ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

Shark Tank but, in this version, the investors are placed in literal tanks with sharks.

@ScottSoCal @JonChevreau @GottaLaff @emptywheel
It should not even be this close, right? If the US were that serious, that mature, stable, law-abiding country as we like to claim ourselves to be, that racist, convicted felon would not be anywhere near a party nomination.

Since the news won’t cover this, we have to. Please share widely. #DemocratsDeliver

What Democrats Have Done - Democrats Deliver:
https://democratsdeliver.substack.com/p/what-democrats-have-done

Putin is raining missiles down on Ukraine, while dumbfuck MAGA cultists want to make his greatest working asset the president of the United States, again. What a fuckin’ world.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/massive-barrage-russian-missiles-target-ukraine-killing-5/story

That ecstatic feeling when voters defy right-wing media noise and turn out in unprecedented numbers to tell the fascists to crawl back into the sewers they crawled out of. Republique Square in Paris yesterday, photo by Olympia de Maismont.

@TonyStark @Okanogen
Hopefully, after Joe Biden's latest statement on the matter they'll retract their calls for him to step down and start working to help keep the GOP from accruing anymore power for their #Project2025 Putsch.

"You'll never be unhoused in America—if you're a car."

There are a quarter of a billion cars in the U.S.—and 2 billion parking spaces.

The nation now builds more 3-car garages than 1-bedroom apartments.

🧵

@GottaLaff @emptywheel As long as NYT and other MSM keeps flogging the Biden-is-old story 45 is happy not to be the center of attention. Starting to listen to his advisors, for once.

“She’s not going in the #boys #bathroom.” #Ohio #mom #speaksout against #antitrans #bathroom #ban #bill.

The #StateHouse recently passed a bill that would ban transgender people from using #bathrooms and #lockerrooms that #aligns with their #genderidentity

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Ohio #Education #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/07/08/shes-not-going-in-the-boys-bathroom-ohio-mom-speaks-out-against-trangender-bathroom-ban-bill/

a while ago i knew a few (poly!) people who were adamant that polyamory isn’t queer, because straight cis people can want to date multiple people and then claim to be queer when they don’t actually have any clue what it’s like to be gay, trans, etc.

having just seen numerous people call polyamory “disgusting,” i really feel like this take erases the bigotry and bias that poly people face. like,

i grew up thinking i was a broken freak because i couldn’t do monogamy. i didn’t even know that poly existed. i didn’t know i wasn’t straight or cis until years later, but failing at monogamy was what 15-year-old rune wrote angsty poems about. doesn’t this sound kinda familiar to any trans people? any aces? etc?

and at least in the US, poly people don’t have marriage equality even in most places where gay marriage is recognized, and where trans people can legally correct the gender on their IDs / birth certificates, etc.

NOT trying to do oppression olympics — different marginalized groups experience different struggles. my point isn’t that it’s worse for poly, just that how can you say that poly people don’t share the “queer experience?” for most of my life it’s felt like poly wasn’t even on the fucking radar. i assumed i would have to “wait my turn” to fight for marriage equality and, ultimately, i expected to die before poly people have marriage equality (and still do).

so complete strangers call me a disgusting whore, tell me i have commitment issues, constantly ask me stupid questions about poly “but aren’t you worried you or your partner will fall in love with someone else?” (that’s the goal, yes!) the same way i got asked stupid questions about being bi “but how do you know you like girls if you’ve never been with one”

so when someone says poly isn’t queer i kinda wanna do violence. stop erasing us, stop belittling us, and stop telling us we’re not welcome at the rainbow table.

[i don’t think this needs to be said here, since fedi is apparently a giant polycule. but i just wanted to get it off my chest. will probably delete after a short bit because i’m not trying to rage-bait either.

edit: though i say it makes me “kinda wanna do violence” i’m just expressing my personal pain at being told my poly-specific oppression “doesn’t count.” i’m a reasonable person and i’m good at listening, so if you have any decent and respectful information on why people think this and the argument for not including poly in queer, you really can share and i promise i won’t bite your face.]

"Dear Reader,
What is your thought on this news?"
- Aure

Biden firmly denounces calls to step aside from fellow Democrats: 'The voters have spoken'

The president said the voters have chosen him and dared Democratic “elites” who want him out to challenge him at the party’s convention next month.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #breaking #breakingnews

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/biden-firmly-denounces-calls-step-fellow-democrats-voters-spoken-rcna160683

If you start off with something difficult, painful, or unwelcome in whatever way, you're less likely to continue because we tend to use that first experience of something to evaluate how the whole thing is going to be.

If you're starting off with the worst, you're setting yourself up for thinking that the whole thing is going to be terrible, of course you're not going to want to continue.

#ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #AuDHD

@GottaLaff
People can speculate as to why the media avoids mentioning Trump's crimes and at this point the reasons why no longer matter.

MSM is complicit in the rise of authoritarianism around the world however people in France ignored the weeks long media predictions of a far right win and turned out in droves to say yes to democracy.

Americans can do the same as France.
Vote for democracy

We are surrounded by fog, but Summer's front acre is sunny.
I think her joy and happiness might be keeping the fog at bay.
Our house is much cooler this morning, so we are feeling comfortable. Thank goodness.
I told Summer that the fog is our friend today.
Good morning, Mastodon.
#Summer #DogsOfMastodon

3/3

...able to do more to help.

But I can tell you this, my racist cop dad, the one who divorced my conservative housewife mother, which is why we ended up in section 8 housing... he is dead. And even though I was sent to live with him for two years as a child, his head full of racist stereo types and hate died with him.

Good riddence.

Finally made it to the world’s holiest shrine

Americans,

Here's the bottom line:

They don’t have the numbers.

Their plan all along was to divide those who oppose authoritarianism. Democrats, Independents and never-Trump Republicans.

They funded 3rd party candidates.

They flooded the zone with slanted polls.

They got their cohorts in the media singing their tune.

They had Elon flood this place with bots and right wing propaganda.

They still don’t have the numbers.

Not unless you give in.

-Jack Smith

#2024Election #vote

No alt text? During disability awareness month? damn...

The republicans are trying and lying real hard to distract from their Biggest Criminal in American History, their felon, fraud, rapist, and Espionage Criminal.

And one benefit derived from "Biden is old OP" is the GOP who have infested our timelines but remain secret fascist have revealed themselves.

Don't feed the trolls.

Do not be part of the Op.

#2024Election #election #election2024 #vote #psychological #warfare #RussiaIsATerroristState