This is the pot unaware of how black it is, as it yells at the void. The entirety of the "free speech" movement of The Right has been, "if you aren't conservative you don't get to speak". That he gets pushback is the complaint. He, and his ilk, are supposed to be given a free ride for bigotries.

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

...and multiple studies demonstrating that shifts in identity and/or stopping GAHT are overwhelmingly *not* indications of transition regret are linked to in this essay (specifically, in the "Detransition, Regret, and Dynamic Transition Trajectories" section): juliaserano.medium.com/spotting-ant...

...and if you don't want to read the study itself, here is a good overview of it from @evln7.bsky.social: queersciencelab.beehiiv.com/p/new-study-...

many ppl highlighting flaws in this article. but having fought in the "80% desistance" wars of the mid-2010s, I remember asking anti-trans activists if they'd be ok if 80% of youth were helped by gender-affirming care (flipping their argument). & they *never* answered. b/c they want *zero* trans ppl

Can't wait for all the free speech and intellectual diversity on campus advocates to raise a hue against this abrogation of student rights

I get blocked by a gang of people every time i mention that. You would rather block the people telling you the truth because they're not coddling you but are still willing to have discourse with the Charlie Kirks of the world. That's who you are. Sit with that. Over there tho. I don't trust you.

"Saying i told you so isn't helpful!" Neither was telling you in advance. Nothing we can do is helpful. We march and "that's not the way." We boycott and "boycotts don't work." We tell you that project 2025 is coming, "you're fearmongering!" You mad at the people who told you the truth.

And a LOT of folks get mad at "i told you so" and still ignore the people who consistently told you what was going to happen because you think it's mean to point out that you WERE in fact, warned. But, you chose to believe that we couldn't possibly recognize patterns we've seen our whole lives.

"That's illegal!" "He can't do that!" "He doesn't have the power!" "We will sue!"

The Neoliberals are going to pull out all of the stops to try and maintain their power no matter the outcome as it becomes clear neoliberalism is a dead ideology and democratic socialism are the future. This is also The reason we are seeing increasingly right wing positions from the Liberals

The entire “Americans want pro corporate liberal centrism” project has failed, and an entire industry that runs on pretending otherwise is panicking. It isn’t just that they don’t want to move the party to the left; they don’t understand HOW to. They’ve literally never thought about it.

I realize I’m probably stating the obvious, and even worse I admit I don’t really know the solution to this: the reason liberal “strategists” keep reaching out to the right is because the right isn’t the side they see is their enemy. The right isn’t trying to get them all fired.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

when i say the washington post deserves neither your money nor your respect, i also mean wapo puzzles & diversions, and crosswords and all their podcasts

at its peak, including all part-time informants, the stasi had one spy for every 6.5 citizens of unsere deutsche demokratische republik republicans in the most democratic nation in the world appear to want to beat that ratio on top of having the highest per-capita numbers of the imprisoned

The rise of the "snitch state".

to restate for the audience in the back: the difference between binary and nonbinary is the difference between soup and stew. either way you call it, it's still not a fucking sandwich.

lrt: "collapse of the constitution as an institution" masha gessen, 2016: "institutions will not save you"

just formalizing a big part of Our Current Crisis, the utter collapse of Congress as an institution

Thread for concerned Chicagoans.

ICE has been operating actively on the Northwest Side in the last week, and our Rapid Response Team has been working incredibly hard to verify reports, as well as support neighbors. But we need help.

unpowered wheels? i sleep wake me up when they wire it up with e-bike motors and batteries

There is a thesis to be written about how this image perfectly encapsulates American fascism and more broadly American relation to religion and how utterly blasphemous this is.

The centrist Korea Herald on Trump's ICE raid on the Korean plant in Georgia. The anger and disgust at the US is palpable. "Trumpian America’s day of disgrace." www.koreaherald.com/article/1058...

I cannot stress enough how I literally woke up with this person's article link in my hands going "how did I end up here" and it fucking slaps. Absolutely nails how jarring FFXVI is in terms of its bitter, bitter misogyny, and how that casts prior games in such a strange, sickly light.

"In response to a complaint from a Virginia-based conservative nonprofit earlier this year, the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation into the [Chicago Public Schools'] Black Student Success Plan."

if the rapture happens tomorrow i will laugh if precisely none of the conservative/evangelicals are blessed but a whole bunch of leftists queers who don't even believe are

what a fucking own goal for biden and the democrats. none of this had to happen and they used vague "security concerns" to hand the right another tool for their noise/disinfo/misinfo/propaganda machine a long line of just shambolic mistakes, even brazil's 2014 mineiraço team showed more ability

It's a basic point, but one that needs to be repeated: If right-wingers and their views were popular, they would not be so desperate to control mass media & social media nor to use government power to silence everyone else, and they wouldn't need oligarchs pumping billions into amplifying them.

So you know how many views Charlie Kirk’s memorial got online in TOTAL now a day later ? 26000 Folks are having “dialogues” to see both sides with folks who can’t top a mid level anime food influencer At some point we admit they aren’t being bullied . They’re racists weaponizing cowardice

So This also applies to any racialized communication and I’m including Klein and the “discourse” obsessed enablers www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMRE962C/

Technologically advance a band Queens of the Bronze Age

the show where measurements are made up and size doesn't matter, just like integrity at a major newspaper

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.

Technologically advance a band 2.0×

hoping cbp will actually remember my visa is legal as i fly the sword coast part of nexon's team to set up a synthetic 20 production line in waterdeep

charlie died so our autisms could be forgiven

is this not what y'all refer to when you're talking about "gyros"

i just want to say that not everyone who attended northwestern and/or uchicago is intelligent, wise, or smart, let alone sane

No it doesn’t. It requires Democrats STANDING FOR THINGS instead of constantly knifing us in the back, thus attracting support from people who don’t vote because they are (rightly) cynical about politics.

i dunno man, trump is underwater with democrats and independents but have you noticed that the democrats are also underwater with democrats and independents in large part to milquetoast shit like this and people not seeing dems being effective or have any kind of fire?

I dunno, man, they've been calling people like me monsters for over a decade in mass media and on cable news when we've done absolutely nothing to deserve it And now they're basically trying to eliminate us altogether, and you want me to make room for the people who are trying to get rid of us?

waait you’re shocked shoe-on head is a fascist? In the year 2025? Amazing how little people have been listening to those of us speaking about nazbols and the fascist takeover of cpusa over the last decade.

The United States, once again a trailblazer against human rights.

It's important to note that Ezra Klein and his merry band of centrist clowns very often are just plain MISINFORMED. They don't understand the history and politics behind the garbage ideas they push. Vibes-based fascism support from the "left" is not only morally abhorrent, it's deeply ignorant.

They abandoned the whole free speech thing as soon as people started saying things that genuinely offended them. It wasn’t that they were so tolerant that they accepted nazi talk as a necessary evil to protect speech writ large, they just liked saying and hearing slurs bsky.app/profile/jame...

more national publications should try this but until then maybe subscribe to local ones that do

If you're upset about Jimmy Kimmel being "canceled," I'm sure you were just as furious when you heard about Joy Reid and Tiffany Cross or Amber Ruffin or Karen Attiah or Jemele Hill Because Kimmel might still have a job if you were

The tactic of coming first for Black women in journalism goes back to Reagan. For me the actual big call was not the big names but the teachers , administrators and others whose names don’t ring bells , but whose jobs where in every report since the 60’s www.propublica.org/article/geor...