gay marriage didn't get a popular majority because the median voter understood how cruel they were being it got a popular majority because activists convinced a majority gays weren't a threat and then turned around, pointed at homophobes, and said "whoa what the fuck is wrong with THESE freaks"

A small, influential group of right-wingers say their role model, Joseph McCarthy, didn't go far enough, @alibreland.bsky.social reports:

@normative.bsky.social @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social I think it's incredibly important that an odd kind of pessimism is working against us on spreading awareness of this danger. By which I mean— I can't share this kind of thing, trying to show how misogyny and racism have gotten exponentially more >

I’m so excited about the potential of the Internet to let previously marginalized voices be heard! <Monkey Paw’s Finger Slowly Curls>

I wouldn't say decades. Obama running a genuinely beautiful, powerful campaign implying generational change—then getting repeatedly kneecapped from within *his own party* by Baucus and Lieberman—was only fifteen years ago. That was the start for many of us.

Nah, he knows. Seen the depo video? He just doesn't want to answer. Because he knows how bad it would make him look. Typical depo evasion. He thinks it's funny all the work people are having to do (like this depo), & nobody has fixed it yet. Thus the smirk. For those who haven't seen it. ⤵️

Graham thinks big: once the US has occupied and annex Venezuela and Iran, it will have nearly one-third of all the earth's oil and gas.

@shaunvids.bsky.social It's more like • Republican pres says "hey, Iraqis/Iranians/whoever, we're bombing your evil ruling junta to get rid of them for democracy, so you can install new, fairer leaders" • President's handlers add a relationship-straining condition, something like: "Oh, and your >

Plenty of that across industries, there’s this pervasive belief that President Trump could never make a catastrophic mistake, or if he did, it could be reversible by the omnipresent “adults in the room”. That is, American biz genuinely believes the WH could never break something they couldn’t fix.

women's rights are being dragged backwards, internationally, by a bunch of rich, powerful, influential rapists, pedos, and their enablers and apologists. i don't feel much like celebrating this iwd.

Maine - Here is your alternative to Platner.

I feel like “Man of Steel” basically embodies the Trump administration’s ideal of strength, where you overcome your enemies by finally strangling the voice in your head that says you aren’t allowed to murder people and then killing them. Principles are weakness and true heroism is overcoming them

This post sent from what I imagine was 8:30am PT (assuming Kalinowski is on the West Coast) is yet another bright red warning flag at the convergence of several areas where red flags are already littering the landscape: the Trump administration, war, domestic surveillance, AI …

Of course that's what he wants. Ultimate excuse to seize control of elections, and/or cancel them altogether. Why else would the FBI gut the counter-terrorism unit?

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

QAnon luminaries say they’ve drafted the Trump “national emergency” declaration to scuttle the midterm elections:

Incredibly important thread. Read to the end and look at examples of this neo-Nazi's raw viciousness—the guy may well be elected specifically because this forum leader would not let this be raised or publicized.

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more. They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

Aside from the obvious moral and ethical problems with getting rid of rules of engagement, you've also gotten rid of any sense of scope or direction. If your goal is to just kill bad guys, and thinking beyond that is gay, you're going to fail.

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

this is explicitly genocidal

Worth watching the whole clip, but purely in propaganda terms it seems to me, admittedly just an amateur observer when it comes to war fighting, that it may be useful to send the message to the 91+ million Iranian civilians that we are not trying to kill them.

Those school girls and musicians from the Iranian navy were people who thought they’d be able to live.

We won't be safe—nor will anyone in the world, frankly—until conservative Democratic Party leaders realize this is who we're up against, and either fight or stop bottlenecking our actual fighters.

For the longest time I thought that, if anything, the army spent too much training time on values, because who doesn't inherently understand things like honor, respect, integrity etc. Guys like this are a minority of vets but its clear that some people never understood our professed values at all

There's a testosterone poisoned teenager running the US military.

Message to analysts: we're past the "are we the baddies" moment—the Gen Z right want to be bad guys and are open about admiring movie villains' lawlessness. They love the dopamine hit of harming innocent people for fun, then openly taking credit as a naked threat to others. Miles beyond shame. >

this week in Feminist Thought I discussed the relationship between the performance of masculinity and imperialism & then the White House just decided to make it explicit

It is really a low water mark to be at war with the one of the worst regimes on Earth and manage to come away as the callous and undignified party.

Government by rapists, the continuing sorry saga💀 "...aroused by domination and the thought of domination; aroused by resistance; aroused by their anger; and, perhaps ironically, aroused by their own internal revulsions."

It's not comity if only Dems do it; it's Dems going along to get along, or more bluntly Dems going along out of raw fear. If (as seems likely) 25% of Congressional Dems are like this, to a point where they'd function as Rs even after a Dem win this fall—we don't have disarray, we have collapse.

Countless reasons for Ds to wake up but honestly after Republicans stole a SCOTUS seat that should have ended civility forever in the Senate

"...psychosexual unmooring." Perfect description.

I'm fine with Talarico, but I wanted Crockett most—and can't avoid this same conclusion.

‘Rough men’

I think it’s also important to understand that purity cultures and predatory ones are two sides of the same coin www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...

Correct.

Hegseth is a lecherous creep with the worldview of a teenage boy who just walked out of a screening of 300. His view of war is fundamentally a homoerotic rape fantasy.

Nailed it.

"Democrats will have to balance a desire to criticize Trump's offensive... with pressure to support funding to defend the nation now at war..." Who is exerting this pressure? Republicans? Dem campaign consultants? Donors? @politico.com staffers? Any... you know, voters who are likely to vote Dem?

An incredibly important thread; the whole damn thing. (Not only did Labour misunderstand its victory in the UK—Dem centrists here then invited Labourites over—effectively to *teach* Dems that misunderstanding, which played directly to centrist Dems' worst impulses.)

Labour had the good luck of being the party out of power in 2024. It really didn't matter what policies they ran on; they would have still won that election. They chose to shift rightward for no real reason, got elected, and thought to themselves, "Oh! We must have won bc of the rightward shift!"

Saudi analyst Ahmed al-Ibrahim tells Al Arabiya English that both Saudi Arabia and Qatar have arrested Mossad agents planning false flags in their countries. This is the first we’re hearing from a source other than Tucker Carlson. @msjamshidi.bsky.social

I am not saying that this war is the fault of Senate Democrats, but it would sure really help the party's branding if these people stopped fucking doing this.

"Democrats will have to balance a desire to criticize Trump's offensive... with pressure to support funding to defend the nation now at war..." Who is exerting this pressure? Republicans? Dem campaign consultants? Donors? @politico.com staffers? Any... you know, voters who are likely to vote Dem?

Keeper of the Flame - A film from 1942 warning Americans how democracy can be dismantled from the inside. This scene was written during World War II. Watch how calmly the plan is explained. Ask yourself why it still feels current today.