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trump asking zohran about universal free childcare

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These are real images of exoplanets.

Four super-Jupiters, imaged 10 times over 12 years around a star 133 lightyears away.

These are real, giant worlds, out there in the dark.

And we can see them.

Happy Giant Phallus Shaped Iceberg Floating In Conception Bay of Dildo, Canada Day to all who celebrate.

Not sure how many examples we need of standing up to them not just being the right thing to do, but also the best outcome

this is legitimately evil

😏😏😏

JK Rowling in hell, laughing in a very evil way

jk rowling: just gonna post a photo that makes it clear i’m the good person in this situation

the photo:

Trans people are just people. They deserve dignity & safety. You’re maintaining a perspective full of contradictions. Separate but equal has never led anywhere good. I used to feel similarly to you until I took the time to listen to trans people’s stories. I hope you have a change of heart one day.

Senator, I say this with the greatest respect: Holy fucking shit.

Thank you.

Im engaging here because I can see your timeline and I feel like we have a lot of shared values. I am trying to tell you that you’re not protecting, you’re harming, with this line of thinking. You can’t “stand up” for one trans woman while enabling systems and policies that oppress her.

Can you share that evidence? Major medical orgs and research studies consistently show that trans-inclusive policies don't increase safety risks even a little. I just looked again and I could find ZERO credible examples of a trans woman preying on a cis women in a women only space.

am I very frog now

a black and white drawing of a frog with glasses and a pencil writing on a lil notepad. text reads “tell me all your thoughts on frogs”

please

That is a straw man argument. That’s like white people being “nervous” to share a pool with Black people. There is no evidence trans women make women’s only spaces any less safe. I understand you might not be very familiar with trans people. Take some time to listen to them. They are just people.

When someone advocates for policies that have been SHOWN to cause harm to a specific community, despite that community's feedback and contrary evidence from experts, it goes beyond just 'speaking out for a view.' It's choosing to ignore the experiences and safety of an entire group of humans.

Twitter post/pohoto from JK Rowling who sits on what looks like yacht, taking a puff of what looks like a cigar. She holds a cocktail close to her face and looks smug as fuck. Text on tweet: I love it when a plan comes together. #SupremeCourt #WomensRights.

Text on screen: our.moral.imperative British billionaire JK Rowling has posted several gloating tweets today after the UK Supreme Court ruled that only 'biological women' legally count as women, excluding trans women from legal protections and safeguards. Rowling's vicious smear campaign against trans people in Britain has been going on for several years now and has played a major role in cultivating the extremely hostile and toxic environment that exists in the country towards trans people, particularly in the name of liberal 'feminism'. @fight_for_a_future @rowllingofficial

You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.

"The moral of Niemöller’s poem, then, isn’t really 'speak up even if you aren’t in danger.' It’s 'speak up, even when the Nazis threaten marginalized groups that you yourself despise.' Fascists do take advantage of indifference and apathy to some degree. But they also build on widespread prejudice."

I have really good news to announce to everyone.

Because of our reporting and many readers contacting Planned Parenthood of Arizona, the organization will NOT over comply with Trump, and is restarting its trans adult care.

Good work everyone.

Wilmer only found out his son had been detained after receiving a phone call on March 15 from his nephew, Luis, who lives with them. That morning was their last time together; they had gone around the corner to do their laundry. Later that day, Wilmer said that his son met with a friend to get help with some errands at the American Red Cross. He learned this from Luis, who looked at the situation from inside the apartment: when his son was on his way back, just steps from his home when ICE agents stopped him. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'” That moment marked the beginning of Wilmer’s search for answers — answers he’s still waiting for.

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.

An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."

The other said, "Take him anyway."

So they did.

1,100 pieces against trans people in just 4 papers over 1 year. Almost 1 a day per paper. With absolutely no recourse at all. Is it any wonder that trans people are both angry and terrified?

No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found An internal memo, prepared before Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE, raises doubts about the Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.

This Tufts student was grabbed off the street, cuffed and taken out of state solely because she co-wrote a completely respectful oped in the student paper.

And Rubio’s State Dept now admits they have nothing more damning than that.

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A lot of time was spent “debating” the angle of his arm, and “Roman” vs “Nazi” instead of any work being done to connect the dots for people on his very real, documented pattern of platforming neonazis, repeating of white supremacist “replacement” conspiracies and eugenics talking points

There's a vast gulf between trans and cis understanding of what it means for a trans sex worker to say she needed to sell sex to pay for surgery.

We read that the same as if a diabetic said they needed to sell sex to pay for insulin. Cis people still see our medical needs as frivolous, a choice.

demand it be held to a high standard and implemented correctly. Now it's just GONE, and they're using "DEI" as an excuse to do bonkers things like erase trans people from Stonewall, or delete photos of the Tuskegee airmen. I think it's a HUGE loss and America is less great bc of it. Ty again :)

Is it 100% perfect in all applications, definitely not -- esp. as you pointed out there may be places where they are completely missing the point and hiring based on quotas (which is illegal lol). But that's why we SHOULD fund it, and

It encourages critical thinking around what's really necessary to do the job, and helps employees identify where and why they might have biases. Even small ones, even "positive" ones. It encourages merit over networking and connections. Standardized interviews and performance measurement. etc.

of interview questions proactively to EVERY candidate so those w/ neurodivergence or learning differences don't have to out themselves and ask for accommodation, which can trigger biases in hiring managers too.

Thank you too!

It's really just very small actions that add up. It looks like training and education to help hiring managers, interviewers and recruiters learn about unconscious biases. It suggests removing names/genders from resumes when you're reviewing them, and providing written copies

Dismantling programs instead of improving them won't lead to true merit-based hiring. "Diversity is good but not like THAT" misses the point that conservatives are lying in bad faith about what DEI even is, just like "CRT".