Rev. Adam C. Bowling (he/him/his)

Bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia Home Kilmar is not alone. He is one of over 250 immigrants deported without due process, as part of Trump’s $6 million deal with Bukele’s government—a plan to funnel immigrants, often with no criminal reco...

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The serious concerns over how the Order will detrimentally impact transgender youth cannot be overstated. One Washingtonian, as her parents describe her, was a bright and gentle soul who loved playing musical instruments, trying new things, and playing Magic the Gathering. She was excited to learn Japanese and the impact of gender-affirming care was immediately clear to her family. Her parents described that “her joy was clear with every new milestone in her transition. She was so happy to get to the next step, to get closer to presenting in a way that was true to herself.” But the day before the presidential election, she shared, “[t]omorrow I get to find out if I’m illegal.” After the election, she asked her parents if they could move to Canada because she was fearful of new restrictions on transgender youth and worried about losing access to gender-affirming care. In January 2025, she took her life. After the Order issued, her parents expressed that the outlook for transgender futures looks scary and shared fears of what ending gender-affirming care would have meant for their daughter’s access to therapy, puberty-delaying medication, hormones, and hope of surgery. Her parents have expressed fear for the many lives who depend on gender-affirming care and that what happened to their daughter does not happen to any other children.

In a new lawsuit filed against Trump by state AGs, a family with a trans kid shares she died by suicide last month citing fears Trump would deny her access to gender-affirming care. "Her parents have expressed fear...that what happened to their daughter does not happen to other children."

Fact check: true

Lots of people are about to be really mad that price of eggs goes up but they can’t get a 2nd job because they can’t afford childcare and when they do finally get the eggs they get E Coli because there’s no FDA but can’t go to the doctor because they got kicked off their health plan. #FAFO

I’d rather share the bathroom with a trans person rather than someone in a MAGA hat.

Text of speech by Rep. Jim McGovern: McGovern: What the hell is going on here? And their cabinet picks so far? These are like beyond insane. Someone who paid hush money to cover up a sexual assault accusation, you know, to lead our military? Someone who says that tap water turns kids gay.

More of this energy please!

No, the Democratic Party Can't "Message Better" to Racism, Misogyny, and Ignorance In the wake of the election results, one of the most common media postmortems has been the Democratic Party’s supposed failure to reach those Americans who they were unable to persuade over the course...

There is no messaging strategy that can overcome deeply-held prejudice and rising ignorance, and those two factors are the only explanation for a sociopath ike Donald Trump even being the nominee, let alone getting 76 million votes.

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No matter what happens, he's STILL a convicted felon.

FOREVER.

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉

We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

Anyone else remember when Dr. Oz said that it was fine for 2–3% of schoolchildren to die?

Yeah, he’s in charge of Medicaid and Medicare now.

Never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So never stop sharing books with kids. Never stop reading to them, and helping them to read. Never stop changing lives. #literacy #kidlit #books

For as long as I live, I will never understand how anyone could have chosen Trump over this.

Right??

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Bluesky has surpassed a milestone of 20 MILLION users.

I’m so done with x

Leader Schumer on the Senate floor:

"The Senate is going to keep prioritizing judicial and administrative confirmations this week, this month, and for the rest of the year."

Joe Scarborough and Mika from Morning Joe, their ratings plummeting, made a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago because they decided if you can't beat him, grovel for access and help normalize him AGAIN.

STOP 👏
WATCHING👏
MORNING👏
JOE👏

The media sure is really inquisitive about Trump's mass deportation plan now that he was elected: how it will work? how it will get paid for? is it even constitutional?

Why wasn't that curiosity directed at Trump before election?

The same Republicans trying to put a man accused of child sex trafficking at the top of the DOJ and an anti-vaxxer atop HHS, are telling us that the reason they’re banning drag queens, gender affirming care & books with two mommies is because they want to ‘protect our kids.’

Bullshit.

I was just informed by a MAGA reader angry at my vocal opposition to RFK Jr...she emails in part, "Theres no proof vaccines work. there is proof Vaccines cause atheism." (sic)

These people have the franchise.

No, the Democratic Party Can't "Message Better" to Racism, Misogyny, and Ignorance Let's stop pretending

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There is something deeply amusing about musklings coming here and realizing there’s no algorithm to boost their rage bait, which was their main advantage.

End wokeness on twitter: Got banned from BIuesky within the first 30 seconds for posting a biological fact

Great work mods!!

Just so we’re clear -
Any party telling you who you can love, what gender you are, which medicine you can take, which books you can read, which history you can learn, what prayers you should pray and what you can and cannot do with your own body, doesn’t give a fuck about freedom.

I have a library card and got it last year. Please make sure y’all support ya local library!

Abuse can be understood in 2 words.
Power and control.

Now more than ever, be the change you want to see in the world.

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” -Shakespeare

The best post-election political analysis I’ve seen.