I agree rural areas / the south have lots of republicans. This is true and obvious. Though in this conversation no one has brought up that sometimes 5-10% of the population has lost voting rights due to incarceration especially in those areas

Honestly if the unworkability of this fucking bullshit guidance results in businesses abolishing gendered toilets altogether that will be the funniest possible result of a piece of TERF activism

A plainly unsustainable country, sustained by workers who can't afford to live in it.

Saying Israel is responsible for all evils in the world today is actually obscuring that the United States and US imperialism really ARE responsible for most of the evils in the world today...including Israel.

It’s deeply telling and concerning how many people fall for the “Israel is controlling the USA” narrative when the opposite is true. The reason AIPAC has so much power is because of US interests in the Levant.

Trying to think of how to adequately voice how big of a deal it is that I.C.E. is now killing people THEN executing warrants on their cars and homes, in order to concoct evidence of some crime, after the fact. Zoom out and apply this to the entire population—woof! This is VERY bad.

pronouncing testosterone like minestrone at the gym

I literally just had a conversation with a friend who is a cis woman with a deep voice about how she hates the sir/ma'am convention here in the south because she has been called "sir" at drive throughs multiple times and it understandably is really hurtful. Anti-trans hysteria hurts _everyone_

Also just so it's in the thread, here are the policies wrt Beira's Place assessment process And yet Joanne admits she isn't the support worker, the information was shared to her somehow and she shared it on to Twitter Awful breach of ethics, yet completely unreported

This also reveals that either Rowling and her team at BP are sharing around confidential phone calls about vulnerable people or she’s listening back to phone recordings to find rape survivors to make fun of

JK Rowling mocking a rape victim because she had PMOS and a deep voice while violating their confidentiality is beyond the pale. Rowling is a deeply evil person.

The real "distraction" out there is Democrats treating trans people as nothing more than a joke while they're complicit in the regime's attempt to wipe us out - and look at all the liberals slurping it up.

well you could start by not referring to us as a fucking noun

Trans people are banned from everything and can barely name their oppressors lest they are monstered by the media and in parliament. Never mind the threat of jail for not disclosing being trans before a sexual encounter or even for saying some shit. It's surreal being trans in the UK right now.

Rosa DeLauro told local faith leaders that abolishing ICE was “not doable” after Renee Good and Alex Pretti were murdered and just voted yesterday to continue funding Israel’s genocide in Gaza. She is exactly what performative politics looks like.

People think that if they catch these guys in a logical fallacy they'll shut down like a robot on "Star Trek." The truth is, being able to be a hypocrite without anyone being able to stop them is baked into fascism and part of what they love about it. Power means not having to make sense.

stop pretending that you can make them see reason with shitty "you hate gender affirming care yet you yourself take it..curious?" takes they've made it clear countless times that they don't give a fuck when they are literally taking hormone access from trans kids but carving exceptions for cis kids

im so tired of the "SEE THEY'RE DOING THE SAME STUFF TRANS PEOPLE DO TOO" takes them pushing ppl to take T because they think "MORE T MEANS MORE MANLY STRONG APEX PREDATOR GRRR, ESTROGEN BAD" is not the same thing as us actualizing ourselves and your "gotcha" diminishes everything about us

was hoping to be done with Platner forever, but ofc my prediction that liberals would vocally blame him on "the left" after he was overwhelmed by the tsunami of scandals has proved to be 100% accurate, just like my prediction that a mercenary with a Nazi tattoo sucked ass

This is why we gatekeep "the left" so hard. Because demonic liberal operatives like this can point at guys like Hasan Piker, Kyle Kulinski (sp?) and Ken Klippenstein and be like "see? The left supported platner" Even though not one communist org supported him. Not. One.

PKI Norway's current strategy for fighting bad trans research coming out of the nordic gender clinics is something to pay attention to, as it's slowly getting results. Wins here matter globally because the nordics are a major exporter of anti-trans pseudoscience.

