David Forbes

Hey. Hey you! You’re lovely, congrats on being you. It took a lot, I know, but you made it. And every day you’re you, you are living in opposition to so much. That takes a fucking lot. So it’s okay to be tired or sad. I am too.

But we’re both alive. And that is beautiful.

The professional grade logistics of the 9,723 individual pop-up leftist supply depots are running laps around the people paid to do these jobs

For our U.S. readers, this shit right here is why there can be NO COMPROMISE on trans rights - not sports, not bathrooms, not clothing, not names, not BCs. NOTHING! Whatever 'bone' you throw to genitally-obsessed bigots will never be enough. I will not vote for concession on basic human rights.

Worth remembering the same political party behind this was also advising Harris and are incredibly likely to advise Newsom or any other centrist Dem that runs for the presidency.

Liberal and centrist governments are perfectly capable of carrying out trans genocide. They already are.

DRAFT - NOT CURRENT DE POLICY Accommodating social transition is an active intervention so schools and colleges should take a very careful approach 264. Schools and colleges should take a very careful approach in relation to social transition. The Cass Review acknowledged that there is a lack of good evidence on the long-term impact of social transition on young people, but it is clear that social transition should be viewed as an active intervention that may have significant effects on the child or young person in terms of their psychological functioning and longer-term outcomes. Primary schools should exercise particular caution, and we would expect support for full social transition to be agreed very rarely.

calling a cis fred fred: chill and good. god smiles upon you and fred both

calling a trans fred fred: this is an active medical intervention. we're drowning you in the channel and feeding fred to wes streeting

cannot believe it still needs to be said: suggesting sex workers should just fuck the misogynists is misogyny. you don’t “manage” male supremacy with sex workers’ lives and labor

Well, this remains relevant.

"People increasingly are seeing people like Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey as weak and useless, given their tendency to play softbody and write strongly worded letters to murderous ICE agents. No politician can or will save us. Certainly no police or military will."

I consider it a promising sign of weakness that the rhetoric from the gentry indulging "ai" is shifting a bit from "it's inevitable! Shut up!" to "can't we have a reasonable discussion?"

The way a drunk frat bro pleads with the bar crowd he's been harassing all night not to finally kick his ass.

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"Whoever wins, next year the city budget will further gut services, give massive raises to well-off higher-ups, shovel yet more cash to police and only make things worse for the vast majority of people who live here. If those running for office don't like that, they are welcome to prove me wrong."

If we believe DHS’s numbers, ICE spent three months in Minnesota and arrested just over one person per agent in that time.

The Minneapolis resistance worked. And let the momentum lead to abolishing ICE altogether.

Tom Homan IS a bitch

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

Frigid Smart Goth!

The new gentry AI push: "Bro, you just need to prompt it harder, bro. Bro, come on, like we just gotta talk it out, bro, just gimme a few ten billions more and I promise you it's gonna be Abundance, like so much Abundance, just like Star Trek, bro

Come on bro, you just gotta trust me"

I consider it a promising sign of weakness that the rhetoric from the gentry indulging "ai" is shifting a bit from "it's inevitable! Shut up!" to "can't we have a reasonable discussion?"

The way a drunk frat bro pleads with the bar crowd he's been harassing all night not to finally kick his ass.

The idea that every exploitation, bigotry and gentry delusion has to be endlessly indulged and debated is part of what got us here.

Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you

This applies to so much right now.

We do not, in fact, need a discussion.

This will not stop their supporters from inventing endless excuses and whining about "purity tests" right up until the tear gas hits their neighborhood.

From over two decades investigating and covering governments...

Cases where a politician moving more conservative is some savvy long game that will eventually lead to real change: 0

Cases where a politician moving more conservative is a massive warning sign: All of them. It's all of them.

Found one of the folks involved with the CWA and unionizing of Sherri’s Ranch.

The demand that they own the workers IP is insane. We saw this over the summer in LA landlords saying they own all content made in an apartment.

This is that but escalated

All power to the workers including SEX WORKERS

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This will not stop their supporters from inventing endless excuses and whining about "purity tests" right up until the tear gas hits their neighborhood.

From over two decades investigating and covering governments...

Cases where a politician moving more conservative is some savvy long game that will eventually lead to real change: 0

Cases where a politician moving more conservative is a massive warning sign: All of them. It's all of them.

“You may beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride”.

Cops routinely assault & arrest people that they know the courts will order them to release.

The cops don’t care; their aim was to inflict extrajudicial summary punishment, and that is already achieved long before anyone sees a courtroom.

Seen this dynamic happen again and again (and again) around the country — Asheville's got a particularly bad case — and it's a reminder why it's important not to ever put your faith in politicians.

Media moved on because for one hour Trump pinky-swore he was going to do his genocide in a nicer way, and every day since the people in Minnesota are showing us it looks like a war zone