just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech” After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls” And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them. They should feel bad.

1. Abigail Spanberger is pulling ahead in the Virginia Governor Race, as her opponent, Earle-Sears blankets the state with anti-trans ads. Now, a new poll shows why those ads are failing: Voters don't care about trans issues. Those who do? They're Democrats. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I think what’s most frustrating right now for Black and Indigneous people is waiting for the bulk of white folks to catch up. At some point the “this isn’t who we are” and “I didn’t have this on my bingo card” has to end and y’all will catch up, right? RIGHT? WE NEED YOU TO CATCH UP.

the political party that has been dehumanizing trans people, but minority groups broadly are now trying to argue that calling people nazis leads to violence on them. i wonder what they think dehumanizing entire groups of people leads to

imagine a world where politicians said stuff like this about trans health care, too. coz they totally could, from a science perspective

Wrote for @thenation.com about the complicity of some liberal politicians and pundits in the conservative campaign to exterminate trans people www.thenation.com/article/poli...

the sheer fucking gall of Dem politicians who now – in September 2025, as the Trump admin is taking away trans ppl's healthcare & passports & baselessly labeling us as "terrorists" – express their "concerns" about trans ppl & sports. they are trying to eradicate us! maybe be "concerned" about that!

If a Democratic governor talks about punching people in the mouth, he is obviously filled with insatiable bloodlust. If a Republican president talks about punching people in the mouth, you’re the violent one for thinking he was being serious.

Maybe Ezra Klein should have asked Ben Shapiro about his friend and fellow Daily Wire podcaster, Matt Walsh, who is calling for the death of everyone on the left and LGBTQ people.

Big congrats to all the Democrats who voted for the bill forcing the sale of TikTok... to some of Trump's closest allies. Big brain stuff there, guys. Great move. 🙃 Anyway, remember how Twitter became a far-right cesspool after Musk bought it? That's what's going to happen to TikTok.

Yeah, the only reason we're hearing about this person is because they (might) be trans. The press is just bringing this up to try to tie trans people to something we had nothing to do with.

It feels so fucking insane to be scolded about how leftists need to tone down our rhetoric while the world's richest man endorses this shit

Elon, fresh off attempting to incite race riots in England is now trying to incite pogroms against trans people.

Ezra Klein: Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way Charlie Kirk: Jail every doctor who has treated transgender children. (Source: www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...)

PSA: never trust Crowder

Our politics seems to be entering a phase of "right supremacy" where only the lives of right-wingers have value. Assassinating the leader of a state legislative body in her own damn home was business as usual, but all of America has to have a reckoning if it's a far-right online influencer.

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

This from Riley Gaines is why trans people freak out when Democrats try to carve out some compromise over sports. The politicians and activists attacking trans people are not interested in compromise! They're interested in our eradication from public life and are exploiting sports to that end

i think people need a refresher on what constitutes a Distraction. the cracker barrel logo thing (zero stakes, obviously invented controversy) is a Distraction. the ongoing military occupation of washington dc (ample footage of random delivery drivers being violently detained by feds) is not

When you see a Pick-Me Pete or other centrist transphobe defender, just ask them this. They never answer. We all know why.

it is not about sports. it has never been about sports. it is about banning trans people from public life entirely AT BEST, and at worst, forcing them into situations that will endanger their lives. this is why we don't play along with the "just asking questions" sports bullshit

here’s a whole thread about when brian kemp did this. he’s a monster for this and so many other things and this is how the press handles “forced menopause, detransition, & endemic gender based rape and violence used as part of punishment.” they call it “culture war.”

the thing about incarcerated trans people is that virtually no one will stand up for them & that’s fucking horrific because i literally cannot think of a worse place to be a trans person in america than prison. if you’re cis you should read this. trans people, keep on scrolling; you already know.

The NHS are forcibly detransitioning trans kids in Brighton and calling it “managed withdrawal.” Their own impact assessment acknowledges trans kids will be at increased risk of harm as a result, don’t want this, and are likely to just use DIY hormones instead

a lot of rank and file dems do not seem to understand that trans people are in an existential battle for our right to be part of society right now. the government today is trying to use employment law and federal extortion to ban us from bathrooms.

i have 5,000 threads on why “compromising” with fascists on civil rights is an absolute loser strategy, but let’s pretend i’m a sociopathic semisentient tube of LA looks hair gel who’s willing to do it. it will cost me. people like when dems *stand up* to monsters. it’s the media that doesn’t.

Frantic mom who’s baby was just exposed to measles at a day care—via an unvaxed parent—and now the day care is closed and everybody must quarantine for 28 days, after an emergency trip to…the hospital. This the RFK Jr future www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6LNEJHf/

it is wild how many non-trans people seem to be taking an issue with this extremely correct thread: transphobia was an extreme minority position that was isolated to fringe reactionary christian conservatives, but through "liberal" publications laundering bigoted talking points it became accepted

i miss when rich people dick measured against each other by the quality of public works prrojects that they funded as opposed to dick measuring about who can be more racist

one of the stranger phenomena in American life is that hate is supposed to flow in one direction (rural people get to hate urban people, Republicans get to hate Democrats) and if the hate goes the other way people pretend as if this is very upsetting.

There is only one possible ending to this story, and sports aren't the last chapter. I guarantee that if you haven't lost five decades of rights in two weeks, you have no idea what this feels like, so I'm begging you: protect trans kids right now with everything you've got.

It's a heads they win tails we lose situation. Teachers have a first amendment right to misgender trans students but they don't have a first amendment right to state their own pronouns. The only way you square that circle is to understand that there's a trans exception in the law for coherent logic.

i am simply of the belief that letting Republicans repeat over and over again that science is not on the side of trans people without answering them in kind is bad. it's a lie and should be called a lie. you can't compromise with this.

*Biden tries to forgive student loans* SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it. *Trump revokes part of the constitution* SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.

The position of the Supreme Court's majority is that the state may impose its will on transgender people's private medical decisions but our public existence is an unfair imposition on the lives of others

people: mamdani is going to turn NYC into a theocracy!!!! SCOTUS: it's ok if ur religion thinks being gay is evil and don't want ur kids to read about it in school

I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.

[whispers provocatively] the 1850 fugitive slave act is the model: reactionaries have the right to extend their authority across state lines, and their opponents have to actively assist them

imagine a world where the national press gives these stories 1/10 the coverage they gave to right wingers getting booed on college campuses

another thing McBride points out is that historically successful civil rights movements were willing to compromise. which is very true! but we’re not being offered a trade, we’re just being told to cede ground.

It must be very comforting for cis people to tell themselves its trans people’s fault we are getting persecuted, means they dont have to care

this is like saying democrats are too focused on re-planeting pluto. if you have heard a democrat talking about trans people in sports at all in the last 4 years, it was in opposition. harris ignored the $250M anti-trans ad spend. they won't even talk about skrmetti or the medicaid ban.

From @kitoconnell.com in the archives: “The reality is that gender-affirming medical care for trans youth is not controversial within mainstream medicine.” But that consensus hasn't stopped the New York Times from treating anti-trans organizations as experts on transgender health.

“you’re going to die because of this” is not a thing i’d ever say to a trans kid, whose life is hard enough as is. i didn’t get the care i needed. i survived. “some trans kids will die because of this” *is* a thing a lot of cis people need to hear. the ones whose “reasonable concerns” led here.

It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.

cw: self harm, sa in the quote the time it takes to undo a supreme court ruling is usually way longer than a presidential term. i hope trans kids stay hopeful, survive, find alternate care. but i know not all of them *will* stay hopeful, survive, find care. and i think that’s a fucking tragedy.