mmmmm... forbidden president

I have a bomb

calling the bluff and banning all cars because yes many, many automobile fatalities are uncharged manslaughters

My funny origin story is my ex started to suspect that I was trans over my denials and became increasingly abusive. I recognized it as abuse and started to stand up to her, which ended the marriage. Then I had the space and courage (and nothing to lose) to accept that she was right, I'm trans. 🤦‍♀️

how long until someone in the Trump admin realizes that forcible regime change is likely much more doable to Israel than it is to Iran

You're scrolling Reels and see a beautiful woman revealing the true ingredients in processed food. Into a beaker she pours: corn. The beaker fills, then overflows. She pours on. The corn covers the table, spills onto the floor. She can't control the corn now. An avalanche of corn floods the studio

the reactionary centrists have found a home on the political compass

you could never make the late show with stephen colbert nowadays because of anti-woke

This is very important. The Knicks didn't win because of Mamdani. They won because I was rooting for the Spurs

the Lawrence, Kansas and Algeria subplot rn:

I also find the self defense arguments to be weak. Pulling a gun is an instant escalation to the highest of high stakes situations. Be ready to kill or be killed, and suffer all the consequences of either. And proper gun storage undermines most scenarios people use to justify the need for a gun.

I see we're once again doing gun ownership-but-leftishly, and I am once again begging people to look at the numbers on this. Owning a gun increases your risk for suicide by 8x if you're a man and ***35x*** if you're a woman.

so I finally started Expedition 33 and now the 90 second soundtrack for the tutorial battle is permanently stuck in my head. Such an earworm that after my first couple days with the game I had trouble finding it because I could have sworn it was used in more than just a couple tutorial fights

this was always been a challenge for me creatively. All this advice to "make sure your protagonist is active!" and "write what you know!" and before I transitioned all I knew was a bare, foggy existence as a passive lump of depression

From the bad place, but I'm fucking losing it lmao

only president who needed a ballroom was lbj send skeet

strong "you, woman, are violating my boundaries by refusing to do what I say" energy with this one

I think a fair compromise is that Maine isn’t allowed to have senators anymore

Hmm. To me, his resume says he's the exactly kind of person who is likely to be very skilled and accustomed to making arguments that he knows are wrong on behalf of his client.

> One person's testimony is still evidence. A jury can convict you of murder on the back of one witness's testimony. > "I don't want this to be true" and "this woman is a terrible person" aren't adequate to doubt a woman's credibility. Shut up unless you can prove she has a history of lying.

I cried election night in 2024 and did not in 2016, and not just because I was now on estrogen. It was obvious most of the guardrails from the first term wouldn't be there this time. And red states had been escalating evil shit for years, so the loss of the federal backstop was obviously very bad.

No surprise that the same nonsensical argument people rolled out to defend Newsom's retrenchment on trans rights is being used for Platner. "you must vote D in November" -> "so you might have to vote for this guy" -> "you can't criticize him or say he shouldn't be the nominee" Incorrect. Sorry.

the reaction of American “leftists” to Talarico (cringe, too “Christian”) vs. Platner (based, manly, rugged) is incredibly revealing about their *actual* preferences and priorities, in both an interpersonal and political sense. they *just* think being nice and having principles and values is cringe

this article describes assault and false imprisonment

Calling Mamdani's leftism "illiberal" is insane. Today coalition with social democrats is the only rational option for actual liberals. Shit like this is why I'm now unbothered when people call liberals the running dogs of fascism. Can't really no-true-scotsman it when The Economist is like this.

Crazy Socialist Mayor of Seattle Says Cars Not Allowed to Drive on ‘Trains-Only’ Train Tracks: tinyurl.com/3hrm25vc

ok, this place has the juice

This stuff is such a joke for a number of reasons, not least of which is that many trans people without access to medical transition detransition or simply never transition at all. Somehow we're supposed to believe that's less assimilationist than literally changing your sex?

In data science we call this problem "overfitting." The author, David frum's son, has memorized a bunch of facts about Normal Men without understanding the deeper relationships between those facts. Thus he has weak predictive power when trying to say other normal things.

Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.

buying batting gloves at Dick's Sporting Goods and being offered a protection plan "in case they get damaged while he's using them" Who is "he"??? The clerk took one look at me and thought "this lady hasn't played sports once in her life" 😭😭😭

My first novel will never see the light of day because it's terrible. One of the reasons I used to think it is bad is I made up a fiefdom ruled by a guy obsessed with beautification and putting gold statues everywhere. I thought that was a little too unrealistically stupid. But it turns out!

this is why I have an intense negative reaction to being called "straggot". You're not inverting anything, society uses the f-slur for me!!

I was very into intellectual property in law school, did a seminar paper in the area that won an award, etc etc. Then I realized the actual practice of IP law sucks ass, so I haven't touched it professionally. But when something IP-adjacent comes up on a microblog website, I cannot hold back

People not from Texas just won't understand. It's not summer until it's over 95. People in DC complain about how hot and humid the summer is and I'm like "we only have about 2 weeks of it, why are you complaining?"

We simply have to stop supporting baldos with weird shaped heads. Matt Darling can stay because his head is normal shaped, despite being a baldo. Who are your real enemies? The Polises, the Andreesens, the Ygleseii.

I won't believe until Talarico polls over 50. Assuming every undecided voter will go Republican in Texas is how you avoid heartbreak

There’s a guy, great king, incredible king. Prester John. Scepter made of emeralds. Descended from the Maggie. Sent me a letter, beautiful letter, tears in his eyes. Begged me to let him help open the strait, big strong guy. I’m giving Iran 24 hours to comply or, Prester John, I might tell him yes.

Americans actually don't have gender at all. They just have a system of Big Truck Driver and Big Truck Passenger, where the Driver attracts a Passenger by showing off his ability to provide plentiful gasoline, and in return the Passenger raises children.

Just got an email accusing us of being captured by the “Big Pharma-funded Trans lobby,” and let me just say, if you are a pharma exec reading this, we would love to have our trans content subsidized, here’s a relevant link www.liberalcurrents.com/support-us/

Trans people who loathe other trans people are incomprehensible to me. My natural instinct has always been that other trans people are of course always valid and authentic; I'm the only one who is the potentially disgusting fake weirdo. Can't imagine the kind of mind that reverses it.

*proudly* that’s my bluesky mutual kick his ass brad

there is nothing "logical" or "sex-based" about anti-trans bathroom policies. it's about stigma-contamination: *all* trans ppl are "corrupting" or "corrupted" in their eyes, so we are all banned from women's restrooms: juliaserano.medium.com/penises-priv...

depressing part of my 5 year egg crack anniversary coming up is I'm reminded that it happened when Bostock was new, Biden was newly president, and before any state had banned gender affirming care.

Every time I dump a can of green beans in a bowl and slice up an andouille sausage over it, it's important for me to spend a minute reminding myself of how privileged I am to have the time and skill to create such a meal

Timur chess proves the timelessness of the 11 year old boy inside you who craves a version of his favorite game modded to be just bigger and more which will inevitably suck

fundamentally unjust in their founding, always playing the victim, claiming underdog status despite their materially dominant position - sorry but they might be cooking with this one