It has been 13 years since the lives of 20 children and six educators were taken in minutes by a gunman armed with a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle and high-capacity magazines at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut. Two other people were wounded. 🧵

Another great thing @sifill.bsky.social said on Amicus podcast. We can’t draw circles around groups who we think don’t belong (I’m looking at you @governor.ca.gov). We all belong or there is nothing to belong to.

I am so proud to call Robin a friend. Shame on Brian Cox, whose wife is a virulent TERF bigot and his silence is utter complicity. Stop lionizing him. Please support Robin in every way possible when he announces his next move. He's a brilliant writer, a piss your pants funny comic+ a total mensch.

The reason folks are focusing on DHS's refusal to honor Real IDs is that it means that the Trump regime is asserting the right to detain anyone in America, resident or visitor, without probable cause. It's an erasure of habeas corpus for all Americans. bsky.app/profile/jare...

All my admiration to the great @robinince.bsky.social, watching this guy quote James Baldwin and Audrey Lorde as he resigns from the BBC in solidarity with trans people makes me want to stand up and cheer

That person got fired off of their job for being kind toward others. Let that sink in. This is the shitty state of our current world. Kindness is getting punished, and it is outrageous.

You don’t know? I can show it to you but I can’t understand it for you.

You're in a car accident. So you call all the ERs from the ambulance and see who's offering a special. Hell, maybe you can ask hospital B to beat hospital A's price. It'll be like car dealerships. "How much can you spend a month, Randi?" "What will it take to get you into this ER today?"

Watch this. Then remember that the president doesn’t care. He cares that his old ass gets richer in the hand full of years he may have left. And his sick rich friends. The most corrupt evil man to ever serve as president is ignoring real evil

The battle to buy WBD, CNN's parent company, brings to mind what Hungary's PM Viktor Orban did. Taking control of the media was key to consolidating power. He did it in part by helping wealthy supporters acquire news outlets, ensuring favorable news coverage fridainsight.substack.com/p/cnns-futur...

James Talarico: I got elected by flipping a Trump district. I've been able to pass bills to help bring down the cost of childcare, bring down the cost of housing, bring down prescription drug costs, and pass the first-ever cap on insulin in Texas history

This post by the world’s richest and most divorced man on the site he bought to promote his far right extremism is ripped straight from the Klan messaging of the 1870s or the 1915 film Birth of a Nation that inspired the Klan’s rebirth as a PR stunt/Ponzi scheme/terrorist organization in the 1920s.

‪Why does the government want all LGBTQ citizens on a list? 🤔 ‬

We understand that there is no political scandal massive enough, no social media rant reckless enough, no act illegal enough, no legislation predatory enough to alter their allegiance. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-cant-ch...

You Are Worth Loving Long Before You Feel Complete www.transvitae.com/y... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

7 December 1923 | A Polish Jew, Moses Fuks, was born in Warsaw. In #Auschwitz from 29 April 1942. No. 32629 He perished in the camp on 3 July 1942. --- Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

7 December 1921 | A Polish Jew, Abraham Kempler, was born in Żabnica. A worker. In #Auschwitz from 5 March 1942. No. 26393 He perished in the camp on 18 March 1942. --- Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: https://youtu.be/_ZaWqIsmY4U

If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud. Just unspeakable assholery.

i will vote for any presidential candidate who campaigns on sending pete hegseth to the hague

Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.

Do it. Hit them with all we can, when we can, wherever we can.

IRW — a Pulitzer-winning nonprofit newsroom at American — and @thebarbedwire.com traced the history of anti-trans legislation. Houston conservatives realized homophobia didn’t fly anymore, weaponized girls’ safety, and parroted segregationist language. It worked. thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...

“…engineered case with fake plaintiffs…”

Next week the Supreme Court will hear another engineered case with fake plaintiffs, which presents another opportunity for the GOP justices to blow a hole through what remains of our campaign finance laws—this time, by turning political parties into a conduit for bribes. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

this shit is just beyond parody, man

The classic Goebbels approach. In the period 1934-38, Germans were subjected to relentless stories about grotesque crimes committed by Jews, Poles and gypsies, all part of a carefully orchestrated campaign of demonization. And in 2025, Jonathan Greenblatt and the ADL approve of this message.

Ah yes but you're assuming the CA challenges will be assessed under Calvinball Rules v1.3, when in fact Calvinball Rules v1.4 will be in force by then

I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics

It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration. But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants. The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.

And that’s how Calvin got a degree in physics at OU

If a Psych prof assigns students an essay response paper with explicit guidelines and then flunks a student for turning in a paper that ignores those guidelines but instead makes vague gestures to "the Bible" then THAT IS NOT A VIOLATION OF THE STUDENT'S RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.

This week has offered many stark insights: 1. The US is by far the most corrupt Western country. 2. Trump's administration works for its own enrichment with Russia, sacrificing Ukraine (WSJ below). 3. The US must play no role on Ukraine-Russia issues. /1 www.wsj.com/world/russia...

A top Republican in Indiana, whose daughter has Down Syndrome, just announced he will be voting to block Trump’s gerrymandering after Trump used the R-word to insult people yesterday.

There is no reason for anyone to be intimidated by this unpopular failing lame duck whose mental and physical health is circling the drain

We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked

Brazil put their Trump in prison. We put our Bolsonaro back in the White House so he could knock it down, persecute his enemies, and protect himself from facing judgment for raping children. #RemoveTrump

In case anyone is wondering what kind of campaign Collins intends to run next year, now we know. No achievements, only hate: Susan Collins backs referendum to overturn Maine’s protections for transgender students www.bangordailynews.com/2025/11/24/p...

What if Dems ran on sacrificing James Carville's human rights?

JD Vance and Peter Thiel are running a sustained operation out of the White House designed to acquire Greenland, either voluntarily or by force. Thiel has laid out plans for what he intends to do with the island nation in past writings. It doesn't entail the consent of the Greenlanders for anything.

Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:

The Air Force wants to deny trans service members their benefits after forcing them into early retirement due to the Trump Admin’s attacks. 17 vets are suing for the benefits they deserve. Thankful for @gladlaw.bsky.social & @nclrights.bsky.social for supporting the plaintiffs.

It’s way past time that qualifying nations refused to attend the World Cup. This is just yet another reason. None will though.

State Dept. Spokesperson now refuting GOP and Dem senators’ account of their joint briefing from Rubio - and claiming the 28 point plan IS authored by the US. Hard to believe several senators would have fundamentally misunderstood what Rubio told them. Breathtakingly dysfunctional government.

There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.

I’m sick of hearing that closing the Department of Education would send control back to the states. The states already have control. What they really want with a closing is lack of oversight, access to education funding, and more Christian Nationalism in schools.

"Above all, Europe MUST accept that US leadership is not coming back - not in 2028, not in 2032. Waiting for Washington is self-destructive for Europe and harmful to Ukraine. I want to say this clearly one more time: stop running to Washington for rescue. U.S. leadership is gone and not coming back"

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…