I've picked up stamp carving recently. I have a lot to learn, but I'm really enjoying myself with this!

The disingenuous sleight of hand here is obvious: she's acting as if the criticism is that any conservative opinion is run at all, and not the very clear collective right-wing warmongering transphobic stance of her rag-ass institution as a whole.

The entirety of liberal argumentation about media is "I'm a liberal and I like it, so it can't be right wing media, because that would mean I like right wing media, which is impossible, I'm a liberal"

This is the reality behind the hand wringing about "people are doing HRT without oversight"

to reiterate: it is not up to trans ppl to "vote blue no matter who" it is up to *cisgender Dems* to decide whether you want us in your coalition or not (see 🧵 below for why the latter would be bad for *all of us*)

Imagine going along with this. Imagine going into work, sending names of your neighbors to the government with a notification that marks them as an unperson, and handing them back paperwork which denigrates them and marks them as less-than human. Imagine just... not caring.

"The Corporations don't intrinsically have souls, but they've got rights. The only corpo that contained a soul was Costco - the only one born with a soul. The Chamber of Commerce was empty, you see. These things are just vessels. That's why I'm going to destroy them. Because I hate them."

Border enforcement is not only meant to keep immigrants out, it's meant to keep you in.

anyone that tells me the cruelty is the point has to buy me one years worth of Costco hot dogs.

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

i know the situation in kansas right now is dangerous and terrifying. that said, i'm hoping to speak to someone who's had their license invalidated. i will do absolutely everything to protect your anonymity and maintain your safety. i can be reached securely via signal at marisakabas.04

Okay Mr. Mayor, was it just a snowball fight or was it a criminal attack? Because your cops are proceeding as if it’s the latter!

Fun fact, US passports did not have a gender marker until 1977, when a rising trend in unisex fashion started freaking the government out.

401,000 people moving state to state in fear of having legal documents invalidated (KS), jail time for using restrooms (FL, UT), loss of access to adult care (dozens) or youth care (dozens even in D-led states), & the message from “opposition” is still largely “you’re making too big a deal of this.”

no you guys you dont understand christians are totally reformed and normal and welcoming of women and gay ppl, pls pls pls just go to your local church and give them all of your money, it's a healthy community that loves you soooooo much

Wow

You know on a website with a functioning moderation team admitting that you create alternate accounts to evade other users blocks would catch you an IP ban.

In retrospect this had a way larger effect on me then I ever could have imagined.

When Gavin Newsom says "the Democrats need to be more culturally normal" with "less focus on pronouns" what he's actually saying is "the trannies aren't normal and don't normalize them."

so we paid the tariffs and now the corporations that passed the costs on to me and you are the ones that are going to be reimbursed, do i have that correct

I've been thinking about upgrading my server storage, I think this is the push I need to finally pull the trigger on it. I guess the plan now is to buy what components I need and try to put off buying anything new for the next 2-3 years.

Republicans got trounced trying bathroom bills in 2015, then spent 10 years astroturfing anti-trans propaganda to get where they are today, and supposedly Democrats are supposed to see that and say "Well, nothing we can do here, the public has spoken!" Motherfuckers, doing nothing is a choice

people's evidence for "third gender" cultures is always just like "we badgered and humiliated this trans woman about her penis until she admitted to being 'biologically male'." therefore, they must be aware they're not REAL women. unlike those dirty delusional trannies we have here in Civilization

I don’t get why people feel the need to defend Gavin Newsom even if they say they don’t like Gavin Newsom when Gavin Newsom has not indicated in any polling that he’s a stronger candidate than anyone else. If he was running 10 points ahead of everyone I’d at least understand why it was happening.

Enough of you have asked to help based on my posts about this client and I am sincerely not in a position to turn you down, so: My paypal is @StellaSacco, my cash app is #$SACC. I am not stoked about owing more people money, but...options are shrinking.

Inject this into my veins

I may delete this because it’s a bit spicy but it shouldn’t be lost on us that games being turned into TV is essentially harvesting the stories written by those who don’t have union representation or healthcare with WGA by those that do. Our stories are good enough for TV but the writers aren’t?

shes right, it was my idea to have kamala enlist The Cheney Clan to go on a human entrail spreading spree

Maybe as a Black History Month treat white nerds could reconsider hamfisting HP Lovecraft references into everything when the man was an avowed white supremacist (I know they won't because learning he named his cat the N-word has not deterred them) deepcuts.blog/2024/11/27/d...

www.justice.gov/epstein/file... holy shit

BREAKING: Judge dismisses murder, weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealth CEO killer Mangione reut.rs/45Fin56

Forcing the police to wear body cameras was always a joke, but I could at least understand naively believing that if cops were caught doing crimes on film, they'd be less likely to commit crimes. To suggest it would rein in ICE, who gladly record and publish videos of their crimes, is insulting.

I think it's important to note he only picked up this tune after the administration started to signal it was going oust Noem and Miller anyways. Try to keep your eye on the ball.

shoveling snow rn

"Environmental Insurrectionist" is a great example of how the right can only learn new words when they're being used to accuse them of crimes and then they only learn their meaning well enough to turn the accusation on their enemies

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

it does feel fundamentally dysfunctional, right, to beg lawmakers to use the law to force law enforcement to obey the law

if we abolish the gestapo who will do the important work of the gestapo

Dril, at the Fourth of Shit

The Newsom thing is because they think the pendulum effect will give the election to literally any Dem, which may well be true, so they want to make sure the nominee is as far-Right and ineffective as possible.

lmao

It's particularly galling to call for ICE to wear body cams when Renee Good's murder literally recorded the whole thing on his phone. He was so confident in his impunity as part of that organization that he recorded and allowed for the release of footage of him shooting a woman at point blank.