We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

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Cis het people - If you need an issue to throw yourself deeply behind, I am never kidding when I say this is one where the life you save may be your own. Because if you think mass institutionalization will stop with trans people, I have a wealth of reading for you to do about NS Germany.

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

This exchange says it all.

An American dictator tweeting wildly into the night, seeking obedience. Calling the concerned criticisms from political opponents treasonous. All the while, Russia looks on and laughs. They never thought invasion would be so easy. #poetry #booksky #books #TheTrumpYears

So a MAGA guy killed another MAGA guy for not being MAGA enough and MAGA decided to declare war on Democrats and Liberals and Trans people over it. Because, of course the violent ones want more violence. As they accuse the peaceful ones of being violent as an excuse for their violence. Disgusting

"Conservative" influencer is wholly inaccurate. We are not facing down "conservatism." We are facing fascism. He was a fascist. Training young Americans to also be fascists.

I just saw a comment that said "I don't support what happened to Charlie, but Charlie supported what happened to Charlie." THAT ... that's what I've been trying to put into words.

The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned. And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized. I refuse to sanitize him.

Please remember how protagonists triumph by disbelieving in the monster. The monster always wants us to cower and tremble instead of knowing how powerful we are and the truth really is.

Nice turn-out in Lexington, KY, for the Labor Day rally supporting laborers over billionaires! #SupportUnions

The thing about Covid is that, for a whole year, people & leaders were forced, by a real visible crisis, to listen to experts and try to do the right thing. And they absolutely hated it & never want to do it again.

Taking photos and video of law enforcement officers performing their duties in public is our constitutional right. This includes police, FBI, National Guard troops, ICE agents, and other government officials.

A legal permanent resident researching cures for Lyme disease has been detained by immigration officials for over a week. He has reportedly been denied access to an attorney and his family has not been given a reason for his detention. We cannot become immune to this cruelty.

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This makes Watergate look like a family picnic.. The most blatant, most obvious and most extensive cover-up of sex trafficking and pedophilia in history.. Right in front of your face in broad daylight..

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@tomtomorrow.bsky.social @rubenbolling.bsky.social First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow

The next time some guy tells you he's 'a self-made man' ask him how he managed to fertilize his own egg.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Omigosh, I just learned that Ecclesiastes 10:16 translates as "Alas for you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning." I can't unhear the echo in our current moment of a toddler-tyrant and his oligarchs cannibalizing our body politic, our land, our people.

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Everything SCOTUS is doing makes the most sense if they believe that they can successfully keep a Democrat from ever taking office again

Boy, if only someone would have told Epstein everything was fake and a creation of Obama and the CIA and deep state, he wouldn’t have had to take his own life or have it taken by imaginary people

Quick question. There are still almost as many troops in LA right now as there were at the end of Afghanistan. Why exactly? Also where are the mass deportations of white illegals, like from Russia?

We shouldn't need a Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, but here we are. Still underpaid. Still undervalued. 66 cents on the dollar means we lose thousands every year, for doing the same job. Over a lifetime? That’s hundreds of thousands gone. Pay Black women. Period.

When was the last time a party of the right was encouraged to select a leader that could appeal to the left? Yet every time a party of the left has a leadership race, being able to appeal to the right is supposedly massively important. Not having it. Let's stop watering ourselves down.

Trump propaganda at taxpayer expense.

some people are gonna need a few days in the fetal position and some people do best when immediately given a task and some people need to immerse themselves in joy and comfort we have to let everyone grieve and feel this shit however their own nervous system needs. this is gonna be a long fight

They are the swamp.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

We're living in Squid Game - The US Congress Edition.

History repeats. #3E #AlligatorAuschwitz

#LexingtonPrideFest y'all. This interfaith group of clergy gave blessings of love, peace, joy, forgiveness, and healing -- with a dash of glitter! #Kentucky

Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!

MAGA’s version of freedom is arresting people in wheel chairs who are peacefully protesting against cuts to Medicaid. That’s called fascism, not freedom.

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

The Democratic party establishment that lost us the White House, the House, The Senate, 27 Governor races and the Supreme Court went all in for Andrew Cuomo. And it appears they lost again. Time for regime change for the Democratic Party.

Be warned: Trump will likely use his war with Iran as a pretext to further suppress dissent at home. We must resist his efforts to stifle freedom of speech, make warrantless searches and arrests of Americans, and put more military onto our streets.

If the president pisses on the Constitution and dares you to flinch, impeachment isn’t a debate. It’s a duty. Tyrants don’t stop. You remove them—before they finish the job.

I haven’t seen nearly enough people talking about this. The levels of greed and inhumane thinking on display is actually terrifying. America really is dystopian as fuck.

She gets it.

RFK Jr. sent Congress 'medical disinformation' to defend COVID vaccine schedule change Will someone , anyone please fire this fucking quack before he kills more people. You couldn't find a worse Health and Human series director if Putin appointed him himself to fuck over Americans

If a US Senator is not safe from being handcuffed and detained for free speech, none of us are safe.

PADILLA: “If this is how the administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, cooks, and day laborers throughout the country.”