Andrew Wetzel

#TheEndIsNotYet!

#OTD #DitchDST www.newspapers.com/article/aust...

Tell your congress members to refuse permanent DST, and to restore permanent Standard Time instead! www.votervoice.net/ditchDST/Cam...

Americans rejoiced when permanent Daylight Saving Time was repealed and Standard Time’s natural morning sunlight was restored—on this weekend in 1974.

A+ community note over on Vichy Twitter. @savestandard.bsky.social

It’s federally pre-approved for your state to exempt itself from Daylight Saving Time by restoration of permanent Standard Time (in coordination with another state if needed). Tell your legislators! www.votervoice.net/ditchDST/Cam...

Tell your lawmakers to ditch Daylight Saving Time forever with permanent Standard Time! savestandardtime.com/action/

New report: AI being embedded across immigration system in ‘near total secrecy’ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/new-report-ai-being-embedded-across-immigration-system-in-near-total-secrecy/

Following up: here's a newspaper that went and checked. The answer may surprise you: Still no. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/health/...

She's been brain-wormed like Rowling and Linehan because people had the audacity to disagree with her conclusions. It's made her more stubborn and personally invested in making her recommendations into reality, because she's now become professionally known only for this hatchet-job of a report.

At least one of the children whose healthcare was taken away neraly died. Interesting how she fails to mention this.

Peer reviewed research, listening to the experiences of the children and families affected gets 1000 worldwide views and zero media coverage. Anti-trans takes get platformed all over the UK media, complete with commentary from the powerful. The game is rigged against any justice for trans kids.

Social Security is projected to run out of the funds that it needs to pay full benefits by 2032. It’s up to progressives to turn this threat around on the right and improve America’s most cherished (and socialistic) support system while they’re at it. prospect.org?p=146821

The full weight of the UK establishment - NHS, the Times, Baronesses of the House of Lords, all misrepresenting an actual full blown scandal of acute child harm. My research (with @sandraduffy.bsky.social) captures the real situation, centring patient voice journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

HUGE, GOOD NEWS: In total reversal from Friday’s stonewalling, perjury-flirting “status report,” ICE now says it has secured a one-way travel document so Ahmed Soliman can return to the US via a commercial flight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

OK, David, now try to pose like a fucking supervillain. www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

Yes, and... It's extremely worth noting that this is the product of women in tennis fighting for years to be taken seriously with the 1970s and 80s being particularly notorious for sexist backlash which women fought through.

The real unfair competition women are being forced into with men is having women's sports constantly separated off as a distinct event which is made to compete commercially with much better funded and socially and institutionally enfranchised men's sporting events & found inadequate by that standard

Real screencaps from Don Jr's "hunting trip" in Mongolia with his new Kremlin handler, Umar Kremlev. Taxpayers paid $18,715 to put up his Secret Service details for 14 days, but if they were in hotel rooms, I guess they didn't get to hunt? www.ft.com/content/f41f...

The Humanities Are Shrinking. Their Ideas Are Everywhere. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/the-humani...

It turns out punishing coup plotters actually is an effective deterrent!

Republicans have been attacking Abdul El-Sayed by claiming that he wants to promote sharia law. But nobody asks his opponent, Republican Mike Rogers, why he's part of a party where leaders seem so willing to impose their faith on society. www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-closes...

The Trump administration sending armed federal agents door to door to ask about voting status is nothing more than an intimidation tactic—straight out of the authoritarian playbook. All eligible Americans deserve to vote freely. www.cbsnews.com/news/federal...

There was so much to hope for being trans in 2011 even in Texas and it’s all gone, it’s all gone because every cis person decided to shouldn’t exist. It is collectively their fault that we don’t have a kinder world, and that the kids that need this care will in many cases die from lack of it 

A part of this not mentioned is that Texas used to let kids transition. I volunteered at a camp for trans kids in Houston when I was in college (pre transition I know I know how did I not know I was trans). Guess where part of that camp was? Texas Children’s. That’s how much we lost

It’s going to be interesting to watch many Americans come to terms with the fact that Netanyahu is not The Only Problem

"A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women."

democrats embracing transphobia earns them nothing and shrinks their own voter base, period. it's bad policy and it's bad electoral strategy, so stop fucking harassing trans people sounding the alarm about this and start harassing the dem candidates who are trying to lose

"so what they are just going to vote republican" no, they are going to pack their shit and move to somewhere else where their child will be safe. this shit isn't a game, its life and death for years now we have been witnessing an internal trans refugee crisis in the states for this reason

This election offers a clear choice between lawmakers who want to maintain the status quo, & candidates who want to solve problems, invest in public schools, and create opportunities for all. We have the power to make change - we just have to harness the power and vote. bsky.app/profile/aft....

TX has the 8th largest economy in the country. But as the incredible documentary “The Long Game” shows, the state has been working to dismantle-not strengthen - public education. Thank you @texasaft.org for hosting tonight’s screening, and for fighting for strong public schools for all students.

Yeah, this is really bad. It's good that El-Sayed distanced himself from it, but I am in awe at how Cenk's left-wing PAC managed to combine antisemitism with transphobia and pitch it as *supporting* the Democrat in this race.

Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Fucking weasels.

The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

For the TBR pile: bookshop.org/a/89197/9780... #BookSky 📚

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

You can put aside socialist-leftist prescriptions about how dangerous that alliance is, if you would like. But everything I read, across the political spectrum, agrees that these countries are connected. It is just civic maturity to pay attention to Brazil's election.

“civic maturity” is such a great turn of phrase, and perfectly sums up what is most needed now

LOL even Bolsonaro's party is accepting the results