mollrat
@mollrat.bsky.social
Lover of democracy and of fun silly things like musicals
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I think a number of press outlets badly want there to be a groundswell of anti-trans feeling, because the ownership/senior editorial of those papers have absolutely cooked their own brains on transphobia. It seems to be largely an elite psychosis!
the harris campaign said the “they/them” ad didn’t sway the election.
one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters.
when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror
one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters.
when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I think a number of press outlets badly want there to be a groundswell of anti-trans feeling, because the ownership/senior editorial of those papers have absolutely cooked their own brains on transphobia. It seems to be largely an elite psychosis!
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you have to understand maga's obsession with weirdo fucking plastic surgery as basically the same things as gang members getting face tattoos
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[marx voice] IT'S A COSTLY SIGNAL
November 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
you have to understand maga's obsession with weirdo fucking plastic surgery as basically the same things as gang members getting face tattoos
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I absolutely loathe the "RETVRN to hunter-gatherer life" people, because they just do not grasp this. They also don't grasp that mothers had to bury half of the children they birthed, and would often commit infanticide on the other half.
one of the things that comes up in matranga's "the ant and the grasshopper" is that, going by skeletal evidence, the average pre-agriculture human experienced ~11 episodes of severe starvation *before adulthood*. agriculture brings this down to ~4
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It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
November 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I absolutely loathe the "RETVRN to hunter-gatherer life" people, because they just do not grasp this. They also don't grasp that mothers had to bury half of the children they birthed, and would often commit infanticide on the other half.
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Yeah, I'm generally on record that I think the time between November '26 and January '27 are probably the most fraught time of this entire thing, because there will be a hostile congress incoming and Trump is going to lose it.
IMO trump's attempt to subvert 2026 Will look less like Trump declaring that there will be no elections going forward and more like them refusing to seat or refusing to acknowledge of the legitimacy of the next Congress.
And that would be a big problem! But it's different from canceling elections
And that would be a big problem! But it's different from canceling elections
I mean I think the people who are still doomering about "there will never be elections, woe upon us all!" really need to sit their asses down and think for a second.
1.) Subverting elections becomes more administratively difficult and resource intensive the more there are happening at once.
1.) Subverting elections becomes more administratively difficult and resource intensive the more there are happening at once.
November 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Yeah, I'm generally on record that I think the time between November '26 and January '27 are probably the most fraught time of this entire thing, because there will be a hostile congress incoming and Trump is going to lose it.
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“This thing seems so stupid, they must have a very subtle evil reason for doing it” ma’am I get where you’re coming from but let me fill you in on the GOP of 2025
November 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
“This thing seems so stupid, they must have a very subtle evil reason for doing it” ma’am I get where you’re coming from but let me fill you in on the GOP of 2025
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Literally your entire dooming point has been empirically denied in a much smaller, easier group of elections to try and subvert than an actual nationwide midterm. Shut UP.
November 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Literally your entire dooming point has been empirically denied in a much smaller, easier group of elections to try and subvert than an actual nationwide midterm. Shut UP.
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3.) It failed miserably.
4.) They had a pair of statewides in a state with very friendly partisan structures in election boards and in the state government in Georgia. They got absolutely massacred in those races and were unable to steal anything.
4.) They had a pair of statewides in a state with very friendly partisan structures in election boards and in the state government in Georgia. They got absolutely massacred in those races and were unable to steal anything.
November 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
3.) It failed miserably.
4.) They had a pair of statewides in a state with very friendly partisan structures in election boards and in the state government in Georgia. They got absolutely massacred in those races and were unable to steal anything.
4.) They had a pair of statewides in a state with very friendly partisan structures in election boards and in the state government in Georgia. They got absolutely massacred in those races and were unable to steal anything.
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You need to have more people, more resources, etc. because the election system is so decentralized.
2.) We just had an excellent example of them ATTEMPTING TO SUBVERT ELECTIONS. THEY SENT ELECTION MONITORS TO HEAVILY LATINO DISTRICTS. IT LITERALLY JUST HAPPENED.
2.) We just had an excellent example of them ATTEMPTING TO SUBVERT ELECTIONS. THEY SENT ELECTION MONITORS TO HEAVILY LATINO DISTRICTS. IT LITERALLY JUST HAPPENED.
November 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
You need to have more people, more resources, etc. because the election system is so decentralized.
2.) We just had an excellent example of them ATTEMPTING TO SUBVERT ELECTIONS. THEY SENT ELECTION MONITORS TO HEAVILY LATINO DISTRICTS. IT LITERALLY JUST HAPPENED.
2.) We just had an excellent example of them ATTEMPTING TO SUBVERT ELECTIONS. THEY SENT ELECTION MONITORS TO HEAVILY LATINO DISTRICTS. IT LITERALLY JUST HAPPENED.
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I mean I think the people who are still doomering about "there will never be elections, woe upon us all!" really need to sit their asses down and think for a second.
1.) Subverting elections becomes more administratively difficult and resource intensive the more there are happening at once.
1.) Subverting elections becomes more administratively difficult and resource intensive the more there are happening at once.
