Just as many other scholars are defined by their genocide denial, why should Habermas not be?
Obvious attack on the First Amendment, and also--importantly--an attack on the second amendment
One asshole did a stupid thing, and the completely legal firearms owned by other protesters became evidence of domestic terrorism
I worry that I’m gonna be repeating that Israel’s goal is to destroy Lebanon itself and that this will be a catastrophe for the entire world while being gaslit that that’s not what’s happening while Israel does exactly that
Something I hadn't considered but what if Trump succeeds because he just keeps going. Like I think Iran is relying on a degree of rationality completely absent in Trump and courage absent in everyone else.
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention “believes that the U.S. is squarely within the early to middle stages of a genocidal process against trans people, the goal of which is to completely erase transgender people not only from public life but also from existence in the U.S. & globally”
1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit.
An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans.
It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling.
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A Israeli brigade commander told Palestinians in the Jordan valley that the IDF plans to remove all Palestinians currently living in "Area C" - that's 60% of the West Bank - within a year.
IDF spokesperson was asked for comment and did not deny this.
www.ha-makom.co.il/area-c-evacu...
Drone strikes in Haiti.
Drone strikes. In Haiti.
By private contractors.
They’re killing Haitians for private profit & the world barely pays attention.
The story of Haiti is the story America likes to tell about itself. Except there, it’s true. And the west has never stopped punishing Haiti for it
You too can print out a big pile of zines and handbills for the dance party benefitting the Prairieland defendants. @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social
I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)
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Puffins 😔 How very sad.
We really have made a mess of things ...
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![A scanned image of the second page of the Attorney General Opinion document. A section in the first full paragraph is highlighted in yellow, which reads: "[f]or the purpose of transitioning a child’s biological sex as determined by the sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous profiles of the child or affirming the child’s perception of the child’s sex if that perception is inconsistent with the child’s biological sex."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sefgphqp2xqwh2hawaixykwz/bafkreifsl2nf4xp4efqwydrwybswqhnsk2t2mykrbnk5yojrg2xmlb434u)
Texas AG Ken Paxton has declared that it is illegal for mental health providers and therapists to treat trans youth. It means that trans youth will be denied access to any mental healthcare that isn't conversion therapy. Paxton also threatens parents of trans youth with child abuse investigations.
Republican-controlled states and towns are passing their own versions of Texas’ bounty hunter law incentivizing people to sue their neighbors for having an abortion. @queenmab.bsky.social wrote about how these laws have a long history:
Before praising the current papacy, remember that late last year the Catholic Church imposed one of the most sweeping bans on trans healthcare yet, cutting off life-saving care throughout its sprawling U.S. hospital networks:
Iran is bombing Rojhelati Kurdish forces inside southern Kurdistan. PAK and PDKI, and Komala bases inside Başur were hit with IRGC drone strikes today.
so, torture. they’re torturing them as federal policy. entirely predictable, but that doesn’t make it any less evil
Republicans celebrate as lesser prairie chicken loses threatened, endangered status | via @anna-writes.bsky.social #ksleg
Unaccompanied children as young as 13 who are pregnant, often from rape, are being moved to Texas so the Trump administration can avoid getting them access to abortion, critics say. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off.
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just became aware of this--the regime wants to clear-cut massive chunks of Oregon's old growth forests in the name of timber production.
you have until March 23rd to comment.
i know we have endless fucking things to scream at politicians about--this is an important one too.
I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them.
At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.
Any time I speak with a leftie fanboy of current Chinese politics, it never ceases to amaze me, how deeply ignorant they are of labour rights and material conditions of the working class in China and think it is all middle class folks in Shanghai and Chongqing with neon lights & futuristic tech.
Thing, Japan *
*horrible men not getting shamed into obscurity
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they’re trying to get this disaster through. they’re shredding trans Kansans’ IDs. they’re detransitioning children across the country. and the media refuses to report on this mounting genocide and it happens largely to the silence of cis people. we need help
New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:
it took an expensive, coordinated effort & a lot of people saying “this doesn’t matter” to get from a bathroom ban costing one state $400 million & a gubernatorial race to “trans people must turn in their documents which become invalid in a few hours or face fines & potential jail time” in 10 years.
I wish I loved anything as much as some people love finding excuses to argue that sometimes non-black people just have to use the n-word or else we’ll all die
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NEW: Local officials blocked from visiting migrants at Portsmouth airport who were stranded on ICE deportation plane for 14 hours.
Full writethru with new images:
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