Junia (Jay) Bennett 🏳️‍⚧️

Starmer sucks.

Relatedly, the Harris campaign constantly sought the input of... Starmer's team.

The abject poverty of Ezra Douthglesias’ political strategy for the center-left of Just Doing An Abundance Of Moderate Popularism is a cross-national phenomenon:

Never heard of this law before right this second but holy fuck if it does not 100% check out

As an aside: the most influential Dem consultants all believe the best electoral strategy is to adopt a hostile posture towards the Dem base in the hopes that might convince this person to vote for Dems.

They get really mad if you say that won't do anything except depress lean-Dem turnout.

Part of the reason the whole country hasn't been screaming about trans Kansans who drive being made criminals overnight is because there's so much else that's unconstitutional and horrifying.

But part of it is because it's happening to trans people.

If I were Keir Starmer or a UK Labour MP right now, I would be *clamoring* to have Instant-Runoff Voting (Alternative Vote in the UK) implemented for all single-winner races as soon as possible

If passed, this would place most of the US in the same position that *all* of the UK has been in since 2021 or so.

This is why trans people don't listen to twerps who say 'vote Labour or else you'll get Reform'. We are already getting full Trump/Reform policies from a Labour government.

Gen Z women are the most liberal group in the country On issues like abortion and gender-affirming care, women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average.

Our recent poll found that women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average. Nearly 80 percent of Gen Z women want abortion to be legal and seven in 10 want gender-affirming care to be accessible for trans adults.

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Reminder that if you’re still posting on Twitter then you’re monetizing this

MAGA's version of free speech seems to involving banning a lot of speech, oddly enough.

man it was nice to have a president who wouldn’t give an off the cuff press conference tanking the economy

My wife just asked me if I was whistling at our dog and I had to admit that no, I was pretending to be R2D2. She took it in stride and said, “Oh, okay.”

i think it's cool that they made a truck that doesn't work as a truck at all and instead makes random strangers hate you and want to ruin your life. good purchase

A Year Without Nex Benedict "We are saying that the rhetoric is just as damaging as the bullet or the blow."

a year ago 16-year-old Oklahoman Nex Benedict died after a bathroom beating. in the time since, we've lost more trans kids, while losing federal trans rights.

how a community is holding itself together after years of living under Trump's current anti-trans policies at the state level @teenvogue.com

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I got mad at the New York Times after their editorial board released an opinion piece condemning Trump's anti-trans EOs and I decided to write about how the paper of record laundered transphobia into the mainstream and paved the road for Trump's transphobia. www.patreon.com/posts/nyt-ed...

in retrospect maybe it was a mistake to tell young people that reading, the arts, the humanities weren’t important and that “learning to code” was sufficient for a good life.

I like how all the trans journalists had the same idea this morning lol. Fuck the Times.

tariff the fuck out of me, Trudeau. I want to pay $50 for maple syrup and to see car prices to go up 25% overnight.

the American people voted to touch the stove, and by god, that stove shall be touched.

I just sent this email to all 13,000 federal employees of the NOAA lol. The Trump administration's changes to their communications system made it so literally anyone can blast messages out to the entire agency

Montgomery County Public Schools comes out and tells Trump to pound sand with his EO telling schools that they have to discriminate against transgender students.

This is how you refuse to comply.

If you don't think you can be talked out if your current gender, why do you think trans people can be talked out of theirs?

i said in the chat the other day that even though i'm a literal witch, i reckon i'm still closer to jesus' teachings than a significant number of american christians

First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.

This is the latest post on my newsletter and, honestly, it felt like I was just listing the most basic of things. Like "stand up for us!" and "educate yourself!"

The problem is, even those super basic things are too difficult for a lot of cis folks who proudly say they are trans allies. 😕

Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’ User growth is ‘stagnant’ on the platform formerly known as Twitter.

Wait, fascism isn't good for profits?

www.theverge.com/2025/1/24/24...

“Yes. As you live now, protecting people isn’t your true ideal. If that were the case, you’d surrender. No, your true ideal is never giving up. No matter the cost. You realize the pride in that sentiment?” “I refuse to accept that we’ve lost,” Dalinar said. “That’s the problem with your worldview, Taravangian. You gave up before the battle started. You think you’re smart enough to know the future, but I repeat: Nobody knows for certain what will happen.” Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War, chapter 66

A lot of people need to read their Brandon Sanderson. We will *not* comply in advance.

Do not do the devil's work for him. Until there are legally enacted rules under the APA that are upheld by the courts, do not obey in advance. These are meant to intimidate trans people. It won't work.

We will not go away or disappear. Deal with it.

Fuck. This is so fucking stupid.