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AOC is a legend. Also, this article failed to mention Andy "the Mensch" Beshear, who defended trans rights against the entire legislature of red Kentucky, and he fucking won. Trans rights are a winning issue. www.reddit.com/r/transgende...

@joshturek4iowa.bsky.social I can't express how disappointed I am in your abandonment of thectrans community. As a person reliant on federal protections for a medical condition you didn't choose, I expected empathy for mine. Please, do better for Iowa and for your fellow citizens.

For reference, Zacharia lasted only one half of a Scaramucci.

The first time I heard of MAGA, I was informed that they were mouth breathing trolls on 4chan. That was correct. Ten years later, they've defined our world and we define ourselves against them. We need to put those fuckers behind us.

Trump wants to put his name on the Kennedy Center and his face on coins because he knows that if he waits until he dies, nobody's going to give him those honors.

@jamestalarico.bsky.social The science is clear that there is no meaningful difference in strength or speed between cis and trans women. Trans women have been in sports for decades. Are you proud to abandon our community because a plurality of voters want to strip away our rights oppress us?

The culture war is about what we consider to be unacceptable profanity. Is the F word sexual or a slur against LQB people? Do you feel more entitled to use scatalogical terms or the N word? Are you more bothered when someone says "Jesus" or "r*****?" We're defining what polite society will tolerate.

You know shit is real when Fox News joins the resistance.

That old bitch is probably storing napalm in federal buildings around the capital, and when he orders the city incinerated, his secret service detail will shiv him from behind.

Donald Trump has aged like fine wine after it's been opened and left in the sun for a couple weeks.

JD Vance would look like a Cabbage Patch doll that a four-year-old drew a beard on if Cabbage Patch dolls fucked couches.

Trump announcing he's secured a deal for Venezuelan oil is like a hostage taker announcing he's secured a deal for the parents' savings.

The bar is flush with the floor.

In case anyone is curious, Bitcoin's 5-year growth is 53% while Vanguard's total index is 59%. Bitcoin is useless as a currency, it's just a speculative bubble, and the bubble fell behind the market years ago. Do. Not. Gamble. On. Bitcoin.

When the US spent demonizing socialism and tolerating g fascism, today's politics became inevitable. The GOP has pulled politics to the right, and the Dems and media accept the shifted center. We can't accept only one set of extremists and have the center remain in the center.

In 1980, the Islamic Republic kept their hostages until the US election to undermine Carter's prospects. Are they doing the same thing with the Straight of Hormuz to undermine the GOP's chances in the 2026 Congressional election?

If the Watchmen were set in Iran, Ozymandias would have plotted to get the US to stage an attack.

Fun fact, Elon Musk looks like a person, but he is actually a sack of shit. Remember how at the end of Nightmare Before Christmas, Oogie Boogie turned out to be a sweater full of bugs? Elon Musk is like that, but instead of bugs and a sweater, he's a sack full of shit.

If i bought a working refurbished computer, walked out of the store, smashed it repeatedly on the sidewalk and building wall, and then bitched about the quality of work of the refurbishers, I would rightly be called a whining moron. Which is what Trump is.

Somewhere, somehow, Lindsay Graham is standing at the end of a rainbow bridge, waiting for his Mee Maw. Y'old battle axe. Hoping for a Closer Look Back at his accomplishments, @salgentile.bsky.social

I boarded my 5-hour flight 45 minutes ago. That's what, a 15% increase of inhaling recycled parts over an on time departure?

Kafka Was Right

California's billionaires line up to say in a unified voice that they stole their money fair and square! How dare the people try to affect the tax code that they already paid to rig for themselves? The nerve of the serfs... I mean citizens.

An avalanche starts with a relatively small trigger. It grows, and as it rolls down a mountain, it gains strength from additional mass that it accumulates. Citizens United was bad, but the avalanche began decades ago. It's actually a consequence of the avalanche.

I think the GOP leaned into the manufacturing culture war stuff because if the problem with working class mobility and income is offshoring, and not deunionization, then they can talk about factories all day without having to question unionizing the other labor pools.

