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Being a leftist who works adjacent to a very, very conservative industry is just a constant exercise in holding in a scream

I love this guy

Reminder that this is a winning position, and people support it

My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’

Mamdani elected *and* Ol Daddy War Crimes takes the big dirt nap in the same day? My serotonin is just surging

Good thing I'm too socially anxious to talk to my neighbors much, because I'm pretty sure most of them hate me for doing natural hippie granola lawn care and not raking my leaves, which then blow onto their lawns

I keep trying to find examples of old 1930s/40s German propaganda about Jewish people to use as a side by side comparison to this. I alas cannot read German, but this is absolutely a page from that playbook.

Every Trans Suicide Is A Murder By Those In Power News came this week that transgender athlete and student Lia Smith took her life at just 21 years of age.

1. This week, news emerged that former trans athlete, student at Middlebury, and advocate for trans rights, Lia Smith, was found dead.

Her death was ruled a suicide.

But I argue that it's not only a suicide. Every trans suicide is a murder by those in power.

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WHY DOES HE CARE ABOUT AMELIA EARHART

Press Conference: No "Transgender" Or "LGBTQ" Symbols Found At Kirk's Shooting Yesterday, several media outlets claimed or strongly implied that "transgender symbols" were found at the scene of the gun used by Charlie Kirk's shooter. This turned out to be false.

1. In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's shooting, the WSJ laundered claims that "transgender symbols" were found with the shooter's gun.

Now, a press conference reveals that NO such symbols were found.

WSJ owes a full retraction and apology.

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Super glad the Kirk shooter seems to be a cishet white guy, but man I'm skeptical that some 22-year-old made that precision long-distance shot

oh my god

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus OREM, UT—As law enforcement officials search for a person of interest in the assassination of 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, witnesses on the scene at Utah Valley University ad...

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

Whether or not you support political violence won’t change where we’ve come to, nor where we’ve been for some time in this country. I am quite taken aback by how many people only invoke the term ‘political violence’ when it happens to a person with power. It’s political violence the other way too.

anyway it's unserious to talk about "political violence" rn because look the fuck around, man. every single day is political violence

"We must reject political violence in EVERY form"

Anyway, back to using State violence to clear homeless camps out of the park, because rich people were complaining they had to look at them.

All of the people condemning the Charlie Kirk shooting are reminding me of this

white on white crime is out of control

This isn’t by accident, either. Kirk routinely expresses his own racist views. He suggested Black pilots are unqualified. He blamed a Black fire chief in Austin, Texas, for flooding deaths that occurred a three-hour drive away from the city. He denounced the passage of the 1965 Civil Rights Act and tried to discredit the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as “awful” and “not a good person.” Last month, Kirk devoted a chunk of his podcast to honoring the influential evangelical pastor John MacArthur, who passed away on July 14 at the age of 86. Kirk called him “one of the most influential Protestant minds since the Reformation,” and a “legend” who “never bowed to the gods of this age” and “never apologized for Scripture.” Soaring language — but it’s a euphemism. One of MacArthur’s most famous old-fashioned beliefs was that slavery was godly.

Just going to leave this here in case anyone says we have to put aside our differences with Charlie Kirk

Trump on Truth Social: We must all pray for Charlie Kirk, who has been shot. A great guy from top to bottom. GOD BLESS HIM!

WaPo headline: A gunman shot at the CDC, killing an officer. Trump hasn't said a word. Subhed: Trump has said nothing about the police officer killed by a gunman who sho at the CDC, an example of how selective he can be amid his daily torrent of words. Updated August 15, 2025

Contrast the immediacy with which Donald Trump responded to the Charlie Kirk shooting with the lack of response to the CDC shooting last month.

Charlie Kirk, one of the leading proponents of anti-LGBTQ and nationalist policies in the United States, has reportedly been shot in Utah.

Speak Out Loud, They Are Coming It's a staggering thing to watch your own generation's Niemoller poem write itself in front of you.

Hey you know what would be cool? Reading this. Or at least just like click on it and scroll a little
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You ever notice how privilege makes people think like toddlers who don't understand that not everybody knows their grandma? Cishet white dudes are all "I only want to fuck skinny white girls, so skinny white girls are the only people who are hot." Like grow up, Todd

When the fear of fascism weighs on me, I relish knowing that queer people have joy that the right's repressed asses cannot comprehend. I am my authentic self, I have three beautiful partners, and I live in an abundance of love. Our joy spits in the eye of those who wear the boots on our necks.

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

White House Evacuated After Trans Alarm Goes Off

My little idiot cat is of course not allowed on my stove or counters. He tries to get up and steal food if I can't see him, which he may even get away with if the little idiot didn't spend the entire time he goes after any forbidden food screaming