In the words of Zora Neale Hurston, if you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

I have known this is how the median voter functions for many, many years and it still makes me angry every time please, I beg of you, consider what the change actually is before voting for it

I think what Ezra Klein humiliating himself--and so many Elite Liberal Pundits leaping to his defense--demonstrates is how important it is to establish that if you liberally and nonviolently advocate for violent and illiberal policies, you yourself are blameless, guiltless, and without culpability

Years they've been doing this stuff. YEARS. And still some think it was a 'mistake' or 'irresponsible'. It was deliberate. Every trans person knew before it happened what they would do and they did it. YEARS.

I actually don't think that opposition in the second term has been weak like Smith is suggesting here (let alone why it might be, lol). The problem is that Trump has come back having learned more lessons from 1.0 and captured more institutions.

Wake up babe cis people just dropped a new euphemism for cisness

The problem here is that a random Bluesky poster with 5 fake diseases can become the face of the Democratic Party while the actual president can say he's mad that Jeffrey Epstein stole his sex slave and he wants Barack Obama executed and people shrug.

Pete Buttigieg is a transphobic snake who is willing to harm children in exchange for power. I hope he never holds public office again.

Right. There's an actual existing ratified trade deal with S. Korea that is current law!

I am so motherfucking tired.

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

At the heart of Christian nationalism is the "right" of the authoritarian to constantly reaffirm his divine mandate.

Imagine being some fucking asshole who is excited about Gavin Newsom

it’s 32 months before super tuesday 2028. if you’re shrieking IT’S TOO IMPORTANT & YOU PEOPLE ARE WHY WE LOSE at marginalized folks unsettled by potential candidates saying “i’m open-minded about sacrificing certain human rights,” may i suggest you redirect focus to telling candidates to get better?

The fact that this practice has gone on as long as it has is unconscionable, and scrapping plans to eliminate is just another way this administration is bad for workers.

This November, New Yorkers should remind Andrew Cuomo that no means no

God only knows. But what this is clearly intended to do is to cause people to give up their case and stop fighting — because conditions in detention are so awful and degrading that many people can’t bear them and choose to accept deportation rather than apply for relief they’re eligible for.

Re: stripping citizenship, look. There is no legal mechanism for him to do it. The very fact that he is talking about it tells you, yet again, what he is. He’s an aspiring totalitarian who wants absolute power over people’s lives and to use it to reward friends and punish enemies. That’s really it.

The president pushing to change our very conception of citizenship—which nearly all Americans were taught and grew up with as a given—is an incredibly big deal. As @swin24.bsky.social writes, it's about way more than threatening one celebrity's citizenship over speech, including the attacks on 14A.

I really need to not check this site while on vacation. 😔

Police who keep their identities secret are, quite literally, secret police. I don’t know why this is even controversial. You don’t get to yank people off the streets while hiding your face and identity and still retain the respectability of an accountable, democratic police force.

Rashida Tlaib was censured for 'from the river to the sea Palestine will be free' and this guy talks like this every day, but it doesn't seem to matter.

A thing that infuriates Times readers is the idea that the editors more closely identify with Rufo than with their readers. Indeed, the editors see their reliance on the Rufos of the world, and the subsequent disgust of their readers, as a sign of their integrity rather than of failure.

caring about anyone's SAT score above the age of 18 is peak midwit behavior

SCOOP: Zohran Mamdani's "Which 'Gossip Girl' Character Are You?" BuzzFeed Quiz Results Revealed

No Democrat who does this has any right to tell leftists to back the Democratic nominee for president no matter who it is. "Vote blue no matter who" has to go both ways.

I'm going to go one step further: any surveillance technology deployed In the context of global white supremacy will be used for the advancement of the aims of global white supremacy EVEN if the use case expressly forbids that usage.

There's a lot of calling Crémieux an academic and Chris Rufo a journalist going on in this news story accusing a man of misrepresenting his identity

No, you idiot. We’re saying how irresponsible you — as a publication — have been every single fucking step of the way with this story.

“Chris Rufo is mad we scooped him and everyone with a moral compass can’t understand how the hell this got published! See, both sides are mad at us!”

so to be clear, Microsoft is using a tool it's embedded into its operating system and many (all?) of its softwares to promote conversion therapy against trans kids, disguised to fool their parents into thinking it isn't purely anti-transition

Good liberals really need to learn to stiffen our upper lip when someone mentions "liberals" acting bad. If it's not about you, it's not about you. We make more friends just by speaking to the substantive issue. Left liberal fighting wine moms do indeed enjoy the mandate of Heaven.

Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com: Susie Barnshaw, a junior at a high school in Queens, is a bitch with a fat ass. Though this is not normally within the scope of our paper’s focus we realized that we were about to be scooped by @LolBigDickBoiii69420 on Twitter.

"The fact that this story engendered all the conversation and debate that it has feels like all the evidence you need that this was a legit line of reporting” is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. People criticized your work, therefore it was good?

My friend has something to say

we're just a smol bean country that can't help our citizens is a wild message

the basic message of the republican party is “fuck you, you’re on your own.”

This thread is correct, but a lot of team politics type of people are in the comments completely misunderstanding it.

The more I think about the USAID cuts the more I understand John Brown. What can you do when your country carries out a monstrous crime on a Biblical scale and so many don't care because of who the victims are and so many of those who do care treat it as just another issue instead of the only issue?

The last sentence in Roko’s post there is WILD

That's the Roko from " 's Basilisk", for the record, if you're wondering what kinds of people are attracted the LessWrong/Yudkowsky cult

try to get the people you know to stop playing their games or using their cooking videos, it's all funding the fascism sadly

Josh identifies another lie that gets unquestioningly regurgitated …

Did you get Chris Rufo’s ok for this take?

“Release Mamdani’s admission records”? He didn’t get in! What Columbia policy could a random 17 year old have violated by ticking a box on a form