“I’m sick of these purity tests. NO CANDIDATE is perfect. Newsom may not care about homeless people or trans people but he’s the ONLY ONE hiring social media posters to ask ChatGPT to talk like Trump”
1. The Supreme Court has allowed a military ban that calls transgender people inherently "dishonorable" to go into effect.
This is a devastating ruling that opens the door for much worse.
I detail what this means for trans servicemembers in my latest.
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“Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated” - @laurenleffer.bsky.social for @theverge.com 🧪
For a weird reason, the tech press is putting together some of the best reporting on what is changing in the US. This by @theverge.com I found particularly good on how Trump and Musk are building their own reality (and falling for it themselves). The question is, if and when reality will retaliate?
As far as I'm concerned, anyone who says we shouldn't open new public restrooms in Seattle has voided (pun intended) their right to complain about people relieving themselves in public ever again. Don't like shit on the sidewalks? Open more restrooms!
1. Today, the New York Times Editorial Board published a piece titled "Trump's Shameful Campaign Against Transgender Americans."
I criticize the paper's attempt to wash away the paper's own culpability in ushering in an era of eradication-based policies.
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The media is still calling it “cost-cutting” and “finding waste” when Musk’s crusade is obviously ideologically-driven
Vance is openly calling for the end of the constitutional order here, which is a betrayal of his oath of office. It is as plain as day now, Loper Bright ain’t gonna save you
Really hard to get any work done when there's a constitutional crisis on
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Here are the 15 Democrats who voted to confirm Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary, the man who has granted Elon Musk full access to the federal government's payments system.
1. Multiple hospital systems are complying with an unlawful executive order with dubious enforcement mechanisms and pulling their trans kids off care.
While most have not, those that have are harming their trans patients.
The latest from Mira Lazine.
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
Oh.
The LA Times is editing out negative parts of an article about RFK Jr. that say he's unfit for Secretary of Health and Human Services.
If you haven't canceled your subscription already, you should.
Just released memorandum from OPM:
Federal facilities will now have a bathroom ban for transgender people.
It will go into effect on the 31st.
It also has a slew of effects and puts into place the 1st anti-trans EO policies for every agency.
This will have a ton of impacts very quickly.
Donald Trump has just released a national under 18 trans care ban executive order. I am working through specifically how it tries to do this, and will live tweet here section by section as I read through it.
It is not yet on the website, but has been released via press release.
The city of Burien, WA is proposing an absolute ben on homeless people sleeping anywhere in the city, including in vehicles. The lengthy whereas section argues that homeless people just need a threat of jail to go into shelters (which do not exist in Burien and are limited and inadequate elsewhere.)
WTF
The boomer retirees who are currently hoarding land in Seattle are doing more to harm the environment than any other group of Seattle residents. More housing in Seattle means less sprawl and pollution. Anti-housing policies just push people to suburbs; they don't stop people from moving here.
Mark Zuckerberg lies about content moderation to Joe Rogan’s face
As we kick off the first week of quarter, I am reminded that I my mental model is *absolutely* directory structure and I have no idea how students now live their entire lives in the chaotic laundry basket that is Google Drive. This article explains it so well: www.theverge.com/22684730/stu...
