Bluesky today.

People are frustrated with the current system. They know it doesn't work for them. They know our politicians are corrupt. Republicans have tramped over us as Democrats provide the smallest chunk of relief they can muster. If you are in denial about this then you need to ask yourself, why?

The point of the ACA was to make the smallest improvement to healthcare without meaningfully threatening profits of the for profit healthcare industry. There are still people in the US who cannot afford healthcare. Pretending like this fixed everything is a spit in the face to them.

You don't fight fascism by letting fascists in your tent.

the reason you can't say "sexual assault" or "rape" on so many major platforms is because the christofascists demanding this censorship from tech companies want to keep wielding sexual violence in the dark as a tool of power

obama ramped up the use of drone strikes (10x more than bush!) and deported a record number of immigrants. he helped maintain and expand the systems trump is now using to do his crimes

The genocide is ongoing in Gaza

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

it's crazy that this guy can just refuse to do his job and there's apparently nothing anyone can do about it

if i catch any of yall celebrating the APD on my feed today, it’s on fucking sight. some of us have memories longer than 2 months

This is what gave us Trump. Dems avoid any policy that could improve our lives because of pressure from corporations. This is why they means test their policies until they are pointless. They exist to squash any popular economic policy from being passed. They have no connection to their base.

Ohio University is punishing a 70-year-old professor for: 1) trying to deliver humanitarian aid to starving children 2) being kidnapped by Israel in international waters 3) being tortured in Ketziot prison for 5 days and 4) having the gall to survive to resume teaching his course

remember when Reagan had his press secretary mockingly imply journalists were gay if they tried to ask if the president was doing anything about HIV/AIDS in an attempt to bully them into not talking about it (he was, if you count defunding the CDCs research on it at the height of the epidemic)

Do not watch while eating or directly after.

This graph from a new AP-NORC poll out this week highlights a crucial point: The Democratic Party's favorability rating is so low today (when compared to the GOP's) because _Democrats_ are upset with the party, not because swing voters rate Ds more negatively than Rs. 1/3

Again, this is a liquidation of the union in all but letter of the law. This is reverse secessionism engineered by a central government.

This is how we got fascism.

The first thing the State Dept account did here was threaten to use Bluesky posts to strip people of visas and investigate non citizens. That's a real threat against every Bluesky user and it's absurd the account isnt banned yet.

Your state and city police will side with the fascist invading force Every time it doesn’t matter if you have a Democratic governor or not, the police are part of the fascist attack on America. the police are fascists and always have been we literally had an uprising about it in 2020.

just remembering how the IOF slaughtered and then buried an entire team of EMS a few months ago, including their ambulance, and nothing happened. gaza was the trial for everywhere else.

I think this might go down in history as one of the least successful attempts at pandering to an audience that has ever been made. "Hey that thing you're all demanding I do universally? How about I give you one single drop of it, means tested to such a degree that like ten people tops can have it"

A just world would not allow this farce to continue. This is "political violence".

the part about that “i love hitler” groupchat is that it’s not surprising that all young republicans are nazis, this is just the average rightwinger these days. they’re all extremists who love every extreme position possible and everyone needs to realize that

This is a call for state violence to be used against the public. She just stated that people voting for Dems are not American, terrorists, and violent criminals. This is how you justify ripping voting rights or citizenship from people.

If you're the Dems and you were scared of immigration as a topic before, I might try making it an issue now that masked goons are beating the shit out of innocent people in the streets on a daily basis. A lot of people are probably not down with this whatever their views on immigration are

having returned to the workplace and being around the general public recently has shown me that there are a vast number of people who are completely unaware of the problems with using generative AI, or even the fact that there are problems with it

This is how The Boston Globe chooses to frame the kidnapping of a local teenager.

The first Jim Crow was enacted under the auspices that racism is a necessity and a great and natural moral good. The second one is being enacted under the auspices that racism doesn’t exist if you claim you don’t see it and anyone who questions your motives about that is oppressing you.

JK Rowling has denied the nazi persecution of LGBTQ+ people in the Holocaust, uses the money she earns to legislate trans people out of existence and asked her followers to photograph women going to the washroom. Keira Knightley: we all gotta figure out how to live together

CW: SA - i hate to be on my usual fucking bullshit but it really needs to be said that these are rape threats. they also stripped her and filmed her.

JD Vance when people makes jokes about Charlie Kirk: "call their employer." JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."

The sheer number of stories I owe to NBC OUT for letting me write… The sheer scale of the way they covered queer news makes this devastating for LGBTQ media. This hurts. They were an incredible group.

Pleased to announce this is the best shit I've ever seen

One of the recurrent themes in Greta's testimony is soldiers stripping and photographing her, sexual humiliation being an out in the open policy of the IDF for years, particularly since Oct 7th. Israel torturing and sexially assaulting a bunch of foreigners should be the biggest story in the world.

Matt Walsh and MAGA have been citing this "study" all day to claim "total cultural victory" over trans people. Claiming that it shows less people are identifying as trans because it's a socially influenced phenomenon. This is a great 🧵 debunking all of it

It feels like the political overton window has shifted far to the Right because the wealth class controls our media and owns our politicians. Meanwhile, the vast, vast majority of people belong to what would now be portrayed as “the extreme Left.” It’s a perception game and narrative control.

“Please someone listen to me, I don’t want to die” These are the words of a woman named Harmonie who had an ectopic pregnancy Her obgyn refused to help, citing a 1% chance the fetus could survive She lives in a blue state & still couldn’t access the life saving care she needed

everyone needs to internalize that this is just how all republicans are and when nancy pelosi said "the country needs a strong republican party" she meant that more people like this should be powerful. they are all like this! they all think just like this and like trump and they love it and it's fun

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

yall will not be using this ceasefire to whitewash Biden’s overt complicity in a genocide. not on my fucking watch

It’s war against humanity.

"We can table this argument until I see you in hell" is an all timer hater line

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth. I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.

i cannot get over how quickly this is happening. the decline of the other two branches/ascent of the lawless executive is outpacing actual democratic decline, which is usually what precipitates executive consolidation. but in our case, the other two branches are collaborators

if you already didn’t have enough reasons to cancel spotify:

In twelve days, New Yorkers will begin to cast their ballots and face a stark choice. A choice between democracy and oligarchy. Between a city you can afford or more of the same. Between the hope of a brighter future or a broken past. We will choose the future.