Tammy Rainey
@tammybeth.bsky.social
Jays' fan, unashamedly trans, once (and future?) irregular blogger on Medium. Warren Democrat - Sic semper tyrannis
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Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
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I just read the new SPINAL TAP book and there’s a moment where Rob Reiner and the rest of the cast ask each other which projects will lead their obituary. Rob was sure “Meathead” was going to be the first line of his.
Tonight, everyone’s teeing off with “one of the greatest directing runs ever”
Tonight, everyone’s teeing off with “one of the greatest directing runs ever”
December 15, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I just read the new SPINAL TAP book and there’s a moment where Rob Reiner and the rest of the cast ask each other which projects will lead their obituary. Rob was sure “Meathead” was going to be the first line of his.
Tonight, everyone’s teeing off with “one of the greatest directing runs ever”
Tonight, everyone’s teeing off with “one of the greatest directing runs ever”
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It’s hard to ever know from a distance who is a good person. We’re all flawed in one way or another.
But right about now, it hits a little harder when the world loses someone who seemed good and kind and who wanted a better life for more folks.
Thank you, Rob Reiner. You left quite a legacy.
But right about now, it hits a little harder when the world loses someone who seemed good and kind and who wanted a better life for more folks.
Thank you, Rob Reiner. You left quite a legacy.
December 15, 2025 at 4:12 AM
It’s hard to ever know from a distance who is a good person. We’re all flawed in one way or another.
But right about now, it hits a little harder when the world loses someone who seemed good and kind and who wanted a better life for more folks.
Thank you, Rob Reiner. You left quite a legacy.
But right about now, it hits a little harder when the world loses someone who seemed good and kind and who wanted a better life for more folks.
Thank you, Rob Reiner. You left quite a legacy.
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He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.
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This is one of the critical flaws in current journalism. I don't need a fucking journalist to tell me what both sides said I want the journalist to uncover the facts and tell me which side is lying and which side is not.
December 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This is one of the critical flaws in current journalism. I don't need a fucking journalist to tell me what both sides said I want the journalist to uncover the facts and tell me which side is lying and which side is not.
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There's an affordability crisis and Republicans brought a special session just to pass a bathroom ban bill. Tell me again who is obsessed with trans people and wasting everybody's time instead of focusing on the things that actually matter.
In order to "protect women" Texas made it so that women have to go through armed guards with an ID check. They literally created a potty police.
December 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
There's an affordability crisis and Republicans brought a special session just to pass a bathroom ban bill. Tell me again who is obsessed with trans people and wasting everybody's time instead of focusing on the things that actually matter.
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This is the desert of the real. The Wachowskis called it. But like Bernie says, no one wants this. Folks are organizing in amazing ways.
Mark Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana that will use 3x more electricity than all of New Orleans.
Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills.
Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.
Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills.
Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.
December 12, 2025 at 6:32 AM
This is the desert of the real. The Wachowskis called it. But like Bernie says, no one wants this. Folks are organizing in amazing ways.
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The library grants Trump cut have been restored
December 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The library grants Trump cut have been restored
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Christian Identity never disappeared. Its call for racial conflict has shifted to Telegram channels, YouTube sermons, and accelerationist forums, where its doctrines still shape far-right militancy and echo the conspiracies and segregationist visions that fueled decades of white power violence.
The History and Influence of Christian Identity on America’s Most Violent Antisemitic Movements
Christian Identity (CI), a white supremacist theology rooted in 19th-century British Israelism, redefined itself in the U.S. as a violently racist and antisemitic ideology that became central to group...
globalextremism.org
December 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Christian Identity never disappeared. Its call for racial conflict has shifted to Telegram channels, YouTube sermons, and accelerationist forums, where its doctrines still shape far-right militancy and echo the conspiracies and segregationist visions that fueled decades of white power violence.
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The State Department is evidently going all in defending a meeting with a known Russian asset from a far-right party in Germany. Helluva look, even for this administration. x.com/michaeldweis...
Michael Weiss on X: "Surely one can be anti-censorship without being under the "absolute control" of the Russian Presidential Administration, as Markus Fronhmaier is described as being in two separate documents obtained by @derspiegel. You just returned from Europe where you spent much of your time https://t.co/sa6Vva56u6" / X
Surely one can be anti-censorship without being under the "absolute control" of the Russian Presidential Administration, as Markus Fronhmaier is described as being in two separate documents obtained by @derspiegel. You just returned from Europe where you spent much of your time https://t.co/sa6Vva56u6
x.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The State Department is evidently going all in defending a meeting with a known Russian asset from a far-right party in Germany. Helluva look, even for this administration. x.com/michaeldweis...
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Just incredibly grim to see national dems attacking section 230, supporting AI, and handing Cuellar back his seat. Total surrender to Trump's fascist, corrupt agenda when that asshole is weaker than he's been in a long time.
