Reposted by peppermintFaye Dunaway With A Gun |🏳️⚧️|🏳️🌈| @electradescending.bsky.social · 17hAnd people ignored and dismissed us when they were told how dangerous what first Gavin; and then later Talarico and Acton were doing. All it takes it one domino to fall and trigger other dominos to make transphobia the official line of the Democratic party. 052
Reposted by peppermintLen @len.bsky.social · 16hIt doesn't matter what "wins" you think you could deliver by "moderating" on trans issues, or even staying quiet about it. A society that doesn't have the principles or the courage to loudly and ferociously defend trans kids isn't a society even worth saving from itself. 1306
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026there's a lesson here that dems need to learn: you can't just be *a little bit* the party of bigotry. once you welcome the bigots into the tent they will consume you 1297
Reposted by peppermintThaddeus is a girl's name 🏳️⚧️ @thaddeus.zone · 28/09/2026you can make your life far more interesting just by tweaking how you describe it: ❌ my shoulder hurt when i woke up this morning ✅ i escaped from the dreamlands, but i came back *wrong* 1276
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026kinda fucks me up to see there are people out there capable of living happy lives, how is that even a thing?? 030
Reposted by peppermintDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"we didn't have anything like as many people claiming to have ADHD back in the days when everyone carried around a pack of inhalable stimulant drugs and took between 20 and 40 doses every day" 30714194
Reposted by peppermintW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The national newspapers have laid off all their foreign reporters, stopped sending people around the country/world, and stopped putting any money into investigations. When their reporters do get important stories now, they save them for their books. 111521
Reposted by peppermintW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Sometimes I feel like I’m one of the only people processing the death of journalism happening in real time. If a description of what is happening appeared in a dystopian novel it wouldn’t be out of place and everyone would know it was the death of the free press. 619851
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026you must be living in a bubble if you haven't heard the biggest hit of '26, a song that spent seventeen weeks as #1 on the Pop charts: "Valencia" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra [checks cue card a 2nd time] we regret the error, Valencia was the #1 song of *1926* 110
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the last few years have shown us that senate dems are a club of chummy insider elites who couldn't care less about stopping fascism if AOC goes to the senate she's not gonna topple the existing order; she's gonna join it 060
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026you'll only ever embolden the fascists by sacrificing vulnerable groups to them but even if you could placate the fascists how much of the country are you willing to surrender? 2%? 1%? 0.5%? even a *mere* 0.3% of the US represents >1m people we all stand together or we all fall one by one 050
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026remember when Joe Biden tried to enact the Equal Rights Amendment via executive order on his last days in the White House? a maneuver he *knew* had zero chance of succeeding? but Biden did it anyway because he wanted to claim he'd been a champion of women's right despite never putting in the work 120
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026i love how robust & reliable our global economic order is 12911
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026my goober of a cat has achieved his ultimate form; i'm calling him the goobermensch 041
Reposted by peppermintashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I gave that man my vote in 2020 and I was happy to do it. in return, he failed me. badly. I won’t forget. 2774
Reposted by peppermintashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I hate him. I will hate him forever. to me, that’s his legacy 415615
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026watching that clip of tammy duckworth and it's staggering how disastrously the democratic senate caucus is misreading the moment 131
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Frieren is unquestionably the best show i've seen this decade but i kinda think the culture writers at a site like NYT would rather jump in a tank filled with piranhas than put anime on their top 100 list i love my autistic elf mage and her camping adventures with her adopted children 020
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026there are at least 80 of these shows that i've never seen a single episode of also, this top 100 list is completely invalid since it doesn't include Flight of the Conchords 130
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026dawg, look at my democratic party. we're all gonna die in the gutter 020
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026it really speaks to the staggering hubris of DC elites that 87 yr old RBG—who had gone through multiple rounds of cancer & was being treated for cancer again in 2020—decided to officiate a maskless wedding during the middle of a global pandemic whaddya know less than three weeks later she was dead 241
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026hey remember when NPR's supreme court reporter nina totenberg knew that ginsburg was dying but decided not to tell anyone 230
Reposted by peppermintdr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026in 2017, a trans reporter was fired at @marketplace.org for writing a blog post abt the need for journalists to resist rising fascism, racism and transphobia. @kairyssdal.bsky.social, the host of the show, said nothing & let his colleague's career be murdered. judge his hr tips accordingingly. 172262563
