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When a trans woman first accused Jeffrey Epstein of rape, the media mocked her - LGBTQ Nation The New York Post called her a "man" and a "gender-bend shocker."

Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...

International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.

The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

Designations of Antifa Ost and Three Other Violent Antifa Groups - United States Department of State Today, the Department of State announces the designation of Antifa Ost, Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front, Armed Proletarian Justice, and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense...

By designating multiple international entities as “Foreign Terrorist Organizations” (FTOs), the Trump administration appears to be laying foundation to try to claim that domestic antifascist or “Antifa” groups are “terrorists” by association.

www.state.gov/releases/202...

Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"

In general, it’s usually wise to stretch things out in close votes of the National Geriatrics Club.

My kids have flipped and who I thought was the introvert is the extremely challenging extrovert and the other has turned into a giant reclusive introvert who hates everyone.

Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.

The reported timeline of the CIA’s operation (roughly 2004-2015) does make you wonder

From 2017: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

"The future of the Democratic party" 🤪

Busy day today but note the U of Michigan consumer sentiment survey just reported its lowest reading in its 65 year history. Well done Donald!

“.. in the Situation Room.” 👀

Huge scoop from Ed, who had several years of financial reports leaked to him. OpenAI has been over-reporting their revenue. The company is even less profitable than we knew.

DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT

new meme

Transitioning in your 40s with small children feels like I have life set on expert difficulty every single day.

Study Finds Most Americans Can't Find Where They Are Being Deported On Map

Ya we're getting more music in a day than a whole year's worth of releases pre 90s.

Taps this sign again. October was absolutely loaded for new music. I've become apparently a good enough customer at the record store that I now am allowed to browse the Friday releases on Thursday. Probably a S tier perk of life right there.

I love a meme targeted for my demographic

this is literally never not accurate

Chat is this good

Still processing the inanity of this cave, like, "We're going to make Republicans go on record that they want to destroy the ACA." You mean the motherfuckers who radicalized in opposition to it & voted to repeal it, like, 22 times? You're finally getting them on record? Really impressed over here

every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet

Filling out a banking form that asks for my occupation, and in what I am choosing to consider as a sign of the times, "journalist" is not a selectable option, but "cryptocurrency" is

I don’t think there’s any political cost for a Democrat running for office to just completely and explicitly and repeatedly saying fuck Chuck Schumer

pls donate? NO health care!! ONLY donate

no money for politicians

It's good to know that it really just came down to air traffic. That was the only card they had to show and within 48 hours it was fixed.

The civil war that’s about to erupt in the Democratic Party next year—fueled by shutdown politics—will be epic.

OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:

“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”

chuck schumer is just teaching us a lesson for not voting for his guy cuomo