Silver Smith

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

The reason that "respectable" and "intellectual" conservative and centrist pundits have spent the last decade arguing that social pressure and public opinion are morally equivalent to state coercion is to lay the groundwork for justifying the latter.

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Our health will always be something the State can threaten us with until we wrest control over it (resources, knowledge, infrastructure, etc.) back from the medical industrial complex.

i consider it a sign of the reactionary shift in the overton window that it is difficult to criticize one of the most hegemonic and powerful institutions on earth without getting piled on by "progressive" defenders, even if you add the caveat/hedge of "extremism"

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The discourse about how to protest right is a distraction from what the protests are actually about: SECURITY FORCES CAME IN THE NIGHT AND TOOK 2000 PEOPLE AWAY

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up

I don't like it at all, but I don't want to concede anything to my enemies (the government and its fascist supporters). Rather than complain about it being used to steal artists IP, I want to figure out how to use it to steal IP from mega corporations and the state

Flow

Someone who says “Neo-Nazi’s are taking over the government, please listen to the police and form an orderly line” are either unserious, trying to sell you something, or are sheepherding you into danger.

That sounds really boring

Are we hardwired to fall for autocrats? It’s human nature to trust strongmen, but we’ve also evolved the tools to resist them

I'm sorry, I don't buy this. David Graeber and David Wengrow effectively demonstrated the myriad ways societies could organise in early human history. The point about autocrats is not that we are hardwired to follow them but they employ systems of coercion. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

The NBA should be needlessly dramatic and announce the MVP like 30 minutes before game 7 of Nuggets-Thunder tips off

This also exposes the commissioner of baseball as a spineless toady. Another positive

This is great stuff. I support any decision that degrades the integrity of the Hall of Fame, because it's just dumb journo crap that no real sports fan should care about. In fact I think Cooperstown should build a monument to the heroes who rigged the World Series!

If anything its a badge of honor

Keep in mind. Trump isn’t giving all these ICE Agents directions individually. They are choosing to do this. Stealing money. Making girls stand in the rain in their underwear. That’s their choice. Because people who chose to be ICE Agents chose it for pain it causes.

you often see partisan political cheerleading compared to sports, but most sports fans i've met usually have some opinions about the tactics of their favorite team, or are even willing to criticize the management when they make bad calls. political cheerleaders are less sophisticated than that

The more depravity they get away with, the more depraved they become

This horse must have had a wild and crazy life, I want to know his story. Unless he's going to hell for not being baptized or some shit

[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

"Campus free speech" has only ever been a rhetorical shield for repression of student speech inconvenient to power.

I want us to study the history of resistance to slave catchers right now. I want us to study how slave catchers worked, how they were sanctioned, who paid them, and why they did what they did, right now. I want us to study the hyperlocal and networked ways slave catchers were impeded. Right now.

I'm actually looking forward to Stefon Diggs being back in the AFC East, it's gonna be spicy. The Patriots made a lot of moves in the off season and I was worried the Bills were in danger of not taking them seriously. That won't happen now

This 👇 These are constructed and as such, are subject to abuse by the state and those in power. All of this framing was always going to expand the web of criminalization, pour even more money into already violent systems, and further harm already marginalized communities—and here we are now.