Ex-fuccin-actly

Actually politics doesn't have to work like this. When asked about supporting genital mutation surgeries for minors say "of course not. The problem is, such surgeries are actually only performed on intersex infants with disastrous effects. Please ask every republican why they support that."

Begging Democrats to stop this nonsense. For the love of God please stop buying into their bad faith narratives.

Imagine for one second that Obama did this. Fox News ran wall to wall complaints about Obama taking Michelle out for dinner once.

The Amazing Digital Circus finale was, in fact, both digital AND amazing.

Legacy journalism's obsession with both-sidesing ironically helped pave the way for the demolition of its flagship broadcast program. And the NYT's own coverage of it is still posturing the both sides thing here and there.

EXACTLY

I admire Scott in some ways, but I also see from this interview how an old-school journalistic obsession with "both sides" helped pave the way for his (still unjust) termination. He was so naive giving Ellison and Weiss the benefit of the doubt, for example. Didn't even know who Weiss was 😂

Whatever the aftermath to this period looks like, I hope we are able to look back and reckon with the cancerous growth of elite delusion and the conditions that permitted it to metastasize.

You can say anything you want about how much you support queer kids, but if you vote for politicians who oppose lgbtq rights and dignity, those queer kids know you're not on their side. The second most important way to support them according to them is through your vote.

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I deal with chronic depression, and antidepressants have made a world of difference for me. RFK Jr. can go kick rocks.

Today is a Dred Scott day in America. A catastrophe that calls on every single democracy-loving person to do something. But I don't know what to do. I'm listening and watching.

I'm sold

My iPhone refuses to allow me to type the words white supremacist. This has been going on as long as I can remember.

Six members of SCOTUS are unabashedly white supremacist.

The court is compromised. Expand the court, full stop. This must be Dem priority #1.

A five alarm fire in America today

Disgusting stuff at the University of Utah

Republicans have concentration camps, but then, on the other hand, Democrats aren’t nice about the concentration camps.

I just saw a guy walking around with one of those invisible dog leash gags. Felt like there was a little whimsy in the world today, it was nice. Upon closer inspection it was a Weedwhacker.

Yeah because April ends with an L

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

Oof, storycorps

"Originalism for thee but not for me and vice versa whenever I need it." Are these guys aware of the absolute hypocrisy of their selective insistence on originalism or have they drunk their own koolaid enough to not even realize?

Good night, trans people! Remember, we get our powers of invisibility back tomorrow, so be very careful crossing the street.

This is perhaps the most deranged thing I've ever seen a major, respected news organization do: Lie about the AMA's position on gender-affirming care, and when the AMA issues a statement correcting it, the NYT accuses the *AMA* of lying about *their own position*

Imagine if the NYT put out dozens of articles threatening the existence of whales and then threw this single article into the mix before going back to all its anti-whale bullshit.

Think voting doesn’t matter? 766 votes.

I cannot adequately explain how fucked up the World Cup situation is wihen the president of a host nation *threatens the safety* of one of the participants (Iran). The USA should be removed as a host nation and if it's not, the games shoud be boycotted and ANYONE WITH A MORAL CENTER should see that.

the most pathetic thing i can imagine is being a grown ass adult addicted to using the R slur. like it’s embarrassing enough to have it vestigially lodged in your vocabulary but to go to bat for your right to use a hateful word everybody normal got bored of in the sixth grade…?

Did you hear what Biden said at Michael Jackson's funeral

Maybe I shouldn't be surprised, but I'm very much enjoying the new Scrubs

We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.

Don't shun people just because they have different beliefs about blotting out the sun to usher in a new age of eternal darkness. We have to find an answer in the middle.

Motherfucker, the math that powers your war machine is ARABIC. The woman who enabled the GPS that enables you to rain death on civilians was BLACK. And let’s not EVEN talk about that the sheer number of immigrants and non-western folks who make this country what it is. Fuck. You.

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

The entire anti-trans care grift is built in treating the usual way medicine works as if it's a scandal. Therapists figure out if a kid is trans the same way they figure out if they're depressed. They ask questions, maybe using a formal scale to quantify how kids compare to similar kids.

I interviewed a musical hero of mine for the Relationscapes podcast. Steven Page, formerly of Barenaked Ladies, joined me to talk about a song he wrote when he was twenty, all about the harms of restrictive gender roles. If you told my high school self this would happen I wouldn't have believed you.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Doctors say that vaccines are the best way to protect children against measles. A guy who eats dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says they should just swim in untreated sewage water instead. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

It’s “let’s protect women in sports” until the President mocks a women’s hockey team. It’s “let’s get the birth rate up” until Tennessee makes abortion punishable by death. It’s “we’re going after dangerous criminals” until they realize it’s easier to lock up British grannies

Other than the hair thing, agreed

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

My district is poised to elect a Democrat for the first time in over a decade or so.

Restore.

I also just levied a tariff on all countries foreign and domestic

Why they publishing pieces by the Sheriff of Nottingham

My best Canadian friend invited me to talk about my faith and how I changed my mind about trans folks on his excellent Antifascist Dad podcast. Part one is available now.

I know there have been so many of these in the last week but this one had me howling. “Pam Bondi gets caught stealing a fruit snack.”