double engagement secured 😮‍💨💍

“Self-deport” is a whitewashed way to describe “fleeing the country under the threat of state violence.” I agree with Maria here — it’s important to call that exactly what it is.

Hollander being a Sperry’s wasian was peak 2010s

If the GOP wants to protect kids, the irreversible mutilation happening to kids is from the bullets shot into their bodies while they’re at school. Ending the gun violence epidemic will save lives. Using the government to bully trans kids does nothing but hurt more people.

Instead of protecting healthcare premiums from doubling for 22M Americans, the US House passed an extreme anti-trans bill that threatens 10 years of prison on parents and doctors for providing lifesaving, best practice care for .002% of all children in the US. The fight against cruelty isn’t over.

Some of you are watching Heated Rivalry for the steamy scenes. I am watching Heated Rivalry cause it feels cathartic to see amother bisexual downbad wasian meet his karmic debt white boy. We are not the same!!! 😆

@cwnewser.bsky.social said it best: “For LGBTQ+ advocates, the result offers more than symbolic vindication. It is a data point they argue cannot be ignored: in a district that once favored Trump by double digits, equality messaging did not just survive — it won.”

Georgia Republicans are using their last moments of power in the Public Service Commission to give massive clearance for data centers and higher energy bills. Guess whose dad wants to build 11 MILLION square feet of data centers in Middle Georgia? Burt Jones, who wants to be our Governor.

By electing @hrc.org endorsed Eric Gisler to represent State House District 121, Georgia voters sent a strong, resounding message that far-right cruelty and chaos are not welcome in our home.

Meanwhile, CEOs make 280 times the typical worker today. The system is rigged.

Yeah, I’m not going to let people whose K Street gigabrain strategy lost us three branches of government convince me into conceding that working people of all lived experiences, including queer folks, don’t deserve to have a voice in the political process.

I find it incredibly striking that Marci Overstreet would choose to campaign alongside Mary Norwood, who infamously attempted to help Trump overturn Joe Biden’s victory after the 2020 election. www.ajc.com/news/atlanta...

Y’all ready, Georgia? We may have No Kings, but we do have a pro-equality Senator to re-elect!

Republicans have shut down the federal government for nearly a month, decimated public health funding, suing to permanently undo the Voting Rights Act, advocating to bring back conversation therapy and are still using ICE as a paramilitary to snatch people from their homes and off the the sidewalks.

Amen

As SCOTUS begins hearing a case on bans regarding “conversion therapy” today, remember this - LGBTQ+ identity is a beautiful part of the human experience that doesn’t need to be “fixed.” Queer people, you are made of stardust and galaxies. You are infinitely wonderful and belong here 🫶🏼

Speaker Johnson is refusing to call Congress back into session because there is enough votes to force the release of the Epstein files. After all the screaming about “protecting women” from transgender people, the GOP has shut down the entire government to protect actual pedophiles.

Trey Reed and Corey Zukatis deserved lives of abundance, hope, and opportunity. May they rest in peace. Both cases demand a full investigation.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

The South has got something to say! Over 100 people showed up to canvass in a special election runoff for Debra Shigley with @ossoff.bsky.social, @reproductivefreedomforall.org and our @hrc.org family! We can win this, y’all! Volunteer with us: mobilize.us/hrcga

A lot of y'all didn't decry "political violence" when Tortuguita was shot 14 times in cold blood by state troopers, but have a lot to say about someone whose assailant remains at large with an unknown motive. Why is it complicated when the victim is brown? Why is it so easy then the victim is white?

The U.S. government has become a neofascist regime run by a sociopath. Keeping it funded now is to participate in the most atrocious abuse of power in U.S. history. So I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole thing down.

A moment of silence for Donal-

So you mean JD VANCE went to PEACHTREE CITY to tell Georgians that crime has people hiding in their homes? They only crime happening in that city is white collar and not having a golf cart 🥴

Your leadership is feckless, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social. Resign and let someone who can see the imposition of military forces on our civilian streets and call it what it is. Pathetic.

We can thank Brian KKKemp and Georgia Republicans for their bills to allow anyone to have a gun anywhere they want. The GOP’s obsession with guns makes all of us less safe. www.11alive.com/article/news...

The man who helped pass Georgia’s abortion ban, suppress Black votes, undermine unions and working people, and attacked Georgia’s LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities wants to be a Democrat Governor? You MUST be joking 🤡

Mike Collins can’t even spell the name of the state he wants to represent in the US Senate. 🤭

Trans friends in ATL or who can get to ATL, the comrades at Snap Co are running a free passport clinic from Aug 18-26! More details here: www.snap4freedom.org/event-detail...

John Oliver doesn’t get enough credit for having a show with a strong viewpoint who will oftentimes devote 20-25 minutes to a topic, sometimes one that you can’t hear about on American television anywhere else, and manage to be pretty consistently funny while doing it. It’s a hell of a balancing act

thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map

Florida is committing "enforced disappearance," a very serious violation of international human rights law. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i... www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...

The GOP death cult is a morally bankrupt party decaying the fabric of America with their spiritual rot. They steal from the sick, disabled, pregnant, young and working poor to line the pockets of the wealthy, build concentration camps and fund genocides.

1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use 2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use 3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them

All this activism against cop cities, carceral punishment, police brutality sure would’ve restricted the extent of police power but y’all ignored them and called them “naïve” and “unrealistic” and “far-left”. Supporting that activism would’ve been useful for these times of incarceration of innocents

AI slop is a failed tool of the right to compensate for their lack of talent, artists, innovators and writers. They were so jealous of the progressive cultural power of Black, Indigenous, AANHPI, Latine, working people, LGBTQ+ and disabled people.

Final results coming out showing Zohran beat Cuomo by 12 points just as the Senate passed the largest transfer of wealth from all of us to billionaires is a reminder to all of us that the majority don't want this. There's way more of us than them. Call your house members!

Trump’s disastrous budget bill is the most devastating blow to working people we’ve seen in modern America. This administration wants to destroy our country to line the pockets of the wealthy. We can fight back, and we absolutely should.

When Josh Hawley talks about turning the GOP into a party for working people, he’s full of shit. If you talk big game about supporting the working class but always fall in line for the billionaires, you aren’t any better than the other GOP officials — you’re just a liar on top of being a sell-out.

Billionaire Bill Ackman is now saying that there are "hundreds of million of dollars" available to back a challenger to Zohran Mamdami. This is a billionaire refusing to respect democracy, and refusing to respect a vote that chose people over profit.

10 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Jim Obergefell and his late husband John’s right to be married. Now, I get to share my heart with the love of my life and I’m so excited that we’re getting married! 💍 💛

he's right and he's right to say it

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

The thing about those who deeply believe in a better world is that we’re constantly let down by our present. But there is immense strength in the ability to rise time after time even as grief threatens to drown us. So many try to bury us not knowing we’re seeds ✨

On this day more than 50 years ago, Sylvia Rivera climbed onto a stage to advocate for incarcerated trans people at a Pride rally and demanded trans inclusion in the fight for rights. Hearing her speech is important 50 years later. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The State of Georgia forced a Adriana Smith, a brain dead Black woman, to incubate a baby, but sure…tell me more about how America is a bastion of human rights. American exceptionalism is fascist ideology wrapped in pretty words.

It is illegal for Donald Trump to drag America into another endless foreign war. Congress should immediately pass a War Powers Resolution to block Trump from carrying out an unconstitutional war.

hey panera can we have the lemonade that kills us again