It is the solemn duty of the New York Times to publish right-wing propaganda it totally doesn't agree with. How else will good liberals learn that the Gulf/Iraq/Iran war is good, trans people should be denied healthcare, the AIDS crisis should be ignored, genocide of Palestinians is fine, etc.?

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I do not like living in a country that is the most evil entity of all time and that worships blood, I wish I lived in a country that was good

My entire life, I have watched this country mulch other nations, and tell me that it's for my benefit while it also calls me a pervert degenerate and tries smother me and everyone I care about.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

oh cool, america is starting another war it'll lose, but not before causing unfathomable amounts of death and suffering.

the fecklessness of establishment Dems comes from the fact that they agree with much of what Trump is doing. they want aggressive immigration enforcement. they want to blow shit up in Iran. for them, Trump is a sin eater who's brashly doing what they've been trying to do politely for a generation

My life would be perfect if i was either 10% more evil or 10% less evil. I'm exactly the wrong amount of evil.

the boy scouts desperately tried to preserve its status as an "american institution" by removing restrictions on lgbt and female members and now the trump administration is demanding it get back on board a sinking ship

Someone should teach David Foster Wallace how to wear a bandana without looking like he's recovering from brain surgery. Quickly, while he's still alive!

noooooo I got a grindr message from "a believer of the TNWO" i hate this

Every damn day of my life!

"the US is a nation of newspapers and newspapermen" is fucking incredible. All the President's Men came out half a century ago, it's time to update your understanding of American journalism.

i've spent a decade saying, "i should probably get the hell out of america, huh," and then not making any moves toward escaping this sinking ship

got time for trump (for the second time in like 3 months) but doesn’t have time for the trans kids being forcibly detransitioned by nyu langone and mt sinai, close to having seen enough from this dude

every day another news story about how america is shitting itself

I remember seeing that “Trans Tipping Point” Time cover on a newsstand way back when and thinking maybe things were going to be okay. I’ll never stop being angry that my friends’ trans kids are now growing up in uncertainty and fear because the right saw an opportunity and the left let them take it.

thinking of this anecdote about the first McDonald’s in Russia

It's long irked me that people advocate for adding an "X" option to government ids rather than getting rid of the gender marker entirely

i know someone with three kids, two trans, one she took in after their own parents disowned them. their state banned trans healthcare, so they moved to chicago specifically for "sanctuary." the big healthcare provider they went there for quit treating trans patients last year.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Working on a theory of modern dating I'm calling All Sex Is Work Now. Over the last 20 yrs as the economy degraded + women became increasingly likely to see marriage as option, we've been acting less like "future wives" + men, unsure how to treat us as anything else, default to treating us like SWs

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

I've decided to assume that everyone loves me.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

That requires addressing the central conceit of housing policy: a home is the single biggest asset most families own, and increasing housing supply will make the value of that asset go down instead of perpetually up

My eyes begin to well up. I look away. You come closer to me. "Babe, is everything okay?" "I'm fine, it's just... just that I still remember." I loosen my gown from my shoulders and it falls down enough to reveal the ornate tattoo on my upper back that reads, in gentle cursive, "L IS REAL 2401"

Saw a bar graph going around that is supposedly a 'study' that 'disproves; women doing a disproportionate share of domestic labor. It was produced by one guy, compiling existing survey data, who works for "The Institute for Family Studies". Guess what this 'institute' actually is.

The guy who staged a failed coup last time is building a massive personal militia staffed with lawless thugs. At this point it’s just naïve not to see where this is going.

The fact that there’s a secret network of doulas going around Minneapolis to help with home births for parents afraid of ICE should be front-page news. These children, born in secrecy, are American citizens.

Black Leopard, Red Wolf is a great fantasy novel about a misogynistic gay guy who is renowned for sniffing things.

one of the most melancholy feelings of adult life is realizing that you are going to watch a tv show even though adam scott is in it

A lot of the elite consensus around Epstein (which will likely be most legible in opinion essays) will of course boil down to the idea that no one should be held responsible for the systemic sexual abuse of women and girls. That was also the elite consensus around MeToo, enforced through pop culture

this is taking forever, let's just get the soft coup to install a de facto military junta over with already

here comes the nazi scientists salivating over an incarcerated population to abuse!

We all have roles in our life to play. Cousin. Sister-in-law. Acquaintance. Restaurant patron. Subcommittee member. Woman who shows up to the class reunion even though she didn't register for it. Haver of an incorrect number of bones. Ex-great-step-niece.

Sure, okay, yeah. this is definitely what democratic voters will long for after 4 years of Trump 2: a slimy conservative with slicked-back hair

People are talking a lot of trash about Wuthering Heights (2026) but as far as I know it's the only adaptation that shows Catherine fingering the mouth of a fish suspended in aspic.

christianity is a blatantly patriarchal project and is thus inherently reactionary thanks for playing

Even the concentration camps for Japanese-Americans had ample rec space. These are torture camps

We don't get paid maternity leave because a bunch of pervert billionaires didn't like it We didn't get rape protection for the same reason Women's healthcare lags decades behind because pervert billionaires wanted to spend that money on stealing babies at the border

nasa has yet to discover a planet sexier than saturn

Lmao his friends in the court tried to do him a favor by giving him an excuse to curtail an extremely unpopular policy he's attached to, and he responds by refusing and making it worse. This country is so stupid.

eating hummus like it was ice cream

The Prisoner is incredible. It's like if James Bond was a middle-aged libertarian having an anxiety attack after realizing society existed. It's what Franz Kafka would have written if he had voted for Brexit. It's your dad's power fantasy about doing the bravest thing possible: quitting a job.

Putting on my black shirt with the word "sickos" on it and finding a window to smile menacingly in

I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned.

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.