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I forget where I heard it, but someone called these guys Trans Inclusive Radical Misogynists and yeah, they sure are.

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Fortunately, literacy in the English language is not sufficient to understand that sentence. Unfortunately, I'm chronically online enough to understand it anyways.

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It's astounding that even the retiring GOP senators can't bring themselves to criticize the president... but it seems like most of the ones staying in politics can't even bring themselves to say the czar has bad boyars!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He didn't do much AS president but he was a slaveholder and was instrumental in stealing land from native peoples as both a governor and as a military officer.

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okay a friend just posted a picture on Instagram of pumpkin eggnog at his grocery store and honestly you know what would

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omnomtom @omnomtom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The way you're jorkin those ears is L E W D

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 02/10/2026

this woman turned her hostile workplace around & incepted kirk with it & then she electrocuted a guy while wearing a skirt that legally qualifies as a belt, with her hair in whatever style you call this. “one hot roller fell out slowly over the course of the night,” i think. hashtag women in STEM

a very curly up-do with a lot of volume and an inexplicable and deliberate (it’s there in every shot) tendril of hair gently down and over a shoulder like a telephone receiver made of atavistic fur

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omnomtom @omnomtom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's important background on why interwar Japan was Like That, on the specifics of warship design during the prewar arms race, and on the dynamics of the Tsarist government's last decade... unless you're doing a deep dive on one of those three topics, yeah... a name check is all it merits.

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omnomtom @omnomtom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think there is an argument to be made that it was both at least in part. Killing brown children in the global south was clearly ONE of the goals of DOGE, but I think it's very plausible these guys are so high on their own supply they really believed they could save money by axing public servants.

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omnomtom @omnomtom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you mean the vocal delivery, they all sound like that, yes.

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And I just realized they put "support for Ukraine" and "free trade" on the pro/anti-immigrant axis which is... real weird.

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Also I don't *disagree* with their axes of sorting, but the way they define "Hawkish Nationalism" is WEIRD. They include "border security and crime" and "build the wall" which fit MUCH better with the "immigration and openness" category. Then they treat siding with Palestinians as isolationism.

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Look at that distribution. A whole bunch of the test takers are well right of the Republican party when it comes to racial grievance and acceptance of immigrants. That's... fucking terrifying. Hitler particles off the charts.

The breakdown by the "Race and Gender Grievance," "Immigration and Openness," and "Hawkish Nationalism" axes. Shows (D), (I), (R), and test takers distributions overlaid. Test Takers show very few respondents in the centre on the first 2 axes, with spikes on either end.

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I found the "people who took this test" graph in the by axis breakdown interesting. Almost all of them are bimodal at the extremes with only a few respondents in the centre. It seems like it's circulating in some very reactionary circles as well as here.

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Like I'm absolutely giving the article the side eye but it's not making fun of people's identities, it's calling them out for their behaviour. Bullying people out of sharing or discussing the article is just more of the same high control behaviour it's pointing out!

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I don't get what the people complaining about it *want.* Yeah, the motives behind the writers might have been to go "look at these freaks in <marginalized community> bullying each other!" But like... it happened! It wasn't good! Preventing people from discussing it doesn't make it better!

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omnomtom @omnomtom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You can criticize Zionism without being antisemitic. You can't say "the insidious nature of the Zionist" without being antisemitic.

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omnomtom @omnomtom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The candidate matters, but sometimes the difference between "bad" and "meh" is way more important than the difference between "meh" and "good"

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omnomtom @omnomtom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You can slip a straw under the bottom of a mask to drink without uncovering your nose, but uh... a lot of these people hate straws, too. Even paper ones.

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omnomtom @omnomtom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh and of course we can't forget announcing the war is over every week only for people to find out it actually isn't, shocker.

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omnomtom @omnomtom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The president not being on TV announcing new tariffs or attacking the fed might have something to do with the numbers fluctuating less week by week. It probably is just less frequent polling, but there are also real reasons for Trump's numbers to be a lot more volatile over time.

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omnomtom @omnomtom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Parents Rights" is often a line of attack on trans kids, but in a state that's banned GAC for minors even with parental consent, it's a pro-trans message! And Talarico said he only supports sports restrictions that protect safety and fairness. Texas' rules forced a trans guy to wrestle girls!

omnomtom @omnomtom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I also saw people yelling about Lindsay James (IA House) for her ad that talked about keeping Washington out of your family's choices. But I'll point out that at least in the case of the statements by her and by Talarico, they're PRO trans rights statements that are being called transphobic.

omnomtom @omnomtom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

But but number go up and colour go purple

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Out of hundreds of Ds running, she's found about 20 who she'll call out, and her bar is extremely low. The dems are not, in fact, anti-trans, apart from a few running in ruby red districts. Like the Ohio lady's ad was monstrous, but calling Becerra or Talarico or the party anti-trans is unhinged.

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Stephen Lautens @stephenlautens.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Next time you should tell them our hour has 22 minutes.

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One of Canada's advantages is that we know a lot about the US. We follow their news and politics, get their TV channels, travel there. But Americans know nothing about us. They don't understand our politics, history or values. They constantly misjudge us, but we understand them completely. #cdnpoli

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"Immigration is Trump's best issue" yeah he's only 10 points underwater on it and not 25.

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Fundamentally, class reductionism is a rejection of intersectionality. Hard to be surprised when it enables bigotry.

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Even if the fear of the democrats deciding throwing trans people under the bus is the winning move outweighs the material consequences of who sits in the senate for the next 6 years, you should STILL want Talarico to win! His opponent has made "Talarico is pro-trans" the center of his campaign!

Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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Basically, my position is that I'm willing to eat a salad instead of a steak because I'm a team player but I'm not willing to eat a shit sandwich instead of a salad because I expect my teammates to be team players.

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100%. What you say in a hostile interview on Fox and what you say in your paid campaign ads are massively different contexts, and someone with a long record of protecting trans kids using weasel words and hedging on sports is massively different from "I'll keep trans ideology out of schools"

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His opponent is making it his #1 issue! Saying in a hostile interview that he's opposed to trans women playing in sports if it impacts fairness or safety (a loophole you could drive a truck through) isn't going to outweigh that! But it might convince some Fox viewers that his position isn't radical.

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THIS is actually my biggest objection. If Talarico wins, the lesson the party takes isn't going to be "moderating on trans issues is good, actually." It's going to be "defending trans people is a winning stance, even in Texas!" because his record of pro trans votes and rhetoric is extensive.

omnomtom @omnomtom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yeah, the 49-48 election is not a strong mandate. But the point holds that Americans elected this guy twice, and without major structural reform, we can never again trust that agreements we negotiate with them in good faith won't be unilaterally torn up by a would be mad king 4 years later.

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YMR // 🎮 7.56 evercold waiting room @ymr18.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i might be getting addicted to halmarut

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If things get worse and you've got a choice between going to the camps or guerilla warfare, by all means fade into the woods and start firebombing walmarts. But we're not there yet and a lot of us do in fact have hope we won't ever get there.

Now I don't which of those worlds we live in, but I don't have the sheer unmitigated hubris to believe that I MUST be right about it, act in a way that's damaging if I'm wrong and barely productive if I'm not, and condemn anyone who does otherwise.

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If it doesn't matter either way, your approach slightly increases the amount of justice in the world by making the bastards suffer. If it DOES matter and trans rights AREN'T a lost cause, you're making things worse for all of us. If there's even the slightest possibility, your strategy is wrong.