Kassie Withakay 🏳️⚧️
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What a terrifying fucking time to be alive.
Jon Steward pretty much captured my feelings on the Democratic "deal".
Jon Stewart "Can't F**king Believe" Democrats Caved on the Shutdown | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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November 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Jon Steward pretty much captured my feelings on the Democratic "deal".
Why on Earth, @jay.bsky.team @aaron.bsky.team @support.bsky.team, would Sarah Kendzior be suspended? Hers is an important voice in today's political and social environment. Please explain yourselves or fix this mistake.
Why? Sarah Kendzior is one of the main reasons I moved here. If you're going to just be Twitter-lite than there's no point in staying. You can't suspend an account of her magnitude and expect it to go unnoticed and unchallenged @jay.bsky.team @aaron.bsky.team @support.bsky.team
Hello @support.bsky.team
I heard from Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social that her account was suspended.
Can you please look into this and reinstate her account? She’s a published author and scholar on authoritarianism. Her presence here is valuable.
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@jay.bsky.team
@aaron.bsky.team
I heard from Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social that her account was suspended.
Can you please look into this and reinstate her account? She’s a published author and scholar on authoritarianism. Her presence here is valuable.
cc:
@jay.bsky.team
@aaron.bsky.team
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Why on Earth, @jay.bsky.team @aaron.bsky.team @support.bsky.team, would Sarah Kendzior be suspended? Hers is an important voice in today's political and social environment. Please explain yourselves or fix this mistake.
My message to aging Democrats who are too tired to fight. "Cool it, man, you had your chance."
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
My message to aging Democrats who are too tired to fight. "Cool it, man, you had your chance."
If anything good can come of Chuck Schumer allowing these eight Senators to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, it would be if a majority of Democrats holding office rise up and demand new leadership. Mind you, I'm not holding my breath.
“Pathetic”: Dems Tear Into 8 Senators Who Caved to Trump on Shutdown
The deal does not actually include extending Obamacare subsidies.
newrepublic.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
If anything good can come of Chuck Schumer allowing these eight Senators to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, it would be if a majority of Democrats holding office rise up and demand new leadership. Mind you, I'm not holding my breath.
The Pluribus premiere giving me 1960s TV vibes of The Prisoner and the Star Trek: TOS episode "This Side of Paradise" makes me happy.
November 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The Pluribus premiere giving me 1960s TV vibes of The Prisoner and the Star Trek: TOS episode "This Side of Paradise" makes me happy.
After the glimmer of hope offered by the election, today's SCOTUS decision on gender markers and these upcoming rules on Medicaid/Medicare reimbursement are a sobering reminder that we still have a tough 3 years ahead followed by many years of recovery to get back to where we were.
Trump is weaponizing the welfare state to attack healthcare | Moira Donegan
The proposed withholding of Medicaid and Medicare to restrict gender-affirming care follows the same logic as attacks on abortion care
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
After the glimmer of hope offered by the election, today's SCOTUS decision on gender markers and these upcoming rules on Medicaid/Medicare reimbursement are a sobering reminder that we still have a tough 3 years ahead followed by many years of recovery to get back to where we were.
If Democrats get control of the Senate next year, there should be zero votes on any new justices for the term, and if they win the White House and Congress in 2028, SCOTUS reform damn well better be one of the first things they do.
6 Nov 2025 -- In a ruling from its shadow docket, an unsigned Supreme Ct decision backs Trump emergency request to force passport for trans people to record their bio-sex, finds it does not constitute differential treatment.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
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SCOTUS Rules Against Trans People's Passport Gender Markers In Shadow Docket Ruling
The administration has previously indicated it could revoke some trans people's passports if it got this ruling.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
If Democrats get control of the Senate next year, there should be zero votes on any new justices for the term, and if they win the White House and Congress in 2028, SCOTUS reform damn well better be one of the first things they do.
Reposted by Kassie Withakay 🏳️⚧️
It was a rejection of the entire administration and Dems should see this as a signal to become an actual opposition party. On everything. You don't stop the shutdown. You don't approve another appointee. You do nothing at all. The voters saved you, not the other way around. LEARN TO LEAD.
On a call with reporters, DNC chair Ken Martin responds to JD Vance claiming Dems only won big last night because races were in blue states.
"Well that's bullshit. We won in red counties, blue counties, purple counties," Martin says. And it was all "a rejection of Trump."
"Well that's bullshit. We won in red counties, blue counties, purple counties," Martin says. And it was all "a rejection of Trump."
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
It was a rejection of the entire administration and Dems should see this as a signal to become an actual opposition party. On everything. You don't stop the shutdown. You don't approve another appointee. You do nothing at all. The voters saved you, not the other way around. LEARN TO LEAD.
Republicans are still trying to make a "deal" happen where squishy Democrats pass the CR in exchange for a phony vote on extending ACA subsidies. I wrote my Senators using @resist.bot to say "no deal".
November 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Republicans are still trying to make a "deal" happen where squishy Democrats pass the CR in exchange for a phony vote on extending ACA subsidies. I wrote my Senators using @resist.bot to say "no deal".
How could people not know? If this is true, this is a massive indictment of American political reporting.
"the best explanation for 2025 is that voters didn’t know what they were getting with Trump 2.0 last November, but now they do — and they don’t like it." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...
Seven data-driven lessons from the 2025 elections
Democrats outran their polls and swept statewide races from Georgia to New Jersey, on an agenda of affordability and a broad anti-Trump backlash
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
How could people not know? If this is true, this is a massive indictment of American political reporting.
