Siuan Sanche
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Siuan Sanche
@matcauthon678.bsky.social
· Oct 18
Last stands are for losers and fascists
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in the same sense is that Nazism was an attempt to construct a universe in which the war propaganda of WWI was true, Trumpism can be understood as an attempt to construct the reality which Fox describes. in that reality, every recipient of food stamps is a jobless Black woman with nine kids & a Dem.
It’s shit like this that makes me think the GOP doesn’t care about winning elections and they’re just not planning on having them. Because no one who thinks they have to win elections does this.
They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
in the same sense is that Nazism was an attempt to construct a universe in which the war propaganda of WWI was true, Trumpism can be understood as an attempt to construct the reality which Fox describes. in that reality, every recipient of food stamps is a jobless Black woman with nine kids & a Dem.
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ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*
people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*
Godzilla is at it’s core. Right wing Japanese cope that they lost the war what are you talking about?
kissinger died during the -1 premiere and cheney died right after they announce G00 they are feeding old ass american rightwing politicians to godzilla like squeezing lemon onto fried chicken to get that perfect spielbergian taste
November 4, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Godzilla is at it’s core. Right wing Japanese cope that they lost the war what are you talking about?
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My latest piece, written for the Kettering Foundation.
I urge organizations, nonprofits, and companies to end the cycle of over compliance with Trump threats, and show how doing so ushers in fascism.
Some lessons from what we have seen in the trans community.
kettering.org/do-not-compl...
I urge organizations, nonprofits, and companies to end the cycle of over compliance with Trump threats, and show how doing so ushers in fascism.
Some lessons from what we have seen in the trans community.
kettering.org/do-not-compl...
Do Not Comply: A Lesson from the Last Three Months of Anti-Trans Attacks
kettering.org
April 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
My latest piece, written for the Kettering Foundation.
I urge organizations, nonprofits, and companies to end the cycle of over compliance with Trump threats, and show how doing so ushers in fascism.
Some lessons from what we have seen in the trans community.
kettering.org/do-not-compl...
I urge organizations, nonprofits, and companies to end the cycle of over compliance with Trump threats, and show how doing so ushers in fascism.
Some lessons from what we have seen in the trans community.
kettering.org/do-not-compl...
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People have the gall to locate the resulting distress entirely within trans people ourselves, as though we are ticking time bombs of hysteria rather than utterly dehumanized, unpersoned, abject PEOPLE, who are doing our best to keep it together in a world that wants to own our most intimate aspects.
April 15, 2025 at 8:11 AM
People have the gall to locate the resulting distress entirely within trans people ourselves, as though we are ticking time bombs of hysteria rather than utterly dehumanized, unpersoned, abject PEOPLE, who are doing our best to keep it together in a world that wants to own our most intimate aspects.
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every single suicidal trans person I know is suicidal because society does everything in its power to show them that them not existing is preferred over them being trans.
This is not a "trans suicide epidemic", it's a fucking genocide facilitated by deprivation, by legally reducing us to offal to be discounted and discarded.
April 15, 2025 at 8:24 AM
every single suicidal trans person I know is suicidal because society does everything in its power to show them that them not existing is preferred over them being trans.
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What's worse is having to confront, day after day, the powerlessness of your position as doctors, legislators, parents, anyone in a position of authority over you bars you from doing the one thing you need to do the most.
Making it clear that you don't own your own body. It isn't yours to claim.
Making it clear that you don't own your own body. It isn't yours to claim.
April 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
What's worse is having to confront, day after day, the powerlessness of your position as doctors, legislators, parents, anyone in a position of authority over you bars you from doing the one thing you need to do the most.
Making it clear that you don't own your own body. It isn't yours to claim.
Making it clear that you don't own your own body. It isn't yours to claim.
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I want to talk about trans suicides and 'distress'.
Specifically in the context of this thread and the climate of sheer hostility that has been fostered by government policy and societal apathy towards, if not outright endorsement of, trans suffering.
Many folks chalk this up to "gender distress".
Specifically in the context of this thread and the climate of sheer hostility that has been fostered by government policy and societal apathy towards, if not outright endorsement of, trans suffering.
Many folks chalk this up to "gender distress".
Are Wes Streeting and NHS England covering up trans suicide data? 🧵
April 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I want to talk about trans suicides and 'distress'.
Specifically in the context of this thread and the climate of sheer hostility that has been fostered by government policy and societal apathy towards, if not outright endorsement of, trans suffering.
Many folks chalk this up to "gender distress".
Specifically in the context of this thread and the climate of sheer hostility that has been fostered by government policy and societal apathy towards, if not outright endorsement of, trans suffering.
Many folks chalk this up to "gender distress".
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yeah man, please make my 85 year
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
🧵 There are a lot of misleading claims out there about the SAVE Act. Let me set the record straight: I voted for the SAVE Act for the simple reason that American elections are for Americans. Requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote is common sense.
April 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
yeah man, please make my 85 year
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
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look, i think the paramilitary unit with police powers that is staffed with the most racist people alive and was created in post-9/11 hysteria to be outside the DOJ and report directly to the president might be bad
I genuinely don't understand how anyone can look at the current moment and think "Abolish ICE" was anything but completely correct.
ICE cannot and should not exist. Period.
ICE cannot and should not exist. Period.
April 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
look, i think the paramilitary unit with police powers that is staffed with the most racist people alive and was created in post-9/11 hysteria to be outside the DOJ and report directly to the president might be bad
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Imagine spending a half million dollars to attend Police State University, where you’ll get to experience NYPD brutality up close and where they might just revoke your degree for wrongthink even after you’ve graduated.
In a first for the Ivy League school, Columbia's new officers have the same powers of warrantless search and arrest as any other police officer under New York law. The state law permits the officers to use "physical force and deadly physical force in making an arrest or preventing an escape."
Columbia University's new campus patrol officers appointed by New York Police Department
The 36 new special patrol officers announced last month by Columbia University were appointed by the New York Police Department and will be subject to the orders of the police commissioner, an arrangement confirmed by a Columbia spokesperson this week.
www.reuters.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Imagine spending a half million dollars to attend Police State University, where you’ll get to experience NYPD brutality up close and where they might just revoke your degree for wrongthink even after you’ve graduated.
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*sigh* it is not in fact a controversial idea that Americans enjoy substantially more rights than Chinese citizens, and you have to be incredibly ignorant of basic facts about China to believe otherwise.
April 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
*sigh* it is not in fact a controversial idea that Americans enjoy substantially more rights than Chinese citizens, and you have to be incredibly ignorant of basic facts about China to believe otherwise.
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I want my government to be boring and competent enough so that I don’t have to think about it every goddamn minute.
April 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I want my government to be boring and competent enough so that I don’t have to think about it every goddamn minute.
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They said we'd have a record-beating economy, and they were right - largest two days of wealth destruction in nominal dollar terms *ever*:
April 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
They said we'd have a record-beating economy, and they were right - largest two days of wealth destruction in nominal dollar terms *ever*:
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1. Over 70 House Democrats walked out of their session over the state's endless attacks on transgender people.
The latest bill would forcibly detransition incarcerated trans people by cutting off their care.
The latest from S. Baum.
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The latest bill would forcibly detransition incarcerated trans people by cutting off their care.
The latest from S. Baum.
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Amidst Flood of Anti-Trans Bills, Georgia Democrats Walk Out
Incarcerated trans people are the latest target of Georgia’s crusade against the LGBT community.
www.erininthemorning.com
April 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
1. Over 70 House Democrats walked out of their session over the state's endless attacks on transgender people.
The latest bill would forcibly detransition incarcerated trans people by cutting off their care.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
The latest bill would forcibly detransition incarcerated trans people by cutting off their care.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects.
Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
US Weather Agency Websites to Vanish Under Planned Contract Cuts
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency is poised to eliminate most websites tied to its research division under plans for the cancellation of a cloud web services contract, a move that could s...
www.bloomberg.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects.
Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
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Keynesianism is like Ozempic in that it's something that works but makes people mad because they want moral hazard to be involved
There’s a certain kind of person who thinks Keynesian stimulus is “putting off” a necessary correction and I’m always amazed how many of them there are.
What if MAGA did the Great Leap Forward?
April 4, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Keynesianism is like Ozempic in that it's something that works but makes people mad because they want moral hazard to be involved
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Others have pointed this out already but the Booker's "stunt" is him literally Doing the Job - impassioned speechmaking is supposedly the main reason for Senators to exist and the only reason any of them from before the United States was established are remembered by name
April 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Others have pointed this out already but the Booker's "stunt" is him literally Doing the Job - impassioned speechmaking is supposedly the main reason for Senators to exist and the only reason any of them from before the United States was established are remembered by name
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When you really hate All Things Considered
April 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
When you really hate All Things Considered
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Lord, protect this man. Because the bigot grifters are currently starving. variety.com/2025/film/ne...
John Boyega Says ‘Star Wars’ Is ‘So White That a Black Person Existing in It’ Is a Big Deal: Toxic Fans Are ‘Okay With Us Playing the Friend’ but We ‘Cant Touch Their Heroes’
John Boyega is calling out the "Star Wars" franchise for being so white.
variety.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Lord, protect this man. Because the bigot grifters are currently starving. variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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Bro I am not rationing my fucking eggs because a geriatric is economically illiterate.
This isn’t WWII. It’s Don Quixote tilting at the worlds dumbest fucking windmill.
This isn’t WWII. It’s Don Quixote tilting at the worlds dumbest fucking windmill.
Harris Faulkner on how Trump should talk to "401k people" worried about tariffs hurting them: "Look, when this nation used to go to war, people in this country would support the war effort with their materials at home and making things for weaponry. We have to do 100% buy in over this bumpy period"
April 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Bro I am not rationing my fucking eggs because a geriatric is economically illiterate.
This isn’t WWII. It’s Don Quixote tilting at the worlds dumbest fucking windmill.
This isn’t WWII. It’s Don Quixote tilting at the worlds dumbest fucking windmill.
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1. A transgender woman let legislators know she intended to use the bathroom in the Florida Capitol.
A contingent of officers waited for her, and stood outside the door.
When she stepped in, she was arrested and sent to a men's jail.
The latest from S. Baum.
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A contingent of officers waited for her, and stood outside the door.
When she stepped in, she was arrested and sent to a men's jail.
The latest from S. Baum.
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Trans Woman Arrested, Sent to Men’s Jail For Entering Florida Capitol Bathroom
“I’m not a political activist,” she maintained. “I’m just a normal college student who thinks this law is wrong.”
www.erininthemorning.com
April 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
1. A transgender woman let legislators know she intended to use the bathroom in the Florida Capitol.
A contingent of officers waited for her, and stood outside the door.
When she stepped in, she was arrested and sent to a men's jail.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
A contingent of officers waited for her, and stood outside the door.
When she stepped in, she was arrested and sent to a men's jail.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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they just closed LIHEAP altogether? Jesus Christ, people will die.
April 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
they just closed LIHEAP altogether? Jesus Christ, people will die.