I reposted from lower down in the thread but actually just read the entire thing.

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

If you do not support trans people - by actively dedicating your time and money (if you have it) and voice to their cause - you are a failure of morality and humanity and you are not just a bystander but a culpable participant in one of the most violent attempts at eugenics of our time.

Trump’s team putting a sundowning old man who can’t stop going off script on live national television is quite the choice. This is all going off the rails so fast.

Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot

I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

"i can't explain trans people to my child!!" oh so you're stupid AND bigoted? pick a struggle bitch

all the wrong people are dying

This lady gives me the willies, and every time I see her she gets more unnerving. The sentences don’t really make sense, her creepy expressions don’t quite align with her words, it all just feels off.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

So much of what is happening is super rich people who thought that money would shield them from the realities of life finding out that it doesn’t, and instead of getting therapy they’re trying to burn everything down.

Voting for Trump fundamentally means you lack the capacity to onboard information

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

He looks like he’s trying to stop his dog from leaving him

I’m in favor of this but only for financial crimes

This has been my whole freaking life. Every time Republicans take power people are like goddamit this is awful, they get voted out, then two years later people are like hmmm Republicans again

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Lord, I see what you’ve done for others.

This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.

One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair

Happy Thanksgiving

Today I am thankful that Mike Johnson is unhappy.

Musk is too inarticulate and too slow to come up with anything witty so he's got an app to do it for him. I can't think of anything more sad than asking your phone to knock out a yo mamma joke aimed at a random stranger at a party because you're incapable. Who invites this dweeb to parties anyway?

the beasts in me

Turn around, bright eyes

But please, do go on about the necessity of Medicaid cuts to combat fraud, waste and abuse.

Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

after the George Floyd protests when every business rushed to virtue-signal by hiring consultants, shoving every Black employee front and center, and boasting loudly about DEI, a lot of BIPOC experts were laughed out the room for saying “most of this won’t last five years,” and I just want to say

I wonder what America would look like if both parties had possessed the moral integrity to take a hard line against segregation and antiblackness and left disgruntled racists politically homeless instead of integrating hatred into a party platform.

sometimes it will just hit me that over a million americans died from covid in a short period of time and we never had a national mourning. we never collectively grieved. we never honored the dead. this feels like a failure

Ok these all sound like gay porn titles.

I’m starting to think that Epstein didn’t kill himself.

I need this kind of help like I need a raccoon in my bra

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

The Only Good Indians by @sgj.bsky.social. It started me actively seeking out new Indigenous literature and led me to some of my favorite books, the aforementioned included.

if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass

BREAKING: Scrooge McDuck is requesting government support to help guarantee his money pit is sufficiently deep for him to dive into and swim laps.

They can't even turn a profit stealing every thought on Earth? They need corporate welfare, too?

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.

They aren't afraid of Mamdani, they are worried about what he would unleash among VOTERS. That those voters would say: "actually, we're not buying this centrist bullshit you've been shoveling for decades, we want something else." That's what's being litigated in these Dem elites are worried essays.

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

“When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” -Sinclair Lewis

Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street

Yeah, it should have taken most people about five minutes back in 2015-16 to see that it was mostly just dumb assholes looking for excuses to be their worst selves. Everything after that has been the professional class trying to chase their dollars. bsky.app/profile/mich...