It's not appropriate for cis people to say that trans people are too alarmed, or that certain trans writers are irresponsibly causing trans people to think the sky is falling. I want to take some time in this 🧵 to write personally about how my skies have fallen.

Social media polarization is not, imo, a story of the masses becoming radicalized: it is a story of elites becoming radicalized, and that trickling down.

This is more than people get for rape and murder

hey is the word “eliminate” good when they’re talking about You. just wondering

I know there are trans people right now, wondering if anyone is going to stand up for their simple right to exist. Well, I am.

My god, they aren't targeting trans people just to get at other people. They are targeting trans people to target trans people. And they are targeting other people. We don't just exist as a warning for the rest of you, fuck me.

psa for cis folks: every single "legitimate concern" about trans people (bathrooms, sports, blockers, etc) is a made up astroturf by the far right. if you buy into any of it, you are an utter chump and a useful idiot for racist pedophiles

children's rights, trans rights, and women's rights are inescapably bound together because all of us are types of people socially defined by the dominant order based on what makes us "not cis men" and thus how we may be owned and exploited by cis men in the production of their own status as "not us"

This truly is where we’re at. This entire thing has genuinely been perfect for what everything is. This is a fair of honesty.

I live on the same planet as this person

All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

I remember North Carolina having to back off its bathroom bill after a concerted pushback and its been wild to witness the wholesale abandonment since.

anyway i think the proper takeaway here is that a bare majority of the court thinks the plain words of the 14th amendment mean what they say, that four members believe there is a secret hidden meaning only recently discovered by hack lawyers

As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump

Court can't go on like this. The Constitution as plainly as possible says people who were born here have an unequivocal right to citizenship. Four people whose ONLY job is to read the Constitution for the rest of their lives just tried to overturn it because they're tired of brown people. Pack it.

already mad at everyone who is going to ignore the horrible things the Supreme Court is going to do to trans rights tomorrow in order to praise their “moderation” for not overruling the 14th amendment by fiat

Theyve mobilized faster against this than anything in the past 10 years and to me that pretty much says it all and justifies what so many have said about them collectively for anyone willing to pay attention

crazy to me that rich people have been so successful in perpetuating the lie that the poor are stealing from everyone. they don't have any money. the rich people are the ones with the money! that's who stole the money

Here come four months of centrists attacking the left with far greater existential fury than they ever aimed at Trump (because they prefer Trump and helped him win):

how Animal Crossing: New Horizons's Leninism breathed new life into erotica

huh

Capitalism is literally cooking Europe, capitalism is sending people to jail for a century for protesting, capitalism created Trump and Musk, capitalism is protecting Epstein's clients. These things aren't aberrations, they are the explicit intended outcomes of capitalism - features, not bugs.

TFW a friend starts reposting a few too many radfem posts and your transmisogyny senses start to tingle

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

"I should be able to easily doxx you if you make fun of me on the internet"

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

the real political correctness is that you can’t go on the news and say that this is hick shit

Oh sick it’s transphobic opinion column month

Just insane. New Jersey Gov Mikie Sherrill says DHS just denied state health inspectors full access to Delaney Hall. She's calling for it to be shut down.

I am curious about the effect that almost everyone I know, even people who are doing relatively well, thinks they would be more successful economically if they sacrificed their ethical principles and just became a grifter of some sort.

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

Van Hollen is right: Israel is guilty of ethnic cleansing, apartheid, & genocide against the Palestinian people. US officials, under Biden and Trump, who have aided and abetted these crimes by providing taxpayer dollars, bombs and political support to Israel have no place in future administrations.

I've been trying to find the motivation to write more again, so I'd love if anyone read some of my stuff! This is one of my favorites that I've written: open.substack.com/pub/professo...

if you're a trans woman who writes cool stuff but doesn't have a platform, send it to me and I'll boost it for you!

Comedy is attacking someone until they learn to have a sense of humor

Update

i cant believe tom steyer is the first dem politician (that ive seen) to proudly and forcefully make this correct and obvious counter argument to the bigotry but im glad he did

whoever invented pesto i hope your pillow is always cold, you always have space for dessert, your dick/pussy is always sucked, you always get the christmas gift you wanted, you never get spam calls, your food never burns, you never lose your keys, your clothes always smells fresh

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

Hell of a week for the opposition: 8 Senate Dems voted to confirm a Trump judge who wouldn’t admit Biden won. A Dem governor pardoned an election denier who orchestrated a breach of her county’s election system. 8 House Dems voted for a bill attacking trans rights in schools. Feel represented?

trans woman's replies when she mentions that the democrats are leaving her and her siblings out to rot

i will not vote for any democrat that encourages throwing the trans community under the bus, i dont care who the opponent is i will not participate in an election where the choice is between two candidates that will attack marginalized communities to reach their personal political aspirations

more than 20 years, here, for me. i wish cis people put any effort at all into considering this period of guarded isolation, let alone imagining what it's like to go though.

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

*wokely* trans women haven't done the work to unlearn the idea that they deserve to be taken seriously when they speak. that's only for men.

guy who has man privelege: trans women are bad because they act like they have man privelege

the justice department is building a list of targets that they intend to go after with the full force of the law, both medical practitioners who provide gender affirming care and the patients who received it. this is a program that is clearly genocidal in intent