Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.

But as one Minneapolitan friend pointed out, the real sinister thing that ICE does is use these places as traps. It's unsafe for people to travel from their homes to these places because of the kidnappers. If you don't address this, nothing meaningful changes. As lawmakers you accomplished nothing.

Let me say something very directly. We are objectively in a fascist authoritarian moment here in this country. Academics and historians have established indicators for this. We are well over the line on many of them.

Gavin Newsom has never had a homeless, a working unhoused, or an affordable housing advocate on his podcast despite governing California. So yeah I think it’s weird that he’s entertained & platformed multiple fascists while grinning, nodding & relenting to their easily defeatable talking points.

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->

Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), Dick Durbin (IL), John Fetterman (PA), Ruben Gallego (AZ), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Maggie Hassan (NH), Martin Heinrich (NM), John Hickenlooper (CO), Mazie Hirono (HI), Tim Kaine (VA), Mark Kelly (AZ), Angus King (I-ME), Amy Klobuchar (MN), Ben Ray Lujan (NM), ->

Jon Ossoff (GA), Gary Peters (MI), Jack Reed (RI), Jacky Rosen (NV), Chuck Schumer (NY), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Elissa Slotkin (MI), Mark Warner (VA), Raphael Warnock (GA), & Sheldon Whitehouse (RI).

Also, 4 Republicans voted nay (Cruz, Lee, Moran, and Paul) & 3 didn't vote (Daines, Hawley, & Moody). Meaning this bill absolutely could not have passed this stage without the support of the Democrats.

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Every story quoting Trump saying this is to "rescue our nation’s capital from crime" needs to note that violent crime in D.C. is down 26%, murders are down 12%, juvenile arrests are down 20%, and ask who will get hurt from a domestic military deployment and what this "crackdown" is really about

Maybe we’d win a game with five all stars….. #storm

Turns out some nepo babies ARE just the dumbest fucking people

The other Cuomo-ish thing about Harrell is how none of his supporters can make a convincing case for him on the merits. The Seattle Times endorsement doesn't say a single positive thing about him except that he might magically get better in a second term. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/edit...

Library books are used and returned for the next reader, making them a sustainable resource for environmentally conscious bibliophiles.

A thing that makes that Times story especially odious is that Zohran Mamdani's father was LITERALLY expelled from Uganda during Idi Amin's fascist effort to scapegoat Asian Ugandans as not really African www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The problem here isn't just the answer but the question. Mamdani has denounced antisemitism and clarified his position on this random slogan *other people* chanted at a protest numerous times. This is only a "tough question" if you think it's your job to repeat bad faith Republican attacks.

I'm not a "state ownership will solve everything" guy but it's not all that radical to have municipal or state bodies run businesses. If capitalistic enterprises are so much better at everything, then they shouldn't mind a lil government competition.

It's pretty telling that the second part of the "Mamdani is a danger to Jewish new yorkers" pitch is always "so vote for sexual harasser shitbag Italian Catholic Andrew Cuomo" and not "so vote for Jewish Progressive Brad Lander"

Do not give this woman a dime of your money. 1. Do not watch the new show. 2. Do not stream any of the movies (yes, that includes Fantastic Beasts) 3. Do not buy any of her books. She has a pen name Robert Galbraith. www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...

Worth noting that this is also what the UK government review found, it just ignored all the evidence in its conclusions.

If you're only following this "debate" through popular media you probably have the impression that studies on youth gender medicine are roughly split between benefits and harms. Nope! Nearly every study finds benefits. The "debate" is just a bunch of people going, "Those don't count."

Hali tonight: youtu.be/Ogqv6CtBfbE

as someone pointed out in an earlier thread, it's wild that Thomas Friedman wants to use driverless taxis, given how often the commonsensical wisdom of allegedly real taxi drivers shows up in his columns

Big news if true

It’s one bank account, Mark, how much could it cost?

"Jews exiting antisemitism conference over Israel's invite of fascist antisemite politicians bc eff that noise." "Lord John Mann, UK adviser on antisemitism, David Hirsh, an activist against antisemism, Bernard-Henri Levy & Germany’s antisemitism czar, Felix Klein, also said they would not attend."

this is a golden age for walking out of your lab with a USB key in your pocket getting on a plane and going to Luxembourg

Between this and the Columbia stuff I hope everyone understands that when you compromise with fascists the result is the same. The only difference in the end is, they got you to contribute to the project of your own annihilation

Teslas will have more protection than trans people and legal immigrants.

Wish I were one of Elon's kids so I'd never see him again

Follow Meg! They’re the best.

There are multiple traffic lights out in NoHo and nobody has shown up to direct traffic while these dorks are out cosplaying like Frank Castle

I guess it’s something Iike “tolerating trans and queer people is decadence, and decadence is luxury, and therefore tolerating trans people is the same thing as eating caviar and collecting designer handbags.” This is of course wildly bullshit

Andy Beshear was re-elected in *checks notes* FUCKING KENTUCKY by sticking up for trans kids.

Dems going after trans people this week should be ashamed of themselves. A response to Reps. Moulton, Rep. Suozzi, and Yglesias. www.lawdork.com/p/dems-post-...

“The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with its fighting man that is second to none, and with its standard of living that is the highest in the world, will last as long as ... the frog?"