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Amazing to live in a country where every day you can watch Republicans gin up issue salience out of nothing but attitude and 4chan posts and a sizeable chunk of people think Democrats' only power is to vote yes or no on bills placed in front of them

I have so many painting projects I really want to get to and I'm afraid if I don't do them immediately I will lose the motivation to do them, because it's happened in the past.

Gender is a big way colonialism wove itself into people's identities Under colonialism, a (white) "man" is someone who builds a house on someone else's land, keeps his wife & kids there as property, & uses violence to "protect" them (from the ppl who's land he stole); every man a king in his home

These are pretexts, not serious options. Of course they'll never be accepted. They're setting it up for him to claim their rejection somehow justifies an invasion, which they have already decided to do.

my gender reveal party

Republicans: WE NOMINATE SKELETOR Democrats: We dislike Skeletor but we will vote to confirm him. Please give us between 5 and 50 dollars. <Later> Democrats: I stand before you to condemn the actions of Skeletor. He should have never been given this power. Please give me between 5 and 50 dollars.

Protect the dolls includes The bricky ones. The awkward ones. The ones who can’t do make up right. Not just the dolls that turn your prurient desires up.

As usual, signal boosts are massively helpful. Come for the Silk, stay for the Song!

suck it extroverts

people were joking about how republicans broadly dont know how to govern they just keep looking for another manager to report grievances to and it turns out the problem is bipartisan across the governing class

my guy, you are in the legislative body specifically granted the power to authorize the president to conduct war. wdym you were disappointed???

trump did january 6th. republicans did january 6th. violent traitors did january 6th. they stormed the capitol, destroyed the building and threatened to kill members of congress. ashli babbitt was a violent insurrectionist. the capitol police protected people. these are truths we need to repeat.

Thinking about this again, because this is another reason why we're here.

why do the major AI boosters have zero knowledge of the human experience?

Tech is a culture, and there are a lot of people in it for whom having an accountability-washing CSAM and non-consensual image generator to drive women and children out of public life is worth a lot of money

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ICYMI: Genocide scholars are warning that the U.S. is in the process of genocide against transgender Americans. “So it’s not so much ‘will genocide happen?’ as ‘we got to stop it from happening.’” — Dr. Henry Theriault, president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2017-21)

Oh good, we're just gonna automate all our free time so we have more time to work

Ana is talking about a really important thing here, IMO. My lab is actually working on some research re: trans discourse, and the dragging in of past personal conflicts, the creation of a mythology around them, looks to be a key way we hurt each other, and how others then swoop in and take advantage

we simply do not talk enough about how much of modern capitalism has pivoted away from providing goods and services in exchange for money and into inconveniencing and harassing people with fees, surcharges, and delayed invoicing for long enough that they give you money just to make it stop

trans women are real women and it's empirically proven because men keep trying to ruin our lives for fun just like they do for any other woman

this is how every outlet should refer to X

NEW from Important Context: Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S. www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...

One extremely underdiscussed part of the military in the US is how many right wing white parents force/coerce their AMAB kids into enlisting as a method of conversion "therapy," like my parents tried to do to me. It's a favorite method of talk show hosts like Laura Schlessinger, for example.

I've been told it's too extreme to say that we live in a rape culture. After all, society doesn't openly condone sexual violence. In light of Grok and Sora being used to create non consensual sexual imagery, even of children, are we ready to reconsider? Maybe rape culture is real?

There should have been an effort to expel the ~140 reps who still voted against certifying the 2020 election results even after the failed coup under the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause. Dem. leadership's failure to treat the GOP as the domestic enemy that it is has doomed us for decades.

my 75yo mother told me last night that she’s planning to delete Instagram and Facebook because she’s sick of not being able to tell what’s AI and what’s not, and I genuinely don’t think tech companies have reckoned with this kind of move as an actual possibility

The thing that's really hilarious about this is that Valens is apparently being harassed for being too pro-furry while Malloy was harassed for appearing anti-furry. It lends credence to the "trans women can do no right" thesis. But also, folks, we're doing this to ourselves.

we have to fucking chill. there's going to be disagreements you have with people and i promise you its not the end of the world. we have to stop the constant freakouts people come at me all the time over something i've said or written but chances are i wasn't writing that thing for you specifically

I don’t use blocklists but if someone would make one listing every pointless shitbird who piled on Parker Malloy and made her leave, I would subscribe.

be normal about ana valens challenge: impossible

if this continues, you're going to wake up with no trans journalists because you've chased them all off.

Here's the adult vaccination recommendations as of Nov 2024. Why did I save these? Because I knew someone was going to try to stomp on this, and not today, Satan. Not today. #CDC #vax #vaccines #getvaxxed

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Ahem. www.axios.com/2026/01/05/t...

maybe *this* time old Donald Trump won't betray me!

i love how every post-Fox conservative is "wait, you guys actually believe this shit?"

Pathetic losers. Trump, Hannity, Machado, all of them. This idea that we’ve got to give this 80 year old baby a special prize he didn’t earn so he doesn’t get mad, my god.

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The funniest part of it all

An official NYT response means this is clearly a sore spot for them and people should keep hitting the target

this store is 18+ and they’re strict as hell about it. none of this has ever been about “protecting children,” it’s about trying to force trans people to disappear

Local cops are just another arm of the feds.

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

They’re literally charging the current president of a sovereign country for having a military. Just a complete farce through and through.

get it martha

aww this is adorable

“not wanting to fuck the same arrangement of pixels as me is protestantism, aktually”