Zoe Brain

Zoe Brain

@zoebrain.bsky.social

Intersex rocket scientist and combat system architect (retired)

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Texas Republicsn Ronnie Jackson on trans people : "We have to treat these people,” he said. “We have to get them off the streets, and we have to get them off the internet, and we can’t let them communicate with each other… this is a virus, this is a cancer that’s spreading across this country.”

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Riley Gaines literally claims on Fox News that Simone Biles is trying to ride her coattails. "They believe the intention behind this is that Simone has a new docuseries coming out on Netflix. They believe it's an attempt to put her name, her profile, her face, her image back in the public sphere."

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Replying to @monaburns.bsky.social

FBI Bongino has a common theme he returns to: Power. Bongino will assemble some form of 'goon squad' that when needed will act on his command. This is a common practice for those of his mind-set. Remember former AG Barr at the Floyd protest. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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1. A landmark study has found major flaws in the Cass Review. Almost two dozen researchers have published their takedown of Cass in the BMC Medical Research Methodology journal. This review was cited over 100 times by the HHS report. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

erininthemorning.comLandmark Report Finds Major Flaws in the Cass Review“These issues significantly undermine the validity of the Cass Review’s recommendations, such that the Review fails to fulfil its aims as commissioned and should not be used as the basis for policy.”

Things that are unthinkable today in the UK. Dana International winning Eurovision in Birmingham. (1998) Nadia Almada winning Big Brother (2004) We've regressed so far. Both are Trans women.

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1. The DOGE Committee spent 3 and a half hours on a transgender woman in USA Fencing, which takes no federal dollars. The committee has become the modern day version of the House Un-American Activities Committee. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

erininthemorning.comThe DOGE Committee Has Become the Modern-Era HUACThe DOGE Committee was chartered to fight fiscal “waste” at the federal level. Its foray into USA Fencing—which receives no federal dollars—foreshadows a much darker future.

"An intersex student’s "physiological” sex may depend entirely on which Physiological trait one chooses to privilege. Indeed, because of the diversity of medical perspectives, trained experts can and do disagree on the “correct” sex to assign to an intersex child." Gloucester School District v Grimm

Trump Toxicity has converted a projected narrow Labor win in Australia with a diminished majority, into a Right Wing Rout. The leader of the Right wing Liberal party has lost his seat. I would have preferred more Greens and fewer Labor wins, but the Culture Warring Liberals have been massacred.

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1. In major ruling out of Mississippi, the Mississippi Supreme Court now allows judges to block name changes for trans people to the age of 21. Meanwhile, 15 year old girls can change their name after being married. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

erininthemorning.comMississippi Supreme Court Allows Judge to Block Name Changes for Trans People Under 2115-year-old girls can get married in the state, but trans people may have to wait until they’re 21 years old to change their name.

The first consequence of the recent UK Supreme Court decision. "British Transport Police said trans women in custody would now be searched by male officers as an interim measure while it reviews its policies and practices."

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This is an excellent, detailed account of the known facts in the Abrego Garcia case, and why statements connecting him to MS-13 have no supporting evidence

Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social

Abrego Garcia & MS-13. What do we know? The allegation seems to stem from double hearsay in a document authored by a later suspended detective. By me, in @lawfare . www.lawfaremedia.org/article/abre...

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For years, China has controlled the export of rare earths—metals essential to products like semiconductors and lights. Now, amid a trade war with the U.S., it's tightening that grip, threatening American manufacturing and military power. But what are rare earth metals, and why are they important?

nytimes.comWhat Are Rare Earth Metals, the Exports Halted by China?China’s new restrictions on exports of the metals could have an impact on the production of everything from LED lights to fighter jets.

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weird, what could explain this

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

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The dollar crashing is great news for all of us Brits who've found the US unaffordable since Brexit, except when we try to visit we're going to be turned away at the border because we liked a tweet saying slavery was bad

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Gwynne Wilcox was fired from the NLRB, got a district court order returning her to the board, then saw a circuit court panel give the government a stay and remove her from the board again, then got an en banc panel to lift the stay and restore her to the board. Doesn't seem like a waste of time!

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1. Yesterday, in an interview with Sunday Morning Futures, Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville falsely claimed that "entire teams are turning transgender." It is the latest in a series of wild claims by Republicans about transgender people. Subscribe to support my journalism.

erininthemorning.comRepublican Senator Tuberville Falsely Claims "Entire Teams Are Turning Trans"The statement was not backed up with any factual references, and was made on Fox News Sunday Morning Futures.

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1. The Trump administration has announced a joint investigative task force between the Department of Education and Department of Justice to investigate trans students. It will target them in bathrooms and sports. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

erininthemorning.comDOE, DOJ Launch Joint Investigations Team Targeting Trans StudentsLed by a Trump sycophant and a disgraced sports media mogul, Trump’s new team seeks to snuff out trans students from sports, bathrooms and locker rooms.