💀 Em-balmed Arcadia 💀

Hello BlueSky! I occasionally write stuff, like this article. I'm finally giving in and giving social media another honest go. I focus mostly on commentary and analysis around US politics, queer issues, and trying to reframe things with a liberatory focus and/or exploring power dynamics.

I felt I really needed to write about Rowling's essay, not because it's new, but because it's so poisonous and ugly that it felt like sanitizing her not to acknowledge it on my trans news site.

"Our opponents are pedophiles and anyone who agrees with them is outside of humanity" is probably a good closing message for the midterms

I'm not like thrilled that it's becoming a daily occurrence that I get flashbanged by some US politician using a slur about people like me, or that the nominal opposition party is running candidates that share policies with them

Something I spoke about before was how transphobia is often an expression of misogyny, it gives people who hate women an outlet and sets trans women up as a class of women it's socially okay to be misogynistic towards, while also providing an ideological justification for that misogyny.

Nuclear just doesn't have a future, and big oil would really like to keep nuclear in the discussion because it's slow to build and gives them more runway. Whatever arguments there might have been for nuclear three decades ago, the era is over.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

I don’t think this is exactly what’s going on, or all that’s going on. It’s not that Republicans are constructing an elaborate psychological defense against evidence that Trump is a rapist. It’s that they like that he’s a rapist, and they like rape: it enacts the power of the strong over the weak.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

I've said it before but the major disconnect between trans people and our oppressors is that we treat healthcare as an issue of autonomy, whereas the cis medical authorities treat it at best as a sort of palliative care for an incurable "disease".

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

It's not possible to do what the Lula campaign just did if your activists are dispirited and demobilized.

There is a deep problem in US politics that the Democratic right has oppositional defiant disorder towards the activists that make their politics possible.

It's my observation that a ton of people, even those who follow politics every day, simply do not understand how the government works.

Bolsonaro is not inevitable. AI is not inevitable. Now, people from the US, what do you need form us to help you win the midterms? A tip: interview André Janones. All left wing YouTube channels should interview him.

If explaining a candidate's position accurately hurts that candidate that's not a problem with the person doing the explaining. If embracing anti-trans bigotry is good, smart politics, then trans people pointing it out isn't going to hurt those politicians.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Agree or disagree we cannot just dismiss these Reasonable Concerns

Many Americans reacting to this with "I hope this doesn't happen to us in November" and like, no you dumb fucks he's saying this shit because he wants to give YOUR GOVERNMENT cover to interfere further.

It is in a lot of ways just an abdication of responsibility, of taking a role in forming the political environment. It's the fundamental problem of shallow popularism; you assume you're just a powerless actor reacting to the "preferences" of the "median voter", which is a loser's way of thinking.

And so I have to ask, where would we be in some parallel world where the socialism and liberty party, or the worker's party, had this particular brain worm and worried about the ~*~optics~*~ of campaigning with her, of letting her be the incredibly effective leader that she is?

⭐ Sorry, not for sale

as a trans activist from Kansas, some of the most vehement pro-trans activists in the state are genuinely Christian pastors. the Dems in the State Legislature have way more pro-trans takes than this. he's saying this after my trans activist friends have spent like a week @'ing him. he can do better

Greenwald passes himself off as something of an expert in Brazilian politics

"At some point you will feel and express rage, and you will doubtless be right to do so." #transrightsarehumanrights

So Lula not only won, he basically doubled his margin of victory from 2022. I'm guessing he won thanks to voters who didn't love him, but were terrified to see Flavio given near-dictatorial power. It's going to be a messy next chapter for Brazil, but at least it'll be a fight, not a curb-stomping.

Hi. I, a trans woman, am the Executive Producer of this show. I wrote the question. He called trans girls men. He has now said it in three different places in the past week.

For @ms.now I wrote about Josh Turek's proposal for trans health... ...only it was 10 months ago when the Trump administration proposed the same policy. They later backed off the proposal. www.ms.now/opinion/tran...

I can't get a US passport that doesn't out me whenever I travel. I lost the right to privacy, and to safe travel in places hostile to trans people.

So, I'm being dragged for saying the incremental change idea involves fighting Democrats who want to drag their feet on giving trans people back the rights we've lost over the past 6 years... ...by Democrats who favor an incremental change approach to restoring trans people's rights.

A lot of helpful critters survive the winter through insulation provided by leaf litter or hollow plant stems. Without that stuff they can't survive the cold and dry of the winter.