She "again asked [the FBI agents] what the point would be of providing the information at this point in her life when there was a strong possibility nothing could be done about it."
"'From the get-go, he didn't like that I was a boy-girl' (referencing a tomboy)...TRUMP mentioned something to the effect of 'Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be.'"
Interesting interview in Playboy with transgender adult content creators. People often point to Pornhub stats showing trans content is more popular than ever as a contradiction, as if political and sexual objectification were ever mutually exclusive
I mean he is genuinely very popular with voters www.axios.com/2026/01/25/j...
Apparently supporting a genocidal apartheid state that has now dragged us into a war is too low saliency to be worth moving left on, but Kamala supporting trans rights lost her the election?
So if somebody says, Josh Shapiro is cooked, he’s going to get filleted by pro-Palestine protesters… That’s absolutely wrong. The left would like everyone to believe that the US relationship with Israel is the No. 1 or No. 2 issue for primary voters. It’s not in the top 15. And if you’re Josh Shapiro, you are not going to win the Democratic presidential primary because you appealed to the anti-Zionist voters. And every successful nominee has a thing that can appear to be a liability, but if they’re smart about it, it becomes an asset, right? Kennedy’s Catholicism, Barack Obama’s race, Bill Clinton’s womanizing — in Shapiro’s case, people will look at him as a guy who won a blue-wall state and is very popular there, which is more important than an issue that’s not in the top 10 that he took a stand on.
This from Third Way's president is fascinating for a few reasons but to start I'd be curious to hear him explain how he thinks Bill Clinton turned his womanizing into an asset
This ICE detention center is the largest in the country and has become notorious for rampant physical abuse, medical neglect, and death.
We won't let up the pressure until it's shut down for good.
New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...
If you live in a major city secondhand marijuana smoke is maybe the cleanest thing you're breathing in on any given day
Profit margin on medspa treatments helps keep the doors open for medical care? Whatever it takes! Offer electrolysis next
More than 50 Planned Parenthood clinics closed in 2025 after Trump illegally froze family planning grants and banned Medicaid reimbursements for non-abortion care like birth control
PP Mar Monte in California is largest affiliate—more may offer botox, perimenopause care, IUD sedation to stay afloat
Trans people who don't watch Drag Race or play complicated board games
Sometimes you're just minding your own business then all of a sudden here comes midnight with a dead moon in it's jaw
Truly I was waging ideological wars in the comments like what a luxury
Introduced in House (02/05/2025) Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act This bill requires certified national governing bodies (NGBs) of amateur sports (e.g., USA Gymnastics) to prohibit a person whose sex is male from participating in an amateur athletic competition that is designated for females, women, or girls. Under the bill, male means an individual who has, had, will have—or would have, but for a developmental or genetic anomaly or historical accident—the reproductive system that at some point produces, transports, and utilizes sperm for fertilization.
All my favorite people are historical accidents
Realize this is the most laptop class/PMC/Gen-Z-boss-and-a-mini complaint ever but if I give you editing/suggesting access to a shared document and you leave comments suggesting "how about [X]" instead of writing it into the document itself I should be allowed to launch you into the void of space
Right, it's not the same as capitulation. Contrast Mamdani's relationship with Trump to John Fetterman's
I don't think it's a coincidence Talarico and Mamdani cobbled together basically the same demographic coalition in two very disparate areas of the country, and both present coherent worldviews not defined solely by Orange Man Bad
They could criminalize all of this health care and put every doctor in prison and they'd still be writing this masturbatory nonsense
Hi, it's me, the parent who is homophobic but not transphobic. I am working with the same doctors currently being threatened with prosecution by a fascist but are nonetheless beholden to trans activists. We want to create more trans women because they are universally heterosexual
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as change. I didn't regret the decision to take hormones. I wouldn't have survived much longer without passing. And the surgery was a gift to myself, a coming home to my body. But I wanted more than to just barely exist, a stranger always trying not to get involved. I wanted to find out who I was, to define myself. Whoever I was, I wanted to deal with it, I wanted to live it again. I wanted to be able to explain my life, how the world looked from behind my eyes. Yet I was so afraid to come out and face the world again. I wondered why I had to choose the opening years of the Reagan administration and the rise of the Moral Major-ity to demand the right to be myself. Would they arm villagers with torches and stakes and stalk me through the countryside? Would I stand alone, handcuffed in a precinct cell, with no one to turn to if I survived the nightmare? But then I acknowledged that no matter who had been in the White House, it had always been hard to be me. Between a rock and a hard place-something told me this lifetime wasn't going to get any easier. I'd already been through a lot though, and it didn't seem to me it could get much worse. Once again I couldn't see the road ahead. I was still steering my own course through uncharted waters, relying on constellations that were not fixed. I wished there was some-one, somewhere I could ask: What should I do? But no such person existed in my world. I was the only expert on living my own life, the only person I could turn to for answers.
Rereading Stone Butch Blues
"That morning, Equality El Dorado, the town’s local LGBTQ+ organization, had posted on Facebook asking for volunteers to help drive trans Kansans to the DMV, as well as cash donations to help people cover the unexpected cost of a replacement license. "
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And everywhere you go makes your heart ache When you've done enough walks of shame Some days, you just go the long way To stay off of memory lane So I'd never live in a small town I'm slow to learn all the rules I've tried very hard to be good But when they think you're bad, people act worse
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[Verse 2] And everywhere you go makes your heart ache When you've done enough walks of shame Some days, you just go the long way To stay off of memory lane So I'd never live in a small town I'm slow to learn all the rules I've tried very hard to be good But when they think you're bad, people act worse [Chorus] But in a lake, you can backstroke forever The sky before you and the dark behind you And in a big city, you can start over The lights all around you, the dark safe in the sight In a big city, you can start over
Mitski releasing this song while I'm packing for NYC is diabolical
For his part, Mr. Vance, who appeared to personally lean against military attacks, argued that a limited strike was a mistake. If the United States was going to hit Iran, he told the group, it should "go big and go fast." A spokesman for Mr. Vance declined to comment. Before the meeting, Mr. Trump appeared to have been leaning toward a strategy of a smaller strike, followed by a bigger one if Iran did not give up its nuclear enrichment. But Mr. Vance's arguments seemed to resonate. And in the coming days, more officials moved toward the idea that the United States and Israel should jointly take aim not just at the Iranian missile and nuclear programs, but also at the leadership itself.
JD Vance has not made a single public statement for five days
Also adds to the trendline in Skrmetti, Mahmoud, and likely Chiles where the kid themselves has all the rights of a houseplant
As Kagan notes in her dissent, the Court opted not to hear the due process parental rights argument against bans on gender-affirming medical care in Skrmetti, basically setting up a regime where parents can force their trans children back into the closet but cannot help them out of it
I don't care if Congress authorizes War on Iran. NO WAR ON IRAN. I want people to fucking reclaim their morality.
One of the few poems I can recite from memory (by Georgia Douglas Johnson)
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