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oh i...i wasn't prepared honestly whew Lord

I really need other trans people to stop saying that transphobes don’t target trans men

‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’

‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’

‘Hello’ is not related to either.

Goodbye.

all you gotta do is want to

Read an article of a white woman wrongly arrested based on this. She recorded her conversation with the sheriff who freely, joyfully admitted that he didn’t care that she had proof she wasn’t the one Flock recorded. His glee triggered my PTSD. Cops are having a blast with this.

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Historian of French Revolution here to say that in periods like this, squeamish compromisers do as much to drive radicalization as do ideologues. If you keep making excuses for the unfit king, eventually folks come for you and him.

missed yesterday’s so I’m doing two at once and they’re really fucking dark. 42yo Honduran dad dies of what ICE calls liver failure due to alcoholism (family calls bullshit). 39yo DACA kid from Mexico dies of sudden illness, mom says no prior health probs & explicitly calls it “medical negligence”

I wish white people who study things like Black History & antifascism would stop delivering things like they only speak to an audience that's ignorant & needs their authority & wake up to the fact that the oppressed really are holding this knowledge, the most ordinary & uncredentialed of us too.

Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people.

This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists.

The study underpinning this played one particular trick.

Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5

if gender is so innate why does it need deputized citizens to meticulously enforce it?

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

Like.

If you were INTENTIONALLY setting the stage for a 2028 Tucker Carlson/Marjorie Taylor Greene GOP ticket.

I don't think you could improve on what was done in the first 24 hours of this war

The suit claims ChatGPT equipped the shooter with info, guidance, and assistance to plan a mass casualty event, including methods of how to carry out a mass casualty event, the types of weapons to be used, and describing precedents from other mass casualty events or historical acts of violence.

90s media: THESE AREN’T YOUR GRANDPA’S MUFFINS

2020s media: Your Grandfather had better muffins than you but the immigrants took them, we need concentration camps to restore you to the muffins of old.

if you're wondering what this means for the water situation this year, the answer involves a lot of hyperventilating

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wow hey new york it’s perfect weather for getting on your bike and tooling around listening to songs from a now-dead DIY scene you were on the periphery of when you were 25. good for the soul

oh at least four

I think people believe the point of progressive politics is to try to convince malicious, bad-faith bigots to not be violent, instead of defanging their movements and making them politically irrelevant.

It's not about "saving the souls of the lost". It's about making sure their harm is mitigated.

It's very frustrating, because what is the danger supposed to be?

In theory, it's regret, because we know there are no serious harms, there are only changes that could feel like harms if the person isn't trans.

But in practice they can't find the regret.

Then enjoy dooming Democrats to failure again.

Newsom is not electable. He is only favorable to a very slim subset of people. He would not survive a general election and your insistence he would prevail is purely wishcasting

congressional democrats didn't give a fuck that we double tapped an elementary school last week with tomahawk missles and killed almost 200 little kids but they're about to express the purest outrage today because Line Go Down

If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense.

People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.

Every single professional journalist who uses the phrases “Department of War” or “Secretary of War” without scare quotes should be lined up on a public viewing stage and bopped on the head with a giant inflatable hammer that says DUMB DUMB on the handle and makes fart sounds.

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

if as they’re reporting nobody’s been hurt in the gigantic fire that took out the whole block next to central station, next most important order of business: why was it called ‘Sexy Coffee’

This is the classic BOAN defense:

"It invented EVERYTHING in the movies, just everything, you can't make it political... Seen it? No, I haven't seen it but it's terribly important!"

I am also shocked by the lack of coverage of this fire. It’s so far only affecting the Union Street buildings, but one of those has partially collapsed, from what I can tell backwards into the station. And it’s not yet contained. This is major and more than halfway down BBC’s homepage.