There are many obvious ways that this law and others like it are very bad but there is one additional aspect related to child privacy, consent, and safety that isn't fully being explored and that is relevant to A LOT of the far right laws and policies on children, gender & sexuality.
A dramatic image with bold text about Idaho House Committee's passage of a social transition ban, set against a grayscale domed ceiling background. Transcribed Text: BREAKING Idaho House Committee Passes Extreme Social Transition Ban HB 822 is alarming government overreach that would allow Idaho politicians to decide how youth dress and act.
BREAKING: An Idaho House Committee passed HB 822. This dangerous and unconstitutional bill would require trusted adults, such as teachers and counselors, to monitor children for signs that they are not conforming to gender stereotypes. Learn more about the bill: buff.ly/7kw0CXu
Uzumaki (1998)
While 94% of Americans pay into Social Security all year, Billionaires like President Trump stopped paying on January 1st.
It’s time for the wealthy to step up and pay their fair share so we can ALL retire with dignity.
There are a lot of scientific illustrators and graphic designers who are building their portfolios and will take on work for less than you might imagine. It's not out of reach.
My uncle-est take is you should let marginalized people, folks with more skin in the game than you, have their crashouts in peace.
what if it was all a dream
Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.
NEW: Kansas judge declines to grant a temporary restraining order against law invalidating trans Kansans' drivers' licenses and requiring them to use the bathrooms of their birth sex in govt buildings.
Full story incoming.
I've been struggling with how to express my dismay at the war coverage by our top newsrooms, and how it dances around the central fact that Trump is deranged and unfit to command. I finally wrote something. Please read it. presswatchers.org/2026/03/the-...
Pen and marker drawings of dinosaurs (going clockwise) a red and orange speckled baryonyx, a green and blue striped austroraptor, an albino allosaurus with markings resembling a ball python, and a pink and purple blotchy majungasaurus
Pen and marker drawings of dinosaurs (going clockwise) a red and orange speckled baryonyx, a green and blue striped austroraptor, an albino allosaurus with markings resembling a ball python, and a pink and purple blotchy majungasaurus
Pen and marker drawings of dinosaurs (going clockwise) a red and orange speckled baryonyx, a green and blue striped austroraptor, an albino allosaurus with markings resembling a ball python, and a pink and purple blotchy majungasaurus
Pen and marker drawings of dinosaurs (going clockwise) a red and orange speckled baryonyx, a green and blue striped austroraptor, an albino allosaurus with markings resembling a ball python, and a pink and purple blotchy majungasaurus
🦖 Preview of some trad art designs!
Taking pics at night is hard I need a better setup or scanner or smth
I'm gonna say this once
If I see anyone after today say or repost something like "why should I care about these changes, I don't like "degenerate" art.
You gotta kill the fascist that lives in your head because guess what. The sword is closer to your head than you realize
Gonna once again point out that everyone has carried around a rectangle containing infinite pornography for the past decade minimum and society didn't dissolve so miss me with any weepy handwringing about smut.
1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)
My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):
who wanna hold hands at the robin hood look-alike contest
worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.
A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”
This is from 1975.
The whistleblower complaint “alleges that after leaving govt employment, the former DOGE member told colleagues he had…kept his [SSA] computer & credentials, which he allegedly said carried largely unrestricted ‘God-level’ security access to the agency’s systems…” 3/10/26
Leaving this for sharing.
The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.
This is how Cory Doctorow defines “enshittification.” Where do you see it nowadays? Where do you think it’ll pop up in the near future?
historians is it good when the robe Nobles are able to buy the positions and honors typically reserved for the sword Nobles?
NO NO NO YOU DON’T
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
Time is running out to save the life of Sonny Burton, an Alabama man who didn’t kill anyone.
Tell Governor Ivey to commute his sentence before his scheduled execution date on March 12.
Attacks leave dead vs killed
If you're scared of protesting or a general strike because you could lose your job, healthcare, and housing, or even go to jail, now you understand why the US has no universal healthcare or housing and no guaranteed parental leave, but DOES have the largest prison and police system on planet Earth.
Sign of the times: at the cafe next to a jobless 25ish year old woman with two windows open: The AI "Claude" in one half of the screen & a resume on the other. The AI generator is filling in the details of the latter. The resume is titled "creative director" with aptitude in "brand storytelling"
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call this constitutional illiterate rep Andy Ogles- he doesn't know the 1st amendment in particular.
here are his phone numbers - call them all tell him to read the constitution!
931-771-2140 Nashville office
202-225-4311 DC Office
Tennessee GOP Rep. Andy Ogles says Muslims ‘don’t belong’ in America
The King of the Hill reboot is amazing
I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.
