This is what Gavin Newsom and the consultant class endorses when they try to play footsie with people opposed to trans people's very existence. There is no polite, liberal way to push people out of public life--you ultimately need the state to inspect people's bodies and enforce compliance.

That's because the point of this has nothing to do with women's sports--that is simply the crowbar for reopening decades of feminist legal progress against sex discrimination in schools, at work, and across public life. Pay attention, don't be fooled.

Jeffries: "Republicans are not the party of fiscal responsibility. Stop trying to convince the American people otherwise. In fact, during Trump's first 4 years, the debt exploded to such a degree that 25% of our nation's debt came from just the first term of President Donald Trump."

If you're in need of a real reason to maintain hope remember that billionaire-backed propaganda campaigns and mass censorship across state and federal governments has only made the country even more queer

"The United States is in a constitutional crisis"

Agree: 54%
Disagree: 27%

Unsure: 19%

YouGov / Feb 6, 2025 / n=1106

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

She's 💯 right:

"Anytime a person can pay $250 million into a campaign & be given full access to the Department of the Treasury of the United States of America, we are at war."

Thank heavens *somebody* in elected office finally seems to have an accurate read on this crisis.

There is still beauty in this world