Reposted
I am reading this bill line by line, and it appears that this is designed to only affect trans people in the ban, while leaving politicians' illicit T shots open as well as intersex genital mutilation and other procedures that focus on only the assigned sex.
Tucked inside the Republican bill for health care subsidies, a clause that would restrict the money from being used for abortion (with exception for rape, incest or life of the mother) or for "any sex trait modification procedure or service."
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
December 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I am reading this bill line by line, and it appears that this is designed to only affect trans people in the ban, while leaving politicians' illicit T shots open as well as intersex genital mutilation and other procedures that focus on only the assigned sex.
Reposted
When you view the world as a doomed pit of endless misery, you're not seeing beyond the veil, you're catching ricochets off the inside of your own skull as you try to shoot yourself in the head from the inside out.
It's stupid and needlessly self-destructive. Stop it.
It's stupid and needlessly self-destructive. Stop it.
December 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
When you view the world as a doomed pit of endless misery, you're not seeing beyond the veil, you're catching ricochets off the inside of your own skull as you try to shoot yourself in the head from the inside out.
It's stupid and needlessly self-destructive. Stop it.
It's stupid and needlessly self-destructive. Stop it.
Reposted
To be fair, the British accent is of a more modern vintage and the modern American accent is believed to be closer to the British accent at the time the colonies were flourishing.
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
How Americans preserved British English
Americans today pronounce some words more like Shakespeare than Brits do… but it’s in 18th-Century England where they’d really feel at home.
www.bbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
To be fair, the British accent is of a more modern vintage and the modern American accent is believed to be closer to the British accent at the time the colonies were flourishing.
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
Reposted
I love that they've got him wearing a t-shirt like he's a tech-bro founder, when one of the single best established things about George Washington was that he was fussy about propriety and proper appearances. He'd have worn a suit.
December 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I love that they've got him wearing a t-shirt like he's a tech-bro founder, when one of the single best established things about George Washington was that he was fussy about propriety and proper appearances. He'd have worn a suit.
Reposted
With Kevin Costner as RFK Jr.
I am now imagining the streams crossing with Sydney Sweeney playing Olivia Nuzzi in the inevitable film adaptation.
December 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
With Kevin Costner as RFK Jr.
Reposted
oh hey look it’s the thing literally everyone said would happen
Two months after President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting H-1B visas, soaring costs are roiling rural health care facilities that have long struggled to find staff.
Rural America relies on foreign doctors. Trump’s visa fee shuts them out.
The Trump administration’s demand for companies to pay a $100,000 fee to hire an immigrant worker using an H1B visa has created turmoil among rural health providers.
wapo.st
December 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
oh hey look it’s the thing literally everyone said would happen
Reposted
Let me try, and I won't turn off replies, and you can quote-post me if you like. Claire Lehman was and is a bad actor. She and the whole Quillette gang used "heterodox" as a way to make it sound sexy that they believed black people are genetically destined to be less intelligent than white people.
Update: actual Peak Bluesky has been achieved, the author has done a HELEN, ANSWER FOR YOUR CRIMES quote-tweet and then not allowed me to answer for my crimes by turning off replies.
bsky.app/profile/shar...
bsky.app/profile/shar...
I mean, yes, going to bat for Clare Lehmann isn't actually that laudable, Helen. The technocapitalists are awful: but do you think that the intellectual climate wasn't primed for this nonsense?
December 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Let me try, and I won't turn off replies, and you can quote-post me if you like. Claire Lehman was and is a bad actor. She and the whole Quillette gang used "heterodox" as a way to make it sound sexy that they believed black people are genetically destined to be less intelligent than white people.
Reposted
Straight up admitting that a Democratic President will be ruled against if s/he attempts to use this power in exactly the same way.
December 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Straight up admitting that a Democratic President will be ruled against if s/he attempts to use this power in exactly the same way.
This is honestly a good one to study for the difference between what journalists say and what was actually said.
I appreciate the “women, children and individuals of shorter stature“ and “priced fairly“ parts.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
I appreciate the “women, children and individuals of shorter stature“ and “priced fairly“ parts.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
December 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is honestly a good one to study for the difference between what journalists say and what was actually said.
I appreciate the “women, children and individuals of shorter stature“ and “priced fairly“ parts.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
I appreciate the “women, children and individuals of shorter stature“ and “priced fairly“ parts.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Reposted
I never understand the “voters are blameless and it’s impossible for anything to be their fault” idea.
“Democracy” literally means “people power.” The entire idea is that the people get to collectively make choices. And they can make bad ones.
With great power comes great responsibility, folks.
“Democracy” literally means “people power.” The entire idea is that the people get to collectively make choices. And they can make bad ones.
With great power comes great responsibility, folks.
December 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I never understand the “voters are blameless and it’s impossible for anything to be their fault” idea.
“Democracy” literally means “people power.” The entire idea is that the people get to collectively make choices. And they can make bad ones.
