The Mundane Transfeminine

You will not see a more tangible encapsulation of the genocide. A war of utter annihilation waged as a joint enterprise between the Israeli state on the ground and its allies in consistent support. The debt of reparations that the West owes to the Palestinian people at this point is incalculable.

Brown University’s ‘deal’ with the Trump administration betrays trans students for federal research funding - The Boston Globe While nearly 40 percent of Brown students do not identify as straight, and in an era when transgender people already face disproportionate discrimination, the university has chosen to prioritize money...

icymi,

i wrote a Boston Globe editorial like, blasting Brown

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/04/m...

I want to host a “MAGA + libs” party where the two sides are not allowed to talk politics. Instead they do an activity, like boardgames. I want to witness the dawning horror as they find themselves getting along

I had a friend for three years I never talked politics with who turned out to secretly be a member of Identity Evropa and was connected to a series of racial terrorism incidents on his campus. He was arrested in Florida last month for trespassing and throwing his soiled underwear at a police officer

The point being, Trump does not see immigrants as human but as animals, either beasts of burden or insects to be wiped out. This is fascist rhetoric.

More disclosure of suspects' immigration status needed, Cooper says The home secretary says the public 'need to have more information' about those suspected of crime.

The far right are dictating every aspect of how this country is run and we have unquestionably the worst politicians possible for this crisis

(A reactive impulse, not a reactionary impulse. They're very different things...)

I think the word you're looking for may be 'reactive.'

Since of course it's the people on the other side of the argument who are the reactionaries.

Conservatives and other fascists often exhibit a certain low cunning.

They're still thick, though. You can't traffic in hatred and lies for very long before significant cognitive impairment sets in.

They're only able to get away with their transparent manipulations because of their power.

We're a tiny. Tiny. Tiny population.
This is exactly the strategy of the Reich.

Meanwhile

NYT article headline: "El Salvador’s Leader Is Autocrat to Some, Godsend to Others Lawmakers approved constitutional changes abolishing term limits and allowing President Nayib Bukele to stay in power indefinitely. Why now?"

Byline and introductory section of the article:" By Annie Correal and Maria Abi-Habib Annie Correal and Maria Abi-Habib have been covering El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele. Aug. 4, 2025, 8:53 a.m. ET He has swept away checks and balances. His government has made mass arrests. And his lawmakers just rewrote the Constitution to let him lead indefinitely, raising fears that the man who once jokingly called himself the world’s “coolest dictator” isn’t kidding anymore. But for many Salvadorans, President Nayib Bukele has been a godsend. By cracking down on gangs, which not long ago gave El Salvador a reputation as the world’s murder capital, Mr. Bukele has instead made his country one of the hemisphere’s safest. Average Salvadorans can walk the streets without fear, let their children play outdoors and run businesses without threats of extortion. Homicides have dropped from several thousand a year to just over 100, according to the government — a rate lower than Canada’s."

Is this...the most NYT-est article ever? And this one can't be blamed on a bad headline. It's the entire framing of the piece.

there was gorgeous discourse on one of the ai boyfriend reddits a while ago that was like "if we are all fucking the same model that is learning from everybody's input, does it follow that we have also all fucked each other and by extension the devs"

So, this still leaves the elephant in the room - if there is a vast secret conspiracy behind Palestine Action, does that make it ok to drag hundreds of people off the street who are unaware of it, *without telling them anything about it*?

This isn’t theoretical. People are being arrested.

I've had enough run ins with middle managers who've been caught out to know when they're lying and boy is this a great example.

Read this again…

The ‘wanting to remain anonymous’ transphobic-as-f*ck “mother” is demanding “that M&S would implement a policy to ensure that transgender staff would not approach young women”

They want to remove trans people from being in customer-facing jobs!😣

And the Telegraph is PROMOTING it!

This is true and also, increasingly, I am less and less understanding of a public that indulges these lies - because what is meant by illegal in too many minds is "inhuman". And that belief is encouraged by the media, yes, but at some point citizens have to take responsibility for it too.

#Transrights #NHS #UK IMPORTANT! The NHS has just launched a public consultation about the Children and Youths Gender service specification. The consultation is available until 2 Nov 2025. Please share and respond. www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation...

I can't believe they're actually doing it. They're actually arguing that women are worse at pool than men because of strength. That women can't break the balls up as well as men at the start. Fucking insane

Also, obviously, completely ignoring what medical transition does

"controversial or unpopular opinions" is such a stupid phrase to include in a piece of legislation relating to academic free speech. because it encompasses both "hard truths that people don't want to accept" and "things that have in fact been proven incorrect numerous times by research".

i *really* wanna see mastercard go after insanely popular mainstream games. i want them to light that match while they're already doused in gasoline

a lot of people dont care right now because "its just porn games" but it definitely aint gonna stop there

The Anti-Porn Crusade That Censored Steam and Itch.io Started 30 Years Ago Keywords and tags have never been a useful metric for distilling nuance. Pushing for regulations based on them is repeating a 30-year history of porn panic online.

when it comes to porn panics, we're repeating the mistakes of the past every damn day www.404media.co/steam-itchio...

It's social pressure.

I doubt it has anything to do with the degree of body dysphoria experienced.

(However, we shouldn't kid ourselves. They knew that it was going to be exactly like this and were just covering their arses when they wrote that.

It's going exactly as they intended.)

Centrists want a less demonstratative nazism, a slow, plodding, undramatic, more deniable gradual nazism. But nazism nonetheless.

Once we lose allotments they will be gone for good. Labour will trash every public good in our country before they consider asking their millionaire and billionaire Donor Owners to (a) actually pay taxes and (b) pay a Wealth Tax

Feel like its a bad sign about the health of the republic that Pritzker has to talk about TX Dems like they’re the Polish government-in-exile in London

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsk... • 54m large parts of UK politics are swinging far-right with very, very frightening speed, and racists are getting increasingly open about expressing their bigotry. Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social • 1h it's "cool" that every conservative pundit in the UK basically seems to want to turn the country into Norsefire ... Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsk... • 6m Govt minister Angela Eagle is asked what her message is to people on the streets shouting "get this scum off our streets" & holding banners saying 'protecting women & children is not far right, its just right' In her reply Eagle says "we hear your worries"

Everybody knows what’s happening, everyone can see what’s happening, and everybody can see who the people are who are trying to make it happen.

Our government is encouraging racist attacks. People seeking asylum don’t deserve to be attacked and neither do staff who support them and any Black or asian people who happen to be in the vicinity.