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#BlackLivesMatter #freepalestine do not obey in advance
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We couldn't be more grateful for our community. ✨💗😌
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December 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We couldn't be more grateful for our community. ✨💗😌
Support trans joy, community-building, and mutual aid by making an end-of-year donation today. Your support now ensures that we can keep expanding our life-saving work next year and beyond.
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just a collection of "inevitable" multi-billion dollar tech that was going to be the future of everything until everyone in the audience who was supposed to just get on board said "lol no"
December 17, 2025 at 5:42 AM
just a collection of "inevitable" multi-billion dollar tech that was going to be the future of everything until everyone in the audience who was supposed to just get on board said "lol no"
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"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist
December 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist
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no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good
March 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good
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The UN says October saw the highest number of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in nearly 20 years of tracking that violence. More than half the attacks targeted olive harvesters. n.pr/3LT0ecL
The struggle to preserve the Palestinian olive and date harvest
The UN says October saw the highest number of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in nearly 20 years of tracking that violence. More than half the attacks targeted olive harvesters.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The UN says October saw the highest number of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in nearly 20 years of tracking that violence. More than half the attacks targeted olive harvesters. n.pr/3LT0ecL
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This entire "the Dems need to abandon identity and focus on economics!" discourse is being driven by rich assholes who would melt down at the slightest hint of higher taxes on the wealthy or more welfare for the poor. Look how they're treating Mamdani! It's cynical bullshit all the way down.
November 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
This entire "the Dems need to abandon identity and focus on economics!" discourse is being driven by rich assholes who would melt down at the slightest hint of higher taxes on the wealthy or more welfare for the poor. Look how they're treating Mamdani! It's cynical bullshit all the way down.
Notice npr calls it a "pro democracy protest" while the New York Times headline says the protests "oppose Trump". NYT being fascism apologists again shouldn't surprise me, yet it does...
People gathered for pro-democracy protests across the country today. n.pr/3Jd0PoI
Photos: Scenes from the No Kings Protests
People gathered for pro-democracy protests across the country today.
n.pr
October 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Notice npr calls it a "pro democracy protest" while the New York Times headline says the protests "oppose Trump". NYT being fascism apologists again shouldn't surprise me, yet it does...
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This Halloween season there’s no movie as frightening as everything currently happening in real life
October 9, 2025 at 12:58 AM
This Halloween season there’s no movie as frightening as everything currently happening in real life
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A sign of the times
Have you been noticing lately when having conversations with your friends, at some point the conversation takes a turn like this: “I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but…”
Have you been noticing lately when having conversations with your friends, at some point the conversation takes a turn like this: “I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but…”
September 27, 2025 at 2:57 AM
A sign of the times
Have you been noticing lately when having conversations with your friends, at some point the conversation takes a turn like this: “I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but…”
Have you been noticing lately when having conversations with your friends, at some point the conversation takes a turn like this: “I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but…”
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Conservatives love to darkly say stuff like “you aren’t prepared for what’s next, we’re not going to be moderate anymore, you have no idea what you’ve unleashed” and then cry like babies when you call them fascists
September 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Conservatives love to darkly say stuff like “you aren’t prepared for what’s next, we’re not going to be moderate anymore, you have no idea what you’ve unleashed” and then cry like babies when you call them fascists
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i’ve read like three dozen columns at this point where the basic thesis is “debating politics is good, but shooting people? shooting people is bad”
September 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
i’ve read like three dozen columns at this point where the basic thesis is “debating politics is good, but shooting people? shooting people is bad”
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The challenge to endure “difficult” ideas and speakers only extends in one direction. The pleas to tone down political violence only benefit one side. And it’s the side that is most violent toward marginalized people, which is granted bipartisan approval and protection
September 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The challenge to endure “difficult” ideas and speakers only extends in one direction. The pleas to tone down political violence only benefit one side. And it’s the side that is most violent toward marginalized people, which is granted bipartisan approval and protection
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what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people
"All I can say for me in the work I do is that I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously, that takes the stakes of them seriously, the consequences for people seriously, but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with each other"
September 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people
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“When the state is using violence against its own people, the possibility of violence against the state becomes more likely,” Lilliana Mason, a professor of political science, tells @ichotiner.bsky.social.
