“I just have concerns about fairness in sport” - no, you don’t. There’s nothing fair about elite sports. You’re just looking for post hoc justification because we give you the ick

Is "left vulnerable to exploitation" some kind of weird weasel-speak for "exploited," a device you only seem to use with horrendous Republicans? Like "racially tinged" for "racist"?

It's not the same point, but the argument that the Biden admin had "porous policies" is completely false. They had a number of very harsh policies aiming to limit migration, the problem was state capacity to carry them out and the sheer force of the push/pull factors during the post-COVID years.

#WithAltText hell yeah brother

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Ezra is a white columnist who tells liberals they don’t need to do radical things but instead they can just noodle through little tweaks that generate enormous benefits and everyone will be happy including business guys who won’t yell at them. That’s why he has influence.

Why is @nytimes.com claiming to know that FCC chair Brendan Carr's motives for state censorship of liberals are authentically felt, as opposed to an invented pretext? NYT headline writers can't see into Carr's mind.

Neither of whom is still in office. (Riggelman voted with MAGA 95% of the time.) Can you work with utter voids like MTG? Andy Biggs? No, and aspiring to shows a paucity of vision, even self-awareness. Present to us your own vision, and tell us why it will work.

Very clear that @moderation.bsky.app supports inciting violence against trans people. @safety.bsky.app means no safety for trans people.

The whole trans girls in sports discussion is absolutely being used to propagandize people into being transphobic bellends. In K-12, the number of trans girls in sports is five. In college the number is fewer than ten, according to the NCAA President. You're being manipulated. Please stop.

There is absolutely no excuse for any Democrat asked about trans athletes to ever respond with anything but “why are you wasting my time asking about FEWER THAN FIFTEEN CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WHO WANT TO PLAY GAMES WITH THEIR FRIENDS. What is wrong with you?”

Little-known fact—of nine Virginians in the U.S. Army who held the rank of Colonel in 1861, only Robert E. Lee betrayed his oath of office to fight for the Confederacy. He was a traitor who doesn’t deserve to have a military base named after him. www.nps.gov/rich/learn/h...

The Trump Administration always had the power to bring Kilmar Abrego back. They were always lying about this, all of it was lies. abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl... They chose to disobey court orders because they are authoritarians who regard the Constitution as an inconvenience.

If, like me, you rant on about the ignorance of many people who also rant on, about immigration, and you want to be armed with facts rather than disinformation, Zoe Gardner is someone to whom you should listen. This interview is a great example of her expertise, straightforwardness and compassion.

I do love David Tennant and his response to this question in the Guardian today.

Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right. Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist. Really I wonder how they sleep at night.

For my Patreon post this week, I wrote about why TERFs are still complaining about not having friends. www.patreon.com/posts/you-ha...

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if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

It's genuinely hard to express to sort of normal not politically plugged in non-lawyers *how* lawless the Trump administration is, and I think that's some part of the problem. You sound like you're hyperventilating, but it's just a flat description of what is going on.

His name is Andry Hernandez Romero. He is a young professional from Venezuela. He is a makeup artist. He is a gay man. Andry was a target for abuse in his homeland of Venezuela. He was viciously humiliated daily — the victim of discrimination for his sexuality. He was also being persecuted for…

Is there any Democratic Senator who thinks Matthew Whitaker is a fit nominee to be ambassador to NATO, or that his conduct there won’t embarrass the United States and frustrate generations of bipartisan American foreign policy premised on the atlantic alliance? Why wouldn’t they object to him?

dems who want to "compromise" on trans rights are bringing a policy suggestion to a propaganda battle.

congratulations to john roberts who is as responsible for the current state of affairs as any single person in the country

I think it has more to do with you might get locked up for absolutely no reason at all and then flown to El Salvador to die in prison even though a judge said you should be released

The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.

A little history lesson on how rank choice voting can go wrong if we are not smart about our ranking all five slots for mayor. 2/2

I wrote this piece about how John Roberts doesn't get nearly enough shit for the predicament we find ourselves in as a country. His decades long crusade against voting rights is responsible.

Let’s make sure they’re wrong, shall we?

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

Stand with trans Americans. You don’t have to understand everything about the transgender experience to know that Trump’s acts of humiliation and dehumanization are unjust and dangerous. www.thebulwark.com/p/stand-with...

the more democrats concede to the republican war on trans people, the more that signals to the public that trans people are a problem and should be stigmatized.

The Democratic Party has no idea how angry its base is. Lead, right now, or get out of the way.

i don’t think dems should attend the trump speech on tuesday. skip it! youtube.com/shorts/w2mTb...

If Elon Musk is going to keep inseminating women until he gets a kid who loves him, we're going to be at it a long fucking time.

Amazing that “personal liberties” is never code for trans rights, a right to be free from pollution, or a right to join a union.

If anyone claims that the current anti-trans panic was caused in any part by trans people advocating for our human rights, that person is lying through their teeth. The religious right lost on marriage equality, and immediately started going after trans people instead. That's what happened.

Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options. Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.

We think the world will always be how it is now. But I think we need to imagine a world in which there are too few migrants, and many more nations competing to attract them. This is the first in a series I'll be publishing about global migration. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

It’s worth noting that the president of the United States today made more racist comments than we’ve seen any president make publicly in, what, a century? More publicly racist comments than many presidents who were, with history’s eye, virulently racist humans, but ones who at least knew their role.

just want to take a step back from the relentless churn of news to recognize how fucking terrifying things are for trans people right now. and i just want to say that i will always fight for you—in my capacity as a journalist and as a human being—and i’m here for whatever the trans community needs.

We made this super easy at @comradeswkids.bsky.social. Two clicks and you'll send a letter to the NYC chancellor and Deputy Chancellors demanding they stand up for every student. actionnetwork.org/letters/educ...

if you were born on the day that james carville led a winning presidential campaign, you would be 33 years old. he has spent the last 3 decades hanging out on tv and telling rich democrats where to spend their money. aoc is one of the brightest minds in a nearly dead democratic party.