Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now

Massachusetts lesbian Gov. Maura Healey signs new shield law for abortion & trans health care - LGBTQ Nation "No one is going to prevent the people of Massachusetts from getting the health care they need," she said.

howling at this headline which is basically "Area Lesbian Did a Thing"

I'm really going to need every @npr.org and supposedly liberal news outlet to stop uncritically repeating this "tough on crime" narrative; fucking stop it

We need to be clear about this - the HHS Secretary, RFK Jr., is *the* biggest purveyor of disinformation, misinformation, and conspiracy theories about vaccines and public health.

He is *directly* responsible for these attacks - and there will be more, if he is allowed to continue.

I was very moved by my conversation with @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social...

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Trump is placing Washington D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department under federal control and is deploying the National Guard in the city.

He said this would be “Liberation Day” for D.C.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump takes over MPD and deploys the National Guard City leaders have called the move a "manufactured intrusion on local authority."

In an almost unprecedented move in D.C.’s 50-year experience with self-governance, President Donald Trump on Monday took control of the Metropolitan Police Department, putting its 3,100 sworn officers under his direct command for the next 30 days. 51st.news/dc-trump-mpd...

this dc situation looks pretty horrible. i wish i had more to say except that autocracy is always mundane and petty and vicious and encourages you to look away and be safe. and you can live quite normally under it until you're a direct target

New lawsuit presses DOJ to release communications about Epstein files • Kentucky Lantern A nonprofit government watchdog sued the Trump administration Friday for failing to respond to public records requests for communications between the White House, Department of Justice and Federal Bur...

New lawsuit presses DOJ to release communications about Epstein files kentuckylantern.com/2025/08/11/r...

sorry for the purity test, but you're not a very good leftist if your idea of justice is 'definitely always believe the cops and jail everyone associated with the people they dont like'

RollingStone 'LIBERATION DAY' D.C. POLICEPUT UNDER FEDERAL CONTROL, ARE NOW 'ALLOWED TO DO WHATEVER THE HELL THEY WANT' Feds will take control of the Police, National Guard deployed after "Big Balls" car jacking By TESSA STUART AUGUST 11, 2025

The fascism isn’t creeping. It’s here.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Attempting to beat back this policy, and the policymakers who enacted it, is a big reason we’re here today.

Mask up, punks!!!

Reminder that Trump telegraphed this plan to seize total control over local authorities ***back in April*** but it was completely ignored by the media and called fearmongering by people online.

Imagine if "combating homelessness" meant housing people, not brutalizing and disappearing them.

How Not to Fix American Democracy A new book argues for making the U.S. a “true” democracy, but fails at the essential strategy of persuasion.

i think packer gives away the actual motivation for this review when he spends the opening paragraph complaining that @ositanwanevu.com has been mean to him and his friends online www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

Anyone declaring that the next decades of politics are now a fait accompli, completely known and unchangeable are wrong.

The District of Columbia is under attack today — not from violent gangs or thieves, but by the President of the United States.

The President's weaponization of the Home Rule Act is a direct attack on the 700,000 residents of DC and we will not stand for it.

Shifting Gears Executive Summary The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) marks one of the largest infusions of federal funding into the nation’s infrastructure of the last century. This legislation…

In 2023, our Office found that NYSDOT spent billions on highway widening projects, including the disastrous Cuomo-era Van Wyck Expressway project in Queens.

This is money that could have gone towards expanding public transit, active transportation, and state-of-good-repair projects.

Wish I were surprised that a Dem from Northern Virginia doesn't think Washingtonians are real people deserving of civil rights and political representation. If Trump expresses anything coherent, it is the racist fury of the bridge and tunnel crowd who see the city as a paycheck and shopping mall.

The only place in DC where crime is up is the White House.

The UK is about to ban access to Wikipedia, just remember this bill was originally pitched as a means to protect kids from accessing porn.

People without homes work, just like people with homes. They have families and they don’t. They vote or they don’t. They support Republican candidates, Democratic candidates, and third party candidates. They have a variety of personal, religious, and political beliefs. They are just people.

People are not criminals or dangerous, by virtue of their unhoused status. People are struggling to afford rent and food in an expensive city. We should not have homelessness in our nation’s capital. But the path to ending homelessness is housing, not displacement.

We are watching closely as the federal government broadcasts various threats to folks without homes in D.C. We want to be clear about a few things. 🧵

We are up & monitoring the situation again tonight.

Call the migrant solidarity hotline to report activity, we have folks otg ready to support.

If you see someone being detained, get name, date of birth, & where they are being taken if able.

Be safe, fuck the feds, free dc.

Remora House provides mutual aid & support to DC’s unhoused population & is a reliable source of information about what’s happening on the ground.

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The journalists responsible for this must be prosecuted as accessories to genocide.

No actually. People should see these pictures.

No fucking cops or corpos at pride. Ever.

Guess it seems bad that Elon can just deactivate any Tesla he wants to, any time he wants to, anywhere he wants to. #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall