The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

As a therapist, the unspoken thing I think of whenever I see an article about ICE detainees is the amount of trauma that will last long after they are released or deported. Whatever accountability happens after this fascist regime needs to include mental health care reparations for its' victims.

You Do Not Hate Congress Enough

Absolutely dying at right-wing radio host Sid Rosenberg getting so angry that Mr. and Mrs. Met hugged @mayor.nyc.gov that he started calling them antisemites and became a Yankees fan.

“I never thought the leopards would agree with me, says man who made millions off of saying ‘I Agree With The Leopards’”

nuremberg 2.0 needs to end with the assets of all those guards seized and handed over to their victims

it just lifts my heart to feel heard. thanks, ICE lawyer. 💜

The same people who "not all men!" get really mad if survivors of sexual assault assumed that maybe not all men.

RIP to the weirdest and queerest college to ever do it. The Hampshire Queer Conference was instrumental in helping me build trans community back in the day. An incalculable loss for liberal arts education

A huge loss, a bad sign. Plus the elimination of Hampshire College means an end to one of the best things about Hampshire: getting to take classes there on UMass tuition. (I did, all the sweeter for having been accepted to but not being able to afford Hampshire.) RIP “the Five Colleges.”

my sign saying we operate under US law has a lot of people asking a lot of questions already answered by the sign

Really cool and normal that the leader of our country is now openly calling himself the messiah

Look, I have made a very active effort to not amplify any of this guy’s engagement-baiting posts, but “the pope is weak on crime” is, unfortunately, hysterical.

this fucking sucks, yes, but have you considered how perfect it is for hanging a whole lot of stuff? I have a few ideas in particular,

Look it’s either this or a cruel unfair system of taxation where Jeff Bezos goes from having 419 billion dollars to 417 billion dollars

NEW: The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device’s push notification database, multiple people present for FBI testimony in a trial told 404 Media.

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Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against these heretics

Detransition is often used as a cudgel against the transgender community, but most people who detransition actually remain trans supportive. Today on Assigned, @madisyn-writes.bsky.social spoke with three detransitioners who support trans people. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

I genuinely can't stop thinking about the Iranian kids who spent yesterday wondering if they were all going to die and what that day will do to them for the rest of their lives.

Only a master deal maker could achieve the status quo of 5 weeks ago in exchange for accomplishing nothing of value and turning his country into a global pariah. Thank you sir

a guy won temporary control of, technically, one third of a federated lattice of rules and organizations that themselves sit atop 50 other state governments, and many more municipal, county etc etc. that guy is now threatening to use that authority to wipe out an ancient people for no known reason

I have been informed that my Second Chance episode of Jeopardy! is now streaming on Hulu! So if you didn’t get a chance to see it last year or just want to relive the fun, grab a cask of Amontillado and turn on Episode 9242!

pretty clear bright line today, anyone in power who isn't doing everything they can to remove him from office deserves handcuffs when this is all over. that includes any democrat who votes for anything he wants

Struggling with the work/WW3 balance.

Probably what’s going to happen is that Trump will napalm 50,000 puppy orphanages then post an AI video of him skullfucking Snoopy’s corpse on TruthSocial and then we’ll all be smugly informed by the Very Clever People that we were overreacting because he didn’t use nukes.

The rest of the world should probably collectively stand up to the U.S. right now, tbh

I feel like threatening to murder an entire civilization is kind of the literal definition of genocide. Maybe someone should do something about this?

they zip tied children for landlords

This is really all they have left. "We have a pointless and criminal war pushing gas prices through the roof and the global economy to the brink but at least the government isn't treating trans people like they're human beings" will be the entirety of the midterm message.

“I’d rather commit genocidal war crimes than acknowledge trans people exist” ~Average Republican

alex trebek in famous paintings: thread

This isn’t journalism. This is creative writing by fascist sycophants.

Ngl he roasted us here

Pat’s Cheesesteaks:

look at that you son of a bitch thats all we have. thats it. that's all there is, this impossibly delicate little egg in the endless black nothing. this water droplet. its our home, its where we all live and hating each other just makes no sense when its this precarious

this is weird

It's honestly kind of mind-blowing that this is the first time in over fifty years that anybody has been able to take a picture like this. Images of the earth are completely familiar to us, but a human hasn't pointed a camera at the whole planet for half a century.

“Taking Control” is an interesting way to say “Invading”

Finally, a version of Jeopardy! specifically for trans women

Absolutely incredible watching them run the same playbook on children with ADHD and autism that they did on trans youth.

anyone ever noticed how psychotically evil, cruel, and anti-human republicans are

8-1. would love to hear the democratic party dead-enders spin this one for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“States can’t ban conversion therapy but they can ban trans healthcare. They can’t regulate ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ but they can ban abortion. The plain text of the Constitution just happens to align with the GOP political platform. Do not dare suggest we’re doing politics.” —The Supreme Court

Between the conversion therapy ruling and the efforts to ban kids from the internet to “protect them” from “transgender influence,” we’re right back in a culture of violently enforced closeting. And the data around self-identifying as trans and queer already reflects this

If therapists are not subject to any sort of viewpoint discriminatory regulation by the state, then states cannot ban or regulate them from telling minor clients to drink bleach or kill themselves because that would be viewpoint discriminatory.