If they want me back they have to go fully Woke 2, sorry. Whole hog. I gotta be able to get an abortion there
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New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF
I know people get really mad at people who say they won’t vote for Gavin Newsom. And to those people I ask “Do you genuinely want Gavin Newsom to be president? Or are you just terrified of the Republicans?”
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Everyone vs ICE: On the Ground in Minnesota
Important episode & reporting by @jamesstout.bsky.social & @margaret.bsky.social out now
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I wrote about my time in Minneapolis last week, about what is involved in creating bottom-up, decentralized networks of care.
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The cops lie. Do not believe cop accounts. Do not believe cop accounts in the media, they lie to the media. The media OFTEN doesn't question the cop account and reports it as fact. It is not fact.
NYT Magazine headline “‘I'm on Fire': Testosterone Is Giving Women Back Their Sex Drive - and Then Some There is no F.D.A.-approved testosterone product for women. Insurance won't cover it. Many doctors won't prescribe it. It's become a cultural phenomenon.”
when trans people take HRT to feel normal: “look at these depraved sex freaks performing their sick fetish in public, we should bully them out of existence”
when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:
not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
There are only two possible options available for Gender Criticals: suppress research, or ignore research. No matter how many studies and trials they do it'll always show the same thing
CECOT is a concentration camp, let's get that out of the way right now.
As if we didn't have *enough* institutional transphobia to worry about, the US now has its own version of the Cass Report, baselessly contesting the efficacy of transition care without even daring to name the author(s).
The global trans panic is aiming for total and utter trans epistemicide.
If our democracy dies, this is its epitaph
Dora Richter lived. She survived to die an ordinary death in hospital, decades after her nazi persecutors' legs had stopped twitching. Dora Richter lived.
Good riddance
A) There shouldnt be corporations at Pride marches anyway
B) They’re telling you their support was always conditional to begin with
C) Rainbow capitalism will not save you
Remember their names and if you choose, never support them again the same way many are already doing with Target
So it goes without saying, but let's say it anyway: the concentration of attacks on trans people isn't because trans people are the only people fascists hate (although they absolutely do hate them). It's because they're the people they think non-fascists are least likely to defend.
A cross stitch pattern of the Oregon trail with the caption you listened to RFK. Credit to @institchesbysara
How it feels to be trans in America right now:
My one sentence review of The People's Joker: I Saw the TV Glow destroyed me, The People's Joker put me back together.