For those not used to academic discourse, this is basically as close to calling bullshit as it's possible to get in a scientific journal

It's so obviously meant as an insult. Tammy Duckworth is basically saying "sounds like you're getting gender affirming care, like a filthy tr***y". You can taste her disdain. Libs think it's a dunk cuz they see being compared to us as an insult. Completely vile revealing and gross behaviour.

In general, calling these interventions "gender affirming care" has never fostered any empathy for trans people. Rather, it is used to pejoratively liken cis people to us, reducing trans people to punchline, while also regarding our healthcare as both frivolous and shallow, vanity not necessity.

Finally, Homerically accurate Greek twinks

I am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldn’t go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times

Single digit numbers of trans girls wanted to play middle school soccer with their friends, so to combat this grave threat to women's rights, we're going to abolish all female sports in the country. No need to thank us, ladies.

9. But now, it’s cis women who should get fewer opportunities for being less competitive and aggressive and that every cis woman who wants to compete is unfairly taking an opportunity away from a man. To solve this, Yenor proposes that Title IX should instead ‘accommodate nature.’

We fucking told you so.

People are always talking about the things we have today that our ancestors didn't, but nobody wants to look at the things our ancestors had that we've lost. Like community, and free time, and environmental sustainability, and a collective that cares whether we live or die

Here are all 98 Democrats who voted *against* the amendment to cut military aid to Israel. As well, the 10 Democrats who voted "present":

Y'all need to stop with this "humans are the real virus" bullshit right now. Like 2k billionaires are the reason why Canada is burning "Humans are the real virus" is literally eco fascist rhetoric and what the chch shooter among other shooters wrote. Stop acting like nazis.

We need to dissolve Congress

We need to be preventing emissions and adapting infrastructure on the scale of a nation going to war – it is that big a threat – and instead, we’re treating it as a Tidy Towns project, left to the initiative of individuals.

i would love better data on how often “cop” is the cause for officers killed or injured in the line of duty, because it’s probably higher than even i, someone who already expects it to be high, might expect lol

everyone who's called the latest MAHA testosterone grift "gender affirming care" needs to pay the nearest trans man $20

I have a counterproposal: the rural left should reach out to each other and find each other and prove to each other that they aren't the only communist in a 30 mile radius

we really need to go back to calling these people weirdos

This is a disaster created by the GOP. It's important to identify the culprits. It was directly created by them as POLICY. They clearly articulated that this was what they hoped to accomplish. gothamist.com/news/food-pa...

They've also strategically refused to enforce these bathroom bans when trans people challenge them publicly in protest. They want to avoid the issue attracting public attention and keep it as quiet enforcement.

It's how they've implemented bathroom bans in over 20 states without creating visible conflict that can create backlash. This is how they normalize it, especially by focusing on schools and government employment. It's setting up for draconian bans such as Idaho's.

If you can't work or go to school as a trans person, you can't function in society. The anti trans side can generally avoid the worst of the issues of enforcing bathroom bans by moving them to HR and principals/deans offices instead where enforcement is much less visible.

Mike Johnson subtly admitting that the US government pivot away from secularism was intentionally engineered as a cynical move to counter rising communist sentiment early-mid 1900s.

Also he went on like a 7 minute rant about how communists are atheists

A temporary pause after two deadly ICE traffic stops is not accountability. Neither is more training for an agency empowered to terrorize communities. @delia.bsky.social says abolishing ICE is only the beginning: dismantle DHS.

patriarchy's response to a bunch of real and imagined challenges is to align more and more into a kind of death-cult pyramid scheme, where stealing everyone's shit and redistributing it to only the biggest, dumbest rapists is the #1 priority, because that is maximum patriarchy see also: white power

the same thing is at work with patriarchy rn, and these things are all tied in one big knot the only way to prove to yourself that black people, women, queers, &c. haven't defeated you is to show that you can *overturn society's virtues* on demand a world of pig-men, monster-men, nazi-clown-men

We ain't getting no purge, exhibit n+1 "proper training" "proper rules of engagement" "body cams" Cops kill people every goddamn day in this country with all of those things