here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

Good back-to-back post combo.

I love how almost all of this boils down to "But what if healthcare in the US becomes like healthcare in the US?" And the rest is just "I don't want to pay taxes."

During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind

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"The widespread belief that NPR lesbians and trans women in sports were a greater hazard than Nazis and extremist Christians was the most catastrophic failure of conventional wisdom in my lifetime."

i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life

we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying

Ok but think of how much turkey you could fit in this baby

“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence

Every time I watch one of these right wing guys I am struck by how they look like they would bleed to death if you flicked them on the forehead. I'm surprised this guy hasn't been awarded a Purple Heart for the oxygen deprivation he surely suffered having his head shoved in a toilet so much as a kid

It's really sounding like Mamdani's got this election in the ba- wait... what's that?! IT'S JEB BUSH WITH A STEEL CHAIR!!

20 cornbreads

Undocumented immigrants don't get SNAP benefits. Thet should, though, if they need it. Making people starve to death is fucking evil. Going across an imaginary line is not.

In short, this isn't a lawsuit, it's robbing the treasury. If literally any marginalized person tried this, they'd be laughed out of court along with a show cause order.

People imagine picking up and finding *something better* is an easy solution. But how is that supposed to work, when all your time and energy goes to staying alive? You have almost nothing to set aside to actually fight your way out.

It's always amazing how the same people who think subjecting children to intensive conversion abuse will successfully make a gay kid straight are the same people who think simply hearing about two men holding hands will make a straight kid gay.

“We are home now. We marched from the park to ICE, very peaceful crowd. We were standing around ICE pushed us down, sprayed us with chemical and I was hit in the head with a projectile. This was so unprovoked. People have to know that the Feds are attacking people with NO provocation whatsoever.”

A "libertarian" is just an authoritarian who hasn't gotten hold of the keys yet.

Gov. JB Pritzker: "Regardless of immigration status, you have rights. My administration is working to protect every Chicago resident from federal intimidation, but we are better prepared when we know how to protect ourselves and protect our neighbors." Learn more at Chicago.gov/Protect

A new complaint from ACLU and other human rights groups details how the warden at a Lousiana ICE facility created an unofficial “work program” of manual labor and sexual humiliation for trans men at the facility. This is very hard to read. rfkhumanrights.org/wp-content/u...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

i swear there is a generalized version of Riley's Law, the informal internet observation of social media behavior that "once you start posting transphobia you never go back to posting normal again"

Jesus wept: professional philosophers signed off on a basic logical error a high schooler would spot: “Let us begin by assuming our conclusion as a premise”

This is really really not good.

If Newsom's platform is that I suffer, then I will withhold my vote. If enough of us do it in close states, Rs will win the election and we all will suffer together. So we can all suffer together, or you can recognize that I'm a human being and start acting like it, and I'll help you win.

Trolling is funny and helpful when all someone has is a platform. When there’s access to real, tangible, direct action, trolling is just performative. Newsom is not a comedian or entertainer, he’s a governor.

This is a poorly framed question. Lots of conservatives would cut off a family member for being LGBT, for example, but that doesn’t clock as a ‘political view’ to them. Also, the narrative that leftists cut off their conservative family members too easily is extremely widespread on the right.

Please, someone. Anyone. Make today a national holiday.

I think I made things like this when I was 19 and didn't know how to cook and too poor to afford real food. This makes Taco Bell look fancy.

This is such a homeopathy ass take

headline: "democrats lost voters on transgender rights." the article:

I was adopted via closed adoption, born in North Carolina. It was closed so I have no knowledge of or access to my biological mother’s details. It also means my biological mother isn’t on my birth certificate. So if birthright citizenship becomes a patchwork right, what’s someone like me to do?

hey remember when a rich ceo died then when they caught the suspect they made a circus of it like they found osama bin laden and charged him with terrorism but less than weeks ago two democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot as literal assassination to shift control and everyone already forgot

Iran cannot simultaneously be a paper tiger incapable of posing a threat to us (and therefore meaning there's no possibility of war if we bomb them) and a threat so imminent it justifies us bombing them. It's one or the other.

at least toby keith is dead this time

transition care for trans people is life saving healthcare. the only regret with my transition is that i didn’t start when i was younger. fuck everyone who is cheering on the destruction legal trans healthcare, and fuck those indifferent to it

I don't know if this is an unpopular opinion or not, but could we maybe not do the whole "Trump Always Chickens Out" thing? Goading the worst people in the world seems like a phenomenally dumb thing to do. They don't need extra incentive to be evil and other people will feel the fury first.

❌ the developer hates me specifically ✅ the content wasn't made for me specifically

Remembering trans man Albert Cashier for Pride, Union soldier during the civil war, was captured, marched a thousand miles without them figuring out his assigned sex at birth, escaped, and went right back to fighting them. Lived the rest of his life as a man. We have always been here.

Bluesky's character count literally isn't long enough for how astonishing and out-of-pocket this woman was, lol. Like, there wasn't even room to add the bit about her being a master fencer who would humble your ass in duels for misgendering her

just so you know: if you see a chart about conservative/ Republican vaccine rejection going around and your response is to say "good" or invoke Darwin or whatever eugenicist bullshit, you are a piece-of-shit ghoul, you are literally the problem, and you don't know what side you are on

I want every gay person that doesn't realize that transgender rights and gay rights are interconnected to read this story. A far-right judge just erased your rights against harassment in the workplace along with ours. We are in this together and there's only one way out.

This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.