"The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams at us the loudest." -Mon Mothma (Andor)

I think Ed Markey needs to retire and Ayanna Presley should run and block Seth Moulton from that seat. We need younger folks in office but it can't be Moulton. He would be a disaster for Massachusetts.

I think Michelle Wu would be phenomenal to run for Warren's seat in 2030 or for the governorship. She's a political star and I could easily see her as a future presidential candidate. She's the future of the Massachusetts democratic party.

JD Vance when people makes jokes about Charlie Kirk: "call their employer." JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."

John Roberts: Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it. Brett Kavanaugh: Totes. *immigrants being profiled by ICE enter the chat* Roberts Court: Yeah but I didn't mean like that. The cops can definitely still arrest you because you're brown. Kav: *chugs beer in agreement*

It's the worst thing watching resegregation happen in real time to please a bunch of white supremacist nazis in power. www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...

This is worse than just axing these verticals. They are eliminating the teams behind them but will push stories under these verticals by newsroom staff without the expertise or background to properly report. So we'll have NBC OUT stories reported by non-LGBTQ staff w/ no experience in the subject.

This shit just sucks. It's the worst watching incredibly hard working and talented journalists lose their jobs because their work makes the white supremacists in power uncomfortable while billionaire oligarch sycophants like Bari Weiss get 9 figure paydays and fail upwards. This is unsustainable.

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Suffice it to say, these are not kids. These are full grown ass adults, many of them in their late 20's and early 30's. At least one was a elected state senator in Vermont. And even if they were, it's never ok to make antisemitic and racist jokes like that.

You have to wonder if White House staffers are simply showing him AI videos at this point and he thinks it's reality.

This is Chicago, armed fascist thugs pointing guns at unarmed US citizens. Photo by Anthony Vazquez at the Chicago Sun-Times.

Photos by Anthony Vazquez at the Chicago Sun-Times. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Photos by Anthony Vazquez at the Chicago Sun-Times. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

I can't stress enough how young staffers working for Republicans are basically all groyper Nazis now. The leaked texts yesterday saying "I love Hitler" and now swastikas on congressional offices. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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The worst part is the typical reactionary centrist response to this is to blame the left by saying we were crying wolf so now it won't be taken seriously when there's actual nazis in the halls of power. We tried to warn you! You just didn't want to listen.

everyone on here seems to think that there's just one feature you can add or remove from social media to make people not go insane on here. this belief, i think, is itself a form of madness

very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”

The EHRC has finally, five months after producing its wildly transphobic and, we believe, unlawful Interim Guidance now taken it down. Our judicial review challenge to that Interim Guidance will be heard in less than one month.

A official Border patrol Instagram reel uses the controversial Michael Jackson song "They Don't Care About Us" with the lyrics: Jew me, sue me... Kick me, k*ke me We have a nazi government.

Harvard Law instructors didn't get a pay increase this year and our health insurance premiums are going up 30% this year along with major increases in deductibles and co-pays. Prices are out of control. Me and my partner have substantially cut back on eating out and we're shopping at Costco more.

Don't get me wrong, we're doing ok and we'll be fine but if we're feeling this cut into our spending this deeply, I cannot imagine what lower income people must be feeling right now. If you're not making $500k/year for a household, you're basically living paycheck to paycheck.

I hate being right.

This is what Matt Walsh is defending.

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents. ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities. The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

Spent all day reading briefs in Louisiana v. Callais and watching white people argue that the 14th amendment is a race-neutral colorblind amendment and citing Plessy for that proposition has me so angry. Just.. come the fuck on. The Reconstruction Amendments were not intended to be race-neutral.

1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19. It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over. Community members are devastated. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I was on the board of Fenway and I warned the then CEO in 2023 that this would happen. This was cowardly capitulation sacrificing trans youth.

So that was a lie. Fenway health in Boston just eliminated access for trans youth. Dallas is their Executive Vice President of Donor Engagement and External Relations.

There's a certain level of brain rot among the trans folks still on Twitter. No matter how much you say you're immune to it, the nonstop transphobia permeating every level of that site will have you turn reactionary as a coping mechanism. Many such cases.

