Alright, who’s ready to see #Trump get his just deserts? He fucked up the whole damn world & that’s not an overstatement.

PS #BabySquirrel & I had a lovely weekend. It’s as boy! (He’s developed discernible - stuff)
He is doing quite well! Name: “Ramone” because he’s a sweet little punk rocker.

BREAKING: UnitedHealth has confirmed that a ransomware attack on its health tech subsidiary Change Healthcare earlier this year resulted in a huge theft of Americans’ private healthcare data.

In a statement, UHG said the criminal hackers stole files containing personal data and protected health information that it says may “cover a substantial proportion of people in America.”

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/22/unitedhealth-change-healthcare-hackers-substantial-proportion-americans/

Financial "commentators" on Fox news have taken to calling higher salaries and increased wages "wage inflation"

"wage inflation"

You have got to be kidding me, come on who is going to fall for this? (more people than we'd think, I'd expect)

higher wages > "wage inflation"
price gouging > "profit maximization"
price fixing > "price cooperation"
pay cuts > "wage savings"
job growth > "employee scarcity"

Like, I really don't think people understand what I'm saying here. The term "trans pogrom" is not a rhetorical device, and it's not a hypothetical either. The fascist Republican Party is telling you loud and clear, in their own words what they mean to do about trans and queer people just "existing" and I'm tired of being told I'm overreacting just because comfortable bougie assholes don't *want* to believe it's true. "They can't *do* that" doesn't work either; they have a 6-3 fascist high Supreme Court that has already demonstrated that the laws don't mean f*ck all to them, and thus they can do *anything* they bloody well want to.

https://www.damemagazine.com/2023/08/14/the-gop-has-a-master-plan-to-criminalize-being-trans/amp/

I realize that most of our society doesn't give a crap, but at least read the goddamn headline: "The GOP Has a Master Plan to Criminalize Being Trans."

This is not "red meat" for the base, these nazis are dead f*cking serious. And it's not QAnon nation pushing this alone either; it's powerful fascist Republican think tanks, elected officials, judges, lawyers, major media and propaganda organizations. Do you understand what it means when someone criminalizes your existence? If "being trans" is illegal, how exactly does a person in "violation" of the law avoid breaking the law? A pogrom is just like a genocide, in fact one usually leads to the other; it's a process. First you isolate your targets, then you criminalize their existence, then you round them up, and eventually you start doing murders. That's the history, that's how this process works. When someone criminalizes your existence, it means they intend to f*cking KILL you.

The GOP is not making anti-trans legislation a primary plank in their political program for no reason. They're not trying to ban LGBTQ content in the public sphere for sh*ts and giggles. They are not trying to make it illegal to help, or support trans people because it'll look good on a campaign flier. They are not trying to give the Department of Justice a mandate to prosecute officials in other states for failing to police LGBTQ people and prosecute an anti-trans pogrom because it'll be a spicy talking point for Fox News monologues. And they certainly aren't trying to do all this on the federal level, through Project 2025, because they're undecided about how to proceed here.

This is a pogrom in process. This is what a pogrom looks like. This is how you make it "legal" to start murdering people you don't like in a "liberal democracy." This is no different at all than what the Nazi Party did to set up the Holocaust. They are serious, they are politically empowered, they mean to f*cking "end" trans and queer people, and they are prepared to throw *your* ass in jail if you try to stop them.

#TransRights #Pogroms #Fascism #USPolitics

*gentle hand on your shoulder*

you saved a lot of good daylight out there. it could've been a lot worse.

Voting is just one thing you can do to shape your society and community. It gets a lot of attention because powerful people really do seem to let a surprising number of us have a tiny little mote of influence. The powerful talk about voting ceaselessly, because "the people" having power, however constrained gives them endless anxiety. Don't fall into the trap of thinking it is your only power.

Don't fall into the trap of thinking, because it's only a little power, isn't important either.

OMG, this is 🔥🔥🔥
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SWALWELL: Any time your father was in government, prior to the Presidency or before, did he ever operate a hotel?
BIDEN: No, he has never operated a hotel.

SWALWELL: So he’s never operated a hotel where foreign nationals spent millions at that hotel while he was in office?

BIDEN: No, he has not.

SWALWELL: Did your father ever employ in the Oval Office any direct family member to also work in the Oval Office?

BIDEN: My father has never employed any direct family members, to my knowledge.

SWALWELL: While your father was President, did anyone in the family receive 41 trademarks from China?

BIDEN: No.

SWALWELL: As President and the leader of the party, has your father ever tried to install as the chairperson of the party a daughter-in-law or anyone else in the family?

BIDEN: No. And I don’t think that anyone in my family would be crazy enough to want to be the chairperson of the DNC.

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