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The economic consequences of major tax cuts for the rich Abstract . The last 50 years has seen a dramatic decline in taxes on the rich across the advanced democracies. There is still fervent debate in both politi

"Steuersenkungen sind wirtschaftsfreundlich"

Nein, Steuersenkungen steigern weder die Wirtschaftsleistung, noch schaffen sie Arbeitsplätze, das ist wissenschaftlich erwiesen: academic.oup.com/ser/article/...
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„Im Osten hagelt es Pleiten, eine nach der anderen“: Die AfD ist plötzlich Wahlverlierer Eine ungewöhnliche Überschrift? Ja, und das liegt auch an Medien, findet unser Autor. Diese müssten die kommunalen Misserfolge der Rechten genauso transportieren wie ihre Siege.

Von wegen „Blaue Welle“: die #NoAfD verliert in den Kommunen gerade eine Wahl nach der anderen.

Die Medien sollten die Legende vom ungebrochenen Erfolg der Rechtsextremen nicht selbst verstärken.

Denn wenn wir Demokraten eigene Themen setzen - statt die AfD-Agenda zu übernehmen - gewinnen wir.

Nachtrag: Ursprung und Chronologie einer Radikalisierung.

mom told me i was beautiful for the first time in my life 😭😭😭😭

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Neue Episode zu Trumps Kriegserklärung an Demokratische Städte, Pete Hegseths Kreuzzug, alle aus dem Militär zu entfernen, die keine weißen, heterosexuellen christlichen Männer sind - und weshalb sein Krieger-Cosplay gleichzeitig lächerlich und brandgefährlich ist.
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Männer, die heute Machtpositionen besetzen (oder NZZ-Artikel schreiben) sind alle mit Geschichts, Deutsch- (+ ggf. Latein-) Unterricht aufgewachsen, in denen es um kaum was anderes ging als Männer+Kriege.
Und jetzt wollen viele Krieg spielen, weil sie denken, das ist das, was «richtige» Männer tun.

As the economy lists toward stagflation, the White House is not doing “state capitalism” so much as it’s doing “step-on-a-rake capitalism”—a tragicomic bungling of economic growth that fails to advance the very objectives it claims to prioritize. (Derek Thompson)

the caveat that BE makes here is that he doesn't "think this about non-anonymous people at all". the thing is, trans people don't owe anyone a public-facing profile. at a time when it's not safe to be out publicly for many trans people, many of us stay anonymous, even online. BE is just awful here.

not going to give the economist clicks today but the fact that folks are STILL publishing concern troll thinkpieces about "youth detransition rates" during this moment of extreme anti-trans escalation is proof that the libs & centrists were never sincere, they were always eager fascist collaborators

This is what genitally-obsessed bigotry leads to. None of us are safe from their reckless disregard for the law or common courtesy.

Haaretz Artikel. Israel News 'I Saw the Bodies of Children': Moral Injury and Mental Strain Breaking IDF Soldiers Rechts eine Zeichnung. Blutroter Himmel mit weißem Vollmond. Zerstörte Gebäude, ein einzelner Mensch steht mittendrin. Unten mittig auf einer etwas helleren Stelle liegt die Kleidung sowie das Gewehr eines*einer Soldat*in. Illustration: Aron Ehrlich Long stints in Gaza's combat zones is leaving many mentally exhausted. Others can no longer take the arbitrary killing. Sources estimate thousands of conscript soldiers have already left the front lines with no intention of going back, with the numbers constantly rising - Tom Levinson, September 16, 2025

CN Erschießungen (auch von Kindern) / Trauma / PTBS / Selbstverstümmelung / Suizid

Long read aber empfiehlt sich komplett zu lesen. Über die absolute Kaltblütigkeit einiger Befehlshaberinnen gegenüber den eigenen Soldatinnen, Zivilist*innen, und (fehlenden) Umgang mit Trauma.

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I'm so tired of the pretense that gender-critical gay people are "the silent majority" instead of fucking weirdos who weren't doing any better in putatively cis-only spaces and who just latched onto a fucking excuse to blame their own off-putting non-appealing personalities on I'm so fucking sorry

Trans People and Sports: Everything You Need to Know I have been writing about transgender people and issues for over twenty years now. For most of that time, I never felt the need to pen a…

...dear Dem politicians & pundits, 1) the sports debate was never a serious issue, it was merely a wedge to launder in anti-trans policies (see: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...), 2) they are now going after trans ppl's *rights to exist* – that's where the battle is now! take a side in that!

one of the cruelest things about normalized transmisogyny that it almost feels taboo to talk about is how often children are cut out of our lives. i adore children and they love me because i treat them like real people. but i almost never get to interact with them solely because i’m a trans woman.

Taking political positions that'll make it more likely to win Senate seats in Kansas and Ohio and Missouri. Trying to open your coalition to people you didn't want it open to before. Running pro-life Democrats.

Constitutional Amendment 3 November 5, 2024 Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative Choice Yes X No Results Votes 1,538,659 1,443,022 % 51.60% 48.40%

Issue 1 November 7, 2023 Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety(1] Results Choice Votes % & Yes 2,227,384 56.78% No 1,695,480 43.22% Total votes 3,922,864 100.00%

2022 Kansas abortion referendum KANSAS August 2, 2022 Should there be no Kansas constitutional right to abortion or to require the government funding of abortion, and reserve to the people of Kansas, through their elected state legislators, the right to pass laws to regulate abortion, including, but not limited to, in circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest, or when necessary to save the life of the mother? Results Choice Votes % • Yes 385,014 40.84% X No 557,837 59.16% Total votes 942,851 100.00% Registered voters turnout 1,929,972 48.85%

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

I strongly suspect that most people know more trans people than they think they do… but because most trans people don’t walk around going “oh btw I’m trans” then they have no reason to assume they would be anything other than cis.

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How save is it currently for non-cis-passing trans women to use women's toilets in the UK? I'll be traveling to London next week and am thus kind of worried 😟

This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.

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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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"I was only pretending to be transphobic haha btw sex is immutable"

The Pissed Off Lawyer @legaltweetz: "You know, I have complex beliefs about all of this at this point. I also never thought I changed sex, I still recognize that I’m a biological woman, and tbh there’s just no path backwards in terms of reverse medicalization :man-shrugging:"

"No path backwards"? What am I then, chopped liver?

But I suppose it's just like a man not to take women seriously

Of course, how can anyone, who isn't a man like him, dare to challenge him?

Not even slightly surprised that Corbyn is harder on Sultana than he is on rabid transphobes he pals up with

Hab "IL" zuerst als Illinois gelesen und war dann kurz verwirrt, als Jordanien erwähnt wurde 🫣

I can’t say it enough times - Everything hinges on trans rights.

If you need self-interest:

Cis ladies, do you like yoga pants and voting and guys in eyeliner?

Cis dudes, do you like glam rock, metal, and Katharine Hepburn?

Trans rights are our rights. Trans rights are your rights.

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

Hey @ezraklein.bsky.social, how are we supposed to live with an entire political party calling to forcefully mass institutionalize an entire group of people?

Your rhetoric only makes sense if you concede that entire groups of people are expendable because you don't want to make any sacrifices.

Two Republican Congresspeople Call For Institutionalization Of Transgender People Representatives Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson both called for the institutionalization of transgender people On Tuesday.

1. Anti-trans rhetoric heated up yesterday on the far-right, with two congresspeople and major Republican figures calling for the institutionalization of trans people.

Both Reps Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson made such calls. Musk, Loomer, and Walsh echoed them.

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