Matt Siegel

Capitalism 🤝 Authoritarianism

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please help my niece get her prescription

please?

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"“Hospitals that have a disproportionate share of low-income patients are struggling,” the dissenters stated that the impact of the Court’s decision was “to deprive hospitals serving the neediest among us of critical federal funds that Congress plainly attempted to provide.”" 1/2

hmm that's solid framing

my wealthy cishet white abled friend is considering leaving the U.S. 🥲 feels bad that the people least likely to be targeted by this regime have the most means to flee it

they never defend, they always attack

attacking works best

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

$412 is the first overdue bill please continue boosting, these needs are urgent. 💸💕

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Religious practitioners were exempt from the bans, and they have continued to provide most conversion therapy, according to researchers who track it. But the bans, the legal historian Marie-Amélie George has argued, created “a social norm against conversion therapy writ large,” which influenced even the practitioners not directly regulated by them.

LGBT rights groups have recently made bans on conversion therapy, a practice intended to reduce or eliminate a person’s same-sex sexual attractions, a primary piece of their legislative agenda. However, the statutes only apply to licensed mental health professionals, even though most conversion therapy is practiced by religious counselors and lay ministers. Conversion therapy bans thus present a striking legal question: Why have LGBT rights advocates expended so much effort and political capital on laws that do not reach conversion therapy’s primary providers? Based on archival research and original interviews, this Article argues that the bans are significant because of their expressive function, rather than their prescriptive effects. The laws’ proponents are using the statutes to create a social norm against conversion therapy writ large, thus broadening the bans’ reach to the religious practitioners the law cannot directly regulate. LGBT rights groups are also extending the bans’ expressive message to support the argument that sexual orientation is immutable and to reverse a historical narrative that cast gays and lesbians as dangerous to children. These related claims have been central to gay rights efforts for much of the twentieth century and continue to shape LGBT rights battles. While the expressive effects of the bans are important, the laws and the campaign around them may have a negative effect. LGBT rights organizations working on the laws do not distinguish between conversion therapy efforts aimed at changing sexual orientation and those targeting behavior. This is troubling, not only because it fails to acknowledge the needs of same-sex attracted individuals who wish to live in accordance with their religious beliefs, but also because it reinforces a limited view of gay identity. Many within the LGBT movement contest the identity model that legal advocates have championed, and that conception of se…

The New York Times exists at this point to launder hatred for trans people. Today's coverage includes a citation to this law review article that says conversion therapy bans are anti-religious discrimination and it's not illegal to ban queer behavior, only queer identity. 🙃

46% gain and virtually no risk outperforms traditional financial instruments as an investment

I've been ungrading for years before it got this bad, we can do things without being forced by companies hollowing out education ALSO sometimes a grade is really all academia can do given budget cuts and class sizes: fund us more

East Bay Times Bay Area's landmark saint statue is torn down; church says it wasn't warned Junipero Serra statue at Interstate 280 rest stop did not meet requirements of Transportation Art Program, Caltrans said The statue of Father Serra at the rest stop and scenic viewpoint in San Mateo County on Tuesday, February 22, 2005. (Karen T. Borchers/Bay Area News Group archive)

HELL YES COMRADE CALTRANS!!!!

The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World

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The truth about cops.

the amazing skeleton with guns represents the world changing power of autism

because the former is propaganda, pushed by a fascist institution

Starring at an incredibly upsetting post to me personally for several minutes than just letting it go, some people are just wrong

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Was just reminded that DARPA is still flush with research cash and it is clearly the establishment's hope that physical scientists will just turn to research that is functionally an investment in killing people

I'm here to remind us:
Scientists, you have a choice about what you are in the world 🧪

President business 🎉

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