I keep seeing people on here being like "you don't understand, Texas isn't Bluesky, normal people have to hear that you want the trans kids sport genital inspections"
...if you think the voting public in ANY state is make or break on that pervert bully shit, maybe it is *you* that needs to log off
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:di7epi7naqi3rharpcogc5sf/post/3mv4sqcrwjc2a
Maybe I'll spend a decade professionally involved in labor organizing, hold minor party office, go be a delegate at two DNCs and-
Oh wait
Oh wow yeah I should probably get right on learning how politics works in this country
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What every candidate should say when the death cult freaks ask them about trans kids in sports
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"I'm not playing this game. I don't spend my time thinking about children's genitals, and it's frankly weird and creepy that my opponent does.
If we want to talk about kids, let's talk about the real issues: how many children are going hungry right now because Trump made groceries too expensive?"
I think a lot about how totally unprepared almost everyone is for the degree to which our government capacity has been gutted.
We're all doing this high wire act and most folks think there's SOME safety net below. And will until a strong gust of wind proves them wrong in the worst way
In case anyone is wondering about the current state of food safety in the US: an older woman flagged me down in Costco today to tell me I needed to tell my husband to put back the apple juice, because of an ongoing expanding recall
Parenthood is such a trip. All day every performing a wide array of little weird devotional acts for these tiny weird gods
Tried to take a break from nonstop Trump news. We're running errands, I pick up a prescription.
And discover once again that the man has successfully made it functionally impossible to avoid his name in public.
CVS has a notice about "TrumpRX" benefits. What the fuck are we doing
You know who is NOT a good children's author?
Aldous Huxley
Does anyone have an actual theory
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It's also a plan to collapse preschools (which are already in quite serious crisis) and make workforce re-entry economically untenable for women with young children
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How progressive-adjacent were they?
One of the lectures I recognized from pre-COVID days as the former treasurer of Philly NOW.
And she sat there telling someone with a degenerative disease how she should be unmasking and avoiding 5G.
I watched it during 2020 peak COVID.
I remember being at this summer urban foraging gathering-- my first and last time-- and it was all seemingly progressive hippie-lite folks and then some of them started lecturing a person *disabled by MS* on her choice to wear a mask.
She's usually very savvy but this betrays a pretty fundamental misunderstanding of what MAHA represents.
I've had my own experiences with the left-adjacent seeming ones and @aoc.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy, inviting these folks into the tent is functionally inviting eugenics into the tent
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Between this and pedestrians all looking at their phones and walking into traffic against the lights, it's hard not to come to the conclusion that everyone out on the streets these days is just actively suicidal
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I feel bad for the people of DC but I am so relieved every time he gets sidetracked on some silly construction project, it seems like the least damaging use of his energy and remaining political capital
Weird what was it doing underground
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