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Against Bad Arguments for Terrible Things – Spectre Journal Holly Lewis takes a sledgehammer to John Rees's attempt to Marx-wash antitrans bigotry.

"Solidarity means taking sides. If you write a muddled piece about the conceptual importance of “biological women” after a ruling that erases trans people from public life, you don’t support trans liberation—hell, you don’t even support trans survival.

Resistance is alive and well in the United States Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic.

Resistance is alive and well in the United States

We can break free.

The DNC leadership, elected Congressional leaders, Demcoratic governors and mayors, former Presidents, VPs, and other major figures, and most especially major Democratic donors and strategists who shape the party's policy and platform.

Do you share them?

In February 2025 alone, we have already tallied more than 2,085 protests, which included major protests in support of federal workers, LGBTQ+ rights, immigrant rights, Palestinian self-determination, Ukraine and demonstrations against Tesla and Donald Trump’s agenda more generally. This is compared with 937 protests in the United States in February 2017, which included major protests against the so-called Muslim ban along with other pro-immigrant and pro-choice protests. Donald Trump is moving fast and breaking things, but that may result in a better US Simon Jenkins Simon Jenkins Read more Coordinated days of protest such as March Fourth for Democracy (4 March), Stand Up for Science (7 March), rallies in recognition of International Women’s Day (8 March) and protests demanding the release of the Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil suggest little likelihood of these actions slowing down. These are all occurring in the background of a tidal wave of lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s early moves. Historically, street protest and legal challenges are common avenues for popular opposition to governments, but economic noncooperation – such as strikes, boycotts and buycotts – is what often gets the goods. Individual participation is deliberately obscure, and targeted companies may have little interest in releasing internal data. Only the aggregate impacts are measurable – and in the case of Tesla, Target and other companies, the impacts so far have been measurable indeed.

Newsom is perfectly representative of the Democratic Party. I can't imagine his current position isn't crafted by the party leadership.

It's not every day that a physicist explains that if we don't learn to fully understand our ultimate personal connection to the universe the billionaires class will end up controlling us with AI.

YouTube video by Essentia Foundation Quantum Information Panpsychism Explained | Federico Faggin

Science or metaphysics?

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"Knowing your neurotype means pieces of your life begin to fall in place. It means you’re kinder to yourself and you learn to understand your needs. This, in turn, helps avoid future burnout and so you keep contributing economically."

—Mehmet Karatay
Letters, The Guardian

"Getting signed off from work with a misdiagnosis of depression or anxiety is often the next step, before people eventually realise that they are autistic and suffering burnout."

"Once that tipping point is surpassed, more stereotypically autistic “stress symptoms” emerge – routines become more important, sensory overstimulation becomes more likely, meltdowns and shutdowns start or become more frequent. "

"The additional pressures of recent years such as Covid, the cost of living, the housing crisis, constant phone notifications etc are tipping us over the edge into burnout. Allistic and autistic people both suffer this stress, but autistic people are closer to their tipping point already."

Great letter to the editors in The Guardian today:

"Unfortunately, society isn’t autism-friendly, so [autistic folks] tend to operate at high stress levels in our daily lives. Many are not aware that they are near their limit."

YouTube video by Innuendo Studios The Alt-Right Playbook: You Go High, We Go Low

It's not about the leadership getting the message. It's about the corporate funders being uninterested in the message.

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YouTube video by Innuendo Studios The Alt-Right Playbook: You Go High, We Go Low

The Democrats appear to be structurally incapable of moving even moderately left, however, as it destroys their corporate funding base.

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Two-panel graph analyzing U.S. House Elections from 2006-2024. Left panel shows Democratic vote share increases as turnout gap with Republicans narrows, with a positive trend line (46-56% on y-axis). Right panel shows Democratic vote share decreases as party positioning moves from liberal to conservative, with a negative trend line. Election years are plotted as dots, with blue dots (2006, 2008, 2018) indicating Democratic House majorities and red dots indicating Republican majorities. Both graphs demonstrate that Democrats perform better with higher turnout and more liberal positioning.

1/🧵 Following up on our study featured in NYT today, this figure provides a macro-level view:

Dem vote shares rise with turnout parity (left) but fall with party-level ideological moderation (right). This suggests mobilizing base voters > persuading swing voters by moving to the center.

BlueSky needs a feature where you can attach your own private nickname to a profile. 😃

I would like to encourage y'all to use your real names.

49K views · 777 reactions | In short terms, cognitive empathy is the ability to see another person’s perspective. The examples in this video are ways that I notice my cognitive empathy struggles show ... In short terms, cognitive empathy is the ability to see another person’s perspective. The examples in this video are ways that I notice my cognitive empathy struggles show up in my life: first is not....

I do this!

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That movies treatment of immigration and human conflict was too real.