OK, one more bit of good news: Erin Reed's own list of trans Girl Scouts saw a huge boom in GS cookie sales, in a sugary backlash to all the fuckheaded meanness in this country. 330,000 boxes of cookies sold and still rising.
I can attest that the GSA cookies were not only delicious, but every friend or neighbor who received a box were happy to get one and those cookies never made it into a freezer. Nom nom nom.
Says a lot about how Americans think of gender, when two similar organizations have historically been split between empowerment for women and Daniel Boone toxic masculinity.
"Why, it’s almost as if the people saying that Democrats need to throw trans people under the campaign bus aren’t in line with actual voter sentiment, at least not in primaries. "
Yeah, you fucking listening to this, Gavin Newsom, you asshat?
This is the kind of rank oppression you get in these unreconstructed state-based regimes of terror. And always against tiny minorities.
Thankfully, at least Democrats can be improved and shown that being bigoted is not the way. Or to even cooperate with the low-rent Sturmabteilung.
There's a lot of sadness here but there is some slim hope at least in some ways. I just feel awful for the innocent trans kids, who just want to be themselves. And I assume this means teachers can't use a nickname to distinguish between two kids of the same name, right? Because people who write laws like this never consider practical concerns...it's only bigotry first and always.
Also from NC, Nida Allam has conceded the primary race in the 4th CD to incumbent Val Foushee, who held a lead of 1200 ish votes. This was close enough to trigger a recount (< 1% spread between the two) so Allam’s concession mayor may not preclude that happening, since I’m not clear if an “automatic recount” means it’ll happen whether you concede or not.
Also too, from NC, the newish progressive rich people’s PAC Patriotic Millionaires has endorsed Jamie Ager in NC 11 and Richard Ojeda in NC 09 after their primary wins on Tuesday. And presumably sent both of them some money. Ager won his primary handily with just under 65% of the vote, and Ojeda had a comfortable but closer win with just under 42% in a 4-way race. Ager’s 49,077 votes eclipsed incumbent Republican Chuck Edwards’ 47,634 which is intriguing, but may mean nothing in November. But Edwards isn’t especially popular, and the 11th is still reeling from Helene and — fair or not — incumbents in those counties/districts are feeling the heat from that. Since Republican incumbent and (probably) sentient turnip Richard Hudson didn’t draw a primary challenger, we can’t do the same comparison for the 9th.
But potentially the biggest news to come out of Tuesday in NC was the Republican primary in NC Senate District 26 — Senate president pro tem Phil Berger’s seat for 26 years. I don’t know if he ever had a serious challenge, but that all changed this year when Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page decided 26 years was long enough. with all precincts reporting, Page held a 2-vote lead in a 2-way race. So it will come down to provisional and mail ballots that haven’t been counted yet to determine the winners after an almost certain recount.
OT: Two of the madmen who helped BUILD the monster that is Drumpfenfuehrer are freaking about what's happening and INSISTING to their MAGAT audience that they never saw any of THIS coming down.
Of course Alex Jones and Nick Fuentes are unmitigated filth.
Wasn't it North Carolina that passed that first anti-trans bathroom bill about 10 years ago and then they got pilloried for it? The NCAA was going to boycott the state if I remember correctly. So they backed down...temporarily.
Now, after 10 years worth of anti-trans propaganda and billions of rightwing dollars spent spreading it and vilifying trans folks, maybe we're seeing the beginnings of a turning tide in NC again.
I don’t know if it was the first one but HB2 had a calamitous impact on economic activity (about $3.76 billion worth). It wasn’t the NCAA, it was the NBA All Star game that was supposed to be in Charlotte that year that got pulled. Along with numerous concerts that were either canceled or the artists showed up, but bashed the bill. Ironically, the state law was a reaction to a non-discrimination ordinance passed by the City of Charlotte, and one of the provisions of HB2 was that municipalities couldn’t do that. Then Governor Pat McCrony was in the last year of his first term, and I suspect that his support for HB2 was par of the reason he became the first sitting governor to be removed form office by the voters in the *entire history of the state*. HB2 was repealed in 2017, shortly after the inauguration of the newly elected governor (and current US Senate candidate) Roy Cooper. A replacement bill kept the ban on local non-discrimination ordinances in pace until 2020 though. The author of HB2 — Dan Bishop — ran for AG against Jeff Jackson in 2024 and lost, in a campaign that centered his authorship of HB2 (on both sides). Bishop is now Russ Vought’s deputy at OMB because of fucking course he is. But this at least got him out of Congress, so there’s that.
