From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

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“Trans people have always been here and they will always be here. It's the job of cisgender people and the rest of the community to protect and fight for their rights.” Great to see roller derby crews in Manchester show their solidarity with trans and non-binary folk. 🏳️‍⚧️ www.itv.com/news/granada...

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Brilliant article. Please share. www.tetleystldr.com/tetleystldr-...

Noch ein Beweis dass linke Personen bei den Bullen nicht erwünscht sind. 1312

If you have a spare minute, please sign the petition to the NZ government to repeal the ban on puberty blockers for trans and Takatāpui youth 🩷🩵🤍 our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...

The long range Ukrainian drone strikes against Russian oil installations is paying off bigly.

No "birthright citizenship" means nobody can prove they are a citizen. If you have any immigrant ancestor and you cannot prove lawful status at that time, even if it was 1830, you citizenship is in doubt.

To all my SWer friends who need reminding and even non SWers- It’s ok to not film with someone and it’s ok to say no at *literally any point*. Anyone that doesn’t respect this is a rapist. No means no.

oh jeez louise i hope they weren't Gender Organs that would sure be awkward wouldn't it

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Just a reminder that Newsom grew up in a rich family, went to school on a baseball scholarship, and immediately found a billionaire to financially back his vineyard. And also he’s related to Nancy Pelosi. He does not know what normal is. He’s completely out of touch and telling you to be “normal”.

crazy all the websites and paypros are doing their big No Horny Allowed crackdown while every online advertisement now is iether "AI SEX HOT AI CHAT NO FILTER BOOB AI FURRY GIRLFRIEND only for adults ages 6+" or "NPR is now teaming up with Bumfights dot com to revolutionize gamified asset trading"

I'm a leftist nonbinary pansexual furry who is ordained clergy in three (3) entirely different religions at the same time and live in a polycule household, and I'm still genuinely, earnestly, more "culturally normal" than The Smiler has ever been in his entire Love Child of Reagan and Dan White life

what does it tell you about cis exultation of religious gender doctrine that the cunt in charge of exiling trans women from womanhood in the name of "biology" has the exact same number of balls and ovaries as i do

Fuck you of you think trans rights should be sacrificed "for the good of democracy". The anti democracy machine is the anti-trans machine. Get that through your skulls.

“We tend to imagine corruption as a transaction: money buying votes, quid pro quos in backrooms. But money’s real power is quieter and deeper. It decides which candidates get to run, which policies are thinkable, and whose voices get amplified or ignored.“ Worth reading the full piece!

This was a trans affirming protest, defending not only academic freedom but also the entire project of the university. I was so moved.

Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.

Trans ban: Good Law Project fights back with legal action against bullies The Good Law Project is warning that organisations’ decisions to exclude trans women could actually be unlawful (ahem, Girlguiding and Women’s Institute). It has now decided to challenge the trans ban. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I think it's that it's intentionally gratuitous, to declare that we're not doing insidious systemic racism any more, but rather proud, arrogant, aggressive racism. And it's meant as a personal insult to every decent person in this country.

This is literally me after reading a New York Times article about youth gender-affirming care.

one of many parallels between anti-vaxxers & those who oppose gender-affirming care: they start by pretending they have a very specific concern (MMR vaccine, puberty blockers, etc), but once given any sway or say on the matter, they quickly strive to eliminate all of it

It's an actual game plan on the right. They use it for book bans as well. They start with something easy: no porn in libraries. That hooks in the low information folks. Then you slowly broaden the scope until you're yanking any YA that violates Christian nationalism.

If you buy or watch or support JK Rowling's properties or licensed properties in any way, YOU are helping fund this hate.

Verdacht: Anne Brorhilker taugt als positive Identifikationsfigur (und Schreckgespenst für Superreiche) viel zu gut, um in die großen Talkshows eingeladen zu werden. Oder gab es solche Einladungen bereits, @finanzwende.de?

If you like cycle and near one of these advents I am sure they would love to see you ❤️ www.cyclingweekly.com/news/this-is...

Der Innenminister will künftig Frauen nach Afghanistan abschieben und Personendaten mit den Taliban teilen. Damit sprengt er alle moralischen Grenzen.

Kudos for these women for standing up and doing the right thing but they're trying to ban trans women from e-sports now? Absolutely ridiculous.

Ich habe für den Volksverpetzer aufgeschrieben, warum der Begriff "hocheffizienter Verbrenner" wohl der bekloppteste Begriff seit Langem sein dürfte. Fun Fact: Fahrt ihr 100 Kilometer VW Golf, reicht die entstehende Wärmeenergie für einen Tag Wohnung beheizen. www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/ve...

She compares trans people to two totally different situations. Both the other example behaviours? A breach would be criminal. Which is telling…

ADHD & autism "diagnoses are increasingly used by students & workers for organising to push back against oppressive systems and institutions of exploitation. The backlash against the expansion of these diagnoses is... a ruling class backlash against a demand for change by those who are disabled..."

"It's about strenght difference!" , unless it's a sport that doesn't rely on strenght, then it's whatever excuse they can find because it's in fact all about discriminating against trans women & nothing else.

Girls can what boys Nintendon't

I don't think Netflix should get to eat anything else until it finishes all the prematurely cancelled shows on its plate

Exakt. Die AfD hatte bei der BTW 20%, jetzt liegt sind in Umfragen bei 24-27%. Es deutet nichts, aber auch gar nichts auf einen Kurswechsel der Regierung hin. Im Gegenteil, die Junge Gruppe wird nun umso mehr einfordern bei Migration und Rente. Wasser auf die Mühlen der AfD. Es wird nur schlimmer.

Fuck that dude. Throwing homeless people's possessions in the trash for a photo opp and then tossing trans folks under the bus for podcast listeners. Fuck him and fuck anyone that votes for him TBH

when a queer creator, especially a furry creator, has a kink account or NSFW account separate from their main, it's your duty as a bystander to shut the fuck up and keep going instead of Moral panicking abt it and sexually harassing that person by "exposing" their fetishes and porn to random people

Patreon Policy Team emailed creators saying they'll host a livestream clarifying existing 18+ guidelines on DEC 11. If you're a creator please show up! You can submit issues you'd like them to cover in the rsvp form.

I wouldn't necessarily have predicted that this one story would get to me more than many others, but I feel heartsick. Every married woman who takes her husband's last name has changed their legal name. Legal name changes aren't a matter of opinion - Rachel is her name.

All in one day: Immigration Minister lied about me with a slur. Wes Streeting then tried a different attack. And the Evening Standard write yet another attack piece because I dare to say we need to tax the rich. Want to help create our better future? Join.greenparty.org.uk

I don't care if you think that AI can do some really nifty things. It's being rammed down our throats by obscenely wealthy men who are also, obviously, both dangerously right-wing and mentally unstable, and no rational society should be allowing that to happen. End of discussion.

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Die Geschichte von ME/CFS liefert das "Drehbuch" dafür, dass das Leugnen und Ignorieren von Krankheiten mitsamt dem Vorenthalten sozialstaatlicher Leistungen ebenso bei körperlichen Krankheiten machbar ist – Mediziner*innen spielten mit, die Öffentlichkeit sah weg und schwieg. 1/3

Guardrails are a scam. It's not that they could work, it's that they cannot and never will for such models. By design. 1/n

It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country. Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.

I mean most likely it will, but even if it doesn’t, none of the political media are willing to interrogate the elements that shaped the young Farage, nor accept their culpability in enabling him. As someone pointed out, Farage is *still* racially abusing school kids