I’m glad people are aware of this, but it isn’t new. People in immigration detention were consistently moved away from their attorneys in the Biden admin. We reported on it then, but very few people cared about migrants when they weren’t a partisan tool.

I sure hope John Oliver and everybody working on his show is well protected after dropping this. Fantastic overview, and under-educated normies need to hear more like this.

Trans rights are human rights and any politician not willing to defend human rights doesn't deserve the job.

ICYMI!

Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.

Republicans don't want debate or compromise, they want trans people eradicated. That's the simple truth, they've openly stated that is their intent. Stop acting like this is a debate about tax policy.

No, supporting trans rights doesn’t cost elections! “43 percent of voters were more likely to vote for a candidate who stands up for transgender people. Just 21 percent of voters would be less likely to support a candidate who supports trans rights.”

You could also keep boycotting Disney because they donate money to Israel

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i think america would be a better place if everyone just stopped paying attention to politico til they went out of business. there’s no “autism problem” just like there’s no “trans debate.” both of those things are eugenics. both questions are really “should these subhumans be allowed to exist?”

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

As the state war against transness picks up I think this is becoming more important. We need to be loud and unequivocal about the fact that being trans IS NOT a bad thing. IS NOT something to be avoid. IS NOT a medical condition to be cured. It is just a thing that some people are.

Nothing really kicks up the climate panic/anger in me like a parking lot in a dead strip mall. We covered the earth in concrete for nothing.

This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them

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We can have better. We can have universal healthcare. We can have tuition-free college. We can have universal childcare. We can have affordable housing. We can have livable wages. We can have affordable food. We have to stick together & demand better for the working class.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Thank Christ the right is fundamentally opposed to cancel culture, amirite?

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

Why not? Is it because we're indiscriminately shooting hellfire missiles at civilian boats and inventing a cockamamie drug trafficking pretext after the fact? Because otherwise I don't see why fishermen would be worried

Capitalists support pedophiles.

they literally want to round us up man. can democrats please get a fucking spine and stand the fuck up for us now? we literally cannot counter this ourselves when they want our voices and rights taken away. please do fucking something

Here is some non-satire for you: Trans rights forever.

the shooter was just a cis dude but even if he was the most trans person to ever trans it wouldnt justify rounding up all the trans people for crimes they didnt commit, really wish people in positions of power would be saying this

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

This Mattie Lubchansky comic seems topical again.

the far right is raging because kirk was so effective at forcing white nationalist extremist politics into the mainstream. he built a $92M empire off of forcing schools to host fascists, teaching people debatelord whataboutisms in defense of bigotry & thrashing at anyone who dares to push back.

Bluesky's moderation is a joke, seemingly pushed by a right-wing mass reporting campaign to suspend their users over nothing, but it doesn't occur to them that those right-wing fascists want this site shut down/gone, and Bluesky is gladly cutting its own legs out from under itself to help them.

once again it is not fucking normal to lower flags in oregon for random member of the opposing political party who was born in illinois, lived in arizona, and died in utah. this is not a normal thing they're extending to a white supremacist, it's a special thing they're doing for a white supremacist

Charlie KIrk believed that empathy was a "new concept" that shouldn't exist, so anyone who expresses condolences for him is being VERY disrespectful to his beliefs right now. please keep him out of your thoughts as he begins his transition into worm food. thank you

For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on.

See? This is a good political response to what happened (if you must). Acknowledge, but make sure you get in something about how the right is constantly fomenting violence.

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

rightwing media ecosystem operates by stoking hatred and anger and divisions every single day, they want people to constantly be afraid and want people to hate eachother, everything we are seeing is a result of the destablization the right has profited off of

I don’t give a shit if JD Vance doesn’t give a shit about the Constitution. Striking civilian boats in international waters is both unconstitutional and a war crime. The party of “law and order” clearly doesn’t care about respecting it.

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

Local serial killer admits that there's less people to kill due to a rise of unsolved murders

did you know universal healthcare is cheaper and gets better results than what we’re doing now?

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Well, given Win10 gets no more security updates soon I've finally decided to move my gaming desktop over to Linux (it was the last remaining Windows install in my house). Proton is pretty amazing at this point and games that struggled on Windows actually run super smooth on Linux.

trump wants state-sanctioned violence in major cities, and when the people resist, trump will pretend that the resistance is the real violence and use it as an excuse to escalate. but here's the thing. even without resistance, his escalation is inevitable. we're seeing it. bsky.app/profile/kenk...

happy labor day

Just heard the news about Giuliani in a car crash and have to say there's finally something good for my home state of NH.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Hi there. It's me again, the doofus who just said I'm not a political commentator and just wants to talk about videosgame and horror movies, I'm here to talk to you about a politic. If you don't want homeless people? Home them. Destroying their belongings and displacing them only makes it worse.

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