Feminist Proper Gander

cool, cool

Is it normal for an anonymous Wyoming LLC that sent mass mailers impersonating a transgender advocacy group to hire the lawyer who defended TX Attorney General Ken Paxton from impeachment in response to a court filing seeking to depose people who could unmask the LLC's owners

Threads is where the conversation is happening.

Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

I’ll save you the hate click to note that the author is an interior designer with a podcast and a new book to sell, so just keep on walking

Whatever other merits the line did or didn't have, it was artisan crafted to land directly on this idiot's wavelength. Straight into his brain like elephant foot alpha particles

it's like Matty has never cracked a history book

EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet…

i know after everything, it can feel like it doesn't matter, but it matters

a wonderful guy, he will be missed

SHOW ME THE DOCUMENTS>>>>> We did something sort of crazy at The NYT this year, as we look for ways to dig into what has happened at the Environmental Protection Agency since Trump returned to the White House. We collected more than 466,200 pages of federal and state documents.....

incredible to see priests say "I made a mistake by believing what the President said to my face" www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-p...

Unbelievable loss. An amazing talent, and just a really, really good person. www.instagram.com/p/De8RFy4pyov/

someone at Polymarket is drafting a tweet about how their users accurately predicted the Brazilian election result within one point

me: mom, what was I like as a little girl? my mom (completely fucking braindead): hey alexa describe a human kid or something

been a nervous night

i can't believe there's no merch for this fallen icon

i would not be who i am without The Dark Crystal and that movie had murder, slavery, torture and naked wet puppets

hey @electdemocrats.bsky.social pay attention, this is how you do it instead of pledging to 'protect girls sports' if you negotiate on republicans' terms, you won't sway voters: they'll see you as a half measure and vote republican anyway but you'll suppress your own base turnout

trump says votrers are illiterate, but on the other hand, obama said cheesecake factory was tacky i have never been more politically homeless

i'd like to think America will learn stuff from this

Tech bros have always been sexual harassers and abusers • Zuck invented “The Facebook” to rank and compare his female classmates at Harvard • Jawed Karim’s idea for YouTube stemmed from his difficulty finding online video of Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction” • Elon Musk…is…Elon Musk…

Thread 🧵: the fraudulent transgender mailers have a connection back to Dallas, Texas, where a local Republican megadonor used a similar playbook years ago when he funded a fake BLM group to send letters to wealthy white parents that were designed to discredit the BLM movement.

It seems impossible for our political system to hold the politicians tied to the actual invasion of our Capitol to account, but any random Muslim candidate is reflexively labeled a terrorist.

It’s incredible the things you don’t realize are sacred until you can no longer rely on them

Overall, 96.9% of the money donated thus far to TFM/"Democrats for Mike Rogers" was contributed by individuals and groups that mostly or exclusively donate to Republican candidates and causes. For a group that claims to be made up of "Democrats", there are vanishingly few Democrats in sight.

the big tech counter narrative is coming in

to be fair to the sunday shows, they are trying to get us to care about this actual scandal, meanwhile every print headline seems to be about the cheesecake factory

just amazing how reliably true the leopard party meme is

Elon bought Twitter so nobody could stop him from embarrassing himself.

if you booked a big arena and 300 people showed up maybe the polls are spot on

Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

Wildwood was great. It could have been a pair of movies. It doesn't feel rushed, but there are so many elements that are merely hinted at and I could easily have spent another two hours in the world without it overstaying its welcome.

“Toxic Empathy” author Allie Beth Stuckey is now asking for folks to understand that ICE has separated a good man from his family over a paperwork issue.

Holy shit, Wildwood. That is a film that throws hooks like Ali and lands every single one. Every one. I remember when Laika were doing Boxtrolls and the like, and that was and remains impressive, but Wildwood is like Peter Jackson going from his zombie movie to LOTR. A leap across the Grand Canyon.

what's funny is there's a decent chance someone comes out of the woodwork with "i'm a rubber band scientist, and actually we reformulated in the 2000s and now we're killing, just like, so many kittens and puppies"

i haven't ever posted a take on ethan klein, so i'm still not going to

I'm somehow both shocked and also not surprised