Where Political Violence Comes From
Is our era of extreme partisanship to blame?
www.newyorker.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“When the state is using violence against its own people, the possibility of violence against the state becomes more likely,” Lilliana Mason, a professor of political science, tells @ichotiner.bsky.social.
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The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
September 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
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the modern political right in america does not in any way operate or function in good faith. it is all about securing the most power and being as ideologically manipulative as possible. like sartre's anti-semites who enjoy the "right to play," you cannot embarrass them with their own hypocrisy.
September 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
the modern political right in america does not in any way operate or function in good faith. it is all about securing the most power and being as ideologically manipulative as possible. like sartre's anti-semites who enjoy the "right to play," you cannot embarrass them with their own hypocrisy.
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I seriously don't know how to explain to people that it is not in fact a sign of maturity and democracy to peacefully debate whether certain groups of people should be allowed to exist
September 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I seriously don't know how to explain to people that it is not in fact a sign of maturity and democracy to peacefully debate whether certain groups of people should be allowed to exist
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It's worth asking why every elite institution is issuing statements like this rather than pointing out the obvious fact that the institutional right commits and glorifies violence far more than the left. Is there a reason you feel you can't say that out loud?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...
September 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
It's worth asking why every elite institution is issuing statements like this rather than pointing out the obvious fact that the institutional right commits and glorifies violence far more than the left. Is there a reason you feel you can't say that out loud?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...
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![Genocide justification is the claim that a genocide is morally excusable/defensible, necessary, and/or sanctioned by law.[1] Genocide justification differs from genocide denial, which is an attempt to reject the occurrence of genocide. Perpetrators often claim that genocide victims presented a serious threat, justifying their actions by stating it was legitimate self-defense of a nation or state. According to modern international criminal law, there can be no excuse for genocide.[2][3] Genocide is often camouflaged as military activity against combatants, and the distinction between denial and justification is often blurred.[4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j76trmiofvaxxpvx2vnb2vwf/bafkreia4twc2qbwkmn3ozstknikbeo5xx56elnzdkycdjkzfkwehmvk4jq@jpeg)
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Happy Trans History Month! ✨🏳️⚧️✨ We’re here and we’ve been here! Trans people have always existed and there's so much wisdom, strength, and talent we can find from our trans-ancestors. Here are some historical trans figures that helped shape our present and our future.
August 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Happy Trans History Month! ✨🏳️⚧️✨ We’re here and we’ve been here! Trans people have always existed and there's so much wisdom, strength, and talent we can find from our trans-ancestors. Here are some historical trans figures that helped shape our present and our future.
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you cant deter crime thru relentless force. the longer it’s applied, the more visible errors accrue & the more citizens feel occupied. distrust in authority dissolves cooperation and you can’t solve crimes without citizens’ help. when police are a community’s enemy solving crime there is impossible.
August 24, 2025 at 3:36 AM
you cant deter crime thru relentless force. the longer it’s applied, the more visible errors accrue & the more citizens feel occupied. distrust in authority dissolves cooperation and you can’t solve crimes without citizens’ help. when police are a community’s enemy solving crime there is impossible.
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refusing to accept this isn’t just about “purity” or whatever, it’s about effective politics. someone who thinks it’s practical to cave on trans rights misunderstands how politics works, they don’t recognize that public opinion is forged by perseverance
Gavin Newsom suggesting that 25 years of age is too young to transition and agreeing to right-wing entryism of concern trolling about trans people in sports. This is your opposition leader?
I will never vote for Gavin Newsom anyone who thinks trans people are actual humans will follow suit.
I will never vote for Gavin Newsom anyone who thinks trans people are actual humans will follow suit.
August 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
refusing to accept this isn’t just about “purity” or whatever, it’s about effective politics. someone who thinks it’s practical to cave on trans rights misunderstands how politics works, they don’t recognize that public opinion is forged by perseverance
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Very bad sign when masked, unidentified agents of the security state are not just grabbing people off the street but openly identifying with the regime's politics
August 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Very bad sign when masked, unidentified agents of the security state are not just grabbing people off the street but openly identifying with the regime's politics