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How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

i think it's better ngl

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Oh wow, I hadn't even realized that they made an arrest in this case.

I'm no expert in Brazilian politics, but it really seems like Lula is pulling the country back from the brink.

“Stateside” is now PinkPantheress’ highest peaking single on Global Spotify (#2).

It surpasses “Boy’s a liar Pt. 2” (#3).

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Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.

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there's this tension between "you need to take popular positions on salient issues" and "you should build tech infrastructure" when the average person *hates* that infrastructure and thinks it's causing their bills to go up at triple digit rates

the thing is that the pro israel coalition against "islamoleftism" misses that the islamoleftist myth is just the (profoundly antisemitic) great replacement theory with a post oct 7 rebrand

catholic socialist but woke

Issue 101 – Bought and paid for Bitcoin is down 50%, several prominent industry figures have been uncovered in the Epstein files, Trump’s facing a probe into his family’s $500M deal with the UAE, and crypto super PACs spend their fi...

Newsletter: Bitcoin is down 50%, several prominent industry figures have been uncovered in the Epstein files, Trump’s facing a probe into his family’s $500M deal with the UAE, and crypto super PACs spend their first $6 million in the midterms.

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Ana Kasparian & @AnaKasparian Hey, bitch, the goyim are waking the fuck up. Deal with it. 9:41 PM • Feb 25, 2026 - 361.1K Views

I'll be honest with you. I see stuff like Platner QTing a holocaust denier and Ana aggressively posting "goyim are waking up," and I try to spin it into something satirical and humorous, but I think of the lovely and vulnerable, completely innocent Jews of this country, and I'm filled with terror.

a race between how quickly the ellisons can bankrupt all those film studios with terrible business decisions, gigantic piles of debt and legal liability, and the looming ai euphoria market correction, and how quickly they just abandon democracy altogether

the real risk of the paramount merger isn't that they use the studio to be an effective propaganda tool for reactionary politics. we're all too familiar with the smashing success of whiskey fridays on that front. it's what happens when they realize they can't tell people what to believe

Looking at a woman's instagram posts like they're the entrails of a goat to divine how much she gets around is breaking new grounds in incel shit

gavin newsom is a composite based on multiple competing california politicians

I was just talking with my mom about why Anne Frank's diary is so important. They agree

Something to remember is this instance of disenchantment is a test run and exists in the context of the President stating in plain terms that everyone who does not support his and his party's agenda is an un-American traitor who is not a legitimate part of the polity.

I like how Shen Yun is China before Communism and now the CCP has put up their own version of it that's dancing robots

sadly this also means that the most important qualification for speaking in public is "being attractive"

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It's kind of insane how his radicalziing moment was that stupid boomer controversy about John Kerry's military record

Conversation Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin · 23h She—just tweeted it right out. @grok is there anything in the Constitution that lets us deport the libs to South Africa? Be super creative. Use ultrathink Quote Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil · Feb 22 Replying to @hecubian_devil Like on the left we fundamentally don’t care about ‘crime,’ it’s morally uninteresting to us—it’s just a thing that happens in the world, like the weather, so we are willing to excuse mentally people for theft, violence, etc. Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil Curtis you can’t tell that I’m critiquing this tendency even though I’m framing it in plainly ungenerous terms, because you lack theory of mind because you are a mental toddler 4:12 PM · Feb 25, 2026 · 14K Views https://x.com/hecubian_devil/status/2026767303803600981

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I'm not certain how British media managed to find such an absolutely corrosive bunch of columnists, but it really is a particularly vile crop nowadays.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.