saw hornet silksong today

Y'all remember when we were all fired up about the Emoluments clause? Those were the days... So young. So naïve.

Them: The Conservative principle— Me: Whoa, whoa, hold it! You lost me.

Trans people: can we have rights? Conservatives: no because we're killing you. Centrists: No because you're the reason we can't have unity in this country. Liberals: No and this is why we have Trump, because you're so selfish. Leftists: No because we have to focus on real problems first.

I can see the WSJ headline now: "Pilot in fatal crash pushed radical left ideology and loved trans people: sources".

Neoliberals want you to believe that there theatrical parades are actually stopping fascism when the reality is there nothing more than theater to collect your information pacify you through inaction that feels like protest, and then milk you for dollars as they do nothing else. It’s theater

October 14 is George Floyd Remembrance Day. Mark your calendars.

And I owe the same apology to my followers as well. Nearly every day I post what appears to be a complete non sequitur. It's not. It's a subskeet intended for a specific list that I'm on.

Cool cool. I'll let let @murray.senate.gov and @cantwell.senate.gov know how much this means to me as a trans Washingtonian. And I'll be sure to mark Oct. 14 on my calendar as Trans Day of Fucking Shit Up.

People have been sharing online celebrity interactions today. My biggest one is... frustrating. I was following Sarah McBride before she got elected to the Delaware state senate back in 2020. I had several interactions with her on Instagram. I've since ditched both her and Instagram.

I keep writing and deleting responses to this, so I will just share without comment and let you draw your own conclusions.

I did the thing. These were a long time coming. Disney walking back LGBTQ+ inclusion, Colbert, Kimmel, mergers and acquisitions too mindbogglingly large to keep up with. HBO has been in decline since Discovery acquired them. Besides, piracy is really the more ethical choice at this point.

It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.

Another fun fact: if 3% of the population didn't pay their taxes*, it would take over $1 trillion out of the regime's coffers. *Normal folks based roughly on median income. Of course, it would have to be self-employed/1099 workers, but they abound in the gig economy.

They say that it only takes 3% of a population to successfully overthrow a regime. Hell, the Nepalese people did it with 0.3%. That's 3 in 1000, or 1 million Americans willing to put it all on the line.

*guy gets lynched* 🦗🦗🦗 *Guys tv show gets canceled* AMERICA IS RUINED

Oh, it takes silencing Jimmy Kimmel to get you riled up? Not the daily assaults on the Constitution that have been happening since day one. Not the goon squads kidnapping immigrants (documented and otherwise), not the involuntary institutionalization of unhoused people? Jimmy Kimmel?? Smh. 🖕

I'm not changing my bio. Come at me, you fascist fucks!

The federal crackdown following the J11 protest has left Mikki in a very tough spot. Their phone and e-bike were confiscated as evidence, they lost their job, and they were forced to move to Boise even though their entire life is here. Please consider giving them a few bucks.

"Tr***ies are controlling the weather to murder patriots!"

ABC immediately caves to tiniest bit of gov’t pressure. If you don’t defend basic free speech rights, you’ll lose them. Simple as that. Gov’t hasn’t just threatened us at media matters, they’ve actually used power against us. We don’t fold, we fight in court. If we can, ABC has no excuse

I'll be at Q Lounge tonight at 8pm for Openly Mic, exercising what's left of my First Amendment rights. I'm feeling more ranty than funny, but I guarantee *somebody* will make you laugh. Come for the queer solidarity, if nothing else.

Exactly. No amount of self-censorship or capitulation will slow the forces that will lead to our erasure. Existence is resistance, so it behooves us to exist big.

For the record, it wasn't a debate. I 100% agree with and support this.

If recent statements from Dem leaders have taught us anything, it's that Democrats are not just willing, but eager participants in our oppression. Polite deference to fascism is a bad look. We are on our own.

While you're heating up the roadkill pigeon that you're cooking over an open barrel fire under a collapsed bridge amidst the ruins of empire, cursing your pus-filled fingers, a realization will dawn in your disease-riddled brain: "We should have listened to the transes"

IDK about you but I'm sick of seeing Charlie Kirk quotes. Let's see some Jim Kirk quotes! "Well here's one thing you can be sure of mister, leave any bigotry in your quarters. There's no room for it on tye bridge. Do i make myself clear?" -James Tiberius Kirk

IDK about you but I'm pretty sick of seeing Charlie Kirk quotes. Let's see some Jim Kirk quotes! "Your planet is dead! There's nobody alive [here], because of hate. The cause you fought about no longer exists. Give yourselves time to breathe, give up your hate!" - James Tiberius Kirk

If anyone thinks this is sudden they *really* haven't been paying attention.

At this point, if you're getting your news from ANY legacy media, you're consuming state propaganda.

The rule of law has already fallen. More civility simply isn't going to bring it back. I'm absolutely committed to nonviolent means of resisting, but those nonviolent means have to be loud, confrontational, inconvenient, and aggressive to work.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

If this is what puts us in the camps, then so be it. It was gonna happen anyway. The right has shown time and time again that compliance with their asinine double standards doesn't buy favor. So fuck 'em. This is our Constitutional right, for whatever that's worth.🧵

Yup. My creativity and my productivity have been in the toilet the last nine months or so. I count myself very lucky to be self-employed, because sure as fuck bosses aren't going to accept the trauma of trans existence as a legitimate excuse for suboptimal job performance.

People are coming at me citing the NY Post reporting as fact. Just blocking and moving on. Parents and teachers: for the love of Glob, teach your kids critical thinking skills! It's kind of important for our survival.

Check-in complete. We're staying for the fight. I had been holding space for fleeing, but when my partner and I talked through specific scenarios, we were both resolved to stand firm. 🧵

Yep, finally doing it. Please help, any size donation you can!! And if you can't help, please share! Any share increases my chances tenfold!!! Thank you 💖 #transcrowdfund #crowdfund #emergency #GoFundMe #immigration #transrights gofund.me/d33ceb1f3

To do today: -purge online accounts of the worst of the breadcrumbs -check in w/ partner re: fleeing vs. staying. - remind friends and family of our emergency code phrases -update/refresh bug-out bags

I wrote my doomerist predictions too early in the day yesterday. They weren't doomery enough.

I wish I had the words to make people see me as human. To break past the dehumanization. The words that would make everyone understand if they just heard them. I keep imagining there’s some magic arrangement of words I know that could do it - even as I know I can’t. I just got to try and hope.

People died on Jan 6. Paul Pelosi almost died. This guy winked at and advocated for perpetrators of political violence. If the right wants to impose their totalitarian new order through violence against anyone who speaks out, I think I may have to insist they actually come and get me.

People have been imprisoned during truth and reconciliations for less than the New York Post is doing. People were executed at Nuremberg for writing "Jewish Crimes" articles in Der Sturmer.

CW: unbridled doomerism. I just needed to get this out of my head. 🧵

"Now I see a little better how Nazism overcame Germany - not by attack from without or by subversion from within, but with a whoop and a holler. It was what most Germans wanted -or, under pressure of combined reality and illusion, came to want. They wanted it; they got it; and they liked it."

Nothin' to see here, folks. False alarm. Go about your business.

This is what I sent to @wsj.com .

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/

Imagine, fellow skeetsters, that Dems defy all probability and right-wing chicanery and manage to soundly retake both chambers of Congress next year. Hell, let's give 'em a supermajority. Do you honestly think anything is going to change? After what we've seen over the last two days, I doubt it.

But it won't, and they won't. It's exactly what they wanted. They saw an opportunity and they took it.