Matt Deatherage

Trans women to be banned from single-sex spaces under EHRC guidance The Equality and Human Rights Commission has been criticised by trans rights campaigners for its response to the Supreme Court’s ruling

UK Govt rules:

- a women’s book club or exercise class welcoming trans women is illegal

- trans men can’t be anywhere. They can’t be in men’s spaces cause they’re not men. But they also can’t be in women’s spaces cause they might look like men

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I'm most proud of how flammable it was

Abject fucking humiliation for everyone who works at Apple. They could have merely provided a big headline of building products in the U.S., investing in manufacturing, the bullshit that would count as sufficient appeasement. But this performance? Tap dancing as they build concentration camps?

Trump cheats on his wife, abhors any sense of abiding by rules, is from New York and orders his steaks well-done. He is very specifically Hank's vision of the antichrist.

I remain baffled by his career — unfunny on SNL (where his biggest contribution was constantly breaking during sketches), bland as hell on late night, just a talentless suckup

Trump fired the Commissioner of Labor Statistics by tweet just now, in case you're wondering about how reliable job numbers might be getting over the next 3.5 years

Mr. Digre's company has long manufactured speakers in Minnesota for export, including to a major customer in Canada. His firm relies on certain materials from China, the only place to get many small components needed for speakers. But Mr. Digre must now pay a 55 percent tariff on those Chinese imports. As a result, manufacturing for that customer from the United States no longer makes sense. So Mr. Digre has shifted speaker production to a factory in China, where he will export directly to Canada and bypass the United States entirely.

Read this paragraph, please.

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This is brilliant.

An eloquent image:

Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults.

I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.

Beit Hanoun was bigger than Stillwater. Bigger than Enid.

"Didn't leave a single stone standing."

Lehrer's performance is sampled in the track "Dope Peddler" by U.S. rapper 2 Chainz on his 2012 album Based on a T.R.U. Story, (2) In 2013, Lehrer said he was "very proud" to have his 60-year-old song sampled. His response to the request to use the song was "As sole copyright owner of 'The Old Dope Peddler', I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?" [21

Just realized I haven’t seen anyone post the Tom Lehrer-2 Chainz letter yet today.

Tom Lehrer must have done something right because thousands of people aren’t complaining that he actually sucked or telling him to rest in piss, etc. Live your life such that you are not hated by those you leave behind

As this obit mentions, Tom Lehrer gave up all copyright to his musical works. The lyrics, the music he wrote, and any audio and video he owned are in the public domain. What a mensch. A lot can be found on his website (which I've periodically backed up in the Internet Archive, including just now).

Why is it these kind of stories seem to drop every week but it seems to never hit a level where major media adds them up and declares a pattern?

Don't forget to remove this label before you put The Shining in the microwave.

katie @katefeetie put a fried egg on my croque monsieur to make it a croque madame and now jk rowling is outside my house yelling

This is THE tweet of all time

Try to live your life so that every GenXer who worshipped you when they were growing up aren't delighted when you die...

He looks like a Ted Rall character

RIP to the legend Malcolm Jamal Warner

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BIRBS

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Mama cat Edamame on the edge of the tub, overlooking her five baby beans

Ah, mama has discovered the ideal position to keep an eye on her babies while not having to deal with their nonsense.

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Larry Ellison Invests $6 Billion in Son David’s Paramount Takeover The family office is funding the majority of the $8 billion merger with Skydance as RedBird Capital Partners makes up the remaining quarter The post Larry Ellison Invests $6 Billion in Son David’s Par...

To be clear Larry Ellison, a billionaire Trump donor who believed the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, used his own money to buy CBS and install his son as the boss.

They'll then convert CBS into another right wing propaganda mill like Fox News. It's not really subtle!

look, it’s just a fired prosecutor and an inexplicable tape gap. since when has that ever indicated anything

last person out the door at the Department of Education needs to rm -rf * the student loan database, please

the big anti-trans NYT story today relies entirely on a data point refuted by my reporting in December for @rollingstone.com, citing a poll figure that the pollster told me in an interview does not reflect how the electorate felt about trans rights in 2024

In 1993, Bill Clinton got a haircut on board Air Force One on a runway at LAX and it was a huge scandal even though it actually caused no delays for other planes.

Can anyone point me to a single example of a child forced into homelessness for being conservative?

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As the song goes, "really taste the pea-ness."

(The song:)

youtu.be/27a-sCu9qhc

The important thing to understand about the current state of affairs is that Andreessen hired a partner at the most influential VC firm in the tech industry solely on the basis that the man strangled a Black man to death in my neighborhood.