I do not understand why the default Democratic position on this issue isn’t simply to be opposed to mandatory genital exams for participants in girls sports. Because that intrusive practice is how GOP policy on transgender athletes will be enforced.

Also too high in the food chain to safely consume directly. Composting the rich, however, will produce a great deal of food. For a year. Maybe two.

By "split" we mean more than 85% of the caucus voted for Tlaib's bill

When I was 13, my grandparents gave me stock in Hershey’s candy as a bar mitzvah gift because I liked candy. I had to sell it this year when I married an FDA employee. Because, as we all know, the federal government is very concerned about financial conflicts of interest.

Bizarre story: Two journalists were removed by police from a corporate-sponsored Freedom 250 event in Brussels after they asked US Ambassador to Belgium Bill White about his threat against an American citizen/Belgian resident who had emailed Zac Brown Band urging them not to perform at the event.

If I lost my heavily Jewish district to a Jew who serenades constituents with Jewish liturgical hymns, I too would blame antisemitism

Also, it's long past time to retire vulgar Marxist arguments about how racism and nativism are just a tool that the capitalist class is using to divide the working class. This stuff is not a distraction. It is a central motivating and binding force in politics, both in the US and elsewhere.

For those keeping track, this is 110 times the amount of money from foreign sources that House Republicans claimed went to the “Biden family” (most of that actually went to non family business partners, none to Joe Biden).

Kaneko Fumiko and her partner Pak Yeol were sentenced to death for high treason, accused of plotting to kill Japan's crown prince. Yet there was no bomb and no attack. The closest thing to evidence was a detective's account of Pak stabbing a photo of the emperor.

I feel like we're not talking about how "gender tests" for participation in girls sports IS SEXUAL ASSAULT OF MINORS STATE SANCTIONED SEXUAL ASSAULT OF MINORS

"The states and federal government accused Cal-Maine Foods, Versova and Hickman’s Egg Ranch of a behind-the-scenes arrangement to “artificially inflate the daily price quotations for eggs” between June 2022 and March 2025" so basically most of the biden presidency how weird

Ask every Democrat if they support Supreme Court reform, and if they don't, you primary them or support someone who does. That's it. Without the Supreme Court, we get nothing.

I've been waiting for Tidal to figure out its position on AI-generated music. It finally has, and it's pretty good: -AI labeling -No using AI to impersonate real artists -AI music won't be monetized support.tidal.com/hc/en-us/art...

NEW: As Spotify embraces AI artists, allowing those artist accounts to monetize on streams, Tidal on Monday said it wouldn't pay royalties for AI-generated music.

Anyone saying they want to do a genital check on kids before they can play on a sports team needs to get a throat punch and be curb-stomped until they change their shitty life choices

We limit the speed of ebikes "for public safety", yet this study shows we'd need to limit SUVs to 5.7 km/h for them to pose the same risk to other people #motonormativity findingspress.org/article/1587...

MAHA Voter Feels Betrayed   By Continued Survival Of Own Children https://theonion.com/maha-voter-feels-betrayed-by-continued-survival-of-own-children/

Boggles the mind that the entire world saw ICE execute defenseless people in the street and somehow there are still sitting Democrats who have a wide open flank on abolishing the agency

Trump Indicates Desire For Speedy End To World https://theonion.com/trump-indicates-desire-for-speedy-end-to-world/

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

Updated: Over the last 8 days, I'm counting 15 Democratic incumbents who have lost to a challenger to their left. —3 congressmembers (2 NY, 1 CO) —4 state senators (2 in NY, 2 in MD) —8 state house members (5 in NY, 1 in MD, 2 CO) Here's a thread for you to know about all 15 results:

As it’s 1 July, it’s the 86th anniversary of the opening of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which famously only stayed open for four months, becoming not terribly easy to cross on 7 November the same year 🧵

Anti-Vaxxer Dating App Gaining Popularity https://theonion.com/anti-vaxxer-dating-app-gaining-popularity/

It should also be noted that Glusenkamp Perez is one of the Dems that regularly votes for anti-trans legislation. She voted for a bill that, if enacted, would basically make it illegal to acknowledge the existence of trans people in schools (meaning trans students and trans teachers are SOL)

Do people not understand that if KOSA passes that every site will have the age verification thing? People saying they'll just go to IG or Threads or wherever lol. It's a bill we're against, we need to fight that or it won't matter where you go.

