Either we have autonomy over our own bodies or we are not full citizens. Full stop.

also, if I’m not mistaken, the FCC chair just affirmed his plan to end free speech in America in a reply to the guy who played the wheelchair kid on Glee

Hate to get all partisan, but it should be legal to mock the president.

you need to be mean and uncouth and callous and unrepentant because there is a rapidly intensifying hunt to suppress and punish wrongthink and the more people who are on some shit, the less harm that hunt can cause. “i am spartacus” but for being an asshole.

Democracy, more than anything is a practice. I always think that the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because from the Civil War black Americans built institutions: universities, fraternities and sororities, churches, that engaged them in democratic practice.

People want everything to be a binary between dooming and “we’re so back” but I’ll just say this is both a really troubling attack on press freedom and an open admission that your regime is fragile enough to feel threatened by Jimmy fucking Kimmel

this one right here. it's hard to see anything as a turning point, honestly, since there have already been so many "this should be a turning point" moments.

I ignored the murder of Melissa Hortman. Here’s why I’ll be talking about the murder of Charlie Kirk all day today. by most liberal pundits

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

I will say that it is CONVENIENT that all these Dem politicians are giving us written statements explicitly stating their respect for a Nazi who has said explicit Nazi things. If we ever get to the other side of this regime, it will be nice to have these voluntary confessions in hand

Sometimes I'll be like "omg | relate so hard to ALL of these memes" then see they're from some account named like “memes for aging nostalgia obsessed existentially fragile depressives with bad posture” and be like oh

you cannot be disparaged by your own words... people cannot attack you with your own ideas if ones words are repeated and they are viewed unfavorably that is not a reflection of the one who repeats it is a reflection of the author

An instantly-leaked internal bulletin at the politicized federal law enforcement agencies just so happens to say what the Trump admin and its allies want it to say. This is how it works in authoritarian regimes, the cops are too busy with propaganda and repression to actually solve crimes.

They have never, ever expressed anything close to this level of pain and sympathy for school shooting victims.

In honor of Charlie Kirk, I, Gavin Newsom, will behave even worse toward the trans community

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

The Times is very misinformed. There is no evidence that the virus has evolved to be less dangerous. Herd immunity to SARS-CoV-2 has not been achieved. The immunity that exists is due to both natural infection and vaccination, but is short-lived and will decline with reduced vaccine availability.

My brother if you are worried about Michigan Ohio violence I suggest you do not watch the buckeyes play the wolverines

Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.

You are part of an elite group www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/w...

Even in the darkest of times, people laugh, create art, are silly, and bring pleasure to themselves and others. Reject the urge to shit on people's good time. You don't like football or Swift, or even what she represents? Fine. Move along. We are allowed & MUST have fun.

Library Vote After a heated race marked by legal disputes, lawn signs, and fervent online discourse, voters cleared the way for an expansive new downtown library. Read the full story here annarborobserver.com/library-vote...

Libraries are nice because sometimes we just need to go somewhere organized, but preferably not someone’s home so we don’t have to feel like giant disaster people for not having it all together like they do

It shouldn't be up to American children to save each other from getting shot. It's the job of American adults to stop shootings from happening in the first place. Ban assault weapons again now.

someone please remix trump's national guard guys picking up trash in dc with the "bad boys" soundtrack

I would like many more leftists to seek appointments to library, school, water and other community boards. Take the steps. Do it. Stop pontificating.

Maybe I’m not overthinking, maybe I’m just regular thinking about stuff that shouldn’t be happening

University of Michigan Hospital are spineless cowards willing to comply in advance at the expense of trans children's health and well-being. Nothing but shame to all who refuse to defend trans youths access to life-saving care. Reminder HRT saves lives limits on HRT cost cost them.

a huge point that decorum-obsessed Democrats are missing is that everyone I know is literally boiling with rage 24/7 watching their country fall to fascism and desperately want to hear a politician acknowledge that and say "I am also angry"

Good.

The betrayal UM is committing goes beyond Michigan's borders. They should he ashamed. #protecttranskids

This is sick freak shit to say and it's alright to point that out

I salute her. More people should be following her lead, rather than caving to unmerited and/or unconstitutional power grabs.

The whole “protect the children” stuff makes a lot more sense when you realize that they treat their children like their possessions, so it’s less “let our children live their best lives” and more “don’t mess with my long term investment”

One of the things I hate about the Dems who are going anti-trans is that it leans in to the models built by the conservatives about how to win voters, and we are fools if we play by their game.

They don't want to win

I feel like someone should be talking about this with a lot more volume and frequency.

If I was this bad at my job, pretty sure I’d get fired.

"Donald Trump is rounding up Democrats and executing them on the East Lawn. But this is just a distraction from egg prices. Don't be fooled." - Hakeem Jeffries, soon

National Weather Service meteorologist applicants are now being asked to pledge their support for Trump’s executive orders. (Image reposted with alt-text)

I’m getting real tired of cowards

Michigan Medicine is planning to halt all gender affirming care for those 18 years and younger (yes, including 18 year old adults). A cowardly betrayal of its patients, inconsistent with UM’s mission, and a clear violation of the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act.

UMich complying in advance once again.

thank you @jentalley.bsky.social for my excellent new t-shirt, I love it!! 🏴‍☠️🐈🥹

You for some reason hate public transit and would never take it? Ok, but what if our taxes made it high quality, leading to more people abandoning their cars and utilizing it, freeing up the open road for you to more easily commute by car? Yeah, it's that simple.

everyone loves to point out distractions till it's time to opine on a logo change for some restaurant most of them will never visit

i think people need a refresher on what constitutes a Distraction. the cracker barrel logo thing (zero stakes, obviously invented controversy) is a Distraction. the ongoing military occupation of washington dc (ample footage of random delivery drivers being violently detained by feds) is not

i need politicians to be as mad at housing prices as they are about cracker barrel's new logo