Jess Hardie

48 years. That's how long trans women have been eligible to compete in tennis.

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Yeah my mother used a wheelchair and some woman told her she would “love” to be able to sit all the time. My mother very firmly “you really wouldn’t” but this woman just kept insisting that she would. My mother had a wicked temper and I’m shocked she didn’t commit (justified) violence.

Striking a boat full of unarmed civilians is murder. The first strike was murder. The followup strike was also murder.

We're not at war. It's not a "war crime". Everyone involved, including the POTUS, SecDef, the Admiral who relayed it and the person who pressed the button needs to be on trial.

Yes, same! And on the one hand it might be for clicks but it can’t be all that because blame-20-somethings far predates the internet.

Also there were A LOT of articles about how Millennials spent money frivolously.

Out of a vague idea of a paper I once thought I’d write, I started a Google alert on millennials almost ten years ago now and then added Gen Z at some point. And these articles are always recycled and incoherent. Millennials killed beer, weddings, and having children before Gen Z killed shopping:

“The 6-year-old is part of a growing number of children arrested and detained by ICE, according to newly released data obtained by the Deportation Data Project through a Freedom of Information Act request. One hundred and fifty one children under the age of 18 have been arrested between January and October, with a steep increase beginning in May.”

ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.

A six year old! There is no excuse for separating a child from their parent.

For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.

Abolish Ice - ICE Out of Everywhere - Package 1 - Justseeds Communities across the U.S. are coming together and summoning their rage in the face of rising fascism. While ICE kidnappings, detentions, and deportations have increased across several cities in rece...

“This package is a response to the call on visual artists everywhere to submit graphic art that will further amplify and support existing and emerging efforts to keep our communities safe against ICE.”

Well damn. What recs do you all have for alternative search engines? Web of science?

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.

Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention. Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE. Nayra Guzmán was detained while her 15-day-old baby was in the NICU.

Nayra Guzmán was 15 days post C-section — going to see her baby in the NICU — when she was taken to Broadview and held in custody for about 34 hours.

She slept on a bench and barely got food. She couldn't pump.

Her story is a rare window into the growing detention of pregnant & postpartum people.

lol I can imagine

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

What is truly wild is the number of parents who take in Haidt’s BS uncritically and think they are well-informed. Which is the purpose of many an airport book but it gets me whenever it’s a social scientist writing one.

We’re about to live through a big cause/effect obfuscation where OpenAI will claim all these cases are just preexisting conditions coming into contact with their product, and not caused FROM interacting with their product. but I want to reemphasize the problem scope here
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Another person who started down this path from the most “innocuous” advertised uses of ChatGPT: homework help. I have been struck by the cases of people getting lost in delusions after using this product for work or school: ie the use cases we are supposed to encourage as faculty.

Absolutely. Also that Libs of TikTok tweet is hysterical because…yes, and that is completely valid.

i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life

Trump Administration Fires 8 Immigration Judges in New York

BREAKING NYT:

The Trump admin just fired eight immigration judges in New York City.

All the judges were dismissed from the immigration offices at 26 Federal Plaza — a building that houses the NYC headquarters of ICE and has become the epicenter of migrant arrests in the city.

I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”

UPDATE: After nine months of unjust detention in an Israeli prison, Mohammed has been released.

I met with his loved ones earlier this year, and I can only imagine the joy and relief they must be feeling.

Praying for his healing and recovery, after months of inhumane treatment.

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

What do these corporations have in common?

Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel

In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.

This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

Also recognize that this unambiguous use of the military to commit murder of helpless noncombatants as they fought for life is a direct reflection of the virulent white supremacy that has seized our government, where every Latino man is a gangbanger in a de facto state of war against White America

This 👇