Lara

Lara

@getupswinging.bsky.social

She/her/hers. Dog mom. Stage 4 cancer. Book nerd. Formerly Laura_without_the_u on TikTok. Trans rights are human rights. Say no to TERFs. Www.getupswinging.com

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the handful of die-hard anti-trans voters that exist are going to vote GOP no matter what. so this ad will not pick up a single new voter. all it does is further disenfranchise trans ppl – a marginalized group MAGA hates. this is a pro-MAGA ad & Turek is furthering MAGA's cause by airing it

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

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just remember that when a democrat broadcasts an ad to millions of people calling for healthcare to be stripped from trans people that we're actually supposed to vote for him and then take credit for it afterwards

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This is just pure racism. Republicans objectively are campaigning on little more than bigotry.

The way some pundit bros like Matty Iglesias sound when it comes to trans people is just downright sociopathic. They talk about electability and polling numbers, like the people being discussed and dehumanized aren’t actual people. Centrist pundit bros think way too highly of themselves

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This is straight Klan stuff. He's talking like a badly xeroxed neo-Nazi flyer someone stuffed in your mailbox back in 1975.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."

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The level of hatred and harassment that Trump is directing at Ilhan Omar is appalling. He's inciting some disturbed person to commit violence against her. The entire Republican Party already has blood on its hands, and it's eager for more.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

a spectacle of fascism as Trump demands Ilhan Omar resign and says Democrats have conceded her seat, and the 20-something dude bros behind him leap up and start cheering

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The media are never going to hold this guy accountable as long as he's dropping nine figures on political ads

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It continues to be insane that the mainstream Liberal Zionist definition of apartheid in the US is one that wouldn't apply to South Africa.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social

By this logic, Jim Crow in the American South was no big deal, because in other parts of the US at the time, Black Americans could vote. I don’t think someone this well educated and intelligent really believes that.

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Vance says he's "disgusted" with the Ohio race. To be clear, he's not "disgusted" Ramaswamy is siding with a woman who let her husband rape her 12-year-old daughter and pushing a lie so bad even National Review called him out. No, no. He's "disgusted" that some Republicans objected to the ad.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

WOW -- Vance *defends* Vivek's reprehensible ad 👇 Q: Ramaswamy's campaign put out a controversial ad featuring his opponent's mother. Some Republicans are backing away. Do you think it was appropriate? JD VANCE: Well, I'll be honest. Whether the ad was appropriate or not is not really my concern.

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like vance, ramaswamy is a hateful, resentful orc of a human being, and the reason i think this will hurt him politically — where this stuff didn’t hurt trump — is that ramaswamy, like vance, is also profoundly unlikeable. he has no charm or charisma or anything. just a dipshit.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Unearthed footage of Vivek Ramaswamy mocking Amy Acton for being a survivor of childhood abuse: "She has no vision other than to complain about what someone else did to her"

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Replying to @trevondlogan.bsky.social

Since the video is self explanatory they are moving to a discussion of tone. They do this while refusing to admit that Tommy is a conservative operative, and in no way an “innocuous person at the town hall.” These are deeply and fundamentally unserious people.

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On the same day that CBS News senior legal correspondent Jan Crawford sent that Abdul El-Sayed tweet that she just deleted for violating CBS standards, she also tweeted her thanks to Andrew Fox -- who doesn't believe Palestinians exist -- for all of his efforts.

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Trump-friendly oligarchs are buying up major media with the regime's help. They control CNN, CBS, Fox, TikTok, Meta, X and major local TV chains. Yet Mike Johnson is still claiming liberal bias. The real media conspiracy is the corporate consensus to normalize Johnson and other right-wing radicals.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson offers a conspiracy theory to explain away his party's dire polling: "I believe there's a concerted effort between Democrats and the mainstream media that's openly biased in their favor to discourage the Republican side"

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Are you kidding me with this? CBS News reporter Jan Crawford is on social media congratulating a Christian White Nationalist for his staged confrontation with AES. Jan should have done some actual news reporting on the event before spouting off. But this is the Bari Weiss CBS so I guess it tracks.

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No, she’ll comment on it to boost the Screams Without Words bullshit her employer was pushing. Also a fun thing you can do is go to twitter and put “from:janecoaston @jessesingal” into the search bar. Enjoy years of playful banter with one of the weirdest transphobic shitheads of all time!

Big The Cryptkeeper Fan@coprophagy.bsky.social

coaston has always been a favorite of mine for the last few years because she has this compulsion to comment on literally every news story unless it involves a certain conflict in the middle east

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You were a libertarian like four years ago. The red scare crew have been right wingers longer than you’ve nominally been a liberal.

Jane Coaston@janecoaston.bsky.social

I'm not saying every "dirtbag leftist" was and is an amoral garbage bag, but I'm not not saying that.

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Ence Morse@ence.bsky.social

Anyone remember Chicago Progressive Partnership, the shell group that spent big to back pro-Israel candidates in Illinois Dem primaries? It just closed up... and transferred its bank balance back to AIPAC's super PAC.

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Both the mainstream media and the gop (and dem leadership) bought into this notion that Trumps squeaker of a win over Harris was this giant sweeping mandate for conservatism and Trumpism. It never was. He won against a Democratic Party that has spent multiple decades hobbling itself. That’s it.

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Replying to @anatosaurus.bsky.social

Dems volunteer to go on defense - not offense - then refuse to defend human rights, humans and even themselves!!! They're counseled to shit talk their own party while they know most voters are low info & thus vote on...hatred of status quo, which they blame on party in power.

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I don’t have any idea what the solution to the bigger problem for literature is, but it strikes me as completely outrageous that the Atlantic would level such a serious charge against an author without an iota of actual evidence. And no, a black box analysis by another AI program is not evidence.

theguardian.comZimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza denies using AI to write prize-winning storyArticle in Atlantic claims The Blue Fighter was artificially generated, days after it won Caine prize for African writers

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You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

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JD Vance running around the country saying he’s fighting health care fraud while his nominee for the senate in TX who he completely supports is partying in Dubai with a guy whole stole over $300 million in health care fraud and gave Paxton $190,000. This is the Republican Party.

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1. There is no such thing as a "false rumor." The word for that is a HOAX. 2. The headline misses the entire point of the hoax, which is not that he was in Ohio, but that he was in a mental health facility! are there any adults left at the new york times

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Anyway what judge approved a search warrant for the home of a member of Congress less than a month before her election