Reposted by Kassie Withakay 🏳️⚧️
Woke up this morning to find that the people of New York City have re-lit the torch of the Statue of Liberty, sending a signal out to the rest of America that Trump's bullying tactics that seek to divide and debase any notion of solidarity among diverse communities can be defeated #TurnUpTheVolume
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Woke up this morning to find that the people of New York City have re-lit the torch of the Statue of Liberty, sending a signal out to the rest of America that Trump's bullying tactics that seek to divide and debase any notion of solidarity among diverse communities can be defeated #TurnUpTheVolume
Being a glass-half-empty kind of person, I look at last night's national repudiation of Trump and I think "why couldn't we have done this last year?"
November 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Being a glass-half-empty kind of person, I look at last night's national repudiation of Trump and I think "why couldn't we have done this last year?"
Reposted by Kassie Withakay 🏳️⚧️
I feel like this is an important aspect to emphasize, loudly, to everyone who endorsed Cuomo. they chose to side with a known sexual predator for personal gain and frankly that should be disqualifying for public office. you knew who he was and decided the women he hurt were acceptable losses
it's been a really bad long shitty time for people who care about victims of rape and sexual abuse, and those who've suffered it. drubbing someone who perpetrated it gleefully and believed he was entitled to power despite it is part of this.
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I feel like this is an important aspect to emphasize, loudly, to everyone who endorsed Cuomo. they chose to side with a known sexual predator for personal gain and frankly that should be disqualifying for public office. you knew who he was and decided the women he hurt were acceptable losses
Andrew Cuomo also probably endorsed by these famous New Yorkers:
David Berkowitz
Bernie Madoff
Gozer
Travis Bickle
Wison Fisk
David Berkowitz
Bernie Madoff
Gozer
Travis Bickle
Wison Fisk
November 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Andrew Cuomo also probably endorsed by these famous New Yorkers:
David Berkowitz
Bernie Madoff
Gozer
Travis Bickle
Wison Fisk
David Berkowitz
Bernie Madoff
Gozer
Travis Bickle
Wison Fisk
I wrote a thing about Gavin Newsom and the cost of scapegoating trans people.
Scapegoating Costs Lives
I think about an interview Newsom gave this week on the same day that authorities in Vermont announced that Lia Smith had died by suicide, and I harden my resolve.
such-small-portions.ghost.io
November 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I wrote a thing about Gavin Newsom and the cost of scapegoating trans people.
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Excellent🧵on the need for ethical rules beyond the rule of law.
America will fail because of the Republican Party. America will fail because there is now an international lack of trust. America will be looked upon as similar to Russia. A country not to be trusted. Why? Because a large proportion of American citizens have not a clue how things
November 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Excellent🧵on the need for ethical rules beyond the rule of law.
At the behest of our daughter, who is away at school, we dressed up Dakota as a chicken for Halloween. He was not pleased.
October 31, 2025 at 10:22 PM
At the behest of our daughter, who is away at school, we dressed up Dakota as a chicken for Halloween. He was not pleased.
Watched Star Trek:TOS "Wink of an Eye" for the first time in decades and realized something new. At the end, Kirk leaves the Scalosians thinking they were doomed to die, instead of offering them the cure McCoy had just developed. What a bitch!
October 30, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Watched Star Trek:TOS "Wink of an Eye" for the first time in decades and realized something new. At the end, Kirk leaves the Scalosians thinking they were doomed to die, instead of offering them the cure McCoy had just developed. What a bitch!
Change one letter, ruin a candy
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October 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Good piece by @amandamarcotte.bsky.social linking the origin of the trans moral panic to horror movie tropes by way of the 80s satanic panic.
How Riley Gaines and the trans panic steal from horror films
Fake victims like Gaines evoke the little girls of "The Exorcist" and "The Conjuring"
www.salon.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Good piece by @amandamarcotte.bsky.social linking the origin of the trans moral panic to horror movie tropes by way of the 80s satanic panic.
I wrote a thing about collaborators.
It takes a French village
If snitches get stitches, what should collaborators get?
such-small-portions.ghost.io
October 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I wrote a thing about collaborators.
We got a fun new toy for the cats that rolls around on its own so they can hunt it. One of the cats dropped it into his water dish, which he hasn't done with toys since he was a kitten, and now it doesn't work anymore. We only had it two days. We can't have nice things. #caturdayeve
October 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
We got a fun new toy for the cats that rolls around on its own so they can hunt it. One of the cats dropped it into his water dish, which he hasn't done with toys since he was a kitten, and now it doesn't work anymore. We only had it two days. We can't have nice things. #caturdayeve
What's it like inside your head?
October 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
What's it like inside your head?
"The media treated it like a circus sideshow." - @drstaceypatton.bsky.social
The fact that the news media isn't running daily stories on the fact that our country is in the hands of someone deeply unwell is soul crushing.
The fact that the news media isn't running daily stories on the fact that our country is in the hands of someone deeply unwell is soul crushing.
Donald Trump’s AI Video Is a Psychosexual Confession
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drstaceypatton1865.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"The media treated it like a circus sideshow." - @drstaceypatton.bsky.social
The fact that the news media isn't running daily stories on the fact that our country is in the hands of someone deeply unwell is soul crushing.
The fact that the news media isn't running daily stories on the fact that our country is in the hands of someone deeply unwell is soul crushing.