Only four Republican senators Wednesday — Rand Paul (Ky.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Susan Collins (Maine)

This is a wild list of hold outs. Couple of BS "center"ists, the functional leader of the GOP for the last few decades and a batshit libertarian extremist. Fuck all 4 of em anyways, monsters every single one. But gawdamn what a collection.

“The voice was much louder than simply someone yelling in from the door. This man was fully IN the restroom, yelling something about” transgender women, Davis wrote.

Davis said the man yelled he was going to “beat" them and was going to “protect his wife/girlfriend from them” while his wife or girlfriend was pleading with him to stop and leave before he got into trouble.

Davis wrote she was scared and froze, not knowing if the man was going to physically attack her.

So to protect cis women, he is threatening and scaring cis women.

AWESOME!

But I think it’s a hoax, tried finding the source and came across multiple accounts on threads posting the same thing word for word. Womp womp.

Ghoulish. Just absolutely cruel and unnecessary. Everything about this is terrible and every single one of the fools who voted for this measure should be ashamed of themselves.

But they won’t. Shame can’t enter their smug lil’ minds.

Anyone left of MAGA hates being called ableist, especially when it’s true and clearly evident. So many wrap themselves in “the right is the party of bigotry” as a way to ignore any critism by margalinzed communities.

I’m a leftist so I can’t be transphobic/racist/sexist because the right is worst.

This whole thread is filled with tone deaf apologetics. I’m queer anarchist in wheelchair and it’s always disheartening to see these excuses from people who say they understand.

We should criticize choices, not traits. This happens frequently when the public becomes upset with a trans person, using is as a reason to intentionally misgender them. Or using slurs to talk about a gay, PoC or religious minority when they do something shitty.

Kaitlin Jenner has tons of wrong opinions but she is a woman who is wrong. So in the same vein, it is wrong to make fun of Hitler hypothetical wheelchair. Jasmine Crockett was out of line for her Hot Wheels comment, true MAGA has regularly said worse for years, but that doesn’t make it somehow not-albeism.

'MURICA!

It’s bad, but not even close to the worst this admin has done. However, with proper screeching of NATIONAL SECURITY and shameful reminders about BUT HER EMAILS, this might be the first thing that Dems could sell to the Republican base as grounds to remove people. And let’s be honest, that’s who the Dems are really angling to persuade.

Probably not tho, lol. Nothing will actually change. 🙃

A looming shutdown: With the federal government set to run out of money on Friday, there were signs that Democrats could help pass a stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, was said to have told colleagues during a private lunch that he would support allowing a final vote on the measure, despite deep reservations within his party.

Stop providing cover you useless fucks. Shut it down! Let them flounder!

then-President Jimmy Carter transferred sovereignty to Panama in the late 1970s.

We’re literally just invading another country to take their property. Which to be fair IS a long rich American tradition, but gawdamnit it has to stop.

Well, no. Not exactly. I do think you are using “I have black friends so I can’t be racist” sort of logic to not be critical of your original comment. But I never thought you were coming from a place of malice or outright bigotry, just one of ignorance. There is a lot of propaganda around anti-trans legislation, so I truly can’t fault you for not understanding the nuance of endocrinology.

Yet having said that, the fact that you and your ex argued about this intensely enough that you split , that you describe her stance as “devout” and that yesterday you saw this thread as an opportunity to bring the story up. Well… it speaks to bias that apparently you still hold. I believe you were not trying to be mean, but when you talk about “the physical differences between men and women” as a way to argue for trans exclusion than you clearly do not understand the community or the issues we face, much less be an ally.

At a certain point, intent or former trans friends just doesn’t matter.

It’s not that simple, you need to understand the effects that Hormone Replace Therapy has on the body. Men and trans women physically do not have the same type of body and the studies even shows trans women perform worse than cis women in most areas.

• Transgender women performed worse than cisgender women in tests measuring lower-body strength.

• Transgender women performed worse than cisgender women in tests measuring lung function.

• Transgender women had a higher percentage of fat mass, lower fat-free mass, and weaker handgrip strength compared to cisgender men.

• Transgender women’s bone density was found to be equivalent to that of cisgender women, which is linked to muscle strength.

• There were no meaningful differences found between the two groups’ hemoglobin profiles. Hemoglobin (Hb) plays a crucial role in athletic performance by facilitating improved oxygen delivery to muscles. Elite endurance athletes may exhibit up to a 40% higher level of Hb compared to untrained individuals. Moreover, heightened levels of Hb typically correlate with enhanced aerobic performance.

You’re allowed to feel however you like, but I need you to understand that it is only a feeling, not something backed by scientific observation of reality. Saying you don’t hate anyone is at odds with letting your gut feeling take the side of bias.

Jack Daniel’s is a Tennessee company, which voted overwhelmingly for Trump (60+%) in 2016, 2020 and 2024.

“But why did they eat MY face!?!”

Biden’s approval rating went negative in September 2021, around seven months after he was sworn into office, while for Trump it’s been just over a month.

It couldn’t come at a worse time for the company

Neither could their capitulation to Trumps bigoted rhetoric.

I got a lot of flak and eye rolls from my liberal friends a few years ago when I, as a queer woman, would criticize their Rainbow Capitalism. But Target is not an ally, they never were. They are simply a corporation that got some easy publicity in liberal spaces by showing the bare minimum decency.

Fair weather allies, aren’t.

There is nothing to gain from this weird BS rhetoric, but plenty to lose.

Millions of followers she has on x and meta

The ones that wouldn’t see a post on Mastadon? Even if an article was made about a Masta post, which it wouldn’t be, only a small fraction of her X followers would see that article. Far less than the existing followers she already has.

Look, you’re being intentional obtuse but I understand way. I wish more people would use defederated platforms too, but that doesn’t chang Le the fact that a politician has am existing way of mass communication. Being mad at her for using it is at best, unproductive.

No one would notice if she posted on Mastodon, it’s just not big enough for news sources to check on regularly. This article literally wouldn’t exist.

Nonono don’t you see? As the benefactor of oppression, you would be oppressing me by mitigating those privileges. Two wrongs don’t make a right so we now need to accept that the damage is done and just accept the world where white cis het men just have more safety, status and options.

/s

Fucking sad that people actually think this shit.