Reposted by GavinWagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 13/07/2026saying "it's okay to be [x]" implies there is an overarching culture message that it's OK to be [x]. when a key part of toxic masculinity is false victimhood, I'm very wary of men implying that all masculinities are under attack when we are living under patriarchy 540948 409
Gavin @gmackie.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Do we really need the next Plaxton? Can we just not with these hyper masc dudes who want to prove themselves? 000 0
Reposted by GavinBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 08/05/2026oh God fuckin dammit 620022 200
Gavin @gmackie.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Last week SCOTUS effectively struck down the VRA. Today, the Supreme Court of VA overturned a vote of the people on a constitutional amendment - something they should have no role in. If we are living in a government of judges who have total control over voting we are no longer a democracy 021 2
Reposted by GavinMatt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 03/05/2026here's Tucker Carlson using his prime Sunday spot on the NYT podcast to echo the world's most well-known white supremacist creed within seconds of the usual complaints about "white ethnic awareness" and within moments of pretending that he didn't know what his recent guest Nick Fuentes believes 23513 35
Reposted by GavinMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Gorsuch's opinion for the court holds that Colorado's law is subject to strict scrutiny as applied to talk therapy. But Gorsuch does not actually run through the test here—he just strongly implies that when the lower court does, it'll be obligated to block the law's application to this plaintiff. 859370 593
Reposted by GavinBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 31/03/2026oh hell I was already in a birthright citizenship headspace and didn't realize the Court just dropped Chiles v. Salazar, holding that conversion therapy (when talk therapy) is speech under the First Amendment, so laws regulating it are subject to strict scrutiny www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... 611022 110
Gavin @gmackie.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Almost seems intentional to do this on trans day of visibility, though maybe I'm giving the Court too much credit that they would even know www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...nytimes.comJustices Reject Colorado Law Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’ for L.G.B.T.Q. Minors 000 0
Reposted by Gavinelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/06/2025The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000 The list is 1,227 pages long. The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months. The first 381 pages are all children. archive.is/2025.06.28-0... 3912991008 1.3K
Gavin @gmackie.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Everyone whining about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social “He’s only 33” ok Alexander was the leader of half the known world at 32, what’s your point? He’s proven he can lead and has a vision that will carry the rest of us with him 000 0
Gavin @gmackie.bsky.social · 26/06/2025These people are either plainly acting in bad faith or incredibly stupid. A pilot program to open a few grocery stores in food deserts is not seizing the means of production. If anything, the Cuban state under Castro was much closer to Trump's style of authoritarianism. 010 1
Reposted by Gavinbarbararogan.bsky.social @barbararogan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte." 629283044213 28.3K
Reposted by GavinEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 25/06/2025So, these people are white supremacists of a very specific, American kind. The idea that the right to govern belongs only to a select, racially defined group was *the* political theory of the antebellum and redeemed south. Ask who is being replaced and why that’s a problem, you’ll see it. 1584082957 4.1K
Gavin @gmackie.bsky.social · 20/06/2025All media seems to be obsessed with Trump at this point to the exclusion of everything else. Even other topics that would be important news in other times take a back seat to Trump coverage. So we end up forgetting this assassination and so many other terrible things because the zone is flooded 010 1
Reposted by GavinBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 19/06/2025Many years later, as he faced the editorial board, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani was to remember that distant afternoon when his father told him to abolish ICE 151148202 1.1K
Gavin @gmackie.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Wtf is happening with the planes…? It’s been going on for months, and it’s not just in the US. 000 0
Reposted by GavinRachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 05/06/2025that $1M that Mamdani referenced is made through an independent expenditure, i.e. a local super PAC. this is how those work and how to look up what they’re spending money on:thecity.nycWho’s Spending Big Money in NYC’s Local Elections? Here’s How to Find OutLocal super PACs called independent expenditure groups, or IEs, are trying to influence New York’s races. To learn more, take a close look at the next campaign flyer you get. 0147 14
Reposted by GavinMy Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 10/05/2025A political opponent was kidnapped. We are officially at that stage of the fascisms. 528383 283
Reposted by GavinChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like if a US exchange student in a foreign country (say, Turkey?) was imprisoned for six weeks because they wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper it would be a huge domestic story and an international incident. 21198031781 9.8K
Reposted by GavinMarco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 10/05/2025HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is released as supporters chant “Power to the People!” (Video: @spydermonkeywatch.bsky.social) 441940527 1.9K
Gavin @gmackie.bsky.social · 05/05/2025This is so ridiculous I thought it was satire at first read. No one is telling young men that they are inherently bad - people are highlighting terrible behavior of many men and telling younger ones they shouldn’t act like that. If they take that as a personal attack maybe they need to reflect a bit 140 4
Reposted by GavinKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/04/2025As others have noted, if you’re not seeing this “pro-natalism” creepiness through the lens of the white nationalist Fourteen Words, you’re missing the point. 20054451242 5.4K
Reposted by GavinThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 22/04/2025They received an average of 2100 calls a day... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comHHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youthIn February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day. 14404123 404
