Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus.
The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy.
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There's a Garfield animated series where they go camping and Garfield nearly gets shredded by a puma. The line delivery of his "last words," the music and visuals were SO INTENSE for little me.
it’s become so normal for people to disclose their rapes to appeal to people’s humanity around rape cases that we don’t think about how disgusting the need to do that is
put the worst moment of your life out for public consumption, so that half the comments can call you a liar.
These sweeping statements about more work being like software engineering that people realize and “all service work can be automated” immediately hits me as 1) a claim that can be tested and 2) one that hasn’t been sufficiently tested. But they all just blithely accept it.
I was sent into an interview by a recruiter at a really miserable looking warehouse space stuffed full of cubicles. Dim lighting, white noise piped from dozens of ceiling speakers.
They asked if I knew the difference between a switch & a router.
I sighed, and said, "About $50"
Iowa Dem. Gov. candidate Rob Sand was confronted at a rally yesterday over anti-trans positions.
A constituent asked if he would walk them back.
He refused to, and in fact said he supported sports bans.
Another constituent shouted "COWARD!" in the background.
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this. do you know how embarassing it was to watch a sporting event on tv in a room where you're the only trans person? and that "kamala is for they them ad" comes on and everyone knows it's about you? and they all just kinda laugh nervously or look uncomfortable? because it wears on us.
Helping the kids with their chores and tried to catch a falling water bottle against my body before it hit the ground and dented.
Racked myself so hard I damn near threw up, kids were ready to call the squad 💀
IMHO any candidate who is against trans rights is taking an unacceptable stand (that some people should have restricted rights) and outs themselves as demonstrably unelectable by doing so.
If you spend even one second scolding anyone who doesn’t want to vote for transphobic democrats instead telling those democrats to fix their shit then you’re just an asshole. You’re a stupid fucking bigot and your instinct to tell trans people how to feel is blaring like an air raid siren.
youre probably looking at this fruit and thinking ‘wow, that must grow on a tropical island somewhere’, and you’d be WRONG AS HELL. its a pawpaw, the largest edible fruit native to north america. this is our first one and it tastes like banana, vanilla, and cantaloupe made a weird ass threesome baby
why is it not enough that vulnerable people must give up their rights for the greater good? why must they also accept their own sacrifice quietly and graciously? ask yourself if you would be so forgiving if you were the one expected to suffer for the greater good
The midterms are shaping up to be a referendum on whether trans people should exist, with Republicans saying we shouldn't and Democrats saying maybe Republicans have a point on some of these issues.
Good luck, everybody!
"I am for the dignity and safety and equal rights of trans people everywhere. Fuck you. The end."
"I do not believe you care about this issue. You are lying. In fact you're a straight up weirdo for fixating on kids' genitals so much. That is odd behavior. Let kids run around with their friends."
President Trump on Sunday said he called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to ask him to “stop knocking out diesel fuel” targets in Russia, saying the attacks were contributing to a global shortage of the fuel.
👇 THIS right here. Talarico, Turek, et al ARE THE ONES WHO CHOSE THOSE POSITIONS. if you're afraid those decisions may alienate pro-trans/LGBTQ+ voters, THEN BLAME THEM, NOT US!
Very disheartening to see more and more Dem politicians lean into anti trans positions and when trans people say "man, this sucks" they get swarmed by people yelling at them for handing elections to the GOP. Wish they had that energy for the politicians.
In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.
@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social knock this shit off and if he keeps it up please go get a different job — your soul is not worth the illusion of peeling off some chuds
@amyactonoh.bsky.social you need to see how a more visible Dem Gov candidate is being dragged for this.
You are both courting voters that do not exist.
We deserve better Dems than this. The moment demands better Dems than this.
Shame on both of you.
For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.
“Look at them now,” an old man beside me kept saying. “Just look at them now.”
—Philip Hamburger, reporting from the execution of Mussolini and his lieutenants, New Yorker, May 19, 1945