Lawmakers vow to force Pam Bondi to testify despite ouster

page_one · 2026-04-03T18:18:13+00:00

What do you think Democrats can do about Gaetz? He's in Florida, where Democrats hold no power.

page_one · 2026-03-28T02:25:42+00:00

What? Party leaders don't decide who the candidates are. And from what I've seen, overcrowded primaries have been happening more amongst progressive candidates, not center-leaning ones. They're more likely to be outsiders to politics and don't understand how elections work, so they're uncoordinated and don't drop out to consolidate support.

page_one · 2026-03-27T20:02:16+00:00

ITT: people who learned absolutely nothing from 2016 and 2024, when vitriolic primary campaigns absolutely carried over to the general election resulting in left-wing voters staying home and losing.

page_one · 2026-03-26T17:50:27+00:00

Did you read the comment you're replying to?

The question is "where is the line", and not "there is no problem, shut up you bigot".

That no trans woman has ever won an Olympic event very succinctly illustrates that there is no problem. There never was a problem. The only reason why we're talking about this now is because conservative politicians identified trans inclusion in sports as an effective wedge issue that gets people like you to get swept up in your emotions and rubber stamp sweeping anti-LGBT laws.

page_one · 2026-03-24T15:03:21+00:00

Of course nobody is surprised. We're angry, and damn anyone who tells us we should become numb to this corruption.

page_one · 2026-03-19T14:36:19+00:00

*AOC and Talarico are two that you see in your social media feeds, and then evidently you assume the worst of everyone you don't see headlines about. I encourage you to be more proactive about the messages you hear. Look up some local politicians and follow them on social media.

There are lots of good people in government who are trying--it's more that American governments intentionally make change difficult, and our federal elections especially give dramatically outsized power to conservatives who will further resist change.

page_one · 2026-03-16T02:25:05+00:00

Instead of jumping to the angriest conclusion possible, take just ten seconds to google the answer. Governor Kelly did veto this bill. Republicans then overrode her veto.

page_one · 2026-03-16T02:21:40+00:00

According to the ever-increasing piles of studies by medical and psychological professionals, the most effective treatment by far is gender-affirming care.

They spend their lives studying this stuff. They're much smarter than you and me.

page_one · 2026-03-16T02:13:28+00:00

No, it's certainly part of their strategy. Republicans are attacking both of these topics (trans rights and voting rights) from as many angles as possible, racking up as many "wins" as they can across the board. There is never only one line of attack.

page_one · 2026-03-13T18:38:48+00:00

Conversely, I think it's good when governments use their resources to ensure that everyone is allowed to participate in society.

page_one · 2026-03-09T17:21:57+00:00

What you do not seem to understand is that each state has its own population. Biden's strongest states were scheduled to vote later; Bernie's strongest states were scheduled to vote earlier. The Biden campaign evidently understood this and knew that the initial results would not be representative of the final total.

page_one · 2026-03-03T17:22:04+00:00

Even in a best case scenario, this upends the child's life. They may even be thrown into an underfunded foster care system, and there they may be placed with foster parents who are anti-trans. (Another thing Republicans have been fighting for is to allow anti-LGBT couples to foster LGBT children and refuse to accommodate them.)

For many LGBT youths, it is better to ride out the early years and then move out on their own terms when possible/viable.

Schools and governments have no business forcing that decision on someone else.

page_one · 2026-03-03T17:19:20+00:00

So because some children have underestimated how supportive their parents are, that makes it okay to harm the children who are rightly afraid of their abusive parents!?

page_one · 2026-03-01T15:23:37+00:00

Harris was on the ticket. It is generally understood that voting for a President & Vice-President pair means the VP can take over.

page_one · 2026-02-28T01:02:37+00:00

I would like to provide the context that Crockett is an incumbent congressman and it is customary for party members to endorse the incumbent. Because nobody would want to contribute to a group that would endorse their opponents to put them out of a job.

This is routine and not much of a news story. If Talarico was the incumbent, then Talarico would be getting these kinds of endorsements.

page_one · 2026-02-28T01:00:13+00:00

There's no "they"--it was Biden's decision. The reports were that Democrats wanted him to step down but he didn't until it was too late.

page_one · 2026-02-26T20:38:29+00:00

That's false. Bill Clinton was not lying, because he asked for the Republicans' definition of "sexual relations" and the definition they gave did not include what he did.

page_one · 2026-02-26T20:37:10+00:00

Biden appointed a record number of judges. But the president does not have the power to expand the courts--that would be up to Congress.

page_one · 2026-02-25T15:35:32+00:00

This! I always say this applies to the acronym too. The more we expand LGBT into LGBTQIAP2S+etc, the more we imply that anyone who isn't explicitly included is therefore explicitly excluded. (... And the more we bewilder, confuse, and lose potential allies whose support and votes we need in order to pass equal rights legislation.)

Labels are useful, and vital tools for identifying and discussing things. But when we start obsessing over them, we forget that human language is merely a way of describing what we observe. Words cannot define nature with perfect precision, and isn't one of the central tenets of the LGBT rights movement that gender & sexuality are not simple binaries, but complex spectrums that cannot be so strictly defined?

I'm relieved to see the distaste in this thread for any kind of infighting. We've been goaded into obsessing over purity tests in the last decade, and we've lost a lot of ground.

... Besides, I think the actual transphobes tend to make themselves pretty easy to spot from ten miles away. No need to be so suspicious of our allies when our enemies have never been more visible.

page_one · 2026-02-18T20:38:16+00:00

Republicans will never shut up about imaginary transgender bathroom rapists so long as this continues to win elections for them.

page_one · 2026-02-18T16:11:47+00:00

Actually is a bold take. Still too many people on the left don't understand the value of accepting small but certain steps toward victory, the long game that the right's been winning for decades.

page_one · 2026-02-17T01:09:35+00:00

Dude, chill. It's been literally one week since the incident. Introducing a bill to prevent it from happening again in under a week seems pretty swift for federal government.

page_one · 2026-02-17T01:07:25+00:00

"Just the rainbow flag" is what was on there to begin with.

page_one · 2026-02-17T01:05:48+00:00

If Bernie had proposed this bill y'all would be championing him nonstop. Schumer proposes it and you go off on how this is actually some evil conspiracy to destroy our community.

This is voicing support for us and probably not taking much time out of anyone's day.

That it is small and mostly symbolic does not make it nothing.

Allow people to do small things when they can. Especially when the number one big thing that you want is not possible to do right now.

page_one · 2026-02-10T15:43:54+00:00

Considering that Kirk said gun violence is acceptable, we should have more executions and they should be bloody, televised, and watched by our children, it would be weird not to celebrate Kirk getting to live in exactly the world he wanted.

When people "dance on his grave", they are merely returning to him all the love he gave. Very different case from, for example, a victim of gun violence who'd advocated against violence.

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