NEWS: It was never about the children.
Transgender adults now face care restrictions after the ruling of the federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia.
www.advocate.com/news/court-b...
“The unprovoked and illegal attack by the US and Israel on Iran... is, of course, a continuation of the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza. It’s the same old genocidaires using the same old playbook. Murdering women and children. Bombing hospitals. Carpet bombing cities. And then playing the victim.“
Poor C. B. Mac.
I mean, is this anything other than intellectualism dressed up in new clothes? Also, I don't think the 'nothing is good' of Nihilism means quite what this author seems to be making it out to mean.
Accuracy conditions...
First problem: Linkedin...
The FBI thinks you are fucking stupid. Iran has zero capability to cross the Pacific and sea-launch a drone attack on California. This is too fucking dumb for me to comment on further.
This has been pointed out many times (including by Evan!), but it bears repeating that this is the same playbook used to sow suspicion on vaccinations and the existence of climate change.
We know why they were opposed to DEI, etc.
For those wanting to know more about Iran and voices from inside the country (rather than the fash-y monarchists outside), Naghmeh Sohrabi has been translating pieces from folks inside on her blog:
truethings.naghmehs.com
Trad quant soc sci research finds norms in populations; AI modeled focus groups find vibes in past data. This is the diff in tracking a crime rate or a birth rate vs claiming that there are eg crime vibes in Walgreens or the NYC subway or low birth vibes among millennials etc etc
To restore democracy and create a fairer, safer, greener world, we need massive taxes on the ultra-rich. As in the 1940s. People get confused about this. The main purpose of such taxes is *not* to raise revenue. The point is to stop the few dominating the many. It's an essential democratic measure.
From 1941 to 1952 in the UK, the top rate of income tax was 98%. A luxury goods purchase tax introduced in 1940 later rose to 100%.
Result? The share of incomes captured by the richest 0.1% fell from 7% in 1937 to just over 1% in 1975. That's what we need today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
No sign of regime instability and military history 101 tells us that no one has ever bombed a country into democracy carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
I know people are very sensitive about the use of the word “genocide” but the attempts to medically eliminate trans children is very clearly meets the standard because they are trying to eliminate a population and also they know some of those kids are going to kill themselves
It feels like vagueness, no memory retention, no ability to think on the spot, and no ability to articulate what one is thinking are kind of key hallmarks of our time, and everyone seems to want to make it worse
His entire professional life is as the guy who gets appointed to run various imperial projects.
As many people said would happen, sounds like our failure to stop US politicians supporting a genocide will now turn into committing one ourselves.
are you telling me that many prominent liberals who take the "get the weapons of war we lead the world in manufacturing off our streets" line also have shit politics on foreign policy
If one’s preferred path to “liberation” is war, sanctions that systematically destroy social infrastructure, or aerial bombardment of densely populated urban centers, then one is in practice saying that the lives of those populations are expendable.
Al Jazeera cracked this "enigma":
This school had many daughters of military officers and soldiers. The idea was to attract them to the school, strike it to draw in rescuers and relatives, and then strike it again to kill them.
I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation
Lynne Cheney's people.
DOGE and its tactics are of course unsettling but don’t miss the two ideologues who have been in NEH since Bush II waiting for their moment
This criminal monstrosity has to stop.
They really saw what was done in Gaza and thought "what if this was the whole world"
Going after desalination is closer to nuclear war than anything else weve ever seen there is no world if this is done there is just no world left after the horrors this will unleash
I just keep thinking about Socrates’ point that harming those around you ends up being self harm.
All these old ingredients plus years of the superadded claim that "we" (IE, qua the unholy alliance of Greater Israel / Greater North America) are the real ones under nuclear threat from *them.* Us, the only nation to ever drop the bomb (twice!), and Israel, which has refused to sign the NPT.
"The Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as does a Westerner," pronounced General Westmoreland in '74. "Life is plentiful. Life is cheap in the Orient." Yesterday the President insisted we're in a war of annihilation against people who "behead babies" and "cut women in half."
