Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

Going on day 3 of school cancellation and sub zero windchill 🙃

By describing a fetus as a person from conception, Trump has legitimized fetal personhood. The legal language employed by fetal personhood also effectively categorizes any person receiving an abortion at any stage as a murderer.

Girl, I love this for you—but why did you have to use Decimal?? 😭

To all the TERFs floating around the abortion rights movement who don’t see how our fight for bodily autonomy is intertwined with that of the trans community: 🖕

Minutes ago, the Trump admin revoked the sensitive locations policy that prevented ICE from carrying out enforcement arrests inside churches, hospitals, and schools.

👏👏👏 It’s refreshing to see this courage after silence and capitulation from the majority of our Dem electeds. If you can’t use your platform, however briefly you may have it, to stand up to fascism and speak truth to power, you don’t deserve it.

I’m so serious about this. Do not increase your time on meta platforms. In fact, over the next 48 hours, give your attention to somewhere else. Don’t reward Zuckerberg for this. 1/

Michigan folks: our Democratic senators, Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin, intend to vote with Republicans for the “Laken Riley Act”—legislation that would do absolutely nothing to address the immigration crisis but would eliminate the right to due process for undocumented people. /1

9 yo: is it illegal to spray paint on buildings? dad: well, yes…unless you’re an artist hired to create art 9 yo: but I thought you said everything is art?? dad: well… yeah… 9 yo: BOOM! roasted!

I know it's a lot to ask of Dem House members but can we promote the young member who talks good and people like? As cool as it is to always replace people with people just like the people they replaced so nothing ever changes, I'd like to win elections and get stuff done at some point.

The historic day when all the nation’s gay men and straight women cried out in unison: I can fix him

I stg if the Dems do not embrace single-payer before the next election …

Every conservative columnist right now.

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One thing about parenthood that you’re never prepared for is this mfer taking over your Spotify Wrapped 🫠

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It is really quite something to hear Justice Alito talk about leaving decisions to people and their doctors and how bereft of expertise the court is.

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Excellent list of meaningful work you can do in your own community now and in the years ahead 👇

Giving Tuesday is tomorrow and there are a lot of questionable orgs out there asking for your money. Please give to folks like @abortionfunds.bsky.social and @abortionsquad.bsky.social who have been doing the work of actually connecting patients with care and resources for years

I don’t give a shit about Hunter or precedent (honestly, consider the times in which we live and this is laughable) but there are far more deserving people who should be pardoned but sadly won’t

Some people still believe precedent will mean something in the smash and grab circus era of politics we’re about to enter. That’s just fucking adorable.

cool, now do everyone who’s in prison for weed or voting or abortion or being poor next

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Wait til people hear that religiously-affiliated hospitals have been putting the lives of repro healthcare patients at risk long before Dobbs was even a twinkle in Alito’s eye.

Since when are deviled eggs a Thanksgiving food? My husband has apparently fallen down the deviled egg tok worm hole and as a result just finished making a batch at midnight. I guess being radicalized on eggs isn’t as bad as other things but what the hell

Wait til people hear that religiously-affiliated hospitals have been putting the lives of repro healthcare patients at risk long before Dobbs was even a twinkle in Alito’s eye.

This is why I'm on a personal mission to abolish the focus group. PO research is useful but it's one leg of a table, and if you let your messaging be guided by what makes the most people in a focus group smile you'll quickly find yourself saying and believing in nothing at all.

+1 in my book. Plus noticeable lack of white supremacists and weird vaseline ads. All around pleasant experience so far 👍

i will never enforce or respect a bathroom ban because i simply do not care about legality over morality. you can put w/e you want in your evil little law book and i'm still going to tell you to fuck off, accompany ALL my women friends to the bathroom and if you try to stop us i'll kick your ass

Excellent list of meaningful work you can do in your own community now and in the years ahead 👇

Rosa Parks wasn’t just advocating for her right to sit where she wanted on the bus just as McBride isn’t just forgoing her right to use the bathroom that matches her gender.

Come tf on. This is just embarrassing

This would be great, but will we get movement on it in the house? I have my doubts

I really don't get how Democrats can be handed the easy layup of "Republicans are uniting to suppress the underage sex trafficking report about an unliked and unqualified nominee" and decide the best thing to do is minimize its importance.

I’ll never understand why trans people became an immediate scapegoat for centrists following the election but miss me with this shit

Governor Andy Beshear, in a Trump +30 state, gives advice to Democrats: Do not throw LGBTQ+ people under the bus, it will not work. His advice to dems: Lead on your values. This man ran on a fully inclusive campaign in 2023 and won. He received the same kind of ads Harris did.

leak the fucking report, you all have 473 reporters on speed dial, stop playing by rules nobody cares about and embarrass these people by any means necessary