"cancel culture" was an overblown thing where some people got fired for sexually harassing their employees and others got yelled at on Twitter. The conservative version, which some claim as an inevitable counterbalance, is doxxing & death threats for making fun of self-proclaimed white supremacists.

The insistence on arguing about “both sides” while our country descends into fascism is a real choice.

“why is the birth rate falling” because you hate women you absolutely rabid squirrels. this is your own fault

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another.

dafür dass die antifa so gewaltbereit ist kommen unverhältnismäßig wenig nazis um

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

I posted this on September 8 but it's ever relevant

Gleichschaltung.

its kind of insane that we’ve been forced to watch rightwingers openly celebrate and taunt everyone over the death of people like trayvon martin for over a decade now and now they’re trying to grandstand over the one time it’s personally affected them and political project

My latest for @religiondispatches.org on "neutral" coverage that falls for bad-faith claims by right-wing actors: religiondispatches.org/sanitizing-f...

In Germany there's a saying: If 9 people sit down with a fascist without protest and fight there's 10 fascists sitting at the table. Something liberals like @ezraklein.bsky.social should really take to heart.

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

Not so gentle reminder that “transgender ideology” isn’t a thing - it’s a way of negating the existence of trans people

Charlie Kirk war nicht „rechtskonservativ“. Er war in den letzten Jahren dem Spektrum des White Nationalism zuzuordnen, ein Faschist und offen rechtsextrem, hat gegen BPoC und LGBTQ Menschen gehetzt, ein radikaler Sexist obendrein. Man kann seine Ermordung verurteilen ohne ihn zu verharmlosen.

no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace

For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on.

And now we sit back and watch Republicans ignore the school shooting today while loudly mourning Charlie Kirk.

there was never going to be a world in which the right didn’t claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.

Schlecht gealtert

If you don’t have your own money then you can’t leave when he hits you.

Wenn die Sozialdemokratie nicht auf Seiten von Arbeitnehmer_innen steht, stehe ich nicht auf Seiten der Sozialdemokratie.

Every leftist knows fellow leftists are some of the most annoying people on the planet but there's a gigantic difference between being annoying and having institutional power. If you spend most of your energy punching left instead of right you simply do not have your priorities straight

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

hear me out: a sexy, soapy Hulu streamer with the general tone of the horny boat doctor show, but we take all the major plot points from real-life stories about things elephants do. this is not the first one and it won't be the last. elephants get up to wild shit. you'd watch this

Im Sauerland wurde die Wohnung einer 17-Jährigen wegen "Anti-Merz-Schmierereien" durchsucht. Es gab keinen stichhaltigen Verdacht. Der rechtswidrige Beschluss kam vom Amtsgericht Arnsberg, deren Direktorin ist die Ehefrau des Bundeskanzlers, Charlotte Merz. www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/...

As a general rule, if you are walking anywhere near a building and small pieces of stone start falling off for no apparent reason (nobody is pressure washing it), then get the entire fuck away from said building. Run across the whole street idk. A hard hat would not have saved you there

my bluesky

trans Personen sind in den USA, weltweit, unter Beschuss & man debattiert OHNE uns "Ist das ein Genozid?" Dieser Frage habe ich mich auf Kosten meiner Gesundheit mit diesem Video gewidmet. 70 Minuten ~ 200 Quellen. youtu.be/L2fJanfRfcw BITTE gebt uns eine Stimme: Schaut das Video & teilt es.

Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? “Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”

I'm going to be honest if the only thing keeping the United States from becoming a fascist autocracy was that no college professors post the word "diversity" on social media for 24 hours you should just move somewhere else because that scale of message discipline is not humanly possible

the problem is that I have one wild and precious life and I want to write every book, read every book, play every video game, kiss every cat, take every nap, visit every country, but I am very broke and very sleepy 😔

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If you're a cisgender american who agrees with Newsom and believes that trans people deserve respect then you won't have a problem with ending your own life at the age of 54. Cutting 25 years out of your life isn't a big deal, right? Life expectancy is 79. Shouldn't be a big ask of y'all.

My Neighbor Demon-Tiger

The idea that we shouldn't discuss bras in public because of feminine modesty (???) is how so many of us get to 40 without having ever worn one that actually fits, tbh. I try not to let Brianna Wu drive me to posting but fuuuck the concept of "normal women" my god, shut upppppppppp.

Everybody better be talking about Jessie Gender's ban from Bluesky. This is unmitigated bullshit that can't stand. And fuck transphobes.

Also, I'm just a cis woman asking cis men to shut the fuck up about Why Cis Women Totally Need Me To Attack Trans Women On Their Behalf (Even If They Don't Think So, The Little Dears).

Democrats and centrist media keep laundering this panic into ‘reasonable concerns’ but the anti-trans movement is overwhelmingly comprised of bigoted loser freaks. We’re missing a huge opportunity to make this a winning issue by pointing that out.

This definition of genocide means you can only use the term once it has been completed.

Since we can’t rely on the HHS, CDC, or FDA to say it, I will: MAKE SURE YOU ARE VACCINATED AGAINST MEASLES. GET YOUR MMR. Measles cases have reached their HIGHEST point since the disease WAS ELIMINATED from the United States in 2000. We ARE at the tipping point for the return of ENDEMIC measles.

Reminder

The problem isn't that transphobic parents are being ignored, it's that they're *lying about basic facts.* This is the dynamic on nearly every issue of public interest, from guns to climate change to economics. "The bigots are lying again" is a fucking great message for democrats and it's true.

List of resources in the thread ❤️🖤🤍💚

the problem with letting democrats backslide their support of trans rights whether it be trans in sports or using bathrooms is we’ve seen “compromise” in the UK labor party. they gave into “reasonable” TERF demands and it destroyed the labor party and all rights for trans people

Kinder mit Vorerkrankungen und Behinderungen haben es auch verdient zu leben. Das will ich nicht diskutieren müssen. Nicht in der Pandemie, nicht im Krieg, nicht im Hunger.