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I cannot describe how fucking happy it makes me seeing journalists just pointing out that they're lying. Once again, if you're calling, bringing up these articles as why you're calling is a VERY good idea.

Why are they lying? Why are they refusing to process legal transactions?

Great news! Texas state legislators are leaving for two weeks to deny a quorum and block the gerrymandering of districts in an attempt to gain 5 Congressional seats for Republicans.

They may be fined $500/day. The rest of us should raise that money if need be.

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that said, trans texans are living through this now & have been. if you can watch or read testimony from trans people WHO KEEP SHOWING UP AT THESE, NO MATTER HOW LITTLE FRUIT IT BEARS & still think “play shitty games, win shitty prizes” about people trapped in “red” states, fix your fucking hearts.

if you’re cis & you want to see what the lab is cooking up for the future of US trans people, gwen’s coverage of texas legislature sessions—like for example this session where they put a trans bathroom ban (where no assaults have happened) in front of flood relief (where people died)—is essential.

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I really hate that I have spent my entire adult life asking, "how is this even sustainable" in the most rudimentary of ways only to find lol lmao none of it was sustainable!

America's Forgotten Mass Imprisonment of Women Under the 'American Plan,' women could be detained for no reason.

From the 1910s through the 1950s, and in some places the 1970s, tens of thousands—perhaps hundreds of thousands—of American women were forcibly detained. Authorities stalked “suspicious” women, arresting, testing, imprisoning them. It was called the "American plan"

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I’d like to see publishers pick up more social-political horror from Black, Latino, Indigenous and other diverse authors because once again, I’m seeing horror skew largely White with few narratives that are actually challenging social structures and societal injustices.

Literally why I started my blog. Diversity belongs in horror!

Lemme get this straight. The lede on this story is that cutting food benefits will

*checks notes*

hurt businesses bottom line.

NOT the fact that people will LITERALLY STARVE WITHOUT IT. IN ONE OF THE WORLDS RICHEST COUNTRIES.

side note. Elon musk is about to be the world’s first trillionaire

And that is a result of the capitalist world we live in. Anything that *could* benefit humans is ultimately meant to either get our revenue or exploit us.

Until we actually build a culture and system that value humans as each truly valuable, these incredible technologies won’t truly exist for us.

We see the same numbers in referral rates in Norway as well. Trans boys do not meet the same social consequences as trans girls, so trans girls come out later. The total is 50:50. How can we make it safer for trans girls to come out? 🏳️‍⚧️

there is exactly 5 weeks to raise the rest of this fund. i’m sorry to be annoying about pushing this but this last little bit is the most difficult to raise.

help your girl out, please 🙏

The best example of this is when journalism started aggressively shedding jobs under Trump 1 (atop losses that started with the internet) people on Twitter would respond "learn to code" but tech has been shedding jobs since like 2021 and nobody cares.

As a member of the "east coast liberal elite" /s the only job loss worth caring about is blue collar jobs that don't require much formal education, perceived to be held primarily by white men ideally in places with weak labor protections

Yes but nobody cares about educated people losing work

It's important to note here that we're not just talking about faculty & university staff. 100s of U.S. colleges are in towns or small cities where they form the major industry & lifeblood of the community. Loss of students -> loss of rent $, restaurant $, bars, bookstores, gaming stores...

I’m trying to be respectful but this is so stupid. A technology made to make human artists unnecessary, in a world that’s already hostile to artists, is not a technology that means nobody needs to have a job. You literally see what it’s being used for and yet are choosing some fantasy situation.

Remember we have new material for your calls today! Poke and prod at those statements

I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.

There’s a reason Toni Morrison wrote a novel — about Black people’s experience with white supremacist notions of beauty — called The Bluest Eye

I recommend it for anyone who is like “why are so many of the POC mad they should chill”

I’ve written about eugenics too and it wouldn’t kill white people to think about how brazen that shit sounds to people of color

Maybe if you’re white, re-read The Bluest Eye before posting about this

it's also another trap constructed with twisted transphobic logic, if you transition early, you're "immature", "confused" or even "groomed", if you transition late, you're "inauthentic", "suspicious" and worse

Oh huh just like trans people have been saying for a decade

3 Aug 25 - New study shows vast "over-representation of trans boys" turns out to be vast _under-representation_ of trans girls bec. they: a) come out ~10 years later; b) start puberty later; & c) delay transitioning longer because of deep social animus towards AMAB femininity.
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Oh my god it’s like there isn’t a fucking social contagion.

About 80% of my grammar suggestions from Microsoft Word are “why not use a simpler word here for clarity?”

No. Fuck you.

I will use a complicated word for evocative precision whenever the muse’s clarion song demands ebullience, vivacity, torpor, or solemnity, you shit-ass suck machine.

🇨🇦 Canadian Shoppers:

Campbell Soup closed its Canadian plants a few years ago but they are putting a Canadian flag on soups sold in Canada. They justify it by stating that the soup recipes were created in Canada. This is deceptive advertising.

When I teach the 1918 flu, we read about how much of the news on the flu was censored due to WWI (Newspapers were scared of the Sedition Act). And yet, everyday people could see the death and chaos around them.

People could believe nothing they were being told, so they feared everything.