Poor and working people, the elderly, and children are always the ones having to shoulder "fiscal responsibility"

Almost as if the entire conservative project is just to launder odious, right-wing policies via projection. They've constructed a mythical, all-powerful phantasm Left to wage their war against. That Left doesn't exist. It's a right-wing construction to justify illiberalism.

It’s remarkable how this administration has done every single thing conservatives pretended liberals were doing when Biden was in charge.

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins says poor Americans are being kicked off SNAP and are “moving into the American dream.” Also known as malnutrition.

conservative pundits (sneering): actually our christianity is more a set of ideological views about race and gender than anything resembling faith or observance everyone else: yes we know, it's not a secret

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

It’s important to understand how the right’s obsession with “protect the children” is a smokescreen to push through policies to legislate the existence of all queer people, but particularly targeting trans people. It doesn’t stop when a person turns 18.

He doesn't mean they're doing better now. He just means we stopped helping them.

Walk into an urgent care and you have to opt out of a GLP-1 conversation katemanne.substack.com/p/a-woman-wa...

The fact that my tax dollars are going to pay these assholes instead of for healthcare and education is gonna chap my ass for the rest of my life

My money is this will be a conversion "therapy" racket that anti-trans families will use to harm their kids, all with the veneer of respectability from a medical institution. People's gender journeys are often non-linear and unique. That some people's journeys are being weaponized is pathetic

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

A low-grade irritation in the shift in body politics in recent years: a resurgence of thin women posting mirror selfies captioned "and the BMI says this is overweight." The point they are making isn't liberatory, it's anti-fat. It's "the BMI is bad because it categorizes some thin people as fat."

also you should straight up be ashamed to lend your name and face too “poor parents with infants have it too good”

sorry, i work at a university in a red state, and it’s illegal for the women & gender studies faculty to spend research money to attend their conferences. what in the fuck are they talking about

interesting the way the VRA is presented as some kind of imposition from above, and not the product of one of the greatest social movements this country has ever seen

I know the bad guys are winning right now. It is nonetheless striking that they have to brazenly lie about their goal, pretending it is anti-discrimination rather than restoring white supremacy. They implicitly concede the popularity and undeniable moral force of the Civil Rights Movement.

gestured towards this in my column today but republicans seem to have adopted this idea that the partisan lean of a state represents some mystical General Will such that the south isn't just a place with republican voters It Is Republican and no democrat has a right to serve within its borders

These burdens, in addition to means testing and compliance checks, cost more than just actually giving people the resources and services they deserve

america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.

sure gas is headed to $8/gallon but at least cornell got rid of their gender studies classes. or at least i think they did, i haven’t checked and if im being honest i wouldnt really know if they had or hadnt because it doesnt affect me but it makes $8/gallon gas all worth it

@adamserwer.bsky.social, will you be available to sign your book next week at the Chicago event with @jamellebouie.net? Would love to shake your hand and get my copy signed

You don't "earn credibility" when you disavow one of your deranged views but keep all the rest.

Alito’s logic in this case—that characteristics that correlate with racial identity, like partisanship, aren’t constitutionally protected and can be used to disenfranchise legally is *the exact thinking* that gave us poll taxes and literacy tests.

Prayer didn’t abolish slavery, secure women’s rights, defeat segregation, or expand civil liberties. People did that — through activism, reason, democracy, and constitutional protections. Progress comes from courageous action, not politicians staging prayer circles for cameras.

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

Why is it always a problem that liberals are over-represented in higher education or media but it's not a problem that conservatives are over-represented in the military or law enforcement? What's the military doing to solve its catastrophic viewpoint discrimination problem?

thank you sam alito for ending the unconstitutional racial discrimination against white conservatives and allowing them to obliterate federal representation for as many black people as they can manage, as the reconstruction congress intended

@timothysnyder.bsky.social's theory that they're trying to construct Trump as the savior of fascist Christian theology with devout followers just keeps gaining evidence

i was told by john roberts and sam alito that racism is over so i won't worry about white republicans in the south jumping over themselves to end black political representation wherever they can

"You can only challenge the racial gerrymander if you preserve the partisan gerrymander that was the reason for the racial gerrymander" is tortured logic befitting Redemption or Jim Crow. The court effectively deemed the VRA and the 15th Amendment unconstitutional while pretending they didn't

A SCOTUS that believes that the Constitution protects the political rights of corporations more than it does those of non-White Americans is fundamentally illegitimate and its rulings should be treated as such

100%. Until the Supreme Court is reformed and the corrupt members removed, nothing else matters because the Supreme Court and its corrupt members will just stand in the way of everything else. Any Democrat who can't get behind that simple fact should leave politics now.

I’m seeing people struggle to understand today’s SCOTUS ruling. That’s because the conservative justices took a law explicitly created for equity and said, “What if we just claimed it meant the opposite thing?” This is the judiciary’s playbook for dismantling every law from the civil rights era.

It’s interesting what some people consider social problems that we must solve collectively (men being sad) and ones we consider not worth solving at all (anyone else’s problems) bsky.app/profile/volt...

Cannot stress enough that what's happening now and will accelerate over next few weeks is a big spike in fuel costs paid for by every American that will flow *directly* into insane, unprecedented profits for American oil companies. They're going to be the big winners of this.

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

Quinn Slobodian: Twitter is a megaphone for a far-right international. SpaceX's valuation is based on the idea that Elon Musk can put AI data centers in space and ramp up Starlink mobile - to control the internet and keep the free press out of the conversation in a closed, hermetically-sealed loop.

Them: "think of the children!!!!" Me: omg yes you are so right. we should abolish child prisons, stop funding militaries that slaughter children, ensure every child has access to medical care and healthy food, provide mental health counselors in schoo-- Them: NO WE MEAN CENSOR THE INTERNET!!!

Journalists who are still attending the WHCD this year don't seem to get just how much things have changed. It isn't 1998. You're not going to pose for cute photos with the West Wing stars at "nerd prom." You're enabling a regime who's assaulting your own profession & you're torching your career.

There is a long, sad history of denialism with white-supremacist violence in this country, dating back to the first Klan. Now it has the WH/DOJ imprimatur.

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time. This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

It's essential, but also a fitting punishment for someone who spent so much time and energy protecting the statues and memorials of the white supremacist traitors who came before him in the Confederacy.

Anne is a saint. Her interlocutor just kept repeating herself and never added anything to the conversation. Just goes to show that all anti-trans rhetoric is hollow