Meet the Seattle woman behind a national effort to end same-sex marriage

If you want to talk about "political violence dog whistles", let's talk about the numerous times Katy Faust has reposted photos of families like mine likening us to child abusers and human traffickers. She has unleashed hateful bigot hounds on us for years.

This is particularly insidious on Twitter because Twitter, while little-trafficked as a social media site, represents a huge portion of the (para)social networks of a huge portion of the nation’s: -politicians -pundits -media In other word, people with huge power over political decisions.

By existing in that space, unless you are willing to fight EVERYONE, and essentially exist in a state of total war with the entire social environment, you will end up implicitly condoning an awful lot of far-right thinking, by coexisting cordially with it in a social space.

If you’re part of the Twitter parasocial community, far-right ideology starts to feel NORMAL. It enters the Overton Window of “views that people hold - maybe not mine, but views of people I interact with.” The taboo vanishes.

Jason Collins, the NBA's first openly gay player who has served as a global ambassador for the sport, has died from brain cancer, his family said. He was 47 www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

how are people still getting away with pretending to care about women of colour by saying that you can't talk about women's problems ever!!!!!

y'all it is 2026 we cannot still be responding to "I think misogyny is a serious problem" with "Oh YEAH? Did you consider that SOME women are WHITE?"

would anyone be interested in either something written or podcast about the great transgender migration that's going on right now that no one is really talking about. i feel like no one outside of the trans community knows about this at all

I’m running for governor. For over a decade, Greg Abbott has made it easier for billionaires to profit while hardworking Texans struggle to afford groceries, housing, and healthcare. But together, we can make Texas work for Texans again. Join us: ginafortexas.com

Katy Faust, a Seattle-based Christian activist, has quietly gained prominence as a national leader in a conservative campaign to undo legal same-sex marriages.

The definitive millennial song is clearly legend_of_zelda_System_of_a_down(1).mp3

Other than discovering that I’m apparently John Oliver’s son, @lastweektonight.com’s deep dive into the shadow docket is really quite good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKeq...

If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum.

Happy Mother’s Day to people who believe motherhood should be a choice and not a punishment.

happy birthday to all the moms out there

me sleeping seven hours vs. me sleeping six hours and 42 minutes

I wrote a paper about this in 2010, for the Richmond Journal of Law and Public Interest. Basically, low-paying, part-time legislatures serve to enshrine conflicts of interest as a best practice. We should raise pay by 10x.

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

Welcome to bluesky, the hot new social media app where everyone knows who Ted Turner is.

We went from "armed gunman mere seconds away from shooting the president is killed by Secret Service" to "guy with a shotgun falls down on a different floor well outside the entrance of the ballroom and we can't find the bullets because that just happens sometimes" awfully fast.

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

honestly the only Millennial / Gen Z dividing point that matters to me is this: do you remember how things were pre-9/11? and, crucially, how everyone lost their minds on and after 9/11? If so, you're a millennial or older.

this is catastrophically untrue, and the fact that it's even come close to picking up currency on the left is a complete disaster for leftist governance. if you expropriated the entire wealth of every billionaire in the country, you could pay for the federal government for one year. that's it.

NEW:🧵🧵 Texas fracking tycoon Farris Wilks has for years been one of the GOP's most prolific donors. He's spent more than $100M, funded The Daily Wire and, with billionaire Tim Dunn, helped pull the party to the far right. But something happened recently: Wilks quietly disappeared...

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

Ever notice how many men see a woman doing something they think is risky (like traveling alone) and immediately assume she’s naive and stupid - instead of assuming she’s intentionally taking a calculated risk? They can’t imagine a woman might do something even mildly dangerous on purpose.

Things feel very scary right now! Almost everyone I know is trapped perpetually on the edge of panic. And yet for the last few weeks I've felt curiously optimistic. You can listen to me explain why on this special episode of It Could Happen Here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

Republicans: [unsavory tactics] Media: Gosh, that’s some maneuvering. Democrats: [punch back] Media: We need to ask ourselves if this is the sign of a healthy democracy.

They think you're stupid.

Conservatives have been trained for decades to think of Constitutions not as agreed-upon rules for fair governance, but as a series of cheat codes and loopholes that let them hold power even when the voters want to throw them out. They won't accept anything less than permanent domination of us.

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing. (image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)

Correct.

For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust. We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.

This is huge. And it provides a major test for Peter Magyar and whether he will comply with pro LGBTQ decisions from the EU invalidating Hungarian laws. www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...

The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil. It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

"The rights of a child" unless of course their beliefs contradict your prejudices, then it's "The rights of a parent" unless of course their beliefs contradict your prejudices, then it's "the rights of the state" unless of course their beliefs contradict your prejudices, then it's... And so on.

Maybe it's just me, but there has been a subtle, yet persistent move to attack gay parenting over the past few months by several folks on the far-right. Don't be surprised is this becomes their new anti-LGBTQ campaign.

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.

If only there was an opposition party to talk about how many pedophiles the president has put back on the streets

The end of Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime is a victory not just for Hungary, but for people who value democracy around the world. Congratulations to Tisza, to incoming leader Péter Magyar, and to Hungarians everywhere.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

Hungarian Voters Increasingly Out Of Touch With Heartland America---Will This "Danubian Elitism" Prove To Be A Mistake?

A month ago, the average cost of gas in Memphis was $2.58/gallon. Thanks to Trump and the GOP, it’s up to $3.90. This is what happens when you let people who only care about the donors lining their pockets into office. We deserve better.

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

We have hollowed out our society so that a few very special boys can have as many toys as they can possibly collect and we need to stop them. Ideally, by taxing them out of existence.