December 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Just incredibly grim to see national dems attacking section 230, supporting AI, and handing Cuellar back his seat. Total surrender to Trump's fascist, corrupt agenda when that asshole is weaker than he's been in a long time.
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People should take a page out of New School faculty's book and start doing forensic accounting for their own institutions using public documents
There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff.
This should be headline news.
x.com/uaw7902/stat...
This should be headline news.
x.com/uaw7902/stat...
December 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
People should take a page out of New School faculty's book and start doing forensic accounting for their own institutions using public documents
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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
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Trump keeps making batshit crazy comments, and the media keep deciding it’s the new normal — not news.
“We would win California by a lot” — a delusional Trump claims he won California in 2024
December 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Trump keeps making batshit crazy comments, and the media keep deciding it’s the new normal — not news.
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Mifepristone is safe, the well-funded effort to persuade people otherwise is as antithetical to the factual record as “climate change is a hoax” — and if Brennan feels willing or obliged to bend the knee to her new corporate management, this seems like a telling sign of that.
really weird -- Margaret Brennen presses Bill Cassidy on why the White House isn't doing more to crack down on mifepristone and what he's doing to encourage them to do it
December 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Mifepristone is safe, the well-funded effort to persuade people otherwise is as antithetical to the factual record as “climate change is a hoax” — and if Brennan feels willing or obliged to bend the knee to her new corporate management, this seems like a telling sign of that.
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Billionaire hadn’t existed until the last few minutes of history. And it’s clear neither the billionaire nor the rest of the population can handle this kind of absurd concentration of wealth.
Factory farming humans — one more reason there should be no billionaires
“Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites build mega-families, testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them”
www.wsj.com/us-news/chin...
“Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites build mega-families, testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them”
www.wsj.com/us-news/chin...
The Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate
Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites are building mega-families—testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them.
www.wsj.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Billionaire hadn’t existed until the last few minutes of history. And it’s clear neither the billionaire nor the rest of the population can handle this kind of absurd concentration of wealth.
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You can measure the quality of news outlets' political coverage by how often they write headlines starting with the words "Trump says" that don't show any skepticism about what Trump is saying even though he's the most prominent American liar of modern times.
December 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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In order to "protect women" Texas made it so that women have to go through armed guards with an ID check. They literally created a potty police.
December 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
In order to "protect women" Texas made it so that women have to go through armed guards with an ID check. They literally created a potty police.
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NEW: 9 ex-DOJ lawyers who resigned from antisemitism investigations into UCLA and other UC campuses say they were pressured to find UC guilty of violations in a rushed and politically motivated process.
One called it a "fraudulent and sham investigation."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
One called it a "fraudulent and sham investigation."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Times Investigation: Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say 'fraudulent' UC antisemitism probes led them to quit
The Times spoke to nine former Department of Justice civil rights attorneys tasked with investigating antisemitism complaints at the University of California. They all resigned during their invetigati...
www.latimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
NEW: 9 ex-DOJ lawyers who resigned from antisemitism investigations into UCLA and other UC campuses say they were pressured to find UC guilty of violations in a rushed and politically motivated process.
One called it a "fraudulent and sham investigation."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
One called it a "fraudulent and sham investigation."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Full speech here: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...
December 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Full speech here: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...
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"What did you do today at work, babe?" asks the trooper's wife. "Well, hon, I stood outside the women's room telling ladies to prove to me they were born with vaginas before I let them pee." Not all fetishes are fascist, but all fascism is fetishistic. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/12/t...
Enforcement of Texas’ bathroom bill draws challenges
In its first week, one group’s test of the new restrictions was met with ID checks at women’s restrooms at the Capitol while the Austin City Council moved to circumvent the law's intent.
www.texastribune.org
December 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"What did you do today at work, babe?" asks the trooper's wife. "Well, hon, I stood outside the women's room telling ladies to prove to me they were born with vaginas before I let them pee." Not all fetishes are fascist, but all fascism is fetishistic. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/12/t...
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Assigned to a prison job paying $0.13 per hour, Abron Arrington refused to work, figuring his time could be better spent learning physics.
The Colorado DOC punished him with bouts of solitary confinement.
The Colorado DOC punished him with bouts of solitary confinement.
Forced Labor Continues in Colorado, Years After Vote to End Prison Slavery
Coloradans voted in 2018 to amend their state constitution to ban forced labor in prison. Years later, incarcerated people are still being punished for refusing work assignments.
boltsmag.org
December 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Assigned to a prison job paying $0.13 per hour, Abron Arrington refused to work, figuring his time could be better spent learning physics.
The Colorado DOC punished him with bouts of solitary confinement.
The Colorado DOC punished him with bouts of solitary confinement.
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On the other hand...
Rand Paul: "My plan is this -- let people on the Obamacare market, which is about 4% of America, a small number of people, let them buy their insurance through Costco, Sam's Club, Amazon ... "
December 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
On the other hand...