shutting down a major artery into the city during a holiday weekend while the world cup is in town and there’s a historic heat wave that’s lead to energy rationing just so you can have a wedding is a real radicalizing eat the rich moment

Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

As a certain wedding creates gridlock & drains resources in NYC, the bride's fans gush it's all grand- she "donates millions" as one of the "good ones." Nah. That's practically couch change to a billionaire, just a tax break/ PR. No such thing as an ethical billionaire. youtube.com/shorts/5s9VH...

The White House is openly saying they want to eliminate a minority group and people still want to say this is about sports.

in the full clip he says these policies is the “far left saying the quiet part loud” and it’s just overwhelmingly popular positions lol

It's really hard to convey just how massive the scale of legislation has been to target trans people. From a few dozen pieces of legislation in 2015 to over a thousand in 2025. It started with sports bans in 2020 and now we're here. it was never about sports.

Just absolutely insane to me how many milions were spent and the massive political and legal effort exhausted just so a state can ban a single trans girl from playing sports with her friends in school.

Here's why you should care about the trans athletes case today: Because if discrimination on the basis of gender identity doesn't violate equal protection, trans people can be segregated, outed, denied medical care, denied housing, denied jobs, and excluded by the government.

The trans sports ban are almost completely an invention of the media, conservative and mainstream. it has been years of lies, of shoddy fact checking on just completely false conservative claims, years of phony concern trolling.

i cannot stress enough how much this man should not be the democratic presidential nominee

Where's this energy for fascism?

We are in a full on dictatorship, rivaling the most entrenched ones in the world. Anti ICE activists, who printed a zine, are labeled “terrorist” and sentenced to 30-100 years in federal prison. By this metric we’re all targets. Genuinely chilling. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

what if they fought back against republicans instead

One of today's political prisoners. Cartoonist & zine maker Daniel Rolando Sanchez Estrada wasn't even at the ICE protest. He was accused of "moving" a box of anti-Trump zines THE NEXT DAY. A rightwing judge sentenced him to 30 years! Just for possessing zines. The darkness is descending.

Forced detransition is genocidal. Let’s be clear about this. If you strip a group of people of the medical care they need and force them to abandon their cultural and personal identities, it’s elimination.

History looks at things based on facts & evidence. Lee’s point is exactly that. In future Starmer’s political history will be one that is measured in his connivance in genocide abroad & the destruction of human rights at home. That’s an astonishing epitaph for a man who was a ‘human rights’ lawyer!

to be clear, this fascist shit is happening because the king told a lie about vandalism and they're retroactively arresting people to try to make it seem like it's true

Trump's racism should be no surprise. His company got caught committing racial housing discrimination. He spread lies about the exonerated Central Park 5. He entered politics with the racist birther lie. There's a reason Trump was once endorsed by David Duke and the KKK's newspaper.

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

The USFWS plans to hand over more than 700 acres of The Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge — home to some of the United States’ most critically endangered species — to SpaceX in a reckless land swap. Tell your senators to stop this giveaway. act.biologicaldiversity.org/Ws09iSNvsE2X...

It's amazing what you can do when you remember that schools have a primary responsibility to the children they teach and nurture -- not to the ed-tech industry or gen AI profit margins.

there needs to be a coordinated global effort among democracies to destroy this man's financial and social media empires and leave him impoverished and powerless

Blue Man Coup

This morning scrolling Bluesky, there is nothing at all in my feed about Putin’s barbaric attack on the Ukraine’s holiest site, the UNESCO protected Lavra so I’m posting this here.

It shouldn’t be controversial to say that the creation of a “trillionaire” represents a giant and complete failure of public policy and government.

THERE IS AN ACTIVE POGROM IN NORTHERN IRELAND. FASCISTS IN SKULL MASKS ARE GOING DOOR TO DOOR PULLING MIGRANTS OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND SETTING THEM ON FIRE.