Gavin @gmackie.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Trump literally campaigned on doing exactly this, told Rogan on his podcast that he would do this, and Rogan endorsed him. Why are we giving him any credit now that what he asked for and explicitly supported has come true? 110 1
Reposted by GavinSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Camus: Under conditions so desperate, the hard, marvelous task of this century is to create justice in the most unjust of worlds, and to protect freedom from those souls who, out of principle, choose servitude. If we fail, man will return to darkness. But at least we will have fought to find light. 121245330 1.2K
Reposted by GavinAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 04/04/2025It sure looks like they’re going all in on the “the executive branch can ignore court orders if it thinks the court lacks jurisdiction” thing 665109222765 10.9K
Gavin @gmackie.bsky.social · 04/04/2025This is ridiculous and these people have no idea what they are talking about. She doesn't even answer the question. Of course no American worker will make clothes for the same wage that is paid to people in other countries with much lower cost of living. 110 1
Reposted by GavinVipassana @vipassana.bsky.social · 01/04/20254/ Got this lovely flowering plant, the same as one I saw in a shop earlier in this thread as gift from my love for our anniversary. We got married in PP a few years ago and took pics in front of BPL as well cause #libraries! #100DaysOfBeauty 131 3
Gavin @gmackie.bsky.social · 27/03/2025This is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen the federal government do in this country. Unidentified thugs “detaining” someone because they exercised their rights under the US Constitution, with no process and no indication of where they are going. Absolutely illegal, but will we care? 000 0
Reposted by Gavinemily blight 🐦⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 26/03/2025hi, cis people! you might just now be hearing about this. there’s a thread in here with guidance. we’re down to 16 days and i have to believe more than 5,000 people give a shit if ~250,000 of us could lose our access to healthcare. tap in. scroll up. help out. please. ⬇️ 8258276 276
Gavin @gmackie.bsky.social · 16/03/2025What even is this? @schumer.senate.gov's responses here are reprehensible and his capitulation to the Trump admin's actions should be disqualifying. He needs to step down as minority leader now if he can't defend his own constituents. I really hope that @aoc.bsky.social will primary him. 000 0
Gavin @gmackie.bsky.social · 13/03/2025This is very, very stupid. Republicans control both houses and the presidency. They don’t need you to vote for this if they could get their own members on board. This complacency just gives them power to enact their policies in reconciliation. You are betraying your constituents @schumer.senate.gov 010 1
Gavin @gmackie.bsky.social · 13/03/2025This is the naive thought process that too many people had leading up to this election that gave us this result. The “responsible people” from the last term warned us, and Trump and his lackeys told us exactly what they would do. It’s shocking that people now act surprised when they actually do it. 000 0
Reposted by GavinPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Trump: COLUMBA IS AWFUL Columbia: [slaps student] Trump: COLUMBIA IS ANTISEMITIC Columbia: [kicks student in groin] Trump: NO MONEY FOR COLUMBIA LOL Columbia: [punches brown student in nose] Trump: WE WILL CLOSE COLUMBIA Columbia: [reaching for another student] okay this time it will work 453491654 3.5K
Gavin @gmackie.bsky.social · 13/03/2025When Dems are the majority, it’s their fault for not capitulating to Republicans’ demand for spending cuts and reduced taxes on billionaires. When Dems are the minority, it’s their fault for not giving in to those same demands. Media will never hold Republicans responsible for their own actions. 110 1
Gavin @gmackie.bsky.social · 08/03/2025I get what they’re trying to do here but this is some pretty disgusting not-well-coded references to victim blaming. 010 1
Gavin @gmackie.bsky.social · 26/02/2025So Trump has just reinvented the EB5 program with lower benefits and a higher payment requirement? I’m sure it will be very successful… 000 0
Gavin @gmackie.bsky.social · 26/02/2025“Moving forward, the White House Press Pool will be decided by the White House press team” is some Kremlin level bullshit that I never thought I would see in this country. We are watching the destruction of our democracy every day before our eyes. 000 0
Reposted by GavinRadical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 19/02/2025"When you ride TESLA, you ride with Hitler. Join Public Transportation Today!" Reworked WW2 poster spotted in Oakland 4346571266 4.7K
Reposted by GavinJen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Trump's DOJ has erased a report from its website that lays out its own recommendations for tackling violence against Indigenous women www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...huffpost.comTrump’s DOJ Erases Report On Violence Against Native American Women 5716411041 1.6K
Gavin @gmackie.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Trump has no authority to do this, the NCAA and local school districts should oppose it at every step, and the media should not just accept it as fact! It is their job to educate the public, not spew regime propaganda www.wsj.com/politics/pol...wsj.comTrump Order Set to Ban Transgender Girls and Women From Female School SportsThe president is expected to sign the executive order order Wednesday, according to people familiar with the matter. 000 0
Gavin @gmackie.bsky.social · 04/02/2025He can't do this, and the media needs to stop pretending he can. DOE is a congressionally authorized department, and can only be eliminated or defunded by an act of Congress. Anything he signs, aside from a law passed by both houses of Congress, is just a piece of paper with no effect. 000 0
Gavin @gmackie.bsky.social · 03/02/2025This is sure to be widely popular... Also, he does not have any authority to do this 110 1
Gavin @gmackie.bsky.social · 03/02/2025This is dangerous territory. This is what led to the fall of the Roman Republic. It is only a matter of time until Trump declares himself Dictator for Life and his heir becomes our new king. They'll keep the Congress, but it will always support their own ends. I'm very sad for our country 000 0
Gavin @gmackie.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Too many people are spreading alarmist information since Trump took office. The truth is that ICE has not been expanded in any meaningful way and they still have to follow the law. This post has helpful, non alarmist information. @mattcameron.bsky.social @openargs.bsky.social 040 4