November 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I mean I think the people who are still doomering about "there will never be elections, woe upon us all!" really need to sit their asses down and think for a second.
1.) Subverting elections becomes more administratively difficult and resource intensive the more there are happening at once.
1.) Subverting elections becomes more administratively difficult and resource intensive the more there are happening at once.
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I am not prone to hyperbole, but I legit think this would threaten the entire constitutional order.
One hopes that John Roberts realizes that if he grants an administrative stay allowing the government to starve 40 million people, that SCOTUS will take whatever remaining shreds of legitimacy they had and light them on fire.
November 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I am not prone to hyperbole, but I legit think this would threaten the entire constitutional order.
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They're just fucking *flooring* the bus towards a cliff out of sheer oppositional defiance. How *dare* those lower courts say the government has to exist!
November 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
They're just fucking *flooring* the bus towards a cliff out of sheer oppositional defiance. How *dare* those lower courts say the government has to exist!
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They are actually, fully ratshit insane. They have zero concept of what this looks like. They must think this pencils out to people blaming Dems.
BREAKING: DOJ goes to SCOTUS trying to stop a district court order that USDA pay out full SNAP benefits this month.
The First Circuit denied an administrative stay, but has not yet ruled on the stay request. And, CNN reported that USDA is already processing payments.
DOJ went to SCOTUS anyway.
The First Circuit denied an administrative stay, but has not yet ruled on the stay request. And, CNN reported that USDA is already processing payments.
DOJ went to SCOTUS anyway.
November 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
They are actually, fully ratshit insane. They have zero concept of what this looks like. They must think this pencils out to people blaming Dems.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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all of it to avoid the recognition that this is a singularly evil and dangerous man, who climbed the greasy pole to power, even if he was uniquely right for the time period we live in. he is not going to stay there forever, he is not a god, but he got there and our lives are profoundly worse for it.
November 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
all of it to avoid the recognition that this is a singularly evil and dangerous man, who climbed the greasy pole to power, even if he was uniquely right for the time period we live in. he is not going to stay there forever, he is not a god, but he got there and our lives are profoundly worse for it.
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the refusal to entertain at least a weak version of "Trump is how we got Trump" has been a recipe for a decade's worth of bad punditry and bad incentives for public intellectuals. "We got Trump because of some obscure event in the 1600s!" "We got Trump because of [niche voting demographic!"
November 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
the refusal to entertain at least a weak version of "Trump is how we got Trump" has been a recipe for a decade's worth of bad punditry and bad incentives for public intellectuals. "We got Trump because of some obscure event in the 1600s!" "We got Trump because of [niche voting demographic!"
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Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.
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This might be the dumbest thing one of these idiots has put forth (Walsh, not Kane) but really it’s so hard to judge because they never stop coming up with new contestants.
Matt Walsh’s “As a man, I have never changed a diaper, and if you have you’re spiritually gay” take is a pretty apt summation of the New Right’s stance on men’s duty to take basic care of their family.
November 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This might be the dumbest thing one of these idiots has put forth (Walsh, not Kane) but really it’s so hard to judge because they never stop coming up with new contestants.
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Straight up jury nullification. The federal government, and especially ICE/CBP, has completely lost legitimacy in the court system.
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Straight up jury nullification. The federal government, and especially ICE/CBP, has completely lost legitimacy in the court system.
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Now this is the sort of congressional trolling I can get behind
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Now this is the sort of congressional trolling I can get behind
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Which brings me to something I increasingly like to harp on: 90% of what these chucklefucks deride as ‘woke’ are norms and limits that evolved over a long period of time to make organizations functional in the context of a complex society. (3/n)
November 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Which brings me to something I increasingly like to harp on: 90% of what these chucklefucks deride as ‘woke’ are norms and limits that evolved over a long period of time to make organizations functional in the context of a complex society. (3/n)
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i really dont think these people are equipped to live in the world they built.
There's so many of these btw, NoVa right wingers realizing that their neighbors genuinely hate them
November 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
i really dont think these people are equipped to live in the world they built.
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I realistically think that the current problem with the right is the whole NPC thing. They truly, earnestly believe that only RW uber males (lmao) have agency, and everyone else is just a muppet or something.
It makes the ugly realization that "Actually no, I can oppose you." even more jarring
It makes the ugly realization that "Actually no, I can oppose you." even more jarring
November 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I realistically think that the current problem with the right is the whole NPC thing. They truly, earnestly believe that only RW uber males (lmao) have agency, and everyone else is just a muppet or something.
It makes the ugly realization that "Actually no, I can oppose you." even more jarring
It makes the ugly realization that "Actually no, I can oppose you." even more jarring
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Coda: The right is also realizing that liberals were treating them with some modicum of respect because of a belief in the norms of the country. Norms are a detente, an agreement to use them. It turns out we can take off the gloves too, and you can see them realizing it in real time.
November 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Coda: The right is also realizing that liberals were treating them with some modicum of respect because of a belief in the norms of the country. Norms are a detente, an agreement to use them. It turns out we can take off the gloves too, and you can see them realizing it in real time.