Oh look another place where this is true across the board. These people are strangling our future.

This exactly. It affirms the stereotype AND fails to strike back against the biggest fucking target

Sadly, this appears to be AI. There are some tells throughout (hands disappearing, the people in the background staring like collective zombies, some weird configurations on the walls) but overall, this looks pretty real -- it's getting harder to tell what's real and what's not. Which ain't great.

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So fucking proud of the participation trophy

Gavin Newsom is an absolute freak who is obsessed with trans girls and homeless people. If he wants normality in his life he should start by having the personal maturity of the median grocery store cashier

The list grows long

A future D Secretary of Defense - should one ever come - will need to suspend the clearance of every last person affiliated with a16z, 8VC, Founders, & Sequoia and pull clearances from every portfolio company pending comprehensive drug testing, financial review, & CI screening. It’s going to hurt.

Assigned's mentions for this post are flooded with people who want to jeer at Biden so may I just say: When a Democratic former president makes a point of standing up for trans rights in a situation where he is absolutely not required to do so, for God's sake, just take the W.

I wish higher ed in the US had a media outlet willing to stick up for it, but even the Chronicle seems to hate everyone who works in universities except the upper admin/trustees.

Having finished a book tracing US migration & citizenship from the colonial period to 1888, the lesson people are missing today from history is: 1) Without legal citizenship, all kinds of discrimination can be done to you & w/ no due process/equal protection. This is the very reason why the 14th 1/

Sarah Child Separator is not a serious person.

Trump cannot end birthright citizenship. The Roberts Court cannot decide otherwise.

This too. Also, why not say these people were all targets at the beginning of this narrative, rather than now? bsky.app/profile/stop...

If you knew they were all targets, why wait 40 minutes to kill the last two? It’s almost like they’re making it up as they go along.

"The court has been trying to revive congressional power with a constitutional defibrillator called the major questions doctrine." 🤣🤣🤣 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...

Disabled people do not owe you their medical history. They do not owe you their diagnosis. They do not owe you an explanation. Benefits are exceedingly hard to get and the process is punishing & dehumanizing. No one is doing it for fun.

Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.

okay folks, “government name” doesn’t mean “work for the government.” it is a slang term meaning “your full name”

never more tempted to abuse my platform than when someone sends me some insanely racist comment using their official, government name email address.

Yes yes, it’s terrible to lose an esteemed department focused on a critical area of study — but consider the earth sciences departments that Hillsdale, Liberty, and the University of Austin might now spin up.

He says the men they murdered are on a list. Let’s see the list. Let’s hear their names. Show us the evidence. If you have any. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.

For a country so in love with new technology it’s extraordinary they have so little grasp of cause and effect.

I’ve read almost $400 worth of library books this year. The library system is one of most transformative public resources we have.

My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.” Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?

ok cool let us know

When these people refer to “the Constitution” or “the Bible”, they are making reference to another text than the Constitution or Bible that actually exist, rather to some other image of a sheaf of rustling brown paper with vague black squiggles on it that exists only in their minds

One last time before we turn the lights off on the year, let’s all laugh at Bill Belichick and UNC

The Meowth is out of the bag. I am currently researching and writing my next book, 'Space Invaders' a queer history of videogames. Just like 'Queer As Folklore' this is a subject very very close to my heart. It's very bloody exciting. What a lucky sod! Thanks @manchesterup.bsky.social!

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Imagine the one real pop you get in an election is calling your opponents evil weirdos and instead of going all-in on that strategy you do the exact opposite and paint them as the normal ones. It wouldn't make sense! You would have to be an evil weirdo, too!

Nah but who the fuck is Gavin Newsom to tell me what is normal? He be fully chubbed up in tight ass wranglers tearing down homeless encampments with his bare hands

it is impossible to overstate the extent to which this country is now being run by people you would leave a party rather than talk to for five minutes

NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

University administrations when they are under fire.

News: After 5 months, UVA has finally produced billing records from its outside counsel (McGuireWoods LLP) related to DOJ investigations. UVA spent over $1.7 million through end of August! Link to the heavily redacted invoices here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ev8ke...

Anyone who knows this history should know there’s no contested issue.

We can seem this terrible take played out every day where Republicans are incredibly judgmental and not culturally normal. Shouldn’t they be more normal and less judgmental? Is he saying Dems need to be Rs? Outdo each other in the awful things they say? Why is he emphasizing the stereotype

Put it in the newspaper that I’m culturally normal! *Goes to French Laundry in the pandemic and shares a wife with Don Jr* Put in the newspaper that I’m culturally normal!

Bradley and Hegseth have broken basically every legislative and normative law available here.

Probably just as glaring: Trump has normalized ableist slurs. His use of the word "retarded" was not even a one-day story. (Though part of that is the right and many on the left have begun using that slur for a while now).

This doesn’t add up. If the drugs were not heading to America, how could the people on the boat be a threat to America? www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Gramps here, lecturing leftists who say the Dems can't change that in 56 it was aligned with Southern segregationists (who got the VP noms), but by 64 with MLK, because of successful social movement organizing. Take the party over, leftists. Else you're not actually involved in US politics.

The tell that this entire debate is bullshit is that if birthright citizenship were thrown out, the only possible fix to restore it would be to ratify an amendment with the exact language as the current 14th Amendment.

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

I don’t want to vote for a Democrat who promises to get Trump’s voters to vote for them. I want a Democrat who wants to put Trump in prison

"The Confederacy was a reactionary semi-feudal regime which sought to destroy the American republic and impose on it an outgrown economic system, Negro chattel slavery." There you go. One sentence. That was easy. From a book review in The Daily World, Dec. 1941.

Gavin Newsom is a Republican and supporting him for president means you are, too

blargh