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.”

Bolsonaro in prison, Yeon sentenced to prison, Andrew arrested on his birthday...and America still holding on to a 34 count felon as President.

///Axios’s Barak Ravid reported earlier on Wednesday that “a U.S. military operation in Iran would likely be a massive, weeks-long campaign...” weeks-long? more like weak schlong

The muppets absoLUTEly are a technology

Like this. "You must strategically abandon the specific issues that the right has rendered toxic & focus on others." But then ... why wouldn't the right just be able to do the same thing on those other issues?

the logic of his position is that you would them abandon those issues and so on and so on until you’ve fully sacrificed a group of vulnerable americans to reactionary bullies for the sake of a percentage point (if that)

Fuck ICE and abolish ICE

This is the path forward if Democrats want to win and change this country for the better.

"Definitely can't follow the law EVERY TIME you guys"

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

If anyone wants an example of the kind of stuff I wish more Democrats would do when it comes to defending trans rights, look no further than this from @jayapal.house.gov

Holy shit bill is Antifascist and I'm here for it

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 14 ByLines: In 2022 after Cass's Interim Report, The Times of London ran a lurid expose' “Tavistock Gender Clinic ‘To Be Sued by 1,000 families” saying there was a mass lawsuit by kids claiming GIDS rushed them into taking blockers. 1/2

Not a single trans person I've interviewed on my podcast called me (or anyone else) transphobic merely for asking questions. But "just asking questions" is usually a different thing altogether.

Holy shit they got Grantsby Bigbert?????

This is a concentration camp. Saying so isn't hyperbole.

(norman rockwell guy) i don't think we should replace human tutors with the lying robot that tells children to kill themselves

reminder that preschooler Liam Ramos is still imprisoned by the United States federal government. absolutely shameful.

Please understand that the DEATH PENALTY is a huge reason why so many people feel comfortable justifying the murders of Keith Porter Jr., Renee Good, and Alex Pretti. Ongoing state and federal executions make death by the hands of authority in general less likely to shock the conscience.

This is the type of person that DHS has specifically been trying to recruit for its whole existence It cannot be reformed It must be eliminated The next administration must repeal, and not replace, the USA PATRIOT Act and Homeland Security Act to stop giving these lawless bandits a jobs program

I propose better training for ICE. We must do better. Here's my basic outline: 1- Train them to collect all their belongings, weapons excluded 2- Train them to go the fuck home 3- Train them to accept their permanent termination and the absolute and permanent abolition of their agency

I’m so sick of people throwing their hands up and saying abolishing ICE isn’t possible right now. Abolishing ICE is extremely popular and calls to do so will only continue to grow, meanwhile conservatives manage to do incredibly unpopular things all the time because nobody stops them

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Reasons I loved interviewing @andreapitzer.bsky.social: Her work offers perspective grounded in our troubled reality but without cynicism or despair, she speaks with urgency but not panic, and invites ordinary people to do ordinary but helpful things. Our discussion: www.relationscapes.org/e/pitzer/

In 2026, we're launching an ambitious effort to track legacy news media's coverage of the trans community, with a focus on the words news outlets choose and how those are changing as right wing pressure threatens the independence of our press. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

NYT ran 11 stories on trans athletes in 2 days including one about brett kavanaugh’s special POV as a girls’ basketball coach. they sent 6 people to scotus to write up their victory lap & meanwhile this is how far you needed to scroll yesterday to find coverage of ICE in MN. stop giving them money.

This is a real photo where you can see the inside of the car of the woman murdered by an ICE agent today in Minnesota. Out of frame you would see an airbag covered in blood. The militarization of American cities must end. Anyone defending this should apologize, resign, or be removed from office.

This is really incredible. The government's battle to deport Abrego Garcia has apparently been based on a lie from the start. Not even the "gang affiliation" lie or the "human smuggling" lie, but the more basic assertion that he was ordered to be deported in the first place.

Yes anti-DEI is overtly racist. Yes they really think marginalized people only got to where they are because they were unfairly advanced because of their marginal status. Yes that is extraordinarily stupid.

elite DEI panic is just status competition, part infinity

Omg the NYT is now platforming FIRE as though they're the lone and true free speech warriors 😂

I am grateful that as our democracy fails we still have some laughs. Makes me wanna keep fighting. FOR CAVE GONZO!

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

RFK doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about when it comes to ANYTHING by the way.