The American insistence on not paying public servants just makes it harder for people to hold office without being independently wealthy, and encourages them to seek other ways to make money from the office (corruption)

I, personally, am of course extremely left-wing in basically every way it is possible to be left-wing. But I know a lot of trans people who hate gun control. I know a lot of trans people who think taxes are theft. We're not all liberal activists. We're people who happen to be trans.

When Republicans win elections: The people have spoken, we must let them implement their agenda. When Democrats win elections: This totalitarian FREAK must be prevented from implementing the policies he ran on nypost.com/2025/11/05/o...

Someone should tell the pundits that trans people and our families are not actually a homogenous crowd of liberal activists devoted to liberal causes in general, and will, like any other minority, stop supporting Ds if our specific reason for supporting Ds in large numbers is no longer relevant

Hell, I have a bunch of very right-wing family members who voted for Harris because they were worried about how Trump's anti-trans policies would affect me! If Democrats don't support trans rights, those people will go back to voting Republican!

They imagine that trans people and our families are a group Democrats can simply ignore because we are just identical liberal activists who will still vote D for all the other reasons, when for a lot of people the calculus goes "if Ds won't support trans rights, I'll vote R for gun rights"

The argument from certain pundits that the Democrats should abandon trans rights as a political cause appears grounded in the assumption that every trans person and their families are stereotypes of blue-haired liberal activists who will persist in supporting Ds for other reasons (e.g. gun control)

It's never been mandatory to believe all women or victims. Every single person who came forward throughout the history of MeToo, which started well before 2017, has faced new acts of violence as retaliation from their abusers and the public for upsetting the status quo

There always have to be specific cases—Aziz Ansari, Depp v. Heard—where the women who came forward are just repeatedly slandered in service of the narrative that they lied and they are examples of MeToo excess, even when they've only been harmed for coming forward and egregiously so!

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

NYT letting the mask slip for a moment

It's really funny how much last night's election results bear out my own theory for 2024 I spun up on the day of: Americans don't love fascism, they're just fucking stupid, and thought Trump would magically return the country to 2019 and not do anything he said he would do

Absolutely insane that people will just not see a problem with the fact that they only know AFAB nonbinary people and zero trans women or AMAB nonbinary people

As the cold reality of Cuomo’s defeat sets in, this is a moment for centrists to ask themselves: Have we lost touch with the common voter? Get out and spend time in the tattoo parlors and dispensaries. The drag shows, community gardens and outsider art galleries where Real New Yorkers congregate

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

DEM SWEEP DEM SWEEP DEM SWEEP

Bluesky rn

Pitch for new kind of fetish: Forced girlbossification. You *will* live up to your potential, damn you.

Esther Ghey: "It was just that constant pressure of social media and wanting to get those likes. One of the hardest things was learning about what Brianna was accessing online that was encouraging her to self-harm and develop an eating disorder.” Did 'the pressure of social media' stab Brianna Ghey

"All trans women love generative AI" is probably the stupidest excuse I've seen yet for not including any trans women in a "women and nonbinary" project

I think a lot of the poisonous dynamics of modern gender roles and sexual culture are really elucidated when you look back on the Roman norms of "sex is only acceptable if you're raping someone"

Captain Torture

"What Democrats need to do is embrace the end of industrial civilization due to climate change as inevitable and abandon plans to stop it"

A bunch of guys who do so much HGH than it turns them into cubes of aspic and women whose collagen is for-real nonconsensually harvested from human corpses have realigned vast swaths of society into endlessly debating whether HRT and GRS are decadent bourgeois. Maddening.

...You know, I'm not one to say that writing Non-Con porn is an indication of IRL rape-y-ness, but usually when people give their reasons behind their Non-Con kink it's stuff like "dealing with trauma" or "exploring uncomfortable scenarios", not "a deep psychic need for control over women"

They just gutted Teen Vogue which had top notch political journalism. The media is continuing to purge any sort of political dissent to Trump and the oligarchs. www.vogue.com/article/teen...

I've always disliked the phrase "happy holidays", because in trying to be inclusive it actually flattens all religions into mirrors of Christianity; assuming they have roughly equivalent holidays to Christmas at around the same time of year

Actually cackling at this shit Dude I did not go to Sunday School every week for like 8 years for the anime tradcaths who converted last year to think they know more about Catholicism than the fucking Pope

I have watched as so-called "compromise" positions on transgender people's rights have failed over and over--in statehouses, the Biden White House, and in liberal rhetoric. There is no middle ground acceptable to the politicians, activists, and billionaires obsessed with trans people and our lives.

Anti-feminism is so ingrained in modern online culture that Bao is getting backlash for saying female streamers should be wary of bigger male streamers lavishing attention on them lol

Mr. Political Instincts over here with the dumbest imaginable attempt at moderation on trans rights. You can't say that you'll protect LGBT policy while affirming bigotry in the next breath. This doesn't appeal to the right, angers the left and reveals you as a worm to absolutely everyone.

"Everyone is twelve theory" is the first Bsky meme that seems to be gaining traction outside of bsky

Mark my words, Labour strategists will continue insisting that implementing PR would be a mistake because Green voters will tactically vote Labour to stop Reform even when the Greens are polling 10 points ahead of Labour

So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform.... Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally. It's time for Proportional Representation. www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...

[middle-aged white pundit begins writing another column about how there's been a culture-wide 'vibe-shift' and everyone is into nazi tradwives now and anyone who doesn't see this is stuck in an echo chamber]

I would read the hell out of a deeply reported piece on how the media/political elite addiction to Twitter is shaping their views, which in turn shape the views of millions of people. It's a total reality-warper.

For my newsletter, I took a deeper look at the electoral record of WelcomePAC, a centrist group that produced that 352 page document advising Democrats to moderate once again. Turns out the campaigns they work for aren't winning. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...

Graham Platner is a “left” Democrat who is clearly a crypto-bigot who should be nowhere near power. Gavin Newsom is a “center” Democrat who is clearly a crypto-bigot who should be nowhere near power. It’s not about left and center. It’s about having the self-respect to reject people like this.

centrist dems don't actually believe that being "too focused on lgbtq issues and immigration etc" is why dems keep losing, they just really really want to re-establish the old social norms they were comfortable with--white cis men being the de facto protagonists of the world--& they use this excuse

a former NCAA swimmer who was no longer allowed to compete killed herself *last week* fuck you gavin, to the ends of the earth

Sorry but 'let's get Dan Brown in here' is better than any joke I could make about Weiss booking guests

a lot of political “scandal” coverage is just the media making a decision about whether public opinion needs a corrective

this has to be coupled with the things that *don’t* count as a scandal: an array of harassment allegations, covering up Covid deaths, staying in a race after losing the primary, etc.

I will never vote for Newsom even if he's the nominee.

Another reminder that I will never vote for Gavin Newsom. I don't care if the alternative is four more years of Trump - I'd rather y'all suffer with me than only me and the people I care about suffer.

This is appalling and if Xbox doesn’t do something about it then they’re on the line for this marketing too