Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈⧖♾️
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈⧖♾️
@debbiegoldsmith.bsky.social
Software, physics, trans elder. Mostly here to convince people to enable bridging to the Fediverse, by following @ap.brid.gy here. If you enable the bridge, you can follow me at @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy.
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I wrote about this. Like pretty much everything that anyone has said about the coming collapse of our constitutional order, it was basically ignored. www.alternet.org/2021/05/flaw...
These key defects in the Constitution threaten democracy — because we ignored the warnings
To the extent that Americans are aware of them at all, the Anti-Federalists are remembered as a band of vaguely disreputable second-raters who failed to prevent the 1788 ratification of the US Constit...
www.alternet.org
January 24, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Reposted by Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈⧖♾️
I'll add one thing: the anti-Federalists knew, at the start of our Republic, that the framers' design of the supreme court was a botch. They forecasted that the supreme court's defects would cause it eventually to turn tyrannical. They were right. About everything.
January 24, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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I don't think Harry and Ray-Ray were motivated by their deep Christian beliefs when they designed the Icky Crossie Pervert Scale back in the 60s-80s, and as for today, I remain surprised how few people know that "gender ideology" was what Catholics called FEMINISM before the trans panic stuff.
January 22, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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I think Democrats are reluctant to say that welfare fraud is a significant problem because welfare fraud is not a significant problem.

Do Republicans have any obligation to stop constantly lying about this?
January 19, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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The amount of "even the Washington Post is speaking against the trans cult" posts after Monday's editorial opposing inclusion of trans athletes was worth the price to Bezos because the lingering perception that it's a liberal publication lends credibility to the propaganda despite its total overhaul
January 16, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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Bothsiders are the only people on the planet who are both dumber *and* more arrogant than fascists.

Treating the real world like it's just an eternal extension of your junior high school debate club is one of the defining characteristics of a bad-faith interlocutor.
January 13, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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"It took me, a very smart person, a decade to realize that Trump is bad while these people I think are stupid realized immediately" is such an incredible self own.
January 12, 2026 at 5:55 PM