Raquel Maestre

“Social murder” is a term created by Friedrich Engels to describe the premature death of marginalized people due to political, social, or economic oppression.

What is happening right now in America is the premeditated, calculated, & planned extermination of children who are trans. This is genocide.

we could have gotten the green new deal under biden the easy way, but because of trump we’re getting the hard way

You're absolutely right. I didn't have a plan for the Strait of Hormuz when I helped plan this war for you. Let me take a look at this contingency for a solution.

/* Claude is pontificating...

This is a Steely Dan song

It's normal to restrict or move away from treatments when evidence of harms starts to outweigh evidence of benefits.

It's not normal to restrict or move away from treatments when there is evidence of benefits and none of harms, even if the evidence of benefits is "low quality."

The US is breaking the world.

They want to destroy Iran because they want the contracts to rebuild it.

Environmental groups warn the pollution threatens migratory birds crossing the Gulf. The black rain and smoke cause internal organ damage and destroy bird feathers

It's now raining oil in Tehran as the US/Israeli attacks have caused "nuclear winter" like conditions.

These are daytime photos - as you can see the sun completely blacked out.

This is not liberation. This is generational extinction of life

So much online conservatism these days is just "I miss being a kid"

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

gotta say, "the modern right is built entirely around vice signalling" seems like a theory with legs

Wish this was literal, will settle for the fact they lost

jesse singal suggesting that someone else has a professional stake in this is wild since it's the only story he's written in a decade

this is Jesse's entire game: instilling readers with the *feeling* that something is horribly wrong with gender-affirming care w/o providing a shred of evidence it's actually happening (because it isn't)

Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

Trump Wins $60 On Kalshi Betting He’ll Bomb Iran

you know the conservative vibe shift is dead and buried when centirst pundits are going back to doing anti trans and "bisexuals are faking it" punditry on the atlantic

I still want to know what exact sort of parent they think is uncomfortable having a gay child but totally fine with a trans one

Show me them

you'd think that marco could have practiced his doublespeak a bit more before this embarassing effort

Yeah, not a great sign that they're just going to be experimenting on trans inmates like this and it's not a big story.

Don’t you know why?

Trade the rest of Congress for picks. Rebuild around Omar and Tlaib

Another reason for international politicians and activists to quit Twitter now: Grok will probably tell your location in real time to Pete Hegseth and his drones.

Albertans: your premier is lying to you.

The “Israel War Room” posts this clip of a worldwide children’s advocate and a mayor fighting for free childcare right after bombing a girls’ school and killing at least 85 students

You can just say things.

"The system's power comes not from its truth, but from everyone's willingness to perform as if it were true, and its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack"

- Mark Carney