Frances Larina

No, really; it's getting scary.

All it would take is people standing up for us.

#CoalMineCanaries

And yet if not us, then who? They certainly aren't going to bring about that reflection themselves.

I wore this uniform. I know what dereliction looks like. No declaration. No coalition. No plan. Shifting goals changed 5 times in 12 days. Men and women in uniform deserve a commander who knows why he sent them. This one doesn't.

Today. Day 12. Three ships struck in the Strait of Hormuz. 20% of the world's oil supply blocked. The Energy Secretary falsely claimed the Navy escorted a tanker through. Leavitt corrected him. They're making it up as they go. With your children's lives.

SURJ is getting called out on their BS in the comments to their post. I don't know if they care?

4th Circuit Rules That States Can Compel Trans Adults To "Appreciate Their Sex" Via Care Bans They ruled that states "encouraging citizens to appreciate their sex" through care bans is a constitutional goal, affirming West Virginia's Medicaid ban for trans adults.

This is a red-flag, sirens blaring ruling esp if SCOTUS lets it be.

My guess is that the next step will be the GOP adding such bans to a budget bill and Dems letting it slide.

This is genocide, the erasure of a distinct group of people.

#CoalMineCanaries

www.erininthemorning.com/p/4th-circui...

They're not even trying, it feels like theater at this point

JFC

Wow

We can't even have the Ig Nobels anymore

Fuck this stupid fucking chungus country

Why oh why won't they give him the Nobel Peace Prize?

A good question always worth asking is what exactly is constraining Trump's goals.

His own goals are quite obvious: enrich himself and kill everyone who could stop him from having power.

So whenever there is a delta between that and reality, it reveals something about how our system works.

Fuel prices are about to skyrocket for a while and Trump is removing restrictions on Russia selling oil. The same Russia that has over-spent on its invasion war of Ukraine. The same Russia whose leader had an hour long phone call with Trump yesterday.

Bold of you to assume they caught that Grok meant the game.

They could be obstructing the Republicans all day, every day.
McConnell vowed to do so any time a Dem was in the white house and he held to his promise.
Instead, Dems are STILL voting to approve Trump nominees and offering only milquetoast responses.

It's too close to and too soon after California's bill, yet with subtle updates. These things don't just happen out of the blue.

After seeing nearly boilerplate red-state anti-trans bills + some evolution as they progressed, this feels very much the same.

Who is coordinating this and pushing it on blue state legislatures?

NY S08102 | 2025-2026
legiscan.com/NY/bill/S081...

A true narcissist could not stand being so subservient to Trump. Kegbreath has a massive ego, but that's all.

The Dems have had things they could do since 2016 regarding Trump and they've ignored all of them.

Idaho Quietly Banned Driver’s License Gender Changes Almost 2 Months Ago. Idaho Republicans Didn't Even Notice. With no prior notice or warning, trans Idahoans have suddenly found themselves unable to obtain accurate IDs. The state’s Republicans don’t even seem to know.

I've been saying for years that nearly every red state slipped “sex is inherently binary and biological” clauses into their anti-trans sports | bathroom | books | whatever laws.

They can be used at any time to erase us from public life.

transitics.substack.com/p/idaho-quie...

I want to know how they even fit this into DD-WRT that fits in 8MB.

Thank you, I will find it!

Well, this is certainly exciting, congrats!

Also Trump's OBBB slipped in a clause that says private jets are 100% deductible.

Since COVID started, the number of private jets / flights have increased by 10% each year.

Listening to an interview dissecting how the 1%-3% have clogged airports with their private jets. They take up the same slots as a jet that carries 400-800 people out of a limited quantity, preventing new carriers. For perspective, they use them as you would use a car to get a frozen yogurt.

Using supremacist ideological rhetoric to replace science is the only way white cis men can keep their patriarchy intact. The generational lie handed down over and over to protect white cis men's privilege in society.

If this works, can they - would they - do the same to the DoJ attorneys who threatened every hospital that provides health care for trans teens? Or is this only for cis people's needs?

"They" being the Disciplinary Council of the D.C. Bar

If this works, can we do the same to the attorneys who threatened every hospital that provides health care for trans teens?

Say, didn't the defense appropriation bill (NDAA) contain a section that automates the draft? And clears the way to join the gov'ts data systems together to track individuals across all systems?

rollcall.com/2025/12/08/a...

California's

@assemblydems.bsky.social
@casendems.bsky.social
@governor.ca.gov

built out the first blocks of the infrastructure to do exactly this with their incredibly stupid law forcing all computer operating systems* to track users' ages.

It's a massive betrayal.

*including calculators!

bsky.app/profile/fran...

Medically administered hormone therapies & the medical use of puberty blockers in cis kids support our society's patriarchal infrastructure. Their use in trans kids threatens it.