As an aside, I’ve seriously thought about writing a quick primer on the gym for trans girls, but I feel like an imposter having only been lifting for like 6 months.

I just saw an ad for “Femboy Fitness” and like… guys, it’s really ok to just do any lower body workout program. We all have the same bones and muscles, regardless of gender.

Feel like this is gonna be coming up a lot more soon.

Would add too that if I could retcon one thing out of Trek medicine, it’s the dermal regenerator. It gives people the impression that future medicine can easily just Wolverine your injuries away.

Girls should be required to wear skirts to school is an extremely feminist position 🙃

It’s genuinely frustrating to me that society literally just started to accept this with gay kids (albeit imperfectly), and we now have to do it again with trans kids. I knew we were in for decades of “You exist but you don’t deserve special rights.” But not flat out existence denial.

Math is also just so poorly taught for applicability. Would’ve gone much better for me if the teacher had said, “Ok kids, there’s a thing called the Cartesian Coordinate Plane. You know how they’re always talking about the stock market on the news and showing a graph? This is that…”

Mike Yestramski at the Millionaires Tax rally just now: “This is a state that’s willing to tax tampons, but not Amazon.”

And in final passage votes, the #WALeg Senate Ways & Means Committee has voted to advance the Millionaires Tax! 🥳 A huge thank you to committee Democrats for keeping the bill intact from bad amendments, and to all the everyday folks who testified in support on Friday! Next stop: the Senate floor!

Usually when I look at Free Press outrage bait, I search for missing context or have questions about how much the story is just anecdotal. In this case, I’ll go on record saying that white women making yoga studios condemn ICE kidnapping their neighbors is good, and we should do more of it.

I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

How denouncing Bad Bunny could give Gavin Newsom a much-needed Sister Souljah moment.

Lady Gaga being in the show is also Latino culture because we all have that white cousin who can drink tequila and speaks perfect Spanish two years after marrying into the family.

Mike Vrabal right now: Maybe the real Lombardi Trophy is the friends we made along the way.

Fun fact: The divorce scene in the Kid Rock show was an actual divorce showing a wife leaving her conservative husband.

Hawks fans discovering what Saints fans already know: 4th quarter pick 6 is the best way to seal up a Super Bowl.

To be fair, he’s 100% right about the kickoff rule.

Bad Bunny has more yards than the Patriots.

The Turning Point USA halftime show makes it clear: our multicultural society is keeping us from watching a guy dressed kinda like Ben Franklin play the violin not particularly well

Love how theatrical this one is.

West Coast half-time show with sunlight is sooo much better for the visuals.

Lincoln Lawyer is so unrealistic. A lesbian saying she has too much going on to date, and the other one comforts her and convinces her it’s fine to keep going at whatever speed suits her? Utter pish posh!

Jed Fowler: "I am someone who would pay this tax, and I am here in support of this bill." "Fixing upside down tax code is good for business, can only be as strong as the community I am willing to pay this tax and I urge you to pass SB 6346"

At the hearing for the Millionaires Tax in WA, opponents keep referencing “pie crust promises” from the legislature, and I still have absolutely no idea what this metaphor means.

Simple Klan

Some outlets have already called this, but seems maybe too close to call?

"More knowledgeable" might be an undersell, he was an Assistant Secretary of State. The point is he's not the freshman congressman who goes on the AIPAC trip and comes back conviced, "Oh my god, we gotta do more to defend Israel from the barbarians." Tho he is a politician, he did go on the trip.

Malinowski is one of the more knowledgeable (former) members of Congress on foreign policy. I can see how AIPAC got the idea to target him, lest he convince more establishment type colleagues to break from the unconditional support orthodoxy. That seems more likely now with their tacial blunder.

Katie Britt could literally decide to be on the right side of history this second by simply saying: “I gave a racist speech on national TV in 2024 that enabled these horrors, and it eats at my every day. I will now use all of the power of my office to put a stop to this.”

someday I need to tell the story of how white feminists in the 2000s seem to have “discovered” sex trafficking as an issue just as both reproductive justice and feminist anti-prison movements (and intersections thereof) were ascendant—an issue they could own once they felt they weren’t centered

very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth

Neither choice is good in this race. Platner has serious issues. And the “Janet Mills would be 115 years old by the time she acquired as much seniority as Susan Collins,” TV ad writes itself.

Liberals replying to this: “No, it could’ve been prevented if only people had voted for Kamala.” Anarchists replying to this: “No, it could’ve been prevented if only people had given us money instead of Democrats.” Thus proving Robert’s point completely, nobody had a solution. /1

it's more like looking at two groups of scientists who have failed to develop antibiotics for a treatment resistant super bug fighting over methodology rather than trying something new

i don't particularly disagree with a lot of the critiques of anarchist activism by liberals but I bristle when they act as if their best practices are any wiser. we're here because none of us figured out how to avoid being here. everyone should have some goddamn humility.

So, if I'm understanding the American Society of Plastic Surgeons' (@plasticsurgeryasps.bsky.social) new position statement correctly, it's totally fine for 12-year-old cis boys to get gynecomastia surgery purely for mental health reasons, but not for 18-year-old trans men to do the same.

I know this is horrible, but I burst out laughing at how this dude has a Lucille Bluth understanding of the cost of estrogen. It’s definitely the reason trans sex workers need to “make a lot of money” and not, y’know, rent.

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ah spoken like someone who does not understand that 19-year-olds shouting at the phrenologists who were invited to speak at their universities is the real assault on free spech

Kamala’s platform was, “Obviously I’m going to have a Republican Senate, so we can’t do anything big,” which was also a problem with both John Kerry and Hillary Clinton’s campaigns. Run on big proposals, claim a mandate when you win, then shame opposition for going against the will of the voters.

My issue with gender dysphoria as a psychiatric illness and disability is that it’s really depression and anxiety caused by material circumstances. Those are recognized disabilities already, though we do a shit job accommodating them. I do agree our struggles are very linked.

A reminder that the criminal justice system still disproportionately ruins the lives of BIPOC and poor people, even when they happen to be doing a thing you personally don’t like.

The, “Shut up and listen to marginalized people when they talk about their own oppression,” mentality was actually really good advice. If I were to make it softer, I’d say, “Give marginalized people every benefit of the doubt when they talk about their oppression, before asking questions.”

Again, note for every Dem mayor or Governor. You do not need Mamdani’s charisma to find creative ways to promote the services that your city or state provides to its residents. Make government cool again!

Corporate media shifts when there’s massive public pressure. The problem is they go back to their old ways when the pressure dies down. Hence all of the, “OMG the police were defunded and now huge crime wave!!” stories in 2021.

For years, the @nytimes.com has baffled journalism watchdogs with its anti-trans coverage--markedly different from typical centrist media coverage of trans people. A former Times editor traces an ideological change in coverage to the 2022 changing of the guard at the paper. fair.org/home/an-insi...

I realize Mamdani is uniquely good on camera, but this is something every Dem Mayor and Governor should take note of. More for run of the mill public service announcements associating the executive with the basic services the city provides.