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American Psychological Association Reaffirms Support For Trans Youth Care, Pushes Back Against NYT A recent article from Jesse Singal in the New York Times seemed to indicate the organization might be quietly retreating from supporting trans youth care.

1. Major news on trans youth care. The American Psychological Association has reaffirmed its full support for its 2024 guidelines supporting trans youth car.e

It provided documentation showing Jesse Singal mischaracterized their position in the NYT.

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Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

It’s great (derogatory) that you can work very hard to find out something incredibly important, and the main response you will get is a derisive “Gee, I’m shocked.”

Somebody has to ACTUALLY DO THIS WORK! You can’t pursue justice by going “Your honor: I mean, duh.”

“We never intended this,” he said weakly. “Honestly. No offense. We just wanted what was due to us.”
A skeletal hand patted him on the shoulder, not unkindly.
And Death said, CONGRATULATIONS.

if anyone is tempted to briefly hand it to John Roberts remember that he is about to finish his life’s work of destroying the Voting Rights Act and save yourself the trouble

once again we are

Holy fuck! 🧪

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Reese’s grandson accuses Hershey of degrading chocolate, making it ‘not edible.’ Is he right? H.B. Reese spent two years at Hershey before leaving to form his own company and inventing Reese's Peanut Butter Cups in 1928. His grandson says Reese's is ruining that legacy by cutting corners.

Truly the hero we need.

H.B. Reese is waging a one-man war on Hershey’s for ruining his grandfather’s legacy (and his Peanut Butter Eggs) 🍫

share.inquirer.com/xYjxA3

Madow did a whole piece last week listing all the places where local organizers had spiked the deals on detention facilities, and it's quiet and spread out and not getting a ton of attention but every fucking one is a hero.

2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

Huge announcement: Girl Scouts on our trans girl scout cookies list have sold 250,000!!!!!! Boxes of girl scout cookies, a record for EITM's trans girl scout cookie drive.

Some have only sold 20 boxes though. I put those at the top of the list.

Lets close out this season and make their day! :)

"The Crime of Witness" by Fintan O’Toole in @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

"The videos that expose the administration’s mendacity about its own use of extreme violence against peaceful dissent are themselves products of the courage to show up [and] see for yourself."

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

What One Man’s 45-Year-Old Case Tells Us About the “Jim Crow Juries” Haunting Louisiana Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in 1980s Louisiana, when nonunanimous juries were still legal, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life — even though the...

Louisiana has refused to reconsider the convictions of 1,000+ mostly Black men sentenced by split juries, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2020 that such convictions are unconstitutional and based on an inherently racist law.

By @richardawebster.bsky.social

Publishers Marketplace book deal notice, which reads “Author of PARTISANS and Director of the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Center for the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University Nicole Hemmer's IMPUNITY, a history of how the American right has systematically destroyed political accountability over the last 50 years, in a deliberate, decades-long campaign to protect power and privilege, to Brian Distelberg at Basic, by Lisa Adams at The Garamond Agency.”

Breaking my social media hiatus to share some good news! I’ve just signed a deal with Basic Books for my next book, Impunity, which uncovers the right’s decades-long effort to destroy political accountability and protect their friends in power. I’m so excited for this one!

Mike Johnson Is Very Annoyed By the Fourth Amendment’s Existence For a constitutional lawyer, the House Speaker sounds alarmingly unfamiliar with how the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement works.

In our view, "constitutional lawyers" should know that the Fourth Amendment exists

🧵: Between this and the Swedish study resulting in that autism rates in girls and boys are largely equal, but girls are STILL misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed, seeing research validate your experiences is a very surreal experience, esp. as an autistic woman.

Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies. 
 
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York. 
 
 Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice

1-on-1 with Flavor Flav: USA bobsled & skeleton’s hype man | CNN As the Winter Olympics continue, meet USA bobsled and skeleton’s official hype man, Flavor Flav. The rapper and reality TV star joins CNN’s Coy Wire in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy to talk about Team USA ...

Hi from Italy,!! 🇮🇹

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Can’t believe we are still doing this

#notallnonfiction but yes

If you walk into a man’s apartment and you don’t see ANY books, pick up your pussy and LEAVE!!! Go back outside!!!

When your post is based on a 9 month old tweet and a storyline too racist for the Daily Mail, maybe leave it in the drafts Debra

going to take the brave public stance of saying that we don’t need a profile on a minor bret easton elllis character

As much as I love a deep dive into cochrane reviews or whatever, sometimes it's nice to just go MEET 👏 THIS 👏 ASSHOLE 👏

I love this kind of episode

🔥 REP. @aoc.bsky.social IN MUNICH: “Extreme levels of inequality lead to a sense of instability and drive the ascent of authoritarianism… we have to have a working class-centered politics if we’re going to succeed and stave off the scourge of authoritarianism.”

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bro... bro. do you really think the average trans person can't tell the difference between well-intentioned ignorance and transphobia? between someone trying their best but putting their foot in it, and someone acting out of hatred or bigotry towards us? bro. come on. be so serious right now bro

I know I’m fixating, but “shooting down party balloons and using it as a pretext for war” is literally the “99 Luftballons” story arc. 🎈🤯 (Even “Miami 2017” didn’t map this closely.)

Excellent thread from @kjcharleswriter.com on the ever-evolving book club scams. The fake websites and Discords I covered in my report last year are now looking even more professional.

Another reason to hate the so-called generative AI systems. 1/
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