Democrats in government will urge calm, will urge peaceful protest, will urge people to video but not obstruct. They’ll enforce laws on citizens who get unruly in their protest, or damage property. All of this is predicated on a system that works, where non-violent protest creates…1/3

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

But trans women are the problem in society, right? It isn't terf cis women ginning up violent rhetoric and begetting violence? abc11.com/post/2-women...

I'm so tired of Dems complaining about non-voters and turnout rather than addressing the deep systemic problems with the Democratic party. 2024 voter turnout as % of VAP was the 2nd highest it had been since 1968. 2020, the highest since 1968, was an aberrant year in so many ways.

Mainstream media loves to throw gasoline on fires and then chastise people for there being fires in the first place.

Remember when we were scandalized by a (maskless) guy with a rifle in tactical gear taking an immigrant child? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%C3%...

For those LGBs that think you can sacrifice trans people and be spared the dehumanization of MAGA, think again.

You’d think a bunch of superior-race-white-supremacists would be a little distraught about the government killing white people.

Spare me any more analyses of “Who is Trump?” The term “fascism” is only ~100 yrs old. If using it now represents a sort of shorthand for authoritarian, violent rule by a centralized, unchecked government such that the public can wrap their heads around what is happening, that is ok.

This is the man supplying us with the clearest footage of the ICE shooting and this was his response to the NYTimes asking for it; and GOD DAMN!! 😁 🙌 YASS, that’s how you do it! 🏳️‍⚧️

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

I feel like I had a Onion-y headline in my head this morning: "Republicans decide which country to invade next while Democrats argue vehemently with one another about what a kitchen table actually is."

Love this on guitar.

For those of us of a certain age (old), this is absolute gold. Continuous ad-free vintage video streaming. I was 15 again for a moment.

So smug. They cannot even, in a “fact-check” resist making unsubstantiated claims about gender-affirming care. “Fiercely contested” ? Cue hot dog guy meme. Their aggressive defensiveness here shows how worried they are that their veneer of respectability among white cis liberals is threatened. 1/2

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...

Major parts of HB805, NC's draconian anti-trans law, just went into effect. In August @davidforbes.bsky.social wrote about how that law (and another targeting trans youth in foster care) passed due to Dem support, how that fit a history of betrayal and why trans folks shouldn't trust politicians:

If a top fits just right off the rack, it will shrink. If it is too big off the rack, it will stay exactly the same size.

🧵I started using the internet in 1991-1992, at which point it was mostly email, IRC, Fetch and the like. I remember having Mosaic in 1993. I can’t remember when the first truly engaging websites were online, but I feel like I was going to them regularly by 1995. The two communities I gravitated…1/

I think beans sound like they are in a gang. I can see a dramatic opening with intros like: “Pinto! Lima! Lentil! RedWhiteBlack! Black-Eye! Kidney! and featuring Garbanzo!!!”

Hey Trump, I’ve got the best idea to show how super powerful you are: start saying “Trans people are the best people” and “I love the trans.” Get Mikey J and the Rs in Congress to give speeches abt how much they love trans people, while passing the Trans Rights Bill of 2026. You’d humiliate them!

Ok, which country is going to capture Trump in retaliation?

My non-unreasonable wish for 2026: stop calling clothes “buttery soft."

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

How I Became Invisible - “This Year” (originally by the Mountain Goats)

Methinks the language in the headline is quite intentional; given that “trans ideology” is a made up term by gender bigots in a sad effort to reduce self-hood to a political idea, this is too-clever-by-half linguistic dancing to try to get away with touching the hot stove of genocide.

It seems like everyone around me has the flu. I get my flu shot religiously ever since a terrible bout ~10 years ago. And unfortunately, flu shots are likely to get less effective going forward thanks to RFK et al. www.wusf.org/2025-11-07/w...

But it doesn't have a Wave Motion Gun on the front. Do you even have T, bro?

Thread of 2025

Leadership isn't a gala with billionaires at Mar-a-Lago; it’s a surprise visit to a children’s hospital. Remember which one actually served the people.

