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Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Heartbroken because I'm certain he's neither the first, nor will he be the last.

Heartbroken because cops of all flavors have always been dangerous to Autistic people, and especially Autistic BIPOC.

Would be a good time to shut down Dreamforce. If I have friends who are still speaking there, this is a good reason to cancel.

Yes exactly, you can't do it with that mindset, so get out that mindset. I'm telling you this is not impossible to do because I live in precarity paycheck to paycheck & still give mutual aid. You don't not give now because you may one day not have. If you have you can give & I'm sorry, people do.

"Give to mutual aid" is not advice on how to get rich. It's definitely the opposite of that. It's what you do about the problem of the wealthy that creates poverty.

If you wanted to get rid the DC office to weaken CDC's presence inside the beltway, to weaken support for CDC in Congress, this is what you would do — fire a shit ton of highly trained professionals who stop infectious diseases due to "coding errors" and then re-hire them, but not the DC office

Day 11 of the Republican Shutdown.

Dems are back to fundraising.

Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic

apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

It'd be a lot easier to join and recommend political organizations if half of them (at least the ones I've scouted out) didn't treat social consciousness as somehow being counter-revolutionary.

(It's obviously bullshit, but it's bullshit they believe with their whole chest).

Let me be super fucking clear

You cannot support sex worker rights if you don't also support trans people, non white people, immigrants, drug users, disabled people, women, queer/gay people, and poor people and human rights in general

this is why Trump keeps buyin them by the way

The police will always side with fascism over the population.

TIL that ICE tried to detain a colleague’s teenaged son, asked him about his “color,” held a gun on him as he produced ID

Why Can't Trump's Domestic Policy Be More Like His Foreign Policy? Three keys to his success on the world stage could be applied at home. By ROSS DOUTHAT

"Why can't Trump murder civilians indiscriminately at home like he does abroad" - Ross Douthat

Some little kids are not really shy, they just choose who they want to give their energy to & refuse to give it unless they want to. We could all learn from that boundary setting.

One of the best phrases I've ever learned for working with kids is, "thank you for your no."

It gives me such happiness to see them make their own choices for their little bodies, and to be able to affirm that as a good thing

Relatedly, one red flag I have learned to see lately is the person who *needs* to be the child whisperer.

Because that is a person whose ego is at odds with the child's ability to maintain healthy boundaries and make their own choices about who to trust

I QTed a post about the US shifting from going after Russia and China to an enemy within strategy. I posted this. "This likely means one of 3 things. 1. Trump cut a deal with Putin and Xi. 2. The US is generally losing power abroad and needs to re-consolidate its forces. 3. They are re-assigning troops to reinforce Trump's civil war." S Koda (‪@spk14.bsky.social‬) responded with this. "How about … Trump is concerned about the increased presence of international organized crime groups from the Middle East (e.g., Hezbollah) and Asia in South America, and how they use those strongholds as stepping stone into US cities."

What the fuck is this shit, Gumby couldn't come up with this much of a stretch.

You could tell me the real reason is "novelty New Kids on the Block lunch box thought to contain the secret of Immortality" and I'd believe it more then this.

boy the tiktok ban has really turned out to be one of the most singularly stupid things ever passed, huh? as if these people needed more help controlling the entire information environment

what a shitshow

There are few more chilling phrases than “Children’s Detention Center.”

It always amazes me how queer subreddits like r/wholesomeyuri or r/actuallesbians constantly post comics/art of fetishists and bigoted artists and ignore the art of so many talented queer artists.

Kinda funny ngl, it's as if mice opened an art gallery dedicated to cats and mouse traps lmaoo

Nearly All GOP Senators Urge the FDA to Restrict Abortion Pills The senators are asking the FDA to suspend its approval of generic mifepristone, which would heavily restrict access to abortion pills nationwide.

Republicans are pushing debunked anti-abortion propaganda as an excuse to rip mifepristone off the shelves and block women from getting abortion care.
 
100+ studies prove mifepristone is safe and effective.
 
SPEAK UP, we can't let them get away with this.

All I can do is beg 😭😭😣😞

It is not too late for you to start wearing a mask in public.

It is not too late for you to start advocating clean air.

It is not too late for you to learn how to build your own air filters or to tap in with folks already doing so.

They want you sick. They want your neighbors sick. Tell them no.

Sure, they think the work force is all liberal deep state but as we saw with DOGE, they had to hire so many back because they needed them for critical things like, I don't know, keeping airplanes from colliding and forecasting hurricanes. But most importantly, they've gutted federal law enforcement.

The Trump admin being incredibly vindictive to the federal work force and threatening to withhold pay and conducting mass layoffs are really self defeating moves because they need a staffed work force for to actually enact the policies they want.

porn is not evil.
sex is not evil.
pleasure is not evil.
kink is not evil.

none of them are things to feel shame or embarrassment about.

none of them deserve the heavy-handed censorship that they're facing.

resist oppression (even if you don't partake in what is being oppressed)

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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