"Trans rights are not the most important issue right now" Not standing up to protect our trans siblings is letting someone put a jackhammer into the foundation of human rights. It is absolutely critical we support one another.

Literally the Supreme Court upheld sodomy bans in 1986 and said homosexuality was worse than rape and nobody even talks about it

A lifetime of lying and grifting combined with dementia

if your 80yr old parent was talking about having conversations with someone who died ~27 years before they were even born, you'd be getting power-of-attorney in place bsky.app/profile/atru...

It's a retrofitted Boeing 747, so the US did, in fact, build it

Adoption of air conditioning in Europe at U.S. levels would bring massive health benefits, while the emission implications would be minuscule, unlike many suggest - and, done right, it would help the clean energy transition by boosting electrification and clean energy. 🧵

Jimmy Carter sold his peanut farm to avoid any possible conflict of interest www.bbc.com/news/article...

This was correct in 2014, as was "Sotomayor & Kagan should immediately retire in Jan 2021," as was "Thurgood Marshall should have retired in 1978" etc. Pretending Justices were irreplaceable geniuses instead of aging partisan votes in a 9-member super-legislature has been Democrats' fatal error.

Anyone who says Dallas is one of their favorite places in the world has lost their mind (soft exception for people from there)

actually a third thing: alito quite literally sounds like the unreconstructed opponents of the 14th amendment, right down to the notion that his citizenship is degraded by the fact that it is equal with that of someone from a lower station than him.

"In the absence of spending limits, it is possible for the affluent... to dominate the political discourse, depriving their opponents of the ability to speak and be heard, undermining the voter's ability to be adequately informed of all views." Such good judgement, it oughta be their jobs.

Vile stuff, but unsurprising from this court.

Our trans siblings, like everyone else, deserve the full, unencumbered right to access and participate in every part of society free from discrimination. Neither a court that refuses to protect that right nor a Constitution that does not make that right clear is worth preserving.

expand the court. no more half measures. this is intolerable.

About Trump v. Barbara: Do not give the Court and the CJ credit for reading and upholding the Constitution. It's a travesty that this is not a unanimous decision... it's also a travesty that the Court let this question percolate for a year, giving credence to a crank theory of citizenship.

The bicentennial made such a tremendous impact on American *pop* culture--I remember the Barney Miller episode about it!--there were tricorner hats everywhere, hit songs, a movie, and the logo and local parades all year long. This year it feels as empty as the mall.

In case you, too, needed this today:

I actually think this bears repeating: Our Director of National Intelligence was just shown to *literally be taking secretive orders about what precisely to do and say in politics* from a scary cult leader in Hawaii And it wasn’t even front-page news How am I supposed to react to this?

Someone at the gym just hit me with a “howdy bro” on Grindr and if that ain’t the most Austin, Texas, shit

prayers for all the people who have to go home to an apartment in a double loaded corridor after watching Backrooms

Imagine the quality of life, environmental, and productivity gains we could accomplish if we added rail between San Antonio and Austin instead of expanding the freeway!

sad spurs noises

I know many of you might not know much about Big Bend, but this is insanity. The park has an incredibly low volume of crossings mostly bc it’s desert + mountains, and the other side of the border is a massive preserve. Beyond that, it is a place of immense beauty. It is Texana par excellence.

Once again observing that no one ever ran "President Biden's approval ratings have tumbled. But here in West Baltimore, these black lesbians say he delivered on key promises.

1. Refreshing to see a reporter stand firm in the pursuit of evidence to support wild, harmful claims. 2. The weird anger, irrationality, total unresponsiveness to another person’s calm pleading reminds me so much of my grandfather right before he passed, when he was suffering from severe dementia.

I want what they have ♥️🚲

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I know I'm a broken record, but Trump *not* releasing his taxes as he promised and the IRS *not* auditing his taxes every year and releasing the results like they have for every goddamn president for forty years is the actual scandal. This won't outlast his term and should be fought right now

In which LinkedIn's chat bot offers support it cannot provide:

Solidarity with E. Jean Carroll and all survivors who face legal retaliation and criminal prosecution for speaking the truth. This is both remarkable and utterly unsurprising. Survivors have been jailed, retraumatized, harassed, and sued into silence for far too long.

"The Republican Party is wholly captured by this thinking, one that sees the Gospel as a story of masculine dominance and power and an authorizing narrative for a politics of misogyny, racism, and tyranny." www.liberalcurrents.com/right-wing-a...

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America.  He embodies the broken system we’re running against. It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton

The fundamentalist-modernist controversy never ended, and it sure looks like the Texas Senate race is gonna make what has often functioned as subtext between the Christian traditions just, like, context.

Khan vs WHO???

It’s amazing that I stayed in the closet for 15 full years after reacting the way I did to this scene

I did this already. Did you?

I have been told my whole life that we can’t do reparations for people.

Their downfall will be their arrogance

Border externalization is not just a migration strategy.

“I had nothing to do with it” being rehearsed by all the most evil people I see

Very happy to see these extremely out-of-touch AI proponents face the reality of how everyone else feels about them.

"Sweeps" are no strategy for reducing homelessness. They don't even work with an internal logic that suggests improvement! It's just pushing people from some place to some place else. I don't know how many times we have to keep learning this.

The corruption is breathtaking in an "I'm wheezing and nearly passing out from rage" kind of way

Need these at every corner in Travis Heights btw

If I have one more overconfident neoliberal man smugly say, “just regulate the externalities,” I swear to god

This delusional fuck goes from "I think it'll happen" to "They're sending Chinese ships up to buy oil" with barely any pause. The difference between "I think" and "it is" doesn't exist for him

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

The Fifth Circuit seems poised to effectively invalidate the entire 2021-22 Congress based on the quorum clause. www.courthousenews.com/fifth-circui...

Time to stand up for trans youth care.

New York streets belong to New Yorkers, and Soccer Streets are for the kids. We’re turning the block outside your school into a car-free playground and World Cup celebration. Now until June 26, you’ll find Soccer Streets in front of 50 public schools across all five boroughs. Let’s play!