For more than a week, conservative media and politicians have worked themselves into a frenzy over a spectacle manufactured by a fencer who refused to compete against a 19-year-old trans woman. Here is the target of that hate campaign, finally, in her own words.

eat shit nerd

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the Trump Administration disappeared Mahmoud Khalil in order to capitalize on the liberal/left split on Gaza.

You either step up to defend people and protect rights or you don’t. This is another crossroads and I pray people see it for what it is.

I'm just so sad. https://www.wosu.org/politics-government/2025-03-06/ohio-university-black-alumni-reunion-put-on-hold-as-university-assesses-anti-dei-rules

Gerry Connolly sends letter to Speaker Johnson asking that he condemn January 6 violence and bar its participants from the Capitol — a letter that will be sent straight to the wastebasket. What is the point of this

Fanone: There’s a lot of John Fettermans in the world and unfortunately, that’s why we’re in the predicament that we’re in

I don't see much point in arguing which elderly racist white man is technically responsible for this particular fuckup

Going back and watching clips of her from earlier this year, stumbling through short, prepared remarks, with this context.

She was chair of House Appropriations, one of the most important jobs in Congress.

watching that Netflix documentary about Jon-Benet Ramsey and i feel like everyone involved in making child beauty pageants exist should be in prison

thanksgiving is a holiday commemorating the time randy moss singlehandedly annihilated the dallas cowboys in 1998. it was actually celebrated for hundreds of years prior in anticipation of this prophesied holy event

This is NOT what America is about. America is about *opens history book*

uh oh

*Frantically starts flipping though pages*

uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh

Tremendous piece, best explanation yet of how a few bad regulatory decisions broke the news model. Billions of dollars in revenue that used to go to media companies, which funded journalism, now goes to Google, which lets AI junk blot out the sun.

washingtonmonthly.com/2024/01/16/h...

Recently St. Louis police DROVE AN SUV INTO A GAY BAR and then arrested the owner within seconds of doing so.

The cops’ statements about what transpired have been proven wrong by video evidence.

They have managed to make it worse.

The City is trying to condemn the property for the damage.

whomever invented ads while pumping gas should be in gitmo

The Biden administration has tried hard to conceal the nature and quantity of the weapons it’s provided Israel for its war on Hamas. So it’s with a heavy heart that I must now report that an internal Defense Department list of the weapons has leaked, reproduced here:

20 years ago.