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Never talk to the nyt, y'all.

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Yeah, this is almost certainly where things go next.

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The NYT tomorrow: Earle-Sears lost by double digits, here's why that means it's time for Dems to ditch trans people

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

It's literally a ritual at this point. Like they probably have costumes for it and everything.

Among the sheer creepy evil of praising one of the most monstrous human beings the u.s. establishment ever spawned, the Dems' current electoral coalition (such as it is) was established in a backlash against the Bush/Cheney years, so it's just utterly incompetent too.

Two of the most significant politics editors in Teen Vogue’s history were working class trans people from Ohio and Philly, and their tireless, fearless work is a huge part of why so many people are mourning its demise now. @satansjacuzzi.bsky.social and @leximcmenamin.com you will always be famous

I want to be extremely fucking clear that you don’t get world-class writing and reporting on marginalized communities without HIRING MEMBERS OF THOSE COMMUNITIES TO DO IT

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"appears to want" he said it out loud without stuttering. weasel words are pathetic at this stage of history especially. "President overtly declares he will break law (again) to starve more children" is what it should say

Thread. The fight for trans and queer liberation is a deeply working class fight.

Yh sorry I won't pretend like 'dubai chocolate' is anything else than an influencers-driven campaign to whitewash the UAE

Defining moments in the history of the American gentry.

"We're all in this together" deserves more skepticism, especially when invoked about those in power. Real question: are we? If someone's goal is "fight fascism" and another's is "protect my personal power and status even if it means collaboration" then no, we're not remotely out for the same thing.

Taking bets now on how utterly servile Sarah McBride's Dick Cheney statement will be.

I know plenty of the reasons, but is there a solid in-depth explainer (longform is good!) about why the UK in particular is so virulently transphobic? It'd be good to have something to point folks to on that front.

Yeah, anyone who lived through the Bush years a conscious person is celebrating right now. It is impossible to sum up how much evil Cheney did that we'll be dealing with for decades. Good goddamn riddance.

REST IN PISS YOU DISGUSTING FUCKING WORM IT WILL BE CANABALISM WHEN THE EARTHWORMS DEVOUR YOUR BODY 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀 MOREOVER, ICE MUST BE DESTROYED www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/p...

Today we must remember the victims of Dick Cheney. Innocent civilians bombed in their homes. Men kidnapped off the streets of Baghdad for committing no crime, held indefinitely and tortured by Americans American life eroded by austerity, surveillance, militarism and the 2008 market crash.

For what its worth, I made it on this! More still helps though: there's like 3 trips I need to make on day of, I need to pay my ex to bring my stuff she's got back to me, extra will help me stay online while waiting on internet, and medical emergencies are very likely for me still.

Not for the first time, I am insulted by the constant calls to "understand" those who want us and our entire communities dead. We have had to survive their hatred and inflictions our entire lives. Year after year. They are not subtle about it. We understand them perfectly: they're evil.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Shocking account of maniacal ICE raid in the heart of Washington, DC’s Georgetown neighborhood, followed by building owner’s mass eviction of those Spanish-speakers not already abducted.

It is very clear the gutting of Teen Vogue is about silencing their excellent political coverage. Corporations want you uninformed and shut off from meaningful journalism. And they’re staggeringly successful at it so far.

Violence against trans women in prisons and detention centers is not an accident, it's the intention of policies that place trans women with men. See our previous reporting on the cruel nature of how prisons, even in supposedly "safe" states, intentionally put trans women in danger.

Australia, March 2025: The hate and sexual violence against immigrant trans women extends across the globe. At least eight trans women have been held in one Australian male detention center between Oct 2024 and March 2025. One woman says agents looked through intimate photos on her phone.

All the appeasement and collaboration by Sheinbaum not paying off 🙃🙃🙃 more importantly, this is our direct neighbor to the South. This is a direct assault on people in Mexico. We are not powerless to raise hell about this shit.

this is another diff between obama and dem seniority despite policy-wise matching up a lot when obama wants to neutralize the left, he talks sweet, offers an invitation and ear but avoids firm action when seniority wants to neutralize the left, they go "fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck fuc

Oh I really like this.

A culture that surrenders itself to LLMs is a culture trying to preserve itself in amber so that nothing new can ever exist, time cannot progress forward, we all stand still together. Until the biosphere collapses. Emotionally stunted fascists with luxury bunkers love this tech, for some reason.

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Additionally, the point isn't to defend Mamdani's political reputation, but to defend the countless people whose lives would be ruined by yet another manufactured crime panic.

Yeah, this is almost certainly where things go next.

Sure the colonial gentry weren't happy about initial wins of the abolitionist movement across the Atlantic and the 1763 laws on further western settlement but what drove their organizing was fear of revolt by "the motley rabble." Worth not making the *1700s British empire* something it wasn't.

Worth a reminder. Founding elites of the u.s. were utterly rancid, but their major fear was British rule collapsing to popular revolt they couldn't control. The British empire's rulers were not seriously anti-slavery — they'd invade Haiti to reimpose it at gunpoint in the 1790s — or pro-indigenous.

It's appropriate that this sentiment comes after the industry realized that they haven't done anything useful in 20 years so they descended into mass psychosis over tech that does nothing but purports to do everything

I really hope Americans understand that the forced famine in Gaza and this are intrinsically connected

Worth a reminder. Founding elites of the u.s. were utterly rancid, but their major fear was British rule collapsing to popular revolt they couldn't control. The British empire's rulers were not seriously anti-slavery — they'd invade Haiti to reimpose it at gunpoint in the 1790s — or pro-indigenous.

There's more queer American kids (22.2% of gen z) than Catholic kids (14%) and Protestant kids (22%) and fuck is that funny news.gallup.com/poll/611864/...

If anything, it's gentry cliques and institutions gatekeeping, shutting more militant efforts down, exploiting working class trans folks, shielding their incompetent and abusive peers from consequences that are among the biggest obstacles to victory. The trans class war can't come fast enough.

This worldview is unrecognizable and repulsive to me. Trans people, and the working class queer communities we're intertwined with, are incredibly active. We have a long history of militant resistance and keeping each other safe. We have survived literal genocides. We choose to fight.

This was glaring in Drennen's recent round of nonsense, but far from the only example. Similar bs is spouted by "resistance is hopeless" expats. Trans/Gay Inc gentry in particular just don't actually believe in trans communities. We're either passive victims or waiting for someone to lead us...

It's telling that gentry can't conceive of working class trans folks having agency and views of our own. The fact we might want to fight for our homes and communities, that we understand the risks and sacrifices, that we've seen direct action/mutual aid work up close, never seems to occur to them.

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