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"Trans people are a tiny group with no power" This isn't true, and I hope my trans readers can internalize this. You are more powerful than you think. Trans and gender expansive people are 2.34% of the US population in the latest survey. That is more than enough to swing a race.

GOP does nothing but gin up culture wars. Meanwhile: — GOP slashed SNAP benefits to 5+ million Americans, forcing them to turn to food banks. — Trump's tariffs and war spurred inflation, making it more expensive to eat at The Cheesecake Factory. Prices are now ~13% higher than when he took office.

Schrodinger's trans person: so insignificant their votes don't matter, yet so powerful they must abuse us publicly for not co-signing their bigotry.

The End

the example of uber is instructive. it was pretty incredible when the money cannon was firing. now that it's expensive we're stuck with an immiseration engine for workers who depend on it, that sabotages public transport and pours waterfalls of money into anti labor legislation

equip this to stunlock BBC editors

Really does seem like the dream of the AI bro is the dream of the master in Hegel's master/slave dialectic: complete passivity as representation/proof of one's domination over others, who do all the actual work.

Not a single parent has filed a book challenge in Palm Beach in two years. The district just removed 1800 books anyway, because AI told them to. There are many reasons that is unthinkable but let's not forget AI DOES NOT HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOKS. IT CANNOT READ THEM. It just makes crap up!

An MLB locker room is MAGA dominant among the white Americans but that’s only about half the room. Between foreign born players not being able to vote and locker rooms being filled with rich people who don’t think politics apply to them, I’d be shocked if any 26 man team had 10 players who voted.

Your Harry Potter dollars funded this.

I’m sorry to have to be the bad guy here but we need to recognize that we live in a compressed air thrusters world now. If you’re not finding ways to teach the critical use of compressed air thrusters in your classroom, you’re setting your students up to fail when you could be setting them up to fly

this person was never meaningfully leftist, and certainly not in recent memory. saying this is just a way of saying you had your feelings hurt by then-young people on twitter in 2011. this woman is like 55 now and a paglia cosplayer

okay ill bite: if that's all it is then you may as well eat the business end of a 20 gauge. it's all just a sham. and im sorry, the very earth we walk on is a fucking unfathomable miracle. none of these Business Guys could create anything even a minute fraction as impressive as a mitochondria

of american life. the same indignities you and i have had to endure all our lives. they broke him. they made him a nazi who is married to a person of color. a man who, as a matter of public policy, hates his own children. he is one of the weakest creatures you will ever lay eyes on. finish him

I have deleted the emails that were in my inbox and which you were probably sending for reasons Forgive me they were annoying so many and so long

Info assembled by the cat rescue subreddit for cat pantries in Oregon

elon musk catches rubes like a flypaper catches the lowest cognition flies. Listen, cant nobody drive in 2 dimensions. In a third youre just asking for suburban moms and distracted office wizards to do 9/11 everyday by wrecking into your walkup. Be serious for five minutes, that car on strings.

Man, remember when the media collectively insisted we didn't actually see this happen with our own eyes?

What? Sorry. Ahem. What?

Every American is indoctrinated to believe he is the protagonist of reality and that is precisely one of the biggest obstacles we must overcome

The only reporting of Phase 2 I’ve seen was buried in a Stars and Stripes story: “Troops will . . begin transitioning to the next phase. Though few details were shared, the next step includes transitioning into neighborhoods such as Anacostia and Trinidad.” www.stripes.com/theaters/us/... 10/

Free Charlie trump

men take note of who in this story comes out looking genuine and respectful and who comes out looking like a strain of syphilis that was granted a wish to become a real boy

Seen on instagram but its cooking with Bluesky energy

I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.

Yesterday we joined @laane.org, @thelafed.bsky.social, @hugoforcd13.bsky.social, and partners from across the state to unveil the Bossware Comes to California report. read more below ⬇️

Pope Leo XIV: Someone who says 'I'm against abortion' but says 'I'm in favor of the death penalty' is not really pro-life. Someone who says that 'I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants who are in the United States,' I don't know if that's pro-life.

A tropical storm watch has been issued for San Diego County. This is just the second time a tropical storm watch has been issued in California, after Tropical Storm Hilary in August 2023 www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh...?

The “discomfort” white people feel when we discuss race is an inheritance that was taught to them. Teaching children to become complicit in the horror of enslavement and segregation is horrible too. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a masterpiece b/c it tells that story of that negotiation.

🇧🇷🏳️‍⚧️ Everyone's talking about Flávio Bolsonaro's win in the first round of Brazil's election, but don't miss the other big news the vote has brought us: Black trans MP Erika Hilton has become the most voted-for woman in the history of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies.

The Shards show is bad but the book is way worse

writing a rationalist fanfic about 'who framed roger rabbit?' but it's a series of spreadsheets and charts explaining the economic benefits of a freeway system and justifying the wholesale destruction of toontown

Target, formerly Target, has returned to Portland! I guess the appeal of the “people r steal everything” lie wore off. I will not be shopping there due to their queer phobia and racism and hope you’ll do the same. #PortlandOR

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Hiding in Plane Sight https://theonion.com/hiding-in-plane-sight/

it is an eternal point of rage for me that Woodrow Wilson is not recognized as one of the worst presidents of all time, alongside Andrew Jackson as one of the most consequentially disastrous

Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)