Preach it

Reaping the whirlwind

Let me guess: Schumer and Jeffries find this to be quite distressing and hope the Supremes will do better next time?

I suppose they'll crawl to him on their knees begging

This is insane. Instead of reaching for help, many will just go straight to the next step.

Like I always say, history isn't kind to quislings. She is learning that the people she's collaborating with aren't either.

As always, Star Wars speaks to real life very cogently. And yes, Star Wars has ALWAYS been political . . .

Bruh

Rate cut because new housing starts and building permits fell more than expected, which is actually a really bad sign, but the stock market, as usual, is detached from reality and the DJIA is up, and sooner or later all the bad economic data is gonna catch up and watch out . . .

I'd argue that most people don't read. I mean, the average reading level is 5th grade, and the median is four - and believe me, there are a lot that never touch a book. So they've learned very little because they haven't learned anything.

So that's why the Steelers lost.

My employer fired someone for refusing to make a Chas Kirrk poster. And made sure to publicize it nationwide. Terrific. Great. Nice to know they have the backs of their trans employees. Except not. I hate it here.

Where I work something like 85% of our products come from China, and maybe 10% from Canada. People are shocked when they complain about prices and I remind them it's because of tariffs - they really think tariffs are supposed to save them money

Not. a. Trans. person.

The world has become a lot less safe in the last 7 months. This is what happens when a leader claims to be strong, but really isn't. The sharks start circling.

Sabrina has been a fave in our house (thanks to my son) since her Girl Meets World days!

Alexiana knows her stuff! You should check this out!

I mean . . . I transitioned late 40s. And the after pic is two years old and I look, if I dare say so myself, even better now!

THAT-- THAT MIGHT BE ENOUGH TO GET US THROUGH THE NIGHT.

A whole lot of bad shit is coming our way. But you can either stand up and fight now, while it's small and unsteady, or you can cower in the dark until they kill whatever shell you've become after the essential you died. STAND THE FUCK UP. YOU'LL STILL BE SCARED BUT WE'LL BE SCARED TOGETHER. And

passively helping them. My cynicism about people has largely been a put on. SOME people were irritating. But God damn if there aren't a LOT of chickenshits out there who know what the right thing to do is, but they refuse to do it, because they're afraid. Hell, I'M AFRAID. I'M FUCKING TERRIFIED.

Please do this as well, @governor.pa.gov.

At some point it is my hope that a National Guard unit will refuse to follow an unconstitutional order.

Right there with you

I really need cis people to imagine what its like to have your existence debated by every politician, jackass man with a mic, sometimes your own family members, people who are no longer your friend and random people you encounter. Imagine how that feels after years and years.

As a person in seminary, who is going on for a doctorate in theology, I wrestle with this question, too. But I like this unattributed quote's take on it: "Pray as if everything depended on God, but work as if everything depended on you."

CC @dan-shaffer.bsky.social

I made it about three chapters into a Joe Abercrombie book and quit. I'm tired of anti-heroes. Kids shouldn't grow up wanting to be them. Give them flawed good guys to root for.

It won't. We don't even understand how a human brain works, how are we going to build one that will surpass it? And that's not even mentioning the biases programmed in inadvertently or deliberately.

It was never about merit. And we all know that. It's about power, and by white, cis-het men. No one else need apply. This is the future conservatives and evangelicals want. And "The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!" And then we push back.

The damage he did lives on, though. May his memory be erased from the earth.

I don't ever want to hear "But it's my childhood!" or "I separate the art from the artist" ever again. If you pay money for any of her crap - HP, Fantastics Beasts, her fiction novels - you are supporting her and condemining us, no matter how you try to spin it.

Seriously. Where did people get the idea that we're not in fear for our lives every day? That we don't face persecution and discrimination? Seriously, are they blind?

This whole thread.

Protect Trans Kids is missing on this sign . . . .

Really starting to worry that my PhD isn't going to happen.

Trans people tried to tell you. We knew it was coming. We knew they wouldn't stop with us. abcnews.go.com/Politics/sup...

And yet, somehow, the stock market is going UP this morning. The willful denial of the investors is mind-boggling.

This happened during Desert Storm, too.

bell hooks, @wilgafney.bsky.social , and other Black women were formative to my thinking, and so I agree with @prisonculture.bsky.social - Folx should actually read and STUDY Black women intellectual's work AND take it seriously.

Few people actually read and STUDY Black women intellectual's work or take it seriously. I believe if they did, their work would be much better. The conversations about love, relationships, ABUNDANCE etc... are all theorized in Black feminist scholarship.

I was laid off from my job as a front end web developer a year and a half ago. I have spent the last 12 months working at a minimum wage job. Yes, things are bad out there.

The biggest problem, that is hard to overcome, is that the damage is being done by people who insist that their spiritual interpretation is the One Absolute Truth (tm) and all other expressions are unfortunately conflated with that and met with suspicion.

WTAF? I was bullied and called slurs, laughed at, and treated as a pariah, and somehow I was socialized as a cis-het male? When I knew at puberty I wasn't? When I had to TRY to act macho just to convince people I wasn't feminine? When I felt distinctly uncomfortable handing out with guys? WTAF?

This is insane.

And Madison ("Memorial and Remonstrance against Religion") and Jefferson ("A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom") and more! The founding fathers did NOT establish a Christian nation!

Clearly techbro has never watched The Terminator

Yes, any post I do on my faith inevitably gets trolls. I hate it. I mean, the other site I got conservative Christians and GOPpers. Here it's people who are supposedly leftists on the same side as me.

The guy who took advantage of a white house intern - @monicalewinsky.bsky.social ?? Surely not 🙄 Anyone who would be surprised hasn't paid attention to history.

Yes. Although usually the 'good men' are just 'one of the boys' out of sight of women. Yes, not all men, but I have been a witness in the past, after all