transparent, parent of a trans kid

and unambiguously so. and yes, it was a program created by fucking dubya, who was among the worst presidents the country has had.

but there it is. we contain multitudes.

What does the new law say? Bill C-3, which came into force on December 15, 2025, reinstates citizenship by descent beyond the first generation. In 2009, the Conservative government had restricted access to citizenship. Canadians born abroad could therefore only pass on their Canadian citizenship if their child was born in Canada. The law was ruled unconstitutional by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Now, to be eligible for Canadian citizenship by descent, a person born abroad before the coming into force of Bill C-3 must have an ancestor who became a Canadian citizen on or after January 1, 1947 (the date the status of Canadian citizenship was created). The new law also specifies that a person can become a citizen if one of their deceased parents or grandparents had obtained citizenship status upon the law's entry into force.

FYI Americans: if you had Canadian grandparents/parents: you may be Canadian

PEPFAR was actually good

I thought about why I’ve been pushing back on stolen midterm fears. What’s the harm of worry, even if it doesn’t materialize?

It’s this. The regime has less capacity than it’d like, and tries to make up the difference with bluster. If people act as if it’s true, that grants the regime more power.

Hosting the border czar and ICE agents in City Hall (and its parking areas) is a violation of the City’s separation ordinance and broader City policy. These are in place to protect our residents and City staff.

🧵3) until tonight no one knew who sent the torture video to Epstein. I went to DOJ, unredacted the email, and reverse searched the email to discover it was a Sultans. Our law requires VICTIM’s information to be redacted, not information of men who sent Epstein torture porn!

Massie is abusing Trump stooge Todd Blanche over this

a lot more of the people in power are faking their level of literacy and erudition via The Help and The Automated Help than we see as members of the Help-or-Lower Class

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

When Universities Become Sites of Silent Repression When philosophical disagreement over caste, feminism, or political thought is shifted from classrooms and seminars into committees and complaints, something fundamental changes in how democratic insti...

“This is how democratic censorship often works today. It does not silence by decree. It silences by changing the costs of speaking.”

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

🧵 In response to my posts on X today, DOJ 1) unredacted an FBI file that LABELS two individuals as co-conspirators 2) unredacted a file that lists several men who might be implicated 3) tacitly admitted that Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was the sender of the torture video

Thomas Massie is cooking right now and explicitly states that UAE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was sending torture videos to Epstein

Okay, I’ve heard all the criticisms. I agree now that my plan to create a Jonestown on Mars was foolish and dangerous. I will instead be building a much more achievable Jonestown on the Moon

ICE Arrests Transplant Patient and Cuts Off Life-Saving Meds The 38-year-old hasn’t had his kidney transplant medication since he was detained on Thursday.

Javier Abreu-Vasquez had a kidney transplant in 2023.

He was grabbed by ICE while delivering groceries to help his neighbours.

They’re refusing to give him his anti rejection meds.

Without them, he will lose the organ.

This is how people die.

Republicans are bad at business and civilization

we are not obliged to pretend that bad faith rules lawyering is anything except rancid bullshit

Uhhh Los Tigres del Norte just pulled up to the rally at civic center.

It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.

1. Thomas Massey, Republican from Kentucky, just did an interview where he said, on camera, that the director of the FBI threatened to investigate one of his staffers for fraud if Massey did not stop pushing for the disclosure of the Epstein files.

oh my god how bad are these jobs numbers going to be lol

Yep. And that’s not all. A corrupt $300M contract for Puerto Rico’s grid was mysteriously awarded to Ryan Zinke in 2017 after Hurricane Maria.

YouTube video by La India India - Dancing On The Fire [Official Audio]

I've been thinking about language and music. I've come to the conclusion that a good song is a good song. You don't have to translate for me. No matter the language, I'm going to like the version I heard first best. Now, let's talk about Latin Freestyle: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlgK...

#Section230 is why our internet is open to LGBTQ+ youths who are surviving abusive homes. Shame on those who call its repeal "accountability" when it's actually about silencing marginalized voices. Without it, platforms would drown in frivolous lawsuits designed to erase queer existence.

post a banger that isn't in English

www.youtube.com/watch?v=foU3...

US judiciary scraps climate chapter from scientific evidence manual The U.S. federal judiciary has withdrawn a chapter from the newest edition of its reference manual on scientific evidence that addressed climate change after Republican state attorneys general argued ...

New from me: The federal judiciary has withdrawn a chapter from the newest edition of its reference manual on scientific evidence that addressed climate change after Republican state attorneys general argued it was biased against fossil fuel companies. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...

this may be a radical take BUT I think we should proceed cautiously with the rushed integration of half-cooked automation into problematic business sectors in a broadly-corrupt country without functional regulatory oversight

the new gopherspace is gonna be lit

IRC: Internet RETVRN Chat

Trans Youth Suicides Skyrocketed In UK After Care Drawdown; Government Covers It Up A Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database reveals that 22 trans children under 18 died by suicide in England in 2021-22 alone.

In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions.

Then covered it up again when caught.

Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country.

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had considered, with my producer, asking about the FT's reporting on Epstein. In the end, I did not. Not because we were friends - I don't really make friends with politicians, and I'd met Mandelson only a handful of times, always professionally — but because of a familiar set of calculations. I thought he would refuse to engage or walk out, and the interview/episode lost; that he might threaten legal action we could not substantiate with the same effect; that he was likely to become ambassador and would be more journalistically valuable to interview later; that the very certainty of that appointment made the allegations seem more outlandish; and, bluntly, that these stories were low on the news agenda.

Good to see Lewis Goodall at least addressing this, a thing nobody else I’ve seen has had a go at.

How it started / how it’s going