Notices by Kit Arvizu (thekitmalone@hoosier.social)

In the last twenty four hours both Harris and Walz have delivered master classes in how to support the dignity of trans people without falling into the bad faith traps set for them by conservatives. That matters.

Hey there, #Indiana! Come phone bank in person WITH our candidate, Jennifer McCormick! Help us get out the vote to make her our next governor!

She's visiting our Hamilton County HQ this Saturday! Sign up here:

https://www.mobilize.us/mccormickforgovernor/event/710687/

#HoosierMast #McCormickForGov #Vote

So you know this #scotus that is taking every opportunity to rule that states can decide if pregnant people get to live or die? They'll decide this term if states can do that to trans people, too.

This court is an existential threat. We have to win, decisively, to even begin to undo the damage.

@ryanc

I don't even usually respond to polls like this but I hated WinME so much that my voice could not be silenced

wow I can't believe that Donald Trump would lie about a major disaster and then exploit it for political gain gosh

Last night I sat through a breakdown of a study of women voters where the speaker (who had a lot of really awesome insights, otherwise) kept referring to the set as "self-identified women."

Can we just stop using constructions such as "identifies as" or "self-identified" when we're talking about women?

Trans women are women, and to me those constructions always feel like a covert way of making our womanhood sound sketchy and inauthentic.

It also sounds weirdly condescending. Like, "well they *say* they're women so ok" ... listen women can be trusted to know if they are women.

Want to piss of radicals? Tell them they need to respect the pragmatists in their ranks.

Want to piss off pragmatists? Tell them they need to respect the radicals in their ranks.

But both statements are, in fact, true.

Every once and awhile I want to ask a question in the LibreOffice forums but the responses there are such a unique combination of condescending, snide and defensive that I inevitably decide to just do without. Whatever I needed to learn is not worth having Discount Richard Stallman 'splain the difference between spreadsheets and databases to me or sarcastically tell me that I am incorrect to want to do what I want to do.

@GottaLaff here's what I don't understand... Texas is pretty red. You can expect that a lot of Republicans would like to have their successful elections certified so that they can take office. Why doesn't this sort of think just make everyone angry at them? rhetorical question obviously, as forethought never really seems to enter this stuff

@gooba42 @GottaLaff No doubt, I can see that for national and statewide candidates. But what about all those local Republican school board, city council, state reps and state senators who would otherwise just coast into their seats on an easy win?

I predict this kinda chaos will have all kinds of unpredictable impacts and make enemies at the local parties. Which is honestly par for the course with national Republicans right now and would be somewhat fun to watch if it wasn't so dangerous.

While clearly that's the national party's priority, and a lotta folks at the local level are enabling it ... I still think pissing all over your local-level party infrastructure is kinda bad-news death-throes stuff. I don't see these tactics working out well for much of anybody in the end.

You all.

This story from #Indiana is nuts.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/08/27/indiana-husband-alfred-ruf-spiked-wifes-drink-cocaine/74967513007/

#HoosierMast

we've all realized that screenshots no longer prove anything, right

The fact that Rowling has descended into Trumpy birther-style conspiracy theories about a cisgender athlete whose looks, ability, and makeover choices she disapproves of should serve as a warning: this is the logical endpoint of the gender critical "movement."

It was always this, there's just no longer a pretense of good faith or high-minded feminism. Just rich, bitter old people tearing down strong women who don't look or act feminine enough or in "the right way."

Does Cory Booker ALWAYS look like someone in the crowd is shining a laser pointer in his eye? #dnc

Did I just clock the first specific mention of trans people of the #dnc, or did someone raise it before Booker?

Obviously I've missed a lot of it, so maybe I missed it?

Damn I don't think I truly understand how much I was affected by Jan6 until just now when I realized I kinda couldn't watch that footage again. #dnc

I mean if you're just voting according to the quality of the musical acts, it's Dem all the way #dnc

I can tell if someone on the left shares any part of my worldview by whether or not they think it's funny to use felon as an insult.