I’m grateful to all of the trans people who “went too far,” were “too visible,” demanded “too much,” and went “too fast.” I couldn’t disagree more with the idea that, as a marginalized group, you only go as far as society is comfortable. You fucking storm the beaches. You establish the best…1/

Fucking Don Davis just sent me a fundraising text. If there’s a Dem primary, I’ll contribute to whoever runs against him. (Especially after my big Powerball win tomorrow.)

@philosophyminis.bsky.social doesn’t really post here, but over on IG, they have a reel about Nietzsche, Huxley and the “Cruelty of Moral Indignation,” that neatly summarizes the human tendency towards sadism when one is convinced of ones own righteousness; it expands on “cruelty is the point."

Fuck it, Imma buy some Powerball tickets. I will devote my fortune to Furthering The Trans Agenda.

Genealogy is a fun puzzle, and understanding how my ancestors’ personal history intersected with broader history, with place, etc. is interesting. However—this kind of genealogical starfuckery is rampant in people who research; a clinging to reflected glory that reeks of desperation for relevance.

if democrats think trans people's lives are worth sacrificing then i don't think they get to whine about losing their votes too

The reason why I’m so angry at Dem dofuses like Carville and Newsom talking about trans inclusion in sports, aside from strongly disagreeing with their opinions, is that they are playing political games, dancing around the fringes of the Republican plan. It’s very clear what the Republican…1/

Love this. Refuse to be complicit in dehumanization, in this case, literal dehumanization of our world. Let's skip the parts where trillionaires make us serfs to machines, we starve and die, they build colonies on mars to escape, we revolt and have to rebuild the destroyed earth. Just stop now.

Today was the first time I’ve ever been tempted to respond to a spam text. They told me they were making a lobster and pasta dinner, and would I like to come over and join? I might end up losing my life savings, but that does sound good.

How can people who believe in the existence of a soul separate from the body insist on the biological determinism of chromosomes, etc. for identity? As a science-y agnostic, I think of my brain as the brain of a woman. But you could certainly describe my soul as that of a woman. If your god is… 1/

People on the non-profit board that I recently finished my term on are increasingly saying things like “I asked GPT” and “I ran a comparison through GPT Pro,” and it’s the first time I’ve personally come face-to-face with business people I respect embracing the mind flayer.

Question for @mcbride.house.gov : does your big tent include Cuellar, Davis, and Gonzales? This is a serious question. When you fail to define red lines as you dismiss people's values as "purity tests," then anything is potentially accommodated. If they're in your tent, where is the line?

This handy flowchart is for any fellow cis people out there who have someone in their lives who come out to them as trans.

If this greedy uptake of AI by the managerial class continues unabated, things created and written by actual humans will become a luxury item, a way of establishing your bona fides for enlightened tastes, etc. "Human-generated" will be the new vinyl.

Still they persist in their focus on kicking trans people, in this case kids and providers. Among the 3 Dems who voted to jail doctors for providing care for trans kids is Don Davis, 1st district Rep in NC, which was recently gerrymandered again by the state leg to try to get a R elected there. 1/2

Users: "We'd really like an omelette or a pancake." Bluesky: "WE'RE EXCITED TO GIVE YOU THE WAFFLES YOU'VE BEEN ASKING FOR."

PSA for trans women on HRT for not that long, or trans women contemplating HRT. I want to normalize that most trans women do not get B or C cups from HRT. Socials are rife with girls who show exceptional development on HRT; it's not typical. In this study, after 3 yrs, 80% had A cup or less. 1/

It's an interesting phenomenon how desperate the anti-trans bigots are for "transness" to be "done." I think many of them thought or continue to think that they will have a big policy 'victory' and then they'll never have to encounter trans people existing again. You see it in how desperately...1/

I think centrists like to pooh-pooh Bluesky for the simple reason that they want there to be a Right (Twitter) and Left (Bluesky) that they see as equally gauche and histrionic with their embarrassingly fervent opinions, which they are above in their ever-cogent realism and rationality.