Patrick Stein

This is an avenue. I’ve been thinking about a lot as of Weight and both actual Republicans who’ve been disaffected and Democrats who just want to yell at Republicans in a way that sounds plausible where we can overwhelm their ability to counter message this. Literally flood their zones.

Maybe it’s totally worth risking custody of their kids and the hope of having more than a minimum wage job in the decade after they get out of prison to sabotage whatever portion of the system they can reach… or maybe there’s something more constructive they can do as a civilian. It is their call.

“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one” is a great ideal, but you’re quickly drifting from rooting for heroes to appointing martyrs.

What’s “limited” here is your appreciation of their individual situations. The ask is far more than just possible time stuck in a cage.

Senior Vatican Cardinal warns “demonic” transgender rights are causing the “death of God”

There is nothing more metal than trans rights

Tulsi Gabbard is firing trans federal employees for "sex chats" that never happened - LGBTQ Nation Gabbard's move is based on wildly exaggerated "reporting" from far-right strategist Christopher Rufo.

Tulsi Gabbard is firing trans federal employees for "sex chats" that never happened - LGBTQ Nation www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/02/tuls...

god this would be so fucking funny if it wasnt from the establishment about to tank this country and also about a rapist child sex trafficker

It’s also generally a great way to poke at a President so absolutely obsessed with his own name.

So, USAID trying to stop Ebola outbreaks is an inexcusable waste of tax dollars; NSA employees bonding in forums made for employee bonding is a fireable lapse in judgement; and hey, let’s, as a party in power in all three branches of government, take a moment to Rick Roll the nation would be great.

The New McCarthyism: LGBTQ+ Purges In Government Begin After Chris Rufo leaked LGBTQ+ chatlogs from the intelligence community, Gabbard has announced that all those who participated in the chats will be fired.

Making America Wrong Again.

Creating spaces for employees to bond and then using that bonding to punish them is absolutely deplorable.

#TheNewCruelty

www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-new-mc...

Opinion | The MAGA War on Speech If only the powerful are free to speak their minds, it’s not free speech.

“It is about prioritizing far-right ideology — and at times celebrating lies and hate speech under the guise of preventing the criminalization of language — while simultaneously trying to silence independent thought, inconvenient truths and voices of dissent.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

Can you imagine the meltdown if Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden or Kamala Harris were even 1/3rd this narcissistic and deranged?

His “mind is a [shit] storm.”

Iowa GOP advances bill to legalize anti-trans discrimination Iowans would be free to discriminate based on "gender identity", marking the first time a state has removed protections from any group of people.

Iowans would be free to discriminate based on “gender identity”, marking the first time a state has removed protections from any group of people.

The sociopaths at the GoP have chosen their target community. Once they disappear trans identity they will come for the LGB community. And they are already gunning for the next group to disenfranchise: women in general. The need for scapegoats transcends any sense of decency or humanity.

The Iowa legislature just became the first in modern history to repeal a statutory civil rights law by removing protections for gender identity first passed in 2007. They have legalized discrimination against trans people in housing, healthcare, and employment.

This is a campaign of eradication.

We are a collective of Black feminists who have been meeting together since 1974. [1] During that time we have been involved in the process of defining and clarifying our politics, while at the same time doing political work within our own group and in coalition with other progressive organizations and movements. The most general statement of our politics at the present time would be that we are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression, and see as our particular task the development of integrated analysis and practice based upon the fact that the major systems of oppression are interlocking. The synthesis of these oppressions creates the conditions of our lives. As Black women we see Black feminism as the logical political movement to combat the manifold and simultaneous oppressions that all women of color face.

it drives me bananas when people say ignore identity politics to focus on class.

CLASS IS A PART OF IDENTITY POLITICS. the women who came up with identity politics are literally socialists!

class oppression is mentioned in the THIRD SENTENCE of the statement! www.blackpast.org/african-amer...

i also absolutely see fucking red when people are like “obviously the fearmongering about CRT is out of control but i genuinely feel identity politics is wrong and bad” like hey what. hello? are you sure you know what you’re talking about? wanna go double check???

that's correct. there are more trans members of the US military than members of militia groups in the US.

House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt

🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

Pritzker: "We're talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that we've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders."

The image is a screenshot of an MSNBC news broadcast covering a House of Representatives vote. The main portion of the screen shows a live scene from the House chamber with a vote tally displayed, indicating the results for House Concurrent Resolution 14 (H CON RES 14). The vote breakdown is: Republicans: 216 Yea, 1 Nay, 3 Not Voting Democrats: 212 Nay Independents: 0 votes Total: 216 Yea, 213 Nay, 4 Not Voting The bottom of the screen has a red "Breaking News" banner stating, "HOUSE GOP VOTES ON BUDGET DEAL THAT THREATENS MEDICAID." On the right side of the screen, there are two smaller video panels: 1. The top panel features MSNBC host Chris Hayes speaking, with the show's logo "ALL IN" visible in the background. 2. The bottom panel shows a congressman in a suit speaking in a government building. The broadcast time is displayed as 8:14 PM ET at the top left and 7:14 PM CT at the bottom right. The setting is Capitol Hill.

The House budget reconciliation framework that cuts $1 trillion from Medicaid has just passed.

They are literally taking from the sick and poor to give the rich tax cuts.

A few points about the silly and unactionable EO that is the source of so many issues surrounding recent State Department moves.
1. At conception, nobody has organs. You are literally a single cell. You produce no gametes, period.
2. Until 6-8 weeks, you only develop undifferentiated gonads.

Talia Lavin’s book “Culture Warlords” and Michael Kimmel’s book “Angry White Men” are both excellent backdrop to where we are now.

There is no meaning to that salute beyond "I want to murder millions of people." I see it as a direct threat and an unforgivable depravity. No scrim of purported irony is gonna lessen that. It is a gesture solely for sick, murderous fucks

Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives.

Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.

Either Musk is a genius who understands who is kicking peoples’ lives for personal financial gain, or he is an idiot asshat who is kicking peoples’ lives for fun.

The truth probably lies somewhere in between. But, that whole spectrum is undeniably criminal.

#TheNewCruelty

If you have ever wondered why our safety net is so inadequate and so full of cruelties and indignities, it is because of anti-Black racism.

here's what I think: borders are bad and should be abolished

Anti-Violence Program

OutFront MN is a great organization that has an email address specifically for helping trans people move to MN.

moving@outfront.org

www.outfront.org/anti-violenc...

For the unfamiliar: in 2022, patriot front who marched today was stopped with a u-haul packed with 31 masked rioters with identical uniforms and shields. Some were armed. They were on their way to an Idaho pride event. They were intercepted by police and FBI but that was Biden's DOJ, this is now.