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Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people. Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.

Tokyo’s average annual temperature has increased by about 3.0 °C from ~1876 to ~2019. This includes both global warming and additional warming due to urbanisation and continued loss of green spaces. Meanwhile, Tokyo Met Gov’t is felling hundreds of mature trees in downtown parks for redevelopment.

🏳️‍⚧️ For US-based trans people 🏳️‍⚧️ The applications for Point of Pride's Annual Trans Surgery Fund will open on Nov 1, 2025. This is a fund that aims to provide direct financial assistances to trans people who can't afford gender-affirming surgeries. More info: www.pointofpride.org/annual-trans...

Everything is a distraction from this.

Reminder that "gender ideology" is not an actual thing. It's a vague bogeyman created by the religious right to oppose women's rights and LGBTQ+ rights: UN www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul... Council of Europe pace.coe.int/en/files/297... Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/news/2018/12...

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A well-kept secret are the terrifyinge houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wrong

You’d think after interpreting for artists of all kinds for so many years, I would have figured out a good, all-purpose translation for こだわる by now since nearly every artist uses it when discussing their art, but you would be wrong.

when i got to oxford they gave the international students an orientation on using the NHS and said that sometimes for dental emergencies, you have to go to a private dentist and that can cost a lot. I asked how much and she said £40 and I burst out laughing.

Seeing this photo make rounds as a “Shinto Kami.” No. This is a photo of two Jizo-sama from Tenryuji in Arashiyama, Kyoto. They’re definitely Buddhist, not Shinto. Due to Haibutsu Kishaku and local practices, a fair few of these roadside protectors were (semi) Shinto-ized, but this one was NOT.

Seems extremely bad that the military remains deployed in Los Angeles and there doesn't seem to be anything that people with power are doing about it.

I wish all of my nonbinary friends relief from back pain

いや本当にもうね、笑ってる場合じゃないけれども、きれいに予想通りの流れなので笑っちゃうよね。 After Trans People, Trump Now Erasing Bisexual People From Stonewall National Monument

🪢IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME🪵 Between July 10 and 14th the floats that will participate in the Gion Matsuri's first parade (the 'Saki Matsuri' 先祭り - July 17th) are constructed. The parts are laid out, slotted together, and then meticulously bound in rope. #Kyoto #祇園祭 #山鉾 #GionMatsuri

This is the second time Azeen has done this. She still hasn't mentioned the Utah report at all.

Instead of “Alligator Alcatraz” or “Alligator Auschwitz”, let me suggest that we call it simply the Dade-Collier Concentration Camp. Hang the name on Florida. Make them own this disgraceful moment in U.S. history. Make our grandchildren lobby to change the name of Dade County out of shame.

Can confirm this email is authentic — and about nothing in it is true. Social Security income is still taxed. This bill does nothing to change that. It’s willful disinformation on the part of SSA. It’s a lie.

I am very sorry to hear of the passing of Prof. David Hughes, one of the leading Anglophone scholars on traditional Okinawan music, and a kind man. sanshinkai.uk/in-memoriam-...

Damn, all those high fantasy novels were right: evil must be defeated in *every* generation and we must be ever watchful for its return

Lander also provides some excellent Jewish cover for Mamdani's support for ideas like "globalize the intifada" and BDS which promote, encourage, and seek to justify villainization, ostracization, and violence against Jewish people, and eliminating Jewish self-determination in our ancestral homeland.

hi, cis folks! the GOP put the all-ages trans medicaid ban back in the budget, despite it being struck. they did it to force dems to challenge it on the floor. if you've been paying attention, you know dems need to hear you want them to actually stand up to the GOP. contact info at reps.fyi 🧵

1. Today, 200,000 marched in Budapest Pride in defiance of a ban by Orbán's far-right government. It was led by the city's mayor Gergely Karácsony, who got around the law by making it an "official city gathering." He was warned of arrest. They marched anyway. Subscribe to support my journalism.

as for the upshot of the decision, the republican court has put the citizen children of non-citizens in a position similar to that of free blacks during the antebellum period. their right to enjoy the privileges and immunities of american citizenship will vary according to state borders

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Viktor Orban banned pride events in Hungary, the people took it as a challenge and just had the largest pride march in their country's history.

The United States tried presidents who were smart, decent, and capable of empathy, but decided it wasn’t for them. It just didn’t reflect them.

If the symbolism was any heavier, it would pull the rest of reality into it like a neutron star

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I took one photo at pride and it’s this

The LAPD is claiming that someone called 911 to report a kidnapping when masked up federal officers grabbed a man at 9th street. They are saying that is why they formed a perimeter to protect the raid from angry citizens

“If we know somebody is coming here to do warrantless abductions of the residents of this city, those are not our partners. I don’t care what badge they have on or whose orders they’re under. They’re not our partners.” — LA City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson

From the Post: "Democrats, more than Republicans, need to be attuned to what younger voters want — even though those voters are less loyal to the party itself." No, no, you ninnies. Replace "even though" with "because."

“In my many years of life, I’ve never heard anyone speak ill or discriminate against [minority I’m not a part of].” The thing about not being part of a minority group is that your presence doesn’t usually trigger people’s bigotry towards said group. So that’s, in fact, not unexpected.

The real question is how many other people have died under ICE who were not citizens of fancy ally countries. They will never report the true numbers. May all their memories be for a revolution. We need Canada to make a BIG FORKING DEAL over this and get it to be the scandal that ends ICE plz

First they came for abortion. 
Now it’s birth control, cancer screenings, prenatal care. The Supreme Court just ruled states can block Medicaid patients from getting care at Planned Parenthood. (1/2)

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CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.

Docomo Tower says Fight for Trans Rights

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All the people I still know in LA laugh and laugh when they hear that "Los Angeles is burning." I made a couple of maps to show just how tiny and localized the protests are. GOPers are working really hard to make an excuse for declaring martial law. People should be very wary of that.

Turns out UFOs were a Pentagon disinformation campaign. Gift link

always struck by how everyone who screams “we’re full” citing the strain on services is also viciously opposed to the safety net

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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the fact most reports are leaving out that he was killed protecting his husband during a homophobic hate crime where his dead dog's skull was placed in their mailbox as a threat is leaving some important details out i think

The Pokemon who runs this account

The fbi is about to get people in healthcare killed and that seems to be the point of this. If the FBI is now going to be engaged in surrogate actions in this way against those they see as a threat to the fascist power we are going to have kinetic contact sooner than later.

Stop giving your money to the wizard lady to fund transphobic campaigns, people