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I checked. My phone has texts from 2011. Not because I have the same phone, but because they’re automatically backed up. WhatsApps go back nearly as far for the same reason. If you don’t have a back up then it’s because you’re made an active choice… …or it’s a cover up:

Scotland based friends, I'm working on a mental health resource list. What organisations or groups or charities should I make sure to include? Mostly Edinburgh based things or online self help type resources.

It does drastically reduce the chance of good medical and palliative care existing and being funded, though

"The bullying accusations have involved adults and children." Another reason Harry Potter really shouldn't have got a remake is that the production of the film series seemed to have managed to be relatively safe environment for the child actors, which isn't always the case as the remake is proving.

when the most prominent meme about a minority is that the attempted suicide rate approaches half of the *surviving* population of that minority, yeah, they know what they’re doing when they target us. every trans crackdown is an attempted mass murder.

Almost as if our rights our intertwined

Again, re “Trump’s Iran war is *just* to distract from the Epstein Files” crowd: The US has tried to exert control over who rules Iran since before Jeffrey Epstein was BORN.

I’ve lived under numerous dictators across North Africa and the Middle East before, during, and after my PhD — and I’m a specialist in fascist / authoritarian / dictatorial propaganda and global conflicts. I’m not just randomly saying shit I make up, lol.

1. Epstein was born in 1953, around the same time as the Anglo-American coup that took out Mossadegh. 2. I have never taken Trump at his word and uncritically repeated him. 3. I am not, in fact, a “neo-fascist collab” - just someone who knows the Middle East well.

I do not know a single Middle Easterner who believes Trump went to war on Iran solely to distract Americans from the Epstein Files. Because Middle Easterners HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH WHY AND HOW THE UNITED STATES GOES TO WAR ON THEM THE MIDDLE EASTERNERS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

Me pitching a train ad campaign

Have seen many variations of this & broadly agree—but the part that struck me in the moment wasn’t “this is a microcosm for how America sucks” — it was “this is a microcosm for trying to behave democratically & respectfully of one another in a complex, evolving situation with things we can't know.”

they gotta be trolling me

Literally years of fighting with the press for them to just even publish a press release, only for the media to cover our hiatus after we post about it on social media. The lack of press, the lack of support is why we have ended up on a hiatus. Trying not to cry with every article published.

Filming the police isn't a crime.

I mean this sincerely: I would not still be here if I had not had access to online community as a teenager.

i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.

Spare me the lectures about getting off Twitter. I'd fucking LOVE TO, but unfortunately, I work on white supremacist bullshit -- so I can't ignore that hellscape platform. But I might as well make 10 cents every now and then from Neo-Nazi harassment; why the hell not?

The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.

I would like to once again emphasise that the ET entirely exonerated (and indeed went out of its way to say it was doing so) the trans woman who has been so publicly monstered in this case.

The effective conclusion of the ET is that trans people have to use third spaces. I think based on very poor legal analysis and uncritical adoption of "gender critical" talking points. But as I say, not binding, and all the relevant issues hopefully to be decided shortly by the High Court.

For those who know what this means, and this I think acts as a microcosm of the quality of the broader legal analysis - the judgment makes extended discussion of the Article 8 rights of trans people, without any reference whatsoever to Goodwin. Not sure how.

It makes this point multiple times in a few different ways, but here is a particularly explicit example of their conclusion that is trans people, and not GCs, who ought to be segregated to third spaces

Seeing a lot of people who are misrepresenting/misunderstanding the judgment. As I say it's not binding, but it did say it was discriminatory for the hospital to allow trans women to use the women's changing rooms.

Someone said that I am conceding trans people's rights to bigots by accurately reporting the conclusion of the Tribunal... And I really just don't know what to say to that?

Feels like an appropriate day to repost my article in DLA Briefings on the human rights implications of treating trans people as a third sex 'A third sex: returning to an intermediate zone'

Anyway, if interested, you should all read my academic article from July last year on why it's a violation of trans people's human rights to treat them as a third sex.

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

People are asking about who is following ICE. From what I can tell it’s mainly journalists—and Will Stancil, for trolling purposes.

ICE seems to get completely flummoxed when they’re being yelled at by white men over 35. They kind of put their heads down and shuffle their feet. It’s like their kryptonite.

i feel like the president is getting into a lot of situations that just don’t get resolved. he’s starting too many storylines. it’s bad editing.

i love checking in on the president’s personal social media posts on the weird website he owns just to make sure he hasn’t announced that we’re at war with all of NATO or the whole european union or colombia or some new thing he just thought of while taking a shit this morning.

if i could give one broad direction to people: stop being afraid of doing something. take some initiative. find a group near you. pick up the boxes that need hauling. bring food. take out the trash. see a need that is unmet? get some friends together and do the thing. organize your niche.

In the United States, being anti-trans is a genocidal position. Once you oppose the existence of a group of people? You can't be trusted on anything.

This link works! Sorry for my cut and paste error! Scroll down for the story on the updates page!

They nearly killed this woman. Then they went on national TV and tried to smear her.

So to reiterate now they are attacking an orphaned child

people keep being like “hey sorry for the beef last week/year/decade” and I cannot even describe to you how little you care about or even remember any internet beef when you see 50 cars full of masked paramilitaries roll into your immediate neighborhood every day. all is forgiven, fight with us

Everyone who is like “hahah the police will always stand with ICE,” kindly shut up. Your city didn’t go through what our city is going through. Even our observers - not exactly pro-cop people - have noticed distinct hostility between ICE and MPD.

You’re correct, I do not actually want full-scale war, barricades on the street, citizens fighting cops, because that would destroy my city and maybe get me killed. I realize from the perspective of someone yearning to watch a revolution on their phone, that’s disappointing

Getting a lot of messages. A lot are like "Can I come help?" (appreciated, but unless you know the area very well, probably not THAT useful) or "Can I send money?" (not to me, please). But the best ones are like "I want to build what you guys have back in my home city." YES, DO THAT. DO IT NOW.

They keep increasing the size and aggression of their deployments while targeting smaller and smaller places, because Stephen Miller derives an almost sexual thrill from the idea of masked thugs overrunning an ethnic enclave, but can’t find enough thugs or a neighborhood that’s vulnerable enough

whichever ice guy filmed me following you through midtown in that black explorer, DM me to share video plz

Btw whichever press crew this is, you need to find a more official-looking way to tell us, or even just pull over and show us your credentials when you get a tail. We followed you for 20 minutes because you were acting exactly like ICE does when they catch a tail

The woman who said she was autistic as ICE dragged out of her car is named Aliya Rahman via this statement: "Masked agents dragged me from my car and bound me like an animal, even after I told them that I was disabled." It happened two blocks from where Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good.

Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people are grooming them to be Nazis.

The EHRC's draft Statutory Guidance "would deputise all of us to police each other’s genders in public – to monitor and question how we look, how we behave, how we move through the world."