if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE
it will result in dead trans people
and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing
you see the pipeline right?
we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die
WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS
The rate of destruction of U.S. science is just senseless. It's willful, still senseless.
01.03.2026 22:03 — 👍 294 🔁 75 💬 5 📌 2meanwhile, war rages on at home.
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Well well well
28.02.2026 13:44 — 👍 1178 🔁 316 💬 18 📌 20x.com/SecWar/statu... Anthropic has just been designated as a "Supply Chain Risk to National Security." This is so fucking insane it is hard to describe how insane it is.
27.02.2026 22:23 — 👍 71 🔁 22 💬 3 📌 6
This has not stopped despite people here being tired and tapped out of money. 👇
bsky.app/profile/whst...
1. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that under a new deal with Scouting America, formerly Boy Scouts of America, trans scouts will be forcibly outed and segregated from peers of their gender.
The policy is the latest cruel capitulation.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/secdef-heg...
The Biden Administration enacted over $198 billion in clean energy and manufacturing incentives, with the expectation that delivering material economic benefits could yield political dividends. This nationwide study examines whether these investments affect public opinion. Although proximity to green projects makes them more visible to the public, it does not bestow credit on the Biden Administration which pushed for them. The most substantial political beneficiaries are governors, who more actively claim credit than the White House. For policies to affect politics, voters need to be able to trace them back to the responsible political actors, which is challenging in a complex information environment. Green spending channeled through private firms alone is unlikely to build ground-up coalitions for climate policy.
The Biden administration did a lot of good things that did not generate political gain. This paper argues that "voters need to be able to trace them back to the responsible political actors" made harder by federalism and the role of private actors in delivery
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
I don't know why this is so hard. Fighters win—we see that over and over, because often it's *not* about their politics! Trump was perceived as a fighter!
The most effective way to reduce Trump as a foe is undermining his narrative as a tough guy... by fighting him.
Cover of The Lancet:
@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
But unfortunately the shadow can loom large in the wrong direction...see Vanguard's capitulation to Republic AGs in the US
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/c...
The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation.
“I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”
Gift link here:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/c...
Why has climate action has fallen off the political agenda?
Not because people don’t care! According to @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social Americans are as concerned now as they were in 2019.
No. Decisionmakers are retreating because the right wing is going after them full bore & they are folding.
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This is the swamp in which we work. To pretend that these men are exceptional mistakes the deep misogyny & racism built into American higher ed. These same men have fashioned themselves as heterodox thinkers against the world of woke but this is who they really are. www.chronicle.com/article/unma...
26.02.2026 11:29 — 👍 164 🔁 62 💬 3 📌 2
It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school.
They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.
🚨🚨Check this out👇👇A French judge states that Trump sent people from the US Embassy to try to intimidate her during Le Pen’s trial for embezzlement. She says he’s done this to other judges around the world. What do you think he’s doing to judges in the US. This is madness‼️
20.01.2026 13:36 — 👍 2083 🔁 1315 💬 79 📌 140Every agent who participated in this should spend the rest of their life in prison.
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There are journal issues...and then there are journal issues! The truly epic 25th Anniversary Special Issue of the GEP journal, titled "Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics," is now live and free to read for the next 90 days through @mitpress.bsky.social.
25.02.2026 15:25 — 👍 15 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 0Broadly speaking, there are 2 political factions. Not Labour v Tory/Reform, Republicans v Democrats etc, but an economic elite, operating globally, versus all of us. Though they are small in number, through the power of the political, media and social media systems they control, they keep winning.
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Jeffrey Epstein appears in a black-and-white portrait overlaying a red-tinted image of a Deutsche Bank sign.
FT exclusive: Tens of thousands of internal emails and documents released by the US Department of Justice as part of the Epstein files paint for the first time a vivid picture of how Deutsche Bank rolled out the red carpet for the serial sexual abuser ft.trib.al/4obT91p
25.02.2026 11:33 — 👍 456 🔁 220 💬 24 📌 23
New chapter on " Multinationals and Organized Business" with @pierreunil.bsky.social
-> explores how multinationals have collectively defended their interests
-> examines the broader societal impacts of these efforts (standards, investments and tax treaties)
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
Market-Shaping States reframes the state as a co-creator of public value, not just a market corrector. This requires capabilities to set direction, coordinate across silos, experiment under uncertainty and learn from what works.
Read more ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
Can history help us to understand Trump’s protectionism?
Check out Eric Helleiner's new paper on whether historical comparisons can fully capture the nature Trumpian protectionism and what that means for understanding this current moment.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/60...
Here’s that (disturbing) new study about the effects of Twitter/X’s biased algorithm: bsky.app/profile/eliz...
24.02.2026 15:42 — 👍 129 🔁 52 💬 3 📌 2
John Oliver and team do a great job here of explaining how Twitter/X is a cesspool and why you shouldn’t go anywhere near it. Only thing it misses is new research showing that its right-biased algorithm “works” in that it shifts users’ views rightward. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG...
24.02.2026 15:41 — 👍 1107 🔁 399 💬 23 📌 19
I’ll say it again:
THE TYRANNY OF OBSERVATIONAL EQUIVALENCE
Folks who have genuine data as to which of these option(s) is operating, please share
#earlymodern historians of #trade & #merchants ! I am trying to take stock of the historiography on long-distance merchant guilds/nations/consulates of the past 10-20 years. 1/*
24.02.2026 14:02 — 👍 5 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
“the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building.” @mckay4senate.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...
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