underrated result from Tuesday!

“On Thursday, the administration won again. And, trans and nonbinary people — and all of those who care for the rule of law — lost.”

I can imagine this being prescient, given the state of gun violence in this nation, the penchant for gun violence in the right wing specifically, and the emotional intensity over the Epstein Files—and the historical parallels. The Mar-a-Lago party as “a giant FUCK YOU” isn’t subtext; it’s text.

We can't find money to feed hungry children (SNAP) or to keep planes in the sky (FAA), but we can find money for this?

Black folks to the rescue AS USUAL.

For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...

Who would have guessed that a report that is so bad for Trump that the Speaker of the House is blockading the swearing-in of a new member in order to keep the report from being released is actually worse than they said? Everyone. Literally everyone.

This is good, and should actually make us feel better. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson temporarily blocked a ruling that required Trump to fully fund SNAP because she’s playing chess, not checkers. She sent it back to the lower courts for a reason. 👀

No President in our history has withheld SNAP benefits during a federal shutdown until now. People going hungry in this instance is a choice President Trump has made.

I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well

Something I’ve noticed in the past 10 years: nothing annoys them more than a brown person who knows the founding US documents better than they do. —signed, a brown person who has studied the Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers, the Constitution, and the Haudenosaunee Confederation.

My Filipino American grandfather was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor today for his service in the US Navy during WWII. I consider myself a proud inheritor of his legacy in fighting fascism, defending Americans and immigrants to the US from tyrannical, oppressive rule.

I remember when they took toothbrushes away. It wasn’t because anything happened, it was just because they wanted to make detainees more miserable.

They can’t summarily deport you unless you sign the order. But I guess federal agents have decided to use any means necessary to get people to sign. Read this whole thread to understand what “mass deportation” really means.

We need this to penetrate public consciousness. Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.

Let’s be clear that Trump has no idea what his policies look like in the real world. He says, “Get immigrants out!”, and all he looks at are the numbers. Stephen Miller tells him the numbers aren’t high enough, so he demands more. Also, immigrants aren’t people to him, so he doesn’t care.

If “not my problem” was a person.

Ironically the better columnists (@jamellebouie.net, @polgreen.bsky.social, @mashagessen.bsky.social) are more independent and safer for trans people to speak with than any of the reporters, who are vulnerable to and enmeshed in the hierarchy even if they aren't ideologically anti-trans.

Meanwhile, Australia has so much solar they are offering 3 hours of FREE electricity/day.

FOR REAL

Remember: no matter who is in the Oval Office, you can always fight for change at the state and local levels. Just look at New Mexico.

Fuck grocery prices. We’re throwing ALL our money at deporting the workforce that grows our food. GOP: because racism is more important than eating!

"Ok, but are trans people sad?"- GOP voters

Mask off moment.

I'd missed this: Democratic-endorsed candidates *swept* the 6 school board races in Mecklenburg County, one of North Carolina's largest counties (home to Charlotte). This means there won't be a Republican on the board anymore; the sole GOP incumbent was ousted.

Let’s imagine it together, folks: Black Mississippians fairly represented at every level of government.

“As yet unnamed…” Trump and FIFA, the Wonder Twin Powers of corruption. 🙄

It’s been like this for at least 9 years. Making death threats against people you’re mad at is everyday behavior for many “regular” Republicans. These are people who deliberately *encourage* extremists to basically “do their thing” to the enemy du jour that Libs of TikTok or whatever put on blast

The modern Democratic party established its identity by backing civil rights; the modern GOP by opposing them. Civil rights are the values of Dem value voters—the party BASE. The Dems lose the plot when they don’t LEAD on public opinion of civil rights. This is the lesson they don’t learn.

The ADL has decided to treat fascists as allies and progressives as enemies. For a group that is tasked with protecting American Jews, that is a world historic fuck up. I will never forgive these people for their moral decrepitude.

Reposting the thread I wrote a few days ago, because Mamdani’s win underlines this point:

Zohran’s win offers the Bay Area a glimpse at a better future — one where we’re not locked in a room with Gavin Newsom for another four years.

DEAR EZRA KLEIN:

SO HAPPY FOR YOU!

meanwhile the words: "Every time one of these murderers dies w/o having faced consequences for the massacres they ordered, the lives they destroyed, the societies they razed to the ground I realize how far we are from a world with justice. Rest in hell Dick Cheney. Your legacy is death." 🔥🔥🔥

Cheney should have been tried as a war criminal, but I’ll take death as a consolation prize. He never repented of what he’d done, whether the misery and death in Iraq or the rise of fascism under the GOP. His position on Trump was much too little, too late. My feelings about him are unambiguous.

If you're arresting people so fast that you have to hold them in squalid cells without access to lawyers or basic human dignities, you should stop arresting people so fast.

I would have voted for @zohrankmamdani if I lived in NYC (and I’d be happy to take the place of anybody fleeing NYC) but I’m in California and voted for Prop. 50 today.

thank God this country's finally being run by Real Men

Detective J: (Slamming his fist on the table.) That’s not how we DO things in the sandwich division. Doesn’t matter if we get bad press, like a subpar panini. We don’t cut corners, unless the sandwich in question is a round-type sandwich.

As with the Houthis, you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the RSF, which just massacred thousands as it took a city.

Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.

🤞🏽Mamdani win today for politics the way they should be, from the grassroots UP!

EXCELLENT piece that highlights how experienced women organizers—their labor long overlooked—built the crucial grassroots, multicultural movement that has propelled Mamdani’s campaign. Women are so often the drivers of social change—doing the most crucial yet least acknowledged work.

My assessment of where America stands, one year after the election. A fascistic movement controls the government; they are building an authoritarian state; but they have not been able yet to extend authoritarian rule across society. A democracy no more, but not a consolidated autocratic regime yet:

Oh FUCK. Teen Vogue has been a beacon of stellar reporting for at least a decade. This is VERY BAD.

Two school visits today: - One junior high GSA to talk about our resources for LGBTQ+ youth and listen to their experiences with homo- and transphobia. - One high school for their Vote Local project on how best to support our immigrant community. Kids want to be heard and help with real solutions

Hello? Democratic Party? Hello? Can you hear me now?

One more point about this: Obviously, the Democratic Party was DRAGGED into backing the CRM—the people were mobilizing independent of the party. So the party has a disconnect between how the leaders think of what their party is FOR versus the base’s ideas + goals for the party. MAGA/GOP does not.