writing about this topic again today so I thought I'd re-up this (𧾠includes a recent essay & video):
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writing about this topic again today so I thought I'd re-up this (𧾠includes a recent essay & video):
this is an excellent move.
This deleted (but archived) Truth Social post of Trump's from Thursday night is like something out of Twin Peaks: media-cdn.factba.se/realdonaldtr...
One thing about never-Trump Republicans, during Trump II particularly: They understand that the world they knew is dead. They have no investment in either reviving the former GOP (because they understand it's impossible) or maintaining the pre-2016 Democratic Party (because it's not their party).
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this thread was extraordinarily helpful and shaped my thinking on this. unrolled it for easier reading.
please donât stop talking about what theyâve done to dc
If you went to the No Kings protests, every blue-haired lib grandma there wanted revenge. Not bending the moral arc blah blah blahâvengeance. As I keep saying, everyone knew what calling your enemies Nazis implies about their future. Yet the only politician I've heard speak about payback is Pritzker
Not one of the stories on the CDC have mentioned misinformation on gender affirming care for youth as part of the Trump administration's attack on science.
Brothers and sisters Hope still waits in the wings Like a bitter spinster Impatient, lonely, and shivering Waiting to build her glorious fires -ASMZ
we're ~~manifesting~~ đŽđđŞ
a good day for *someone* to die, anyways
This is like in Peter Pan where the audience tries to revive Tinkerbell with applause. Except, you know, the opposite.
going to bed tonight without knowing if it happened feels like tomorrow is a school day, there's a test, and the forecast is for snow. that was probably the last time i went to sleep with a wish this strong in my heart.
please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender â 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender â 4,193. Hope that helps.
I demand that polymarket let me speculate on this with money (or, more honestly, let me watch other idiots do so)
Honestly love that the vibe here on a late Friday night going into the last weekend of summer is âgosh I really hope heâs dead, weâre gonna throw one hell of a partyâ
i can just tell this one's headed for Ratio Alltimers
Why don't you hold the CR until RFK Jr. is fired if you care so much?
isâŚis the senate minority leader who spent the weekend before the hhs secretary confirmation voteâafter choosing not to deny unanimous consentâin a grocery store howling at the elderly about oncoming tomato price hikes telling one of *us* to fire rfkâ˝
Thereâs a conversation to be had here about how the failure of the dems to meaningfully improve healthcare access education and justice created this opening
Just tried watching Ezra Kleinâs latest NYT podcast episode on how the U.S. got to this point where vaccines are so politicized. Itâs pretty clear that Klein and his guestsâDavid Wallace Wells and Rachael Bedardâreally do not understand why/how the political right turned on vaccines.
RFK Jr is a literal Nazi. A literal, actual Nazi. Here's one of his Nazi dogwhistles
Trump is still one of the main problems because his insane appeal to his base allows him to impose programs that are obviously illegal and wildly unpopular with the general public. Vance canât ride the MAGA tiger
A Trump voter imprisons your neighbor itâs law and order. Kicks their gay kid out its religious conviction. Shoots you dead itâs self defense. Kidnaps you, itâs border security. Invades your town, itâs fighting crime. Tell them you donât like them anymore, it was all just âpolitical views.â
I believe the ruling was stayed as it was entered pending appeal
openly dogwalking john roberts in a diaper, which is one of the many terrible fates the motherfucker deserves
Gentle correction. Since 2002, I've done public records research & investigative reporting (on my blog) as a hobby. Here's how my wife & I exposed my dad as a remarkable - and dangerous - medical quack. medfraud.info IMO here's the best history of "the Heimlich." www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
gavin newsom is an evil piece of shit.
BREAKING: Federal Circuit, 7-4, rejects Trumpâs tariffs under the IEEPA, affirming the lower courtâs decision against Trump. www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-ord...
People with trans children are in an exceptionally precarious position due to the potential for weaponization of CPS by chuds.
Thirty years ago, this week, an article diagnosing the "Californian Ideology" of Silicon Valley was published. This scathing critique has become a badge of honor for the new tech right. As I argue today in Tech Policy Press, it has never been more relevant: www.techpolicy.press/thirty-years...
Excuse me but how the fuck is "guidance" not supposed to have "a prescriptive character"? That's what "guidance" is you dumb fucks!
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This hit me like a fucking ton of bricks
The Trump administration dares to ask the question "but what if von Hindenburg himself were also an outspoken Nazi?"
This rule basically birthed the drop-shipping industry, which is now suddenly dead. Wonder if we're going to see any reportage to that effect, or...?
love this energy
conservatives got so mad about me posting this years old meme they wrote about it in newsweek
I think one of the things people misunderstand about being anti-ChatGPT and related products is that they are being forced into institutions and other products and services in ways that affect all of our lives whether they work or *not* and we will all have to deal with the consequences
get wrecked you fucking ghoul we all know you're doing this because internal polling is baaaaad bad
a few things here fwiw: first, one reason Harris voters might abandon fascist friends under a fascist regime is that those friends are super dangerous. they've said they will hurt you; you can believe them. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/it-may-not...
The belief that trans people should be discriminated against because they are inherently predatory, as opposed to the cis strangers that parents allow their children to share a bathroom with, is in fact a crystal clear example of anti-trans bigotry (and mirrors other forms of bigotry, I might add)
That's my guy again!
He sure looks like he's been practicing the opposite of "outbreeding" for far too long
thereâs a whole thread on AI being set up for epistemicide btw.
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
"pat me on the head, patriarchy!"
Like it's a good joke but it's also horribly literally true and I hate it
I *sincerely* doubt we will ever see The Argument admit this lol
This whole accusation is just the ideological version of the monsterfication trans women get subjected to. Since the wider trans community is already perfectly fine with physically monsterizing trans women, itâs not surprising that theyâre also eager to believe that weâre monsters in ideology too.
