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Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

How Much Pain Will New Tariffs Bring—and For How Long? University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers, PhD '01, argues that this set of tariffs, unlike those from President Trump's first term, will have dramatic effects on the US economy. And, Wolfers…

I did an interview with my alma mater, and the result is a useful long-form interview that might provide a useful primer on the current tariff mess, for those who want to dig in a bit further:

In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?"

(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)

The Culture War Over Sex Markers on IDs Is Causing Chaos. Here’s How We End It Most people assume sex markers have always been a passport requirement.

Rather than restoring the previous status quo, the next Democratic administration should remove gender markers from identification entirely to protect privacy, prevent harassment, and reduce bureaucracy aridrennen.substack.com/p/the-cultur...

Hey Gang! The incredible people at @distributeaid.org are putting together kits providing desperately needed supplies for trans people across the country. Me and 19 others have bundled some outstanding games together to raise money for this incredibly necessary project!

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I FUCKING love drinking SOY and listening to WOMEN

Whenever the media or transphobes talk about mental health and suicide rates of trans kids, they are always deliberately concealing the fact that trans healthcare brings trans kids to the same place as cis kids on these things

Two bunnies stand atop the ruins of buildings, partly underwater, in some kind of post-apocalyptic landscape. Their respective buildings are next to each other, and one bunny sends a package to the other on a string between the buildings. The top of the buildings are covered with greenery, which the bunnies have presumably been tending to. One has a small wooden shed set up on the rooftop.

Daily bunny no.2815 is doing some rooftop gardening

FBI led GRAFFITI investigation???? leads to searching 2 students’ house for six HOURS

Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Tennessee’s Ban on Transgender Care (Gift Article) On Wednesday, the justices will hear the marquee case of the term, a challenge to a Tennessee law banning several forms of medical care for transgender youths.

This is genuinely a very good summary of the case www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/u...

great to be a michigan wolverine

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.

Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC