John Calvin is not going to make you his special little boy in heaven for helping Mastercard censor gay porn

There's officially been more accountability for corporate extramarital affairs at Coldplay concerts than there's been for the sitting president covering up a massive sex trafficking operation that targeted children.

there's no significant or structural change in the party. Over 100 of them just voted for the crypto scam bill.

The House voted 308 to 122 for the GENIUS Act, the corrupt crypto industry bill to set the stage for the next financial crisis, encourage money laundering, and bless Trump's corruption. 102 Democrats voted yes, including 4 out of the 5 memberships of House Dems's Leadership Team.

“Protecting migrants also means confronting whorephobia, racism, and criminalization... Defending the rights of migrant sex workers is essential to a broader movement for immigrant justice.” - Kate Zen & @chanellegallant.bsky.social truthout.org/articles/sex...

We’ve had a week of mainstream press asking a NY mayoral candidate to disavow antisemitic slogans THAT HE NEVER SAID. Meanwhile the current president uses a Jewish slur and the press OMITS IT.

Thread about watching ‘Cabaret’

Sorry, but Independence Day will now be referred to as the Juneteenth Afterparty. This will remain in place until the American government stops acting a whole ass.

People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it. They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory. Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human. Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.

The Paramount deal proves just how weak Trump's lawsuit was. It's hard to claim $20 billion in damages, then settle for 0.08% of that and call it a win. But Team Trump is declaring victory anyway – and this chest-puffing statement is exactly why CBS reporters did not want the company to settle:

I don't think a lot of people in politics over the age of 40 understand that young people aren't scared of words like socialism or communism. They're watching every bad propaganda thing they've ever heard about socialism play out in real life under capitalism. And the socialists have health care.

The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

We knew this about this Supreme Court. I guess everyone is on the same page now that the courts will not "save" us. The question is really how to save ourselves. On that, we need a lot more people doing a lot of different things for many years.

Sotomayor issues a blistering dissent that states plainly that this decision renders constitutional protections meaningless.

The court’s ruling could now mean that once a child born to noncitizen parents leaves certain states, they won’t be considered a U.S. citizen.

this is deliberate, it’s not vance being clumsily racist and vance served with him for two years, he’s deliberately invoking josé padilla because he’s a troll piece of shit

So are you going to stop attacking trans kids on your podcast nearly every episode and stop defunding HIV and trans healthcare?

We rose this weekend and we’re not bowing anytime soon. #NoKings

The Senate reconciliation bill retains the trans healthcare Medicaid/CHIP ban. Call your Senators, we still have a good shot at killing this provision. Hundreds of thousands of people rely on this care.

I’m watching the Panama v Guadeloupe Gold Cup game on TV as we speak. It is being played in Los Angeles. And the stadium is almost completely empty. A sport that in the U.S. is highly dependent on Latino audiences is no longer viable. The World Cup cannot come here.

LOOK AT THIS SHIT: Marines and ICE team up in a show of force, turning a community swap meet into a surveillance operation. Witnesses say people were cornered, forced to identify themselves, and had their photos taken — without suspicion or a warrant. This is a police state.

“Does the US President’s social media post mean people should evacuate Tehran in a serious, bombs-are-imminent sort of way or a silly, he’ll forget about it in the morning sort of way?” is an insane, nightmarish situation to be in

True!💥

"Trump called for the CSB’s closure during his first term but settled for leaving many investigator and agency leadership positions unfilled."

EXCLU: Sen. Bernie Sanders wants an investigation of Health Secretary RFK Jr.’s recent decision to fire all 17 members of the nation’s top vaccine advisory committee. via @margaretmanto.bsky.social www.notus.org/health-scien...

Another piece of Project 2025 hidden in the GOP House DHS 2026 funding bill. (Section 544) that says the government can’t take action against anyone who discriminates against same-sex marriage—as long as they claim it’s based on a “sincerely held religious belief.”

Criticism of Israeli policies is not antisemitism. Defacing a Holocaust memorial is absolutely antisemitism. Horrible.

Senator @jeffyarbro.bsky.social weighs in…

Jesus Fucking Christ

JD Vance now wants to use the chaos ICE is causing in Los Angeles as pretext to pressure politicians to pass the Republican budget bill that will saddle Americans with trillions of dollars of debt, skyrocket the deficit, take away people’s healthcare, and give massive tax breaks to the wealthy.

Here's the official release from the White House, and apparently, we're in a state "of rebellion". 😒 Fellow Californians, you know the drill. Every one of us should be speed dialing: - Our federal electeds - Our state electeds - Newsom - And Bonta right now.

This.

As the federal government conducts chaotic immigration sweeps across the country, the state is deploying additional CHP to maintain safety on Los Angeles highways to keep the peace. It's not their job to assist in federal immigration enforcement.

some resources for protestors A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions and how to defend against them crimethinc.com/2021/01/04/a...

This is what's been driving me f'ing crazy about the Democrats. They ceded the immigration debate to the GOP for no reason. Immigration is a net positive to this country and it's not even close. We have a broken immigration system but the problem isn't the immigrants, it's the politicians.

Again, responsive emergent protest is not deeply organized or able to patrol its membership. Demanding Civil Rights Era demonstration discipline off a random crowd off the street is setting the stage for demonization of the "riot" and narratively empowering its suppressors

To be clear: Trump is dispatching the troops in response to protests *the Los Angeles Police Department* has described as peaceful

Military style ICE raids in our communities. David Huerta was beaten and dragged away. Because he saw them and stood up for justice. Because he’s not afraid. Neither are we. On MONDAY let's #FreeDavidHuerta, #FreeThemAll 11:00 AM @ Grand Park in Downtown LA (200 N Grand Ave)

The deployment of federalized National Guard troops to California, without consent from local or state officials, is deeply troubling. These are tactics seen in authoritarian regimes, not in America. We want to be clear, the military should not be used to police civilians.

The Los Angeles Police Department has stated that demonstrations in the city have remained peaceful. Let that sink in.

Attention Bay Area. Legal Solidarity Bay Area

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NEW: The National Sheriffs’ Association(!) puts out a statement saying the Trump admin’s publication, with no feedback first, of a list of Sheriff departments alleged to be sanctuary jurisdictions “violated the core principles of trust, cooperation, and partnership with fellow law enforcement.”

kind of obsessed with 2025 pride merch...I'm calling it cowardcore.

Target FORGOT TO WRITE COPY for their pride line this year i’m obsessed with how much big box stores dgaf and have stopped pretending to

Totally inappropriate and really unprecedented for a cabinet secretary to overtly intervene in an election of an ally like this. And even more wildly (though unsurprisingly) on behalf of the pro-authoritarian party.

RFK Jr. says the CDC will no longer recommend COVID vaccines for healthy pregnant women. Yet doctors have found that stillbirths can result from COVID directly infiltrating the placenta — even for people whose COVID symptoms were mild or nonexistent. @deldeib.bsky.social‬'s story from 2022:

gavin newsom is useful in one respect and that is being an overt, unsubtle display of what all that "we just gotta do some means testing", "we just have to compromise on social issues a bit" actually does, the harms it brings down in the moment and their logical endpoint