empty seats can't melt supreme court justices

it really was a supreme act of cowardice and political stupidity that democrats didnt turn trans rights into a policy pillar like gay marriage after the massive nationwide backlash against north carolinas bathroom ban in 2016

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

Tbf that was also an American policy

I have two opinions on strategic bombing:
1. we should have done more of it
2. bomber harris' policy of 'escorts are for pussies' (circa '43) got thousands of men killed

AI could never replace me, my work emails average 3-5 words and are still somehow insulting but technically not disrespectful

online arguments aren’t about convincing the other party. they’re about establishing a psychosexual dominance over them that will burden them every time they see your posts from that point forward.

bsky.app/profile/rvbd... it's unrealistic for Cory booker to not support George w bush

bsky.app/profile/rvbd... like Cory booker doesn't have to do this

holding power and pushing for the voice of your base are two different things lol

These responses (and all available polling) really put this site's Leadership Defenders in context (they're fringe weirdos with oddly chosen parasocial relations).

normal response

Way bigger advert for Talarico than having him on would have been

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper Disgusting bigotry. Quote Congressman Randy Fine

Tapper has spent the better part of two and a half years legitimizing this kind of rhetoric with how he's used his cable television news slot but wants to act like Fine is now suddenly beyond the pale.

Remember that Tapper *made up a quote* from Tlaib but has never said anything on CNN about Fine.

If you say “paddy” your internalized racism is showing THE END

Think about all the cool shit we’d have if we weren’t ruled by joyless control freaks

We should be busy convincing people, and being convinced who the better candidates are, not trying to force an early coalescence. We put so much effort into telling people to vote, & a lot less into pros and cons of different candidates.

And if midterms don't go well, this may all be moot anyway.

Linda Davis was killed by ICE today. A Black woman, a beloved teacher, killed by ICE in Savannah, Georgia.

Her name is Linda Davis and she was killed by our government.

she is so vaccous and clout chasing she thinks everyone else has the same incentives and inability to realize how much of a fuckip she is

Whiskey Byeday

Spinning the dial on democrats polling popularity discourse and landing on “we need a Riyadh comedy festival for the left”

Hollywood reporter obit photo of Robert Duvall reading as his years lived: 19-2026

RIP Robert Duvall, who died at the age of 2007 yesterday

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Like trumps entire National security team got fawning profiles while AOC is getting critiqued for reiterating what U.S. policy towards Taiwan has been for decades

I really do think this is very instructive of the ratfuckery that any Dem (not just AOC if she does run) is going to face unfortunately and I’m not really sure how you deal with it

HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN.

They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.

No, and he doesn't know how to transcribe quotes when it's a woman that the @nytimes.com doesn't like. bsky.app/profile/samy...

I also emailed the reporter.

FWIW, I just emailed NYT's standards editor to ask about the paper's policy on this. Will update if I get a response.

Pure moral panic. How, precisely, would a child who experiments with a different haircut or pronouns get “locked in” to a trans identity?

The parents who had no problem letting her identify as trans suddenly restrict her from identifying as cis? It makes no sense.