Call your reps right now and get REAL LOUD about how you don’t want to be held hostage by a senile pumpkin who thinks breaking the law is fun

I’m genuinely asking, if you read a single review of mine this year, make it this one

The whole, "they're using the same bathroom as little girls!" thing is so weird. Yeah man you use the same bathroom as little boys.

Each time a Democratic candidate or elected official falls for the trap of using the Right’s shorthand for whatever Good Idea™️ they’re trying to make poisonous to the general public, we need to bop them on the nose with a rolled newspaper and tell them “NO”

When I got the first email that she was running, I asked everyone in my circles to watch as *one of the only Democratic members of Congress whose voting record is to the Right of some current Republican members* would be painted as an irredeemable extremist. Hopelessly predictable outcome.

I mean, here's what Republicans are openly saying should happen to people like me. Seems a bit Nazi-like, tbh!

It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

that’s it. i’m going to become the jonkler.

@archive.org preserved the original study, which you can find here. web.archive.org/web/20250911...

The USPS is a *necessary service* for the average American and we need to be loud about fixing it, not simply replacing it with for-profit solutions. Case in point: I’d love to know why my package got within an hour of my home before receiving a short vacation to go 10 hours away to see New England

ive never seen anything like rhetoric coming from the right in the last week, this is absolutely insane and it needs to stop and people in power need to start speaking the fuck up like right the fuck now

Jean Grey leaves the X-Men after realizing that knowing everyone’s unspoken fetishes makes it extremely hard to focus on work in a team setting

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

This has legs. The number of interests I passed on when I was a kid because I didn’t want to ask my parents to shell out the cash we didn’t have is innumerable, and I’m lucky (and grateful) that I landed in other places that didn’t foster Bad Behavior™️

Time for people to learn about Nick Fuentes and Groypers. I apologize in advance. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...

What this means, functionally, is that a great many people who are just trying not to think too hard about these sorts of distinctions are willing recipients of “the narrative”

I don’t think it’s particularly hard to hold these two thoughts in your head at the same time: - he’s a net negative on American/global society by an incredible margin - public figures being assassinated is A Bad Thing™️

Silksong community: you have a chance to surprise me here, but I think I’ve got your number

Whenever I think it’s time to put my nose to the grindstone and start pitching essays again, I come across one like this that reminds me that whatever I was cooking up needs more time in the oven. This is smart and succinct, a read well worth your time.

Good lord, 25 years ago I was sitting in a computer lab learning about how I could use Google to find accurate information on the internet, and how to avoid using disreputable sources if they came up in a search. Now, Google is *becoming* the disreputable source, but with a name you can trust. 😬

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

Supporting a worker-owned publication the day after Labor Day feels like a no-brainer, especially one with so many good folks behind the wheel

This seems like a really savvy take until you look at the hundreds of posts that do *exactly this* to no avail. It’s why the drumbeat feels necessary this early, because so many people aren’t taking seriously how much Newsom sucks, and that his willingness to sacrifice entire groups is dangerous.

Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss

It is behavior that would have led to a “Grampa Chuck lives at the hospital now” situation just a few generations ago, but somehow we’ve decided this person is still capable enough to be Senate Minority Leader.

Jensen’s research has identified more than 1,000 mass casualty plots — where the perpetrator clearly intended to kill or injure as many people as possible — since the start of 2023. “You can count on less than one hand how many of those were perpetrated by a transgender individual,” he said.

If you were ever faced with the rhetoric that “transness is a new phenomenon” and that that somehow invalidates it, it might be worth mentioning that every couple generations we seem to have a group dead set on erasing their existence from the written record.

Whatever happened to “it’s too soon to get political”? That phrase we got hammered into our heads as kids in the early 2000s whenever a conservative politician didn’t want to discuss gun regulations sure got thrown out the window the moment they want to use a tragedy to crush a vulnerable population

Do your homework. Bring facts, and be prepared for them to try to ignore you - do not let them! These people have only gotten to this position because enough bystanders have let them control the narrative. The common threads have been — and continue to be! — white supremacy and easy gun access.

“We are honored to have had the opportunity to provide comprehensive gender affirming care for our communities” If you were really so honored to have done it, you would continue to do it

this why i’m in the “primary everyone” camp. jeffries and schumer have been bad, but they’re more a symptom than the underlying disease. the controlling faction(s) of the party are committed to an untenable, elitist, and undemocratic vision of politics, and we need to change that

I know a lot of mainline dems read my work, so for those of you skeptical of my argument because of my role as a trans journalist, know that I _endorsed_ Harris for president. The critiques I levy against Newsom are very particular to him and he poses a unique danger that I cannot stay silent on.

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

Do not get swept up in the idea that “this guy can win”. He is a BAD PERSON and there is no reason to believe he would not change whatever it is you like about him in this moment if he thinks it would win him more votes tomorrow.

today a UN body announced famine is in Gaza. this oped from New Disabled South connects US funding of Israel's starvation campaign to Trump's BBB cutting SNAP as fundamentally American. "The U.S. allegedly has no money to feed its children or the world’s children, but has plenty of money for war."

www.ign.com/articles/how... hey seems like a good time to repost this brilliant piece of work from @duckvalentine.bsky.social

Beginning to think “<Candidate’s Name> - Because it’s 2025 and they’re willing to act like it!” is a winning slogan at this point

This is more important and exciting than the Taylor Swift announcement by a lot: variety.com/2025/tv/news...

The hardest conversations to have in a Post-Trump America are going to be about how the segments of the country currently supporting its own dismantling are not welcome in the rebuilding process.

Decades of “liberal representation” on a National level peaked for many of us in the Obama years - which is a damning sentiment, as the most progressive policies of that era still fall well short of what we are both hoping and fighting for. That we should cede even that modest ground is laughable.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

One of the first things you learn about trans competent primary care is how many of us routinely develop PVD, UTIs, and kidney stones from avoiding or not having access to bathrooms. As a fun bonus, the disinfo machine then uses this high prevalence to make mendacious claims about HRT.

“Re-educational Material”

Picked this deck box up from @ultimateguard.bsky.social and I was so excited until I flipped it over. Looks like my art was extended with ai. @magic.wizards.com needs to make sure their partners don’t do this. I would have happily extended this for a couple hundred $$. Instead it looks awful!

Guess what! Today is my birth-yay and I thought I’d do a little giveaway! To enter: ✨ like this post ✨ follow me ✨ repost ✨ for fun comment your fave EOE card! Winner gets this original watercolor by me! Winner announced by 7pm 7/31! #watercolor #giveaway #mtgeternities

Here’s another fun detail, for now. JC Tretter and the NFLPA executive committee picked two (2) finalists to present to the union’s board of reps for a vote. One was Lloyd Howell. The other, @pablofindsout can confirm, was former SAG-AFTRA exec director David White. Also known as this guy:

has anyone noticed yet that texas is going to pass anti-trans and anti-abortion bills as a part of their flood response

why destroy the department of education? would you believe there's a creepy evangelical organization operating in broad daylight but under the radar whose meteoric rise goes a long way towards explaining it? today's column: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Trump administration: We're fighting antisemitism! Also Trump administration: We gave a $200 million government contract to 'MechaHitler'