Welcome back to New England!

Graham Platner reminds us that the consistent stumbling block for the progressive cause is not the centrist or liberal, but a lack of respect for marginalized communities to whom they feel no allegiance, yet demand their obsequi. And when those communities don't fall in line they're called stupid...

Liberals when candidates defend trans people: "We can't do this, it's too unpopular." Liberals when candidates have a nazi ss tattoo: "it's ok, not all candidates are perfect." Do y'all hear yourselves?!

His apparent confusion of "asylum" in the sense a safe place of refuge for those escaping violence with "mental asylum" for those suffering mental health crises will never fail to scandalize me

oh you’re a nihilist? name zero things that matter

My favorite part of when a big account says something stupid is when the big account comes back online and puts all of the “little people” who called them out on blast with quote skeets to their large follower base

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Every single day it is so damn difficult to wrap my head around how stupid life has become.

Bangor

Who the hell thought it would be a good idea to put Mark Sanchez on TV anyway?

I’m supposed to believe both that trained and paid journalists couldn’t see through Project 2025 spin but also they’re the people best positioned to tell me what’s happening and how I should feel. Why? They failed at their jobs by their own admission.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

I cannot emphasize enough that this administration shouldn’t get 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 from the Dems until they start obeying the law. Not. One. Optics matter: if you want people to turn out next election despite troops in the streets, then show them it matters. Do your goddamn jobs and hold the line.

Literally the whole address was about identity

My morning was off to a rough start, but this made me laugh out loud and I had to share.

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

David Cross folks.

cis people don’t understand trans people have been living with a gun to our head for nine months and every so often the guy holding it yells BANG and we’re expected to go on as normal

there's never money to build schools, trains, hospitals, parks, etc and every time we try to improve anything we hear "how can we pay for it?" but there's unlimited money for AI, data centers, police, & military. only the rich seem to know there's a class war and they are fortifying their position.

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” ― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

Started this this morning. Really good so far!

the cultural crisis is straightforward: there are no longer any formal consequences for blatantly anti-social behavior, and the rest of us are constantly just getting lectured that we have to put up with these assholes making our lives worse

South Park has always done the weird American centrist thing: ✔ Punch up and down in equal measure ✔ Be extremely smug about how clever it thinks it is ✔ Ultimately do harm to minorities by spreading right wing stereotypes ✔ Stay safe and never threaten the status quo It's not subversive.

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

The same bs they're spewing about autism and tylenol is the same bs they're spewing about trans people's healthcare. It's the exact same playbook and the fact that the media can see through one and not the other is a damning indictment of how complicit they are in the attack on trans lives.

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

Ezra Klein and Gavin Newsome's strategy of appeasement is what leads to the far right. Folding on reproductive or trans rights to try and win elections normalizes those positions as moderate rather than extreme

So Kimmel gets fired for supposedly misidentifying the shooter as MAGA (though that’s not quite what he said.) When do all the Fox hosts who misidentified the shooter as transgender get fired then?

95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires. shame. clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

it doesn’t surprise me that it’s all straight white guys who don’t understand the difference between signing up to a protest, putting your name and contact details in an easily searchable list of ppl who hate the dear leader and having a mild online footprint of shitposting.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Trans rights are human rights.

Can I stop paying my taxes since I have literally no representation in this country?

The Democrats make an active choice not to involve themselves in the arguments that currently shape America. The party has utterly failed to represent and defend the millions of people who vote for it.

Reporter: Do you think it would have been fitting to lower the flags for Melissa Hortman who was killed as well? Trump: Uh, I’m not familiar, who?

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.

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

So about that “transgender ideology” WSJ report

"This isn't who we are" says country that removed all evidence to the contrary from its history books

Let me suggest that if I have tanks invade my city, that if the courts declare me a second-class citizen, that if masked men abduct my neighbors, and I go to you, my rep, and say “help me fight my persecutors,” and you say “shush, talk about healthcare subsidies,” you, too, are my persecutor

“performative male” this is not 2014. They’re not trend tweaking. Hipsters are gone. Obama’s gone. This is literally just the new wave fascists telling men w any troublesome care or conscience left to stop being a pussy and get behind the dictator

More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.

At least once a day, I need to stop myself and just marvel at how fucking stupid of a time we live in.

And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas