Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

There are so many Black self-liberation stories like this - just the coolest shit anyone’s done & I truly believe that if America liked stories of revolutionaries or rebels defeating elites as much as we used to act like we do we would have mined these types of stories more for film & television.

Evangelicals, for some reason, can't bring themselves to admit what's painfully obvious to the rest of us: They don't worship God, they don't follow Christ, and they don't particularly want to. The message of Christ isn't convenient for them politically. It doesn't let them revel in others' pain. 🧵

Don't be shocked. In a hundred years, American historians (if there are any) will be teaching about how we won this war, just like the War of 1812!

for the record, the statute she's dogwhistling at says that emergency departments have to save patients' lives even if they can't pay. it doesn't say that those same EDs can't send that indigent patient a massive bill afterwards. and guess what? they do. they do send people those bills.

Translation: Ford, GM, and Stellantis are institutionally incapable of innovating, their dealer networks are a bunch of head-in-ass losers, and the only way to keep these falling Goliaths afloat is to make sure no American ever experiences the competition's products.

Just want to be clear that I don't condone anything. Bear in mind that anything that ever happens, anything whatsoever, happens without my express condonement

i'm seeing the "surveillance car that doesn't work if it thinks you're an impaired driver" discourse today, and BOTH SIDES ARE RIGHT! distracted driving is a massive problem that needs to be addressed, and building yet more surveillance infrastructure is in and of itself harmful!

genuinely this is just "your empire can't collapse now! i'm not ready yet!". i sympathize. if it were possible to have a stable transition to what seems like the inevitable multipolar world, i would want that. if there were a solution to the iran war that worked for all sides, i would want that too.

Parker Molloy is telling it like it is: www.readtpa.com/p/the-scolding

Dying in office because you insisted on clinging to power until the very end instead of letting a new generation of leaders rise should be seen for the shameful, egomaniacal act that it is.

It's crazy how the legacy automakers keep "making bets on EVs" and then failing hard, when their "bet" is that they can make an F-150 or a Silverado EV sell as well as the gas powered ones. If Ford, GM, or Stellantis made EV station wagons - real station wagons - they'd sell gangbusters*.

a powerful reminder of the grotesqueness of man's sinful nature, thank u sonic

The replacement of Jesus with Trump as the messianic figure in right wing American Christianity is predicated on plausible deniability, and Trump breaks this contract every time he explicitly acknowledges that he has taken the place of Christ in their worship.

me, watching the hungarian election results:

People don’t wanna put two and two together with what he did to usaid and him putting up those maps of global birthrates and saying white people are being replaced

even something as simple as "the number of unlawful border crossings has sharply dropped" paints a grim picture. people used to risk their lives and suffer to live here. it was that desirable. now, most people don't even want to visit the USA. this is what winning looks like i guess.

Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

We're about to hit an energy crisis that'll make the '70s look cute, and a huge driver of energy demand is AI data centers. When the petrochemical supply shocks hit and power utilities have to make load-shedding decisions, who's going to lose power? Ordinary people like you and me? Or ChatGPT?

My response to Mike Masnick's "AI May Be Our Best Shot At Taking Back The Open Web", on my blog: blog.starbreaker.xyz/2026/03/26/t... TL;DR: "AI" isn't the answer, *you* are. We are. Together.

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

search your camera roll for "hell"

Jesus this is insightful banger after banger.

A lot of folks here have the wrong takeaway. There is no such thing as an email provider that can't be subpoenaed. Proton's approach is to encrypt your data and to keep as little of it as necessary. This is a very secure system. Credit card payments aren't. You can pay for Proton in pther ways,

Dozens of U.S. strikes on Iran. Dunno what to say now other than my thoughts are with the Iranian civilians under fire. What a nightmare.

operation blowing up residential buildings because a dozen rich old guys got caught molesting teenagers in the 90s

This is what I need cis folks to understand. It's been a decade. Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

It's Twitter. It's always Twitter with these people; when he says Dems need to "be more normal" he means random people need to be less mean to him and progressive on Twitter. Newsom is a classic member of the terminally Twitter-brained political class.

Not to be super smarmy, but the effect of Donald Trump sending $1700 checks to every Illinois family would not be what the Khan would want. Granted, Trump's a crybaby fascist and he would never return what he stole. But people still remember his COVID stimulus checks.

Saying "um, ah, well..." for thirty seconds and then changing the subject has been the literal policy of the united states as regards the defense of Taiwan for decades. The whole point is to avoid giving a straight answer. If you want to critique on FP at least read a Wikipedia first.

the most batshit thing about all this is that Brits don't even have the problem Americans do! Y'all have another option!! Just vote for the Greens!

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

In the Fort Logan National Cemetery in Colorado, and in others throughout the nation, there are acres upon acres of tightly packed graves of people who died to defend what Elon Musk derisively calls a "multicultural economic zone." That American vision - a multi-racial democracy - is worth dying for

Seeing multiple people talking about the "Transgender Bill of Rights" sponsored by @markey.senate.gov and @moulton.house.gov. It's not a bill at all. It's a non binding resolution that wouldn't do anything if it passed both houses - which it won't. Deeply disappointed to see people falling for it.

This is obviously incorrect as a description of fact but it is a forthright expression of MAGA goals and aspirations: they believe it should be illegal to not like, agree or associate with them bsky.app/profile/bern...

Minnesota still needs your attention

Anyone in Lewiston Maine around today? I'm looking to meet queer folks who have been volunteering to support immigrant communities in particular! Currently posted up at Blue Jay Coffee - come say hi! (I'm definitely working but I won't use anyone's info who doesn't want to be in a story.)

So apparently it's now just a risk in the US that airspace will suddenly shut and all flights to/from a metro will cancel for more than a week. Large companies will have to organize bus convoys to evacuate employees. Cool, cool. Definitely going to encourage business travel and tourism.

This is straightforwardly antisemitic and anybody trying to argue that it isn't is either deliberately wasting your time, trying to normalise antisemitism and/or too pig ignorant to bother engaging with other than to tell them to shut the fuck up tbh.

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.” Conditions in a San Diego concentration camp, via message hurled out in a bottle.

The first big fascist wave in Germany and Italy was driven by the humiliation and suffering of WW1. Our current wave of American fascism is largely driven by rich guys who want it to be illegal for you to laugh at them.

To expand more on Mr. Sanchez's post and the article he linked: there are a few reasons for this beyond the standard media bias against liberals and city dwellers. One is that with the partisan media restructuring post-Fox, journalists got broadly sorted into two camps: the liberals with their...🧵

This is really an instance of a very longstanding trend where secular pundits end up unwittingly aligned with fundamentalists in treating the crudest and most extreme version of any faith as the genuine article and everything else as somehow inauthentic.

They abducted this person from Mayo Clinic and not even an elected rep has been able to get them the anti-rejection meds they need to not die AFTER AN ORGAN TRANSPLANT.