Ladies-
Do you see what they are doing now?!
The abortion pill is critical for women who have had miscarriages.
They’re silently stripping away our rights and our healthcare! Call your reps and make noise!
We have to be able to chew gum and walk at the same time!
#ProudBlue #Pinks #OneV1
Turns out woke doesn't affect our lives one bit
CJEU press release: Member State legislation which does not permit the amendment of the gender data of one of its nationals who has exercised his or her right to freedom of movement is contrary to EU law A Bulgarian national was registered at birth as being male, with a name, personal identification number and identity documents corresponding to that sex. She currently lives in Italy, where she has begun hormone therapy, and now presents herself as a woman. She instituted proceedings before the Bulgarian courts seeking a declaration that she is a female person and to have her civil status data amended on her birth certificate. Despite the medical opinions and legal assessments confirming the gender identity claimed, her request was rejected. According to national legislation, as interpreted by the plenary assembly of civil chambers of the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation, the term ‘sex’ must be understood in its biological sense, excluding any amendment of the particulars relating to sex, name and identification number. The public interest, based on the moral and/or religious values of Bulgarian society, thus prevails over the interests of transgender persons. Hearing the dispute, the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation has doubts as to the compatibility of that legislation with EU law and has referred the matter to the Court of Justice. In its judgment, the Court holds that EU law precludes legislation of a Member State which does not permit the amendment of the gender data in the civil status registers of one of its nationals who has exercised his or her right to move and reside freely in another Member State. The Court emphasises first of all that, while the issue of identity documents falls within the competence of the Member States, they must exercise that competence in compliance with EU law...
Huge trans rights ruling from the EU's top court - if someone moves to another EU country and transitions, their home country can't refuse to amend their registration details to match their lived gender identity
Are there many self-identified centrists? It's mostly applied to outgroups. I feel like it replaced neoliberal, which pundits and media types would never say. Howard Schultz was the rare candidate who claimed the label
Very disappointing, though ultimately unsurprising, to see the DOJ surrender in the middle of the Ticketmaster-LiveNation case after political pressure from the top. Hopefully the states will continue to push to break up a monopoly that should have never been allowed to exist in the first place.
What people need to do is ride Pete's and Trump's ass to get the fuck out of there. That's what's need to happen 24/7
Could Congress remove jurisdiction of the court to weigh in on Chadha style legislative vetos? (And the President would have to sign that once.)
Love this! I wonder if Korean for plum flowers has Mandarin influence (or another dialect)
At ~$1 billion/day, the US has spent as much on the war in Iran in ten days as the entire FY25 budget for the National Science Foundation ($10 billion).
Trump's FY26 budget request for the agency declined to $3.9 billion, due to a "realignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment."
The guy cannot do the job. It's easy for him sitting in an office because the enormous work and burden falls on others. Trump can't keep us safe, and he needs to go
That's horrific:(
A shadow docket ruling on DOGE access at the beginning of Trump's term effectively overrode critical data and privacy protection laws and will cost us billions
Because they are trying to get the IRS to break black letter law with jail penalties that protect our tax data
Our government is abusing its custody of our sensitive data, and we don't know where it may go. They've previously betrayed our trust to go after immigrants
Good run through the reality of DOGE cuts so far. It is a data heist and is freeing up funds for cronies to loot through favorable contracts. It is not saving the government money, and is surely costing the population enormously. Its activity also damages our ability to recover in the future
This sounds extreme, but the whole country is the victim of data theft and all our infrastructure is infiltrated. Recovery will take a massive effort
Seriously, why does DOGE want all this data? It's not needed for what they supposedly are doing. They couldn't justify it in an extended court proceeding. They clearly want it for some purpose they can't admit. We need to know why
What are they actually doing that they want any of this data?
There's no good reason for this. Government buildings have perfectly fine networking. They are just bypassing protections to exfiltrate our data
What a coincidence that Musk's slapdash cyber team DOGE, crashing into US agencies, scooping up all their data, and compromising their systems, has personnel with connections to the Russian underground
Indeed - so what are they actually doing? What's the purpose of the data grab?
This seems to be what DOGE is really about. It's on a mad data grab through the government so that it can conduct intelligence activities of all kinds against Americans, a new KGB
BOFH was amusing when you could imagine yourself in the role of the vindictive and untouchable system administrator. But now Trump has installed Musk as the BOFH and he is working his schemes on all of us in the country using purloined data and looted funding
Yeah, saw commentary from the beginning that these look like fall guys. Kids who don't know the proper way to act, protect themselves, ensure buy in. Eventually they are expendable. I want to know more about what they are doing, because it's not efficiency. Just data theft? Installing backdoors?
There's no legitimate purpose for this data for some supposed efficiency operation. DOGE really is just a smash and grab
How much damage did Musk's antics do over the weekend? The whole computing and data system is now compromised and programs seem in chaos. Hundreds of millions or more seems realistic
How many millions or billions will it cost to reestablish computing and secure data storage systems that an unelected drug addict and his minions have destroyed? How do we tally the damage done by DOGE? And it is still ongoing
A woman in Grand Marais, Minn., captured this rare sight on video: a gray wolf strides along Lake Superior's North Shore.
📸: Jennifer Starbright
Took a brief break from the dystopia beat to write about something that's actually good
Replacing all your pieces with kings is a good way to lose quickly
