Billy O

A Republican congressman committed statutory rape, the Republican President-elect tried to make him Attorney General of the United States of America, and the Republican Congress tried to cover up the crime.

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

Ossoff's superpower is that he correctly thinks his opponent is a contemptible piece of shit and he is willing to explain why in clear and direct language. bsky.app/profile/atru...

It’s very simple, guys.

My latest newsletter is a friendly bit of political advice for Democrats.

This is genocidal rhetoric from the president of the United States. Trump explicitly stated that if Dems win the midterms, “Transgender will never end.” The stated goal of the president of the United States and his party is to make transgender people “end.”

also moulton is a fucking liar. his version of feeling “uncomfortable” was to describe his own little daughters “getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete.” that’s not just a benign hesitation. it’s a violent fantasy. www.liberalcurrents.com/showing-thei...

Grown men come up to me with tears in their eyes and say “sir, we’ve never seen so much algae”

Read this to understand just how empty the Trump Justice Department’s prosecution of the Southern Poverty Law Center is.

Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility!

This is correct. newrepublic.com/article/2080...

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Too often when discussing trans rights, we’re forced to be on the defensive, as Republicans wage attacks. Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.

Congratulations, those of you who decided to platform fringe voices and create a climate of fear and hate out of ignorance because those voices insisted a non-problem was a problem. They're now on an HHS stage trying to ruin children's lives. You will live with the harm you have done forever.

“I just have concerns about fairness in sport” - no, you don’t. There’s nothing fair about elite sports. You’re just looking for post hoc justification because we give you the ick

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It's not the same point, but the argument that the Biden admin had "porous policies" is completely false. They had a number of very harsh policies aiming to limit migration, the problem was state capacity to carry them out and the sheer force of the push/pull factors during the post-COVID years.

#WithAltText hell yeah brother

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Ezra is a white columnist who tells liberals they don’t need to do radical things but instead they can just noodle through little tweaks that generate enormous benefits and everyone will be happy including business guys who won’t yell at them. That’s why he has influence.

Why is @nytimes.com claiming to know that FCC chair Brendan Carr's motives for state censorship of liberals are authentically felt, as opposed to an invented pretext? NYT headline writers can't see into Carr's mind.

Neither of whom is still in office. (Riggelman voted with MAGA 95% of the time.) Can you work with utter voids like MTG? Andy Biggs? No, and aspiring to shows a paucity of vision, even self-awareness. Present to us your own vision, and tell us why it will work.

Very clear that @moderation.bsky.app supports inciting violence against trans people. @safety.bsky.app means no safety for trans people.

The whole trans girls in sports discussion is absolutely being used to propagandize people into being transphobic bellends. In K-12, the number of trans girls in sports is five. In college the number is fewer than ten, according to the NCAA President. You're being manipulated. Please stop.

Little-known fact—of nine Virginians in the U.S. Army who held the rank of Colonel in 1861, only Robert E. Lee betrayed his oath of office to fight for the Confederacy. He was a traitor who doesn’t deserve to have a military base named after him. www.nps.gov/rich/learn/h...

The Trump Administration always had the power to bring Kilmar Abrego back. They were always lying about this, all of it was lies. abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl... They chose to disobey court orders because they are authoritarians who regard the Constitution as an inconvenience.

If, like me, you rant on about the ignorance of many people who also rant on, about immigration, and you want to be armed with facts rather than disinformation, Zoe Gardner is someone to whom you should listen. This interview is a great example of her expertise, straightforwardness and compassion.

I do love David Tennant and his response to this question in the Guardian today.

Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right. Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist. Really I wonder how they sleep at night.

For my Patreon post this week, I wrote about why TERFs are still complaining about not having friends. www.patreon.com/posts/you-ha...

In addition to 22 Past Presidents of the D.C. Bar, and 22 Past Presidents of affinity or voluntary Bar Associations, these legal leaders, legal organizations, and voluntary Bar Associations endorse me to become President of the #DCBar. I’m grateful for every single endorsement. Please vote.

It's genuinely hard to express to sort of normal not politically plugged in non-lawyers *how* lawless the Trump administration is, and I think that's some part of the problem. You sound like you're hyperventilating, but it's just a flat description of what is going on.

His name is Andry Hernandez Romero. He is a young professional from Venezuela. He is a makeup artist. He is a gay man. Andry was a target for abuse in his homeland of Venezuela. He was viciously humiliated daily — the victim of discrimination for his sexuality. He was also being persecuted for…

Is there any Democratic Senator who thinks Matthew Whitaker is a fit nominee to be ambassador to NATO, or that his conduct there won’t embarrass the United States and frustrate generations of bipartisan American foreign policy premised on the atlantic alliance? Why wouldn’t they object to him?

congratulations to john roberts who is as responsible for the current state of affairs as any single person in the country

The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.

A little history lesson on how rank choice voting can go wrong if we are not smart about our ranking all five slots for mayor. 2/2

I wrote this piece about how John Roberts doesn't get nearly enough shit for the predicament we find ourselves in as a country. His decades long crusade against voting rights is responsible.

Let’s make sure they’re wrong, shall we?