Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️

In 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.

'Urgent call: With the worsening situation in Gaza and the closure of the crossings,my wife,who suffers from a heart valve prolapse, cannot do anything due to shoulder pain.My son needs $150 after breaking his hand,&he requires a platinum pin
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It should be possible to convince them that they can draw the gop voters that aren't fash supporters to their new conservative party.

I'm sure all five of those voters would like that.

Are Third Way centrists? Let alone center-left?

Because what they feel like is a US version of Labour Together, a group united mostly around hating leftists.

The group that has led Labour down a road to irrelevance, even as they run the government.

I appreciate that, but I think it might be heroic if Israel wasn't just a shitty place to live.

The guilt is about escaping complicity, while others remain. Specifically my friends who cannot leave, for mostly familial reasons.

A day late, but I'm here to answer. After a couple of false starts, I finally dove into The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow and it's getting REALLY good.

This is in addition to the ever present feelings of guilt and horror about Israel's genocide in Gaza.

And I know, I KNOW this is in no way about me.

But I'm having these feelings, and I don't want to drop them on my anti Zionist friends who are back there, so it fall on y'all.

Sorry.

Experiencing the weirdest survivor guilt right now.

It's a little bit about not being in the line of fire for Iran's retaliatory bombing of Israel, and a lot about not being complicit in Israel's bombing of Iran and Lebanon.

this one fucked me up so much. guy turns his life around after a drug conviction, becomes a happy, beloved, pet rescuing houseboat dad who undersells his mechanic services so poor folks can afford them. ICE grabs him one day out of the hospital for heart problems which then kill him. horrifying

This is monstrous, of course.

I also think it's a lie.

Fear of Iran has been one of his favorite tools for decades.

I think he's doing this because

A. Trump wanted to

B. As long as war is happening, he thinks he has a better shot at keeping his seat and staying out of prison

"This idea that the NYT is some sort of right-wing rag ... is just one of the most demented and reality-eschewing theories to take hold on the left."

Find her on her substack, obviously.

I KNOW I have followers who can help Jill with this

From Arrested Development, a woman asks "well, did it work for those people?" A man answers "no, it never does, I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but..." He continues "...but it might work for us."

So many

Blakes had 11 points in the first half.

15 points in the third quarter, and Vandy is up 67-58, after winning the third quarter 30-15.

She's good at basketball.

At the half, Blakes is now the fourth leading scorer on the court, with both of Tennessee's stars - Barker and Cooper - outscoring her, as well as her freshman teammate Galvan.

But she's Mikayla Blakes, so I expect a bigger second half.

Watching the Vanderbilt at Tennessee game, a game that is important for Vandy, but crucial for the Lady Vols.

Right now, Blakes is being held in check. Kinda. She's still the leading scorer on the court.

You will not be greeted as liberators by the people you bombed.

Because of the bombing.

I didn't share mine from yesterday, because it was EMBARRASING.

I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them.

At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

This feels, to me, like clearing a path for Reza Pahlavi.

Despite both having beards and similar names, these are two people. One of them has been dead for decades.

Details, for the ignorant, unaware, and Islamophobic, in the alt text.

At least 148 dead after reported strike on school, Iran says Iran has blamed the US and Israel for the strike; the US is looking into reports of the incident, while the IDF says it is

Utterly horrifying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anthropic is not your friend.

Trump voter Sophie Cunningham is the only player in the W I am actually against. Some players may annoy me, but I have no real opposition to them.

Sadly, these (doing a cameo on a Bravo show) are only her plans if the season doesn't happen.

We're not rid of her yet.

Sometimes people meet me and they like me more.

Sometimes people meet me and they like me less.

It is what it is.

Than. Not that. You probably autocorrected in your brain.

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

I'd rather click randomly that hit the clue button. This is probably not a good thing.