With great power comes great responsibility, folks.
“Democracy” literally means “people power.” The entire idea is that the people get to collectively make choices. And they can make bad ones.
With great power comes great responsibility, folks.
Gavin Newsom is kicking me out of the Democratic Party for being autistic.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Gavin Newsom is kicking me out of the Democratic Party for being autistic.
Reposted
We're already culturally normal and we need to be wayyy more judgemental
December 7, 2025 at 1:54 AM
We're already culturally normal and we need to be wayyy more judgemental
Reposted
One of the problems with our capitalist overlords these days is they don't care about making money and profit as much as they should.
I mean that mostly sincerely: If they cared more about money than status or authority, we'd be much better off in most respects.
I mean that mostly sincerely: If they cared more about money than status or authority, we'd be much better off in most respects.
The thing I've never understood about cracking down on adults' access to ADHD medication is the fact that stimulants make people more productive whether they actually have ADHD or not. Shouldn't our capitalist overlords want exactly that?
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
One of the problems with our capitalist overlords these days is they don't care about making money and profit as much as they should.
I mean that mostly sincerely: If they cared more about money than status or authority, we'd be much better off in most respects.
I mean that mostly sincerely: If they cared more about money than status or authority, we'd be much better off in most respects.
Reposted
The thing I've never understood about cracking down on adults' access to ADHD medication is the fact that stimulants make people more productive whether they actually have ADHD or not. Shouldn't our capitalist overlords want exactly that?
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The thing I've never understood about cracking down on adults' access to ADHD medication is the fact that stimulants make people more productive whether they actually have ADHD or not. Shouldn't our capitalist overlords want exactly that?
Reposted
Join #FrightClub and post along Sunday's feature, Santa Jaws (2018), at 10:00 PM ET. Available on Prime & Tubi.
Bring a friend to this feast. 🦈
Bring a friend to this feast. 🦈
December 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Reposted
On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”
December 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”
Reposted
I have experience on both sides of this (having family members with a history of violence and untreated mental illness, and being a victim of a random stranger having a violent episode) and the frustration and anger is so real
My heart breaks for this woman and her son
My heart breaks for this woman and her son
San Diego family struggles with all-too-familiar cycle of mental illness
Despite passage of new laws expanding who can be forced to get help, the most needy still fall through the cracks.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I have experience on both sides of this (having family members with a history of violence and untreated mental illness, and being a victim of a random stranger having a violent episode) and the frustration and anger is so real
My heart breaks for this woman and her son
My heart breaks for this woman and her son
Reposted
This administration is filled to the brim with some of the most pathetic, petty little worms imaginable. Just disgusting excuses for human excrement.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
This administration is filled to the brim with some of the most pathetic, petty little worms imaginable. Just disgusting excuses for human excrement.
Reposted
I refuse to hand it to Cuellar but this is hysterical
is there no honor among comically corrupt politicians? what is the world coming to?!
is there no honor among comically corrupt politicians? what is the world coming to?!
ok look Henry Cuellar sucks but this is pretty funny he took the pardon now Trump has no leverage over him so he filed to run again and Trump is losing it
December 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I refuse to hand it to Cuellar but this is hysterical
is there no honor among comically corrupt politicians? what is the world coming to?!
is there no honor among comically corrupt politicians? what is the world coming to?!
Reposted
If the Court arbitrarily strikes down this key part of the fourteenth amendment, I think Americans lose any moral obligation to show any allegiance to the laws enforced by a fundamentally lawless regime
Birthright citizenship is probably not integral to liberal democracy, but it is integral to *American* liberal democracy. Our vision of what we are as a country, as a nation beyond an ethnicity, requires it.
December 7, 2025 at 6:16 AM
If the Court arbitrarily strikes down this key part of the fourteenth amendment, I think Americans lose any moral obligation to show any allegiance to the laws enforced by a fundamentally lawless regime
Just a lot of waiting.
December 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Just a lot of waiting.
Reposted
This makes me think of the time I'd heard people actually did leave a state, not for taxes, but because family youtubers in California weren't gonna be able to monetize their children w/o paying them anymore (if I'm remembering right, anyway)
December 6, 2025 at 3:03 AM
This makes me think of the time I'd heard people actually did leave a state, not for taxes, but because family youtubers in California weren't gonna be able to monetize their children w/o paying them anymore (if I'm remembering right, anyway)
Reposted
These are the same people that couldn't handle Covid lockdowns, right? Having meltdowns while the liberals shared sourdough recipes and childcare tips.
December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
These are the same people that couldn't handle Covid lockdowns, right? Having meltdowns while the liberals shared sourdough recipes and childcare tips.
Reposted
Cute that he thinks a civil war will be against a clearly defined ideological enemy and not whatever local militia decides they need your car.
that's cool, man, but have you tried the taste of a refreshing matcha latte
December 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Cute that he thinks a civil war will be against a clearly defined ideological enemy and not whatever local militia decides they need your car.