Simply: "The argument for GAC has never been solely about its ability to stop death, it’s about the way it helps us build the lives we deserve. The argument for affirmation is that no one should be deprived of the opportunity to live their lives in such a way as feels the most true to who you are."

Action needed: Please email your city council and ask them to ask the police department to make sure your city's Flock cameras network to disable the "nationwide" search setting. Mountain View discovered federal agencies searched theirs in 2024! www.mountainview.gov/Home/Compone...

David makes an interesting point here, "Above all, punditry values glib cleverness. You have to be clever. You have to have a slightly different twist than everybody else." In our culture, it's important to clearly link this valuation to how cleverness is racialized and weaponized. White men with

Can’t argue w/ending the filibuster but CIR shouldn’t be seen as the only option for passing good legislation on immigration. The last 20+ years of CIR attempts always included performative tradeoffs for more border enforcement & criminalization of immigrants enabling the conditions that led us here

I live in the area studied by the Harvard School of Public paper cited in this thread and even glancing at it I noticed a couple of glaring issues. First of all, it only includes commercial power-producing plants and there's a research reactor in the highest population county studied.

Telehealth expires (again) in 2 weeks. It would be great if you'd call your Senators to tell them to renew it, but every time I ask, fewer folks respond. Note that this article says, "Our seniors deserve better, and Congress must implement a permanent fix," but www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

It's fat-phobia all the way down. The mainstream centering of 'obesity' as _the_ central health concern and risk factor really laid the groundwork for this.

They claim that high LDL cholesterol isn't a problem as long as you eat very few carbs and are thin. The whole thing is based on resistance to the idea that a diet on which they lost weight or stayed thin could possibly be unhealthy in any way.

Re the new USDA food triangle

You can use N95s for more than 24 hours total. You can keep using them for as long as they continue to seal well. 24 hours is just a quality control thing at hospitals, they don't turn into pumpkins.

The great thing is that RFK Jr has been giving a pass to new pesticides and doing fuck all about industrial poisons. MAHA claiming to care about those things is a bait and switch.

This is the part that goes from "about what I'd expect from a modern Republican presidency" to "oh holy shit" for me.

When the prison guards went on strike, many inmates said they were doing so to preserve their ability to do things like this.

The focus on "the obesity epidemic" in healthcare really laid the path for RFK Jr's garbage to take off.

Periodic reminder that this kind of doomer bullshit is marketing for these companies. It makes the models sound more human-like and also more effective than they actually are.

I regret to inform you that the militant use of the term predates the Internet.

I was reminded that last night's vote was not on the CR, it was a vote for cloture. There is plenty of time between now and a final vote for us to make all of these people understand exactly how badly they've fucked up.

It pains me to see adaptation used to undermine mitigation, but also to see it painted as a "false solution." Adaptation is harm reduction for climate impacts that can no longer be avoided. Climate justice demands it. AND it has limits, becoming less effective and more costly as warming proceeds.

IT DOES NOT MATTER IF YOUR MEDICAL EMERGENCY IS DUE TO DRUG ADDICTION. IT'S A MEDICAL EMERGENCY YOU FUCKING GHOULS. This is part and parcel of what's keeping us from having universal health care: they really believe that some ppl deserve medical care and some don't.

This might be the most cynical ploy I've seen from RFK Jr. There are people who are, actually, genuinely, injured by a vaccine (e.g. they get Guillain-Barré Syndrome), this would deplete the vaccine injury compensation fund so there wouldn't be any money for those people.

Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.

i am begging everyone to stop repeating the myth that brains are underdeveloped until 25 www.sciencefocus.com/comment/brai...

ok I decided to actually read up a bit on the Epstein case and my initial takeaway is that a great way to protect women and children from sexual predation would be to prosecute white collar crime

He's almost certainly talking about Camphill communities and similar programs. I hate that my knowledge of weird niches among crunchy "holistic" reactionary movements is relevant to the current moment. waldorfcritics.org/category/cam...

American tech companies should be worried about Chinese tech companies, but not for the reasons they’re currently worried. They should be worried because now they’re competing against organizations decades ahead of them in figuring out how to navigate a bribery-based regulatory system.

okay we’re playing a game I just invented called Alt Text Champion pick your personal favorite of the 209 (!!!!!!) photos of this borderline indescribable house, post it below with alt text, and the winner will be whoever best manages to capture it and bring the visual chaos to life for readers

If you’re having vigorous discourse around burritos and food prep, please note that this is the guy whose screenshotted tweet is at the heart of it. These are stressful times, but don’t treat a provocation from a literal fascist as if it’s a misguided but good-faith argument. He’s baiting you.

If you tell people the truth, i.e. "RFK Jr would stop government-backed research into treatments and cures for devastating diseases," they don't approve! Can't imagine seeing this data and thinking the thing to do is construct some fantasy-land in which RFK Jr. is open to "compromising" on vaccines

@skywatch.blue mimeow1012.bsky.social appears to be on your terf/GC list and probably shouldn't be. They use they pronouns and have friendly interactions with trans bsky users, I think the hearts are intended to be the genderqueer flag colors.

I am having a hard time thinking of a worse way that the Bluesky leadership could have responded to this situation.

@gorskon.bsky.social this may be of interest to you if you hadn't heard it already.

Very Smart Reporters are going to act like US v. Skrmetti only implicates gender-affirming care for trans kids. In fact, it could allow sex discrimination in many other kinds of medical care. Yes, like birth control. Me in @tnr.bsky.social on how our rights are intertwined:

I'm going to be doing this later today and tomorrow.