Mary M

this is a good reminder that the anti-trans thing is a billionaire AstroTurf campaign and not an authentic expression of american values. We're not Britain. the median voter perspective is "why would i care what those transgenders are doing, please give me healthcare"

Listen, Newsom fans, I get it and I understand your disappointment but we can't let perfect be the enemy of good. We need someone who can win.

whether war, vaccines, or critical infrastructure there is contingent of the right that seems to believe that their security from the worst things that happen is some kind of metaphysical principle rather than the result of specific historical processes that could've gone otherwise and still could

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

Thank you for alt text!!

It makes all the sense in the world for there to be room for some deviation from norms! We can have rigid moral codes that still allow for the magical wondrous bounty of Ways For Humans To Be!!!
(Yelling in agreement with you)

And as a Catholic, I think of it as a kind of Original Sin. Obvi not the doctrinal one, but this vile, literally abhominable tendency to dominate dominate dominate.
I do think 85-90% of us would live easily & equitably, without much strife, if it weren't for that other 10% insisting on binaries.

I feel you're right about this tendency in humans.
I don't listen as much to BTB now, but I remember Robert saying in an episode that the urge to create in- & out-groups, hierarchies, to make might-makes-right rules -- this human flaw, we will always have with us.

And of course to use any other framework would be invalid, no deviation from the fundamental binary can get you close to God.
Except people are messy, and God is too, and moreover -- I don't think you need to "understand" trans people in order to agree that we all deserve the same rights.

Same thing I see in the dominant strain of Catholicism: there is only male & female, nothing in between or outside that binary. From God & Creation down to extension cords, the only credible lens they'll use/recognize to describe the entire world, and all the relationships therein, shows M or F.

To be clear, Kansas Republicans rushed through a confusing and disastrous bill, created a panic, and wasted untold number of tax dollars all to target 300 out of the nearly 3 million people in the state.

Ha ha "grandfather's shoe", that show was magical

They could start a new national lottery and fund universal healthcare by selling tickets where you can fire an ICE agent if you win.

You really like slurs huh

"Trans rights are human rights" has never been more important than right now.

The Kansas GOP overrode the Governor's veto to enable this. If they can willfully do it to one group, they can do it to ANY group.

y’all don’t need me to tell you this but this is plainly unconstitutional under any remotely rational reading of the constitution

These are Tom Waits lyrics

We are a few thousand subscribers away from being a bigger print newspaper than the Washington Post.

We are a mere flurry away from humiliating one of the two Big Space Perverts.

Ask not how a Space Pervert can dominate you. Ask how you can dominate a Space Pervert.

Subscribe below.

We travel with kids, so a kitchen where we stay is extremely helpful. If not for this, I'd have dropped Airbnb long ago

Yeah that one stood out

RECIRCULATED, NOT HOARDED is a winning message!

I can remember full-body weeping as an 11-year-old because the science magazines said that blue whales will be extinct before I would be adult enough to help. What hope was there?

Turns out, we can indeed save the whales.

And each other.

Thank you, stubborn folks! Hope + spite beat despair.

Thank you! I really thought there was a beehive and some sort of J6 symbol for a min

Someone please take me thru the symbolism I'm begging

!!
Is that Judy Greer

Next para: "A regime of secret policing has no place in our society. Here, the Government’s power is derived by the People, and the People must be able to identify the Government when it acts to infringe on their liberty."

Page 34: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct."

Anyone else remember the debate in the media about whether it was appropriate to declare a constitutional crisis? Funny how the press stopped asking that question once it became abundantly clear that we were in one.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.

"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I have no idea what they mean and will not be taught