Rebecca Rubenstein

people come up with all kinds of fanciful math to justify billionaires' wealth but imo present political moment demonstrates conclusively that we need to tax billionaires at whatever rate will keep them focused on their own fucking business rather than our Medicaid and pediatric cancer research

Every time they say “we can’t afford that,” remember: they could afford armored tanks, a dictators birthday parade, and enough tear gas to choke a city. They just don’t want you fed, safe, or alive.

What happened with Polygon today is so fucked. Vox Media has made some atrocious decisions in my six years here but this is really something else. And to do this in the middle of us bargaining a new union contract, where they scold us for asking for better protections, is just unconscionable.

"Did Trump just defy a court order?" YES, motherfuckers. Why in the fuck is that so hard for people to say? The judge told him to stop doing something, he did it anyway, IN DEFIANCE OF THE JUDGES RULINGS! WHY ARE PEOPLE COMMITTED TO ADDRESSING FASCISM IN THE PASSIVE VOICE????

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

We’re all worried to some degree that Trump supporters are going to kill us or get us killed. It’s not going to get better for any of us unless good people resolve to stand up to them.

same methods, different era

all of this. it’s frustrating as fuck as everything unravels to see deals made so everyone in DC can go home for a long weekend. god as my witness I will back primaries on everyone mewling about civility right now. stop acting like amoebas and show a little goddamned spine.

Democratic lawmakers need to understand something: Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain." And just stand there. This is how many of you are coming across.

I do not need the Dems to tell us how bad things are. We already read the news. I need them tell us *what they plan to do about it*

“The State Department is blocking new passports for trans Americans” The EU needs to update its laws and open asylum pathways for trans people. Denying someone identification is state sponsored erasure and it needs to be recognised as persecution.

every single person that tried to claim that they were a feminist, a liberal or a progressive, while Just Asking Questions about this shit? it’s now starkly clear what side they’re on. plausible deniability out the window

you don't need a phd in right wing extremism to recognize a nazi salute. what the fuck are we doing here.

Everyone excusing Elon Musk’s behavior due to his alleged autism should be chased into the sea with pitchforks it’s both profoundly insulting to autistic people and also obviously not true

Guys, the dork who made his Future Car look like a roided-out Back to the Future mobile doesn't do subtlety.

I am currently screaming inside my heart and it sounds a lot like this

A lot of people are explaining what Trump can and cannot do, based on the law and Constitution. The reality of the situation is that we're about to find out what legal walls and safeguards will hold and which will crumble. Right now, we don't fucking know.

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

I wish you all a very "don't watch the inauguration tomorrow, that orange cretin is gonna steal enough of your mindshare without you watching him on purpose" to you all 💛✌🏽

What if they just periodically had to sit in their office closets while someone simulated being a shooter in the corridor, like my grade school children do?

5th person to be cured of HIV “Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”

The way this made me smile. I love this place so much.

This man looks like a fuckin’ AI facsimile.

The best thing I ever did on here was follow @infinitescream.bsky.social, because most of the time that’s what’s going through my head as I’m scrolling, and then—bam!—my thoughts become visual reality.

Hope his ambulance was in network

I’ll crack a joke. I’ll throw poems your way and might even steal your man for the night if I get bored. But I’ll never tell you a lie. … Our house is on fire. The doors are locked. The firefighters locked us inside just before they sped off. Excusing their behavior will not save our lives.

Can’t possibly ever say it enough: if you love something about someone—something they wrote or made or said, or something that made your day or life even a tiny bit better—tell them. Nobody hears it enough, and it can mean the world.

Wish we had bookmarks here because this is one of the most useful threads I’ve ever read

Lots going on in the news this morning, and I know we all probably have starter pack fatigue, but this list of editors/readers is great, just sayin’

I don’t think it will all fit in there.

Gonna say this once (but also forever): if you don’t think trans people are people, and don’t deserve the same rights and peace as cis people, then I’m gonna need you to fuck right off a cliff.

bathroom segregation is something we've seen in the US before! it's also a functional ban on participating in public life! people gotta pee while doing their daily business

Nancy Mace has introduced a federal bathroom ban which would ban trans people from bathrooms in DCA and Dulles airports, national park bathrooms, museum bathrooms, and all federal building bathrooms.

The dopamine hit I get from a friend texting me to enthusiastically relay a passage from a favorite book of mine they’re reading because I recommended it. One of the best feelings, preceded only by a friend reading a passage out loud so you can really see them sit with it and bask in the language.

Gonna say this once (but also forever): if you don’t think trans people are people, and don’t deserve the same rights and peace as cis people, then I’m gonna need you to fuck right off a cliff.