The absolute kicker to all of this is that most of the solutions they are seeking already exist on your phone. They just need to be enabled by parents. But, no, they want to bring an East Wing demolition crew to everyone's internet because no one can be bothered going to "settings."

gotta wonder why you need to have Dems stop supporting kosa 60 times in a row after proving the right wing is lying about it

This is genocide. Explicitly. The first step in killing off a population is ensuring that they’re not allowed to engage in public life.

Everyone saying ”giving that essay a zero was probably too harsh, I would have given it like a 70% to avoid conflict” are perfectly demonstrating how the us education system has been successfully dismantled.

this happens over and over because liberals don't actually have a moral principle against bigotry as much as they have a list of unacceptable targets that occasionally gets updated. they'll learn that it's not ok to demonize gay people anymore but not extrapolate out from there.

It's not hyperbole that to this day someone's HIV+ status alone can be grounds for their partners to threaten & take legal action against them, and abusers absolutely leverage that implicit state violence to trap HIV+ partners

This is DEFCON 1 priority, y'all. Call your senators, reps, call your friends and tell them to call their senators and reps about this. Call your grandma and tell her to call her senators and reps about this. What we have here will be *gone* if these bills pass.

How the fuck does anyone use this terrible exploitative shit service let alone pay for it, shame

This really goes to the deep contempt they have for people. Jeffries could have said any number of plausible reasons why he doesn't want a Hegseth impeachment vote, at least for right now. He instead reached for an almost reflexive lie because he thinks people are too stupid to know it's a lie.

My construction engineering professor failed me for writing "they make chimneys that size so that Santa can get through." Time to call the police

The Benoit Blanc movies work because they know what you want out of a detective: Someone who is weird as hell but morally strong and, by the end of the story, we've learned nothing about them except that they're still weird as hell and morally strong.

Grady Judd was appointed by Trump to a federal council meant to help exploited kids. But in Judd’s own department back home, a child victim was made out to be a liar, leaving her abuser free to assault her again.

Hey so the end of the month passed and senate democrats have refused to do or say anything to show that they disagree with Schumer's cowardice. Primary all of them. It's been obvious that most of the Democratic party was unwilling to actually push where needed, but now we know none are redeemable.

In rigidly hierarchical organisations like LGB Alliance, it is not surprising that sexual harassment and sexual assault are endemic, and its perpetrators protected by its elite members

They’re describing it as a “shock and awe” campaign, which is why it’s essential to show them there’s huge opposition NOW. Call / email your reps to let them know you oppose censorship bills like KOSA and the SCREEN. Read up and get involved in the @fightforthefuture.org Week of Action.

I want to make a comment on this: two TAs graded the paper, one cis, one trans. They agreed on the grade and the reasons. Based on OU’s press release, they have only suspended one of these TAs.

This exact same reporter was ousted from the NY Times for soliciting a $30,000 donation from Epstein— and you're telling me that as an employer, the NY Times never bothered to circle back and review this person's correspondence with a convicted pedophile?

A “child-proof internet”? Can’t wait until government agents start kicking in the doors on anyone suspected of doing sex work and dragging them away

I felt the same way about bush. Nothing ever happened. Almost seems like there's some kind of pattern. Thanks Obama.

#SaveSpeech tomorrow December 2nd, the Energy+Commerce Committee is having a hearing on a package of "online child safety" bills A number of these bills are pro-censorship and surveillance please call their office and tell them these bill;s are dangerous and unpopular! script below!

the cia using people and throwing them away was never a good idea.

"We’re terrified that if she remains in an environment that is so hateful that she might follow the path of so many trans people and spiral into depression and self-harm. So we’re going to do whatever it takes to keep her safe." Here's how families are fighting to survive Trump’s war on trans kids.

This is where that "protected belief" bullshit was inevitably going to end up - godbothering fascists trying to control all of our bodies.

"Vote blue no matter who"

We've created a simple tool so you can find out whether your local NHS trust is using Palantir's software and asking them to resist Wes Streeting's push to sign up for it. goodlaw.social/zr8w

The Epstein files vote is a perfect example. You never know what can happen if you actually..... try?

they hanged journalists at nuremberg for this.

see how the democrats betray us?

I share 43 followers with this dishonest creep. He thinks that pretending to be stupid will fool you into continuing to regard him in any way. I checked the list and I don’t think any of you are that stupid! Please be advised, people like this exist to make you worse.

The first amendment doesn't protect you from being wrong it says we won't jail you for your opinion. We can still call you an idiot and correct you. The first amendment protects our right to do that.

Yes, I’m talking about Vinay Prasad. In 2019, a few months before the pandemic, he told me that homeopathy, jade eggs, and antivax (for example) are such obvious nonsense that it’s a waste of my training to bother refuting them. Six years later, he’s a poster child for why it’s not a waste.

Re-upping a rant/thread I did a while back on school shooter drills in light of today’s discourse on The Kids and the absence of a future:

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social supports murdering random people with airstrikes and thinks it’s great to kill survivors

how are you gonna respectfully end without respectfully starting

A law professor saying the god awful essay is "average" is an indictment on the entire profession

it is obvious. this man is a liar.

a thing a lot of people seem to miss is that the point of military action isn't to kill, it's to take assets off the field. you aren't supposed to shoot down ejection seats either. you may need to kill to complete an objective, but once it's done, the rest is needless spectacle

if you are so stupid that you think the hateful essay that was half assed as a stunt to get a trans grad student fired deserves a passing grade because the assignment was “open ended” you should probably just kill yourself

[trans people fired from all federal jobs] [trans people fired from all military jobs] [trans people fired from jobs everywhere] [cis people fired for being accused of being trans] [cis professors fired for mentioning trans people exist] [trans teacher fired for giving a bad grade to Nazi] liberal:

i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life

Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.

Supporters of marriage equality in Japan faced a setback on November 28th that surprised many. After a series of favorable court rulings across the country, the Tokyo High Court ruled that the lack of recognition of same-sex marriage was constitutional. buff.ly/HlG6HWe

3 weeks ago, she was given the "Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award by the Department of Psychology". OU took this page down from their Instagram, but its still up on LinkedIn.

she also resigned from the springfield missouri city council amid a campaign to recall her. when she ran for mayor, she lost by 36 points

CW: Sexual Abuse Just Richard Dunstan, “good friend” of the anti-trans lobby outfit Sex Matters, casually dehumanising a childhood sexual abuse survivor by suggesting the victim might have “secretly enjoyed” the abuse they endured Transphobia rots the brain, and corrodes any sense of empathy

So many cis people just loathe us trans people for merely existing, even alleged "allies." How heartbreaking and hurtful.

I was born in Oklahoma, I grew up in Oklahoma, and I spent most of my life in Oklahoma. I wish it didn't feel like it was impossible for trans people to build a stable and secure life there.

Yeah this was clearly the completely intended outcome bsky.app/profile/timh...

it's unbelievable how consistent the gap in awareness is

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades