Literally the Supreme Court upheld sodomy bans in 1986 and said homosexuality was worse than rape and nobody even talks about it

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Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

It’s important that cable and network news start bringing on leftists to talk about this moment. Their perspectives are infinitely more important than those of folks like David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart, who didn’t see this coming, fought it, and don’t understand it.

“We’re getting very close to meeting our objectives as we move toward winding down humanity’s presence on planet Earth,” Trump said during a press conference meant to address concerns over the world’s duration

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I vote for They Live.

Lookin’ good, Uncle Sam.

this AM the last Prairieland 9 defendant Ines Soto was sentenced to 50 years — so he and his partner, Liz Soto, got effectively life sentences. they have 3 kids. those who took non-cooperating plea deals, Rowan Gibson and Rebecca Morgan, got 15 each. total time sentenced in this case: 530 years

Microsoft this week: We're laying off half the industry. Sony: We're ending physical games. Nintendo: have u seen this splatoon weapon we call it the bloblobber

I think the number one impediment to a comprehensive peace agreement snd regional stability is the country that is occupying three other countries and arbitrarily killing tens of thousands of people

The idea that people genuinely believe in things, let alone the moral imperative of a genocide, and that these beliefs ought to mechanically translate into real and observable action is entirely foreign for a disturbingly large subset of American leadership. Like it is an alien form of life.

to be clear i meant this as a good thing -- every governor could pardon a raft of people right now to show how they oppose the violence of the carceral state. they could use it to protect people from deportation.

By "split" we mean more than 85% of the caucus voted for Tlaib's bill

really cool going from the 2010 World Cup, where Ghana’s little run seemed like a magical anomaly, to a bunch of African teams contending across the bracket and participating in the global pastime of causing fear and misery in England.

The discourse around yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling about girls’ athletics is a reminder that “transgender” is a label applied by fascists to anyone who does not fit the narrow roles prescribed by white patriarchal heterosexuality. It simultaneously discriminates on race, gender, sexuality, and class.

He just gets it

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What no one ever considers is: What if "investing in Red America" is just politically hopeless? Can we maybe, for once, invest in blue America instead?

the use of “performative” as an insult here is why these people are losing their primaries. yes, voters want you to perform their anger and disgust! they want representatives to represent their symbolic interests! the idea that good representation is necessarily quiet and unobtrusive is wrong!

I want to see a movement rise that actually puts the needs, dignity, and thriving of all human beings first—and you'll know if it does, because the media will treat it as "dangerous" in a way that it never managed for open white supremacist fascism led by an illiterate addled Nazi ragejunky.

Do this everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.

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Mamdani promised 0.5% of the total city expense budget would be allocated to our public libraries and he promised 1% would go to our public parks. The Adopted budget dropped today and libraries only got 0.43% ($91 million short of his promise). Parks only got 0.56% ($549.5 million short).

There is now set to be at least eight democratic socialists in Congress. Melat Kiros – alongside Claire Valdez, Darializa Avila Chevalier, Brad Lander, and Chris Rabb – will join Bernie Sanders, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

"Put your taser on my dick."

Idk these guys own a flooring company in Vegas but they look like they break legs on the side. They were ready to fight.

Obviously this is a dipshit opinion. But since I sometimes see people on the left rolling their eyes about those signs, I just want you all to know that the other night some lost Black teens came to our house after taking the wrong bus and we were able to get them home. Why’d they pick us? Signs.

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Maybe it’s based on a governors memo

This is solo project closed source app reliant on bitcoin and written with Claude. There’s no way to verify that it does what it says it does, and no reason to assume that it’s effective or secure. Absolutely do not use this.

Did a quick vpn test and confirmed BlueSky is age gating in Texas now for some reason

This is an accurate read, not a doomer view. Others in the party will be up to the challenge. Schumer and Jeffries are not.

LA City Council today also voted against a proposed ballot measure giving them control over the LAPD. Voters could've decided on the charter amendment giving council power to set LAPD policy and discipline. Currently, only the police commission can do so.

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And let's not forget Clarence Thomas is a sex pest.

I'm very glad Rep. Kean was able to take time off of work and get treatment for his depression. Rep. Kean also voted for the OBBB, which will kick Americans who need to take a month from work to seek mental health treatment off of Medicaid because they're "able-bodied adults".

What I would like is for various congresspeople to openly state we will go along with and honor ICC arrest warrants again people even from our own country, say.

They truly could not have picked a worse issue to radicalize me, a cis woman. Oh someone with longer legs than you won the long-leg-having game? Should we tell everyone? Should we throw a party? Should we invite my collection of field day participation ribbons?

im done with nuance. if u won't loudly love the trans women in your life like their life depends on it (bc it fucking DOES) then i don't want you in my life. there is no discussion. it's too late for "trans women are valid!" it has to be "i will fight for u as long as i live because i love you!"

Gender disphoria is only "mutable" in that it abates with gender-correcting hormones & surgery and is only "the object of psychiatric treatment" because the only way you can legally access the hormones & surgery is by getting the psychiatric diagnosis. Yes, we call that a Catch-22.

SYRACUSE IS SENDING A SOCIALIST TO STATE ASSEMBLY BY JUST OVER A HUNDRED VOTES I could run through a brick wall

Let me tell you, nobody cared about "biological advantages in sports" when I was a short, uncoordinated kid who got boobs early. Sports are fucking unfair. Nobody has the "right" to win. But everyone should have the right to play.

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