i wonder what it’s like to look around every day and see the country being run into the ground by pill-poppers and secret police and anti-vaxxers and book burners and you go into work and sit down at your computer and you’re the guy whose job it is to come up with new oreos flavors

Are you kidding me right now? This is the last thing we need. KOSA is back no thanks to Senator Blumenthal who is working with the GOP and bringing in Republican Senators to convince the House to support it. Please, CALL GOP House leadership and tell them to keep opposing it!

KOSA is now in red alert priority. Please contact your representatives, dem and gop alike, and demand they oppose KOSA We need to turn out in numbers against this!

9. If a CR fails, we would be entering into a shutdown which could be protracted and where negotiations on the trans provisions (and all other poison pills and policy priorities for Dems and Rs) may begin. And if a CR succeeds, the same will happen, but just with a few weeks of breathing room.

8. You can contact your representatives and senators here. www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

Watching Bedtime Stories while waiting for the weed and rye to wear off. Tim and Eric make uncannily convincing Midwestern lesbians.

I'm so mad that the Firebird crapped out on the side of the road and we didn't get to do the fetish photography on it in the woods.

TL;DR, the current CR doesn't have any risks to gender-affirming care. But the upcoming spending fight will and it's important to differentiate between the two, especially when it's information for a vulnerable population. Our job should be to seek truth and report it and minimize harm.

I did not get through to Schumer’s office and left a message. But I did get a human being at Gillibrand’s office, so Dylan’s supposition applies there as well. New Yorkers, her office is at 212-688-6262.

"i saw on the news that trump is threatening to shut down the government unless democrats bend the knee on trans healthcare and i'm calling to say that i will never vote for [name] again if they do. i would rather they shut down the government." and they will say "thank you i'll pass that on"

if you have democrat rep/senators i recommend calling and reminding them you will never vote for them again if they bend the knee on this. shutting down the government is the correct choice. that is the exact phrasing in my 3 calls and it took 5 min total bsky.app/profile/pink...

I just called Chuck Schumer’s office and, for the first time EVER, a person answered, who then politely entered my complaints into their call log. This tells me two things: 1) They’re not getting enough calls over there, and 2) If you want to yell at Schumer, today’s the day. (212) 486-4430

For once I got through to Durbin and Duckworth's offices, so if you've tried in the past and not gotten through you might today.

Don’t automatically assume that your elected officials will do the right thing because we know that half of them won’t and may try to capitulate under pressure. Call your elected officials and be a constant, unceasing pain in their ass. You elected them to work for you not the other way around.

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

You are the most contemptable form of fascist - one who won't get their own hands dirty while reveling in the suffering meted out by those who do.

Iraq War veteran Thomas Sanford has been identified as the gunman who attacked Grand Blanc Mormon church, killing 2 people and setting it ablaze. Out of the three mass shootings today, two of them have been carried out by Iraq war veterans.

at what point does a government lose all legitimacy

I’m giving short shift to the insanity of the lawsuit. Among other things Nigel Max Edge (né Sean DeBevoise) accused the government of using “LGBQT” guards to torture Iraqis at Abu Ghraib into murdering US troops. He also escorted American Idol’s Kellie Pickler to the CMT Music Awards in 2012.

I put people who respond to me with the Giphy keyboard on par with ringworms.

Thanks, man.

I’m pretty much constantly angry about how the global media ecosystem supercharged the current wave of fascism and of course I can’t help but think of Al Swearengen talking about the telegraph coming to Deadwood

Make sure you contact your senators here - Democrats control whether or not a budget with anti-trans provisions passes. There are many that would devastate the trans community. www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

Funny animal people.

Yes, this is why the “they’re not groyper” fixation also misses the target because it is only a technicality. This *is* postmodern fascism at its heart. 20th century fascism was a result of industrial capitalism meeting nationalism while this the result of consumerism meeting racialized nihilism.

An LLM trained on the last 30 years of jackoff campaign wonks.

I mean, as a transsexual, I'm really not enjoying "immense casualties within the peer group that contains almost all my friends and loved ones." It's nice that you have a reasonable expectation of being comfortably whole after all the ablative armor is expended.

YouTuber brain.

It is now official, anyone who says "LGB without the T" is a confirmed fed and should be treated accordingly.

I genuinely cannot emphasize this enough. Law enforcement manufacturing evidence and testilying isn't novel to the Trump administration. It's not even more common. They're just worse at it so they're more easily caught doing it.

whos stalin

I know that the posturing is central to the fascist project, but goddamn these people are all like cops having an imaginary fentanyl attack, rolling around on the ground while making it into TikTok videos.

"Spicy Booktok" is one of the most embarrassing phrases I've seen.

a general strike shut down italy on monday in support of palestine & now this is happening. international worker solidarity still has power!!

This is really great reporting from Mother Jones - the "godfather" of evidence-based medicine disavows the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine for misusing his work. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

STAY AWAY FROM ME! GET A JOB!!!

maybe let's not imply that this discussion that is being had primarily by queer artists defending our own work is indicative of an untoward sexual interest in kids

Is there not another babysitter?

Not "Fuck ICE" or "Death to ICE", you know something that makes sense, but "Anti ICE" lol. The FBI is really bad at this, but maybe it doesn't even matter anymore.

This is a very popular opinion. I see it constantly, and like the replies to this thread, generally egged on with breathless affirmations that personal taste should dictate acceptability in art.

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...

So they're not in good faith, but you have to defend them on technicalities. Sounds like you aren't operating in good faith by your own standards!

Yes and I understand that you're using sexuality to justify a dragnet operation against anyone who looks like, in the words of the authorities involved, a "fag perv." You hand-wring about "cruising" in the same thread, while one of the victims was taken for wearing a rainbow wristband.

Shaking his head solemnly at the other Nazis and enjoying every minute of what they're doing to us

Shoving the queers back into the camps and calling it "liberation" mentality.

The "don't be a Nazi, I'm good to drive" argument on a superpower-scale.

"Among those arrested was David, a 31-year-old healthcare worker...David, who is gay, was wearing a rainbow Pride wristband as he says he was simply trying to pee when he was arrested."

"RFK Jr. Is still a problem."