BFSCR

A folk logic about it is starting to develop. People may not understand the monopolies and geopolitics of renewable energy at a gradual level. But they can see data centers, hear data centers, and read their electric bill statements. They are angry.

That's right. You got no leg to stand on, Newsom supporters. Shut your hole. We don't need anti trans anti homeless greaseball shit. North Carolina is purple, it's not some blue stronghold.

Moderate approaches have either failed, or are now too small a response to the problem, and that's just for climate change, let alone all the fascists

They're great for marking books before you loan them out

Drillers cannot increase production quickly enough to solve an oil supply crisis caused by Donald Trump’s war in Iran, industry bosses have warned, saying a big rise in output would take months to materialise. ft.trib.al/6JmcOUA

dem primary voters want their elected officials to despise republicans

In other words, he is hiding like a coward.

I don't know exactly what calculations went into the timing of her announcement, but I think waiting till the last minute was really not the best choice for her campaign.

despite all his rage he is still just a rat in this cage we call increasing irrelevance in a world that has grown beyond him amid the looming specter of mortality that claims us all

NOT JUST THIS:

Two other Democratic lawmakers in North Carolina who sided with the GOP to overturn vetoes of major bills (e.g. anti-trans legislation) are also losing in their primaries so far to progressive challengers.

This could be a major night in NC.

Wow: In the early vote, it's a blow-out *so far*.

Rodney Sadler, the progessive pastor and activist, leads state Representative Carla Cunningham 75% to 18%.

(Stay tuned as we see how the Election Day vote compares, but that's an ominous start for the incumbent.)

Context:

People hate this shit! Stop listening to American Psycho characters and consultant freaks who have been mad about losing their casting couches once they started looking like Skeletor!

Sad news for Mayor Whitmire

it's so cool that it looks like our best chance to dump this corrupt right wing asshole (Cuellar) was thwarted by nancy fucking pelosi

Dan Crenshaw had essentially the same trajectory as Marjorie Taylor Greene, most racist Facebook friend you know from high school to congress to nothing, but he didn't even get the assertion of personal integrity out of the deal

I'd forgotten he was the one who introduced the 'non custodial parents can't be barred from school access' bill 🤢

Garbage network looks at trash

New CENTCOM Statement Ignores Airstrike Killings Of Nearly 200 Children And Educators In Iran New CENTCOM Statement Ignores Airstrike Killings Of Nearly 200 Children And Educators In Iran

U.S.-Israeli strikes have damaged multiple Iranian hospitals and schools.

Best part of all of this is that Jasmine Crockett's successor in the House will be a Black pastor who called Israel an apartheid state in Oct 2023

If you're against criminalizing sharing food with people in public, remember to vote against Annise Parker #FoodNotBombs

Why Can't Top Democrats Just Say "No War With Iran"? The response to what could be the biggest geopolitical disaster of the 21st century is foot-dragging, silence, and sleepy, feigned opposition long after the deed is done.

The stakes could not be higher. The US-Israeli war on Iran is catastrophic—and rapidly expanding across the region. Yet Democratic leaders are failing to muster a clear, anti-war response. Instead it's sleepy, feigned opposition after the deed is done. By me and @ahjohnson.bsky.social

The idea that someone tells a kid "I think you might be trans" and they're immediately and permanently transformed into the opposite sex is so far from reality it might as well come from Oz (where that actually does happen, Oz rules)

also... SO FUCKING WHAT? sometimes people flirt with the possibility, try out new pronouns, go through the effort of coming out and then go eh, that doesn't quite fit and nobody's putting them out on the ice floes for it. what's wrong with allowing people to be unsure, experiment, explore, dabble?

I mean this sincerely, is The Atlantic good for anything else? People don't directly call it a better written Daily Mail, but only ever talk about it like it's just a better written Daily Mail.

He basically writes this same exact article every year, going back to at least 2022 when he had it published in Newsweek (and had it shared by Rowling).

Discussion about trans people is so desperately locked down that these poor skeptics have been reduced to spreading their brave heterodox views through long articles obscure, niche outlets like the Atlantic, New York Times, and every right-of-center media outlet on the planet.

“They may say a lot about this real problem, but they say nothing about this fake problem. How interesting.”

It was in those spaces, in the late 2010s, that I realized that the fundamentalist Christians I’d grown up with weren’t the only people enforcing rigid ideas about how others should think. After arriving in New York with mainstream Democratic views, I took classes heavy on critical theories that fixated on identity categories and reflexively decried capitalism and the West. Within influential LGBTQ organizations, gay rights had given way to radical queer politics, and academic theories about sex and gender had hardened into doctrine. Widespread revulsion toward Donald Trump had narrowed the boundaries of permissible discussion on the left. The more Trump and his followers opposed something, the more we were supposed to support it. The prevailing view was that any debate within our side would become ammunition for the right.

For a long time, I feared that if I didn’t keep my thoughts to myself, I would lose the only community I’d ever really belonged in. As controversy flared up nationally about pediatric gender medicine, though, I started voicing concerns, rooted in my own experiences, over what looked to me like a rush to medical treatment. For all the sloganeering about protecting trans kids, I heard no discussion about protecting effeminate gay boys from unnecessary medicalization. When I and others asked whether progressive norms might be nudging effeminate gay boys to think of themselves as girls, no one wanted to hear it. Instead of answers, we were given the LGBTQ community’s official line. “Gender identity and sexual orientation are two different things,” the Human Rights Campaign asserts. But the confidence with which people claim that the two have nothing to do with each other is hard to square with research findings: According to data collected mostly before the recent surge in pediatric-dysphoria diagnoses, most prepubescent children who experienced gender distress went on to experience same-sex attraction and ultimately did not pursue a gender transition. Of 70 adolescents whom Dutch clinicians subjected to puberty suppression from 2000 to 2008, the overwhelming majority were attracted exclusively to people of their biological sex.

Straightforward right-wing agitprop. The idea that thousands of kids were pushed into gender-affirming surgeries because the left shuts down debate is a laughable conspiracy theory. The overwhelming social pressure is to be cis, not trans!

This has been part of the trans-kids moral panic for years, gay adults going "If I grew up now, they'd convince me I'm trans."

If your movement had real evidence, you wouldn't be pointing to alternative-universe hypotheticals! Child psychologists know the difference between gay kids and trans kids

In Defense of Effeminate Boys If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded. By Ben Appel

If medical authorities have a rigorous way of distinguishing effeminate boys from transgender kids—or of distinguishing transgender kids from proto-gay kids—they aren’t saying. I have met a number of detransitioned gay men who tried to live as women for a time because they and their families were so averse to homosexuality. According to a 2019 report in The Times of London, staffers at Britain’s foremost gender-identity clinic joked darkly that, as a result of the facility’s work, “there would be no gay people left.” A statement last month by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons noted that there is no validated way to assess whether a child’s gender distress will persist over time or disappear without medical intervention. A lack of good research and recordkeeping means that we may never know how many patients who would have been considered effeminate gay boys not so long ago have undergone medical treatments for gender dysphoria.

Absolute trash. The author did not speak to a single medical professional and the article does not contain a shred of evidence that effeminate gay boys are being bamboozled into thinking they're trans.
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