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We elected a Black man. And then it looked like we might elect two women

They had one and two possibles of “Imperialism but DEI “

And lost their every loving minds

COMMENTING GUIDE: Opposing Two Trump Regime Rules Banning Gender-Affirming Care, Deadline 2/17/26 Creator profile picture Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland January 26 Edit I. Bottom Line Up Front The Trump Regime's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published two companion proposed rules designed to eliminate access to gender-affirming care for minors nationwide. Together, these rules would: Ban hospitals from providing this care (CMS-3481-P) — regardless of how the care is paid for Prohibit Medicaid and CHIP from covering this care (CMS-2451-P) — cutting off funding for lower-income families You have the opportunity to help defend trans kids by submitting comments against these vile proposed rules. Because even if a state wanted to continue covering gender-affirming care through Medicaid, the hospital rule would prevent hospitals from providing it. The two rules use different regulatory mechanisms to accomplish the same policy goal: eliminating access to gender-affirming care for anyone under 18 (or under 19 for CHIP). You should submit your comment to both dockets. The deadline is 5PM ET on February 17, 2026.

Public comment on Dr Oz's proposed rules to ban gender-affirming care for youth closes 2/17

One rule bans hospital-based care, the other eliminates Medicaid/CHIP coverage

Together they'd make care virtually unavailable nationwide, including in shield law states

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Apparently there’s grocery inflation discourse again, but as I’ve been buying groceries for other families during this crisis, often under duress, it’s brought me out of my own optimized grocery spending habits, which rely heavily on Costco. And damn, there is a huge price to pay for being poor.

The anti-trans propaganda push is one of the best examples I know of real-world disinformation in action.

Why shouldn't I end it in lol

Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

(Just realize you were discussing paper trail as opposed to requests being omitted once people needed to paper trail their own requests but oh well lol)

The amount of times a request would come from someone outside my team and I'd respond "sure I just to to bring it up with my lead" that would lead to "nevermind" haha

Happy ❤️ day!!

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

I did not know that about Clive (I also have not seen Hellraiser <_<)

I'd posit that electing someone like him would express lane abandoning of Democrats similar to what we are seeing with Labour as well.

Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.

"Impossibly, despite its attempts to pacify the ensuing outcry by issuing a clarification that merely some users will be required to submit to its child detection matrix, Discord has managed to make the rollout of its global age assurance policy seem even grimier."

Almost like, if this is such a threat to Gavin winning, that people should recognize that if their main concern is the "electability" of the candidate.

I actually think it’s a good thing to not preemptively swear you’ll vote for Gavin Newsome before he’s the candidate

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

Some Oilers Olympic comics!

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash Flock off

Really big win, y'all! Ring is still a tool for surveillance, but if they aren't feeding sureillance footage to Flock, which feeds it directly to law enforcement, that's a reduction in the harm they're doing.

Good reminder that public pressure has an effect.

I did not realize this part of his origin hahaha

oh my god??

I can only assume that the odds are quite different on other markets.

The denaturalization project, no matter how it is cloaked in law, is inherently a politically targeted abuse of power until they go after the single most prominent case of naturalization fraud in the country: Elon Musk obtaining his citizenship by lying about his prior immigration status violations.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

I've written on this a bit, the point is that ai can make a simulacrum of historical knowledge at the behest of some very malicious actors, and then it can propagate that vision ad infinitum and tirelessly.

political malpractice that this chart hasnt been seared into the brains of every single american through advertising and social media

Being a professor in 2026 is authentically responding to a student's curiosity and attempts to connect what we're learning in class to the complexities of their own life, while always assuming that anything you say or write is being recorded and could be sent to politicians and/or other groups.