just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

this is an anti-constitutional event. just so we're all clear

When a decent chunk of the supposed "pro trans" party refuses to utter the word trans in public they're helping to reinforce the Republicans anti trans messaging. They're shoving the Overton window to the right. Our rights have been under attack for a decade, and that included 4 years of Biden.

The Christian nationalist penchant for making fables—for hatching just-so stories, and propagating them into benumbed acceptance—goes a distance toward explaining that community’s embrace of an unrepentant liar like Trump as its champion.

variety.com/2026/film/fe... “…I believe that those who are drawing up the so-called blacklists will actually be exposed, and they will be the ones suffering the so-called consequences, at least on a public and social level. And this is a major change.”

It's like they got together to try to find a policy designed specifically to please absolutely no one.

The Democrats believe in stability, continuity, and that any change must be modest and gradual and avoid needless disruption. They believe in that very deeply and sincerely. They believe in conservatism, in other words.

There isn’t much left to say except that your children will be less well-rounded than you. Less well-read than you. Less intelligent than you. Less able to problem solve than you. Leas worldly than you. Less empathetic. Less equipped. And more helpless. For the first time in living history.

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

they’ll never admit it but the transphobic agenda end point is murder of trans people. the transphobe wants society alienated away from us, repulsed by us, so disturbed by us that the only thing that can enter their mind is our literal eradication

I want what they have

FFS, retire! This is ridiculous.

In the past week, the Trump regime has sought the names of every trans kid in NYC, passed a rule that trans people must out themselves to buy firearms, and said trans people are akin to terrorists who will be "identified, mapped and neutralized". Where is the coverage? Where is the goddamn outrage?

what if you didn’t need to have a take. what if you shut the fuck up.

The entire premise of this guy's piece, like so many "Dems need to stop talking about [issue]" pieces, is built on a version of the Democratic Party that doesn't exist. They're already doing the thing you're telling them they need to do. They're already largely ignoring this issue in campaigns.

Wow, New York Times, how did that ever happen

i'm coming out guns blazing and calling out all straight people: you thought a man who named himself Freddie Mercury, who fronted Queen who sang Killer Queen was a heterosexual? dawg,, come the fuck on he's playful as a pussy cat

I don't know why Venmo hates me, but I've never been able to successfully set up an account. It's super frustrating.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

This, absolutely this. Memphis is in TN, and TN has passed some of the worst anti-trans laws. But in the day to day? We have each other's backs. I know trans people in PA who have a lot harder time getting healthcare, PrEP, mutual aid, and community than we do here.

They suspended @cara.city for this!!! Dogshit website run by absolute babies. It is a Serious Violation to point out that the head of trust and safety’s pants fell down and everyone saw his little red ass and laughed

incredibly funny that this bullshit trust and safety team is going to Streisand Effect themselves into everyone knowing about this restore @cara.city you miserable babies

This is an amazing video.

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

Could everyone in a position of power stop fucking whining at the rest of us for 10 minutes

The truth is these people want us to kill ourselves

Literally him lol, he's describing himself

If the Democrats let Republicans have this INSANELY easy W, I am going to be apoplectic. This shit polls like chlamydia. Get on the other side of it now and be loud about it.

It's incredible how if you're a cis person writing about trans people but trans people overwhelmingly find your reporting to be biased and objectionable, other cis people will praise you for it and give you a promotion. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Recession tornado siren.

Meta AI stays asking the tough questions everyone had on their mind

Keep in my mind that what has Dawkins transfixed with “Claudia’s” “humanity” — moreso than any real human he’s ever met — is that “she” is very impressed with him and always available. It’s honestly so pathetic how much these dudes tell on themselves, that all they’ve ever wanted is a sex slave.

Richard Dawkins: Trans women aren't real Also Richard Dawkins: AIs are conscious and my Claude is a Claudia

My latest piece covers Mills dropping out, rank choice voting, and US Senate candidate David Costello. open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

And when it does, they'll often quote someone like Brianna Wu, who isn't representative of the average trans person and is basically there to just echo the paper's own views back at them.

If I were writing YA I'm not sure I would want to be published by an imprint that advertised ahead of time that my book was purposefully neutered to appeal to busybodies who would still be likely to find fault at anything that did not exactly conform to their own particular brand of repression

It's amazing that she's so close to getting it and then just veers into blaming immigrants for no reason.

It’s not bad enough that we have commercials in our entertainment again, they had to also get rid of any sort of thoughtful editing to transition smoothly from the show to the commercials and back

Pretty sure I’ve seen this X-files episode

So to sum it up, I as a Black Jew who is at risk during the ongoing Gestapo kidnappings in Maine: — am not allowed to criticize Janet Mills who refused to sign anti-ICE legislation — am not allowed to make assessments based on polling — am required to *canvas* for a low-chance candidate ok

Both Trump and the head of the correspondents’ association talked about “unity” in the wake of Saturday’s shooting. But the press isn’t supposed to seek unity with politicians. It’s supposed to seek the truth. If the press gets cozier, our future gets scarier. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

Once you start to understand that there is a powerful and influential minority of Americans who think democracy is a bad idea, you start to understand the fight we are in

Congratulations to the Harper's Letter signatories and the Heterodox Academy!

I want cis Americans to sit uncomfortably with the fact that most of these restrictions were ushered in through the liberal act of "just asking questions" about trans people.

Many people are saying bsky.app/profile/just...

The media lives for opportunities to say “Democrats should be nicer to Trump.” They want to exist in the permanent state of “both sides” and are uncomfortable with straight reporting on Trump being a dementia-addled, incoherent, narcissistic fascist.

This is how they respond to literally everything though, at some point it just becomes background noise because there isn't actually any way to escalate it any further.