#BBCBreakfast: "... families had to be led to safety through the flames.. it wasn't just homes, cars were also torched by young masked men in these predominantly unionist streets, but the target here was immigrants.." This is what the likes of Reform are inciting.

So many people focused on Bari Weiss asking to make protesters look more violent and glossing over Pelley admitting they’d already dug deep for the most violent protester footage they could find. His interview is more of an indictment of corporate media than many want to admit.

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

i also have very little to add to this other than if you fell for this extremely artificial panic, fucking shame on you, and it got you absolutely nothing and nowhere and now your life is worse too.

Scott Pelley has provided @status.news a statement blasting current CBS News management and even accusing them of having tried (and failed) to "inject falsehoods and bias" into his stories. www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

I left twitter because I don't want to support a neo nazi transphobe who doomed thousands to starvation and disease by gleefully dismantling USAID. But hey, you enjoy your conversations over there, that's what really matters, right?

Today @victoriascott.bsky.social writes about Juniper Blessing, a University of Washington student who was murdered last week, and worries about the potential loss of a better future for young trans people she had always hoped was coming. www.welcometohellworld.com/this-pain-ha...

I want disbarments. I want the feds to be required to pay the defendants' legal fees. I want consequences all up and down the line.

Trans kids just want to live man. Mine came home today and announced that they now have twenty-SIX friends bc a new kid joined their class and they can’t remember his name but they’re sure he’s nice. Anyway. Call your reps I guess but also start beating asses, I’m all the way done with this shit

This makes me want to scream. A large chunk of my high school seniors submitted AI-hallucinated sources on their annotated bibliographies, but they're teenagers, and they did suffer the consequences. Adult researchers who feel oppressed by requirements to use valid sources?? GTFO

In her final years, Sinéad O'Connor donated her old clothes and unused makeup to Irish trans teens as she wanted them to enjoy expressing their gender identities. Sinéad never punched down, stood firm in her beliefs, and will always be loved by the people of Ireland. Ms Terphy is nothing of the sort

Bernie Sanders and AOC are more popular with voters overall than centrists like Gavin Newsom. So why is Third Way targeting popular political positions? Could it be Third Way is a corporate-funded mouthpiece?

i’ve been thinking of what could even be said about such a tragedy. someone said it best that trans people are “born so late and die so young”. we uproot our lives and transition and live more life than anyone else ever does and society punishes us for it. we deserve better

What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter.

I feel so incredibly awful for this poor girl and her broken hearted family. I really wish the world were different. www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...

Bail is for people who haven't been convicted of a crime. This is voter disenfranchisement. This keeps eligible voters from voting & creates justifiable distrust of electeds among families, who then may not vote. When you blame your problems on non-voters, perhaps ask what disenfranchised them.

I can vouch for Walker, he's great.

The strongest Republican on earth, the lived dream of billions of Republican dollars, decades of Republican organizing post civil rights, who is currently stripping away those victories won with Black blood, posted him and his wife as gorillas man. But he used some of his Colbert time to boost them

Rutgers School of Engineering canceled a commencement speech by Rami Elghandour—an alum and executive producer of an Oscar-nominated film about Hind Rajab, a Palestinian child killed by Israel—because "some" students complained: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... His response (via X):

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

In general, a reason you shouldn't defend alleged transgressors on the merits of 'they've never behaved like that in my presence' is bc due to the nature of power, abuse & victimization, predators carefully curate both victims & allies. No shit they aren't doing that around you. That's part of it.

DOJ identified 4 green card holders who voted in 2024 in NJ, or 0.00006% of total votes. As I wrote in 2024, noncitizen voting remains extraordinarily rare. Audits find only a tiny handful of cases, most often green card holders who got bad advice from others.

A visibly emotional Anne Hathaway responding to a trans kid--who named herself Ella after Ella Enchanted, and thanked Hathaway for her courage as an ally--saying "Ella, sweetie, I want to make something absolutely clear: It takes zero courage to love you"......now I might cry too