Billie

The corruption never ends

Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people.

Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.

Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.

Update: Wrote it.
open.substack.com/pub/billieis...

charlie brown lying on his back earnestly asking lucy to let him try again

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.

If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.

State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Jennifer and me

🎼Give us the peace of vision clear
to see each other's good, our own,
to joy and suffer not alone:
the Love that casts aside all fear.

#transinchurch

LOUDER!

Standing for the dignity of sex workers is a profoundly Christ-like posture.

This is (or at least should be) self-evident to anyone who has read the Gospels.

“Right now, the city of Chicago does not feel safe for anyone, no matter their status”

FOX: So you would ask Speaker Johnson to recall the House?

GOP REP. KEVIN KILEY: Not only would I, I've asked him to do it repeatedly. There's no justification. And honestly, it's Republican voters who should be most upset about this when they delivered a GOP majority and now that's being wasted

Saying "it's my political belief that this sort of harrassment is right and good to engage in" isn't a magic spell - or at least, it shouldn't be.

Yes, "Reasonable Compromises" on Trans Rights are Transphobic On what is not being said beneath the debate over Democrat backpedaling on trans rights.

While I work on it, here is the essay I already wrote about the difference between the trans accommodation and trans affirmation paradigms.
open.substack.com/pub/billieis...

The 6th circuit case at the heart of this conversation between Evan (who is correct) and Ari (who is committing a moral obscenity) is a good example of how thoroughly the trans accommodation paradigm fails.

Gonna have to write an essay about this.

I have this whole sapphic headcanon where it is being sung by a butch lesbian captain and it makes me happy every single time.

I quite like Downeaster Alexa

As a Christian I am not called or committed to pretending my enemy is one iota less evil than they are. I am called and committed to loving my enemy in the fullness of their evilness and cruelty and I am called and committed to calling them to repent.

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Today I am, again, furious that "affordability" is the consensus tactic for taking Trump and MAGA fascism down while the administration is busy committing absolute atrocities against marginalized people.

Anyone willing to tolerate cruelty until it impacts their wallets is a moral monster.

MAGA fascism's championing of "freedom of religion" has always been opportunistic. It is not another hr principle for them; much like their championing of "free speech" it has always been a tactic for suppressing their political opposition using the language and framing of liberalism.

Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response

UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview.

“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”

This appears to be part of the faith-led "Faith over Fear" effort outside the ICE detention center in Broadview, IL, one of various religious demonstrations criticizing ICE that have been held outside the center in recent weeks.

ben shapiro slides on his well worn hotdog suit yet again

Be fair. How could he be so certain people are posting not true things there unless he were on X posting a bunch of not true things?

Isn't perjury a crime? Like I am pretty sure someone is even being prosecuted for it right now.... 🤔

Nothing says ‘fit to lead’ like napping through your own medical endorsement. Get Grandpa Don to bed. 🤦🏽‍♂️

This is my brother's research!! He's worked incredibly hard on it the last several years. I'm proud.

Science matters! Research matters!

"Time of day determines cancer immunotherapy efficacy through a circadian clock–dependent chemokine axis."