Going to go to Chick-fil-A with an order for "Jimmy Kimmel" and get people fired when they won't say the name

Lol she ignored trans people completely, leading voters to think she was hiding something. The consultant class Dems currently use is just rancid at politics.

The news week has been dark for me and tough to endure, but I'm thinking a tiny glimmer is that they are badly overplaying their hand here with this one.

this exists it is called thinking

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

coates is genuinely a generational writer

huh. see, this actually looks like it’s remarkably easy to do. weird that very nearly every other federal-level democrat can’t quite figure it out. as ever, big fan of @katmabu.bsky.social

"Gender Ideology" is do-I-get-to-exist. "Just asking questions" - yes, the question is, do-I-get-to-exist. "Shoving it down our throats" - Existing. "Debate" - yes, over whether I get to exist. "I was shut down by the far left" - when you said people don't/shouldn't exist.

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Ezra Klein isn’t theorizing Charlie Kirk. He is theorizing politics. And he is saying that Charlie Kirk’s brand of white supremacy was a good way of doing politics. I hope you all recognize now that Ezra is a total fucking ghoul

Great take and thread. "Don't speak ill or the dead" seems to be enforced here at threat of violence.

There are two sides in American politics. Those who think there's a right way to work towards stripping women of the right to vote, through the strategic use of debate and organizing rather than violence, and those who don't think it's legitimate to work towards stripping women of the right to vote.

pretty wild that NOW republicans are calling for de-escalation of political tensions, thats been the trump era rights entire thing! the way they call for violence and eradication of trans people, palestinians, is gross. they’ve been the most complicit

i think every democrat who does a cable news hit should start calling trump the pedophile president

Republicans trying to get the idea that "social, psychological, [and] behavioral" traits are inherently and inextricably tied one's "biological sex" codified into law should deeply worry everyone, trans and cis.

It's just a sports ban. It's just a bathroom ban. It's just a healthcare for kids ban. It's just a military service ban. It's just a federal jobs ban. It's just a university housing ban. It's just a passport & visa ban. It's just one Constitutional right. It's just your status as free citizens.

Gotta be honest and say that it once again feels stressful that all the evil people are doing evil things and making life worse for everyone

Oh look. When you fight instead of capitulating, you can have your funding restored.

The contradiction at the heart of transmisogyny has always been that people will insist they don't see us as women while treating us exactly like women, and specifically as women they are entitled to sexually exploit or brutalize.

It feels like weaponized incompetence Like they’ll publish genocidal rhetoric, watch us get murdered, and pretend like it’s not happening, and then once the pogrom is complete suddenly rediscover their ability to report

Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast

I agree with what Erin says here, but would add that Newsom's recent comment citing the age of 25 is especially scary, as that's well beyond centrist-sounding "fairness in sports" rhetoric – it is a hardcore anti-trans activist talking point! it's like he is actively consuming 4thwavenow/TERF posts

If anyone genuinely believed this ridiculous "the brain isn't fully formed until 25; you shouldn't make irreversible life-changing choices til then" grift, they'd be insisting that people shouldn't be able to join the army, get married, have kids, etc until then either. But look: they don't.

Every post glazing Newsom is a middle finger to trans people. My heart hurts to see people rally around someone who doesn't respect my freedom to choose who I want to be. The fact that this man agrees with so many far right people on their dehumanization of me makes me feel so betrayed.

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Support of Newsom is sending a message to your LGBTQIA+ “friends” that you are willing to sacrifice our human rights.

Dear Bluesky Liberals, let's make a deal: You call and write your hearts out to our dear governor asking that he revise his stance on trans folks and include us explicitly in his campaign promises and that he actually follow through, and we'll stop arguing with you and hurting your feelings

Trans people: these are the issues affecting us and this person is helping make it worse by normalizing far right framing against us Cis liberal "allies": fuck you, you trump-voting sack of shit, get in line or they'll take your rights away Trans people: but that would happen if we vote your guy

I think 100% of liberals who complain about trans people not voting for their guy wouldn't vote for their guy if he was campaigning to remove their own rights. Literally not one of them would. Empathyless inconsistent selfish losers

Cis liberals embrace of Gavin Newsom despite the trans community's general demand for his accountability on trans politics is upsetting and telling. It's upsetting because it's a big middle finger to all of us. It's telling because it reveals how their "allyship" was never truly legitimate.

Sam Altman plugged a homework cheating machine into a coal fire plant & people used it to ruin their marriages & it cost us 8 great lakes & lost $9.4 wubillion dollars (subsidized)

the ai bubble is bursting soon thank god

If you haven't seen the sign, now you have.

hear me out here, what if none of it is a 'distraction' and they're just doing a lot of horrible shit simultaneously

Being transgender is 40% critical theory, 60% body hair management Nothing else

if "bigballs attacked by two 15 year olds" is our Reichstag fire then i officially declare an end to history because we don't want anybody reading that shit later

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

does the abject cruelty of this ever make anyone who votes for or support this feel bad at all

Yeah so throwing dildos at women athletes on the court is an actual example of gender-based violence against women in sports—one that transphobes and acquiescent Dems will surely make 1000% less noise about

From this month's edition of The Onion.

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3 Aug 25 - New study shows vast "over-representation of trans boys" turns out to be vast _under-representation_ of trans girls bec. they: a) come out ~10 years later; b) start puberty later; & c) delay transitioning longer because of deep social animus towards AMAB femininity. tinyurl.com/yrwvmxws

this is a good thread but I might actually take it further -- I don't think manosphere shit is actually about getting laid, I think it's literally about male loneliness, by which I mean, men addressing their loneliness via homosocial bonding through misogyny

much of transmisogyny is just "if you were real women you'd die more quietly"

Huge, I'm so glad they're doing this

morning mood

Excuse my language but what fucking business is it of the united states government whether Brown undertakes this kind of medical care for parents and their kids who fully consent to it and desire it? Insanity! Pure discrimination in an agreement trollingly cloaked in preventing discrimination.

If you alternate between these two opinions at a rapid enough rate you arrive at our stable majority pseudo-opinion that there should be infinite cops that aren’t expected to do anything at all