Conservatives used to remind us every 20 minutes that Reagan never took off his jacket in the Oval Office because he had so much reverence for the White House.

I do think the continual desecration of our public monuments and the use of our public spaces for private gain, (not to mention the lingering trauma of the assault on our democracy Jan 6 2021,) is a serious public harm that has to be reckoned with.

started >>> going

a lot of people in my mentions being like "this is just how politics works," i'm not an activist so i don't care but as someone who follows this stuff it is just a real baromoter of how badly people misunderstand what trans healthcare actually entails

Why is it any of Talarico's business in the first place? The government shouldn't be involved in the healthcare decisions of families.

Already seeing cis "allies" saying "well it doesn't exist, so what harm does it do to say he's against it", like it doesn't show weakness and cede to Republican framing on the issue. Like we didn't see the GOP employ the exact same tactics on abortion, which Dems likewise ran from

I think it should be between families and their doctors but surgery itself is exceptionally rare: Out of 121,000 US youth diagnosed with gender dysphoria in a five year period, just 0.6% received surgical care (per a Reuters analysis of EHRs). Just 14% received any medical treatment at all.

Libraries also show that it's possible to organize and credit the production of knowledge without reducing credit to ownership. Cataloging, citation, preservation, and circulation all make research more available as a public resource, not more exclusive as private property.

The data centers that your phone needs to run and the hyperscale facilities they're building to push AI down our throats are not at all comparable things. Spanberger knows this. And instead of standing with the public and fighting back, she's trying to shill for the AI technofash.

I'm really struggling to understand how an alleged attempted assassination of Trump at a DC hotel translates into a need for a billion dollars of upgraded security at the White House.

It's exactly this. These pieces only serve to reinforce the Republican caricatures of Democrats. Whether it's "Democrats need to stop talking about climate change!" or "Democrats need to stop campaigning on dang pronouns," these are already things that pretty much aren't happening.

WIC used to have bipartisan support because even Republicans said "Well of course we want to make sure pregnant women and babies have enough to eat, we're not monsters," but now they say "Screw those freeloading babies, we've got a gold-plated ballroom to build"

incredibly depressing that the reimposition of jim crow districts across the entire south is getting nothing more than generic horse race coverage

Sharing this information with every single educator I know. We can't just go on about our days blissfully unaware that this is happening. This effects our entire future.

RFK Jr. did HWAT kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...

Can we talk about how harassment and borderline stalking of trans women by gender critical activists has become entirely normalised? Why can’t a trans woman do a bloody Parkrun without having her privacy violated and her data amassed on a website?!

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. www.wired.com/story/new-ga...

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing. (image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)

Same vibe. #RFKJr #AOC

I said it before and I'll say it again: Giving a pack of Epstein associates a comprehensive list of all children in the country with home address and school listed, sortable by various traits that indicate vulnerability to exploitation, is the literal diametric opposite of keeping kids safe.

Big abortion win in PA today - the ban on Medicaid funding is unconstitutional! AND there's a fundamental right to abortion! We won! (Though this Commonwealth Court opinion can be appealed - we'll see what our AG does.)

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

i've said it before and i'll say it again: i don't write like AI, AI writes like me. if you've been putting words on the internet since pre-pandemic times, you can (and should) say it too

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

wtf

lol “we have so much gas”

me @ the horrible monster on my screen right now #survivor50

Trump cutting off a woman mid-confessional. Typical. #Survivor50

he's just blathering about bullshit and i want to keep watching Survivor

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

The 'in the Hands of The Fans' tag has literally allowed them to make anything happen then pin it on us like we did this. I dont think any fan was like 'Yo Jeff, keep the 26 days so that you have to Yeet three people in one night. Also do it in three groups of five.' #Survivor

the point of the war has become to reopen the strait that was closed by the war

This is what everyone should be worrying about. Not Trump canceling elections, but Republicans taking the trips they've been playing on everyone else and doing them to white voter precincts. This thread is a painfully perfect description of how it will go down.

I still can’t believe we have a Fox News host running our military.

When the Iraq War really went south, the initial assurances from Bush administration officials, with their serious and sober analysis, came back to haunt them. This cutesy jokes from Pete Hegseth -- not known for his sobriety in any case -- sound dumb now but they are going to age like raw milk.

I don't think people's problem with, for example, the paper's decade-long crusade putting a big ol' target on trans people's backs can be accurately described as NYT doing "reporting that doesn't always 100% accord with what advocacy groups want."

No, we know. Netanyahu has been telling us they are weeks away for the last 25 years. But also I thought Trump “completely obliterated” it months ago and said it would take them many years to recover. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Here's the legal director of ADF, the organization that wants to criminalize LGBTQ people and ban care, praising Jesse Singal's NYT op ed. This is the goal of Singal, to spread uncertainty and undermine liberal support so that the far right can pass their anti-trans policies without resistance.

This is so wild and awful.

Sometimes I remember Reagan removing Jimmy Carter’s solar panels and I think we’ve been enduring this shit for way too many years.

8/ For more on what kids are experiencing inside the Dilley detention center, read the full story by reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social:

This Black History Month remember: •Human trafficking was legal •Slavery was legal •Jim Crow was legal •US Government paying reparations to white enslavers & not to the enslaved was legal. Prison slavery is still legal. The lesson: Do not let legality & power be a measure of morality & justice.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

We have an Epstein problem that is closing in. However, we also have a Christo-Fascism problem that might not be going away.

Catherine O’Hara was the funniest person alive

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

There’s no justification for shooting someone ten times in the back. There’s no justification for shooting someone ten times in the back. The debate about what Alex Pretti did or didn’t do is irrelevant. The agents committed murder. It wasn’t a “bad shoot”. It was a killing

Exeunt, leading Katherine.