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FL>NM>FL again. 28, minimum wage worker, college dropout, homeowner.
I'm not sure why HCR is catching a stray, but aside from that I understand and even agree with what Nate says for once. If we do get the "dem tea party" people (including me) have asked for, it would mean perfectly reasonable career politicians getting primaried by "do something" types who think (1)
December 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I'm not sure why HCR is catching a stray, but aside from that I understand and even agree with what Nate says for once. If we do get the "dem tea party" people (including me) have asked for, it would mean perfectly reasonable career politicians getting primaried by "do something" types who think (1)
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I took on the mythology of the "Kamala is for they/them" ad. Since the morning after the 2024 election, trans people have been scapegoated for Harris' loss, with that infamous ad at the centre of recriminations.
But a deeper analysis shows that voters are largely indifferent to trans people.
But a deeper analysis shows that voters are largely indifferent to trans people.
Trans Panic? More Like Trans Apathetic
2025 shows trans rights aren't electoral poison. The truth? Most people just don't care that much.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I took on the mythology of the "Kamala is for they/them" ad. Since the morning after the 2024 election, trans people have been scapegoated for Harris' loss, with that infamous ad at the centre of recriminations.
But a deeper analysis shows that voters are largely indifferent to trans people.
But a deeper analysis shows that voters are largely indifferent to trans people.
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i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 9, 2025 at 2:50 AM
i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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This is something I get annoyed with quite often. I don't doubt for a second that most senior members of the executive *want* to commit genocide against us, but they wouldn't be able to get away with it because even most transphobes would be against that
But I would also add something here. This pattern is why I get annoyed with people who talk about there being a "genocide" against us in progress. There are prominent trans posters on here who approach the hate campaign with myopia, using hyperbolic language that obscures a bigger picture.
December 6, 2025 at 5:26 AM
This is something I get annoyed with quite often. I don't doubt for a second that most senior members of the executive *want* to commit genocide against us, but they wouldn't be able to get away with it because even most transphobes would be against that
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The reason I don't doompost or tell people to flee the country is because it's tantamount to telling all of these resisting citizens that their actions are pointless and that they should just lay down and die.
I'm honestly inspired by the thousands of people who've attended town halls to hold their elected reps accountable, the thousands who've attended #TeslaTakedown actions, the individual teachers and nurses who've stood up to ICE.
March 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The reason I don't doompost or tell people to flee the country is because it's tantamount to telling all of these resisting citizens that their actions are pointless and that they should just lay down and die.
The one bit of good news about the Atlantic article is that it seems like Musk isn't (yet) involved in military planning discussions, which wasn't something I thought I'd have to worry about two months ago but is good to know anyway
March 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The one bit of good news about the Atlantic article is that it seems like Musk isn't (yet) involved in military planning discussions, which wasn't something I thought I'd have to worry about two months ago but is good to know anyway
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i think the takeaway we should have for the idea that "staffs exist" is that they actually don't; the government is being run by a few hundred people under the tight leash of a few dozen people. this is because there is no constituency anywhere for the constellation of views held by administration.
March 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
i think the takeaway we should have for the idea that "staffs exist" is that they actually don't; the government is being run by a few hundred people under the tight leash of a few dozen people. this is because there is no constituency anywhere for the constellation of views held by administration.
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it's so cool how Grand Vizier Chat (secret) is not only real but in fact the preferred policymaking apparatus of the global hegemon
March 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
it's so cool how Grand Vizier Chat (secret) is not only real but in fact the preferred policymaking apparatus of the global hegemon
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hooting and hollering as me and boys stomp on some guy named Lucius in tuscany
We have startlingly little media devoted to how fucking sick it probably was to ride a war elephant into battle
March 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
hooting and hollering as me and boys stomp on some guy named Lucius in tuscany
The funniest possible outcome is if right wing conspiracy theorists are right (for once) & most anti-Trump protestors were just being paid to protest, but Trump cutting off their $$$ just creates a horde of newly-unemployed experienced protestors who have a grudge against Trump so nothing changes
the obsession with USAID and the US Institute of Peace (which studies peaceful transitions to democracy) are particularly instructive. they believe that all protesters are paid. what's the solution? dismantle the payment agencies which pay the protesters.
ah i see bret had this observation earlier! but he's right. and it is downstream of the idea that most people are NPCs who perform whatever programming they're given. as the administration sees it, they're going after the programmers.
March 20, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The funniest possible outcome is if right wing conspiracy theorists are right (for once) & most anti-Trump protestors were just being paid to protest, but Trump cutting off their $$$ just creates a horde of newly-unemployed experienced protestors who have a grudge against Trump so nothing changes
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This, to me, is liberalism (laudatory)
a court has officially ruled that transgender people can have warrior ethos
March 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
This, to me, is liberalism (laudatory)
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This, precisely, is what I think Dem voters want from their representatives: direct confrontation with people who are used to bullying others both as a matter of substance and style. You don't have to back down to these fucking clowns.
