This actually seems to be a better list of reasons to completely abolish the Greek system.

What if I told you one woman, with little accountability, is wearing the name of the United Nations to launder false anti-trans forum posts into global legal fights, including the US Supreme Court? Our reporter S. Baum investigates Reem Alsalem in our collaboration piece with The Nation.

A man must stand for something

Imagine things being so bad that your best solution is to cut yourself off from Google Search traffic. I don't think that people realise just how much of a bad actor Google has been, for year. No other company has damaged the web nearly as much. 🧵 www.adweek.com/media/publis...

Just think of how many hours some of us spent getting yelled at here about how tattoos don't matter and it was just a drunk kid and nobody can really say what it was and it was only 18 years and

Five facts that you should know about the current Cyclospora outbreak.

This is a good and important 🧵 And as always, I will remind that Jewish folx are always watching for this sort of 🗑️ because we've had to for survival. So we're pretty attuned to this 💩.

I just checked and damn, right out of the gate

Glasgow is hiring a lecturer in medieval history (c.800-1500) on an open-ended basis. We are a lovely bunch in the medieval area, would be great to have a new colleague! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSF052/l...

This Thursday's mood

large forces

"I don’t care what gender or sex really is, I care about the lives and happiness of the people I love, and I condemn unreservedly as unamerican and anti-Western every attempt to insist upon their invisibility for the ideological convenience of some intellectual or politician."

Thank fucking god our endless Nazi tattoo blackwater merc misogynist rapist nightmare is finally fucking over. May we never have to hear or speak this man’s name again.

Today marks the end of the EHRC Code of Practice’s parliamentary stage - with it set to pass automatically. Read our joint statement alongside @scottishtrans.bsky.social and @transactualuk.bsky.social www.transsolidarityalliance.com/post/joint-s...

I see we’ve reached the ‘but was it *rape* rape’ stage of the discourse this morning.

Conspiracism has thoroughly integrated into nearly all sides of politics. If you haven't figured out that we're stuck on the #20thCRedux ride together, you haven't been paying attention.

This has always been the pardoxical logic of Holocaust inversion. Whether it's neonazis in Dresden demanding the world recognize the 'German Holocaust' or it's the campaign of stochastic terrorism in which too many leftists gleefully participate, the aim is to justify the eradication of Jews.

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

Anyone else have weirdly shaped ears that can’t hold onto pods of any kind? I tried Soundcore’s aerofit clip, which are good for staying on my ears, but they make my ears sore & I kinda hate them in every other way. Anyone have any personal recs for a good alternative not-in-ear-bud alternative?

Reduced media attention does not mean a less extreme approach to deportations. DHS has reminded us of that in the worst way possible. The latest edition of Huddled Masses from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social:

Bari Weiss blocking a longtime correspondent from doing a Nigel Farage investigation and reassigning it to her handpicked British import who defends Epstein associate Peter Mandelson is yet more proof that she is a political hire on a political mission

They're just standing by the values espoused by Platner. Which is apparently not taking no for an answer.

Serious question: Does the president not know what’s in the deal he made with Iran? There are no nuclear concessions in the MOU Trump signed. He is a serial liar and would overstate any gains, but on top of that, there’s a live possibility Vance/Kushner/Witkoff lied to him that they got side deals.

In a new study, researchers took a look at the actual rates of detransition in trans youth. @veraeikon.bsky.social brings you a dive into the research here in this month's Journal Club!

Shalom, friends! Elijah’s Dor l’door dash delivery ravens are here to remind you that everyone who donates before the #DafReactions campaign ends tonight will be entered in a signed merch raffle, including this new design based on Chullin 5! www.miriamanzovin.com/donate

Listen, either 'wokeness' is so powerful that it can take over and upend the "natural" patriarchal order, in which case, you should bow to its BDE or it is "weak" and emasculated, in which case it would never have posed a threat. If might = right, you should defer to the mighty woke

Leftover pumpkin experiment smells nice, if nothing else. Shabbat shalom!

I would broaden this out a bit. The structure of the information environment these days basically means that *everyone* lives in their own algorithmically reinforced bubble. Whatever countervailing forces there were have been all but wiped out. It's bubbles all the way down.

📢New issue of #PAG22 is out!📢 In "The Gendered Risks of Violating Expectations and the Importance of Information for Women Candidates" Tessa Ditonto, David J. Andersen & David A.M. Peterson investigate how voter partisan 'tipping points' are gendered. buff.ly/5TzznVL gendersky polisky

Accept people for who they are. Be like Kor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED5V...

Texas mother was turned away by two different emergency rooms when she sought treatment for a miscarriage seven weeks into her pregnancy. Even as she developed a fever, writhed in pain, and suffered massive bleeding—she was refused care. www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-...

Women almost never strangle men during sex or otherwise. That says a lot katemanne.substack.com/p/sexual-str...

BREAKING: A cafe exploded in Damascus after an unknown party planted a bomb in the building. At least 5 people were killed and many others are injured. Some suspect ISIS is responsible but no party has taken responsibility as of now. My thoughts and prayers are with all those affected.

I remembered to empty out kiddo's lunchbox LESS than a week into the summer break. Please clap.

A very good articulation of what seems to me the very obvious point that, no, you shouldn't "bring AI into the classroom."

Okay so unpleasant update: The room I'm supposed to stay in for the month is not as advertised, including mould in the shower, etc. I might still be able to cancel the booking and get my money back. Does anyone have any tips for where to stay (or know anyone with a spare room they want to sublet)?

I've raised over $4500 since Thursday. I can't do my job if I can't pay my bills. I would like to get to $6000 today. But until reaching the $11000 goal, I won't be able to touch any money in my account. If you're in a position to give, please help this transgender woman. I'll be extremely grateful.

Someone tried to stone a random Jew walking down the street today here in Toronto. Libels lead to violence. www.tps.ca/media-centre...

if you don’t think some asshole softball dad will humiliate a cisgender girl for hitting an oppo bomb off their daughter by challenging their gender you have never met a youth sports parent in your life.

REPORT: We reviewed social media posts of far-right independent media, influencers, and columnists in the 72 hours following the Tumbler Ridge school shooting. What we found was an astounding volume of content seemingly aimed at dehumanizing and stirring up hate against transgender people. 🧵

Trois victimes portent plainte pour apologie du terrorisme. → https://l.lefigaro.fr/xHUd

once again, biopolitics is with us www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

Breaking: #SCOTUS under pedophile president LEGALIZES child genital inspections in youth sports

More of this. The algorithm needs to be fixed such that it directs people to stuff like this rather than its exact fascist, violent patriarchal opposite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwoF...

I really wish people would realize that "letting the polyamorous trans kinksters be queer damages my normal gayness" is just "but if we let GAYS get married, it will undermine the dignity of my NORMAL marriage" but with a rainbow on it.

Listening to the audiobook of Milo Todd's The Lilac People & just got to a charged encounter with a US army guy who proclaims "we're not here to make friends! We're here to stop you fucking Germans from killing millions of Jews" Um, wtf? Is Todd working from neo-Nazi historiography or something?

Hitler came up with the idea of a ‘Big Lie’ & at the same time inaugurated the 20thC pattern where Judeophobic accusations are always confessions. If you want to know what people have planned for Jews, you only need to pay attention to the ‘outlandish’ Big Libels against us.

One of the worst online communities I've ever reported on suddenly went dark last month, and now that we're entering July it's feeling safe to say it looks like it's staying that way. The investigation I published in March sparked wider scrutiny of the board, so I'm chalking this up as a career "W"