i really can not emphasize enough that the most materially impactful thing you can do for trans people right now is hire them.

Imo what is happening on x is that the algorithm loves racist and anti semitic content, and the people who are on there marinate in it all day, and the epstein files has offered an excuse for even left identified people to indulge in the trangressive pleasure of public bigotry as a little treat

i do not trust anyone who doesn't affirm trans rights unprompted

A day later and no major national news org has covered what they're doing in Kansas. This is the flip side of the hyper focus on trans issues by the right. The national media ignores what's actually being done to trans people. This erasure is what contributes to the persecution.

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*vibrating* part of the problem with discussing eat disorders and the wreckage they induce is that our society operates on the wisdom that the endpoint logic of them is correct.

do you care about trans people? cool! cancel your new york times subscription! oh, but you just play the games? thats the worst argument you could've made! go fuck yourself!

if you really need the games that bad just use @puzzmo.com

I understand the instinct to donate to orgs that are helping trans folks flee red states but let's not forget about the orgs that are still fighting for trans folks in red states.

We literally know now that anti-trans legislation was pushed by a pedophile ring to allow a pedophile ring to serve a pedophile ring’s interests, and legislators have decided the best course of action is to keep doing what the pedophile ring wants.

Kansas just invalidated the drivers licenses of every trans person in the state. They’re being told to surrender their current licenses and get new ones listing their birth sex. No grace period. Get caught driving with your now-invalid license and you’re looking at jail and a fine.

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

It really is either you support trans rights or you support Hitler 2.0

I hate the dismissive way politics-heads talk about lefties having “purity tests” as an insult. It’s such a sneer. But looked at another way - what it really means is that they have DIFFERENT purity tests. E.g. if we demand full trans rights, that’s supposedly a purity test. Why? [cont]

Stop pre-negotiating. Stop telling voters they have to sacrifice minorities and the marginalized to have a chance of winning. Stop telling voters to settle, to not ask for everything, to be reasonable. Don't be reasonable. Demand the world. The world belongs to us. They don't have more right to it.

This is it. Way past time for everyone in this country - literally everyone - to find practical ways to support trans people and immigrants, this regime's primary targets. Starting right now, find something practical to do to actually help people.

We can't just Vax n Relax and expect to stay healthy. We also need to stay up to date on vaccines, fight for better IAQ, and wear respirators anywhere we don't want to risk getting ourselves or someone else sick.

The vaccine is important in reducing spread and severity of COVID. However, there is no justification for not masking in medical facilities. It's really hard to take leftists who don't mask seriously and frankly it always comes across as self-justification for not caring about vulnerable people.

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Calling a very well known vaccine advocate “anti vaxx” because she VERY correctly calls for people to take supportive measures like masking since our current vaccines do not stop transmission is wild. As someone who actually does vax outreach in LA the lines Michael is pushing feed anti vax ideology

Julie: "vaccines reduce severity... uptake is horrendous. People aren't getting their yearly vaccine update." Michael: "explicitly anti-vaxx"

also natasha deserved so much better than that black widow movie 😔

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the problem is bigotry, but the tool they're using to spread it is *the concept of pornography*. as long as we accept the idea that "pornography" is 1. meaningfully distinct from other forms of art, and 2. inherently bad or shameful it will continue to be a weapon conservatives can use against us!

you can and rightly should go into depth about how this is all a stealth attack on queer expression, about how it's a short leap to labeling gay and trans people "pornographic" and how they are not subtle about this being their express intent. But You Can't Get Around Defending Actual Pornography

you have to be loudly pro-pornography and you have to never shut up about it. you have to become the "they want to take away your freedom of expression vis-à-vis cocks and boobs" person to everyone you know. i'm sorry to say it but it's just how it is right now

Tapping the sign

They're going to lie about birth control just as they did with trans people.

there's so much elite media denial that it was the exact same group of people promoting vaccine denial as were promoting the trans panic. reading tweets like this or singal's ny times op-ed, you'd think they were two separate and opposed groups.

We’re constantly asking Black athletes to step up for social justice and advance society and we have to start holding white athletes to the same standard.

A lot of people’s responses to this, or when anything similar happens, is to say you should always assume the worst of men. I get why, but I don’t wanna move through the world like that. I like that I still have the capacity to be disappointed by humans, it means I’m not completely jaded (yet)

Woke 2 needs to include a complete and total purge of post-GG 4chan influence on our culture.

This is a PRIME example how wellness grifters use a general fact to distort consensus-based science. Yes! All meds have side effects. Every doctor will tell you to have a conversation before starting. THAT DOESN’T NEGATE EVIDENCE THAT SSRIS ARE SAFE FOR THE MAJORITY OF PREGNANT WOMEN!

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails. it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

the complicity of major media outlets in this campaign can't be overstated and I don't think it's possible to hate them as much as they've earned

I’m not going to get into this again but the defund the police critique remains complete bullshit yes we can was nonspecific lock her up doesn’t lay out why or for what make america great again couldn’t be less specific this critique is pure reactionary nonsense filtered through pundits

Defund the police was a great slogan that won the Democrats a trifecta that year

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

re: hockey, Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever to live, gave up three years in the prime of his life — years in which his fighting would have been at peak; actual money incalculable — rather than fight in an unjust war, so noping out on grandpa’s burger bash should be an easy choice

I cannot wait for the side-by-sides with flava's party

gravity rush mentioned!!!! rahhhhhhhhhh!!!

dnc getting ready to censure him again for standing on business

i only care about the state of this union rn tbh

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shit (but kinda expected)

When Delroy Lindo told the white man to say it should probably go in the Black History textbook

mine. not like a possession. like: my choice. my favorite book. my city. my dreams. mine; not kept or owned; but shared, and freed, and better and more mine for the sharing.

I don't want or need a president that silences the conversations that protect people that aren't "culturally normal.🤡" That's how fascists chip away at the base of good people. I do want and need a president that will prioritize protecting the most vulnerable. That's how you protect people.

The entire political spectrum has gotten substantially more antisemitic in the last half decade and a lot of leftists either think they're immune to it or that any discussion of it is an Israeli plot to discredit the pro-Palestine movement and it's getting Real Bad Moreover, ICE must be destroyed