Austin

@rain_crow
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had to unfollow a Marxist-Leninist IG account today. i put up with a lot since they were posting about Gaza but when the anarchist-bashing gets to "Lenin and Stalin were right to round up anarchists into camps. the nazis would have won otherwise" it's just not worth it anymore. guess it's kinda nice of them to let me know ahead of time that they'll stab me in the back if i try to build bridges

"if democrats did to a republican member what republicans are doing to mcbride, the gop would hold pressers, all be tweeting about it, and yammering to every reporter on the hill how disgraceful it is. instead the democratic leader hides out and most dems are silent.

dead party."

https://bsky.app/profile/owillis.bsky.social/post/3lbcxqggpts2s

Oliver Willis (@owillis.bsky.social)

if democrats did to a republican member what republicans are doing to mcbride, the gop would hold pressers, all be tweeting about it, and yammering to every reporter on the hill how disgraceful it is. instead the democratic leader hides out and most dems are silent. dead party.

Bluesky Social

"Transgender Athletes Could Be At A Physical Disadvantage, New Research Shows"

Trans women athletes were found to perform comparably or even worse to cis women on a variety of tests.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lindseyedarvin/2024/04/25/transgender-athletes-could-be-at-a-physical-disadvantage-new-research-shows/

Transgender Athletes Could Be At A Physical Disadvantage, New Research Shows

An IOC-funded study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine earlier this month suggests transgender athletes could be at a physical disadvantage.

Forbes
Everyone, meet the #Democrats

People who support Trump and Republicans need to feel ostracized, especially by family members.

It needs to sting. It needs to hurt.

Because they're used to cheerfully stabbing people in the back and getting away with it.

it will be interesting, to say the least, to see how trump's hawkish administration contends with a world that is steadily growing more opposed to the perpetual wars waged by the west. trump, obviously, will try do outdo biden on supporting israel, but that wretched little settler state is imploding while the world turns against it and the US as well. the US military is decidedly not as capable of totally dominating as it's advertised, so more wars of conquest aren't going to go very well
things are about to get even darker in this country and the world under trump 2.0. i just hope i can get over my hangups and commit to organizing soon, or i'll be stuck following the status quo with a family i am increasingly alienated from but am also too scared to leave behind. ugh
as the dems are now deciding to throw trans people under the bus and their liberal loyalists go mask-off online, i don't know what argument is left for marginalized people to vote for them. it occurs to me that this is almost certainly the experience of a lot of working people who have seen their lives get worse under dem or rep administrations and decide that politics wasn't worth it. maybe those people will entertain organizing efforts with the right push, but we'll just have to see