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Then invite them to imagine it's their kid who's being excluded not just from sports but from their school, their peers, their community as a whole, being targeted by everyone from bullies to the President. Bridge the divide between "us" and "them" or you'll just keep issuing this Third Way pablum

This is tied up in the idea that in the United States there are no poor people, there are just temporarily embarrassed millionaires (to quote Steinbeck). The right in the US has done very well in selling the myth of the American Dream, and mostly to the detriment of those dreaming of it.

What’s really going on in Texas? I give you Rep. Jolanda Jones in two parts speaking from temporary exile while they deny a quorum to state Republicans. She lays out every bit of it out - chapter and verse. These Texas Dems are the real deal. @texasdemocrats.bsky.social
Here’s Part 1:

Before you see a hundred or so posts saying that Texas has issued arrest warrants for the absent Dem legislators, you should be aware that they are civil warrants issued by the House that are not effective outside the state

www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/t...

Declaring victory over homelessness based on data from Dec. to March, when service providers open more temp beds during the winter, after a summer/fall of brutal City enforcement that forced folks to adapt to their draconian methods... That's the intellectual rigor I expect from our Big Strong Mayor

You don't actually know what will or will not make a difference which is why it matters to try to do things.

I’m sorry you’re lonely but it’s not my job to help you: the science of incels Moira Donegan’s piece in Cosmopolitan (*yes*, COSMO) succinctly captures the nauseated disbelief and righteous refusal with which women…

He could have just read Emily Nagoski's take on this from 7 years ago and stop there.

The media is completely ignoring that Brown University just agreed to a full bathroom ban and defining trans people out of existence. Even worse, when they mention it, they're describing it as a sports ban. This is not just a sports ban.

The media is hiding what's happening here.

you know shade comes from reading...

This isn't a list of jobs that A.I. can easily replace.

It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate.

They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.

This admin is packed with eugenicists who believe sickness and disability are moral failings as well as fascists whose imperative is to eliminate bodily autonomy and erase trans people.

This is nightmare shit.

thrive mpls at-large park board candidate Tim Peterson boasts about having socialists at the end of his gun barrel & at convention he shoulder checked a female volunteer who asked him to stop filming Latonya Reeves screaming at a DFL volunteer.

we have a right to be concerned w/ who has our info.

New York Times 1977. Renee Richards, a trans woman, won the right to compete in tennis.

New It Could Happen Here James and Gare discuss the targeted assassination of a Minnesota Democrat by an anti-abortion evangelical missionary. @jamesstout.bsky.social @hungrybowtie.bsky.social https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/the-minnesota-assassination-evangelical-terrorism-285157964/

New It Could Happen Here

James and Gare discuss the targeted assassination of a Minnesota Democrat by an anti-abortion evangelical missionary.

@jamesstout.bsky.social @hungrybowtie.bsky.social

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

Very important reporting about the background and ideology of this alleged murderer and intended murderer of progressive politicians. There's a straight line from bombers of abortion clinics and killers of doctors who perform abortions, to this guy.

Despite Protests, Elon Musk Secures Air Permit for xAI Elon Musk’s xAI gas turbines get official approval, even as civil rights groups prepare to sue over alleged Clean Air Act violations.

Seems important to say that MechaHitler is being powered by turbines that are poisoning Black people in Memphis

www.wired.com/story/xai-da...

I wish we could get this trending daily

Philando Castile was murdered by police on July 6, 2016. Philando Castile deserves to be living his dignified life of dreaming and aspiring. - “The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”

yall do not engage, argue with, put on blast, et al, dumbasses who can't wait to say "they voted for this!" about states struck by disaster. block them. block them the 2nd you see their garbage. take joy in knowing that you are limiting their toxic reach. they are dumbasses. they belong on twitter.

Just keep doing the next good thing. That’s all that’s asked of us in this moment. That’s it.

Is There an Autism Epidemic? | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Autism diagnosis rates have risen over the past two decades—but why? An autism researcher explains what's behind the increase.

"When I hear the word epidemic, I think of a quick, immediate increase...We’re not seeing that with autism. What we are seeing is a gradual rise over the past 20 years due to broadened diagnostic definitions, better screening, and increased awareness." publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/is-ther...

Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic

since I see ppl posting pictures from a pseudoscience convention this morn, I will re-up this. Blanchard's theory of autogynephilia (read: his taxonomy & etiology) have been disproved by multiple research studies (see my reviews here):
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

Elite journalists wriggle & wriggle & try & try but they can not escape the fundamental dilemma: journalism is, by its nature, supposed to be on the side of accuracy, against lies & liars, but the GOP is lies & liars top to bottom. And for reasons of power & access, journalism can not say so.

proclaim liberty many declarations, interwoven

Since it's the 4th of July,

I wove together some declarations

(the one you're thinking of, but also the Black Panthers, the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Torah, and some other things)

maybe it might be useful?

May we all continue the fight for our collective liberation. ❤️‍🔥

Nothing says #July4 like a big juicy slice of watermelon. This yummy fruit doesn't just appear on our picnic table. It takes a lot of work. An average watermelon weighs 20 pounds. Can you imagine harvesting them in a 98° Bakersfield area field like these workers?

NYC Mass Call: Post-Election Download · New York Working Families Party The 2025 primary election is over and we have so many wins to celebrate including NY Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, who topped our slate of mayoral candidates, definitively winning the Democratic primary...

Hey, New York. The @nywfp.bsky.social is having a mass call with a post-election debrief on 7/9 at 6 pm. I'm going -- join me! mobilize.us/s/DT0sLi

They are going to denaturalize hundreds of thousands of mot millions of US citizens with deep roots to this country and deport them (us) to Libya etc for the crime of dissent, we have been screaming about this for a long time, wake the hell up.

Thanks to the leadership of Senator Melissa Hortman and the work of the legislature’s Reproductive Freedom Caucus in 2023, Minnesota’s abortion statutes do not impose viability limits. This is why that’s so important: