also and I feel like I buried the lede here:
it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media.
Imprisoned.
Psst:
Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders.
Pass it on.
if you’re trying to engage with politically disconnected people about project 2025, identify a specific part that you think will resonate with them. i just told my friend who’s a public school teacher about the plan to abolish the department of education and that got her hooked.
Mostly agree except on reflection I feel like the three-day combo of the shooting, the Cannon decision, and the Vance pick was a powerful reminder of how miserable and exhausting it was to live with one goddamn thing after another when this guy had the spotlight for four straight years
I think Trump getting shot and being photographed with a defiant fist in the air, bloodied and unbowed, will actually lead to zero changed votes. He might be the only person in the universe that would be true of.
The Republican Party has nominated a man for Vice President who says he would have ended American democracy if he’d had that role in 2021. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jd-...
WSJ: okay enough with the hyperbole about how Trump will end American democracy
Trump: anyway here’s my Vice President, who I picked specifically because he is willing to end American democracy
The Republican Party has nominated a man for Vice President who says he would have ended American democracy if he’d had that role in 2021. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jd-...
Here’s the thing about the Vance pick: it’s probably unhelpful in electoral terms.
But, in terms of governance, it’s further evidence that they’re Going For It.
Trump 1 was hobbled in his authoritarian attempt by the admin and GOP.
Trump 2 will be aided by both. They’re gonna go for it.
All the calls for “everyone” to “cool down the rhetoric” etc feel like how families so often put the burden of keeping the peace on the family members who are already working hardest at that, since the difficult/abusive folks are unfixable/cannot be reasoned with.
Seriously. You are not alone. If you're struggling, reach out. And if you're not, just check in your friends. Even if everyone is all good, no one will feel bad if you reach out to say hey, how are you?
I appreciated the straight-forward mention of suicide in the lede paragraph.
I knew Wright only through his work, but every death diminishes us.
Check-in with your buddies. Hug your kids.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Decade after decade of stochastic terror, gun rights fervor, & the foment of conspiratorial thinking by, from, on, & within the right, & yet it's somehow DEMOCRATS & the LEFT who need to "calm things down" or "lower the temperature?"
Nah son. We *been* calm, and quite fucking cool and collected.
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A senior House Democrat says efforts to replace Biden at the top of the ticket have stopped because, “We've all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency."
I’m sorry a Republican voter shot at the Republican leader at a Republican rally, and especially that he killed a Republican rally-goer and injured two more. I wish it didn’t happen, and hope nothing like it ever happens again.
I just don’t see how non-Republicans could be the ones to solve it.
Welp, blocked a long-time Facebook friend because the assassination attempt was finally the thing that gave them permission to let their fash freak flag fly. They’re fucking everywhere.
A lesson from an old boxer, AND a guy whose been in politics, AND an attorney:
If you think you're gonna lose, you're probably right.
A lot of good can happen if you take a breath, put your mouthguard in, and fight.
This statement from Melania Trump is a fascinating piece of writing:
“A monster who recognized my husband as an inhuman political machine attempted to ring out Donald's passion — his laughter, ingenuity, love of music, and inspiration.”
Senate Dems should take one of their assorted gun control bills off the shelf, rename it something like "Trump Assassination Prevention Act," and force Rs to do a talking filibuster to block it
A quick 🧵: It is important to remember, or to recognize & then remember, that the US has always had a significant, ongoing level of political violence from founding through tonight. Most don't know or realize that because of how America's daily violence gets reported. 1/