Texas Republican Keithself storms out of the meeting he's supposed to be running because a Democrat asked him to treat his colleague Sarah McBride with respect. These people would not last one day as a trans person.
March 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This, precisely, is what I think Dem voters want from their representatives: direct confrontation with people who are used to bullying others both as a matter of substance and style. You don't have to back down to these fucking clowns.
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The entire Democratic party voted in unison last week to defend trans people from discrimination and this entire site consciously refused to acknowledge it while jerking off over a single out of context quote from a Republican.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Senate Democrats block GOP-led bill to ban transgender athletes from women's sports
Republicans are trying to keep the national spotlight on the issue after Trump and some of the party's down-ballot candidates ran on it in the 2024 election.
www.nbcnews.com
March 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The entire Democratic party voted in unison last week to defend trans people from discrimination and this entire site consciously refused to acknowledge it while jerking off over a single out of context quote from a Republican.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
After the Gaetz nom got torpedoed I get why dems thought agreeing to vote for Bessent and Burgum might've gotten them the support to stop Vought and Gabbard, but after those noms sailed through hopefully the democrats have learned their lesson and are going to be a proper opposition party now 🤞🤞
i am not very persuaded that a maximalist opposition strategy on all trump nominees would have produced any different outcomes even in public perception, but i think it’s objectively true that the attempt to let some nominees sail through and ally with republicans on the worst completely failed
February 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
After the Gaetz nom got torpedoed I get why dems thought agreeing to vote for Bessent and Burgum might've gotten them the support to stop Vought and Gabbard, but after those noms sailed through hopefully the democrats have learned their lesson and are going to be a proper opposition party now 🤞🤞
I just finally watched I Saw The TV Glow. Incredible movie, I wish trans people were real 😞
February 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I just finally watched I Saw The TV Glow. Incredible movie, I wish trans people were real 😞
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As the forces of hatred are on the march, my promise is this:
Our trans neighbors will continue to be safe, protected, and welcome in Minnesota.
Our trans neighbors will continue to be safe, protected, and welcome in Minnesota.
February 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
As the forces of hatred are on the march, my promise is this:
Our trans neighbors will continue to be safe, protected, and welcome in Minnesota.
Our trans neighbors will continue to be safe, protected, and welcome in Minnesota.
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removal of Musk's goons from GSA and Treasury's payment system and appointment of an independent prosecutor that Trump can't fire to investigate what happened should be the table stakes for any Dem votes on the budget or debt ceiling. Should get more than that, but that's a bare minimum.
House Democrats "need to stand united against Elon Musk” and refuse to help the GOP pass budget bills until “Musk is held accountable for his crimes,” Casar told Jezebel. “Democrats actually have a lot of power to start righting the ship.”
www.jezebel.com/greg-casar-i...
www.jezebel.com/greg-casar-i...
Democrats Have Power and It’s Time to Act Like It, Says Congressman Greg Casar
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
www.jezebel.com
February 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
removal of Musk's goons from GSA and Treasury's payment system and appointment of an independent prosecutor that Trump can't fire to investigate what happened should be the table stakes for any Dem votes on the budget or debt ceiling. Should get more than that, but that's a bare minimum.
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Yeah, “whoever controls the treasury controls the government” is such an unheard of concept that only a genius could think of that it was the first fucking thing Henry I did in 1100 after his brother William II Rufus died
February 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Yeah, “whoever controls the treasury controls the government” is such an unheard of concept that only a genius could think of that it was the first fucking thing Henry I did in 1100 after his brother William II Rufus died
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checked out doomer lefties, trolls and 5th columnists: "the Dems won't do anything and even if they do Trump will just ignore the law"
relatively normie lib gen Xer Jamie Raskin: 1776 WILL COMMENCE AGAIN
relatively normie lib gen Xer Jamie Raskin: 1776 WILL COMMENCE AGAIN
February 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
checked out doomer lefties, trolls and 5th columnists: "the Dems won't do anything and even if they do Trump will just ignore the law"
relatively normie lib gen Xer Jamie Raskin: 1776 WILL COMMENCE AGAIN
relatively normie lib gen Xer Jamie Raskin: 1776 WILL COMMENCE AGAIN
The constitution includes a very robust set of tools that the other branches have to reel in a president like Trump, but the Republicans that control those branches are just pretending don't exist, and the "liberal media" are refusing to point any of it out
I mean, the Constitution absolutely did foresee it, and in fact it's already happened on a much smaller scale with Richard Nixon.
What the Constitution didn't foresee was Congress utterly refusing to do anything about it. That's where the breakdown is.
What the Constitution didn't foresee was Congress utterly refusing to do anything about it. That's where the breakdown is.
February 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The constitution includes a very robust set of tools that the other branches have to reel in a president like Trump, but the Republicans that control those branches are just pretending don't exist, and the "liberal media" are refusing to point any of it out
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Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options.
Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.
Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.
We all like to yell at the Democrats, but it’s really Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune who are letting Elon Musk and his faceless goon squad make a mockery of their power as leaders of a coequal branch without uttering a peep or lifting a finger.
February 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options.
Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.
Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.