The media desperately wanted to give the right a cultural moment and the problem is that they have no culture.

Just a fundamentally evil, malevolent person. Rotten to the very core.

I agree with this + I sorta sneered at the “resistance within the Trump administration” stuff but in retrospect there were principled people within his first administration preventing enormous harm.

This was murder. Pretti did not initiate the confrontation. He didn’t strike them. He didn’t brandish his gun. They tackled him, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him.

It’s no comfort, but the official DHS line being “he can be killed by masked agents of the state because he had a legal gun” is such an interesting new frontier in how Trump has made the conservative movement very publicly and embarrassingly abandon every principal it once claimed.

1. Shoot people like dogs 2. Unrest 3. Martial law The plan is that transparent. Don’t let them

i’m not particularly attached to “abolish ICE” as a slogan but as a policy it’s mandatory

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

You have to understand, the agent involved is stupid. We begged him to stop standing in front of cars but he can’t figure it out. He’s stupid and he has anxiety from the time before when he was stupid, so we just have to let him pop off. We wish he weren’t, but he is. And we have to respect that

could someone please do an edit of Max levitating off the ground but instead of listening to Kate Bush she’s listening to us talk about the guy fucking the horse

This is a long read, but SO worthwhile (and it gets better and better). Lots of great insight. TLDR: the deliberately adversarial relationship between trans people and healthcare providers is enormously harmful, for everyone.

Really, really good interview on the issues with restricting transition care, creating adversarial relationships between patients and providers and advocating for trans-hostile standards that harm trans people and detransitioners alike.

Bit of a change of pace: New Interview! open.substack.com/pub/transcar...

it's so odd to me to see people go to bat for a political newcomer like platner. it's not like he's spent years earning our trust. we have very, very few data points about this dude, and one of those data points is "he has a nazi tattoo."

New Article on Trans Care 101: The Trouble With Puberty Blockers open.substack.com/pub/transcar...

Ahem the guy who invented the term "evidence based medicine" just rebuked the most prominent anti-trans health lobby group in the world www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New article: the case for dysphoria open.substack.com/pub/transcar...

never forget squishy’s response to being asked if she gets off to twelve year olds

spoken like someone with nothing to lose from losing elections

“the flag would look weird” is actually the number one most important reason

it boggles my mind that so many leftists, who broadly subscribe to an ideology that correctly points out the bad incentives of capitalism, have decided that the obvious incentive for constraining supply when you own some of the supply simply does not apply to homeowners

this is indeed extremely funny but you simply shouldn’t use these things for accurate information on images the marketing is stupid, but judging an LLM by its text accuracy on images is tying both its hands behind its back

the author of this book wants YOU to know that Straight Women Can Be AGP Too

why are you as a man saying this

Slotkin: the Democratic Party must purge the weak and woke and, well, I’m not gonna say it, okay I’ll say it, effeminate and gay parts of itself to become an alpha warrior eaglehawk party whose beliefs dominate the world Weigel: what beliefs are those? Slotkin: I forgor 💀

"don't make immigration salient" is going to stick in my craw forever. just a total demonstration of fecklessness and a piss poor understanding of the political moment.

Important to note that this is the Same Guy who is so dishonest that he will somehow say acknowledge that 94% of trans women assaulters committed the offences pre-transition, and yet somehow uses the rate from those prisoners as evidence that testosterone suppression does not reduce the risk of SA

great example of a common dynamic: anything that anyone vaguely left-coded on the internet says is associated with and becomes a problem for “the democratic party”

Genuinely horrifying that an EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL has somehow devolved into inane debate over what counts as a “real vagina” what is the possible relevance?!?

I am rapidly moving from “Trump knew his rich buddy sometimes ‘dated’ underage girls and didn’t care” to “Trump was actively participating in the sexual abuse and possibly the commercial sex trafficking”

it is imperative to remember that MTG and the far-far-right have reached the right conclusion on the genocide in Gaza essentially by accident, because they are antisemitic. You do not need to hand anything to them

I cannot get over how no one in mainstream politics even disputes factual claims like this. Everyone admits that Israel is starving children and murdering desperate civilians. The only ‘debate’ is about what to call it and whether the motives of people protesting it are pure enough.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...

not really a way to do this extreme social constructionism and not eventually land on trans men being women (this is because this oversimplistic analysis doesn't work)

Sorry, does the Vice President of the United States not know if a letter by his boss is real unless a newspaper shows it to him?

Fascinating NYT article I just found headline: horseback riding is safe for trans people! article: only trans woman interviewed was publicly sexually harassed www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/s...

SCOTUS doesn’t have to come up with an excuse for allowing Obama or Biden to be prosecuted despite their ruling about Trump. They only have to refuse without explanation to intervene, and stay without explanation any lower federal court’s attempt to intervene.

this is both partially true and does not really account for Bostock the synthesis here IMO is a) there are some conservatives on the Court who could be swayed by legal arguments for strict scrutiny for trans people b) the Court is currently terrified of defying the executive so it doesn’t matter

if you think that professional sports is the *actual* motivation behind the political assault on trans people, or its success, you are a rube that is buying what the anti-trans movement is selling you

yesterday i criticized leftists who hate libs more than they hate fascists today I will criticize libs like Hakeem who hate leftists more than they hate fascists

This all looks very bad, but to be fair there's no direct evidence, verified by a court of law, that shows Donald Trump has ever committed sexual assault. [touches earpiece] Hold on, I'm getting some new information.

The New York financier?

Merrick Garland you dumb bitch