I want to stress here how utterly bankrupt it is to feed moral panic about transgender youth. You’re just feeding bullying. And here’s the kicker: the right is still gonna brand you a child groomer. So what do you really accomplish besides abandoning trans kids and getting sage nods from losers.

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Kind of hate that for the past several years, I find myself dreading the month of June because that's when the right-wing decides to be *especially* anti-LGBTQ (more than the usual amount, which is a lot) as a way to show how much they hate the idea of Pride.

Bezos told CNBC there is "way too much corporate welfare, way too much corporate subsidies" the Trump admin literally JUST redirected billions in infrastructure bill taxpayer subsidies to his LEO satellite broadband company for service he ALREADY PLANNED TO DEPLOY shameless fuck

The fascists are trying to spread that the two Nazi, self-described trans-hating shooters were trans. This is why when you hear anyone say *anything* less than total acceptance of trans people, you tell them to shut up or you cut them off. If you utter the term "pronoun police" you are aiding Nazis.

You're trapped in the last TV show you watched. Where are you?

democrats appear to be broadly underestimating the base's anger right now. that's not really a problem for the midterms, purely in terms of electoral strategy (see @gelliottmorris.com's analysis), but i have a feeling it will be disruptive down the road in unforeseen ways

The book I just finished, the book I am currently reading, and the next book on my list (already purchased) were all Bluesky recommendations.

tl;dr believe in something. have a vision for a better world. and don't be a jerk to the left-flank of your party.

i am tired of having to listen to dumb assholes just because they have a lot of money

I truly hate when little Right Wing Hitler youth open their mouths and give opinions in their over sized fake glasses, that they think will make them seem smart ,on things they know nothing about. But listen to a real farmer rip her apart.

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

Who wears white to a genocide party?

New data shows 85% of Americans believe trans people should have the same rights and protections as everyone else. It is clear that the vast majority of Americans support trans rights, yet politicians continue scapegoating this population instead of focusing on the real issues. buff.ly/17U1WGw

And now, inevitably, Graham Linehan begins his turn to anti-abortion propaganda. You really have to wonder at what point are the so-called "feminists" in the "gender critical" movement going to get it? You're part of a machine that drives people Right, and Far Right.

Good news! We have a plan for speakers/mics/music fo rally, but the total fee $2k (largest part is technician labor). Sooo OurSeattle just launched a GoFundMe asking supporters to pitch at least $25? 💛 gofund.me/6d042b208

Trans people, I love you and I want you to live and be happy. Fuck transphobes and the spineless wafflers that claim to be allies but throw you under the bus at every opportunity.

Your reminder that JK Rowling still believes that if you are too good at a women's sport you simply MUST be a secret fella. Very feminist.

The NYT says today’s #NoKings protests had “no shortage of skeptics,” and then quoted exactly one of those skeptics: The chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans (as of 2025.) But of course, the Times doesn’t ID him as such. He’s just a Concerned Youth.

TRUMP RUINED BAD TASTE John Waters at #NoKings in Provincetown (Pic via petermarietoto on X)

We need to correct this BS by Stephen A. Smith because it keeps coming up. Lia Thomas was ranked Men's 63rd EISL and 20th at UPenn the year she was on HRT but still required to compete on the Men's Team. Pre-HRT she was ranked Men's 4th EISL and 2nd at UPenn. She was NEVER mediocre.

FBI reported 1700 arrested "child predators" in 2025. That's around 1/200k. There have been now 7 pardoned J6ers arrested for sex crimes against kids, out of 1600 J6ers total, around 1 in 230. You can play w the denominator a bit (135M adult males) but it's still around 350x the rate

Flyers that we'll be handing out at Town Hall Seattle shortly! SAVE THE DATE - Rally for Katie's 100th Day as Mayor of Seattle, with speakers starting at noon on April 10th at City Hall Plaza #CommunityNotCameras 💛

this is the self-appointed Woman Defender it's simple: transphobia=fascism you can be a full-throated fighter for trans liberation on our own terms, or you can be a fascist. no middle ground

Bob Kettle: "I don't see any risks with SPD's mass surveillance. I also didn't see any risks ahead of 9/11 and dismissed or ignored all threat reports."

just know that if you engage with harry potter in any form i'm judging you

Anti-trans politics are about defending a gender hierarchy that is *not good* for cis women. They are not trying to "protect" cis women, they are trying to make it law that they don't control their own bodies.

To: @mayorofseattle.bsky.social Cc: @mlklabor.bsky.social, @uaw4121.bsky.social, @aft-seattle.bsky.social Re: Letter from 1,355 Supporters: Meet to Discuss Surveillance

This thread is about reply guys is good, but it's also a relief because the era when dudes were wearing flared jeans and pointy toe elf shoes is something i grumble about periodically, but nobody ever knows what I'm talking about, and I thought I was Mandela Effecting it.

Who did Mayor Wilson hire to do a report on SPD's mass surveillance? SPD www.policingproject.org/news-main/st...

I haven't done enough cancelling, but I'm going to fix that. I'm so sick of this shit. If you don't want me to exist in this world, then you don't want my money.

Since BlueSky DMs are a bit wonky: Happy hunting if you're in the area

This is not a joke: I need someone to check for a lost stuffed animal on campus at UT-Knoxville outside Thompson-Boling. DM me for details.

transphobia is a gateway to so many abhorrent beliefs if you aren't racist or antisemitic or classists or any other number of fucked up things, if you start becoming transphobic you'll become all of them i've never met someone who is Just Transphobic

To any Democrat who ever said about any issue, "Maybe if we agree with Republicans just this far, they'll stop there," remember that you were wrong, it was obvious at the time, and you really should never believe that again about any issue, ever.

At yesterday’s Public Safety meeting, we learned that the new Seattle Police Officer's contract is sabotaging the CARE Team’s ability to do their work. From last year -- here's our exclusive, behind-the-scenes peek into the secret negotiations between SPOG and the city. youtube.com/shorts/xd2Ds...

The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually.

The kind of energy we need youtu.be/svuh7mIxukk?...

This is why Gavin "Charlie Kirk is my buddy" Newsome absolutely can't and won't deliver us from fascism. He is loyal to the system that allows the rich oligarchs to subvert democracy. And these tech guys are nastier than Trump in terms of their goals for the country.

Too often when discussing trans rights, we’re forced to be on the defensive, as Republicans wage attacks. Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.

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Recently, I learned Carol Channing - still very much on TV and in movies when I was a kid - was Black. Channing, who died in 2019, said in her memoir she passed for white to succeed in show business. In early photos, her Blackness is more evident. beaconbroadside.com/2019/01/24/b... #BlackHistory

In light of where our country has gone since 2021, are we having second thoughts about whether this was an innocent coincidence?

I don't think anyone on Earth enjoys their job more than Mike Watt.

Hey look, yet another pilot that shows GBI (guaranteed basic income) works. Meeting people's basic needs works. Housing, food, health care, education.

No we don’t you worthless lump of campaign bribes, we want ICE abolished and every person who committed crimes, as well as those who allowed it to happen, prosecuted. Go fucking retire, you’ve done enough damage already.

What I’m seeing here is that Epstein is a nexus point for the “intellectual” cabal that shores up the race science justifying our current immigration and anti-DEI policies (Huberman), as well the tone policing moderates (Brooks) that hamstrings oppositions. Oh and their billionaire benefactors.