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What I hear: "yes, people are tired of the right using trans people as. political pawn" What Dem leaders here: "We need to talk less about trans people."

I don't know how to make it clearer to Dems that the more you waffle on this and invite debate, the more it's a political vulnerability. The more Dems equivocate the more they invite these types of heinous ads. You either stand up for trans folks proudly or you get hit with these ads.

I would argue that this administration would see this as a feature, not a bug.

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos. It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

You know how fascism requires a smaller and smaller ingroup as it develops? Well so does neoliberalism. Palestinians, trans people, disabled people...they become acceptable losses who must be sacrificed to "save democracy." The only way to defeat fascism is to leave no one behind.

Poorly-written dark satire, reason # 32,567

Do not debate white people about your humanity. It will be a waste of your time and they are not going to change their minds.

I'm a reporter not a political strategist, but one answer to the question of "What can the opposition do?" is "Use the extraordinary investigative powers members of Congress have even when in the minority to get new information courts and journalists can't get."

Are they gathering up all the generals at the Reichstag?

Out of fucking control and if I were an elected Dem or running for office I’d be in front of every camera I could find telling America your prescriptions just got twice as expensive, your health insurance premiums are about to skyrocket from ACA subsidy cancellation, and oh the gov shuts down Wed.

sponsored the state's youth gender affirming care ban

Trump just signed an illegal executive order designed to target his political opposition by designating them terrorists and using the DOJ, IRS, FBI, and the JTTF to investigate and charge liberal organizations, funders, members, and protesters. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Once again, this is entirely about dismantling liberal civil society orgs. bsky.app/profile/esqu...

Every day, Democrats should be saying that ICE agents who have broken the law will face arrest when Dems are back in power. (I hear your “if” and choose to ignore it.)

Three transgender women shot dead & dumped by the side of a road in Karachi - buff.ly/xmGtAVS

No due process means they can do this to anyone.

I know it seems laughable to blame trans people for a government shutdown, but it is also deeply worrying how the administration is making every negative thing the fault of trans people. We’ve seen what happens when a small minority becomes the scapegoat of a whole society: a lot of people die.

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/xx #smbc

Easy messaging win for Dems, "you can't have [good thing] because Trump is spending $20B to subsidize the failures of some libertarian clown abroad." And, no, Dems shouldn't support it because it's "foreign aid." It's a right-wing clown bailout. Supporting it trivializes and undermines foreign aid.

Margot Lewis Found Guilty in Murder of Trans Advocate Liara Tsai www.transvitae.com/m... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

I've seen a lot of people misunderstanding what this does and does not mean and Melissa does a great job explaining it's first and foremost a media strategy. Importantly, none of this is new and has been used against other groups and activists (Muslims/Palestinians, BLM, immigrants)

I looked into the group and the guy pushing the FBI to create a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism”—itself a political project, meant to conflate the fact of trans people’s existence with extremism.

It's not hypocrisy that so many right-wingers desire trans people, particularly trans women, and also degrade and try to destroy us: it's fundamental to their understanding of the world. It's also one of the main reasons why they frame trans kids as contamination and grooming.

Absolutely spot on - and also completely in line with their essential purity/taboo ideas of sex. Tale as old as time: this kind of sex is dirty, but I want it, therefore the dirt 'belongs' to the object of desire, who can be sectioned off and disposed of as contaminated, while I remain clean.

We told them this was gonna happen. But why would they listen to us?

Ok, we “saved” Jimmy Kimmel. Now can we bring that same energy to migrants, trans people, BIPOC and women? Or are we just reserving that for rich white guys?

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

"It was just a joke, C'mon, can't you take a joke?"

You simply cannot make me spend my time on this stuff. Oh the president said Tylenol causes autism? Well it doesn't. No I'm not going to pore through research papers to prove it to you. That's not what my time is for. My time is for playing videogames and gazing lovingly at my wife.

“Sexual Matador”

Being nice to trans people really did turn out to be a load bearing part of liberal democracy ey

YES this is such a misunderstood dynamic and it drives me crazy

as a frame, "it's a fascist attack" not only tells us what's happening, it also explains why they're talking about it like they are. it makes legible not just their actions, but their explanations. it eats their frame.

I have so many questions, and the answer to most of them is that Kash Patel is a fucking idiot.

At this point, we’re going to see MAGA rush to the scene of every mass shooting to litter the scene with fake evidence desperately trying to portray the shooter as a leftist. And that’s optimistically assuming the FBI themselves aren’t just amateurishly manufacturing this bullshit.

Wrote for @thenation.com about the complicity of some liberal politicians and pundits in the conservative campaign to exterminate trans people www.thenation.com/article/poli...

see how settled science suddenly gets turned into something unclear as soon as conservatives make it a political issue? this has happened on dozens of issues.

I haven’t seen a lot of cis people I usually see pushing for calls, etc. doing so about these rules provisions, which would devastate trans people nationally. Calls need to be made to all electeds and a firm stance taken ASAP, with ten times the fervor of the Kimmel/D+ event

“Trans people cannot live alongside people who promise to eradicate us from society.” — @katelynburns.com

For my Burns Notice newsletter, I wrote about what it was like being a trans person and see the entire right wing try to incite pogrom on us over the last several weeks. burns-notice.ghost.io/what-am-i-su...

The comments are embarrassing.

Is it me, or is Bluesky loading very sllooowly?

"Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars." A reminder that the proper response to a bully is "Fuck you, no." Otherwise you're just offering a down payment on future bullying.

Unfortunately, the attack on Carstens and her trans friends was only one of the many transphobic hate crimes that have taken place across the Seattle area in recent times. The far-right, emboldened by Trump and now enraged by the murder of Charlie Kirk, is on the attack. Read more about it here:

No, supporting trans rights doesn’t cost elections! “43 percent of voters were more likely to vote for a candidate who stands up for transgender people. Just 21 percent of voters would be less likely to support a candidate who supports trans rights.”

More than 40 media outlets published anti-trans misinformation in the wake of the Charlie Kirk shooting, according to research from @transjournalists.org Here's why that's such a big deal ⬇️ (Video for @xtramagazine.com by me and @cody.boats ) www.tiktok.com/@xtramagazin...

short 🧵 on what autism and transgender pseudoscience & disinformation have in common: