PoundingThePodium
@poundingthepodium.bsky.social
He/him. I will block 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺. With indecent pleasure. Unwholesome joy, stuff you wouldn't see in a family movie.
Intersectionalist. Pro Human rights, trans rights, women's rights, it's all the same struggle folks- stand together or hang separately.
Intersectionalist. Pro Human rights, trans rights, women's rights, it's all the same struggle folks- stand together or hang separately.
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When I explain that boycotting an election over an issue has never once forced a politician to embrace that issue, I'm not "scolding people to vote." I'm explaining reality.
Feel free to sit on your ass! Just don't pretend that your lazy apathy is somehow going to advance your agenda.
Feel free to sit on your ass! Just don't pretend that your lazy apathy is somehow going to advance your agenda.
October 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
When I explain that boycotting an election over an issue has never once forced a politician to embrace that issue, I'm not "scolding people to vote." I'm explaining reality.
Feel free to sit on your ass! Just don't pretend that your lazy apathy is somehow going to advance your agenda.
Feel free to sit on your ass! Just don't pretend that your lazy apathy is somehow going to advance your agenda.
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I cannot believe there are still people in my mentions arguing that boycotting an election because the candidates aren’t addressing your issue is a way to get them to pay attention.
two men are talking to each other and one of them says that 's not how it works
ALT: two men are talking to each other and one of them says that 's not how it works
media.tenor.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I cannot believe there are still people in my mentions arguing that boycotting an election because the candidates aren’t addressing your issue is a way to get them to pay attention.
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This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them
September 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them
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I am once again asking you to stop sending us money.
But we do need your time. ⏰
zohranfornyc.com/events
But we do need your time. ⏰
zohranfornyc.com/events
September 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I am once again asking you to stop sending us money.
But we do need your time. ⏰
zohranfornyc.com/events
But we do need your time. ⏰
zohranfornyc.com/events
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Lest you say "it's not like that in the United States," I am currently representing a person facing criminal charges for - and this is true - saying "protect trans kids" during a school board meeting
The U.K. is a police state
July 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Lest you say "it's not like that in the United States," I am currently representing a person facing criminal charges for - and this is true - saying "protect trans kids" during a school board meeting
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i mean that is just strictly, flatly wrong, and ridiculously so. the SA itself was four million people under arms, directly for the Nazi party, and that doesn't count the other conservative "veterans' organizations" which eventually affiliated with the Nazis.
"it took so few at the admin level and so few more, a million at most, of a population of seventy million, to carry out the whole program of Nazi persecution; a million
ex-convicts, future ex-convicts, poolroom hoodlums, disheartened young job-
seekers, of whom every large country has its million."
ex-convicts, future ex-convicts, poolroom hoodlums, disheartened young job-
seekers, of whom every large country has its million."
August 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
i mean that is just strictly, flatly wrong, and ridiculously so. the SA itself was four million people under arms, directly for the Nazi party, and that doesn't count the other conservative "veterans' organizations" which eventually affiliated with the Nazis.
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literally every time I talk to friends
March 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
literally every time I talk to friends
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the reason that the right believes that the left is entirely astroturf funded by USAID and USIP is that this is how their own institutions work
August 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
the reason that the right believes that the left is entirely astroturf funded by USAID and USIP is that this is how their own institutions work
Even in dark times, there are rays of light.
TIRNT (pronounced turnt)
Trans Inclusionary Radical Neocon Trotskyite
Trans Inclusionary Radical Neocon Trotskyite
August 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Even in dark times, there are rays of light.
Newsom's true dharma.
I think the ideal spot for Gavin Newsom is a kind of ‘Secretary for revenge’ type deal.
August 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Newsom's true dharma.
This one made me cry a little.
This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
August 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This one made me cry a little.
Number the Stars (2nd grade)
Illuminatus! (7th grade)
Blindsight (adult, but still)
Illuminatus! (7th grade)
Blindsight (adult, but still)
"Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are."
I went through a whole Stephen King phase in upper elementary, middle-school age:
Misery
Rage
The Running Man
The Long Walk
Pet Sematary
Eyes of the Dragon
(Parts of) It and The Stand
I went through a whole Stephen King phase in upper elementary, middle-school age:
Misery
Rage
The Running Man
The Long Walk
Pet Sematary
Eyes of the Dragon
(Parts of) It and The Stand
Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.
I'll start: John Gardner's Grendel.
I'll start: John Gardner's Grendel.
August 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Number the Stars (2nd grade)
Illuminatus! (7th grade)
Blindsight (adult, but still)
Illuminatus! (7th grade)
Blindsight (adult, but still)
I get that saving democracy requires a broad coalition, and that I don't have to like everyone in our coalition.
But I refuse to watch South Park.
But I refuse to watch South Park.
August 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I get that saving democracy requires a broad coalition, and that I don't have to like everyone in our coalition.
But I refuse to watch South Park.
But I refuse to watch South Park.
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I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
— alexis de tocqueville
— alexis de tocqueville
February 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
— alexis de tocqueville
— alexis de tocqueville
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As I detailed in WHITE FLIGHT, segregationists in Atlanta absolutely loved public services -- buses and trolleys, parks and pools, golf courses and tennis courts, etc. -- right until they were forced to desegregate and "stolen" from them. They abandoned them and built up private alternatives.
July 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM
As I detailed in WHITE FLIGHT, segregationists in Atlanta absolutely loved public services -- buses and trolleys, parks and pools, golf courses and tennis courts, etc. -- right until they were forced to desegregate and "stolen" from them. They abandoned them and built up private alternatives.
As someone working in the progressive field door game right now, let me tell you how things look from the world of touching grass and knocking on doors: they look bleak as hell.
Most people are fatalistic. Willing to protest, or write letters, anything, but it's out of a sense of duty, not hope.
Most people are fatalistic. Willing to protest, or write letters, anything, but it's out of a sense of duty, not hope.
July 30, 2025 at 3:58 AM
As someone working in the progressive field door game right now, let me tell you how things look from the world of touching grass and knocking on doors: they look bleak as hell.
Most people are fatalistic. Willing to protest, or write letters, anything, but it's out of a sense of duty, not hope.
Most people are fatalistic. Willing to protest, or write letters, anything, but it's out of a sense of duty, not hope.
At what heat index should a door canvass be cancelled for the day?
July 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
At what heat index should a door canvass be cancelled for the day?
We live in darkly hilarious times my siblings.
We're doing proliferation discourse but for vc's now. Swell.
July 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
We live in darkly hilarious times my siblings.
I'm surprisingly close to Andrea Dworkin on porn for an American male, but none of what they're doing now is about combating misogyny.
Rather this intervention against porn is actually an overt power-grab by the patriarchy itself, weaponizing these reforms against women and the queer community.
Rather this intervention against porn is actually an overt power-grab by the patriarchy itself, weaponizing these reforms against women and the queer community.
“banning pornography” is bad on its own but it is imperative that everyone understand that these people consider the very existence of queer people to be pornographic
they consider the most chaste depiction of a queer relationship, or an openly trans person, to be porn and they want it banned
they consider the most chaste depiction of a queer relationship, or an openly trans person, to be porn and they want it banned
You don’t have to like, approve of, or engage with porn and nsfw work to see how right wing extremists are using fear and stigma around smut to ban queer people from public life, define “good” sex as only between married people for procreation, and otherwise further force white supremacy on everyone
July 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I'm surprisingly close to Andrea Dworkin on porn for an American male, but none of what they're doing now is about combating misogyny.
Rather this intervention against porn is actually an overt power-grab by the patriarchy itself, weaponizing these reforms against women and the queer community.
Rather this intervention against porn is actually an overt power-grab by the patriarchy itself, weaponizing these reforms against women and the queer community.
I don't think this will save us. Nothing easy will save us.
But I will take the opportunity to laugh.
But I will take the opportunity to laugh.
July 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I don't think this will save us. Nothing easy will save us.
But I will take the opportunity to laugh.
But I will take the opportunity to laugh.
Everything's a meta singularity now because language means nothing!
Ecuse me, I have to go meditate and do my breathing exercises.
Keep it together. Keep it together. Keep it together, keep it together, keepittogether keepittogether keepitTOGETHER
Ecuse me, I have to go meditate and do my breathing exercises.
Keep it together. Keep it together. Keep it together, keep it together, keepittogether keepittogether keepitTOGETHER
July 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Everything's a meta singularity now because language means nothing!
Ecuse me, I have to go meditate and do my breathing exercises.
Keep it together. Keep it together. Keep it together, keep it together, keepittogether keepittogether keepitTOGETHER
Ecuse me, I have to go meditate and do my breathing exercises.
Keep it together. Keep it together. Keep it together, keep it together, keepittogether keepittogether keepitTOGETHER
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“Trump might win this state. But you can win the school board. You can win the city council.”
Jess Piper warns how GOP-led cuts to Medicaid, public media, and weather services are devastating rural communities. However, there are avenues that Democrats can take to build local power and hope.
Jess Piper warns how GOP-led cuts to Medicaid, public media, and weather services are devastating rural communities. However, there are avenues that Democrats can take to build local power and hope.
Rural America is worth saving
YouTube video by The Contrarian
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July 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
“Trump might win this state. But you can win the school board. You can win the city council.”
Jess Piper warns how GOP-led cuts to Medicaid, public media, and weather services are devastating rural communities. However, there are avenues that Democrats can take to build local power and hope.
Jess Piper warns how GOP-led cuts to Medicaid, public media, and weather services are devastating rural communities. However, there are avenues that Democrats can take to build local power and hope.
The times we live in, my siblings. The strange, strange times.
My sense is that the 22 agencies that were combined into the new Department of Homeland Security in 2002 generally functioned better before the combination. Isn't it worth seriously considering whether it's time to do away with DHS and disperse its various functions back to DOJ, Treasury, etc?
July 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
The times we live in, my siblings. The strange, strange times.
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The new party system is literally “people who have a vague idea about how anything, anything at all works” versus “everyone else.”
I'm unblocking him.
Coalitions are shifting.
Coalitions are shifting.
July 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The new party system is literally “people who have a vague idea about how anything, anything at all works” versus “everyone else.”
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Sandy Hook parent says tragedies are inherently political: “You may not believe in climate change, but insurance companies absolutely do.”
July 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Sandy Hook parent says tragedies are inherently political: “You may not believe in climate change, but insurance companies absolutely do.”