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C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao

x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

I just realized this is stupid because Optimus isn’t a transformer.

Damn me, but all things are queer

The Wicked: For Good promotional budget must be NUTS

screen grab of Sun Sport artilce about IOC ban for trans women including a picture of Cisgender Boxer Imame Khelife

Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)

Sarah Kendzior • 4m I've been suspended from BlueSky. I don't know why. I wasn't online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explanation. It seems there's a crackdown. If you enjoy my work and want to make sure you can access it, subscribe! It's free - I would never paywall in times of peril — and voluntary paying subscribers keep it going. It would be great to have your support at this time. Thanks!

In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

🖍️ An Ottoman #Miniature, A Scene from a Historical Narrative Depicting Ladies Picnicking in a Garden, While Horsemen Gather Outside Its Walls, Likely #Baghdad, 16th Century.

NM special session moves ahead despite USDA release of full SNAP benefits New Mexico officials say they will convene a special legislative session Monday despite the United States Department of Agriculture releasing full November food-aid payments to roughly 460,000 residen...

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has called the New Mexico Legislature back for a special session Monday — the goal: protect food-assistance programs for 460,000 New Mexicans, even after federal aid was restored.

Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.

Or Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been in America since he was two years old.

He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him

His health is declining, they won’t let him get his legs and they’ve placed him in solitary

www.disabledginger.com/p/help-rodne...

A People’s History has been pretty widely adopted in American High Schools for a long time.

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

There was never a Racial Realignment We're witnessing a Latino "Dealignment" and that's why the experts keep missing it

In which @mikemadrid.bsky.social explains what I've been saying this whole time: Latinos aren’t racial identity voters—they’re economic voters. They behave like working-class voters across every demographic because that’s primarily what they are." greattransformation.substack.com/p/there-was-...

WSU Suspends Hate Group's Medical Courses; Coalition Says Make It Permanent The fallout comes after Erin in the Morning reported that WSU extended medical credentials to content from SEGM—an SPLC-branded hate group.

1. After reporting on Washington State University's approval of continuing medical education credits for anti-trans SPLC-designated hate group SEGM, WSU has suspended the courses.

Now, hundreds of emails and dozens of orgs say they need to make it permanent.

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By serving as the first woman Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi made history. But in doing so, she ruined the House of Representatives as a workplace.

by Ross Douthat

A Final Indignity: Cuomo's White Ford Bronco Got a Parking Ticket Thanks to an eagle-eyed New Yorker, who saw the car illegally parked outside of the ex-gov's Sutton Place apartment on Wednesday, and reported it to 311.

To be sure, @hellgatenyc.com has had our differences with the Cuomo campaign.

But when Rich Azzopardi told us this story was Pulitzer material, we took it to heart.

As Hell Gate's finance chair, I have signed off on the $75 prize nomination fee.

Now we wait.

hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

lmao

A woman ruined my workplace
By Caravaggio (c. 1602)

someone went up to sarah mcbride in front of the u.s. congress, hurled her deadname at her loudly and called her a pedophile repeatedly, posted video of the exchange to x, and it is now going wildly viral

i will not share the video

but if you’re not speaking up about this, you’re hurting yourself

This case will be taught for decades in torta law classes

We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.

This kinda shit is how you get hung juries

DHS Wants to Make Some Immigrants and Visitors Take a DNA Sex Test The public comment period for the proposal has begun.

1. A new proposed rule at the Department of Homeland Security would institute biological sex DNA testing of immigrants and visa applicants if DHS has reason to believe it would be relevant to their immigration status.

Read the latest from writer S. Baum.

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the first muslim woman being elected to statewide office (in any state!) the day dick cheney died is beautiful

Our forthcoming volume on the environmental history of China's era of high socialism has a cover.

Paul Pickowicz, who took the photo when he visited China in 1971 as part of a Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars delegation, also contributed the book's epilogue.