Can confirm, based on my own experience. Thanks to the autism interventions of 1960s I was terrified to be, in any way, distinguishable from peers. So I started to use my right hand for everything after I started school. Which may explain why my handwriting sucks so much donkey dong.

Happy Canadia Day, hosers! Et bonne journée de déménagement aux hosers Québécois! #ZeroCanadianContent

Kash Patel Invites FBI Agents To Train With Professional Pickup Artists https://theonion.com/kash-patel-invites-fbi-agents-to-train-with-professional-pickup-artists/

Can't think of much that causes me more rage than people like Moulton who will go on record proudly wearing their bigotry, then spout off this kind of meaningless PR statement, without so much as an apology in between.

btw, i don't care if this gets called some "purity test" for a "perfect candidate" either. i've been done with having my community members be used in some fucked up trolley problem all because of some moral panic spun from the narratives of christofascists; oppose it or i oppose you. simple. as.

politics today feels like the right has hit us with a combo of pearl harbor and 9/11 over the last decades and the democrats are still quibbling over what the dictionary definition of war is

Fuckin hell Chuck the Supreme Court is not a victim of Trump's bullying, they are perpetrators of it, why is literally everyone in Dem leadership so fuckin intransigent and obtuse when it comes to recognizing what this court is

“By the thinnest of margins, the extremely corrupt U.S. Supreme Court didn’t illegally overturn the Constitution in its entirely. Clearly this means the system is working as intended, so I will continue to do basically nothing to fight the rise of fascism in this country.” - Schumer

This birthright ruling is why I just refuse to tolerate all the Democrat garment rending over NY voters choosing progressive candidates. They are incapable of governing in this moment. The politics of appeasement and centrism gets us to a 5-4 decision on the constitutional question.

same guy

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The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve

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"The research also found that the US has more new pediatric asthma cases attributable to vehicle pollution annually than any other country. In 2024, US children accounted for one in 10 new pediatric asthma cases attributable to vehicle pollution globally."

Can't wait until 2030, when SCOTUS rules that President Pritzker can't fire anyone in the executive branch because they're all white and he's motivated by clear racial animus

New week and a new fascist bill preview! The House has four bills that I am keeping an eye on this week, but the big one on my mind is HR 7757, the KIDS Act. It is on the docket to begin debate today and seems to have quite a bit of Dem support. As such, call your reps ASAP!

We don't agree with this defeatist attitude. You need to start somewhere, even if you're in the minority. The smoking bans of the early 2000s seems inconceivable in the 1960s and 1970s. Sensible regulation of killer vehicles will take time, but it's not impossible.

🚨VICTORY: Supreme Court holds that federal Election Day statutes do not prevent Mississippi from counting absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day but received afterwards A huge victory for our clients and the Elias Law Group team. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

John Roberts in Slaughter and Cook: “it’s ok to fuck with consumers, but not my personal stock portfolio!”

The TL;DR, as always, is this: SCOTUS will allow Donald Trump to wreck separation of powers and the rule of law, but they draw the line at wrecking capitalism.

In the absence of federal regulation, I do think this is the best solution because it could be done at a state or city level. You could tie registration fees and excise taxes to vehicle weight. It's an imperfect solution because many folks can afford the tax, but I think it would be a positive step.

I am usually very much in opposition to doxxing. But if elected officials want to approve the doxxing of their political opponents up to and including average citizens that happened to just one time sign a petition that they don't like, I think we need to have a serious debate about their privacy.

No one ever questions a two car household or even a two midsized SUV household, so for anyone thinking two e-cargo bikes in one home is crazy, just consider the current status quo.