Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

Young people are already the most tolerant folks in the country. No one ever proposes making people 50+ do national service or some such because no one believes you can make them do anything, while it's generally accepted that young people exist to be commanded and pay for everyone else's bullshit.

the Brazilian right is attempting to pass measures through the legislature to shield Bolsonaro and other legislators from the legal consequences of the failed coup, for which Bolsonaro was recently sentenced to 27 years. these photos are of the massive protests in response.

Even as Trump tries to destroy the NYT, their writers are still trying to help him with their "analysis"

It’s important to know in advance that you will regret going along with it, but it’s also important to say to those who made the wrong decision that you can always stop going along with it, in fact it’s the best thing you could do

Let me make this clear: If you are white and just stand by and watch your fellow white person doing this and you say nothing, it's as if you did it yourself.

In her newsletter this week, Katy Yaroslavsky shares the reasoning behind her convention center vote and suggests a solution: forming an economic development corporation for the city. This is yet another thing that many of our peer cities have, but LA does not. Here's what New York's does: edc.nyc

How would you not reflexively reply “man shut the fuck up”

This is exactly backwards. From the beginning, Kirk was the beneficiary of a large and highly organized network of dark money donors who were looking for a spokesman. No way he would have done what he did without patrons like Montgomery and Uihlein. Kirk didn't make money - money made Kirk.

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

elite centrist/lib transphobia is one of those classic contrarian things where they’ve built up a huge pile of facially convincing “evidence” that collapses immediately if you put it under serious scrutiny

There it is, the whole stupid thing in microcosm

The net effect of Elon buying Twitter and rebuilding the algorithm to constantly spoonfeed people right wing propaganda has been less convincing average people of right wing propaganda and more convincing the entire anglosphere elite class that the average person believes right wing propaganda

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I’m at a community meeting about resisting ICE in Chicago. There are about 400 people in this high school auditorium. Chicago is showing up.

it's easy to get bogged down in the arguments transphobes pretend to be making but in the end they are just people who spend more time thinking about kid genitals than pediatric urologists

Kirk was a nobody to normal people, but it's now clear how important he was to the right. The dream of post-Steve Bannon conservativism: An influencer presidential candidate. A homegrown Trump. The panic we're seeing is a movement realizing they have nothing to replace Trump's cult of personality.

Republicans always made the BS claim that removing statues honoring Confederates was "erasing history." It is not; it is choosing to honor only those worthy of honor. By contrast, *this* is erasing history. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/20/n...

If you want to understand this Trump administration's rampant corruption ... you have to go back to Eric Adams, and how they made the case against him disappear. I got a bunch of new details on this deep dive for @nytimes.com ... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

“limiting face coverings and opening officers up to prosecution would most likely hurt recruitment and drive officers from the state” So nobody will want to be a police officer if they’re not allowed to commit crimes with impunity?

My weekly must-reads list and my thoughts on witnessing care and courage amid clouds of tear gas Friday night. "Almost 550 people across Chicagoland have been arrested by ICE during Operation Midway Blitz. It is a campaign of terror focused on a city that our president feels profound contempt for."

The most elemental form of coercion is detention. Did we forget this? Detention is the ENEMY and the OPPOSITE of due process. The most obvious axiom that we deliberately ignore

Absolutely shattering details in this Sun-Times piece chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09...

I read that Pinochet and Franco had some pretty ridiculous blunders but I don't think anything comes close to accidentally truththing a private dm to your attorney general that you intend to persecute your political enemies

It pretty much can’t not

If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.

Today I learned, thanks to @matthew.flux.community, that in 2014 Ben Shapiro appeared as a guest on a show run by a neo-Nazi. It was an entirely friendly conversation about how liberal Jews who hate white people, straight people, and Christians took over Hollywood and have brainwashed the nation.

We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.

Anyway, the weirdest part is that the festival is thrown by a Christian gun cult.

You see, if you cancel the hunger survey, people will never know how much you drove up food insecurity by slashing SNAP.

these CA state legislators just went to israel to be lobbied by israel to pass anti-BDS laws, including democrat sen. henry stern who is principal author of SB 771 which will fine social media platforms up to $1 million for each incident of using an algorithm that aids and abets “intimidation”.

I will never vote for a pro-life candidate and that is a promise. fuck you

Even if you take the most lenient possible interpretation -- that SCOTUS has made it increasingly hard to prosecute bribery and corruption -- you still have to ask what kind of crooked-ass administration hires a guy who just took $50k cash.

“Pelayo said her dad described being held in a room with at least 150 other men as ICE officers constantly yell at them and call them slurs. He also told his daughters detainees are only given food and water based on good behavior.” These are the conditions at the site of yesterday’s protest.

This case makes clear that the point of work requirements isn't to keep people from exploiting the system. It's to ensure that the system has a steady supply of people to exploit. atlantablackstar.com/2025/09/19/m...

Sheriff Swank accidentally eliminating 40% of the police department

"Right now, everyone has the responsibility to protect their neighbors." "These really are kidnappings." "To ICE and Border Patrol, you are not welcome in our neighborhoods in Chicago. Leave now." #Illinois #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

This has to look insane to normal people right? Like, the only people who care about Kirk are fascists and a small universe of centrist media dolts

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

basically everyone employed by dhs today is presumptively unfit for participation in a decent society

It’s wild how much of this particular thing is his rotting brain not understanding the difference between asylum the thing you seek and asylum the place they put you

Last week, Israel targeted and massacred 34 newspaper reporters in Yemen. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it was the second deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded.

While people are suddenly and uncharacteristically paying attention to media regulation, please take a moment to notice all the massive harm Brendan Carr has done to consumer protection and public safety as well me, back in April:

The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!

“I never thought the leopards would eat MY face” sobbed the representative from the Actually Let’s Fund The Leopards Party

This remains one of the most disgusting things Pelosi ever did

I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.