"why do you keep calling us Nazis?" Because you're Nazis. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

1. Yesterday, the press gave Gavin Newsom favorable coverage for signing pro-LGBTQ+ bills. Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Read my two letters to the #UK: 1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly. 2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches 👇#HumanRights www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

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Somehow, the Patriots have returned.

Stop making him sound so cool.

White colonizers nearly killed all the buffalo to extinction, for pure bloodsport.

Miss Major has passed away. We've lost an icon for the ages. Rest in power.

Absolutely gutted by this. She was at Stonewall and represented the best of that generation. The only solace I have is that she lived such a long life and got to see herself become a living legend when so many of our trans sisters don't. Rest in power.

Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth. I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.

If you were affected by this, please let me know. I may be able to help you file a discrimination claim with Massachusetts state. Fenway was under no legal obligation to stop providing care. This was cowardly capitulation.

If fenway thinks this will allow them to stay a FQHC, they are delusional. The Trump admin will not stop until they abandon all their trans patients and at that point, they might as well shut down because it would be such a fundamental betrayal of their patients.

The propaganda effort at CBS News has begun in full force. There's this absurd hit piece saying his election would cause a large exodus at the NYPD.

This is such a thorough take down of Bari Weiss and the vapid shill she is for oligarch billionaires. He especially shreds the Free Press over it's coverage of trans issues and the so called whistleblower Jamie Reed. youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

If David Ellison does get control of Warner Discovery, I think he'll cancel Last Week Tonight. People like Bari Weiss are incredibly thin skinned and would likely want criticism of her gone.

Everyone is twelve theory proven right again.

Hiked the Franconia ridge loop this weekend. It was an incredible experience. Would've gotten better pictures with my Canon mirrorless but when I got up to the top, I realized I left the SD card at home. C'est la vie.

Definitely the most intense hike I've ever done.

Some other pics.

That offensive pass interference call on the Patriots is the worst call I've ever seen. Robbed them of an insane touchdown. Even the announcers were calling it a bad penalty.

This is fine.

Anyone else think it's odd that the US just lost one of its last major munitions producer on the day the Nobel peace prize was awarded? The world has basically run out of high explosives and has no immediate capacity to scale back up to produce it again. Could be coincidence but it's kinda spooky.

This article covers a lot of the issues here. I've been hearing that basically the world is out of munitions. Russia has a leg up because they've been to reindustrialize but it's still not enough. The cold war stockpiles are gone. www.reuters.com/investigates...

It's truly comical that the largest source of TNT for the US before 2022 was in Eastern Ukraine. That facility is gone. It's now Poland but they scaled up to help defend eastern Europe and supply Ukraine. Israel basically demolished the remaining stockpiles bombing Gaza.

The Trump admin being incredibly vindictive to the federal work force and threatening to withhold pay and conducting mass layoffs are really self defeating moves because they need a staffed work force for to actually enact the policies they want.

Sure, they think the work force is all liberal deep state but as we saw with DOGE, they had to hire so many back because they needed them for critical things like, I don't know, keeping airplanes from colliding and forecasting hurricanes. But most importantly, they've gutted federal law enforcement.

But at the end of the day, you need actual people to get things done, with experience and expertise. They're just shooting themselves in the foot thinking they just shot the hostage.

Fascism demands to be taken seriously and to be feared. That makes mockery a powerful tool. Is it how you "beat" fascism? I wouldn't go that far. But inflatable Reptar has surely poked a clearer hole in the story the White House is telling that the Democratic Party's multimillion dollar comms shops.

Imagine Watergate and the Saturday night massacre combined but instead the media ran cover for it. That's what this is.

"The King was surprised when his guard rid him of the meddlesome priest."

You say it like it's a bad thing.

They were going after Harvard for accepting donations from the Qataris but they basically own our government and all they had to do was give up a jumbo jet they weren't using anyways.

A man gets a blowjob from a trans woman and his friends make fun of him so he goes to the police to claim she lied about being a woman. She was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to nearly 2 years in prison because of a man's shame. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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This is now the blueprint for men to control trans women. Have sex with them and then threaten to go to police unless they do what he wants. It's ripe for abuse from men who will weaponize their shame. It also builds their narrative of trans women being sexual predators even when the victim.

This is horrifying. Now she'll be placed with men in prison where she is at extreme risk of being raped and sexually assaulted. And then she has to register as a sex offender. This is all because a man was ashamed he was attracted to a trans woman.

VA Gov debate: Spanberger: my opponent has previously said that she does not think that gay couples should be allowed to marry ​Earle-Sears: That's not discrimination ​Spanberger: she thinks it's okay for someone to be fired from their job for being gay ​​Earle-Sears: that's not discrimination

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Stick a fork in it. It's over for Winsome Earle-Sears after tonight.

Absolute funniest bit in live music is when a big DJ is squirming behind the decks, twisting knobs and all that, and then the camera cuts to the faders and you see everything is muted except one that’s playing the pre-recorded mix.

With SCOTUS set to legalize conversion therapy, I think it's important for states to get around this decision by implementing new legislation applying private rights of action to practitioners of conversion therapy by their victims with large damages and long statutes of limitations.

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation. It methodically goes through each problem in the review. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism

This article is spot on about the UK's descent into anti-trans hysteria. In 8 years, they went from the conservatives trying to make it easier for trans folks to self attest gender to a liberal government implementing a bathroom ban by fiat. www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Remember all of the ghouls who denied this was happening and did everything they could to make the problem worse from JK Rowling to Wes Streeting. The NHS who did a stitch up report to hide the growing number of suicides from trans youth on the waitlists. They should never be forgiven.

"The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote." www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

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Graham Linehan went on trial for harassing a 17 year old trans girl. The same age as this girl who died as a result of online harassment. Gender criticals showed up to that trial and laughed and mocked the victim. These are soulless ghouls. bsky.app/profile/esqu...

A 17 year old trans girl completed suicide and most of Twitter celebrated. I never saw the usual suspect feign concern about that yet they're always so quick to blame trans people for discussing the risk of suicide as somehow causing it. bsky.app/profile/esqu...

If there hadn't been so many attacks on trans people existing, I probably would have had more time and energy to write academic articles and advocate around this issue that is squarely within my wheelhouse. Just a thought!

1. Anti-trans outrage is losing its bite. Last week, Elon Musk led a mass boycott campaign to get trans characters removed from shows on the platform. Major conservatives joined in. Now, we have the result: the boycott was a fizzle, and Netflix stock is up. Subscribe to support my journalism.

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It's also, most importantly, the kind of legislation that Texas used to effectively ban abortion that SCOTUS refused to block. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Even if successfully challenged, it will take years to litigate and we end up with the benefit of ending these legal ends runs around constitutional rights by simply applying a private right of action.

Not for nothing but if you're high profile and need to flee the US, don't tell anyone in advance. It's also most certainly better to leave via a smaller land border crossing and catch your flight from Canada or Mexico. Much less ability for the feds to prevent you from leaving that way.

You still run the risk of having your passport flagged or even revoked which could limit your ability to enter Canada or Mexico but those are even more drastic steps than being put on no-fly lists or other tools the feds have to interfere with international air travel.

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Doing politics the right way is when the far-right regime in power memorializes a fallen influencer by terrorizing an academic that the influencer's McCarthyist organization once baselessly singled out for abuse.

Not sure why there's suddenly a complete freakout on the far right about bloodlust from liberals for revenge come 2029. Could be mirror propaganda to stir up preemptive crackdowns or just a realization of how hated these people are.

Realistically, even if Republicans allow Dems to regain power, it'll probably be some milquetoast liberal who will want to "move on" to "let the country heal." There will never be investigations, trials, or prison for all the human rights abuses we're witnessing for the people in power.

The worst part about the AI bubble popping is how many average people will be affected by the economic fallout. People will lose their job, kids will go hungry, and families will lose their homes. Yet these billionaire bastards won't feel a thing other than a decline in their net worth.

A huge reason why we're in this populist moment was because there was a failure to impose consequences on all the wall street people who brought about the great recession. Everyone started losing faith in institutions to maintain accountability making them susceptible to the prejudices of demogogues