism and the second without a transphobic slur. The weepiness is exhausting
I’ll never forgive BYU for doing this to the world
Seems bad
honestly the most disgusting reply I’ve gotten from this post, bar none. they may as well have said they only care about Gaza as a stick they could hit Harris on the head with
