Trans folks reading this: don't panic too much, the supreme court thing is about injunctions pending a larger court case Cis folks reading this: Try to understand how terrifying it is to be a minority the government openly hates, and they start fucking with your ability to *leave the country*

An entire thread asking questions Prometheus didn't bother to!

Good thread, and I will add that men DO NOT LIKE IT when women say "hey, you fucked up," and to the extent that women tend to soften the blow with indirectness, it's because men feel like their honor is insulted if they have to take feedback from women.

if we paid for a few weeks of foreign travel for every American we'd have a much more civilized, less hysterical country

Oh also - lawyers aren’t allowed to tell jurors this so i do: “Jury nullification” is a fancy phrase that just means, “This jury decided not to convict and there’s nothing anyone can do about that.” If we think a law is unjust or unjustly enforced, we can just not convict. We don’t need a reason.

the leader of the department of health literally runs away everybody else rushes to the hurt guy and the Make America Healthy Again guy says "I gotta get outta here" let a hundred gifs bloom

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

To quote @helldude.bsky.social "if the judge starts quoting poetry at the beginning of an opinion, you're fucked."

this is just astrology for people with doctorates

check this out, you can (and should!) rat on the guys letting their cows shit up the estuaries! i am going to be such a narc. i love citizen science

Judge Ellis is on the bench this morning about to rule in the case about DHS's use of force in Chicago. Things are not going well for DHS — she just accused Gregory Bovino of lying under oath about his use of force.

If you haven’t seen our first ad of the campaign, here it is:

someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES

Very entertained that Xitter has finally gotten fully on board the "Mamdani's vibes and looks are strongly reminiscent of Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock flirting with opposing counsel then delivering a zinger to the jury" train I've been conducting since the spring over here on Bluesky.

"he knows he can't go straight, right?" great line lmao

1) These are made-up stats about fentanyl, 2) The fishing boats aren't carrying fentanyl and, if they're carrying drugs at all, they're not bound for the US.

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

you guys have GOT to watch the whole thing www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOQT...

really obvious now why trump and the republican party have been working so hard to prevent fair elections lol they know

Broadview is a crime against humanity

i probably sound like an asshole tonight but man i am fucking tired of pretending that democratic voters and urban people with all of the implications republicans have very much stopped pretending to dogwhistle about are not the heart of this country. it's us. it's always been us

I want you to think about the worst person you know and how miserable they are and use that as motivation to keep going we are going to win

For folks not in CA, this was literally the only thing on the ballot. And 10 mil folks felt it was worth checking that one box.

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City to Cuomo - Drop Dead.

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the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit

And Teen Vogue’s politics has been wiped out.

Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy

Obama did this, too- and frankly, even Trump does -or has done- it from time to time.

Sterling to hear more about state races and flips. Like in South Carolina:

when conservative AF Inland Empire is voting Blue... the red folks have got problems

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

That was such a fantastic speech, from at least four different angles.

The worst people you know are upset and I think that’s wonderful

really important element of this basically total victory is that it puts the fear of god in republican incumbents and may bring the redistricting push to a total halt

Reminder that this is a winning position, and people support it

The way I just CACKLED! (no, actually, the cats are still staring at me semi-aghast)

i wouldn't be a total glenn youngkin hater if i didn't mention that the results tonight mean that his total tenure amounted to presiding over the destruction — at least for the next few years — of the virginia republican party. lmao.

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

There was so much anxiety about this both online and from people I know in real life, and I was like "they stopped even running No ads by the beginning of October, I think it's in the bag"

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Logan Square, you're alright

Mamdani has won more votes than the entire population of any of the 5 smallest states.