But because NC Republicans have a learning disability, SB 516 which has similar themes was proposed in the State Senate in March of 2025, but has not gone to a vote. The NCGA has been out of session (without a budget) for most of the last year, and if they’re reading the room at all, this thing will be DOA in the next long session.
I have one in front of the hummingbird feeder. Also an app that notifies me of motion and I can watch the birds on my phone at work. Always cheers me up.
Top pic: At first I thought "What's Thor doing holding a rifle"? But your caption description points me to John Brown clutching a rifle in one hand and a bible in another, he of the anti-slavery firebrand variety. As in he practiced what he preached and fomented a raid and slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry. Not sure if Harper's Magazine was named after that. Anyway, that is NOT Thor. If it were Thor, he'd be holding a hammer or a lighting bolt, and flying the Raven Banner. But I guess Kansas wasn't open to weaving Nordic mythology into abolitionist backstory. No, it's John Brown, who bears a striking resemblance to Thor, god of thunder and shit.
OK, one more bit of good news: Erin Reed's own list of trans Girl Scouts saw a huge boom in GS cookie sales, in a sugary backlash to all the fuckheaded meanness in this country. 330,000 boxes of cookies sold and still rising.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-girl-scouts-sell-330000-boxes
I can attest that the GSA cookies were not only delicious, but every friend or neighbor who received a box were happy to get one and those cookies never made it into a freezer. Nom nom nom.
Says a lot about how Americans think of gender, when two similar organizations have historically been split between empowerment for women and Daniel Boone toxic masculinity.
I think I'll try to get some boxes from them, thanks for the link!
And you can always buy "Cookies for the Community" if you want to support them without messing with your blood sugar levels!
I bought some cookeys. :) :)
Thin mints or die!
Fear the Sugary Backlash!
Nom all the cookies!! :) :) :)
I need to buy some Girl Scout Cookies. But I can stop any time I want!
snOOrt!
Petey's!
😊 I admit that I did order via Erin's suggestion and those new Exploremore cookies are soooooooooo decadent...
Are they still selling? :(
I think they may still be selling for another week.
I just bought 8 boxes online from a troop near me. XD
Thank you!
I got me some trans girl scout cookies, and I can testify that they are delicious!
Getting my minimum daily requirement of Samoas through this.
4 boxes of Thin Mints are in the freezer to keep me in Thin Mint Heaven during the year...
"Why, it’s almost as if the people saying that Democrats need to throw trans people under the campaign bus aren’t in line with actual voter sentiment, at least not in primaries. "
Yeah, you fucking listening to this, Gavin Newsom, you asshat?
There a basic principle in the law, you have to prove damages to collect a judgment. How is anyone damaged because another person has to pee?
This is the kind of rank oppression you get in these unreconstructed state-based regimes of terror. And always against tiny minorities.
Thankfully, at least Democrats can be improved and shown that being bigoted is not the way. Or to even cooperate with the low-rent Sturmabteilung.
There's a lot of sadness here but there is some slim hope at least in some ways. I just feel awful for the innocent trans kids, who just want to be themselves. And I assume this means teachers can't use a nickname to distinguish between two kids of the same name, right? Because people who write laws like this never consider practical concerns...it's only bigotry first and always.
I wish someone would tell Gavin Newsom that last bit. He just keeps going back to that well.
"Two bad news items and one good one."
That there is a relatively good ratio these days.
Also from NC, Nida Allam has conceded the primary race in the 4th CD to incumbent Val Foushee, who held a lead of 1200 ish votes. This was close enough to trigger a recount (< 1% spread between the two) so Allam’s concession mayor may not preclude that happening, since I’m not clear if an “automatic recount” means it’ll happen whether you concede or not.
Also too, from NC, the newish progressive rich people’s PAC Patriotic Millionaires has endorsed Jamie Ager in NC 11 and Richard Ojeda in NC 09 after their primary wins on Tuesday. And presumably sent both of them some money. Ager won his primary handily with just under 65% of the vote, and Ojeda had a comfortable but closer win with just under 42% in a 4-way race. Ager’s 49,077 votes eclipsed incumbent Republican Chuck Edwards’ 47,634 which is intriguing, but may mean nothing in November. But Edwards isn’t especially popular, and the 11th is still reeling from Helene and — fair or not — incumbents in those counties/districts are feeling the heat from that. Since Republican incumbent and (probably) sentient turnip Richard Hudson didn’t draw a primary challenger, we can’t do the same comparison for the 9th.
