my partner and i were there yesterday before things got bad. we got on the train just as they started pulling up the barricades. The police presence was ridiculous. Entire rows of cops sitting on their phones on their squad bikes. Just a total waste of resources and dangerous by PPD.

Columbia Heights, MN city council just voted to CANCEL THEIR FLOCK CONTRACT!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

“parental rights” is a dogshit concept. frankly that is a far greater danger to children than fucking healthcare is. like wdym a religious family can deny a teenager from getting blood transfusions or chemo on religious grounds even tho that teen is perfectly able to consent to those procedures?

bottom surgery for trans teens is an easy thing to fearmonger about but it’s also easy to push back on rhetorically. “no one is doing SRS on teens!” is a weak argument that is also not true and throws trans kids under the bus. “teens can consent to life saving healthcare, dipshit.” is true

I’m still thinking about how @katmabu.bsky.social’s leadership on the issue got the other IL-09 candidates out to Broadview, and even though she didn’t win the primary, the guy who did has now seen the horrors firsthand

was thinking this morning that how emerging leaders respond to the struggle at Delaney Hall should be understood as more consequential for progressive politics than fandoms constructed around symbolic working class white men

“What they're not saying is that ALPRs are also frequently used for extremely low-level investigations, such as verifying whether a student lives within a particular school zone…police have even used this tech to conduct employment background checks and investigations into loud music complaints.”

An EFF analysis reveals a troubling pattern of mission creep with ALPRs. Without a warrant requirement, law enforcement agencies are shifting from using the technology for specific criminal investigations to using these surveillance networks for minor personal whims. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

just listen to yourselves. “we must spread lies about trans kids to win against the most unpopular president in literal history.” it’s shameful

I think conspiracy may be a bad frame for right wing election denial because what they’re really expressing is a belief in is the idea that non-white people shouldn’t be able to vote.

If you’re still talking about the “Kamala is for they/them” ad like an automatic electoral killshot even though Winsome Earle-Sears ran the same damn ad and was reduced to a smoking crater I’m gonna make some assumptions about why you’re so eager to triangulate on the issue

i don’t think it matters whether this gains him votes or not. it’s bullying really vulnerable children and their families, and it’s morally reprehensible.

Playing on their turf never ever wins, not morally, not politically. Here's a response: "this is a wedge issue targeting kids, getting into their doctors' decisions. Next, they'll come for your hysterectomy, your vasectomy. And it's because they can't talk about the economy." Say Fuck You back

its wild to me that the democrats have been so thoroughly outplayed by republicans given their muscular messaging like "hillary tried to warn you about donald trump" and "kamala tried to warn you about donald trump" - must be something wrong with the voters because the message is so on point

Delay comes week after massive public pushback to city’s proposed data center ordinance www.thegazette.com/news/local/p...

i am not going to pretend that this is ok. sorry

honestly one of the most demoralizing things about the nytimes anti-trans crusade is seeing just how many cis liberals are ready to jump on board with “trans people are recruiting kids!!” hatemongering as long as its dressed up in I’m Just Concerned language

Instructive of how sensitive to criticism some people are of "their guys" that a trans journalist saying something just plainly true, which is not even really directly about Talarico, gets some people mad at the journalist.

its hard to overstate how absurd how it is that every dipshit white guy now has a political opinion on how, when, and whether me and people like me should be legally allowed to receive healthcare

thanking god my favorite sport is in its interminably long, boring, and meaningless regular season for another 3 and a half months

Talarico saying he's against "gender reassignment surgery for minors" to lots of nodding and impressed gestures from the Barro/Yglesias crowd and a lot of the politics press is, I think, a great example of how much the well has been poisoned on trans healthcare

it’s known that franken lost his election bc when muhlbauer dropped out of the primary he didn’t give him the ten-gallon hat of surefire victory

Excellent. www.fox9.com/news/columbi...

I’m sorry but it is *cowardly* not to call what Israel is doing to Palestine a Holocaust. That’s what it is! It’s naked, it’s public, it’s open, every Israeli official is saying Hitlerite shit on TV every day. The settlers themselves riot to rape prisoners. Come on now.

God, this is a chapter in the next book and not something easy to distill into a short message: but one of the reasons why overt transphobia seems on the rise in British elites is because the world changed enough that their passive transphobia was no longer the norm, and that was unbearable.

The Columbia Heights City Council is poised to removed all of its city-owned Flock cameras following a townhall last month on the license plate reading cameras.

a glaring omission from much of the convo about the Delaney Hall labor and hunger strike imo is the fact that *these people shouldn't be laboring in the first place* this is slavery, & even the 13th Amendment's 'punishment for a crime' exception doesn't apply! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

these are getting weird

I have still not seen any tangiable evidence that St. Paul rent stabilization hurt permits. Year over year permits began declining before the ballot initiative was even annoucned

People who claimed Elon Musk didn't throw a Sieg Heil and people claiming Platner didn't know his Nazi tattoo was a Nazi thing are all huffing the same farts

i have been patiently waiting in my chair by the window with my book and blanket for an hour and the rain refuses to start

they all hate us

bad as things are i’m still not nostalgic for 2017 yet thanks

People think these centrist men are the future of the Democrats and here they are platforming one of the most prolific trans eliminationists in the world.

Difficult really, to think of a single, more disgusting act a journalist can commit than lying to the public to justify someone being murdered by their government for activism. But this is who these people always were.

i am being smeared as a sexist for simply using a too obvious euphemism for "bitch" and like... it's called being a populist? you really think regular working joes have access to the plausibly deniable stuff??

Speaking of Bari Weiss, she put a target on the back of the poet and professor Refaat Alareer in Gaza and he was assassinated by the IDF less than two months later. He, his brother, his sister, and four of his nephews were killed in a surgical strike.

You sound like my mom, but I have just enough self-awareness to know how pathetic that sounds so I'll do this HR thing instead.

when they bitch about the HR lady it’s only because they think that’s some kind of marxist synthesis of ‘mommy’ and ‘boss’

A smart woman would have recognized that Pelley was already proactively steering in her direction rather than demanding total obedience, but "smart" is not an allegation that's ever stuck to Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss tried to get “60 Minutes” to make Minneapolis protestors look more violent, AFTER the Feds killed two of us. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m... (Gift link)

Have a pity for Matt Stoller, smeared as a sexist for expressing populist views, just for needing to specify things like "lady politics" and a "feminized lens"

For the record “we tried to make the protesters murdered by the state paramilitary look like they deserved it” is exactly how you get to “but they fired us for not being pro-government enough anyway”

the working class is made up of a lot more women than abusive men you are the ones imposing on us

treat 50% of the population as people, they also vote vs mouthy bitches make my dick sad

"smoothgroin" "HR dem lady politics" ah my mistake i thought we were trying to get single payer healthcare

It would be another two years before women could apply for a credit card in their own names

So many people focused on Bari Weiss asking to make protesters look more violent and glossing over Pelley admitting they’d already dug deep for the most violent protester footage they could find. His interview is more of an indictment of corporate media than many want to admit.

this makes me so fucking angry but you know what, pelley and weiss fucking lost. basically no one bought that bullshit, people across the country and the world stood with us. the lies about renee and alex didn’t stick. they definitively lost this round. fuck them.

(james earl jones voice) this... is... @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social