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Way too many elected Democrats/candidates and their followers on this app have decided that trans people are politically expendable. It’s unconscionable.

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The federal campaign arms of the Democratic Party have decided that being anti-trans is not a dealbreaker for them. And that’s a dealbreaker for me.

We no longer have a TV in the house. It is now called, “The Taskmaster Machine.”

AOC: "What the Trump administration is doing in targeting trans people is to get everyone on board with supporting defunding their own civil rights ... understand that when they attack trans girls in sports, they're also attacking all women's ability to stand up against their abusers"

Democratic-aligned group Progress Action Fund has released a PRO-trans ad, attacking Republicans for being creepy in bathrooms. It will run in Texas and Ohio, and is expected to reach millions. You have to see the ad itself. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Colorado. Michigan. 28 Democratic party elected officials with a national platform. Anti-trans ads being run by democrats. Ohio Dems censoring its LGBTQ+ caucus. South Carolina dems voting en masse for anti-trans policies. Never think what happened to UK Labour can't happen here.

Whaddya know, Dems, you can answer a question about trans people by 1) standing on principle, 2) turning it into an attack on Republicans, and 3) not acting like a sniveling coward. It's not that hard!

Let's go, Sam Forstag! That's how you stand up for trans people on the national stage. If congressional candidates in western Montana—one of the most competitive House races in the entire country—can stand up for trans folks in every aspect of our lives, democrats everywhere should take note.

Two months ago I reported on Amy Acton’s anti-trans turn and fears Dems would go the way of Labour. Some mocked me for it. Now that list is up to 28 major dem elected officials and entire state governments.

I really encourage all my fellow straights to loudly and clearly speak up for trans people. There are folks in your life who need to hear it.

Hey!!?!? Why are tubas catching strays?

the democrats who put themselves in a panic over hasan piker are the same democrats who push the party to be anti trans, and a generation ago were the ones saying we cant oppose the war in iraq these people are never right they doom the party they hurt america stop listening to them

Lots of fascinating observations in this piece. A key one is that those demanding calculated moderation on trans rights are not acknowledging where the logic *or* the politics of that position actually lead, which is to a terrible place:

if you give up your morality in pursuit of power why the fuck should i trust you in power

Talarico lost my vote tonight. I will NOT, under ANY circumstances, vote for someone who throws Trans people under the bus.

Very good point here: A lot of university leaders will think, "the Trump administration just wants us to make some vague statements - we can live with that." They are not counting on the DOJ using those statements as the basis for legal investigations. Which this DOJ will be willing to do.

GOP courts are now so lawlessly partisan that I am genuinely shocked the Missouri Supreme Court actually followed the law in the redistricting referendum case. I’m sure the MAGA death threats against the justices have already started.

Has anyone started a GoFundMe for tearing down the stupid Ballroom?

I’m on the Dem. donor mailing list and just got this tonight. Hell. No. There should be zero tolerance for TERFs in the Democratic Party.

We know what happens when the left of center party embraces transphobia. Look at Labour UK. Trans rights are lost there for a generation. They've got nobody left to fight for them. We cannot let that same cancer spread in the US in the Democratic Party.

I’m generally a “vote blue no matter who,” guy, but I have some red lines that I am unwilling to overlook. For example, if you throw Trans people under the bus, you will NOT get my vote. Ever.

@volts.wtf blocked me for responding to his Platner apologia.

I keep getting further radicalized by this corrupt Republican SCOTUS majority.

5-4 in favor of the plain meaning of the 14th Amendment and 140 years of unambiguous precedent. This court is out of its effing mind. Pack the court.

Yet another shit sandwich served up to Trans people by someone intoning about “everyone’s right to be treated with dignity and respect.” Ghoulish.

Time to leave Bluesky. Too many of the people I respected have gone all in on “Platner is better than Collins, so it doesn’t matter how flawed he is as a human being” This is how Trump became president. It was unconscionable then and it is unconscionable now.

San Antonio is a blue city. GOP politicians hate us almost as much as they hate Austin. They don’t represent us and should keep our team’s name out of their filthy mouths.

I don’t live in CA, but if you do, please vote for Tom Steyer.

Zero tolerance is the only correct response to this whackadoo and her bigoted nonsense. She has clearly and unequivocally crossed the line from criticism of Israel into actual antisemitism. She has no place in the Democratic Party. Graham Platner should have been treated in exactly the same way.

Well at least San Antonio is only allowed to use the 7’5” French basketball god alien once a series to keep things fair [presses ear bud] hold on I’m being told something

Blocking all Platner-stans and apologists.

Man, I read more and more posts on social media sites about how the Dems need to reform the court, impeach people, hold people accountable, completely rebuild institutions, implement universal healthcare, etc. etc. ... and then I look around at the actual elected leaders of the party ...

This is too funny. My hat is off to you, anonymous genius.

Good.

Good.

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

Like most of our elite institutions, the U.S. Military also surrendered to Trump II. These organizations are no longer entitled to our trust, and I’m not sure they can or should ever get it back.

Describe your Bluesky account with a single image.

Maybe the upside to Trump’s destruction of American global hegemony is that we can get rid of our massive, expensive and now domesically dangerous standing army and use the money we save to help people.

I see what Kagan and Sotomayor are trying to do here. If laws against conversion therapy are subject to 1A strict scrutiny, laws against therapeutic approaches that affirm LGBTQIA identities are too. But in order for this to work, their six colleagues cannot be corrupt partisan hacks. And well…

On this Trans Day of Visibility, I celebrate the love and joy shared with friends and family who have found love and joy in their true selves. I love you. I am with you.

Democrats are failing the “what if there was a Democratic version of Trump” test.

@warren.senate.gov’s endorsement of Platner is incredibly disappointing. I voted for her in the 2020 primary and was a huge fan for many years. This decision forces me to rethink that. I can’t support someone willing to overlook Platner’s Nazi-curious past. I thought we were better than this.

It is repulsive to me -- morally, aesthetically, politically -- on a scale that I genuinely don't know how to describe. It's just so deeply, deeply gross, to be so filled with weakness that you abuse other, weaker people to feel better. What a horrible kind of human, to do that, to *allow* that.