But potentially the biggest news to come out of Tuesday in NC was the Republican primary in NC Senate District 26 — Senate president pro tem Phil Berger’s seat for 26 years. I don’t know if he ever had a serious challenge, but that all changed this year when Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page decided 26 years was long enough. with all precincts reporting, Page held a 2-vote lead in a 2-way race. So it will come down to provisional and mail ballots that haven’t been counted yet to determine the winners after an almost certain recount.
These people are making my cis self want to present as the other gender, just to piss them off.
Behold my vagina, assholes!
OT: Two of the madmen who helped BUILD the monster that is Drumpfenfuehrer are freaking about what's happening and INSISTING to their MAGAT audience that they never saw any of THIS coming down.
Of course Alex Jones and Nick Fuentes are unmitigated filth.
How soon before parents start complaining that their property rights to their offspring are being infringed by library books?
Why does it seem like 'Parents' Rights' just means 'right to keep my kid ignorant and/or miserable?'
The question answers itself.
OT
Elham Fakhro
@elhamfakhro.bsky.social
Massive explosions in Bahrain, where I am. Media reporting that the oil refinery has been hit
https://bsky.app/profile/elhamfakhro.bsky.social/post/3mgd5oawr6s22
Someone in the comments asked when will Iran target desalination plants across the middle east?
Oil first, then power plants. No electricity, no drinking water
Also remember that Bahrain is a majority Shia country ruled over by a tiny Sunni minority. Things could get shaky.
They already have, or at least the power plants that power them. Iran wants to make their enemy's countries unlivable. No oil, no transit, no water.
Well, those countries should have picked their allies better.
Wasn't it North Carolina that passed that first anti-trans bathroom bill about 10 years ago and then they got pilloried for it? The NCAA was going to boycott the state if I remember correctly. So they backed down...temporarily.
Now, after 10 years worth of anti-trans propaganda and billions of rightwing dollars spent spreading it and vilifying trans folks, maybe we're seeing the beginnings of a turning tide in NC again.
I don’t know if it was the first one but HB2 had a calamitous impact on economic activity (about $3.76 billion worth). It wasn’t the NCAA, it was the NBA All Star game that was supposed to be in Charlotte that year that got pulled. Along with numerous concerts that were either canceled or the artists showed up, but bashed the bill. Ironically, the state law was a reaction to a non-discrimination ordinance passed by the City of Charlotte, and one of the provisions of HB2 was that municipalities couldn’t do that. Then Governor Pat McCrony was in the last year of his first term, and I suspect that his support for HB2 was par of the reason he became the first sitting governor to be removed form office by the voters in the *entire history of the state*. HB2 was repealed in 2017, shortly after the inauguration of the newly elected governor (and current US Senate candidate) Roy Cooper. A replacement bill kept the ban on local non-discrimination ordinances in pace until 2020 though. The author of HB2 — Dan Bishop — ran for AG against Jeff Jackson in 2024 and lost, in a campaign that centered his authorship of HB2 (on both sides). Bishop is now Russ Vought’s deputy at OMB because of fucking course he is. But this at least got him out of Congress, so there’s that.
But because NC Republicans have a learning disability, SB 516 which has similar themes was proposed in the State Senate in March of 2025, but has not gone to a vote. The NCGA has been out of session (without a budget) for most of the last year, and if they’re reading the room at all, this thing will be DOA in the next long session.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxirOI_j9fY
Henlo!
Thees ees a Birb Feeder cam feed. It is full of birds and squirrels.
Tune in if you want to make your day a leetle brighter.
I have one in front of the hummingbird feeder. Also an app that notifies me of motion and I can watch the birds on my phone at work. Always cheers me up.
Top pic: At first I thought "What's Thor doing holding a rifle"? But your caption description points me to John Brown clutching a rifle in one hand and a bible in another, he of the anti-slavery firebrand variety. As in he practiced what he preached and fomented a raid and slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry. Not sure if Harper's Magazine was named after that. Anyway, that is NOT Thor. If it were Thor, he'd be holding a hammer or a lighting bolt, and flying the Raven Banner. But I guess Kansas wasn't open to weaving Nordic mythology into abolitionist backstory. No, it's John Brown, who bears a striking resemblance to Thor, god of thunder and shit.
The Roman god who cures thunderous shitting is named CREPITUS.
Meanwhile dead Montezuma still prowls the southern border showing American tourists a good time with questionable street tacos.
Good. Now do the pro-war Dummycrats in Washington, who are partying like it's 2003.
https://theintercept.com/2026/03/04/iran-war-powers-gottheimer-fetterman/