I've noticed an increasing push by the right to use the same framing they used on trans people to go after gays.
"They're sexual predators out to abuse kids."
"Two men cannot biologically be parents."
"children of gay men are being deprived of their rights to a mother and father."
This MAGA influencer lied and said he was with CNN to trick gay dads into being interviewed. Then he accused them of sexually abusing their child because they're gay.
The right wing propaganda machine moved from "trans people predators" to "gay dads are sexual predators" without skipping a beat.
we've got computers
we're tapping phone lines
I know that that ain't allowed.
What's it called when you take someone else's reporting, use a screen shot they obtained before the person took the post down, and then fail to credit the reporter? That is called stealing someone else's work.
@michmf.bsky.social
@seattletimes-rss.bsky.social
Credit me. Do better.
I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals
A golden retriever has both paws up at a bank teller’s window.
“Are you the branch manager?”
“Yes I am, how can I help you?”
“I would like two branches, please.”
“How would you like that?”
“Two big sticks, four little sticks.”
Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.
Having a government full of eugenicists is bad for a whole host of moral, ethical, cultural, and scientific reasons.
It’s also pretty shit for national security as it turns out.
'You don't have to get vaccinated (which may well save your life or those of others), but you MUST follow these specific shaving requirements that give us an excuse to hound Black men out of the service before they reach high rank.'
The fact that we keep seeing these stories mean that the consequences for this form of legal malpractice aren’t nearly high enough.
Permanently disbar some motherfuckers, preferably some high level partners, and this shit will end pretty fast.
This is fucking horrific.
The intersection between transphobia and 'people in prison deserve what they get' is heinous.
people who say this act like if they weren't at the airport they'd be at home curing cancer. what exactly are your big plans for your extra 45 minutes at home you fuckin loser
Michael B Jordan all ripped and oily holding a sculpt of his own chest as if he burst out of it and in his left hand and on the left side of his body he has a cool trench coat on but the right side is just bare body with deltoids and pecs and triceps and obliques and forearms and then he has on these green pants made out of Rich Person Material, probably some kind of rare animal leather and the lighting accentuates all the creases pointing to his schmeat oh yeah by the way even his nipple is shiny Rolling Stone did this
Have we discussed this yet?
Easy dunks aside, it’s useful to know that this performative obsession with “war-fighting“ goes hand-in-hand with proudly knowing nothing about actual war. The real “most lethal force” is disease, always has been, but what do these spoiled children care, they’re just bashing action figures together.
100%
After generations of activists and researchers finally convinced most people that implicit bias exists, they created machines to enshrine that same bias and call it Science. 🙄
Also important to emphasize as these glasses will largely be used as a workaround against laws banning racial profiling more than anything.
Putting on my Dana Scully hat: Via pop culture there's a general awareness that brain tumors can cause these kinds of symptoms. Thus the brain generating the voices "knows" a brain tumor is a possible cause, and the voices express such possibility.
Sun Tzu: "You have to make sure that the places where your armies are are safe and clean and free of preventable diseases, okay? You need healthy troops. You can't win if your guys are all sick."
Hegseth:
Agreeing with Kath here. I don't think it's in any way minimising the horrors of the zzz groupchat to point out that the "62 million" figure is site visits to the porn site Motherless, not enrolees in an "online rape academy"
I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.
This cult-like behavior among people being considered for important positions should be disqualifying. Mullin got confirmed in spite of giving a similar non answer.
The refunds will be paid to importers and customs brokers, while consumers who paid higher prices won’t get much back.
We fucking warned y’all that this was the goddamned end goal for those smart glasses.
We need a labeler here that lets everyone know.
ACTUALLY WENT TO THE 2026 WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS DINNER
Doctors say that measles is one of the deadliest and most contagious infectious diseases in the world. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and cuts penises off raccons says you'll be fine if you drink raw milk and bathe in raw sewage. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
i have to underline the reason WHY people think crime is high is because there's a massive propaganda machine dedicated to making them think that.
Once again this is why a world that just rejects data for not feeling true is a world where leftism is dead. Crime is extremely low! But so many people are like "we have so much crime!" And then go right wing over it. Remember this when you're Discoursing.
time to start calling all these emo nites, 90s & 00s dance parties, etc. what they are -- Oldies Nights
What I will say is that the author isn’t, and never was an anti-vaccination. Her daughter contracted measles before she was eligible for the vaccine (1yr old in the UK at the time) and died at 11yrs old of measles related illness. The author calls out Wakefield very explicitly in the piece.
I guess I missed that part in The Odyssey
