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This is eminently reasonable, extremely well-argued, and essential reading. Erin is correct about all of this, and it is doubly urgent given what we've seen in the UK. 2026 is the time to correct the Dems about this. 2028 may be too late.

Not shocking. These bans are as much about keeping men and women in their "proper" places as anything else. After all, what does it say about the naturalness of male hegemony if men can just be women (and vice versa). Or worse yet, lose physical competitions to them.

This would be a great answer if what he said immediately after wasn't cut out. Next he's asked about sports and says he doesn't want "biological males" competing against his 12 year old granddaughter and hurting her. Literally using his next sentence to bully 12 year old trans girls.

Lord, I see that you gave El-Sayed the balls to reject the premise of a bad-faith GOP argument and I want that for other Democrats.

I was going to say cameras because a digital SLR in the 90s took pictures as well as a potato and cost the same as compact car. But now we've come full circle with Flock and pervert glasses and I sort of wish we had to go back to film.

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The way the rich can just buy a politician nowadays is disgusting. The amount of money Musk spent on this race is unfathomable to most people. If Paxton wins, Musk will own him. Bought and paid for, pure and simple. I am glad somebody is pointing this shit out.

Vote NO on I-638: No state-mandated bullying and genital exams for girls youth sports! #SEAbikes #Seattle

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Ysabel Yates'... I mean Cookie Monster's superb takedown of why GenAI in the workplace sucks.

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

Why do so many democratic candidates find this so hard? Forstag sounds reasonable here: everybody deserves freedom and dignity, let parents and doctors make care decisions, let leagues make their own rules, and keep government out of it. His opponent sounds like the raving weirdo.

I'm taking my "Norway's wealth tax didn't reduce tax revenue" victory lap.

Great article. Pay "can remain low as long as a white person is proud to be white, as long as they see themselves represented in houses of power, on corporate boards, in the top ranks of the army, in statues on statehouse lawns ... [and others] are seen to suffer in some way because of their color."

Don't know why the discover tab thinks I am into bears. Like burly hairy gay man bears. It used push random muscle bear thirst traps. Now it's just random selfies of gray-bearded older gentleman bears. I have never sought out either of these things, but if I had to choose I think I'd go back to smut

“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

Now do Amy Acton. I want to also say, Equality Ohio and other progressive dem orgs weakness on holding Amy Acton’s feet to the fire is what lead to Marcy Kaptur feeling emboldened to proceed with her own anti-trans ad.

Political winds do not only flow from voters to politicians, they go in reverse as well. Democrats running ads like these signal to the general public and their voter base that this issue now has support by both parties, and that hating trans people is publicly acceptable. They do harm to us.

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Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

Underrated point here: when you alienate your base, you're not just losing votes. You're losing people who would campaign for you. Who would phone bank for you, knock on doors for you, tell their friends and family to vote for you. Is the hypothetical genital-obsessed centrist gonna do all that?

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When Democrats attempt to triangulate on trans rights, it's my sense that many liberals and people in politics don't understand why many trans people are so upset. I wrote about the differences between then and now, what trans people have lost, and what we still stand to lose

i don't care what the issue is, if your election opponent is running millions of dollars in ads about one single issue, you cannot, under any circumstances, say that your opponent is right about the issue.

The point is that it's not going to stop with sports. They are using this seemingly ✌🏾reasonable✌🏾 argument about sports to scaffold other forms of discrimination against trans people writ large and cis women too! Conservatives want to push all women out of sports ultimately. What's more:

Good job, Seattle Times Editorial Board. Excluding trans girls from sports (or telling them they have to play with boys, which is the same thing) is ritual humiliation. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/edit...

This is a story about men harassing women. It's being sold to the public as a story about conservatives protecting women, but it's the opposite of that.

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We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

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In other news, NCAA president Charlie Baker has announced that a special task force will be commissioned to study canine participation in college basketball in response to an online outcry over the movie Air Bud.

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Whats worse... A single Democratic loss in a statewide race to a right-wing governor? Or a Democratic Party win in Ohio that uses transphobia to get there, teaching dems across the country that this is a new acceptable tactic? The latter results in no party left to fight for us.

Good thread about why Democrats' silence on trans issues in the face of Republican attacks did not help them. Dems would have been viewed more favorably if they had actually pushed back. And in their silence, they allowed Rs to sway opinions and push anti-trans lies deeper into the public psyche.

Already seeing advice from punditocracy that Dems ought to tack to the right to (ironically) raise the saliency and affirm the positions of Republicans on so-called "cultural issues." Let's ask Keir Starmer how well this worked - I hear he has loads of free time.

posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch

CEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt

More evidence as to why you might choose to care about things like cameras and surveillance, this time co-written by renowned security technologist Bruce Schneier.

So, this is in print now. Title pretty much says it all. virginialawreview.org/articles/abo...