@yourewrongabout.bsky.social the JFK episodes are great. Just one thing, re Elvis and being an extra. After retiring, Steve McQueen would show anonymously to be an extra in motorcycle sequences. Was Elvis in Home Alone? No! Could a reclusive ex-star want to be an extra? There's precedent.

They say we're trying to change the voters. Every accusation is a confession.

An Open LetterTo The Asshole Who Nearly Ran Over My Daughter Look left instead of running stop signs completely blind, you piece of shit. This is why I hate every fucking driver in LA. You're the majority, fucker. Can one Angelino learn to drive? Just fucking one? -Don

To those concluding that the US administration got a bad deal in the Iran negotiation, I would point to Venezuela. Trump 2 is focused on flooding the market in oil to undermine the green revolution and retain petrodollar dominance. Is Venezuelan and Iranian oil are traded, their goal is achieved.

Much as I despise Elon Musk, it's truly a testament to his motivation that he's 1/5 of the way to his goal of having enough money to afford someone's friendship.

I never thought I would say it, but good job, Donald Trump. You got into a needless illegal war of choice, and when it became clear that winning would be bloody and expensive, you negotiated a humiliating peace deal. You're actually smarter and more politically courageous than Putin. Amazing.

American Voters: "The Republicans are destroying us! Please, dear god, empower the Democrats to win elections and fix this!" Democratic Party: "Sorry, did you say something? Give me a sec, I'm trying to hammer this nail through both of my nuts at once."

Raising a kid is an amazing opportunity for reflection. Seeing myself in them, seeing them make the same choices I did at their age, it really helps me to understand what an asshole kid i was.

The creation of minority-majority districts was always an unelegant solution, and it would always be clumsy and have detractors. This is why we need proportional representation, ranked voting, and a House that's 2x bigger. This would assure universal representation.

I just want to share a little message of solidarity. ADP is fucking dogshit. Everyone who's ever used it, I see you.

Happy Trans Visibility Day! Trans rights are human rights!

It occurred to me that Trump is a heartless, brainless coward, a fraud who I suspect actually wants to go home, he's an unnatural color, and he employs an army of viscious minions who he sicks on undocumented migrants and their allies. Donald Trump is the entire main cast of the Wuzard of Oz.

Why does anyone listen to Yglesias anymore? If anyone wants a bland, mediocre white man's thoughts, David Brooks is now to Yglesias' left.

Musk: I'm a Nazi. Pundits: Musk is such a troll. Musk: No, really. I'm a Nazi. I believe Nazi things. Unapologetically. Pundits: It's a shame he's been driven to troll like this. Musk: You know who I want to be like? Hitler. I mean it. That's the life for me.

While that is a funny joke, gender affirming surgeries for trans people have a near zero regret rate, which is unheard of because even things like knee surgeries have higher regret rates. Most notably cis people getting gender affirming surgery, way higher regret rate than trans people.

Ladies and gentlemen, the man who would be king.

To me, Chuck Norris will always be the guy who wrote a multi-efitorial endorsement of Newt Gingrich in 2012, including one in which he defines "America" and says Gingrich understands it best. An argument as well-constructed as his film plots. www.cnn.com/2012/02/06/s...

Sen. Mullin supports both refugee welfare programs and the violent assault of Sen. Paul? I may have to change my position on his nomination.

I'm fairly indifferent to Timothy Challa... however it's spelled. But I don't get why anyone is upset about his accurate remark. How often have furious posters have been to the opera or ballet this year? Monthly? Weekly? Are they still profitable due to your loyalty?

It was radically irresponsible of the Senate to confirm Pete Hegseth. There need to be consequences at the ballot box.

GOP: Our closed-loop propaganda ecosystem is impenetrable! Our voters will never be faced with the corruption and incompetence of our party. Trump: Hold my Diet Coke.

Looks like Trump is trying to have his very own Bay of Pigs.

Iranian here. The loudest voices in the room do not represent all of our voices. You can be against the regime AND not want a war.

There was a time when the President would spend weeks, months lying to Congress and the American people to reduce opposition to unilaterally starting a war in the Middle East. Today is the day George W Bush truly became presidential.

If in 2003 you asked any random person, between Epstein and Trump, which one would be president and which would be a convicted pedophile who hanged himself in jail, nobody would have guessed right.