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Detransition is key to politicians’ anti-trans agenda. But what is it really like? The 19th spoke with two detransitioners who feel harmed and used by the Trump administration, which has positioned itself as a protector of those who detransition.

Detransition is being used as political fodder by the Trump admin and its allies to support extreme anti-trans policies.

In the process, the reality of detransition is lost. For our new series, I spoke with detransitioners who feel harmed by the Trump admin. Their stories are complex and important.

Meanwhile whorephobic orgs targeting sex workers have tried desperately to capture the discourse, they want to talk about rape culture in a way that implies the internet has to be age verified, all your favorite games and books have to be banned, and sex workers should be pushed to the margins

Imagine all the skill, love, creativity and problem-solving that a team goes into lighting and shooting a feature-length motion picture... and bozos online praise the look of the film and attribute it mostly to "they shot it on actual film!"

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

This came up in a different discussion about conflicts on social media and... fuck me running I had never heard of this before. This is like the antithesis of how I learned how to read, and I was a hyper-literate kid...

www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

I do not care what you THINK will happen.

'Impeach. Remove. Prosecute.'

You repeat it every day.

Voormalig Europarlementariër Breyer waarschuwt voor aangepast voorstel over Chat Control Digitale rechtenexpert en voormalig Europarlementariër dr. Patrick Breyer waarschuwt voor een vernieuwde versie van het ...

Voormalig Europarlementariër dr. Patrick Breyer waarschuwt voor een vernieuwde versie van het EU-plan voor #chatcontrole.

Politieke misleiding van de hoogste orde”. Na protest zeiden meerdere lidstaten ‘nee’ tegen chatcontrole. Nu komt het via de achterdeur terug.
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YouTube can’t figure out whether a popular VTuber it sends tax forms to is an adult… the enshittification of YouTube is beautiful

police dressed as military in front of a police tank

police dressed in camo like soldiers like total knobs

cops dressed head to toe in camo like full kit wankers

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

No one has pushed me further into "Epstein didn't kill himself" theory than Donald Trump

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De politiek van de afgelopen paar jaar was voor het grootste deel het zoeken naar een compromis met delen van de samenleving die bruine en zwarte mensen eigenlijk willen deporteren.

"For the last time, you need to go to the office because we value human connection! Got it? Good. Now let's talk about how you should outsource all your written communication and decision-making to AI..."

It’s very enervating to watch intelligent and educated people play dumb about this amidst the ascendance of a far-right reactionary movement driven by antisocial Silicon Valley psychos and Miami crypto scammers who all treat women as status symbols on the same level as NFTs and Labubus.

"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years

Jongeren, ouders en hulpverleners herkennen het: doorverwezen worden. Met als gevolg frustratie, wachtlijsten en bureaucratie.

Dat gebeurt ook in de politiek.

Niemand voelt zich écht verantwoordelijk voor jeugdzorg en jeugdbescherming, waardoor problemen steeds groter worden.

I've often thought that the best revenge for all this fashy misery would be affordable social housing, workers rights, a functional health service, sustainable energy and all the other good stuff they apparently hate. But I do keep glancing thoughtfully at lampposts.

I guess this is about as close as it gets to good news these days (previous estimate was about 3.6C of heating)

"getting pulled deeper and deeper" is a very weird way of saying "being more and more clearly exposed"

This is the important thing: it can be done.

Vraagje aan Bontenbal: waarom doet iedereen alsof het zo vanzelfsprekend is dat de VVD weer in het kabinet komt?

Er moet een einde komen aan politiek waar het kabinet de Kamer niet serieus neemt, maar wel naar de lobby luistert.

Met de groeten van Geert.

A good reminder for myself and others with ADHD: when you are struggling with it, the first step is ALWAYS forgiving yourself.

So much of why we get trapped and find ourselves unable to act or change is that we get trapped in our shame and guilt spirals...

Please take note folks in DoD. It is still DoD. DoW is an optional nickname (literally; that's what the White House said). So opt out.

"She carried her sick daughter, who was dressed in a onesie. She saw other mothers with half-naked children — some were barefoot, others wore only diapers.

“They didn’t give them a chance to even put clothes on their kids,” she said."

The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.

The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."

Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."

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Techbedrijf dat Amsterdam digitaal onafhankelijk moet maken, komtin handenvan Amerikanen. Stad overweegt het aan de kant te zetten

Techbedrijf Solvinity moest Amsterdam digitaal autonoom maken.
En nu wordt het door Kyndryl uit de VS overgenomen,
waardoor Trump via Cloud Act data kan vorderen 🙄 www.bnr.nl/nieuws/econo...

"Naïef. Als ze even hadden rondgevraagd, had iedereen ze kunnen waarschuwen!" 🤦‍♂️ #tech #Amsterdam #raad020