James Kelly

This is a good piece, but I am struck by how he explains that Trump's brazenness has taken every 'congress must authorize' and turned it into 'congress needs a super-majority to stop.'

And I think the solution, to be frank, is in 2029 to put administration officials on trial for their illegality.

I dunno, I feel like "I'm siding with Ken Paxton on genociding trans youth" should be the demoralizing bit here Jesse

losing a primary by FIFTY points because you backed ICE should tell everyone where the zeitgeist is right now

CHOICE TOTAL Veleria M. Levy 4,949 Nasif Majeed 1,889 Tucker Neal 376 Tie Not Reported Not Participating

2. Last night, primary elections in North Carolina told a different story: if you abandon trans people, your Dem voters will abandon you. The state's most prominent anti-trans Dem, Nasif Majeed, fell to progressive challenger Veleria Levy, who ran on a pro-LGBTQ+ platform, by more than 40 points.

Anti-Trans Democrats Blown Out In North Carolina Primary Election Anti-trans Democrat Nasif Majeed lost to Veleria Levy, who ran on a pro-LGBTQ+ platform. Other conservative Democrats lost as well on primary day.

1. In yesterday's primary elections, anti-transgender Democrats found out the hard way why you don't throw transgender people under the bus.

Two anti-trans dems lost their primaries, including one that cast the deciding veto override vote, in blowouts.

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If you’ve arrived at the “doctors do medicine for money and therefore can’t be trusted” stage of your theory, they should take the sharp objects out of your house

Sports fans know this isnt new. Many outlets started publishing "automated" game recaps using only the box score about 15 years ago. It sucked & it faded away. History will repeat. AI writing is bad, not good, which is why readers reject it.

a man is playing a saxophone in front of a fire while a woman plays drums in the background . Alt: The sax guy from The Lost Boys

They’re doing a Lost Boys musical? They better have shirtless sax guy!

NBA in NBC throwback

My god this score bug is beautiful

a certain kind of person has discovered in our present moment that you can be given unparalleled success and reach if you're willing to sell your soul, and for them that price is such an easy bargain

this dude has, at present, 32 followers - plucked from nowhere, with no credentials or readership, to prop up a position invented whole-cloth as a means to justify a systematic ongoing torment.

just a useful idiot, a potemkin person.

abolish ICE is a majority position among INDEPENDENTS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC

you have 23% among REPUBLICANS

we have at least three more years of this shit

what I am saying is: the next Dem president had better be ready to walk into DHS with a chainsaw on Day 1

I'm sorry to remind everyone of the existence of hte worst magazine in America, but Kansas is literally taking away trans' people's driver's licenses, and the Atlantic has decided to publish a thumbsucker about whether effeminate boys are feeling pressured to transition

There's definitely something to be said about which stories the big elite media outlets choose to put their energy into on the topic of trans issues.

uld you support or oppose abolishing ICE? (%) Somewhat or strongly supportNot sureSomewhat or strongly oppose U.S. adult citizens 39 Party ID Democrats 14 Independents 35 Republicans 68

Per The Economist/YouGov, half of Americans support ABOLISHING ICE.

Literally, "abolishing."

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Sarah's Mom - Part 4

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To put it simply, a lot of conservative Christians salivate over the “end times” because they want God to punish the world.

It’s not about following Jesus as much as it’s about dunking on the other “team”

- bring back dei initiatives with force
- *really* invest in bipoc causes as a mea culpa
- *really* invest in lgbtq+ causes as a mea culpa (before even THINKING of bringing back pride stuff)
- STOP GOUGING PEOPLE

Bing bong so simple

Conventional wisdom is a really fascinating phenomenon. We're at the point where "everyone knows" kids were being rushed into inappropriate gender transition.

There are between zero and 10 recorded cases of this happening (depending on your definition of rushed).

This is what microSD cards should actually look like

people have been lied to about this. the GOP, the NYT, and sundry centrists have spread this bullshit story where kids are being bum rushed into surgery by a shadowy conspiracy of endocrinologists and gender ideologues

I've interviewed and met Bruce Campbell a whole bunch of times, both in-person and over zoom, and it's so funny because he very much has a persona he puts on but it's clear he's a really good egg underneath that bravado?

He's been very kind to me more than once and he didn't have to be - he's real.

They barely modified the trope, they merely pretend that instead of stopping dastardly gay men from becoming women to trick het men, they are now saving poor gay men "seduced by gender ideology". Like everyhthing transphobes rely on are cheap 40+ years old stereotypes, despite us "being a new thing"

If your liberal electoral strategy for human rights is "Donald Trump is smart to demonize them" we are genuinely not on the same side of history at all.

Some Incredibly Inconvenient Data For College Republicans Right wingers on college campuses don't actually feel persecuted

Two percent of college Republicans say they “feel they don’t belong on their campus due to their political beliefs.”

Someone tell The New York Times.

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Kristi Noem said Alex Pretti “committed an act of domestic terrorism. That’s the facts.” Defend it or retract it, but don’t deny it.

Rip Hamilton’s son, Deuce, has committed to OU.

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It's Jeff! Meets Daredevil by @kellythompson.bsky.social and @gurihiru.bsky.social

If you have a cat, you should be reading this. You should also read if you don't have a cat. Jeff is more of a menace than my little gremlins, but he's adorable nonetheless!

I believe the New York Times to be institutionally transphobic and ethically compromised. Sorry. If your byline appears in it, I don’t trust you.