It's going to quickly start getting cold in Chicago, and no matter what the Texas guard people look like, I am willing to bet that they don't have the gear or the stamina for it.

If you’re calling Newsom about trans and gay bills you should also call about SB 79 bc passing that is going to help literally everyone

alright. the trans people in sports issue is clearly a nuanced and complicated debate, so i've collected my thoughts here in order to try and make some sense of this: 1. bro chill out 2. its a game 3. just let her play 4. have you SEEN trans sports dykes ??? 5. with muscles ???????

In the past week, I've had like four people tell me that they don't use social media because it's full of Nazis, so they prefer to put their thoughts on Substack.

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Can we throw this asshat in the garbage already?

2nd grade bsky going crazy off the officially Arthur(tm) branded juicy juice boxes

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

“If we view feminism as the struggle of gender-marginalized people for bodily autonomy, rather than just calling these things “women's issues,” then we make room for all trans people within feminism.”

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent. Will you? www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

hi, cis folks in california! this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out. he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841 want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

someone call the etsy witches this is a fucking emergency

I didn't realize that the the column where Bari Weiss cited a fake Antifa account was titled, "We're All Fascists Now"

I think people take for granted the ability to post freely on the internet. Our ability to do so is endangered. Social media isn't going away but the powers that be are hyper focused on making it an echo chamber

i don't think they should reopen the government. it's funny that they're already talking about figuring out how to pay the soldiery. your majesty the mercenaries are beginning to grumble about their wages but im sure it will be fine

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

erin is back, which is good, and I do think the “this was a mod error based off people brigading and reporting erin’s post in bad faith” explanation is likely correct but honestly at this point I don’t understand why there isn’t an extra layer of review for prominent accounts because of optics

we are entering an era of intense karenification on bluesky

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

NEW: Comey arraignment moved up to Wednesday at 10 am.

::sigh:: Every time I post anything critical of Newsom I have to block a bunch of people who snidely inform me that he "gets a pass" because his social media team manages some mid dunk posts and folks? Expect better than that from your elected officials. Look at the actual policies he supports.

"The fascists are getting more and more violent, so we must curtail our Constitutional rights and our efforts to oppose them", the Democratic Party story

Seriously? This is ridiculous

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

i do think that’s where a lot of the obvious resentment for the userbase comes from. 90% of us on here doesn’t really care about the primary reason why this place exists but use his place out of sheer convenience

it remains really funny that this site was spun up to be a crypto/rationalist platform and then old time weird twitter people and others started moving over here in spring 2023 and ever since management has been mad they're successful but not in the way they wanted

It’s even less responsible for a Republican president to be starting one.

another thought experiment: What is stopping Oregon or Illinois from commanding their state police to defend protestors and immigrants from illegally deployed military troops? What law, what norm, what boundary? How do you think Trump would respond?

Literally never ends. Qualified immunity is a disaster.

hey bluesky if you need a ceo who isn't kinda terrible but don't want to deal with changing the account name, i'm currently looking for work

Bluesky staff seems to be in a competition with themselves for losing all good will and imploding their site. Im sure banning and attacking every marginalized person who points out issue will go so well. Not like the sites popularity was built by trans and black users or anything.

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

Every capitalist I've dealt with almost always mistake money for proof that they’ve done/said something meaningful when really they’re boring insecure people trying to fill the void with status. When that fails, they use their power to make others around them feel small so they can feel important.

if you believe this, you legitimately need to log off. libs of tiktok *goes on the news and shares peoples' real names.* i'm sorry that your feelings got hurt because you posted something tremendously stupid online. that is not equivalent to having needles mailed to your place of work

if jesse singal “hasn’t violated the terms of use,” but the goofy autistic space law nerd with the bad food opinions has, maybe your terms of service are bad.

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

The CEO of Bluesky is craven and evil. The only people that build these platforms are infected with the self-reproducing moral rot of capitalism. They have no sense of duty or stewardship. They see their monetary reward as a cleansing justification for their actions.

Why does Bruce Wayne not use his vast wealth and resources to build some sort of superhero persona and tackle crime directly, akin to that Batman fella?

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

racism in the trans community is extremely real and extremely dangerous. unfortunately, a lot of white trans people haven't done the work to be anti-racist and don't notice how they mistreat and dehumanize Black and brown trans women. you gotta put the work in. bring POC into your social circles.

Another Black man was found hanging in the woods and they’re calling it a suicide. At this point, we’re all gonna have to post that we’re mentally sound and would NEVER hang ourselves from trees. His name is JAYVON GIVAN.

Suspending Link after he pointed out the how following Jonathan Chait after being accused of transphobia does not allow you to beat the transphobia allegations. In fact, it does the opposite. To be clear: suspending Link was certainly a choice. And we know what KIND of choice it is.

"I sacrificed any part of myself that didn't matter to capitalism and I don't know how to get it back so I've convinced myself that this is normal and fine. And I need you to think it's fine, too, or you might remind me of what I've missed out on in my one and only life."

Biden was also vocally opposed to desegregation back in the day. Our country has a deep rot in its soul.

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Perfect for this most haunted season Come And See

Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.