Aimee Chamernik

The right can't seem to see the distance between "I just see trans people as people" and "I will force everyone to become trans whether they want to or not, so help me God"

Anti-trans Democrats are spreading poison when we can least afford it, during elections in this ongoing fascist takeover. As a strategy, it’s a recipe for failure. As a moral stand, it’s reprehensible. PS I’m the father of young trans woman and I’ll never forgive anyone who makes her life harder.

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Also, studies show that when we improve a space or system for the disabled, the benefits actually spread to everyone. You’re not just helping yourself later; you’re helping yourself right now.

Complete bullshit. The body cam footage shows nothing of the kind. It shows a bunch of cops rushing a car over alleged shoplifting, and a driver trying to flee. It’s an easily disproven lie, strikingly similar to the DHS lies about Renee Good and others. mississippitoday.org/2026/10/22/s...

Love this for the trans service members who just want to serve our country. Should be true everywhere in every career and organization. Could the weak, unprincipled Dems who ought to be *leading* the charge to protect trans folks please at least *follow* the example of the Navy and Marines?

Boycott Elon Musk and everything he sells.

Fascinating that as even as other Republicans who long ago sold their souls to MAGA still have enough baseline political acumen to see how poisonous this is, Vance is completely oblivious. It isn't just that he has no principles, decency, or moral compass, he's also really fucking bad at politics.

“I’m more than a critic: I’m a hater. I’m not here to make a careful comprehensive argument…people have already done that. If you’re pushing slop…you wouldn’t read it anyway. You’d ask a bot for a summary & proceed with your day—unchanged by words you didn’t read & ideas you didn’t consider.” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Microsoft literally told fragile white guys to use AI to compete with Black co-workers.

Exactly this. “Free and fair elections” has always been aspirational here, never reality.

Really not the most important thing here—that'd be the egregious racism and abuse of power—but the state with the most Mercedes sales is CA, and highest luxury cars per capital are NJ and CT. Lies within lies. A whole party geared around lying and trying to make everyone else live inside their lie.

THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)

I'm not sure how much more blatant it can get that these guys are looting the federal government and then pointing over there and saying "look what THOSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE GETTING AWAY WITH!!!" bsky.app/profile/atru...

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

This deserves a murder charge. I don't expect it to happen, but denying someone medicine they need to stay alive is murder.

Again, the scandalous thing about Elon Musk spending $276 million on the 2026 midterms is NOT how *much* money it is. The scandal is how *little* money this is *to him.* Compared to his net worth, this is roughly equal to the median American my age spending $40.

Susan Collins hasn't changed? From 1997 - 2016 she voted with the GOP on party line votes 59% of the time. In 2017 she voted with Trump 90% of the time. In 2025 she voted with him 95%. So many media folks desperate to make the pickle Collins finds herself in someone else's fault. #MEpolitics

No one needs to listen to James Carville about anything. But I'll keep saying this until I'm blue in the face: It's not the lefties who hold Democrats hostage in Congress, IT'S THE MODERATES. Bernie Sanders never killed a Democratic bill he didn't like. You know who did? Joe Manchin. Many times.

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It's almost like we shouldn't let a small group of the most venal people on earth control the internet

His midterm message is “My life of luxury is just incredible”

Trump used to lie that under Obama and/or Biden, "the military ran out of bullets" but now he's done this

it makes my blood boil every time there’s a bullshit tech demo and everyone goes back to “oh that scamp elon has done it again” he’s a vicious monster out to ruin the lives of millions of people who don’t deserve any of it and he should be treated accordingly

Clear takeaway: If you don't want the US government (under Trump, or anyone else in the future) or Elon Musk personally to surprise you by cutting satellite internet access you thought you had secured, the only way is to not use anything made by SpaceX. Otherwise, the risk will always be there.

Americans, please don’t worry about your child coming home from school a different sex. Worry about your child not coming home from school because they were shot to death.

Will any reporter ask the President of the United States to name the five specific states where he alleges that public school teachers are deciding -- all on their own initiative, over the objections of the parents -- to force their children into gender-affirming surgeries? Seems like a big story?

This. We ask the most burdened among us to shoulder the task of saving the US from itself. I'm so grateful that so many are willing to do so. I'm furious that they have to. We need to make the John Lewis Voting Act law as soon as we can.

I always have mixed feelings about these images. Yes, it's inspiring to see these college students committed to democracy, but the fact that they have to do anything remotely difficult to exercise their voting rights is enraging. Taking part in a democracy should be as easy as possible.

I mean, come the hell on here

Considering that every Democratic politician and liberal pundit needs to go on record in disavowing Hasan Piker, should the same standard be held towards Kid Rock after these comments? Especially since he is fully campaigning for Mike Rogers right now?

Holy shit, every paragraph of this story is more jaw-dropping than the last. What a fucking diseased country we live in.

Petition to replace the word “donor” with something else for people who funnel *millions*—not to mention $250 million—into campaigns. That’s not a donor—that’s a buyer.

Someone shared this in @esqueer.net's mentions. It's from January, but if you haven't already read it and are interested in machine consciousness/AI consciousness it's by far the best thing I've read on the subject. www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...

8. There is clear evidence that humans have a tendency to over-attribute consciousness/intent to things that aren't conscious and have no intent. 9. The author believes it is more likely we'll create a non-conscious machine we're incapable of not perceiving as conscious than a conscious machine.

It's that simple. 👇

1) vance has this weird preoccupation with demanding that people show him gratitude 2) this is just another expression of the idea that some americans don’t count and at most should be seen and not heard

As @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social said himself. Their power comes from intimidation. Mockery inoculates from that and humiliates them. bsky.app/profile/hunt...

All Trump’s overseas assets should be frozen. Hotels. Golf courses. Offshore accounts. Should not be permitted to enter the territories of the countries that are parties to ICC.

Roger Marshall charged his patients 18% annual interest on their unpaid bills. His bakery bill for $678.75 was due six years ago. At 18% interest compounded annually, the total he'd owe would be at least $1,800. Marshall just paid the bakery $1,300—far less than what his patients would owe.

Weird that Donald Trump's message is that people who are being assaulted can stop it all by giving up and submitting to the aggressor, so weird, so so weird

This is how you write a headline.

It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.

An even better response would be “I thought that JD converted to Catholicism and was busy now telling the pope how his views aren’t Catholicism.”