In June 1964, James Brock dumped acid into the water at the Monson Motor Lodge in St. Augustine, Fla. He was trying to disrupt swimmers who were protesting the hotel's whites-only policy. Bettmann/Corbis

The conservative version has been centuries of Conservatives ostracizing anyone they discovery is queer (among others), blacklisting them from making a living, and pressuring their families to abandon them.

the political party that has been dehumanizing trans people, but minority groups broadly are now trying to argue that calling people nazis leads to violence on them. i wonder what they think dehumanizing entire groups of people leads to

It’s hard to convey the insanity of a thirty-something White House staffer getting an interim US Attorney appointment and marching into the grand jury room alone four days later to indict the former Deputy Attorney General and Director of the FBI

The same bs they're spewing about autism and tylenol is the same bs they're spewing about trans people's healthcare. It's the exact same playbook and the fact that the media can see through one and not the other is a damning indictment of how complicit they are in the attack on trans lives.

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trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people

the beatings will continue; we have defunded the agency that tracks morale

a chilling warning to america from 2004 !

taking a stance against simulated "non consent" in porn is idiotic and leads always to having some dipshit appointed to arbitrarily decide what acts between adults "can't be consented to," and therefore can't be depicted. I'll give you a hint: they will be gay.

when violating consent is done with impunity, constantly, but hard lines are drawn against describing, discussing, or depicting non consensual sexual acts in media, what power imbalance is being created and who does it benefit?

I KEEP FORGETTING TO MENTION THE CREATOR OF OWL HOUSE MADE THIS BTW

No worries, I believe it enough for both of us

underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I honestly can't fathom reading an opinion all but accusing the gov't of lying in court about its cover-of-dark efforts to deport children with no process to a country where their parents can't be located or don't want them and where some face danger, and this is your unhinged, heartless response.

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And that, kids, was the day that all the trans internet celebrities got poster's madness all at once. Now, one might question why we had trans internet celebrities in the first place, but that's a whole other story....

Too many cis people i've never heard of are lecturing an experienced trans journalist tonight.

i think what everyone needs right now is a big boat getting stuck in a little space

seeing how yall talk about that girl makes it pretty obvious why everything about our "community" doesnt line up particularly well with everything recorded about our _demographic_

you would throw her to the wolves and deny her truth every bit as easily as someone else could do to you. she has already done more for us than you are likely to ever fully understand. be mindful of that. if i see the word “claim” again i’m going to be unfriendly

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

"This must be stopped! Somebody ELSE must stop this!"

this is the way

i can’t begrudge someone who melts down when it’s proportional to the circumstances, but right now people are essentially just making others share or help manage their emotions and it is childish and bad for community for morale

In a Hitleresque speech, JD Vance says there can be no unity with the left and vows to use the government to dismantle non-profit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism.

SO sorry about the treatment your specialists and engineers received at the hands of our secret police goon squad. That's normally something we reserve for a different race of people who we like even less, hope you understand. Please come back

Elon, fresh off attempting to incite race riots in England is now trying to incite pogroms against trans people.

The New York Post fanning the flames. They’ve lost the plot.

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

Shoutout to all the cis people who told me it'd never get this bad and I was just being paranoid whenever I was worried

So the far right managed to drum up as many people to march through London as trans people did! Clearly, given the absolute legislative irrelevance of trans people, we will see an equivalent political apathy towards the far— [touching a finger to my earpiece] Oh.

Anyway I will never forget the time that an opposing counsel filed a motion to disqualify me from a case because being trans is a mental defect and litigating against me violates his freedom of religion and association and the panel responded by chiding *me* for my lack of civility in responding

Remember how scary it was for the 36 hours where it felt like the Right could explode into violence as a repercussion of an assassination? That's what our trans brothers & sisters feel like every fucking day We have to protect them at all costs. They are our line in the sand; not a bargaining chip.

The picture is starting to make more sense

Charlie Kirk's shooter wrote lyrics to a historic anti-fascist song that had been ironically appropriated by Groypers in their feud with Kirk. For example, this public Spotify playlist. open.spotify.com/playlist/0ai...

OnlyFans model creates SFW content on PornHub, publishes post to LinkedIn explaining that she gets a much higher rate on PornHub vs YouTube ($1,000 per million views on Pornhub versus YouTube’s $340), and then LinkedIn takes down her post and bans her. www.404media.co/why-this-onl...

bro soldiers expand and maintain empire and literally kill people, sex workers entertain and make people cum. you have to hate women and sex to never before seen levels to think this comparison makes any sense

My extended evangelical hillbilly family is apparently okay inviting a meth addict who groomed and abused a 14 y/o but draw the line at being a trans woman. Seeing my loved ones was great, but I also got a hard reminder why I gtfo that town at 14 and never looked back.

Seriously considering francophilia

Signing and anti-trans bill with a statement saying that you support trans people HAS to be the most Democrat thing ever Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I think my coming to Christmas contributed to one side of the family canceling their Christmas Eve celebration because the bigoted host didn't want me there. Now I get to just hang out with the decent which is pretty great!

To be fair, though 😁