Molotov Cats

Mamdani Chooses His Words Carefully After Alleged Terror Attack

One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

Thanks for the reply. Lots of people read the story as I did--as insinuating that the mayor isn't willing to condemn terrorism unequivocally. He "has been spare in his remarks." He "chooses his words carefully." Compare his "full-throated condemnation" of Israel's war on Gaza...

And he’s someone who *knows* trans people are under attack and that there’s rampant transphobia. I guess it just didn’t register for him, maybe bc I’m transmasc but I’m still at risk!

I was on a road trip with some people and we had to stop in rural Ohio, my friend commented on me being out of breath and I said I got overwhelmed and nervous about using the restroom. He made a quip about me being afraid of bathrooms and I was like….. buddy, I’m trans. This is rural Ohio.

""I'm afraid I could be arrested if I travel to that state for your wedding and need to use the restroom at the venue ..."

#TransRightsAreWomensRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights & I’m so often trembling with rage that this even needs to be said. Any person who has ever said trans & non-binary people don’t have Every Single Right that cis people do can get chronic UTIs RightTFNow. You wanted this to be about pee, right?

i’d like for some people to grapple with the fact that “the most important election of our lifetime,” if you actually mean it, implies that the governance period following it is also the most important governance period of our lifetime, and adjust their demands/expectations/behaviors accordingly

I have seen people argue *in favor* of this as creating a “big tent”. I mean, this is basically why Harris campaigned with Liz Cheney. They WANT to pull in republicans. It’s why they’re always so focused on trying to attract “moderate” voters. GOP is now the fascist party and Dems are conservative.

also any time there is any sort of military operation the DoD comes to congress with its hand out, like didn't we already give you guys three quarters of a trillion dollars

Turns out it’s security theater all the way down

I gotta say this war has led me to believe that 95% of military spending in the US just goes to defense contractor shareholders and nothing else. Like what do you mean the US just decommissioned its only mine defusing boats in the gulf and there’s no replacements?

There is no way you can tell me anyone here is well adjusted because we still just meander on talking about whatever as people die here from hunger, people die there from bombs, people die here from environmental attacks, people die there for IEDs, & this is our normal. Still our normal.

Mental simulations of people getting angry at you bound to pay off any day now Mentally rehearsing arguments that will never happen is sure to serve you well at some point, sources have claimed. Your brain has reportedly acted as an arena for a never-ending series of…

Mentally rehearsing arguments that will never happen is sure to serve you well at some point, sources have claimed.

That’s not what “schizophrenic” means =\

Increased mental health problems has many contributing factors including increased wealth inequality/intensified class divisions, the hyper-commodification of our society leading to things like social isolation and lack of community.

Notice how even with the primary challenges, the low polling, the public outcry…. They. Are. Not. Budging. They STILL aren’t actually opposing Trump?

They are a controlled opposition party. We can’t keep pretending they aren’t. We NEED to organize with each other to build collective power.

They aren’t moving left, that’s replacing them.

And no. Keeping voting for them removes our leverage, this is why they keep moving right. Historically they have moved left when they have been threatened by third parties. VBNMW has created a neoliberal death spiral into fascism.

russia had a vibrant, active LGBTQ community 20 years ago, with publications, bars, neighborhoods. now it is silent and underground, all public expression deemed "pornographic" and "illegal", even a rainbow flag. that is what the richest and most powerful men in the world are bringing worldwide.

Nations too generate defenses against reality: denial, idealization, displacement, projection, regression, collective forgetting. America’s fixation on democracy’s perpetual near-death is one such defense; it’s also a political strategy.

The thing that I don't think they've fully grasped is because we've had two nearly three generations of adults who have been vaccinated, people are going to realize pretty quickly shit is bad when suddenly their kids are dying.

47 Unwelcome Committee A nonviolent demonstration outside Trump’s visit to Thermo Fisher in Reading Wednesday March 11 Demonstrators Gathering at Reading Library at 10:30am and will have an ongoing presence outside ThermoFisher throughout the day Stay Peaceful Stay on sidewalks Dress for Rain

ATTENTION SOUTHWEST OHIO!

Trump will be in the area tomorrow! Don’t let him believe for a second he can come here and not be faced with protests. He’s not welcome here!!

Tomorrow morning in Reading! Emergency protest called!

They double tapped the school. It was deliberate.

Zeteo ran an interview with Graham Platner today (paywalled, unfortunately) and I can't get past the fact that someone who literally recommends people watch "Come and See" as the ultimate anti-war movie is trying to pretend he never knew what a Totenkopf was.

Meanwhile Google Translate (see alt text)

So you're really saying "I really want to hear
@emilymbender.bsky.social say "The fascist technology is a remarkable achievement with all kinds of impressive use cases like translation [even though I disagree with how it's done]."

... which, no.

On top of everything else my jaw has been acting up way worse than it ever has. I haven’t been able to open my mouth fully for like 75% of the day the last 3 days.

Putting on the clown make up. THE PROBLEM WITH SOCIALISM, IS THAT EVENTUALLY, YOU RUN OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY. The capitalist simp says as he: *GIVES 85% OF LABOR VALUE TO CAPITALIST BOSS WHO DOESN'T WORK*

“Every accusation is a confession.”

And every day since, the correct response from congress was to draft and submit articles of impeachment, again and again and again to clog the congressional arteries.

Senators should have denied unanimous consent for every single action. No negotiations with people who tried to murder you.

The behaviors of people who actually wanted to resist fascism would have looked wildly different from the behaviors we got, STARTING IN NOVEMBER OF 2024.

I could go on, but I've already ranted the rest of this rant elsewhere.

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If you will forgive a minor crashout on this point:

When Dems were campaigning in 2024 and said that if Trump were re-elected it would be the end of our democracy I BELIEVED THEM.

And so, I expected them to have contingencies in place for immediate resistance, as Trump had a roughly 50/50 shot.

I really need people to start understanding that these people are *conservatives*