Reposted by peppermintJaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 25/09/2026Wait you guys are getting job interviews? 01801317
Reposted by peppermintKeira Havens @highcountryrose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Ok what the hell is going on here. This is also Duckworth's argument with regards to helping Trump "save face." "Make Trump Look Good" cannot possibly be the Democrats' new messaging can it? 3135
Reposted by peppermintDanny Page @danny.page · 25/09/2026"turns out we need to have windows that open" - the company with the highest market cap in the world, for some reason 422050
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"billionaires don't know how to toast a pop tart" sounds like something you could dismiss as hyperbole but no, this is literally true; elon musk's biography has a segment about how the man stuck his fingers directly into a hot toaster 13412
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"Each interlocking system was logical in itself...No human institution, Elliot stresses, was sufficiently strong to resist the death machine." 010
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026the GOP has been locking down access to the internet in red states across the country and a lot of liberals have been suckered into supporting it on the lie that it will "protect the children" 110
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i'm insufferable to watch old movies with because i will pause the film thirty times to examine the kitchen appliances or the contents of a refrigerator or the items on a desk i love to look at things like these because it's the details in the environment that makes places feel real 130
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026as we enter the spooky season i gotta plug my favorite horror movie "The Changeling" (1980)—currently free on tubi—as the best haunted house movie out there plus i love a horror movie where they go to the library to do research. George C. Scott using a microfiche machine! unfurling old maps! 010
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026having a shoulder cat seems cute & adorable all the way up to the moment when reality rudely reminds you that cats have knives for feet 010
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026despite his vile voting record Cuellar has long been one of dem leadership's favorites; in 2022 when Cuellar was raided by the FBI for taking foreign bribes & was on the cusp of losing to a progressive primary challenger Pelosi et al pulled out all the stops to drag him to victory by <300 votes 253
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026the 1970s were so bad that they made hero out of a dirty cop name buford pusser 140
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026the best way to honor mitch mcconnell's memory is when alito and/or thomas retire in 2028 that under no circumstances should the democratic senate majority allow trump to appoint a replacement 153
Reposted by peppermintW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It is genuinely wild how much Dems have abandoned talking about policy and how quickly they allow right wing cuts to be normalized. There are currently literally millions of Americans in the process of losing their SNAP and Medicaid benefits, and it's not part of a coordinated Dem midterm platform. 612523
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026and this is coming from Illinois's *good* senator garbage like this is why i keep saying the democratic party needs to be gutted & completely rebuilt if we want any chance of defeating the ascendant fascist movement 150
Reposted by peppermintStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'm sorry if I sound like I'm going insane, but this is an excerpt from the actual academic writing I do for my actual respectable university as an actual political scientist in training and I'm just not sure if I can fucking take it anymore. 1223731
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026up to episode 11 of Revolutionary Girl Utena now, with this week's offering we see the usually plucky Utena looking rather melancholy 100
Reposted by peppermintZoe Tunnell ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I am staring into the middle distance harder than anyone ever has 526355
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026[me doing grocery shopping] i will be a responsible adult and simply not purchase that giant bag of candy [me at midnight, jonesing for frivolous calories] i should murder the person who did the grocery shopping 020
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026[me when visiting friends/family for a meal] hey don't worry about the dishes i'll happily clean the kitchen [me cleaning up after my own cooking] i would rather burn down this house than wash any of these dishes 010
Reposted by peppermintthe abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 23/09/2026we are going to find out some truly horrifying shit in 2026-2028 and we are morally obligated to build a party that will punish them in 2029 628352
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026watched some more Utena & i still really dig this show's aesthetic, especially its use of light and shadow 120
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026we can all see that Gavin Newsom is a worthless toady who only exists to benefit the ruling class but we ought to keep in mind that the majority of elected dems would far rather be the next Newsom than the next Bernie 130
peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026as a teen following politics during the bush presidency i was convinced GWB was the most evil president this country would ever see & boy it sure sucks to be proven wrong on that count 020