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If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK

meme showing a seal with a word bubble reading "hope I don't have a long day" in front of a blurry image of a huge building with multiple smokestacks labeled 'Long Day Factory'

😔

if you cannot win an election over 3 years away against the most loathsome people in the US while they are doing things like *kidnapping the fucking ice cream man off the street in broad daylight* without a ritual sacrifice of at-risk people, you are not the future of humanity. dream bigger, better.

Stop this. Just… Stop it. Stop using "generative AI" for anything that might actually matter, and especially things that, if it gets them wrong, *Might Fucking Kill You.*

Why does this need to be said? Why is this not obvious??? Why is this not the default way of fucking operating?! What the FUCK.

i have been thinking a lot about how the entire concept of “the deal” is antithetical to transparency, fair play and rule of law, as larry notes. the deal is necessarily nonstandard, ad hoc and dependent on the whims of the dealmaker

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

rich people after moving to Austin:

Just in the past few weeks:
-the president told Texas to redraw its lines in hopes of defying polls showing Republicans may lose the House
-had references to his impeachment removed from Smithsonian
-fired the statistician in charge for bad economic numbers he didn’t like

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One fascinating thing about the most self-serious newspaper in America with its staff of the winning journalistic meritocrats is that it routinely, institutionally publishes completely made-up bullshit speculation about pure abstractions, based on zero reporting, written as if it were plain facts

New It Could Happen Here 🏳️‍⚧️ @miawong.bsky.social talks with UPMC therapist Salena Binnig and TransYOUniting founder Dena Staley about the fight against UPMC's capitation to the Trump administrations anti-trans policies and how the community is fighting back. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/the-fight-for-trans-youth-healthcare-287723145/

New It Could Happen Here 🏳️‍⚧️

@miawong.bsky.social talks with UPMC therapist Salena Binnig and TransYOUniting founder Dena Staley about the fight against UPMC's capitation to the Trump administrations anti-trans policies and how the community is fighting back.

www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes?

American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.

white women need to keep doing this shit.

Real discussion:
CNN: Hey Dave it's CNN. Could you come on to talk about the death of Hulk Hogan

Me: Hulk Hogan was a racist scab and a liar. He hated unions, Black people, and the truth and that's why he loved Donald Trump. What time do you want me?

CNN: Great! Well.... so we'll keep looking

This is the framework I needed today, to love, to get out of bed, to fight, to be in this moment. Brilliant, necessary.

WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

Venus Williams just won her first match in two years and at the end when they were interviewing her about what a miracle it was, she said she had to come back and play a match; they told her she was on cobra and she’s always at the doctor so **she needs the health insurance**

We have been warned about this moment for all our lives. Now it's here. What will you do about it?

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

Harvard Educational Review spent a year preparing a special issue on education in and about Palestine. In June, contributors were notified that the Harvard Education Publishing Group had abruptly canceled the issue's release.

This is censorship and cowardice.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

this is getting next to no media attention and it’s horrifying. transphobes weren’t going to stop at bathrooms, no hormones for minors, they are going to keep pushing until it’s entirely illegal and no one is standing up for us other than trans people

What the fuck

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

#BookSky

Valve just updated their Steam rules to ban content that “may violate rules set by payment processors or banks.” Sounds boring. It’s not. It’s the quiet normalization of financial censorship and it’s going to hurt LGBTQ+ games and devs

thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map

andrew cuomos announcement immediately ratio’d by zohran mamdani lol

Something I want to do more in 2026 is to actively encourage more people to organize grassroots public history projects where they live. Instead of wringing our hands re the Fed attacks on Black studies, women's studies, LGBTQ studies etc we can just teach at the community level intergenerationally.

What form of sociopathy required them to need a court order to stop doing this?

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps.

It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.

[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad