"Trans issues aren't this shameful thing that Democratic consultants suggest we hide from, it's the same fight undocumented immigrants are fighting, or those who can't access health care are fighting...Political issues aren't siloes, they're all connected, and Mamdani recognizes that." ✊

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

US soldiers opened fire on a group of mostly unarmed women children and elders in the Wounded Knee Massacre slaughtering over 300 Lakota civilians. Survivors witnessed troops chasing down children running away to butcher them. Only a nazi regime would want to honor that

Freedom from government censorship polls with 90% support. There are no "broad divisions" on this, except perhaps in the newsrooms of big corporate media.

If you wrote a "Trump distances himself from project 2025" story in 2024 you are either a dupe or one of our enemies. They are cackling with laughter that the media they're now destroying enthusiastically helped them dupe the voters

The idea that the combined MMR is dangerous but separately the vaccines are fine was created out of whole cloth by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who had a patent on a non-combined version of the MMR. We've known his research was bunk for almost 30 years.

“Reconsider their boundaries” come the fuck on

*nodding and pointing upward sagely*

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

Many of the men deported to CECOT said they are permanently changed: struggling to sleep, drink water or leave their homes. One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street.

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

It's fascinating how, because the left is coded as feminine, criticism is "scolding," while all the shaming and blaming on the right is masculine and therefore not "scolding."

The stuff Jeffrey Epstein’s friends felt comfortable saying and drawing in grotesque detail with their names attached knowing they would not face consequences is the kind of thing I think of when I think about rape culture and how sexual violence against girls and young women is actually glorified

Reminds me of the “joke” about Harvey Weinstein at the 2013 Oscars. Sexual assault allegations get framed as “revelations,” but that’s inaccurate: often, everyone knew. deadline.com/2017/10/seth...

Drive the care out of large hospitals and then laden small providers with increasingly expensive and unnecessary equipment regulations. Welcome to the anti abortion playbook.

I still don’t think we talk enough about the fact that Trump’s secret police has a larger budget than most countries’ militaries

The "oh you won't compromise and abandon [marginalized group]? enjoy the nazi takeover!" argument rings pretty fucking false when you consider that the horrors of a nazi takeover begin with the abandonment of marginalized groups.

The man-made famine in Gaza is now officially recognised months after Israel’s deliberate starvation campaign was obvious. The most preventable famine in history, unfolding in plain sight and we won’t forget our government armed, funded and gave it cover.

Starvation is bad even if there were ore existing conditions. Making people sick before mass starving them is not a get out of genocide free card.

This is true, but part of it is the rootless, reactionary pathology of conservatives. They can't have common ground with others, can't admit common dangers like COVID & climate change. To be a conservative is to automatically reject what liberals believe, even if that means rejecting reality itself.

Multiple men have impersonated ICE agents to assault women & @demwomencaucus.bsky.social is demanding action. “People cannot tell the difference between a real agent & a criminal & that makes everyone less safe – especially immigrant women who are the most vulnerable," @velazquez.house.gov told me.

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

The problem isn't that transphobic parents are being ignored, it's that they're *lying about basic facts.* This is the dynamic on nearly every issue of public interest, from guns to climate change to economics. "The bigots are lying again" is a fucking great message for democrats and it's true.

Honestly can't think of a more straightforward example of how men profit from the sexual degradation of women

Sudan is starving. www.bbc.com/news/article...

If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK

3 Aug 25 - New study shows vast "over-representation of trans boys" turns out to be vast _under-representation_ of trans girls bec. they: a) come out ~10 years later; b) start puberty later; & c) delay transitioning longer because of deep social animus towards AMAB femininity. tinyurl.com/yrwvmxws

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”

the free press is completely unhinged. this is about the NYT initially omitting from its story about starvation in Gaza that one of the profiled children has a pre-existing medical condition. what is the "damage" what was done by that omission, exactly?

The sense that women have excessive moral obligations to men—to care for their feelings, to defer to their interests—but can legitimately make only minor claims in such care from others is central to how misogyny actually perpetrates itself as an ideology.

My latest newsletter, about The New York Times' "correction" of its story about starvation in Gaza, and what it says about their adherence to Israeli propaganda.

I don’t think people fully grasp the implications of the Planned Parenthood Medicaid ban in the Trump bill. Not being able to take Medicaid would be a near-fatal blow to PP. Clinics are already closing in across the country—including in blue states—which is curtailing abortions access nationwide.

still truly hate how everyone is talking about the epstein thing as something between a lurid scandal to pruriently gawk at or make joeks about and an elite secret pedophile cabal conspiracy that is toooooootally not representative of any norms in society, totally an outlier, exceptional situation

More strongly worded letters and deep concerns from all the nations arming a genocide that a genocide is taking place. Mass media acting astonished that a genocide is horrific after years of manufacturing consent for it.

“One in three Gazans goes multiple days without eating, the World Food Programme said this week. Malnourished mothers can no longer produce milk to breastfeed their children, the injured are unable to heal and hospitals have run out of nutritional supplements to treat gaunt babies.”

The most disheartening thing about America’s descent into fascism has been the abject cowardice of virtually all the people and institutions that could have stood up and refused to comply.

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

Yeah I think one thing that hasn't really been articulated is that it is a separate, distinct harm to sexual violence victims to see stories like this consumed as prurient entertainment.

“Hungarians with little power or privilege to lose would occasionally protest. But those with power remained reliably, pliably silent.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

“Without immediate intervention, the last remaining reporters in Gaza are going to die.”

Wow. Republicans in the U.S. House just voted UNANIMOUSLY to not release the Epstein files. Every. Single. One. Genuinely surprised it was unanimous.

system designed to impose maximum violence on trans women and girls works as intended

If a single image could encapsulate all right wing politics

No comment on Epstein but this betrays a wild underestimation of parents’ willingness to sexually exploit their teenage daughters for profit.

Government can’t function without people working in it, folks.

The Supreme Court did this. Monstrous. Blood on their robes.

Shocker. They want to privatize everything. Schools. NASA. Police. Health care. Social security. The VA. Everything.

headline: "democrats lost voters on transgender rights." the article: