Country Broads...take me home! or Highway to Hello

Sounds like it’s a great time to vote for progressive, anti-capitalist candidates.

"Donald Trump threatened on Sunday to withhold his signature from all bills until Congress passes a GOP-led voting bill that implements voter restrictions ahead of the November midterms." Trump looks increasingly desperate to restrict voting rights www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"I don’t want to dance with this pain any more, and I don’t want to be in the predicament I’m in. Everything about it sucks." www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Vichy NYT clutching pearls about barren birthrates Notice the second, estrogen patches. Trans people will be blamed for this too, even though trans HRT is a drop in the bucket of Big Pharma's spreadsheets.

I believe their enemies died laughing...

C'mon, APNews, it's way too early for April Fools jokes... apnews.com/article/mela... Trump will preside over a UN Security Council meeting in a first for a first lady

"Lay down with MAGAts, wake up with fleas" apnews.com/article/olym... hockey player Brady Tkachuk slams White House TikTok as 'clearly fake' after anti-Canada slur

So the US is rapidly moving towards medical experiments on incarcerated transgender people in federal prisons by forcing detransition. Many states already have similar policies. This is literal Nazism. www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

So given the well-established carcerality of the US regime this is just legalizing forcible detransition

Bookmarking this so the next time some cultist tells me this asshole is our only hope in 2028 I can reply with this clip of Newsom calling gay marriage "abnormal" and "not a tabletop issue" Gay people have tables too, Gavin

TRANS APPRECIATION FRIDAY is here!!!!! Let's spread some joy & build community, shall we? How this works: Tell us your name, pronouns & a bit about you. THEN- repost this post, say hi to those that join in & make new friends! I'm Alyssa(she/her): Racer, hiker, climber, wifey. Your turn!💜

Sounds rough! I avoid this ever happening to me with One Weird Trick

"trump's proffered rationales for an Obama-led attack on Iran eventually encompassed all of the following: "to get elected" (to win re-election) "because of his inability to negotiate properly" "to show how tough he is" "to boost his poll numbers" "to save face" www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

For my @xtramagazine.com column this month, I explained why Gavin Newsom's flirtation with anti-trans policy won't win a single conservative or centrist vote for him and also makes him a non-starter for trans lefties. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

Because y'all deserve it & it was shared to me...

apnews.com/article/immi... shooting of Venezuelan man is the latest where video evidence contradicts ICE accounts

Context:

Hey Rep. Jeffries, Your answer should have been: "Yes. Among his many profound pathologies, he's a blatant racist." Giving a circuitous-political answer doesn't make you seem smart or wise, it only underlines your cowardice. Summon your courage, be direct – and LEAD. Anything else is complicity.

This is evolving into "Not being fit and healthy in order to work from high school to the grave is stealing labor from employers." He already said last year that being healthy was patriotic.

I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

David Copperfield has always struck me as the predatory type...effin' creep! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Describe your account in a single image.

People need to proofread if they use voice-to-text programs...just read a comment about a psychiatric patient, brought in by "lawn for cement". 🫠

apnews.com/article/onei... Cooper, an Oneida woman who helped save Washington's army, is honored on $1 coin

OOkayyy...now let's compare to trump voters. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/kama...

Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.

Somewhere..... Buried in a clogged artery in the world's ugliest, obese, lying, felonious, incompetent, malignant, narcissistic, grifting-con man and 34x adjudicated rapist, there is a tiny little clot struggling to break free.....

Hey I just wanna say: trans folk, we’ve spent most of our lives being terrified for one reason or another. But we survived. And now the government is targeting us. So. YOU ARE NOT A COWARD if you don’t go to the front lines of protests. We need to survive first. That’s our job right now.

This hit so fucking hard today.

Hmmm... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

💜 apnews.com/article/carn...  Canada's Carney fires back at Trump after Davos speech

She fought forIndigenous voices at the UN. Now she’s in a Russian jail cell. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I don’t know how the narrative of American democracy can survive this. The country voted to give the nuclear codes to a mental toddler who’s going to start a war because he didn’t get a participation trophy.

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

In 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.