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Misogyny on Ice Locker room talk, 2026 version

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Trump with Machado’s Nobel medal

Embroidery (not AI) by Sarah Gønsalves. (Please credit her work)

A new spate of Justice Department officials quit because their section didn't want to probe Renee Good's shooting At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.

Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting

At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.

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“Shrooms” more like

Indiana mom took gun to grade school and threatened lesbian teacher, police say Carrie Rivers, 48, was said to be unhappy with her daughter's assignment about flags, a teacher who keeps a Pride flag on it in class told police.

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DHS ends ban on intelligence activities targeting people for sexual orientation, gender identity The policy manual change emerged after President Donald Trump called to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion practices at federal agencies.

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House shuttles transgender athlete amendment to study House Democrats used a procedural maneuver that essentially put on ice a freshman Republican’s push to ban transgender students from playing sports on teams consistent with their gender ident…

Massachusetts freshman Rep presented a bill that would bar trans athletes playing on sports teams not consistent with their birth sex. Senior members stalled it by requiring the bill to be studied. Smart move.

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It was “God’s will”: Cash Prize Awarded to Anti-Trans Fencer For Forfeiting “It will destroy my life,” said the athlete, who’s anti-trans discrimination earned her $5,000 from a rightwing group.

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Trump Defunds School Lunches In Maine Over Transgender People To use the term coined by conservative talking heads, Trump is holding school lunch money “hostage.”

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Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague

This is a brilliant and crucial article about the demonisation of empathy by @joolia.bsky.social (Julia Carrie Wong).
It's a reminder that there is no idea so perverse that some people won't turn it into a doctrine. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...

Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth."

No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...

“Asked about the public fight between two of Trump’s advisors—two of the most powerful men in the world—White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters: ‘Boys will be boys.’ ”

Pretty much sums up the Trump administration.

It was a fund raiser for the Academy of Nursing. Get over yourselves.

17 Montana Republicans Cross Party Lines, Defeat Anti-Trans Bill After Nonbinary Rep's Speech Representative Howell delivered a speech against SB164, a bill that would charge parents with child abuse for providing gender affirming care even if they were merely driving through the state.

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News leaked that Donald Trump is staging a military parade in the capital nine weeks from now, on June 14. For the first time in our nation’s history, we will have soldiers and tanks flowing through the streets as a display of our president’s might.

HHS propose rule to classify gender-affirming care (they call “sex-trait modification”) as a non-essential (not covered) benefit for Affordable Care Act insurance plans.

This is an unpublished draft. The rationale appears on pages 137-142.

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Houston-area midwife arrested for allegedly providing illegal abortions This represents the first criminal charges under Texas’ near-total abortion ban.

Remember, Paxton will spin this however he can. Don’t spread rumors. He chose an Hispanic midwife, hoping she would seem less sympathetic to voters.

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Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

Teslas have more rights than women.

Feds investigating KU over pro-diversity business school partnership KU is among 45 schools now under federal investigation because one of its graduate programs has been part of a partnership aiming to serve people of color.

Gotta kill education, especially for black people.

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YouTube video by Енджі Крейда / Angy Kreyda Енджі Крейда - Враже (Офіційний Виднограй)

Ukrainian curses

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Democrats chicken out, again, on actually protecting democracy

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Honoring Nex Benedict, a 16-Year-Old Non-Binary Oklahoma High School… On March 13th, the Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s office released a partial report from Nex’s autopsy, indicating that Nex may have died by suicide. The…

Remember Nex 🏳️‍🌈

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Cis woman confronted by police officers in Arizona Walmart restroom for looking too masculine speaks out (exclusive) “It’s already enough being Black and facing discrimination,” Kalaya Morton told The Advocate. “Now I have to worry about being harassed just for needing to pee?”

Police state

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Fire burns 4 Tesla Cybertrucks in Seattle's SoDo neighborhood Four Tesla Cybertrucks were damaged or destroyed in a fire at a lot in Seattle's SoDo neighborhood late Sunday night, raising questions about possible arson and

four Cybertrucks burned overnight in Seattle, authorities say it's still too early to say whether this was an act of politically-motivated arson, or the Cybertrucks simply self-immolated to protest the cruel mockery of god and nature that is their very existence

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Supreme Court Will Review Ban on LGBTQ ‘Conversion Therapy’ The US Supreme Court agreed to consider whether scores of state and local governments are violating the Constitution by barring licensed counselors from trying to change a child’s sexual orientation o...

Sanctioned torture

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Police: Teen girl stabs male classmate with scissors after he pulls up her dress The male student reportedly told police he was "only playing" and never exposed the girl.

“He said ‘I was only playing.’”

Good for her.

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