I'm a different generation, back then we got sent to experimental therapists who tried to sexually abuse us.

I've seen this "just asking questions" playbook by the media before - on vaccines, trans healthcare, among other things - and that road doesn't lead to good places or health outcomes. 😬

what the fuck happened here

On a different angle, one thing that *is* quite interesting (in a sad way) is the extent to which far right populist strains of religion--MAGA evangelicalism, Hindutva, Kahanism, jihadism, or Russian Orthodoxy (in Russia)--resemble each other in rhetoric & orthopraxy more than their coreligionists.

the reluctance of urbanist policymakers to acknowledge and celebrate the successes of Ras Baraka and Brandon Scott in particular is just, like, naked racism with a heaping side of ideology

ppl come to bsky and be like "gee it sure is boring around here!" my boy, this peace is what all true warriors strive for.

(to the tune of "feliz navidad") denis villeneuve

"porch piracy" is theft. it's illegal in every single state. in states with expansive statutes, this could even be burglary. there is no evidence that local police or prosecutors are unable to handle this. and existing federal law on interstate transportation of stolen property can handle big cases.

And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die. He was unable to. He still walks among us, cursed to remember in a world where everyone has forgotten. He’s out there now, just beyond the light your lantern throws,

it took me a minute to put together that she’s being homophobic, not making a genuinely helpful suggestion about birth control

Do you think getting a Na’vi avatar body is cheaper than getting bottom surgery and FFS. Like I bet if you were just like “yes sir general sir I need a female avatar body for uhhh guerrilla warfare reasons” you could get a free cat pussy and just sort of fuck off into the woods to do space peyote

This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.

Oh my God, they’re posting Zerohedge. If you’re not familiar, ZH is a right wing propaganda operation, ostensibly about financial markets, but more focused on sewing general discord.

In the spirit of Festivus, airing my grievances at states that make legal research unnecessarily difficult: -Pennsylvania: 2 statutory codes (they never got around to finishing the official one) -New York: Confusingly named courts, terse appellate opinions that assume familiarity with the facts

Biases as a trans person aside, I think at some point we need to make a stand simply because Republican affirmative action becoming the norm will make it functionally impossible to teach.

Betcha a shiny nickel this is because they told their LLM to redact all the initials used to identify minor victims and so it also redacted S.D.N.Y.

you see, men, being hunter-gatherers, had no time for reading, whereas women were gathered by the fire and could engage in trivial pursuits like literature.

It seems like the instructor in question doesn’t want to talk publicly about this (she isn’t even named, let alone asked for comment, here) but if the left wing media worked like the right wing media she’d have a sinecure as a news commentator ready to go, and it would be a better world if she did.

Trump wasn't wrong, he was just early

Mel Curth deserves to have her name said. Her career is most likely being cut short because of a targeted harassment campaign and manufactured scandal.

if bari weiss had tried to do 9/11 there'd be three towers now

post-9/11 country music is what white people pretend rap music is to black people but for white people tbh.

the claim here is that "Democrats would be center-right in Europe," and it falls apart in the health care context if you consider abortion and gender-affirming care to be health care (which you obviously should)

The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect

A bit of a detour, but this made me think about what endlessly fascinates me about Weiss and people like her is how they take conservative positions on most things and yet refuse to describe themselves as conservatives— out of what I suspect is mainly classism

“This reported piece is not enough like an opinion piece” is a big part of the decline of elite journalism and Weiss is the apotheosis of this.

also that even more than in the past the rich and powerful are looking for sycophants who can tell them they're actually brilliant, a trend that has worsened ever since the rich got mad at ordinary people on social media telling them they were shit.

Simply Having A wonderful

I think bigotry has become a kind of loyalty ritual among young republicans, it’s how you show you’re one of them www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

extinction level event for the MNGOP lmao

If you look up "skill issue" in the dictionary, you might just see Andrew's photo

It is disillusioning to see so many lessons learned through blood unlearned by time

dreamed i won a salad making competition by googling "hitler's favorite salads" finding a listicle of hitler's 20 favorite salads and letting the judges know my opponent had made hitler's 17th favorite salad

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

Between whatever awful bullshit happens at this HHS press conference and the Senate vote on H.R. 498, it’s gonna be a long day for people who believe in the absolute necessity of access to gender-affirming care.

carcinization comes for every president!! 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

CHIKKIN CHIKKIN

i think what disgusts me the most is that businessmen valued harassing their female employees over their everything else, including their duty to shareholders

Why did I stumble upon Frederick laying here looking like he’s summoning an Eldritch horror?

malevola from dispatch in a suit

This is talking about the entire NDAA, which does contain some dumb culture war provisions, one that double super secret further bans trans athletes from the military academies they're already banned from Agree or not on the NDAA vote, framing it as a standalone anti-trans bill is outrage farming

I need some of the people insisting that attacks on Jews worldwide are the fault of Israel to explain the absence of attacks on Russians worldwide.

Dec. 15, 1925: "Portrait of Cécile," by Gabriel Moiselet in Vogue magazine.

i'll admit it. i really like black vinegar and soy sauce and sesame oil. that's right. i'm a card carrying member of the chinese condiments party