"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them

Exactly right. They simply want the end product — whether it’s an actual production of art or music or the end result of hard work like a PhD — without doing the work. It’s cheat codes all the way down.

if you require the force of the state to enforce the gender binary it probably isn't actually inate. i know that everyone knows this already and you can't debate them with facts and logic but this is driving me fuckin nuts

Hypocrisy is a feature of facism. Different rules for different folks.

This is immeasurably dissapointing

Some of these pardons went to rich people that exploited and destroyed poor marginalized communities. Fuck Biden, and fuck the false notion that the Democratic Party supports the working class.

Always interesting how so many people complain that the Post Office & public transit don't make money, but never demand that fire departments, cops, & the Department of Defense show a profit.

A+ work.

PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Monday to prohibit public and school libraries from banning books in the state and to enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law.

Class solidarity forged through a shooting is very on brand for America

Roughly, 16,666 minor kids get married a year vs 3,681 trans kids on HRT annually in average, with that second number being even smaller now due to the number of statewide healthcare bans that have been enacted over the last 3 years It's a huge huge HUGE difference

I don’t believe in violence. It is because I don’t believe in violence that I do believe we should prevent it, not by making proclamations about how not to be violent, but by not robbing people of the chance to meet their physical and emotional needs. Those who do the latter are doing violence.

anyway a fun fact i recently learned is you can submit copyright claims against libs of tiktok because she’s a known individual and her accounts are monetized and are platforms used to sell merch, which eradicates fair use. she can’t use your videos without licensing or consent.

Six decades later, Star Trek may still be the only franchise based on the ideas that diversity is strength, justice is the measure of civilization, bounty is to be shared, peace is worth the price, and all these things can be achieved. We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.

Trillionaires and tent cities. This is the only future under capitalism, regardless of which ruling party is in charge.

Say anything about Elon and the worst type of man will emerge to take the convo where he wants it to go - even when anti-E. They'll use any opp to start a pissing contest about who knows E lore better/ who is smarter. U don't get points for being anti-E when ur just as self-absorbed.

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting. Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

this is like the phase of leaving an abusive relationship when the abuser is FURIOUS you're gone even though they've been saying how much they hate you for years.

Nancy Mace is giving all of us a masterclass in white woman tears and their weaponization, and I think we should all make sure that everybody recognizes that and names that masterclass for what it is.

This is, of course, not the only reason. It also doesn't help that the authoritarians don't have the rule of law applied to them in 🇺🇸as happens in other, apparently more serious countries like <checks notes> 🇫🇷 & 🇧🇷, & that the (small & large D) democrats keep pretending extinct norms still exist.

A key reason voters don't believe the fascists are fascists is that major media outlets keep normalizing them with cover stories cueing the public they are just like Hollywood celebrities. Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"

Elon Musk is the most committed and powerful foe of Americans' free speech rights in the entire world and yet news organizations frequently lie and describe him as a "free speech absolutist." Why do you think that is the case? Are they sincerely mistaken or is it another thing?

a reminder that a better path was possible and perhaps, after we experience the horrors that result from not taking it, we will learn from Brazil’s example

Let's just make Democrat and Republican bathrooms and see which one women choose

Also, challenge for you: if you witness someone harassing a trans woman or someone they suspect is a trans woman for using the restroom, go the fuck off on them. Make a huge scene. Make them regret they ever opened their mouth

Hey cis women, you’ve been sharing public restrooms with trans women your entire lives and it’s been fucking fine. Grow the fuck up and mind your own business

Immensely grateful to Senator Ossoff for his commitment to upholding international humanitarian law.

Here’s an old photoshop I did of the Geico Gecko holding hands with Edward Norton at the end of of Fight Club. I made it for no reason and it took a very long time.

White masculinity is an identity, and playing up the defense of it — via the state, via norms, via violence — is identity politics.

Would love a member of Congress to say re: bathrooms: "I'd rather share a bathroom with my trans colleagues than my colleagues who are anti-democracy and who participated in an attempted coup."

every time i see a headline about the “department of government efficiency” i get annoyed again at how much of a fucking loser elon musk is

This is just intellectually dishonest and, frankly, disgusting equivocation that should be forcefully denounced by anyone who actually gives a shit about antisemitism in the US

If hearing negative things about your gender’s nature and behavior was sufficient to radicalize anyone into violence, then way more women would be acting like Aileen Wuornos or Valerie Solanas.

Any male response to feminism, no matter how violent, is a legitimate, pitiable crie du coeur that women must sensitively attend to and heal. Any female response to men’s misogyny is presumed excessive and illegitimate, and must be policed.

BLUESKY USERS: This man is the Shaun King of the Native Community. DO NOT FOLLOW.

I appreciate much of the analysis I’ve seen over the last couple days. I don’t think we can talk about what is sick in politics or media (a lot!) w/o looking directly at billionaires, refusing to shut up about billionaires, and coming for billionaires through policies that chisel away at their power

Sorry i can't get off this. The right has invented about eleventy billion new words for trans people in the last year with nary a peep from the mediascolds.

banning tiktok was always performance art for a country too corrupt to pass a privacy law or regulate data brokers

have dems considered invigorating the base with a robust commitment to civil rights for everyone and addressing growing income inequality

And yes, I call it Facebook, not "Meta." I have no interest in helping Mark Zuckerberg do PR and paper over his toxic brand.

the important question isn’t “did Harris lose because the left is too woke?” it’s “why isn’t Donald Trump in federal prison?” We’re being subjected to lectures about politics by the people who held all of the power and let this dipshit slip through their grasp.

Often times when one goes through a traumatic experience, one will do anything to protect themselves from it happening again. But to come through it and recognize that what matters most is protecting each other and not only ourselves, that is strength and that is character.

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I really think this hits home. A lot of people voted for Harris saying "yes she's doing a genocide, but..." and a lot of people voted for Trump making the same kind of rationalization. It's a problem fopr democracy when only monsters are on the menu.

Trump voters are one of the most studied and understood political movements in US history. At what point are we allowed to say, "we understand these people's concerns, we just don't agree with them"?