The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

staring straight into the camera and lying. just a despicable person and a poor excuse for a national leader.

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely

We're about to experience the first modern recession caused substantially, and perhaps primarily, by racism.

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

Solidarity with my trans brothers and sisters and that’s all

this is an object lesson in why praising Dems when they do the right thing - and not just castigating them for doing the wrong thing - is good politics for those of us who want them to fight Van Hollen raised his profile by doing the right thing and the lesson he learned was keep fighting

there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him

going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable

that wsj story now feels like a culmination of anti-trans panic that should prompt a reckoning in the mainstream media. was totally bunk, false, peddled. it’s the kind of thing that has led to reconciliation before, and it should now. news editors should be looking at themselves in the mirror

i do think there's something to be said for how American Christianity so easily reduces itself to the conservative culture war and nothing else

This is only a "jarring contradiction" if you refuse to learn anything about how the anti-vaxx movement speaks and behaves. They do not give a shit about "chronic illness" or "combating big pharma," it's all a smokescreen for their dumb, child-killing bullshit.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Couldn’t get a more clear example of Wilhoit’s theory of conservatism: “There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

Immigration is the central issue of our century and progressives must defend it or lose absolutely everything to fascism

yes, the actual communication problem democrats have is that they are afraid of conflict and voters, correctly, think they are weenies because of it

the reason this discourse will never end is because it is completely untethered from any kind of evidentiary standard. as long as there is a 19-year-old barista somewhere saying “cultural appropriation,” guys like nichols will complain that “democrats” use alienating language.

The entire POINT of fighting Nazis is to prevent them from attacking marginalized people. So forgive me if I'm not particularly convinced by folks who argue that we need to sacrifice marginalized people in order to fight Nazis.

The "oh you won't compromise and abandon [marginalized group]? enjoy the nazi takeover!" argument rings pretty fucking false when you consider that the horrors of a nazi takeover begin with the abandonment of marginalized groups.

D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state. But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed. D.C. statehood now.

i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.

Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.

More seriously: You cannot reckon with the current attacks on science without reckoning with the recent history of attacks on gender-affirming medicine. Conservatives were validated by the New York Times in a vibes-based overthrow of good science, emboldening them to move on to all areas of science.

Ms. Rachel for President

schumer is just murderously, genocidally racist against arabs. as much or more so than any republican. he should not hold a political office in any democracy and it is a disgrace to our country that he is minority leader.

Conservatives don't have beliefs, they have people they dislike, and they will do or say whatever they think will allow them to cause said people the most harm

conservatives/republicans going full on fascist with occupying cities with the military is yet another reminder to NEVER TAKE CONSERVATISM SERIOUSLY. THEIR CRITICISMS AREN'T REAL. YOU CAN'T MEET THEM HALF WAY. THEY AREN'T A SERIOUS IDEOLOGY. THEY CAN ONLY BE CRUSHED, NOT DEBATED. thank you.

If by qualified you mean "could not honestly take an oath to defend the Constitution" then ok sure

The whole "got what they voted for" mentality when it applies to minority groups including children, who last I checked, can't vote, being further oppressed and disadvantaged by an election is really a symptom of lacking empathy and I hate seeing it

Petitioning the NCAA to move up week zero, we need football now

what I want out of the next president is someone who thinks general sherman didn't go far enough

you stand strong for trans people and against every bit of terf bullshit out there so you can say Absolutely not. We don't compromise. That's a fucking 18 year old in there and she's not going to show you her fucking tits at a Buffalo Wild Wings to use the bathroom.

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

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me” is one of MLK’s more underrated quotes because it’s a very good observation about the limits of politics.

i'm basically approaching 2026/28 as the Left's United 93 election. if we don't try to take the plane back they're gonna crash it, and a lot of the stuff you have taken for granted for basically your entire life (e.g. the civil rights acts) will go away. if that's not enough to convince em....

the early church had arianism and we have aryanism

A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military. And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.

as many folks have noted, they are not going to allow trans people to use the bathroom associated with their birth sex either (especially trans men) - they don't want to see them, they don't want them to exist that's always where it ends, no matter how they try to dress it up

this was always the endgame, the complete erasure of trans people from public life and - if these people get their way - from existence entirely it is a genocidal campaign and it has no place in a moral society fuck your "just asking questions" about sports

it is not about sports. it has never been about sports. it is about banning trans people from public life entirely AT BEST, and at worst, forcing them into situations that will endanger their lives. this is why we don't play along with the "just asking questions" sports bullshit

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Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center. www.wthr.com/article/news...

the voting rights act is, in its entirety, obviously constitutional under the 15th amendment, which gives congress broad and proactive authority to stop racial discrimination in voting. and you know it is obviously constitutional because roberts has had to invent entire new doctrines to gut it.

my favorite bluesky arguments are the long drawn-out ones where person a responds via direct reply and person b exclusively answers through quote-posts. it's like seeing two people arguing on the street with one person facing sideways and shouting into the open door of a baskin robbins

Not sure if the guy who offed himself just to fuck with his rival counts as perfectly rational tbh (unless that's the joke)

Weird how Republicans perpetually doing the exact same thing (just demanding different “virtues” signaled), much more aggressively, never factors into this analysis at all