Reiterating that Trump explicitly requested the release of a sex trafficker and used US diplomatic pressure to do so. Cannot understand why Democrats do not take this slam dunk messaging opportunity to tie Trump to a vile misogynist with .1% approval among women and run with it.

a lot of powerful forces are coming after life-saving healthcare for trans kids in america. if you don’t realize how enthusiastic an enabler of that part of trump’s project 2025 the new york times was, this is an excellent thread. stop giving NYT your money & time.

they should invent a form of bourgeois democracy where you don’t get ruled by an ailing pedophilic geriatric mad king who thinks the TV is talking to him

this movie is so fucking good. Tallahassee medieval lyre and flute rendition

I think a lot abt how in the early 20th century Russian women moved to cities to do factory work bc it was better than the crushing grinding stagnant cruelty of the village patriarchy

Boston needs to do this asap

they've all bought 10,000 shares of baby coffin stock

67 Senators could remove RFK Jr. today but there aren’t 67 Senators who care about Americans’ lives, health, or wellbeing. Babies will die. Our leaders hate us.

Inshallah the Texan permian basin will be emptied of all economic activity, the ford super duties will be repoed, and the society of hitlerite car dealerships will be brought to heel

When Vance says that criticizing Israel is not antisemitism, we should all be clear that he's talking about Nick Fuentes and not, say, immigrant grad students protesting genocide.

rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love. Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.

at the tail end of smoking indoors (smoking/nonsmoking sections) my family went to New Orleans when I was a preteen & my brother has asthma & we went into a restaurant w a full smoke haze and he immediately started wheezing . This was just expected

if anything righteous gemstones didn’t go far enough

this is the unspoken but absolutely clear argument at hand.

"you're a man" ad hominem "you were born a boy" sunk cost fallacy "you're amab" false dichotomy "you have xy chromosomes" false equivalence "trans people are mentally ill" non sequitur "changing your sex isn't possible" skill issue

Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.

Exactly why I always found him so fascinating – more than perhaps any other figure from the Roman world, we can see him in sharp relief, in his full humanity, good, bad, and ugly. He is like the only Roman we can even come remotely close to *knowing* as a person across the gulf of two millennia

I think this is why Cicero’s Letters are like among my favorite ancient Roman texts bc that pettiness is on full display he’s just BITCHING and complaining - often abt the exact same shit your or I would complain about

Milo is a fucking savant

You *can* change your sex. I *did* change mine. If this makes you uncomfortable, stop being part of the problem.

Interesting how I haven’t seen a single person who tried to whitewash MTG’s violent history and claim she’s “coming around to our side now” speak a single word about her latest anti-trans bill.

every politician who attempts to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth is anti-science, transphobic, or some combination. prior to their votes, they should be forced onto cross-sex hormones so they can experience the horror they're inflicting on these kids juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...

I can *100% assure you* that if this report found that trans people & "wokeness" tanked the Harris campaign, the DNC would release it in a heartbeat

I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture

I somehow missed this part. Former NFL players are *ending their lives* due to the nightmarish effects of repeated brain trauma and Puka's out here saying concussions are fake. Truly astounding ignorance.

If I were running for president I'd mention in every speech and debate that I intend to seize every asset owned by the Trump family and use it on restarting USAID and immigrant/asylum-seeker protection and naturalization programs, just to see if I can make that fucker so mad his head pops.

assault weapons , trans health care bans, and rfk jrs antivax drive all lead to the same clearly desired republican policy outcome: more dead children

if you are a trans teen right now, you do not have the lifetime of experience with the united states federal legislative branch to cope with “this will *probably* die in the senate” on top of the rest of your life and that right there feels like a fucking flavor of abuse at scale.

Reject any motherfucker who tells you we need to abandon a vulnerable population or person. They’re either a fascist or a fascist-in-waiting.

pedocon theory eternal

the thing most people struggle with is understanding that doj wasn’t hesitant to go hard at trump because they were unsure of the outcome, they were hesitant because they were VERY sure of the outcome (conviction) and it scared the shit out of them.

Past Lives by Patrick Wyman is so awesome. I think he should do one abt that Etruscan woman whom they can tell from her skeleton had severe from falling off her horse years earlier was it seianti hanunia tlesnana or is she someone difference

absolutely no one should accept this insane aggression against venezuela. this should be roundly condemned internally and we should be sanctioned by civilized nations. i can't believe we are doing this shit again

oppressed classes throughout history from women to slaves to the colonized have been analogized to children as a paternalist rationale for their subjugation

the oppression of children runs so deep in our society that one of the primary ways that we disempower people is by assigning them child-adjacent status as adults. license to abuse flows from that

We need family abolition so bad man

The last two years have seen what is ~easily~ the largest crackdown on free speech on college campuses in American history. Not a single one of the outlets that spent a decade writing weekly articles about campus free speech has paid any attention to it.

will every NFL game have a moment of silence or is that only for white supremacists who were presenting a racist rationale for our unfettered gun massacre culture when shot

1 Regime staff cut 90 percent of USAID and ate cake 🎂 2 Cholera clinic shut. Bodies followed. 3 Experts warned millions would die. Regime applauded. 4 This is blood policy. Get them out. Share. Burn the cover story 🔥📢 This is white Christian nationalism. Marco Rubio 🤮 most be so proud of himself.

Very interesting: Washington Supreme Court Justice Mary Yu (who's retiring soon) won't apply equal protection to invalidate discrimination against the poor because she's afraid of giving SCOTUS an opportunity to further weaken the 14th Amendment. Remarkably candid. www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf...

The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died. New, @propublica.org

Wrote a letter to Republicans and Trump supporters. If you are one, I hope you read. If you know one, I hope you might send this to them. The People in Charge Think You’re as Bad as Them. Will You Let Them Be Right? My reflections on a growing trend I find very disturbing — Vice Signaling:

transitioning is the best choice i’ve ever made in my life and the only regret i have with it is that i didn’t do it when i was younger

you can't even imagine the kind of things i'm wishing on my enemies. you would be driven to madness instantly

"i wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy" i would. that's the point of having a worst enemy. grow up and hate people like an adult

Every transphobe talks shit abt trans ppl saying like they don’t understand 8th grade biology when actually they are failing to grasp basic concepts of biology like the central dogma

Faint smallpox scars are depicted in the physionotrace drawing, but not in the bust: probably not noticeable from distance. Mild smallpox scarring wd be taken for granted, & in era when inoculation was quite new & not universal, was a good sign that you wdn't get it as adult & risk death.