for an idea on where this sort of policy choice is coming from, BU is hosting anti-trans NYT columnist David French for a “Can’t We All Get Along” civil discourse discussion this week.

Gallego says taking AIPAC money is 'akin to endorsing" what's happening in Gaza and Iran. Cory Booker says he's sworn off AIPAC, and all PAC money. Newsom says people believe Israel is becoming an apartheid system. Pritzker says AIPAC is a MAGA front. Even Shapiro and Emmanuel demur on AIPAC.

The Resistance hacked the crossing signal in Denver. Need sound up.

COLLINS: Who's gonna be in control of the Strait of Hormuz? Who's gonna be in control of that? TRUMP: Uhhhh it'll be jointly controlled COLLINS: By who? TRUMP: Maybe me. Maybe me. Me and the next ayatollah, whoever that is. There will also be a serious form of regime change. Look at Venezuela.

Seems so odd to me how consistently quickly people are ready to hate Chappell Roan. This isn’t the first time and it honestly feels more than just the standard mysoginy towards women singers.

The old world is not just dying- we were all fundamentally wrong about the world. Even if you never trusted the system, you probably didn’t believe that the CIA would just let themselves be gutted or capital would be willing to destroy the world economy but here we are. And it broke us.

Also since we can’t actually yell at the people in power or make them hear us, we’re just taking it out on those we can and internet people that just live in the box are right there. And yup, I know all of this intellectually. I’m still cooked mentally.

They are going to lose- they will- but I’m starting to wonder if there is any winning left. Anyway, I have to go to work tomorrow.

It helped me to realize that i’m grieving: … a country that never really existed. … an age of abundance that was absolutely within reach. … a global enlightenment with most of human knowledge freely available to most people. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. 1/?

He started a war, didn’t know how to win it, was immediately over his head, became quickly overpowered by an enemy he vastly underestimated, and now is trying to sue for peace and then convince you that this was a victory. Dying empires produce leaders like this

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The differences between the fates of detained immigrant parents under Biden and Trump are stark, our analysis shows. Trump is deporting about four times as many moms of U.S. citizen children per day as Biden did.

Hard to understate how insulated @heinrich.senate.gov and other Democratic senators are from their base. This Booker interview from a few months back is so rare. If they each had to do these once a week, they’re not voting to confirm Rubio or Mullin. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

men whats stopping from you wearing slutty little shorts like this

Going to college to become Mr Beast and minoring in “getting a bad haircut” I have never learned who Voltaire is but through the process of elimination I can conclude that he is not part of the Beast Crew.

But as long as we're talking about impossible systems we should implement, how about this one: You can't be a dictator unless you manage to have a D&D group of six adults successfully meet once a week for a year. I *live* with my D&D group, and we haven't played since at least November.

That's the problem with reality - it tells you no, sometimes. Fascists aren't good at hearing that word. If they were, they wouldn't be fascists. It makes them furious, that anything or anyone would defy their will. Cnut's advisors, sure that their king can give orders to the tide.

The bane of anyone with a disability, "Why don't you just-" is the whole mindset. You must assume: A) Problems have solutions B) These solutions are easy to implement C) These solutions will not create their own problems D) Reality will cooperate E) Nobody until you has thought of these solutions

Vance put out a tweet recently about "what process is due," and part of that was suggesting that in order for 'due process' to be valid, we'd have to deport 'a few million' people per year. Our entire federal court system doesn't see a million cases filed in a year. Filed, mind you - not heard.

The fascists have never "made the trains run on time," because trains are a complex system that requires expertise, compromise, and concession - with reality if nothing else; no matter how competent you are as an administrator, you can't simply order that there will be no delays. Systems take work.

The right craves "The Day of the Rope," and have for years - because they fantasize about having power, not any of the work that using it even for evil ends by definition requires. Part of their fantasy is that problems are simple, and that wielding power is easy.

Constant mood: I don't want *more* competent fascists. But I reserve the right to feel insulted by how allergic to competence they are.

*Incredibly long, incredibly loud sigh*

I suppose it’s par for the course, but is it really too much to ask that someone who - until recently - held a full professorship shouldn’t scam his readers with AI hallucinations and gross misrepresentations?

