This is bad news for everyone in the South, and really bad news for low-income trans folks. The surgeons getting pushed out of university hospitals will move to private practice and while SOME people will still get trans surgeries covered by insurance, those on Medicaid won’t.

Holy fuck, he even looks like his father...very much a bad idea to install him without any sort of election or other method of popular feedback.

I swear to gods, most people in this country have a political aptitude that allows them to think of two issues at the most, and the only other thing that matters is that their team "wins" by controlling more offices, even if the people in those offices are hurting the most vulnerable among us.

Fool me four times, shame on Pod Save America www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

Gods help us. The Blue MAGA grifters are yelping for Massie to cross the aisle so that Johnson loses the gavel and another pointless impeachment of Trump happens. We have more important shit to focus on, but they are fucking obsessed.

I am getting really sick of the narrative that the attack on Iran was only to distract from the Epstein Files. No, it was because Iran wasn't willing to give him everything in the sh negotiations last week, and Bibi really needed a war to take the heat off of him domestically.

In order to understand UK politics in 2026 you must realise that a plumber & plasterer doesn't represent the interests of the working class because she is left-wing but a wealthy broadcaster & former academic does represent the interests of the working class because he is right-wing. Hope this helps

Awaiting the White House announcement of new Viceroy for Iran, Jared Kushner.

Kegsbreath lied. I'm shocked to learn this. Truly. Shocked.

No live video stream is worth me downloading Substack's app and feeding it all of my personal info, especially since they platform fashies.

This is the most disgusting thing I have seen come out of the Kansas situation.

America literally refuses to learn any lessons from its many foreign policy disasters in the Middle East. It's actually remarkable. The same stable of neocon warhawks, Christian nationalists, and Islamophobes - who exist within "liberal" circles as well - still parrot the same talking points.

Joe Dante and Hideo Kojima are close seconds but no director was more right about the future of war than Barry Levinson with the 1992 box office flop Toys.

"WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE" ✨ Minnesota United supporters unveiled an "Andor"-themed tifo ahead of a 1-0 win over FC Cincinnati in the Twin Cities club's home opener. Rebellions are built on hope 🩵 📷: Reddit/u/Legitimate_Treat9249

The US/Israeli illegal attack on Iran should be understood to be a clear violation of the Olympic Truce (much as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was which led to its suspension by the IOC) and result in bans for 2028 and the stripping of those Games from LA. apnews.com/article/olym...

Half a billion dollars gambling on death and destruction. We are a diseased society. bsky.app/profile/bloo...

At some point you wonder not just if insiders using information to place bets, but maybe also reshaping their advice to make those bets profitable.

The efficacy of the Patriot missile is one of the greatest myths of the First Gulf War (aka Operation Desert Storm).

Even if Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead, it won’t likely change anything because his 💩head supporters are by his side, propping him up, ensuring his random thoughts spew through the air to the masses, just like happens here. Another of those 💩heads will replace him, just like what would happen here.

This matches my assessment: Khameini is likely to be replaced by younger, more hardline elements. I don't think Iranians are going to be free of the regime, and Trump's stated war aims are doomed from the start. I'm sure he'll just blame it on Iranians for not wanting freedom enough.

Top 2 lines looking like crap while the bottom 2 are looking like all-stars.

I can’t recall another politician ever expressing this direct of a sentiment before. (depressing! it’s so simple!) it’s difficult to explain how it feels to wake up and find your country is bombing the place your family grew up. again

Kristi Noem is in charge of preventing Iranian retaliatory attacks on US soil.

The Bored of Peace’s first war.

Just a quick reminder that Trump ostensibly launched this war because he was unable to negotiate a deal very much like the one he blew up just to spite Obama.

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

Looks like this is now a regional conflict. Before long shit is going to be hitting Jeddah and Riyadh, I am betting (but not on Kalshi or Polymarket like the ghouls are).

My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️

Yes, we are so concerned for the well-being of the average Iranian...

People need to be aware of this. As Dr. Starbird points out, these allegations aren't news, and in the past the admin has tried to stifle those exposing the efforts. This is more manufacturing consent for the SAVE Act because they can't persuade Senators without lying about outside interference.

Excuse the fuck out of me???

Definitely pressing "X" for doubt on this one.

The people who see the poll about most renters feeling that they can't afford a home, posting it and implying that wouldn't be the case if Kamala won...wrong. This has been a systemic problem since at least 2008. The government keeps telling you it's "within reach", ignoring shrinking real incomes.

If you don't know anything about them, how do you know if you have been fully exonerated?

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For what it’s worth, I don’t have any tattoos.

Kind of disappointing to see Werenski's comments on the situation with the US Women's Hockey team. Blah, blah, so much respect for them, blah, I think they know that, blah blah, I don't know any of them, haven't reached out to them, blah, didn't go to any of their games, watched them on my phone.

The difference between the US and UK systems aren't as simple as "UK voters are more willing to defect". The Electoral College basically requires a duopoly or you risk presidents being elected by state congressional delegations. Individual states have made third party ballot access difficult.

If your housing policy isn’t speaking specifically to renters, you’re missing the audience.

So, the one time when the unions will FINALLY tell Dem leadership not to oppose a socialist-leaning candidate in a primary is the one time it's a white guy who got a Totenkopf tattoo and retweets Richard Hanania? Seems about right for the way unions are now. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Wanted to be in bed 30 minutes ago, but I'm waiting on the Gorton and Denton by-election results...

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

THIS IS WHAT TRANS PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING THE RIGHT WANT TO DO, TO MAKE OUR LIVES ILLEGITIMATE, AND FUCKING CENTRIST BLUE MAGA NEWSOM BOTS HAVE BEEN TELLING US THAT WE ARE BEING HYPERBOLIC. SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LISTEN TO MINORITIES!

I haven't been on Facebook since 2017. I haven't been on Twitter since late 2023/early 2024. But somehow I still get cisplained to on the daily about what trans people need to do. Fuck you, I am months from being eligible for the seniors' menu when I go out for dinner. I can think for myself.

Part of the reason the whole country hasn't been screaming about trans Kansans who drive being made criminals overnight is because there's so much else that's unconstitutional and horrifying. But part of it is because it's happening to trans people.

Makes me think of the Forbidden City Gate in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, with the huge portrait of Chairman Mao.

What I haven't seen mentioned in the discussion about Kansas invalidating trans people's driver's licenses; this also took away their votes. Thousands of Kansans were just disenfranchised. This should be a HUGE fucking story.

“‘The persecution is the point,’ said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the [Kansas Dept of Revenue] notice on Wednesday.” To underscore that: a Kansas state legislator is among those whose driver’s license will be voided. (🎁 link:)

Truly astounding as a trans person to watch your community be told we're not worthy of consideration by Democrats on Monday, be told to be silent and grateful all of Tuesday, and by Wednesday an entire state has criminalized trans citizens' existence.