The next time Trump or any of his lackies wants to go on about “protecting women’s sports” from trans women, just remember the video of him mocking the women who won Olympic gold medals 4 days ago.
I would offer that Alex Pretti putting his body—with his hands up—between a woman and the BP agent who had just violently shoved her into the snow, offer stark competing visions of manhood. Pretti, a nurse caring for veterans, who took a face full of pepper spray to shield that woman, is a much better masculine ideal that the masked coward shoving the woman and executing a man on his knees. MAGA may venerate the latter, but most people in a healthy society want the former.
“As we all know, you guys have a lot of male sports fans that listen to your podcast. I think we all know that if there’s one thing that male sports fans want to see in their spaces and on their screens... it’s more of me”
— Taylor Swift on the ‘New Heights’ podcast
It will always baffle me how easily people will believe that the poor, the sick, the marginalized, and the immigrant are the cause for all their problems, rather than the people in the most powerful positions in their country who refuse to fix problems and exploit them instead.
Woulda been nice to get this 7/8 months ago. He said he was going to do all of this. We got a million “is she reaaaally Black” articles while she *told us* what was gonna happen.
Donald Trump is embarrassing the United States on the world stage. We are a country that stands up to dictators and fights for democracy.
Minnesota stands firmly with our allies in Ukraine.
All of these “lets stop hating each other” commercials are fucking annoying when the source of the hatred and division is sitting in the stadium with his bronzer and 34 convictions watching the game like he’s not awful
having samuel as uncle sam calling calling kendrick’s performance “too ghetto” and then it cutting to his all black backup dancers dressed in the colours of the american flag? serena crip walking? during black history month? too poetic. kendrick proving why he won a pultizer 😭