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line in the sand: I am a single-issue voter. that issue is human rights. - for trans people - for disabled people - for immigrants - for those alleged or demonstrated to have caused harm - for EVERYONE if you can't support them for any group, you don't get my vote. period.

If the real priority was actually protecting girls from actual men who pose a risk to them in sports, it would make much more sense to advocate for banning male coaches and male doctors. And I’ve never, ever ever heard that suggestion, because that’s not really what this is about.

In this cultural moment, we simultaneously believe university professorships have so much cultural cachet that they should be given as rewards to people distinguished in other fields, but also that the actual professoriate can be hollowed out, underinvested, and turned into a parade of adjuncts.

The pettiest hill that I will die on is that if your cool character in a historical novel is rolling their eyes at social conventions, no they're not, eye-rolling didn't become a widely described gesture in English literature until the *1980s* books.google.com/ngrams/graph...

There can never be another "water under the bridge" administration ever again, and part of that is going to involve shaming everyone on board with this one - voters included - as the disgusting pig racists they are

I don’t think this is exactly what’s going on, or all that’s going on. It’s not that Republicans are constructing an elaborate psychological defense against evidence that Trump is a rapist. It’s that they like that he’s a rapist, and they like rape: it enacts the power of the strong over the weak.

So much to say about Brazil, not least of which is the role that Erika Hilton, a Black trans leader and most voted woman politician in Brazil, played in mobilizing folks for Lula. She was behind the critical, concrete, economic promise of shorter work-week. theprint.in/feature/erik...

They’re also people who can’t name another woman athlete besides Caitlin Clark

I'm not holding my breath for the ADL to comment on this "the Jewish guy is paying protesters" trope.

Well played

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

Obviously this is racist and gross, but it's also shockingly historically illiterate? No one who has taken a single high school world history course would deny that Arab culture has produced incredible science and literature. This is why we need basic humanities education.

No movement on this. Perfect still needs $290 to cover October rent. She's a disabled grandma raising two little grandsons [disabled daughter lives with her]. Her LL is a BIG problem. 8 people, $30 each, and we'll put in the last $60 if y'all get that met:

Making sure that large swathes of Biden's non-economic hires never work in a Democratic admin again is going to be a big project but one that needs to happen.

Uh I appreciate the "support devs" sentiment but criticizing fans for signing a petition about supporting the IP sounds kind of misplaced to me. "Petition convinces EA the IP is worth at least selling" sounds a lot more likely than "petition convinces EA to rehire everyone"

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

"Under Brazilian federal law, all legislators have immunity...To run for President, Bolsonaro decided not to run for his Senate seat. Now, after losing the Presidential election, he no longer has legislative immunity when his Senate term expires in January 2027." Very Special Episode of no amnesty

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

remembering years ago on twitter where i called a video of dancing robots and robot dogs scary and one of my followers threw a fit, called me a joyless luddite, and unfollowed me then blocked me some people are really just that naive, i guess

Art by @rally.luckyraven.cc btw go follow her

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remember when setting up a Windows PC took all of 30 seconds, as an end user? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Beyond a new rape allegation, the @democrats-judiciary.house.gov report implicates current Attorney General Todd Blanche, stating he "may have engaged in criminal obstruction of justice while acting on a mission to protect Trump," referring to an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell. Seems like news!

Republicans are the party of rape.

White supremacy and empire will create conditions of adversity then take it as material proof that you can't be of worth to society and are therefor less human. It will dismiss things outside that narrative because it's not about truth, it's about perception

I don't need to tell you how racist this is. You're smart enough. There are 1000 replies telling you at a bare glance this is garbage. From science to superheroes to fine art. But to the myopic views of a white supremacist, nonwhite achievements can never exist and that's universal.

it is incredibly fucko to think that if the GOP proposed being needlessly cruel and genocidal to people's housecats it would probably generate more empathy and outrage in the average cis person than they feel for actual human beings targeted just as cruelly for being trans

This is all true but I feel it gives Cass an undeserved pass as simply clueless rather than malicious. The review was a hit job to justify suppressing trans youth. See the inconsistent application of evidence standards, pathologization and pervasive cissupremacism. Also:

Question. There are state compacts for interstate recognition of medical and therapy licenses, right? Can people who get involved with this be barred from ever practicing in another state? Including non conversion practices in case the culture shifts and they ever want to whitewash their careers.

And it's a final short thread @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social with tonight's urgent local needs, three local women with emergency situations that have to be addressed NOW:

Okay, only $250 needed now. Get it up to $190 tonight, and we'll top off the final $60.

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.

it feels truly insane that it’s not

Again, San Francisco's DA and City Attorney have all sorts of laws at their disposal to shit this down but they don't seem to want to