The first promise a professional military ever made, back in ancient fucking Mesopotamia, was to give the people who signed up to be soldiers a proper burial and to care for their families.

Dems abandoning trans folks has now allowed for a million dollar ad buy for this disgusting ad by American Principles Project in NJ and VA casting trans people as school shooters and violent threats to children. It was never about fucking sports.

I've spoken a lot about the indignities I have endured in the last 6 months. At this point I'm glad they hate me, disrespect me, degrade me. It's an honor to be derided by people who praise shit like this.

I am going to be very brave right now and come out and say that I… am… against fascism.

Jokes on them, it's a surprise Murph Bring your plate carrier and a 2qt canteen

Will just repeat: Any nominal US defense leader who is pushing the US military to loosen rules to “allow” war crimes to be committed by US servicemembers is just weak and lacking the character to bear the burden of responsibility of their office They are endangering those who serve the nation

If you are in the US military, this is your reminder that it is illegal to follow an unlawful order.

Authentically, this trains military officers that being inspection-ready is more important than actually using the equipment issued to you. So much of whats wrong with the Army can be traced to this core belief.

A guide for LGBTQI+ asylum seekers crossing the Canada-U.S. Border by the University of Toronto.

Trump just signed an illegal executive order designed to target his political opposition by designating them terrorists and using the DOJ, IRS, FBI, and the JTTF to investigate and charge liberal organizations, funders, members, and protesters. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

NO WARRIOR CAN FIGHT ALONE. ASK FOR HELP IF YOU NEED IT.

The last time I spoke with the Army Equal Opportunity program managers at HQDA they told me it was the duty of every EO Advisor in the Army to assist their commanders with the full implementation of the trans ban, and ensure it was carried out with dignity and respect.

this whole piece is deeply worth reading and sharing, especially with the centrist dems and liberals in your life, but this penultimate graf really sums it up. you just can't play these kinds of games with people's lives.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

BE SO BRILLIANT NONE OF YOUR ENEMIES WOULD DARE LOOK AT YOU.

No amount of better messaging, being nicer on social media, or having modest political goals was ever going to work to stop this backlash because the world's richest and most powerful people have all decided they don't want us to exist. How do you even fight blatant lies like this?

I left Christianity over a decade ago and I swear if I get raptured now I'm gonna be so mad

Autism is a new thing. Your grandpa with six train sets in the basement and who could tell you every caliber of hunting ammunition ever manufactured but always wore his socks inside out was just really into his hobbies and cared about comfort.

It's all fun and games until a cop handles a Tylenol gelcap with no gloves and within seconds their socks are bothering them.

The same bs they're spewing about autism and tylenol is the same bs they're spewing about trans people's healthcare. It's the exact same playbook and the fact that the media can see through one and not the other is a damning indictment of how complicit they are in the attack on trans lives.

My hottest take: Spoilers are fine. Most of "spoiler culture" is performative outrage.

As Army officers, we used to talk all these hypothetical scenarios about being given unlawful and unethical orders and what you’d do. If you’re in the Navy, it’s not hypothetical anymore. You’re being told to kill people you have no legal authority to kill. You’re being told to commit murder.

Just a periodic reminder that being autistic isn't a death sentence and the fact that it's being treated like the worst possible thing a person can have is ludicrous.

Last week I was in a room full of military officers where these attacks came up and prompted eye-rolling and some jokes. All seemed to treat it as common knowledge that drugs and chemicals are more likely to come in via the west coast and apparently come in legally through ports and borders.

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis

What are the names of the U.S. Navy officers carrying out these orders to serially bomb civilian boats that pose no threat to their own vessels, killing everyone aboard? Surely they’ll want to take personal credit for this honorable service and perhaps wear a little campaign medal on their chest.

A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, our healthcare, and the information we receive. Many are now currying favor with Trump to avoid accountability and maintain their power. This is what oligarchy looks like.

"The government is merely a servant—merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them". - Samuel Clemens

Nothing I could say about Charlie Kirk would be as mean as this painting is

I really need a job. This shit is killing me.

So regularly destroyed is trans stuff that it's an obscure fact that 2 words beginning with trans (transfeminate and transection) were in English dictionaries to describe someone who 'changed sex' from the mid 1600s until well into the 20th century.

I'm gonna say it

Just learned something A PERSON CANNOT BE AN IDEOLOGY. Being transgender is an adjective of a person.

Renaming it "Canary Corpse Mine" so that people think its normal to see them in there

In 2020 we were still fighting the military's trans ban.

it's sort of funny watching the rest of Bluesky discover the insanity that is conservative MilTwitter

One of the things I find vexing about Kimmel's sacking is how it reveals Disney to be precisely the disingenuous "virtue signaller" the right accused them of being. "BRAVELY" casting The Little Mermaid, so it made them $250m, but voluntarily kissing dictator sphincter, if they stand to lose a cent.

Vivian Wilson talks about how accessing gender affirming care as a teen was lifesaving at the Teen Vogue Summit.

The only ones asking people to change their gender are the ones who oppose transgender care.

Harris and Buttigieg think they're slick, talking about the status quo in 2020 as if it were their brand new, orthodoxy defying policy idea but all it does is concede the idea that something went wrong in women's athletics and bans were warranted.

There are former military officers on youtube celebrating blowing up these boats and it boggles my mind because I am also a former military officer. I missed the day at the academy where we learned it was legal to kill someone outside of declared armed conflict and posing no imminent threat. C'mon!

BREAKING: Luigi Mangione's lawyers have filed a motion to dismiss his case on constitutional grounds. Some arguments are specific to his case, involving AG Bondi's actions, while others are more generally applicable. Law Dork earlier covered the underlying conduct: www.lawdork.com/p/luigi-mang...

Disney plus more like minus Disney *a crescendo of strings. sunlight, breaking through dark clouds swollen by rain, illuminates my proud visage. the masses cheer; they weep and become inconsolable. “Enthrone him!” they cry in one great, thundering voice. I am enthroned*

It is the official position of the US government that trans people cannot be eradicated because we don't really exist.

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

Got my final evaluation report. Turns out the Army is perfectly willing to use they/them pronouns for a Soldier on official documentation if it's to avoid referring to me as "she".

Republicans: "transgenderism must be eradicated." Trans people: "they're trying to eradicate us." Republicans: "Saying we want to eradicate you is violent extremism."

I believe that everyone in the United States publicly calling for the eradication or mass incarceration of transgender individuals is guilty of incitement to genocide under the UN Genocide Convention