Jay Marcellus

@jmappel.bsky.social

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Progressive messaging at ASO Communications. Previously Trans Law Center. Perpetually tired. Love fiercely, fuck the fascists.

Screenshot from article quoting Andy Beshear: “I won reelection as a pro-diversity, pro-LGBTQ-plus rights Governor in a deep-Red state at a time when people were questioning if that was possible," Beshear told the room of monied gays. "Now some people may have told you that somebody with views like that can't win a statewide election in a place like Kentucky. Folks, I'm living, breathing proof that it is possible to win everywhere if we stand firm on our values of compassion, of empathy, and of doing right by our neighbors. All of them, no exceptions."
Screenshot of survey question: “Which of the following best represents your view, even if neither is exactly right?” The RCGN message defeats the anti-trans position by 54-46% overall, and 79-21% among Dems. RCGN: “Kids of all races, genders, and backgrounds should be free to learn, play, and thrive. But the same politicians invading kids' privacy with gender checks, bullying transgender kids off sports teams, and abducting immigrant children are also gutting school funding to hand more to their billionaire friends. Let's fully fund our schools so all children - Native or newcomer, transgender or not - are respected and free to pursue their dreams.” Anti-trans position: “Left-wing radicals are denying girls the ability to compete safely and have a fair shot to win competitions and scholarships by forcing them to play against biological boys. To keep sports fair and protect our girls, we need laws ensuring only biological girls are allowed to play girls sports.”
Chart showing that dads moved from believing “transgender people should have the freedom to be themselves and live their lives” over “there should be policies in place to ensure transgender views and lifestyles do not harm society” by 55-34 in June 2024 to 47-45 in March 2025
Screenshot of a survey question: “When it comes to the treatment of transgender people, which of the following Democratic candidates would you be more likely to vote for?” By 40% to 25% among respondents overall, and 75%-15% among Dems, voters prefer “A Democratic candidate who fights for all of our freedoms to be ourselves, pushing back against Republican attacks on people based on our races, backgrounds, or genders” over “A Democratic candidate willing to work with Republicans to stop the transgender agenda, keep boys out of girls' sports, and end federal funding for transgender surgeries,” when also offered the chance to say they instead “would never vote for a Democratic candidate.”
Green felt with a felt hanukiah and 2 lit felt candles + shamash (it’s night 2 in Australia)
Me holding the long cover to the side lights on the plane upright with the bulb uncovered above me
Menacing image of a slimy and fearful looking Mike Johnson over the headline “Netflix casts child star as Unabomber Ted Kaczynski”
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still in Hopes No One Notices Them
He moved to Las Vegas and, at the age of 25, became an officer in the metro police. Kinch came to serve in elite detective units over 23 years in the force, hunting fugitives and helping take down gangs like the Playboy Bloods. Eventually he was assigned to what he called the “Black squad,” according to court records, tasked with investigating violent crimes where the suspect was African American. (A Las Vegas police spokesperson told me they stopped “dividing squads by a suspect’s race” a year before Kinch retired.)
NYT newsletter headline from Aug 23: Why Harris’s centrism is working
Two sceptical cats surround and sniff at LEGO cat
This Morning: Why Harris’s centrism is working
To wit, post election, 51 percent of voters agreed that “Democrats talk about protecting democracy to try to get elected but haven’t tried to do anything meaningful to protect it,” as opposed to thinking Democrats had protected democracy or given it an earnest try.
“Love has never been a popular movement,” James Baldwin told an interviewer in 1970, “and nobody, really, wants to be free.” It would be foolish and ahistorical to suggest suppression of select outgroups and the false stability of autocracy has never had appeal. Trump benefitted from decades of austerity, ideology, and ignorance that leaves people and communities isolated, exploited, and ambivalent to the well-being of their neighbors, captured by the fear that freedom—other people’s or their own—is a dangerous thing and that a common good cannot exist. The answer to this is not to shrink our vision and, in effect, become more like Trump. The answer is a politics that rejects the false choice of “us” and “them,” a politics that recognizes individual freedom—for “us” or “them”—is our collective responsibility dependent upon our solidarity with one another.
N64 Zelda Ocarina of Time cartridge
“Clearly, you had a White liberal demographic that hated Donald Trump. That was without question. You could see that coalition everywhere. But once you get past White progressives, every other historical demographic stronghold from the Democrats just started to drop off,” Tyson said about the effort. “What did exist was a tremendous amount of voters on the left that were disaffected. And the only persuasion question was whether they could be persuaded to vote.”
My cats snuggled together- grey cat left, tuxedo cat right. Both looking deceptively dignified
Screenshot of April Wolfe tweet, Aug22 (end of the DNC): Night 4 has the energy of the CIA harmonizing “We Are the World.”
Von Braun's later attitude toward the Nazi regime of the late 1930s and early 1940s was complex. He said that he had been so influenced by the early Nazi promise of release from the post–World War I economic effects, that his patriotic feelings had increased. In a 1952 memoir article he admitted that, at that time, he "fared relatively rather well under totalitarianism". Yet, he also wrote that "to us, Hitler was still only a pompous fool with a Charlie Chaplin moustache" and that he perceived him as "another Napoleon" who was "wholly without scruples, a godless man who thought himself the only god".
Tweet from vile human Matt Walsh: “Now that the election is over I think ET can finally say that yeah actually Project 2025 is the agenda. Lol”