"The problem is the human heart. It's mental health." "And that's why this administration is dedicated to just absolutely crushing the human spirit and withdrawing any form of support for those with mental illness other than locking them up and throwing away the key."
Transgender rights are human rights. Womenâs rights are human rights. Immigrants' rights are human rights. Disability rights are human rights. Workers' rights are human rights. Human rights are human rights. Human rights are non-negotiable.
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
yo this guy is cooking
@jerusalem.bsky.social makes an accurate observation on Twitter about the true nature of the rightâs project - eliminating trans people. I am curious if we will see The Argument cover the implications of this observation - that there is no grand bargain to be made on trans rights (cont)
Anyone who is still telling you that Dems need to ditch trans rights or immigrants in order to be electorally viable but hasn't grappled with this is not commenting seriously imo
This entire narrative pushed by the far right of an "epidemic of trans violence" is completely bullshit. It's propaganda designed to stoke hatred and incite violence against trans people while building support for policies designed to eradicate our community. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
if corporations are people then Tesla and Musk both deserve a death sentence
this kills the billionaire
This came to me in a vision
only so many words you can put in a headline but the whole response is loud and proud support for the trans community and worth reading
I always understood it as a deterrent, like, no, you canât just go shoot some people to get your incoherent rambling published. But I think that youâre probably also right
Trans People: I'm not voting for anyone who would negotiate away my right to exist. Liberals on here: OH MY GOD WILL YOU CUT IT OUT WITH THE PURITY TESTS ALREADY JESUS STOP BEING SUCH A BABY DO YOU WANT TRUMP TO WIN A THIRD TERM THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT ACTUALLY I HOPE YOU ENJOY THE CAMPS
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
The fecklessness of @nytimes is despicable. Never forget that two weeks before he started WWII, that wonderful publication did a puff piece on Hitler's mountain retreat. www.nytimes.com/1939/08/20/a...
they think they can just erase trans joy and trans freedom. they can't. they can make things a lot harder and more painful. but that joy and that freedom is not theirs to take and it is incumbent on all good people to say so.
I simply do not acknowledge community with non-dysphorics
âSneak their ways into the trans communityâ first of all this is our community to begin with
adding "doctors" to the list of professions that, alongside judges and lawyers, have so far given a good account of themselves under authoritarianism
1. The US Dept. of HHS, headed by RFK Jr., has announced that it will hold $81 million in sex-ed funding hostage unless schools drop all mention of trans people. It could lead to a decimation of sex-ed funding in needed areas. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Itâs crazy that America just like. Destroyed science. Just looked at its golden goose and went âwow should we kill this? And not for the gold, but just because we fucking hate this thingâ And if you tell random people about it they go âno, that doesnât seem trueâ and just refuse to believe you
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Here is Weizenbaum in 1976 clearly expressing my own view: using AI as a psychiatric tool to treat human beings is not just wrong, it is obscene. I believe we should be using the term âobsceneâ far more often to describe these perverted uses of AI technology.
Even if the topic is important, Taylor canât be relied on to cover it fairly. Iâll wait until someone credible investigates it.
Three letter agent glow so brightly
RFKjr is monster who is going to kill millions of people. Any attempt to justify or normalize any aspect of his war against US, justifies & normalizes his overarching goal of killing millions of people. He needs to be opposed completely.
Exactly this, which is why humor can be so useful at times
It does help. Any outpouring of support for the community like this helps, and is something I think that the community needs to hear about in these dark times. Good on you and everyone involved.
Props where they're due I guess but this would be a little more impressive if Schumer and Durbin could whip their party into NOT VOTING FOR the very nominees that they're slow-rolling, no?
I can't fucking believe I have to say this but meeting a fascist halfway means you are at least half fascist yourself!
Next week it'll be September. So far no sign of Republicans standing up to Trump in any meaningful way.
@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social why are you chumps still humping the corpse of bipartisanship? this administration has run roughshod over precedent, law, and decency and you still want to meet them HALFWAY? RESIGN YOU FUCKING HACKS.
Thank you for this, I have desperately been searching for bright spots today
If you'd like a little mood boost, here's a testifier from last week's House committee meeting! I've found myself coming back to it quite a bit; he really broke the tension in the room lol
Maybe they'll eventually regain their nerve, but for the moment, JB Pritzker appears to have single-handedly spooked the Trump administration into backing down with one 12-minute speech.
Newsom agreed with the position that people under 25 didn't have sufficiently-developed brains to be allowed to tradition. There's a podcast that's been going around on Bluesky for a week or two now.
You sound like a cultist, not a liberal
ah yes "blacks and Latinos"
Chris Kluwe on Gavin Newsom and his treatment of the trans community: www.thehandbasket.co/p/chris-kluw...
I think that so far the shooter has come up in: * an interview with RFK on Fox News * a WH presser with Karoline Leavitt * referenced by Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, Christopher Rufo, DJTJr You're probably already aware of these and have your own threshold in mind but thought I'd track them in case
A broken dam can begin with one crack(pot)
there is no need to transition, simply hypnotize yourself out of dysphoria!
Q: Hm, how can I make sure *everyone* knows that this character is a trans woman? A: Just load that sucker up with every fucking dysphoria trigger known to man
ah fuck. well at least it's somewhere, but I nuked my account there after the inauguration, so finding it there is going to take some doing
Trans. They're actually blaming this on EVERY trans person. This is "The Eternal Jew" level of hate and evil. If you ID as trans and in the USA: while the process is difficult, attend the Canadian border ASA fucking P. You're currently being sized up for an oven.