Emily Terese

The DeSantis regime will do more to protect sidewalks from chalk than children from bullets.

The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*

Precisely.

Kim Davis going from "my religious beliefs demand that I don't facilitate a same-sex marriages" to "my religious beliefs demand that there are NO same-sex marriages anywhere" *should* make Democrats realize there is no "sincere" compromise with bigots on trans issues.

We stopped expanding the House in the 1920s, decided the Supreme Court should freeze in the 1930s, added the last states in the 1950s, amended the Constitution only once in the last fifty years.

The USA and its government continued to grow, but almost all that growth came in the executive branch.

it's pretty frustrating how republicans can just spew endless lies about city life with zero repercussions but the moment a dem disparages a pickup truck it's open season

On top of everything else, I gotta deal with y’all solemnly saying “the cruelty is the point” over and over and over again. Like, girl, WE KNOW. Shut up.

I am beginning to think that Republican transphobia does not, in fact, have fuck all to do with supporting the athletic endeavors of women

“I love making women upset” is a really underestimated motivation of modern conservatism

Men “defending” women by defining them in the creepiest possible terms is a real hallmark of public transphobia. Real “every accusation is a confession” vibe.

Cooking is a form of processing. Ultraprocessing is when you're mad about someone else cooking.

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

"What if we taught men to get laid leftistly"

what if men cared about the loss of our bodily autonomy, the abuse we face as a result of coerced economic dependence and the actual pandemic of femicidal violence we have to contend with, more than they cared about sexual access to our bodies

there isn’t a leftist way to talk about how to get sex from women, it is a fundamentally right wing view to believe women are the keepers of sex and they are withholding it from you because you aren’t coercing them the right way.

The other reason this is infuriating is because straight women have, in fact, been explaining to straight men how to treat them for years. Endless discourse and countless books are dedicated to this topic. What this is a symptom of—and treats as legitimate!—is that men will only listen to other men.

This is a perfect example of how an unfettered presidential removal power can undermine accountability (despite unitary executive theory claims to the contrary). How can you hold the President accountable for economic conditions if the President can keep us from knowing about those conditions?

your opponents are nazis, you have the moral high ground by default

and the moral high ground and five bucks will get you a cup of coffee

This administration is terrible for my anxiety disorder

I *am* a constitutional scholar and you are correct.

Alan Cumming on bathroom bills:

"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."

Lawsuits from men against the doctors who provide abortions to their partners illustrate that men understand abortion bans as legal codifications of their private right to dominate and control women.

Funny how all that protect women’s sports energy went out the window as soon as WNBA players showed up with T-shirts bringing awareness to the lack of financial equity they have in their league.

"Vote blue no matter who" is for general elections. Primaries (or pre-primary discourse) is exactly when we need to be having these conversations. The "who" matters! And if you can't be at least as progressive as Joe Biden on social issues, what are we doing here?

When I watched the second instance I was in absolute awe of how he somehow made it even funnier. My favorite thing on a television show in many years.

It’s absolutely impossible to think this is the result of good faith legal analysis, especially when they refuse to provide any reasons!

A good goal for the future is to make the phrase "the Roberts Court" so radioactive that lawyers and law students will immediately treat whatever it did as presumptively wrong, like we did when professors mentioned the Lochner era

“this is just what ICE’s budget is now and we’ll be yelled at if we try to reduce it” is an unacceptable answer for any Dem going forward and anyone who makes this argument should be primaried

we simply cannot allow this apparatus to entrench itself

For those who once again missed the memo:

No, liberals are not “the party of tolerance.“ We are the party of compassion, of inclusion, of the Constitution & yes, of government by the people, for the people.

And like our founders, we have run out of tolerance for those who piss on these things.