"why die on the hill of sports" look, in most of america where options for secular community are artificially limited as is, sports are one of the few ways for kids to have a social life. by denying trans kids a meaningful way to participate youre basically telling them to become a statistic

Here's why I can't support Gavin Newsom ever. Gavin Newsom keeps hanging out and publicly agreeing with the men responsible for shifting the public in favor of killing my community. Death before detransition, and detransition includes ANY detransition. I don't care what the law says.

Fuck transphobia. Seriously. Death before detransition.

If I'm being honest with myself if a site like yelp had a filter for "super woke" restaurants I would use it to make final decisions on dinner

I do wonder if the Newsom/Blue No Matter Who people know that they're signaling to various groups "there is nothing that could make me care about you enough to do anything about it"

Nothing says "I'm a good radical" like hating fat people. While the ICE assholes you rail against will never see it, the fat people in your life you told to fuck off do. And I'm sick and tired of being told that I'm the one being too sensitive when, no, you said all fat people are Republicans.

Turns out if you eat food you may feel better. Following up on this breaking and shocking discovery.

I might start turning off replies for transphobia related threads. There are just so many people who think you can just clever logic puzzle your way out of some new law or policy against trans life by faerie-lawyer-trickster logic when the boot on your neck doesn't care if you think you're smart.

Every time you speak up - and every time you don't - there are people watching and learning about you and the world you help create.

definitely seems like you're safer from any kind of punishment for being in the Epstein Files than for, say, just to pick two examples totally at random, attending a college protest for Gaza or tweeting that you weren't very sad Charlie Kirk died

Brain feels like soup today. Which you would think would be perfect for posting.

Anyway time to once again point out that anti trans sports laws actually end up primarily hurting POC women at a professional level. But liberals dont seem to care about that collateral damage

Stancil post of the day, please ignore. I love when people are confidently wrong

HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN. They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.

taking out all of my frustrations with governor kotek before the primary because they all pale in comparison to my pure hatred of christine drazan

Growing up is finding out that all the things I thought were settled in society (for example acting like a Nazi is bad) actually were just bubbling beneath the service for the right time to come back out.

Again, all I'm asking is that any Democrat who wants my vote support 1. Reverting Trump's anti-trans policies, 2. Commit to fighting against the future erosion of trans rights, and 3. Support legislation codifying trans rights into law. Very weird how many of you centrists think that's unreasonable

Christine Drazan-Trump is particularly odious in this account. Cowardly Oregon Republicans simply must not be excused from their responsibility for the horrors. Shoutout to @shaanthx.bsky.social and @oregoncapitalchronicle.com for doing the necessary work.

New (vintage) all genders bathroom sign just dropped ✌️

Fantasy? Sounds like a skills issue. This is just how I live and breathe every day.

It was never about "trans athletes should just compete in their assigned sex at birth." It was always about invalidation of the athlete's gender identity.

As someone who didn't vote for president last election I do find it interesting the way people try to separate objective reality and outcome from principle. Like if you want to argue it was a moral necessity that I voted last election and I violated that, it's a valid angle. But objectively, 1/2

Stancil post of the day (please ignore) I think today should be ample evidence to his defenders that Will is more motivated by a desire to be the center of controversy than his opinions understood. Which is really the core of his posting.

When I first transitioned, I would drive a mile to a public gender neutral bathroom rather than use one at work. I found out later a dozen staff held “meetings” about what they would do if I used the women’s room. I was their boss’s boss at the time, still had no recourse, just had to let it happen.

i don't know who needs to hear this (yes i do) but being so exhausting and annoying that people don't want to bother speaking to you anymore does not equate to "winning" an argument

Hillary Clinton: "More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term."

Okay, this is my one official Stancil post of the day (please ignore) This exchange is so emblematic of one of the issues with this kind of protest culture in that it decenters the actual victims.

It's always kind of funny to me when people drop their facade when it comes to Portland. "We need people to move here!" "Hey, people are moving here for services like preschool for all!" "Ew I meant just rich people"

valentine's day isn't just for couples, it's also a day to celebrate love. for instance, i would love it if housing prices came down.

Keep this link handy for your neighbors who may be facing eviction - www.portland.gov/phb/rental-s...

There's a scene in the Simpsons where Homer is being inducted into a cult and they try to break his will by having people surround him while saying negative things. Unfortunately for them he accepts all these things about himself and his will cannot be broken by it. Thats how I feel online sometimes

I do worry about what the number of people are who have beliefs along the lines of "I'm only going to be against ICE until I stop seeing them doing bad things to/around kids" for various different very visible, very evil behaviors, that actually reflect their core duty.

As someone who detests AI I have never once gotten the urge to use it for the sole purpose of showing off how ridiculous it is. Like you're not convincing anyone, and you're kind of saying "look at the entertainment you can get from the wrong box!"

Poor people who followed me for dunking on blueskys designated dunkee and are about to get hyper niche local shitposting.

Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone in love with me. To prove your love for me you can donate to your progressive D3 and D4 councilors reelection campaigns.

I love you in that I will fight the whole world alongside you for our autonomy and dignity

Exhibit 839 why self identification as an Antifascist means absolutely nothing anymore.

We did it chat!

Democrats see the Republicans who are like "he's doing what he said he would do and it's hurting us, but I still support him implicitly" and be like "That could be me someday!"

You don't need AI to analyze things, you just need to tell me I'll be figuring out who someone's alt is by doing it and I'll be connecting dots that aren't there for you!

I am wary of anyone who requires a pat on the head and a "good job!" After doing something righteous in order to not be a jerk ass.

“so i don’t get credit” is pathetic

if it's 2026 and you're already insisting everyone throw their support behind literally any idiot democrats nominate no matter what, you are telling everyone that not only do you have zero principles but that you just want to be told what to do and how to vote bc thinking for yourself is too hard

A Democratic governor running for re-election with a majority of voters holding an unfavorable opinion and saying Oregon is on the wrong track holding only a 5 point lead over Republican challengers while Donald Trump is president is a BAD SIGN

I really would, for my own selfish pursuit of knowledge, like to hear from people who make, jointly, over 200k/year and dont like the PFA tax, about what they find their financial struggles to be.

Y'all, we're at least two years away from the primaries. Stop trying to make me promise to vote for Gavin Newsom You will not make me vote for the man who did a photoshoot to destroy people's tents

I grew up experiencing a lot of different levels of wealth via the adults who were in charge of or were around me. From "fuck you I got a private jet!" Money to "don't know how we're gonna pay rent but this government peanut butter isn't bad" money. Which always makes it strange to me when people

Read someone complaining about how much they pay for pre school for all tax so I'm back on my "if you pay for this you are comparatively and statistically, wealthy in Portland" bullshit.

This is one of those articles where I feel compelled to actually explain the core of what's being asked. It's either A) increase the maximum sentence of one or more of these crimes Or 2) allow people to be committed as mentally ill to state care for their crime beyond the maximum sentence.

i think most (not all) of the "you must vote for Newsom" people are just Newsom supporters who want him to win because they like him and his policies, not because they have high minded ideas about harm reduction.