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EFF Sues DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to Halt Ransacking of Federal Data EFF and a coalition of privacy defenders have filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the private information of mil...

BREAKING: We are suing DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to stop the brazen and illegal data sharing of federal employee data with the “government efficiency” group.

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls. The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

Carl Sagan's prediction in 1995. We are here now.

a factor of nine means covid would have been effectively wiped out. we could have easily beat it. we just let it happen. actually, not 'we,' i wore my fucking mask

Per unchained at last: nearly 300,000 minors under 28 were legally married in the us between 200 and 2018, a few were as young as ten

At least 14,726 minors started hormone treatment with a prior gender dysphoria diagnosis from 2017 through 2021, according to the Komodo analysis. Hormones – testosterone for adolescents assigned female at birth and estrogen for those assigned male – promote development of secondary sex characteristics. Oct 6, 2022, per Reuters

Roughly, 16,666 minor kids get married a year vs 3,681 trans kids on HRT annually in average, with that second number being even smaller now due to the number of statewide healthcare bans that have been enacted over the last 3 years

It's a huge huge HUGE difference

just from a folklore point of view, "attractive hooded man kills billionaire head of hated business with bullets inscribed with political slogans and then vanishes" is narratively breathtaking

i have taught many a bystander intervention class and this is a legit form of bystander intervention. simple, effective for many situations

You can literally prevent the specific bad things we've seen before in your future revolution by having PLANS for how to stop a tyrant from seizing control to do a genocide, war crimes, ecological devastation, etc. Just because they'll show up doesn't mean they get to run the show.

Take your hate somewhere else.

Carrie Ann Lucas, Disability Rights Activist and Attorney, Dies Following Denial From Insurance Company Carrie Ann Lucas was instrumental in getting the Colorado legislature to pass the “Family Preservation for Parents with Disability Act,” which aims to ensure that parents with disabilities are not dis...

Seems like posting tributes to Carrie Ann Lucas is the thing to do huh

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2/2 You can't have a healthcare system that makes billions for insurance companies at the experience of their members, and expect the general public to be appropriately reverent when one of their CEOs is killed. If you're uncomfortable with the response, do something about the system.

This is my periodic reminder to everybody who loses their appetite when they get stressed out to do whatever it takes to keep eating - set reminders, ask a trusted friend, whatever - because there have been years of downstream effects from my inadvertently collapsing my health in 2020 or so

Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it

This threat is very real, and doesn't just apply to books - hard copies of queer and trans music, movies and tv should go in your "microlibrary." And this crackdown, if it happens, would apply to all sex ed content as well. Thanks for lifting this up, @judedoyle.bsky.social

This. The entire conservative movement is predicated on people suffering. Any claims otherwise are rationalizations at best, but usually outright lies.

A narrow walkway in Tokyo. The sides of the street are lined with shops and what look to be residences.

If we want better fashion culture in the US, we have to lower the cost of housing and commercial real estate, support independent craftspeople, build denser neighborhoods, improve walkability, and get rid of overly restrictive zoning laws. Let kook culture thrive.

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This dude is fucking alarming.

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actual member of congress telling you that what got 37 representatives to change their vote on was phone calls.

so. if you were waiting for a sign to take 5 minutes & call & tell your rep to vote against HR 10186 banning trans people from using the right bathroom, i would say this is it. 🧵

Actually, Meghan, trans people have been using the bathroom for decades. In fact in 2016, the last time Republicans engaged in bathroom panic, people freaked out because trans men went into women's restrooms and suddenly, people discovered that there were way more trans people than they thought.

I firmly believe that all of the people who want to get rid of immigrants should not be allowed to eat or enjoy any food that came here from immigrants. No bagels, no tacos, no spaghetti, no beef with broccoli, none of it. You get the America you asked for.

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This explains why conservative fear-mongering is such an easy play in America.

— Ppl believe trans ppl make up 21% of the population (Real number: 1%)
— Ppl believe Black ppl make up 41% of the nation (real number 12%)
— Ppl believe Jewish ppl make up 30% of the nation (Real number, 2%)

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I knew that this would be a thing. Cis people sure are obsessed about where we use the bathroom.

Tweet from Kim Schwan Why don't we do election year like The Masked Singer? Every politician is disguised, has to tell us their plans and debate with distorted voices. We don't know their gender, race, or party. Winner rips off their mask on election night and boom! New president!

MAGA voters actually love progressive policies. They just don’t know it. This would be great for Democrats.

I was talking to a colleague about this today. The precedent about to be set for what American public education looks like, should it continue to exist at all, is coming from Oklahoma.

Makes sense. Weather/financial info any use to you?