PBeck🏳️‍⚧️☘️🇺🇸

PBeck🏳️‍⚧️☘️🇺🇸

@pbeck.bsky.social

Retired lawyer, autism parent, trans parent, reader, liberal She/Her

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The people who voted for this disgust me. They are on the wrong side of history!

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social

Transgender adults in Kansas have received letters ordering them to surrender their drivers licenses until they obtain a new one with a marker reflecting their sex assigned at birth. Their current licenses are now invalid. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

"I’m not even sure it qualifies as a documentary, exactly, so much as an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, horribly overpriced and ice-cold to the touch and proffered like a medieval tribute to placate the greedy king on his throne." 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

🧵🧵🧵 "Melania" reviews 🧵🧵🧵 The Guardian: “It’s dispiriting, it’s deadly and it’s spectacularly unrevealing. … Two hours of Melania feels like pure, endless hell.”

The whole thread!

Sean Casten@seancasten.bsky.social

Any oil company that invests in the production, refining or distribution of Venezuelan oil is exposing their shareholders to significant long term credit liability. We raised that point in a letter to the oil majors today, but want to dive into why: casten.house.gov/media/press-...

PBeck🏳️‍⚧️☘️🇺🇸 reposted

Any one of us could be detained for hours by ICE despite being a U.S. citizen. Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night. Any one of us could be the next to be brutalized by ICE for speaking out. Authoritarianism hurts all of us.

PBeck🏳️‍⚧️☘️🇺🇸 reposted

“The 3.5% rule is a concept in political science that states that when 3.5% of the population of a country protest nonviolently against a government, that government is likely to fall from power.” If you can get to a No Kings rally this Saturday, please do.

PBeck🏳️‍⚧️☘️🇺🇸 reposted

Trump's UN speech was an embarrassing shitshow that brought disgrace upon the United States. Congrats, America.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social - How could you and do this?!! What is happening to you? How could you let any Ds vote for this?! His life was not honorable. He thought you were an affirmative action hire.

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social

95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires. shame. clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

PBeck🏳️‍⚧️☘️🇺🇸 reposted

Replying to @timothysnyder.bsky.social

2/2. Everyone using the phrase "land swap" should please specify which Russian territory Ukraine would be getting. So far it’s a euphemism for forcing Ukraine to give things up to Russia.

PBeck🏳️‍⚧️☘️🇺🇸 reposted

We’re all saying it, but this scary-city thing is such BS. I’ve lived in Manhattan & Brooklyn since 1993, I take the subway & walk all over the place & I’ve experienced *zero* serious crime. Cities are big, dense places full of crowds & strangers, but that doesn’t make them apocalyptic crimepots

We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition to demand they reverse their decision and keep Colbert on air! sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...

sign.moveon.orgKeep Colbert on Air!We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition t...

PBeck🏳️‍⚧️☘️🇺🇸 reposted

There are a lot of things wrong with this country, but it’s hard to imagine anything less American than the President threatening to revoke someone’s citizenship for the crime of free speech.

PBeck🏳️‍⚧️☘️🇺🇸 reposted

My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump threatens to arrest Mamdani and then adds, "a lot of people are saying he's here illegally"

PBeck🏳️‍⚧️☘️🇺🇸 reposted

Replying to @jentaub.bsky.social

Sellout Sixteen: Alsobrooks Blunt Rochester Booker Cortez Masto Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Lujan Ossoff Padilla Rosen Schiff Slotkin Warner 2/

PBeck🏳️‍⚧️☘️🇺🇸 reposted

As hypocritical as it gets.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

WATCH: “You’ve been criticized for having a double-standard.” Republicans Bondi, Johnson, Thune struggle to defend the hypocrisy of Trump condemning LA protestors after pardoning those who attacked law enforcement during the actual 1/6 insurrection.

PBeck🏳️‍⚧️☘️🇺🇸 reposted

The really critical thing to know about the Trump/Musk throw down is that the “Big Beautiful Bill” would explode the debt, exacerbate economic inequality, and cause cruel and grievous harm to the most vulnerable Americans and we really should be talking about that a whole lot more.

PBeck🏳️‍⚧️☘️🇺🇸 reposted

Replying to @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com

a member of a putschist mob, attempting to break through the door to get at hiding members of Congress, getting domed after repeated warnings is like the most justified use of police violence in history

PBeck🏳️‍⚧️☘️🇺🇸 reposted

Replying to @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com

If a Black man at a traffic stop twitches the wrong way, these guys think cops should have zero legal consequences for brutalizing and murdering him, but Ashli Babbitt tries to crawl through a broken window like some kind of psychotic zombie movie creature and the cop was in the wrong?

PBeck🏳️‍⚧️☘️🇺🇸 reposted

If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.

PBeck🏳️‍⚧️☘️🇺🇸 reposted

To all those who say Trump has “single-handedly” wrecked the economy: He didn’t do it single-handedly. Congress could’ve stopped him anytime. The Republican-led Congress allowed him to wreck the economy.

PBeck🏳️‍⚧️☘️🇺🇸 reposted

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

PBeck🏳️‍⚧️☘️🇺🇸 reposted

When you elect a narcissistic sociopath who mismanages a pandemic and foments an insurrection, but you elect him again anyway, knowing he has no rudimentary understanding of economics and went bankrupt 6 times, is now owned by his disorders, and you give him immunity, this is the shit that happens.

PBeck🏳️‍⚧️☘️🇺🇸 reposted

Jessica: When I hear Republicans out there talking about their plan for education in America, I don't hear them talking about making sure disabled kids have access to a public education. Greg: Because we're against it.