What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter.

i am actively shifting into a new mandela effect timeline

THEY WANNA BRING BACK COMSTOCK

My (trans) girlfriend has just been suspended on Bluesky for mocking the moderators by stating a fact. It's a "serious violation" Fucking hell

I've seen multiple people, who are very high-info themselves, say they didn't know he had an MD *and* a PhD *and* was a Rhodes Scholar until the hit piece came out and then they looked him up

Really don't think McMorrow thought it through

Am I stroking out in the ER or is Hakeem suddenly striking a tone that is fit for the moment

Not for nothing, but I think a lot of people have wrongly settled on “Twitter became a right-wing cesspool because all the cool people left” instead of “All the cool people left because Twitter became a right-wing cesspool.”

It’s never gonna stop being funny/sad how absolutely *terrified* conservative men are of just like… cities.

If you're a true Sicko and need the results of the Legal Marijuana Party primary in the Nebraska Senate race (a real sentence we just wrote), we gotchu. (The guy Osborn wants to win is winning.) electionresults.nebraska.gov/resultsSW.as...

90-9. Red state Dem voters know ball

McMorrow has really been testing my preference for McMorrow in the primary.

They should make a military sci-fi series set in the Unknown Regions centered on the Chiss Ascendency. They’re not allowed to include any known characters. I’d watch the shit out of that, but that’s why it’s never going to happen.

Mallory McMorrow seems like a good and well-meaning person, but I'm really not sure about the campaign she's running

Breaking: South Carolina Senate rebuffs Trump, declines to take up redistricting before midterms, preserving Jim Clyburn's majority-Black district South Carolina State Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey: "We are the most gerrymandered Republican state in the country already"

February: Gallup says that due to cost reasons it will no longer do presidential approval polling May: Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM-generated answers news.gallup.com/opinion/meth...

I do not think it is ageism to point out that a slim congressional majority will be at risk if we nominate a bunch of representatives in their 80s and 90s

this is a monumentally terrible proposal that shows why Peltola is going to win this race “fuck you, it’s cold up here and we deserve special treatment” is the essence of Alaskan politics

Incredible

Assume this Strait of Hormuz thing works out, because it’ll be bad if it doesn’t? Awful analysis, even worse as a financial plan. Political constraints are real, you fools. War is very real. Iran gets a big say in how this goes, and their priorities are power and security, not US investors’ books.

would a gas tax cut really help ordinary americans? no. but can dems score easy wins by doing things that make people feel like they're being helped? also no. but they can they expand the base by relentlessly focusing on affordability instead of trump's lawlessness? signs still point to no

To be clear, that's not to say trans people can't behave poorly in ways that deserve a suspension or ban. But the moderators seem to want to break the trans userbase by over-enforcing certain rules against trans people and under-enforcing the same rules when trans people are targeted for harassment.

I like Bsky a lot, but it seems undeniable that the ownership/staff hate who their users are, and particularly hate the fact that trans people are such an avid userbase. In addition to being despicable, that's also concerning as someone whose living currently depends on trans Bsky.

SCOTUS is staging a coup & we should call it that

I admit it! I'm triggered. I think rank racism is, in fact, offensive! I think God will smite you. And I would happily be his instrument.

The South has, in fact, risen again. We'll just have to put it back down.

where is john roberts to tell us that this is just one of those apolitical, unpopular decisions the court has to make sometimes?

Years ago, I used Kickstarter to successfully fund documentary work on the decriminalization of pornography. Crowdfunding was critical because major institutions shy away from funding anything to do with sex. I'd be terrified now.

This is one reason why Republican justices make the decisions they do -- they expect Dems to obey the rules while they unilaterally change them.

I have no confidence in the current head of moderation of this site's ability to fairly moderate this site.

I'd like to elect democracy protection extremists. I'd like to elect fascism-crushing extremists. Can someone point me in the direction of a political party that's putting these kinds of extremists up for election?

They're not going to stop with trans. They've realized that they can get away with just about anything if they claim to be protecting "the children." If they roll back gay marriage, they won't stop there either. There is no fucking accommodating these people, they must be defeated & marginalized.

the moderation team is going to kill this app

Just learned Spencer Pratt's dad was my dentist growing up lmao

Dipshits like this are so dangerous. Glad the students responded to bullshit as bullshit.

Me: Here is a sunset Bluesky: THERE'S A GOT DANG CHEETO IN THE WHITE HOUSE!

The dumbest people alive were mad that Zohran threw this woman under the bus lol

will stancil is in fact the target of a harassment campaign which includes people smearing him with obvious lies. 1

Democrats are in an endless struggle session about how their messaging isn't ideal. Meanwhile Republicans just straight up boast about starving people to death.

Johnny Depp really was a wife beater and the online campaign against Amber Heard was wildly evil.

Really tired of stories calling things a blow to Democrats when they are actually a blow to democracy

Kate Willett is mostly known for being a NIMBY from an ostensibly left wing perspective. I and others pointed out that this is contradictory, and that NIMBYism pulls people to the right. Now here she is denouncing a democratic socialist in favor of a fascist.

marjorie taylor green can get fucked for all eternity, what is wrong with people

She's also wrong on the facts. America didn't "choose developers over people," we made it illegal to build housing in the places people want to live.

Look, if Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to fight against Trump, great. Do that. Absolutely. Good luck. Cause chaos. Whatever. But absolutely no one on the left should be teaming up with her for anything.

Gotta nuke the Virginia Supreme Court and keep the map in place.

MTG is absolutely a white nationalist you dumbfuck. Zaid Jilani is one of the dumbest assholes in media.

It’s gotta be so easy to be a conservative economist. It doesn’t matter what the situation is, you get to just lean on the same tired gripes, like mashing buttons at a Street Fighter cabinet. Spamming the “I don’t want to pay for this” button regardless of what’s going on.

Not a lot of fun stuff in politics but watching Orban’s defeat is fun.

Fuck em