NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally. n.pr/4w1lkb8

JK Rowling may i interest you in a submersible expedition dive

What kind of a society do we live in where the grading policies of Duke, Harvard, and Yale are the focus of the *New York Times* but the crumbling buildings of CUNY - literally the public university of the city of the paper - merits barely any attention from the NYT? ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

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When people say that there is a bias against conservatives in places like the Times that reflects their failure to understand that the Times (like many university spaces) lowers standards to represent right-wing views for purposes of intellectual diversity.

Fucking hell

Again, the field of extremism studies will never advance unless we start openly talking and writing about violence inflicted by the state. Specifically how state violence is the direct result of the government’s official foreign and domestic policy being based on a racist conspiracy theory.

One of the most classic NYT op-ed tropes is: man walks into place he has no history with or in, exhibits no concern for colleagues or long term history or sustainability of said place, & accuses the place of being both horrible & the crucible of all they hate. Today’s contender: Frank Bruni!

this is “pete hegseth wants an all-white military”

I keep telling myself that I have to leave a tinyyyyy place in my heart for Kamala, just in case she pulls it together enough, and then, every single time, she shows she’s learned nothing & still hates her voters. I guess at this point, that’s on me.

Back to Mitch: we’re at least talking elder abuse at this point, right?

“What I loved about Senator Lindsey Graham is that we belonged to the same social class”

Never disagreeable hahahahahhahahahahaha

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

That man celebrated killing other humans IN ADVANCE, so, as far as I’m concerned, celebrating his death is the best way to honor him. Have a great day everyone!!

Fuckkkk theeee new yorrrrkkkk timeeesssss

Reminder: Memphis is still “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Task force members have reportedly killed at least two people in four days.

Sitting in my parent’s backyard (hellllooo central ny!), listening to the birds, and thinking about how interesting the Mitch McConnell documentary is gonna be

Again. This is the author. What are we doing here?

With these sorts of cries of 'fascists are secretly gay', read Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies (vol. 2, p. 339) for a far more interesting interpretation: fascists replace sexual freedom and dismantling of social norms with the psychosexual compulsion to must do what is forbidden, but also obey

60% of youth in custody are diagnosed with ADD or ADHD – compared to just 11% nationally. Kids need care, not cages.

Sucks when you pivot to support a fascist regime and they still come for you

AI perfectly timed to help facilitate the proliferation of Ozempic-era Skinny Is Back aesthetics

During the Obama administration, immigrant advocacy groups criticized the incredible rate of deportation, as well as the fact that in contradiction of ICE’s claims, the vast majority posed no threat.

"The female staffer who swapped seats with a male colleague to get away from the prominent congressman described a sort of millennial-woman version of the infamous Mike Pence rule being adopted in certain quarters on the Hill."

Why are there so many rapists in politics? The answer is that political networking in the US—for future candidates, staffers, and donors—starts in frat houses. Here’s a recruitment slide from the University of Michigan about how many of our male political leaders chose to join literal boys’ clubs.

They’re just looking out for the other members of their community!!

"The decision by the university’s AAUP chapter to retain outside lawyers is the latest example of faculty members and other groups choosing to fight settlements with Trump in ways that the colleges themselves often seem reluctant to." @aaup.org @yaleaaup.bsky.social

10000% at least 1 child is going to die because of this

This is one for the history books

BREAKING: DOJ filed notices on Thursday night that it will be appealing the preliminary injunctions issued in New York and California barring it from seeking private patient information via grand jury subpoenas about transgender people who received gender-affirming medical care as a minor.

ICE Detains HBCU Baseball MVP https://bit.ly/4f62Vmu

I just created www.lgbtqlegislation.com which builds on the work of the LegiAlerts team to provide an interactive data dashboard to look at 20+ years of anti-LGBTQ legislation and especially anti-trans legislation. It also includes an overview of pro-LGBTQ legislation. Check it out!

If you are a man, I just want to humbly throw out there that silence may be the best option for you right now beyond “I believe women and I will cut all men who don’t out of my life”. I can guarantee any other take is unnecessary and will only hurt you (or land you a job!).

This country is so beyond fucked.

Decades after helping establish U.S. Sociology, W.E.B. Du Bois lamented, “The social sciences... are trying as completely as possible in practically every institution of learning to turn away from the real fundamental and vital questions and lose themselves in mathematics and statistics.”

The term “restorative justice” only seems to emerge in popular political discourse when a man is credibly accused of violence against women. But Platner’s withdrawal video shows why men who allegedly commit gendered violence are the worst test case. They are the least likely to feel remorse.

This story keeps getting more evil.

Only one student enrolled in West Virginia University’s new Washington Center after GOP lawmakers mandated the creation of the program Lawmakers allocated around $3 million to the program in the last two years

Destroy the consulting class.

"Orr’s extensive Cambridge compound provides accommodation for at least half a dozen postgraduate students, though it is not clear whether this is on a fee-paying basis … Orr has defended the practice as being common in Cambridge, though fellow academics say that it is highly unusual."

Another NYT banger: the USA will never win, despite its women’s team winning FOUR times. Totally consistent with their transphobia and endorsement of violent men is the erasure of women from their imagination.

This reminds me of when Sheryl Sandberg talked about being afraid to walk down the street post anti-genocide protests. These people are so isolated from both reality AND people that are different from them that they’ve decided they must legislate people to death to soothe their self-induced panic.

Faculty unions sued Texas Tech University System leaders over directives that they say stifle debate and undermine their teaching. The lawsuit calls the policies restricting instruction on race, gender identity and sexual orientation unconstitutional.

I am expecting a wave of red-state public universities limiting the ability to employees to participate in professional associations that are deemed too "woke." This case out of Texas is just the beginning. Also, with budgets tightening, conference support is going to shrivel anyway.

There are between 400,000 and 500,000 untested rape kits in the US. If you go to the police you will be put on trial. Asked what you were wearing, why you were with him etc Many will dissuade you from pressing charges Some police are rapists themselves “Just go to the police” is not a solution

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I once again beg you to stop supporting the NYT. Get any remaining “decent” people out of there and shut it down.

"The fact that the sex differences in the three dimensions studied here—brain activity, brain structure and behavior—do not overlap suggests they don’t reflect a single underlying biological axis". yep.

During the eclipse, the city of Terre Haute, IN, which was in the 100% zone, put up billboards advertising their celebrations that said “Total Eclipse of the Haute”. Her influence knows no bounds and we were lucky to have her.