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UK Trans Swimmer Races Topless to Protest Competing as Male Anne Isabella Coombes says her topless protest highlights the flaws in Swim England’s transgender athlete ban.

How did I miss this story of resistance? #trans

The Speaker of the House: “We are not at war, we have no intention of being at war.”
Imagine if another country bombed us and killed our President while saying they are not at war with us.
This is insanity.

No bullshit prediction: Within 18 months, Noem will be speaking at straight-up nazi rallies. Patriot Front, Atomwaffen, shit like that. She won't succeed at that either, but that's the route she'll go.

One reason that people are overlooking when they try to figure out why Trump started this war: Because he could. Trump is a child, and he has a bunch of toy soldiers. He wants to make them fight before they're taken away in 2029. Don't give him credit for thinking beyond "I can do war so I will."

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Ousts Noem as Homeland Security Secretary

We knew #Noem would be a fallguy. Now he appoints a more dangerous sycophant.

How Homophobia Gets Weaponized Against Female Athletes If a culture considers it bad for a woman to be a lesbian, that accusation becomes an effective method of controlling women who don't conform to stereotypes.

What we're seeing with the treatment of the US #women'shockeyteam fits with how women who excel in sports are treated

Anger as Trump FDA retreats from plan to ban artificial colors in food Experts say new labeling could deceive consumers as dangerous substances still allowed under new rules

And people still believe anything they claim. Here again, it's a scam to make money for the Epstein class

On #ValentinesDay

Is there a source for this?

Yes for #Minneapolis

Why 'Heated Rivalry' Feels Like Such a Fever Dream of a World We Don't Quite Live In How our money-driven sports culture, with its focus on winners and losers, trades actual play for a basket of phobias and encourages LGBTQ+ players to opt out.

#HeatedRivalry had to be an imported series written by a woman and the demographic, not surprisingly, is women. That's why it stands out in the midst of US-style masculinity

See scenes from Kansas City’s protests against ICE as part of nationwide wave Kansas Citians showed up at several protests, joining nationwide rallies against recent ICE tactics.

Kansas City turns out in the below freezing temperatures for more than one anti-ICE thugs rally yesterday.

In These Trying Times, Let's Not Soon Forget This Bishop's Courageous Example As Bishop Budde's choice to speak truth to power illustrates, courage rests in those decisive moments whether we choose to go or stay, or to change or persevere.

Just over one year ago, a Bishop modeled something that's in all of us.

See BS

Giving away your #Nobel prize should be understood as the awardee turning it down. The Nobel Committee should now award a replacement prize for 2025

Here's One Cultural Assimilation That LGBTQ+ People Can Do Without If it’s bad to be old, then what does that do to the self-esteem of us all as every single one of us without exception inevitably moves to that wretched place?

If it’s bad to be old, then what does that do to the self-esteem of us all as every single one of us without exception inevitably moves to that wretched place?

Why We Need Liberal Religion To Leave Its Self-Imposed Closet Now The signs are all there. Liberal church bodies are fighting back. Every so often in the past they did so, but now the open, unholy marriage of extreme right-wing bigotry, its political proponents, and...

"Liberal religion hasn’t often acted as if it really believed what it does. It’s too often been hesitant to stand firmly, publicly and boldly on the alternative vision it offers. It’s been too hesitant to speak up and proudly claim that right-wing theology is plain wrong...."

Hasn't this already happened with the #SupremeCourt?

The #Christmas stories are subversive, #liberal, #progressive

Will We Ever Break Free of the 'Straight' Ideal? The straight role is meant to turn America’s little boys into warriors. It defines teamwork as a group of men getting together to beat, defeat or kill other men

It's the same old “scared straight” that we are now seeing proudly performed and rewarded by the U.S. President, the Secretary of Defense and the rest of his regime, the president’s brown shirts in ICE, their sycophants, and those captivated enough to vote for these paragons of straightness?

What Is It That Keeps Everyday People Stuck in the Culture War Against Transgender People? The unwillingness to even imagine the struggles, fears, humanity, threats to and needs of transgender/nonbinary folks is about so much more than transgenderism.

The unwillingness to even imagine the struggles, fears, humanity, threats to and needs of #transgender/nonbinary folks is about so much more than transgenderism.

New York Times Sues Pentagon Over First Amendment Rights

What got into the #NYTimes? Actually standing up for freedom of the press?

They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression

Donny’s "wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the MAGA evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression," writes The Guardian's Bill McKibben.