You just voted two weeks ago to ban any mention of LGBTQ people from federally funded schools and to forcibly out trans kids. Don't you dare come here and say happy pride.

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People who think Democrats are too woke and radical now control all three branches of government, the institutional apparatus of the Democratic Party and all major media outlets. Stop fucking congratulating each other for saying it!

Once Frank dies, people are going to insist that you can't say bad things about him, which is why it's more important than ever that you say all the bad things about him right now. Time's running out!

This graph shows two things, 1) obviously that the cameras reduced speeding, but 2) that the improvement kept getting better over time. Speeders tend to get one or two tickets and then learn and change their behaviour. This isn't a cash grab, it's an extremely useful intervention.

all the appointments, paperwork etc for being treated for adhd—it’s like “the doctor will see you for your broken leg. the office is on the 50th floor, here are the stairs, there isn’t an elevator. no this isn’t a joke, why would you think that?”

"hinge.com" (1999) had info about hinges, and "threads.com" (mid 2000s) sold spools of threads! web.archive.org/web/19990208... web.archive.org/web/20070708...

Everybody, absolutely everybody, saw Callais coming. It’s the logical outgrowth of a successful effort to gut the Voting Rights Act that spans decades, predicated upon a myopic understanding of racial discrimination and an antebellum conception of federalism. That doesn’t make this any easier.

Transphobia and opposition to trans people's human rights exists in such a low information environment it is practically a void of cultivated ignorance, there's people who will straight up dedicate their every waking moment to bigoted hatred yet refuse to learn the first thing about their targets.

But now it's crept into "any woman who fails a DNA test is actually a man." They're not protecting women's sports. They're policing womanhood itself.

you don't understand, i do not want to wear nice hats. i want to wear baseball caps

It must be emphasized: every credible organization, from medial societies (the AMA, APA, AAP, and WPATH) to anti-hate groups (GLAAD, HRC, PFLAG) to its own contributors (hundreds of them) has decried their trans coverage as biased and cruel. Their sneering response is self-delegitimizing.

there is no evidence for mail-in voting fraud. but there is the belief that mail-in votes somehow "change" the result, as if there is something illegitimate about counting all of the votes

BREAKING: The judge in the Oregon v. Kennedy case has granted summary judgment for the plaintiffs. This is the case dealing with the Kennedy declaration attempting to institute national standards of care for trans youth and referring providers to the HHS OIG to exclude them from Medicaid.

here’s a crazy fact: under congestion pricing, NYC subway ridership grew by more than the *total* number of riders on BART last year

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

The fact that he can spend $45 million on lobbying would seem to demonstrate why he can pay more in taxes. (He is worth $247 billion after all.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

my Roman Empire is how the Appalachian mountains are older than the existence of both 1) trees 2) bones

I'm not going to share a lot of details here, but I will say that the evidence the Times has accumulated to support the allegations is strong and clear. This is not an ambiguous situation, in my view.

The Cesar Chavez story discussed yesterday is out, in the New York Times. Two women say that he sexually assaulted them as children, beginning when they were 12 and 13. And Dolores Huerta says he raped her in 1966.

The reviews used to justify this excluded nearly 97% of all studies from inclusion in their analysis. This is an absolutely obscene hatchet job by the NHS specifically created to eliminate access to hormones for trans youth.

The overarching theme for the next election and administration is dealing with elite impunity. No taxes for billionaires, trickle-down BS, Epstein, war crimes, corruption ... it all boils down to lack of consequences for the rich and powerful. Run on this, promises severe consequences.

The MAGA strategy to end democracy in America is similar to that used by other "populist" parties, and is something carefully developed by the Russian intelligence services over many decades.

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

Learn the sacred texts

“‘The persecution is the point,’ said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the [Kansas Dept of Revenue] notice on Wednesday.” To underscore that: a Kansas state legislator is among those whose driver’s license will be voided. (🎁 link:)

For The New York Times to choose to publish Jesse Singal today, of all times, is a choice to attack trans people, to make them even more vulnerable while they are already under attack. It is an appalling abdication of the Times’s journalistic duties.

Not gonna lie, the radio silence from the Mamdani administration over NYU and what he can do is troubling, and I say this as someone who wrote glowingly about his campaign.

I can only dream of one day announcing something that someone, somewhere reacts to with the exact same perfectly balanced level of dread and enthusiasm as when I just learned that that there is STILL MORE Neon Genesis Evangelion coming, and it will be written by Yoko-goddamned-Taro.

Open borders create more safety than closed ones, and most of the benefits of safety are downriver from being the sort of people who keep their borders open, thereby avoiding the terrible dangers inherent to being the sort of people who would keep their borders closed.

The more of these fascist atrocities I see, the more I become an immigration maximalist. Let everyone in, give everyone work permits/green cards. Make it possible to get citizenship within a few months. Make it as easy as getting a driver's license.

Obviously lawyers should not wear a civil rights t-shirt to court. Lawyers should observe decorum by only wearing an American flag pin or a crucifix, which are neutral messages without any potentially prejudicial meaning.

They gave a bunch of roided up thugs weapons and made them immune from legal consequences. You can't really tinker around the edges of something like that, you have to end it

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Trying to find a middle ground between expressing my genuine concern about USCBP Trusted Traveller memberships being revoked for lawful 1A activity and not encouraging others to voluntarily relinquish their 1A rights #uspoli

my son is five, same age as Liam Ramos. you don't need to have a child the same age to be fucking horrified by the violence we are doing (and HAVE BEEN doing) upon immigrant children in this nation. but that he keeps asking for his spidey backpack is the kind of detail that rips my heart in two.

these people hate human beings and human life. cult worshippers of anti-life

I'm sorry, but the reaction to Brianna Ghey being murdered by people she knew offline *because she was transgender* becoming 'we should stop teenagers from being on social media' rather than 'we should deal with the recent horrifying rise of transphobia in the UK' is unbelievably fucking bullshit.

they can’t imagine that living decades under patriarchy and male supremacist violence was not also preparing us for dealing with cops of all kinds

Don't forget the dozens who've died in DHS detention... www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

You know Alex Pretti & Renee Good—the 2 white people ICE killed. ICE has also killed Keith Porter, a Black man, Parady La, a Cambodian man, & 5 Latinos—Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos. 9 TOTAL. ABOLISH ICE.

Congratulations to all the dupes who got suckered by a ludicrous moral panic and helped convert yet another social media platform into a MAGA propaganda outlet. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

Thanks so much for voting to send Americans' hard-earned tax dollars to the agency that is currently in the streets of American cities terrorizing, kidnapping, assaulting and murdering us. I'm sure everyone appreciates your investment in the fascist brute squad. Great work.

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

A buddy in MN shared a drawing a classmate of his kid made. They've been making thank you notes for parents who have volunteered to carpool them to school so their own parents don't have to risk waiting out by the bus stop.

we should want to make it undeniable that there is no choice but to end ICE, prosecute its officers for lawbreaking, and fundamentally rethink immigration enforcement.

Abolishing ICE is the moderate position, or it’s our job to make it the moderate position. Abolition was impossible before it was common sense. Civil rights were impossible before they it became common sense. Abolishing ICE is possible and that's what we should push for.

even ignoring all other evidence showing that trans sports bans are about discriminating against trans people, not protecting cis women... I'm supposed to believe that the Supreme Court that overturned Roe v. Wade and has two justices credibly accused of sexual misconduct cares about womens rights?