The Blue-State Hospitals Carrying Out Trump’s Anti-Trans Agenda In states where gender-affirming care remains legal, some hospitals have nonetheless stopped providing it. What gives?

Contrary to Trump’s grotesque, self-congratulatory press releases, he has not ended gender-affirming care for young people; rather, as the health care workers I spoke to this week made clear, hospital management, boards, and their legal advisers have ended it for him. My new story:

Every person I know with overseas family plans for a month away. With the cost of travel and how long it takes to get there it simply isn’t affordable to go for less time. Rich people can fly in for the weekend. Working people save and plan for longer trips.

My niece was diagnosed with a brain tumor at 3 years old; our family’s worst fear is that it will re-occur. Can you spare a few dollars to help this family as they face the reality of a recurrence?

Men who have never run a household should not be allowed to design houses.

It’s 2am and despite all the awful shit going on in the world, the thing I’m laying awake mad about is the floorplan of the flip I toured today.

If you use MSOffice and can do this I encourage you to opt for the AI free version. Not only are you saving money but hopefully it sends a message that AI doesn’t need to be forced on people.

I've seen some talk about how we are witnessing the end of the professoriate as we know it and this may be true, but I think it's bigger: it's the decimation of the mission-oriented profession.

Want to make a middle-class living serving the public good? Capitalism doesn't want that for you.

Being excited the new TV Digest was out so I could see what would be happening in my favorite shows that week.

Four Weddings and a Funeral
The Awful Truth
Notting Hill
The Philadelphia Story

In that order.

you should turn this on because it's the right thing to do

but also because if you are anything like me, you constantly see characters that you can't quite place and it's incredibly helpful to be able to click on a picture and find out what the reference is so you can judge if it's funny or not

I’ve been reading a lot of history and it’s helping me develop more nuanced context for the present. Now I want to read books that will help me more broadly envision possible futures. What would you all recommend?

My sleep improved and my anxiety decreased when I stopped wearing my Fitbit. Quantifying my daily “health” was not healthy for me.

I still take covid seriously, but I it’s taken *work* for me to hold on to the truth of covid in the face of relentless official messaging that minimizes the risks or provides straight up wrong info. I often feel like a conspiracy theorist when I explain to others why the CDC covid guidance is bad.

The recent news cycles must be hitting me hard; I can feel my teeth moving. My teeth only shift when I’m under stress and unable to manage it effectively so it all ends up in my jaws.

I am being negatively polarized from “mostly fine, few dumb ideas, would probably have ranked him third” to a rabid pro-Zohran partisan by how fucking vile this shit is.

Starting this spring, the Office of Refugee Resettlement started requiring DNA tests to release children to their parents or other close relatives, even when birth certificates, photos, and family histories proved the relationship. The goal seems to be assembling as large a database as possible.

It is kind of surreal that the GOP has absorbed all of the “big businesses trying to profit off poisoning your kids rhetoric!” while also strongly supporting every business whose model is “we have to poison the kids.”

But at least they bothered to act like adults.

They made respectful gestures towards multilateralism, they made a very spirited and cogent (if false) argument about the urgency and necessity, they acted like serious people and said serious things.

I've seen other people say yes, but no.

The answer is no.

There was a pretense of multilateralism, there was a gravity to it, people took it seriously and the government at least bothered to put in some legwork cobbling their lies together into a compelling public narrative

Today's complaint about the AI in education discourse: Too much of it is framed around a future that is going to happen to us, as opposed to seeing the future as something we may have some agency to shape. I reject the deterministic view of AI, particularly genAI. It's a tool, not our master.

Personally I think that hurting people is bad and helping people is good and it just feels like that should not be all that radical a stance.

And yet

If you want to keep street vendors and their families safe while ICE rampages in LA, please donate to KTown for All. So far they have provided 30 families with enough money to pay their bills for the next month.

I’m sorry, this has such “now that I’m grown I eat five dozen eggs, so I’m roughly the size of a barge” energy.

Amazing.

okay so we've got

-- DHS goons handcuffing a U.S. Senator
-- Marines in LA violating posse comitatus
-- political assassinations in MN

And that's just, like, the last couple of days

The narrow Venn diagram overlap of “that scans” with “huh, okay genuinely didn’t see that one coming”

I think more of the “it’s a distraction” people need to actually get out and protest.

Because, there you are, a crowd of people, and NOBODY has the same sign, and there’s NINETEEN separate chants and which one is the “real issue” and who “messages” and…

AND YOU’RE ALL THERE TOGETHER.

The thing about human rights is that they belong to every single human being unconditionally

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Originally posted on Threads: My former employer paused all marketing on Pride toys and cancelled donating the proceeds to a great org because… *checks notes* … a single bigot doesn’t understand how BarkBox works? You literally have to CHOOSE and PAY MORE for the Pride toys. Happy Pride, gang

Fam, it might be time to give BarkBox that Targét Special.