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

We should not forget that Ta-Nehisi Coates gave a far better answer to the "right to exist [as a Jewish state]" question than Tucker Carlson. The issue isn't that Tucker is the only one who will say it, but that the American commentariat ices out left-liberal, and often nonwhite, people who say it.

flatly, given the number of ICE agents, they don’t have enough guys to replace TSA in meaningful numbers so the only actual result here is likely to be a series of high profile incidents that generate a ton of outrage, just what ICE needs after their Minnesota humiliation

what’s going to happen if they actually do this in any real numbers is that a lot of folks are going to be harassed or groped in a way they have never encountered before just because they went to the airport and that’s something that really sticks with you

I actually didn’t have “destroy all air travel” on my bingo card. I sure hope this puts the nail in the coffin for the World Cup and the Olympics.

At least 64 people, including 13 children, have been killed in an attack on a teaching hospital in Sudan’s western Darfur region, the head of the WHO said. It is the latest assault targeting the country’s health care facilities in the civil war.

My parents are flying from LaGuardia to DFW today and arrived several hours early for their flight. They have been waiting 1 hour and 45 minutes in this.

Also I am not a journalist. I know I write real good, but i’m very clear about my personal bias, politics, & editorial beliefs. I am, however, the 2028 Democratic Party Frontrunner for President & you should vote for me.

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It's never really discussed much on here but whenever Americans across the political spectrum, or the British, or the Canadians, or even the French et al, discuss a two-state solution, what they're envisioning is an Israel with all the powers it currently possesses and a mini version of the UAE.

Diplomacy meaning "western values" are collapsing might be the best example of saying the quiet part out loud I've ever seen

I'm about 40 minutesninto this @theabigailthorn.bsky.social video and I just keep screaming "YES THANK YOU" when she eloquently makes a point I've been trying to make in my writing for the last decade. youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...

This sucks, and I just saw that Silver Sprocket is closing. I would love love love if the discourse around SF being empty addressed fucking landlords.

The primary democratic nominee for the "opposition" party of this country, on the first episode of his podcast, invited Charlie Kirk on to discuss transgender people. Newsom ended the interview saying he agreed with Kirk on all trans things. Kirk called for genocide trials for GAC doctors. 10/16

In the 1930s, transgender medicine had mastered HRT and transfeminine genital surgeries were successfully performed. Antibiotics would not be invented until the 1940s. Trans medicine is old, but the Nazis propagandized it as unsafe and experimental. 6/16

The Nazis used patient records from the Institute of Sexual Sciences to hunt down trans people and eliminate them. World War II would not break out until over 5 years after this event. Pink and black triangles were used for trans people, and they were subjected to especially severe abuse. 5/16

When the Nazis burned the Institute of Sexual Sciences in the street in 1933, they argued that trans people were corrupting children to immorality and betraying the christofascist german identity. They burned the library, the research, but not the patient records. 4/16

The Tenneessee State Government is currently considering HB 754, which, if passed, would create a PUBLIC list of trans people in the state. This is how stoicastic terrorism becomes escalating vigilante violence. The Nazis came for trans people in 1933, less than a year after taking power. 1/16

I'm trying not to post too much political stuff, but if you don't know why I use the phrase "trans genocide," and you have the stamina, read the linked article below and 🧵. There might not be gas chambers today, but I promise that Native nations recognize what's happening to queer people right now.

Dylan M. Taylor, a Senior DevOps Engineer at Credit Genie, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu, & Arch. He collaborated with two Microsoft employees to merge it. Lennart Poettering then personally blocked the revert & allowed the PR through. The surveillance state runs on unpaid simps.

My large adult son xH(7)g'blun stuns wait staff at restaurants when he orders a pint of pickle juice and 30 hard boiled eggs, everyone hates him and complains about the smell and sounds of scromiting, he truly is my epic based pogchungus

I got really into the game Daybreak this winter, which is a cooperative board game about reversing global warming. It’s based in science and you learn about things people are already doing. I notice articles like this all the time now. It just took a little education and hope to see them.

I can imagine few things more humiliating than having your father, the richest man in the world, writing posts about how “based” your cheeseburger and milk diet is

Now, if I were a Democrat running for office this year, I would be talking very loudly about how Pete Hegseth was clearly and obviously unqualified for his position, and how Republicans foisted him on us anyway, and how that led to this entirely avoidable disaster

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

1. Kid struggles at onset of puberty, is diagnosed with gender dypshoria which mom dubiously claims she wasn't told about 2. Kid comes out at school and asks school not to tell mom because mom would flip 3. Mom finds out; flips 4. Kid runs away 5. This is somehow the school's fault