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American Psychological Association Reaffirms Support For Trans Youth Care, Pushes Back Against NYT A recent article from Jesse Singal in the New York Times seemed to indicate the organization might be quietly retreating from supporting trans youth care.

1. Major news on trans youth care. The American Psychological Association has reaffirmed its full support for its 2024 guidelines supporting trans youth car.e

It provided documentation showing Jesse Singal mischaracterized their position in the NYT.

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Just got back from the salt mines. Nobody there knew you

You got a source on this? My cousin’s an ant and he swears he’s never watched one in his life

Agreed!

What’s even crazier is that this is their primary naming scheme and they only change the numbers

@johnkroman.bsky.social appreciated your review of the CAP white paper; do you think decarceration (eg Bushway paper u cited) could be brought more into public safety policy agendas as a mechanism for economic productivity and less crime rather than being reserved for the ‘racial equity’ policy box?

For one brief shining moment we generated an incredible amount of value for our shareholders. But it was concentrated amongst the Acrocanthosauruses, to the great cost of the gentle Astrodons

I’m entering my own personal Brown Age

Ok but tangentially can we also talk about the insane amounts of hype that get pumped into the critic score these days?

*as assistants chain me upside down hanging from the ceiling of the Louvre*

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

In what is being described as a major win for “getting a life”, my employer has shifted their annual spring retreat to a biannual schedule and we are now in a *~gap year ~*

National Lampoon cover with the text if you don't buy ring we'll kill the dog

That Ring ad

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

I think "woke" was at least partly identified with "irritating" and the way we're rectifying that in Woke 2 is by being scary instead

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left.

It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

When you build an unprecedented amount of renewable energy but it gets used to meet new data centre demand instead of replacing fossil fuels

Why use many words when one fewer word do trick

the thing is, the way it looks right now democrats are going to do really well even by default. dont have to go on record promising anything, dont need to be bold, dont need to put themselves out there and theyll probably get control

thats just not good enough

a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project

NEW: Coal-fired power generation fell in both China and India in 2025, for the first time since 1973. The drop came after record clean energy additions in both countries, and was the first time that clean energy was a major driver of falling coal power use.

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It's still a small team, but worth adding to your list of media.

1 Dreadstone Denier vs. 20 Scientists

“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”

We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:

“Billions of dollars have backed AI [...] while science-based climate research has met resistance, deferral, and denial as the world burns.” (p. 122)

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Orga is not Mecha: How Literal Readings of Fiction are Damaging the World heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/apo...

The Indiana of stranger things is somehow waaaaay less depressing than the real thing

“Fascism was, in every way, Surrealism's political and aesthetic doppelganger, its evil twin.”

Oh my God read this article it’s so damn insightful about our moment

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.

It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

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